Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
Sorted by date Results 226 - 250 of 526
Dusty Country Bible Church will host a Homestead Ministries soup event April 10 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bagging soup mixes for the needy will replace the usual morning worship service, so dress casually. Everyone is invited to join. Soup will be served after the bagging. Recently, Harm and Jan Smith met their grandson Micah and his parents, Gina and Jason Morgan in Anaheim, Calif., to spend several days at Disneyland and California Adventures. Favorite rides were Thunder Mountain and Cars. Micah also received Jedi training while there. The...
Dusty Tom and Doreen Riedner hosted the annual Broeckel family sausage production in their home Saturday. The group included Brian and Angela Broeckel, Dusty; Tony and Denise Kendall, Tacoma; Dennis and Bev Brunson, Richland; Greg, Gwen, and Jason Nolan, Jeanette Nolan, Andrew and Emily Nolan and Lauren, Grady and Holden, all of Colfax; Patty Wieber, Brett Wieber, Bobby and Jamie Halbig and Emma, Evie and Ezra, all of Spokane; Ken and Pam Beasley and Zach Beasley of Waitsburg; and Karen Broeckel, Dusty. Tom and Doreen Riedner officially joined...
Dusty Dale and Vicki Broeckel joined Mike and Michelle Carver in attending the international cat show, “On Safari,” in Spokane Saturday. As many as 225 cats from the United States and around the world came from as far as Europe, Australia and South America. The show featured all breeds of cats, but highlighted the Bengals, known for their stunning coat which mimics that of leopards. Funeral services for Berniece Wigen, sister-in-law of the late Gilford Wigen, were Feb. 12 in Rockford. She is survived by her husband Kenneth; two sons, Keith and...
Dusty David Stueckle and Steve Appel attended Farm Bureau Legislative Days in Olympia last week from Monday to Wednesday. Nine members of the Dusty B.B. Club plus guest Lisa Frey and children met at the home of Helen Appel last Wednesday for a fun day of playing Bingo. Helen and Liz Appel were co-hostesses. The next meeting will also be at the home of Helen Appel, Wednesday, March 9, at 1 p.m. Liz Appel will present a glass painting lesson. Members are asked to bring their itty bitty paint brushes for detail work, if they have them. Roll call...
Dusty Last week, Dick and Helen Appel attended the American Sheep Industry Convention in Scottsdale, Ariz. Helen is a past president of the auxiliary, ASIW. They enjoyed sunny 75 degree days while in Arizona. Monday evening, they helped their daughter Caroline celebrate her birthday with dinner, cooked by her husband Rob, in the family home in Pullman. Beth Christie spent last week in Albion, N.Y., visiting her seven-month-old granddaughter, Kendall Lasky, and daughter and son-in-law, Jordan and Kevin Lasky. She arrived back home Monday. Loren...
Dusty Kim and Cindy Pitts have received the Whitman County Century Farm certificate from the county commissioners. Their farm was bought in 1915 by Kim's great-grandfather, John Stueckle. It was acquired by Kim's grandparents J.A. and Rosa Stueckle in 1919 and passed on to Kim and his brothers Jon, Steve and Jeff Pitts in 1993. In 2015, Kim and Cindy Pitts acquired sole ownership. Whitman County farms which have been owned and operated by the same family for 100 years qualify for recognition as a century farm. Michelle Christie, daughter of Bet...
Dusty Nine members of the Dusty B.B. Club met last Wednesday in the parish hall of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in LaCrosse to make baby blankets for the free maternity clinic at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. Co-hostesses were Suzy McNeilly and Karen Broeckel. The next meeting will be Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the home of Helen Appel. Bring a "white elephant" gift for roll call. The program is an afternoon of playing bingo. David and Phyllis Stueckle and their granddaughter and her husband, Mark and Andrea Stueckle Davis, spent from Monday to...
Dusty The annual meeting of Country Bible Church will be Sunday after the church service. Participants are asked to bring a sack lunch. Jillene Lambert Mitz, daughter of the late Don and Jerry Lambert, who used to own the Dusty Service Station and later, the William’s Lake Resort, died on Tuesday, Jan. 5, in Tustin, Calif. She and her husband Oren Mitz, who is originally from Kahlotus, were married for 32 years. Jillene was a cousin of Vicki Broeckel and Sharry O’Hearne. Berniece Krom and Don Lambert were siblings. Nikki Caldwell, daughter of t...
Dusty Guests at the Dick and Helen Appel home for Christmas dinner included Bruce, Elaine, Logan, Charlie and Spenser Appel, Spokane; Phil and Sabrina Appel with guests Leslie and Kellie, Spokane; Caroline, Rob, Zack, Kade, Elly and Luciene Kunkel, Pullman; Lisa, Travis, Miriam, Rachel, Emma and Colette Frei, Palouse; Steve and Dianne Appel, Dusty and Dave, Alice and Charlie Appel, Colfax. Arriving Dec. 26 for hog butchering were Bruce and Barb Wollstein, Lacy; Dave, Beth and Kristin Lohrmeyer, Gig Harbor; Kate and Elliott Moon, Corvallis;...
Dusty Visiting at the home of their parents, Ed and Joan Broeckel, from last week Monday through Thursday, were Anthony and Jen Harkishnani of Seattle and from last Wednesday to this week Tuesday, Amber Broeckel of Boise. Meggie Perron, Walla Walla, spent three days at the home of her grandmother, Fran Jones. Warren and Julie Jones, Hayden, Idaho, arrived Christmas morning. Son Bryan came for brunch and dinner with the family. They were joined by Bryan’s daughter Emelie Jones. Meggie returned to Walla Walla on the 26th. Emelie returned to S...
Dusty Two weeks ago, David and Phyllis Stueckle attended a funeral service in Bremerton for Phyllis's sister, Corrine Spitzer, who died Nov. 11. Her husband, LeRoy, had died the week before on Nov. 5. Also attending the service were Corrine's siblings Ann Emerson and John Aune. The Stueckles went on to Seaside, Ore., where they spent several days with Rueben and Judy Stueckle. Denise Kendall, Tacoma, arrived at the home of her father, Oscar Broeckel, Saturday where she will spend a good part of her break from teaching at the University Place...
Dusty Warren and Julie Jones were guests at the home of Bryan Jones last weekend when they celebrated their mother Fran’s 90th birthday. They also attended the Dusty B.B. Club Christmas party Friday evening. Meggie Perron, Walla Walla, arrived Sunday to spend a few days with Grandmother Fran. Emelie Jones, Spokane, arrived on Monday. Art and Colene Sager had all their family home on Sunday to celebrate an early Christmas. Guests included Kyle and Ann Sager, Sarah and Hannah Manning, Spokane; Blake and Marcy Sager, Kenneth and Jullene, O...
Dusty Selbu Lutheran Church celebrated their Christmas Fest after regular worship services Sunday. The church Christmas tree was decorated and Sunday School children presented their Christmas program. Saturday, Linda Hennigar was the guest of Sharon McKeirnan at the Onecho Bible Church Ladies’ Christmas luncheon at the church....
Dusty Tammy Lewis, secretary for the Dusty B.B. Club, reported that she mailed 12 boxes of goodies that the club packed for the troops at their November meeting on Veteran’s Day. The boxes went to Kuwait. Larry and Di Brink hosted Thanksgiving dinner for Kevin, Amber, Ashley, Kloey, Ellie and Nick Brink and their friend Hunter Schuster, all from Kennewick; Mike Stine from LaCrosse and Lucky and Joan Myrick from Dusty. Gary and Diane Monson, Dusty, and her mother Lucille Willson, Colfax, spent Thanksgiving in Spokane with Diane’s uncle and aun...
Dusty Phyllis and David Stueckle, Steve and Dianne Appel and Peter Appel attended the Washington State Farm Bureau Convention in Yakima last week from Tuesday through Thursday. Homestead Ministries met with the St. Patrick's Youth Group last Wednesday, Nov. 18, in the parish hall of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Colfax. They bagged 600 soup packages which will be distributed to Whitman County food banks. Last Thursday they met with Chi Omega and the ASWSU GIVE organizations for WSU Poverty Awareness Week where they put together 800 p...
Dusty Last week Wednesday on Veteran’s Day, the Dusty B.B. Club met at the home of Diane Monson, co-hostess was Fran Maki, to fill care packages to be sent to our troops stationed overseas. Eight members filled more than 10 boxes with snacks, personal items, games, puzzles, and condiments, donated by McDonald’s on Bishop Ave. in Pullman and Taco Time and Arby’s in Colfax, to enhance the taste of the troops’ M.R.E.’s. Dr. Robert Smith, D.D.S., donated dental hygiene products for the boxes. Our thanks go to these local businesses for their con...
Dusty Homestead Ministries, led by Tom Riedner of Dusty and Greg Nolan of Colfax, met in Spokane last week with the “Feed Spokane” group and volunteers from Fairchild Air Force Base to make 30 meal packets for Spokane soup kitchens from 13,500 lbs. of supplies. Eight Whitman County residents went along to help with the process. David and Phyllis Stueckle; Goldie Foss, Colfax and Rueben and Judy Stueckle, Puyallup, recently spent a week at Seaside, Ore. They also took in a side trip to Tillamook for the ice cream and cheese....
Dusty Methodist Women’s group of LaCrosse will serve their annual turkey dinner Nov. 4 at the church in LaCrosse. They will begin serving at 5:30 and continue until either people stop coming or they run out of food. The menu consists of roast turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing, green beans, cranberry sauce, rolls and home-made pumpkin pie. Prices for the dinners are: $25 for a family (all living at home), $10 for adults and $5 for youngsters from the age of 6 to 10. Sarah Appel, daughter of Eric and Shannon Appel, is currently in L...
Dusty Hunters have been camping out at a couple of locations along Green Spot Road. Steve and Becky Camp had six hunters from western Washington using their place as a base. They bagged one deer during their stay. Part of the group went home Monday. The rest left later. Oscar Broeckel’s place was base for his nephew John Allyn Murray from Bellingham who arrived last week Wednesday. He’s still trying to bag his deer at the time of this writing. Dick and Helen Apple returned from a trip to Tennessee to see Dick’s brother Fred. They enjoyed the b...
Dusty Harm and Jan Smith were in Yakima a few days last week to attend Grandparents Day at Riverside Christian School where grandson Micah is a second grader. They were successful playing Four Square during recess and during Math Flashcard Drills. Another day, they attended the Jog-a-Thon school fund raiser to watch Micah. Guests of Dale and Vicki Broeckel were Frank and Jowana Gibson of Spokane who recently moved there from Endicott. They attended the potluck dinner on Sunday at Country Bible Church. Many from the Dusty area attended the...
Dusty Tom and Doreen Riedner left last Wednesday for Meridian, Idaho, with Homestead Ministries for “Feed the Need” at The Ambrose School. Thursday, Greg and Gwen Nolan brought a trailer with the ingredients for the soup packets and Becky and Steve Camp, Brian and Debi Largent, Gary Largent, Jon Webster, Audrey Largent and Jody Conrad arrived in the Onecho bus. With the aid of the Homestead Ministries helpers, the school students and some parents bagged 10,800 soup packets that were donated to the Boise Rescue Mission. The session was even vis...
Dusty Relatives of Fran Jones gathered the weekend of September 12, for a surprise celebration of her 90th year. Her actual birthday isn’t until December so it was indeed a great surprise. Fran’s children organized the bash: Bryan Jones of Dusty, Bruce and Hanna Jones from Vermont, Warren and Julie Jones from Hayden, Regena Jones and Mario Maero from Italy along with cousin Sharon Urtaza from New Mexico. Emelie, Annie and Abel Jones, along with Meggie and Damien Perron were also all present at the event. When asked which of the guests were the...
Dusty Lucky and Joan Myrick hosted their annual Myrick/Brink get-together this weekend. Arriving at the Myrick home Friday were son Rich Myrick and Jannetta, Moses Lake; Rich’s daughter Deanna, Spanaway; Jannetta’s daughter, Kierstyn Johnson, Puyallup; son Mike Myrick and friend Rhonda Cluff, Spanaway and Mike’s son Michael, Yelm. Arriving at the Brink home Friday were Kevin and Amber Brink, Kennewick, with their children Ashley, Kloey, Ellie and Nick; Amber’s brother and his family, Robert and Sarah Hrabak and Rayna, Katelynn, Allison and Rob...
Dusty Tarri Steiger spent a week on vacation in North Dakota with her sister Traci and brother-in-law Darren from the Seattle area. They went through Yellowstone National Park and visited Mt. Rushmore. The purpose of the trip was to bury their father’s ashes alongside their mother’s at the little family cemetery in Overly, N. D., where their father was raised. His brother, their uncle, who retired from farming, still lives in Overly. The burial took place Sept. 2 which would have been their parents’ 59th wedding anniversary. Dick and Helen...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager flew to Newberg, Ore., last Friday and spent the night with Colene’s brother and his wife, Bob and Judy Records. The next day, they flew on to Independence, Ore., to attend an Oregon Flying Farmers gathering. Late in the afternoon, they flew to Sun River, Ore., to spend time with their daughter, Gaylene and Don Manning and grandchild Hannah. Sunday, they attended LaPine Community Church where their son-in-law is the pastor. Granddaughter Hannah traveled home with them to spend the school term with her other g...
