etc. Feb. 11, 2010

Eight enter Junior Miss

Eight junior class girls have entered this year’s Colfax Junior Miss competition. They have been practicing for three weeks for the event which has been scheduled for March 20. Theme of the show will be “Expedition Junior Miss.” Each contestant has been asked to appear in some type of expedition outfit.

Entrants include Tori Benson, Shaina Simonson, Maggee Cochran, Emily Ledbetter, Brooke Webber, Ashlynn Thompson, Kaci Kopczynski and Kara Foreyt.

Connie Ellis and Evanna Morgan are co-chairing the event again this year. Also working on the committee are Lori Brown, Emily Jones and JoAnne Eng.

Colton library update

Donations at Colton Library during February’s Food For Fines month will go to the Colton/ Uniontown Food Bank. Food donations can be used to offset up to $10 due for library fines.

During Monday storytimes at 10:30 a.m. at Colton, youngsters 1 to 5 will continue to learn about farm animals this month. In March the focus will switch to numbers.

Third Thursday program Feb. 18 will be about the presidents. Children can make a log cabin out of milk cartons and pretzels. Time is at 3:15 p.m.

Haiti benefit dance

A benefit dance to raise funds for Haiti will be at the Pullman Pioneer Center, 230 Dexter St., Pullman, Friday, Feb. 12, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The dance is being sponsored by five area Nia teachers, Beth Waddel, Jennifer Whitney, Dayna Willbanks, Kristine Zakarison, and Danielle Eastman. Nia classes blend dance arts, martial arts, and healing arts to create a fitness and lifestyle practice.

All proceeds go to Nancy Casey’s Courageous Women fund.

Variety show set

for Palouse stage

The 13th annual PEO Variety Show will be Sunday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. in the Palouse Arts Council Grange Building in Palouse. This annual event has become a favorite for local performers to showcase their talents.

Acts will include a variety of singing, dancing, comedy, fiddle and guitar entertainment. Valentine cookies will be available during intermission.

All proceeds will go for local scholarship funds. Admission will be $5 for adults, and $3 for children under 12, or $15 for a family.

Thrift Shop sale

The Thrift Shop at 525 NE Campus Street on College Hill in Pullman will feature a half off sale next week prior to being closed the following week, Feb. 20-28, for renovation. The shop is open Tuesdays 4:30-6:30 p.m. and Thursdays and Fridays, noon to 4 p.m. Free parking is available in the Community Congregation UCC parking. The shop entrance is on Ruby Street.

Births

Gill daughter born

A girl, Kylie Lynn, was born Feb. 8, 2010, to Brandon Gill and Chelsey May of Ketchikan, Alaska. Paternal grandparents are Jim and Deanna Gill of Colfax. Maternal grandparents are Scott and Sandra May, Ketchikan, Alaska. Weighing eight pounds, 13 ounces at birth, she is the couple’s first child.

Lanthorn son born

A boy, Jacob Silas, was born Feb. 8, 2010, at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax, to Kara and Jeremy Lanthorn. Maternal grandmother is Carrie Blagg. Paternal grandparents are Gene Lanthorn and Sibyl Ballard. Weighing three pounds, seven ounces at birth, he joins sister, T’Sharra Grace at the home.

On campus

MUSIC

WSU Orchestra will host a concert featuring guest flutist Leonard Garrison at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18., at Bryan Hall Theatre. Garrison will perform Robert Carl’s “Slow Arch. “

The Pullman High School Orchestra will join the WSU Orchestra for a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “Simple Symphony.” The last song of the evening is a performance of Antonin Dvorak’s 9th Symphony, “From the New World.”

The concert is free and open to the public.

WSU Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band kick off a weekend of performances with a concert of classic and contemporary selections at 8 p.m. Feb. 11 in Bryan Hall Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public.

For the Wind Symphony, conducted by Timothy Robblee, this concert will serve as the beginning of a tour to Yakima to perform at the Washington Music Educators Association State Conference.

The Wind Symphony will be joined on the Feb. 11 concert by the WSU Symphonic Band directed by David Turnbull, who will share the podium with three graduate student conductors.

BOOKMARK

The nation’s largest reading celebration, the National Education Association’s “Read Across America Day,” has been slated for March 2 here. Whitman County Library’s Youth Services Manager Sheri Miller asks everyone to participate by donating time or encouraging children to pick up a book and read.

All 14 branches of the Whitman County Library System will close Feb. 14-15 in observance of President’s Day. Due dates for library materials have been extended. Access to the library’s catalog, subscription databases and a live, online librarian will still be available via the library’s website :

A number of IRS forms are now available in the Colfax Branch of Whitman County Library. Staff in any of the district’s 14 locations can also assist in printing forms from the IRS website. A link to the IRS site can be found at http://www.whitco.lib.wa.us.

Food For Fines continues in all branches during February, Residents can exchange up to $10 worth of non-perishable food items for up to $10 in outstanding library fines. All food donations stay within the community where they are donated.

Colfax Library will presents a cake decorating class Sunday, Feb. 28 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The class is designed for teens and adults with a fee of $10 to offset the cost of supplies. Register online or by contacting Erica Willson or Sheri Miller.

Ericaw@whitco.lib.wa.us

Youth grades 1-4 are invited to Third Thursday Club’s “Rockin Robots” Feb. 18 from 3:30-4:30 p.m.