Smiths, Sagers celebrate Fourth

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Walt Smith and Parker, Clyde Hill; Gina and Jason Morgan and Micah, Yakima, spent last weekend at Harmon and Jan Smith’s home. Dianne and Dan Morris and Kris Berglund, with daughters Brooke and Avery, Valleyford, and Karen Morris, Spokane, joined them Monday to celebrate Independence Day. They finished the day at Endicott for the display of fireworks.

Art and Colene Sager flew to Sunriver, Ore., to spend the 4th of July weekend with their daughter, Don and Gaylene Manning and Hannah, who live nearby in LaPine, Ore. They flew directly to Nampa, Idaho, Monday afternoon and stayed with Art’s brother and sister-in-law, Floyd and Linda Sager, in Meridian, Idaho. The next day, they attended a funeral for their 94-year-old aunt.

Tom and Doreen Riedner attended the book signing of “Till Tomorrow” at Main Street Books in Colfax Saturday by the author Michael White, Tom’s cousin. They watched the Concrete River Days parade and then headed to Pullman for lunch. They decided to return home via the scenic route through Moscow and Potlatch where they saw the speeder train cars. They rode one with farmer Frank Fleener. Afterward, they had dinner at the Palouse Caboose before returning home.

Karen Broeckel attended a Schaal family reunion near Medical Lake Saturday. Other immediate family members who attended included Jeanette Nolan, Colfax; Patty and Brett Wieber, Bobby, Jamie, Emma, Evie and Ezra Halbig, Spokane; Matty Forrest, Brisbane, Australia, and Al Broeckel, Tacoma. Sunday, Broeckel was treated to dinner with Wieber, Forrest and Nolan at Das Stein Haus in Spokane. Broeckel stayed at the home of Wieber and after a bit of shopping, returned home Monday.