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The seventh annual penny drive to fund programs at the library in Oakesdale will be from March 26 to April 14. Oakesdale students from kindergarten through fifth grade will participate with a goal of $50 or more. If the goal is reached Librarian Michele Wright will provide cupcakes and punch for all. Collection jars will be at Crossett’s Food Market and the library. Children are making butterflies and caterpillars and learning about springtime and all the things that will be growing soon. Wednesday’s at 12:30 is Storytime at the Oakesdale Lib...
Kindergarten registration screening at Jennings Elementary School will be Thursday, April 19, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sessions will give youngsters a chance to meet kindergarten teachers and register for the next school year. Parents are urged to call the JES office to make an appointment by April 18. Proof of age and immunization information will be required. The school office will be closed next week, April 2-6, for spring break.... Full story
Tekoa’s Empire Theater annual “Spring Fling” will be Saturday, March 31, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Cafe Artisan with a large array of gourmet hors d’oeuvres and tapas. A selection of fine wines will also be available by the glass. The theater box office will open at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. show featuring the Moscow duo Jon & Rand, who perform a variety of music including hits of the Beatles, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Credence Clearwater Revival, Simon & Garfunkle and others. Jon Anderson and Rand Walker teamed up in 2011 and have appearing reg... Full story
Larry Whitesitt of Fairfield has rented the Empire Theater in Tekoa to show two wilderness films free April 14 beginning at 2 p.m. A writer and former bush pilot, he plans to show “Lords of Nature,” a film about the wolf recovery in Yellowstone Park, and “Northern Flight of Dreams.” During the 1960s and 1970s Whitesitt was a bush pilot who flew deHavilland Beaver sea planes and ski planes out of the Yukon into British Columbia and Northwest Territories. The flight film is connected to the book he wrote with the same name. Whitesitt has also wr...
Albion Pie Social The annual Guy-Albion Historical Society pie social will be next Saturday, April 7, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Albion Community Center. Entertainment will be provided by the Old Time Fiddlers. PCT skit at Albion The Pullman Civic Theater will bring to the Albion Branch a production skit of Little Women, a play based on the classic Louisa May Alcott novel. Preview the production Little Women, meet the actors and see the period costumes up close. Little Women opening week begins April 13, 2012. The skit performance is on... Full story
Tekoa Library will host a game day April 3 during spring break with board and computer games, access to the Internet and snacks. Grade school students’ gaming event will be from 10 to noon, and teens 12 to 18 from 6 to 8 p.m....
The exhibit for the month of April at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is “Northwest Back Country, Fin and Feathers” featuring artists David Gressard of Moscow and John Bergen Jr. from Peirce. Using different mediums, each artist achieves great detail in their art. John uses a torch and welder, and Dave paints with acrylic paint and brush. The opening reception will be April 1 from 1 to 3 p.m. The exhibit continues through April 29. Gressard graduated from the University of Idaho with degree emphasizing art and biology. He is an avid bird wat...
Athenaeum Twenty members met March 16 at the home of Kay Van Dyke for their semi annual business meeting .The first order of business was to complete club obligations for 2011-2012. The Civic Improvement committee suggested a $100 donation to the library’s “Whitman County Rural Heritage” project. The library committee suggested buying “Women and their Gardens: A History from Elizabethan Era to Today”. Both items were approved. The Art Contest winners for 2012 will be announced at the April 6 meeting. Evelyn Hickman’s estate designated... Full story
Hall boy born Colt Jackson Hall was born Feb. 29 at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane at eight pounds to Chris and Danie Hall of Spokane. He is their first child. Dale and Diana Dawson, Colfax, are maternal grandparents, and Walter Hall of Turkey and Joy and Gary Brewer of Indiana are paternal grandparents. De Los Santos girl Angel Antionette De Los Santos was born March 14, 2012, at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center at seven pounds, seven ounces, to Mari De Los Santos. Maternal grandparent is Oralia De Los Santos of Endicott....
Author and former Davenport coach, Jim Stinson postponed his Colfax stop and will now speak about his new book, “Remembering the B” on Monday, April 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the Colfax Library. Books will be available for purchase and signing. All branches of Whitman County Library will close Sunday, April 8 for Easter. Friends of Whitman County Library will sponsor a free movie day at the Colfax Branch Friday, April 6 at 1 p.m. A newly released PG-rated film will be shown. A new session of Flex and Flow Yoga will begin at the Colfax Library Tue... Full story
P.E.O. Chapter AF met March 26 at Peace Lutheran Church with Queenie Leinweber as hostess. Nancy Waldron presented a program on her rope art. The Yearbook committee distributed 2012-2013 books. Theme for the year is “My Favorite Things”. Officers for the new year are Liane Smith, president; Robyn Johnson, vice president; Karen Groom, recording secretary; Teri Heilsberg, corresponding secretary; Diane Solbrack, treasurer; Shirley Richardson, chaplain; Jill Solbrack, guard. Convention delegate will be Liane Smith with Marsha Binder alt...
Lindsay Webber won the Colfax Distinguished Young Woman competition Saturday night to top a field of 10 competitors for the title. Webber, who sang a soprano solo for her talent competition, also won the talent, self expression and interview segments of the competition. Deanna Aeschliman, who won the fitness part of the competition, was named first alternate and will be the Colfax entrant in next September’s Miss Palouse Empire Fair competition. She also won the spirit award. Cacey Hall was named second alternate. Emma Gingerich won the s...
Rosalia royalty for 2012 named at Sunday’s competition, from the left, included First Princess Haley Lindgren, Princess Heather Wilson, Queen Maddy St. John and Princess Brittany Terrell. Maddy received the Poise & Appearance Award. The Talent Award went to Haley. Brittany won the Ticket Sales Award and Heather won the Spirit of Miss Rosalia Award. The program followed a pirate theme with outgoing queen Erin Brown, First Princess Kristin Paulson and Princesses Josie Daniels and Kelsey Lindhag following a treasure map. Malden Pirates were p...
Stacy and Levi Stone moved to Rosalia in August with their two-year-old daughter, Stella. They had lived in Salt Lake for several years after Levi had graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho with a degree in agricultural business. Unable to find employment in the agricultural business, Levi went to work helping a friend in the coin business. He then applied for an opening at McGregor Co. in Oakesdale and was offered the job. “Moving from Salt Lake City was a big change, but we are both from small towns so it is kind of like coming h... Full story
Roy Dube, left, head of Rosalia’s Dollars for Scholars committee, presented an appreciation plaque to Mike Day for work in collecting prizes and assisting with the group’s annual silent auction and crab feed. Day, known as Mr. Spartan, was also commended for his volunteer work for the schools and for Rosalia.... Full story
We do not have choices in certain areas of our life such as : our I.Q., our race, our parents, our gender, our place of birth. All of these were decided for us before we were born. We learn from Abraham some choices we can make. 1. Abraham made the big choice: He chose to follow God. As Abraham followed God, he was shown certain truths and principles that guided him in the choices he made. Abraham chose to be responsible. 2. Abraham chose to be loving, God like, in his choices. Many people are sensitive in looking out for their own rights! It...
Dusty Friday, April 6, from 5 to 8 p.m. Vicki Broeckel will have an opening show of her paintings, “Palouse Reflections”, at Dodson’s Fine Jewelers and Gallery at 516 W. Riverside in Spokane. The show will continue through April. Kim and Cindy Pitts had a house-full of guests this weekend. Children and grandchildren Jen and Ryan Hammons, Kellen, Becket and Willa, Boise; and Amanda and Erik Carlson, Rafe and Tate, Spokane, spent the weekend with them. Sunday, Cindy’s father, Norm Bafus of LaCrosse, joined them for dinner. A week ago last Su...
Sean Neal and Miles Pfaff, Garfield-Palouse High School grads who are now seniors at WSU, were members of a first-place WSU finance team which competed Feb. 21 in Spokane against four other universities in a business report and presentation event. The CFA Research Institute Challenge required teams to complete a detailed report and 10-minute presentation on a selected company and communicate their findings. This year’s company was Sterling Savings Bank and teams were required to look at Sterling’s business structure, financial records, and risk...
Ruth Henderson, the most senior senior citizen of Colfax, receives a birthday greeting from grandson Dave Link and Jennie Kimball during her 105th birthday party Saturday at Hill-Ray Plaza. More than 180 attendees signed the guest book and wished her a happy birthday.... Full story
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. HAWKINS FILES RESPONSE A Hawkins Company response by Seattle Attorney Dale N. Johnson to the suit involving the shopping mall site at the state line was filed Monday in superior court. The response generally denies each and every claim in the injunction suit filed by OVIC against Hawkins and the county. The response asks the court for a...
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. If you ever find yourself in a hostage situation, feel free to call me, or send me an e-mail. I can handle it: I have a SWAT watch. That’s right. Reporter Clark Kent was secretly Superman, and Columnist W. Bruce Cameron is secretly the kind of guy who can wear a watch that’s an exact duplicate of the one official SWAT team members wear in that movie about them. With this watch, there are a lot of things that I can do that SWAT guys do, like, well, synchronize watches. There...
• What’s the best way to keep sheet sets together? Tuck all the pieces in a matching pillowcase, of course. • Need to hull strawberries? Try using a straw. Position the straw at the bottom of the strawberry, then push up toward the stem. It works quickly and well. • If you mount a magnet strip in your bathroom or on your vanity, you can use it to hold bobby pins or metal barrettes. Or mount a ribbon to hold all kinds of hair clips. • Baby leg protectors are cute. And cheap, if you have some old athletic socks. Cut off the ends, slip over baby... Full story
Dusty Dusty B.B. Club met last Wednesday in the home of hostess Helen Appel. Joyce Appel was co-hostess. Wanda Alderman of Steptoe presented a program on Pysanda eggs, a Ukranian art form of decorating Easter eggs in intricate patterns using beeswax and successive dyes of different colors. The next meeting will be Tuesday, April 10 for a tour of the wind turbines near Pomeroy and Dayton. Husbands and other guests are welcome. Members are asked to call Rita Ackerman by April 6 if bringing guests to tell her how many will attend. People with... Full story
Eight members of the Bess Mechling club of Clear Creek show off hats designed specifically for wear in the far-off Year 2000 at a meeting of the Whitman County Homemakers Council in March of 1962. Pictured, from left, are Mrs. Adolf Harder, Mrs. Stanley Bannister, Mrs. Malcolm Brown, Mrs. Earl Jeffries, Mrs. Richard Hill, Mrs. Arthur Dole, Mrs. Herbert Schmick and Mrs. Harold Stueckle.... Full story
Did you know that we have a wide variety of specialists who visit the Whitman Hospital and Medical Center regularly? Current specialties include allergy, audiology, cardiology, counseling, dietitian, gastroenterology (GI), general surgery, nephrology, neurosurgery, oncology, ophthalmology, optometry, podiatry and urology. Our newest visiting specialists include Dr. Michael Ring, MD, FACC and Dr. Gerhard Muelheims, MD, FACC, affiliated with Providence Spokane Cardiology. Both are board-certified cardiologists with their main clinic in Spokane....
