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Computer-Free Video Calling Helps Seniors Stay Connected Dear Savvy Senior Can you recommend any easy-to-use products for video calling? I live in a different state from my mother, who’s now 78, and would like to see her more often. But mom doesn’t have a computer or a smartphone for video chatting and she’s intimidated with technology. Living Afar Dear Living, Video calling is a wonderful way to stay connected and get that important face-to-face time with your mom when you can’t be there. Here are some good video calling products to conside...
Garfield middle school students explored the intersection of art and science last quarter with a bridge-building project. The elective engineering class, taught by Phil Weagraff, began with students studying the various arenas of engineering, from electrical and mechanical to structural, biological and marine. Then they learned about forms of bridges and set out to design their own, using balsa wood or spaghetti noodles. “I encouraged them to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible, w...
Rosalia Rosalia Fire Department responded to two fires Sunday and managed to douse the blazes in time to halt extensive damage. An early morning fire damaged the front of the Brass Rail Tavern. Chief Bill Tensfeld said the driver of a Spokesman Review delivery truck noticed smoke in front of the tavern when he made a delivery at about 3 a.m. and called 911. The fire started in one of the flower boxes which were loaded with peat moss. It spread to plywood siding on the front of the building, but...
8 years ago March 4, 1887 Viewing the surroundings through a window last Friday, a little 3 year old girl living in the south end chanced to see a spot of earth laid bare by the chinook and immediately saluted it with, “Why, hello mud!” Many an older person felt the same way. Like meeting a long-lost friend. The farm residence of Mrs. J.D. Mix at Uniotown was destroyed by fire last Saturday. No one was home, but Mrs. Mix lost her valuable wardrobe, household furniture, a Steinway piano, Judge Mix’s law library and a poodle dog. All fell...
Members of the Colfax High School Knowledge Bowl team won the district 2B competition Friday at Whitworth University to qualify for the state tournament March 17 at Spokane Falls Community College. The team also placed fourth in regional competition among over 30 schools in all divisions. Team members, from the left, are Kurt Moore, Christopher Appel, Brent Conrad, Ryan Christopherson, Justin Williams and Connor Appel. They were coached by Christopher Clausen....
MARRIAGE LICENSES Jason C. Byrd, 30, and Rachelle L. Greenwood, 30, both Pullman, Feb. 23. Zhe Zhang, 26, and Jink Ke, 27, both Pullman, Feb. 21. WHITMAN COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS Bernie Schultheis, Colton, pole building, $54,000, Feb. 22. Golden State Towers, Pullman, antenna, $12,000, Feb. 22. Randy Bennett, Colton, heat pump, $10,500, Feb. 17. Cameron Blank, Oakesdale, basement remodel, $5,000, Feb. 17. Steve Doty, Colfax, new home, $65,280, Feb. 15. COLFAX BUILDING PERMIT Jones Truck and Implement, two buildings for equipment parking, 425...
* If you like your coffee fresh and strong but not so hot, make a small tray of ice cubes out of coffee to cool your morning cup. * “Always dust from the top down. My mom taught me that, since the dust falls and then you vacuum it up at the end. Also, don’t use too much furniture polish, since using a lot can actually attract dust.” — B.O. in Pennsylvania * “Keep leftover slices of good meat and veggies in zipper-lock plastic baggies and freeze. When you make canned soups, just add the appropriate bits from your baggie. It really bulks up...
—Mike Milano photo Garfield/Palouse Jazz Band, under the direction of Ruth Vertrees, performed Thursday at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow. In front, from the left, are Mason Bates, Tuli O’Neill, David Milano, Dash Estes and Isaac Nelson. In back, from the left, are Alex Keeney, Paul Davis, Emily Keeney, Bethany Loomis, Kent Nelson and Sarah Bailey. The GP band played in the junior high combo division. Alex Keeney, a GP grad, and Davis, WSU student, were allowed to provide a rhythm section for the young band under rules for jun...
Lacrosse Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at WSU cleaned out the basement of the LaCrosse market building Feb. 18 They loaded scrap iron on a trailer and four truckloads of scrap wood. Randy Myklebust, a grandson of T. A. Myklebust who operated the store at LaCrosse for many years, organized the work party. Randy currently lives in Clarkston with his wife, Barb, and daughter, Molly, who were also at the work session. Fifteen Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity members from Washington State University joined local volunteers to clear debris...
Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual education and awareness campaign for health care safety led by the National Patient Safety Foundation. The theme for March 4-10, 2012, is Be Aware for Safe Care, reflecting the need to involve everyone–from patients to providers–in ensuring the safety of our health care process. During your hospital visit, our medical providers and hospital staff do everything they can to insure your safety and well-being. Don’t forget that you, too, are an important member of the team. Informed and involved patie...
Special The new Palouse Community Center is special not only because its structure is pleasing, but also because community need, community volunteerism, community sacrifice and community generosity made it real. All who flipped burgers, haunted Palouse, baked pies, sold crafts, cleaned up, sorted rummage, served on committees, donated money or services deserve credit. The Palouse Arts Council, Palouse School and Palouse Federated Church also deserve praise for filling the void while the Community Center was incubating. Tim and Colleen Boone, Pa...
It wasn’t as bad as they figured. Whitman County’s various departments spent $102,356 more than they received in revenue in the finalized version of the 2011 books. Kind of. Financial Adminstrator David Ledbetter gave department leaders final figures at a meeting last week. Those figures showed departments within the county’s current expense budget spent $11,761,022 while revenues generated $11,658,666. Both totals were nearly $700,000 below the figures projected in the budget. The deficit reflects a marked improvement from the $330,000 defic...
W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. The Home of the Future, I’ve been told, will have all of its appliances wired to the Internet, giving them what they’ve always needed, which is the ability to find pictures of female dishwashers. If you’re at work, you can log on to your home account and look inside your refrigerator, though if you’re a man you still won’t be able to find the mayonnaise without a woman’s help. You’ll get phone calls like this: “Hello, this is your oven. The microwave is maki...
All local funding measures received official approval after Whitman County’s canvass board certified the Feb. 14 election results Tuesday morning. School funding measures for Colfax, Colton, Endicott, Oakesdale, Pullman, Rosalia, St. John, Steptoe and Tekoa all received final tallies well above the 50 percent approval mark. The town of Rosalia’s street levy request also passed with 65 percent approval, over the 60 percent required passage rate. Final count included 8,046 ballots of the 17,001 sent out to voters for a 47 percent turnout. The...
Colfax Mayor Todd Vanek reported Tuesday night that city and Whitman County Library officials are working up a new contract for the long-standing agreement which calls for the city to pay for part of the upkeep of the library’s headquarters building in Colfax. Vanek reported to the city council that neither the city nor the library can locate a copy of the original agreement. He said a search for the original contract turned up letters and other material, but not the original agreement. Problems with the agreement surfaced at the Dec. 19 city c...
Matthew Scholz, a graduate music student at the University of Idaho, performed in the UI Jazz Festival concert Feb. 22 in the Student Union Building ball- room. Scholz, who performed a concert in Colfax last year after his senior recital in Moscow, played with the UI Jazz One band which provided big band accompaniment. Scholz last year performed with the UI Jazz One band when it accompanied Jimmy Heath in the opening concert of the four-day festival. Scholz is a member of the 2006 class at Colfax High School....
Whitman County Historical Society is planning another Ice Age Flood tour May 19-20. The tour travels to the locations of Ancient Glacial Lake Missoula and its outlet through Idaho and the Spokane Valley. The trip will include bus transportation, lunch for both days, and overnight accommodations in Missoula. Features of the trip are backwater flood deposits along the Clearwater River, the Bitteroot Arm of Glacial Lake Missoula, wave cut beaches above Missoula, sandbars high above today’s water level along the Clark Fork River, Lake Pend O...
In an effort to improve library products, programs and services, Whitman County Library is conducting a survey of all 8,700 households within the library district. The survey was recently mailed with the library district’s annual newsletter and is also available online. Anyone completing the survey has the opportunity to enter a drawing to win a new Kindle Fire sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Because mailing of the newsletter was delayed, the survey deadline has been extended. Hard-copy surveys are now due by March 2 while the o...
The 58th annual Uniontown Sausage Feed will be Sunday, March 4, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sausage, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, apple sauce and pie will be served. Admission will be $12 for adults, $8 for children 6 to 12 and $2 for children under 6. Take-out meals will be available. A free concert by the Auf Gehts German band at the Dahmen Barn will be from 1 to 3 p.m. The Uniontown Sausage Feed is put on by community volunteers with proceeds supporting maintenance of the community building....
Local teens will be tuning in at the library for the annual Teen Tech Week March 4-10, 2012. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to take advantage of the technology at libraries for education and recreation, and to recognize that librarians are qualified, trusted professionals who can help them achieve greater digital literacy. Teens can post a comment on the new teen blog March 4-10 by visiting, http://wclteens.blogspot. com for a chance to win free admission to the upcoming WCL/4-H teen dance March 16....
Pullman artist Franceen Hermanson and Lewiston artists Charlotte Schacher and Marlys Seubert will display recent work at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn during March. The exhibit, “3 Friends, Many Styles” will open with a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, with the artists present. Franceen Hermanson loves color and it reflects in her paintings. Her paintings capture the mood and colors of the many colorful sunsets and sunrises on the Palouse. Charlotte Schacher grew up on the Camas Prairie. Until recently her paintings were of the...
Oakesdale Historical Society will host a bingo party at the McCoy Valley Museum in Oakesdale Sunday, March 18, at 2 p.m. as a fundraising event....
Historical Society The late Joyce Bryan of Colfax was honored posthumously with the Distinguished Service Award at the Whitman County Historical Society’s annual meeting. Bryan, who died in June of last year, served on the society’s board of directors for many years as corresponding secretary. She volunteered in many capacities for the Perkins House in Colfax. She was remembered as the only person for many years who could properly operated the society’s Edison Victrola with plays tuber recirds,...
Tekoa Library March 14 will conduct a workshop for all ages on downloading e-books from Whitman County Library’s website onto electronic devices such as Nook, Kindle, iPad, and Smart Phone. Participants are encouraged to bring players and laptops for the sessions which will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Downloadable books are free and accessible from the library link at www.whitco.lib.wa.us. Tekoa Library hours are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1:30 to 6 p.m. and Thursdays from 10 to 4....
Smith baby boy Blake Winsen Smith was born Feb. 16, 2012, at seven pounds, seven and a half ounces, at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center to Tina and Adam Smith of Colfax. Maternal grandparents are Lynn and Mariyn Coon of Sandpoint, Idaho. Paternal grandparents are Thane and June Smith of Idaho Falls, Idaho. The baby joins siblings Laura, Aubry, Tyler, Addison and Brenna....
