Dusty B.B. Club marks 90 years

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Dusty B.B. Club celebrated its 90th anniversary as an organization at its annual guest luncheon last Wednesday, May 9. The luncheon, catered by Fonk’s, was in the Bettie and Don Steiger Center of the Colfax branch of the Whitman County Library.

Thirty members and their guests were treated to delicious food and also got to view 18 of the many quilts the club made over the years. The quilts will be on display in The Center throughout the month of May for the general public to see.

Barb and Bruce Wollstein, Lacey, spent the last weekend of April at the home of her parents, Dick and Helen Appel. Bruce was here to attend the quarterly meeting of the engineering advisory board. Barb visited with her mother and worked in the yard. They all attended a birthday celebration for Noemie Appel at her parents’ home, Liz and Neil Appel. After church, Dick and Helen Appel enjoyed a Mother’s Day gift from their children.

On the first Sunday in May, all of them brought food for a potluck and then worked in the flower beds, pruned shrubs and sprayed weed killer. Those participating were Bruce, Elaine and Spenser Appel, Spokane Valley; Eric, Shannon, Kyle, Sarah and Sidney Appel, Dusty; Rob, Caroline, Zack, Kade, Elly and Luciene Kunkel, Pullman; Neil, Liz, Josh, Noemi, Isaac, John Paul, Grace and Michael Appel, Dusty, and Lisa, Travis, Miriam, Rachel, Emma and Colette, Colfax. The help was much appreciated.

Bryan and Fran Jones drove to Hauser, Idaho, to spend time with Julie and Warren Jones and to celebrate Mother’s Day with Julie’s mother and other family members.

Art and Colene Sager flew to Sunriver, Ore., and visited their daughter and husband, Don and Gaylene Manning, over Mother’s Day weekend. The tailwind on Friday shortened their usual two-hour flight by a half-hour.

Karen Broeckel spent this past weekend in Spokane. Saturday, she drove to her sister Patty Wieber’s home to visit with Wieber’s friend from Australia, Matty Forrest, and to prepare for them, at Forrest’s request, knepfla soup, a German from Russia dish he developed a taste for when he was attending WSU and would join the Dusty group for holidays.

Sunday, Broeckel was a guest of Andrew and Emily Nolan and Lauren, Grady, Holden and Murphy, along with Emily’s mother, step-father and other family members, including Jamie and JonJon Kinley of Colfax at a Mother’s Day barbecue in the Nolan home.