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Author and former Davenport coach, Jim Stinson postponed his Colfax stop and will now speak about his new book, “Remembering the B” on Monday, April 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the Colfax Library. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

All branches of Whitman County Library will close Sunday, April 8 for Easter.

Friends of Whitman County Library will sponsor a free movie day at the Colfax Branch Friday, April 6 at 1 p.m. A newly released PG-rated film will be shown.

A new session of Flex and Flow Yoga will begin at the Colfax Library Tuesday, April 3 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Classes are each Tuesday and the session runs for six weeks at a cost of $35.

For those wanting to drop-in, cost is $10 per class. Flex and Flow is a gentle form of Yoga that stretches the body while soothing the mind. To register, contact Suzy McNeilly.

semi annual business meeting. The first order of business was to complete club obligations for 2011-2012. The Civic Improvement committee suggested a $100 donation to the library’s “Whitman County Rural Heritage” project. The library committee suggested buying “Women and their Gardens: A History from Elizabethan Era to Today”. Both items were approved.

The Art Contest winners for 2012 will be announced at the April 6 meeting. Evelyn Hickman’s estate designated money for Athenaeum to have a sign welcoming travelers to Colfax on Highway 26. The club hopes to complete a project next year.

New officers are Mary Ann Wigen, president; Kay Van Dyke, vice president; Mary Ann Mitchell, second vice resident; Phyllis Kincaid, secretary, and Dorla Dean Scholz, treasurer.

The budget for the coming year was presented and passed.

Katie Schmick’s program about Kathleen “Klondike Kate” Rockwell told about a woman who ran away from home and later enrolled in a boarding school. The school expelled her, and she joined a chorus line on the vaudeville circuit around Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska. She partnered with Alex the Greek and when the partnership split, she received enough money to buy land in Eastern Oregon. Then she became a farmer.

In Hollywood’s movie portrayal of her life, starring Mae West, the real Klondike Kate was disappointed in the costuming and the way her morals were portrayed. Klondike Kate was proud of her costumes which came from Paris and thought that Ms. West was too trashy.