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Valerie Marker never intended to come back to Colfax. She grew up at the base of Kamiak Butte where her parents, Rick and Chris Wells, farmed. When she went to Wenatchee in 1994 for a radiologist technical program, she never thought she would come back to Colfax.

Back: Valerie, Caden, J.D. Front: Callie-Rae, McKenzie, Brooke.

“It’s been amazing how many opportunities have opened up,” she said.

During her last year of college, Valerie literally ran into J.D. Marker at the Lewiston Roundup.

A year later, 1997, they were married and moved to Nez Perce where they farmed.

In 1999 they moved to Colf...

 

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