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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... Full story
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.... Full story
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... Full story
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.... Full story
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.... Full story
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....
Bookmark for March 1, 2012 Whitman County Library needs Whitman County Residents’ input to plan for the future. A survey was recently mailed with the library district’s annual newsletter and is also available online at www.whitco.lib.wa.us. Hard copy surveys are now due by March 2 while the online version has been extended to March 4. Anyone completing the survey has the opportunity to enter a drawing to win a new Kindle Fire sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Meet the Artist welcomes painter and steel sculptor Jennifer Rod to the Col... Full story
The Republican caucus for Lamont precinct 148 will be at Art Swannack’s house, 1201 Cree Rd., Lamont, Saturday, March 3, from 10 a.m. to noon. Any registered voter who is a Republican can attend....
Nicholas Johnson and Kaitlynn McCormack, both of Oakesdale, were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the Univeristy of Montana in Missoula. Students are required to have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a least nine study credits with all grades B or higher....
Geraldine Steiger of Dusty qualified for the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University of Washington by earning a grade average of 3.5 or higher on at least 12 credits....
Rich and Janet (Neuenschwander) Hilty, formerly of Colfax, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their children, grandchildren and friends in Nampa, Idaho, where they have made their retirement home. Both graduates of Colfax High School, they were married Dec. 24, 1961, at the United Methodist Church in Colfax. Both attended Eastern Washington State College where Rich graduated in 1962. Janet finished her degree at Kansas State while Rich was serving with the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. They have lived in... Full story
Whitney Curtis, daughter of Doug and Cindy Curtis of Colfax, and Mathew Gilbreth, son of Deb Lounden of Spokane, plan to be married in an afternoon ceremony May 12 at Colfax First Baptist Church with a dinner reception following at Hill Ray Plaza in Colfax at 6:30 p.m. The bride-elect graduated from LaCrosse High School in 2008 and attended University of Montana, Spokane Community College and is now a student at Paul Mitchell School of Hair Design in Spokane. She works part time at Hobby Lobby in Spokane Valley. Gilbreth graduated from Mead...
Greta Stueckle was born in Colfax and has spent her entire life living in Colfax and the surrounding Whitman County farms, never straying too far from the land where she has worked to support herself and her family. When Greta married Dick, they worked many farms in Whitman County until they purchased a ranch in Dusty 50 years ago. Dick died in August after a long battle with cancer. Greta now spends many days busily sorting through decades of collected items on the ranch and has found Craigslist as a wonderful tool in cleaning out. She said...
Neill Public Library in Pullman will be closed March 4 - 11 for a work week to allow city staff to complete general building maintenance and conduct a variety of in-house tasks including upgrades to computer systems, staff training and preparations related to the library’s material collections and special programs. Library materials will not be due any closed days.... Full story
Mangold, Kate Elizabeth, was born Feb. 14, 2012, at seven pounds, two ounces, to Neil and Jennisa Mangold of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Earl and Patricia Mangold of Bothell. Maternal grandparents are Jim and Margie Bran of Everett. The baby joins sister Clara, 3. Robbins, Evie Elizabeth, was born Feb. 16, 2012, at eight pounds, 14 ounces, to Chad and Danielle Robbins of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Rex and Cheryl Robbins of Othello. Maternal grandparents are Todd and Cindi Gibson of Othello. The baby joins sister Ellie, 4, and... Full story
