Dusty News for May 12

Last week Wednesday, Heidi Lowe brought seven students from Colfax High School ASB Leadership Team to Tom and Doreen Riedner’s home to enjoy a wonderful soup lunch and help assemble 1100 soup packets with Homestead Ministries. Colfax should be proud of these respectful, polite, hard-working and confident students. Huber Freight will deliver two pallets of Homestead Ministries product to local Idaho food pantries in Grangeville and Orofino for distribution.

Bruce Appel, Spokane, spent Mother’s Day cooking his Mother, Helen Appel, a special dinner. He was assisted by his wife Elaine and son Stewart.

News has been received of the death of former Dusty resident John Schoeff of Spokane Valley, son of Don and Polly Schoeff, as a result of A.L.S. (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) Sunday morning. A memorial service will be held in the Country Bible Church in about six weeks. Definite plans will be published in the Dusty News section of the Gazette at a later date. Schoeff is survived by his wife, Mary Ann, two grown children, Bethany and John, and a sister Suzie.

Rick Bates, Braggs Creek, Alberta B.C., spent Saturday through Monday at the Parsonage B & B visiting friends Keith Danielson, Walter and Jeanne Riley, Dale and Vicki Broeckel and Kim Gustafson. He was returning to Canada from California where he resided during the winter months.

Wednesday evening Bible study, under the leadership of Tom and Doreen Riedner, had their final session for the season this past week. It had been held at Country Bible Church and will resume in the Fall. All are welcome. A potluck barbecue was held at the Riedner home on May 11th to close the season.

Karen and Larry Light, Portland, spent from Wednesday to Sunday of last week at the home of her father, David Stueckle.

Former Dusty resident Greta Stueckle now of Colfax, reported that her son-in-law Allen O’Brien, husband of her daughter Jody, is scheduled to receive a bone marrow transplant at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle to treat his leukemia. He has had the disease for five years and was in remission until recently. The O’Briens will have to move temporarily to Seattle to be close to the hospital and almost constant supervision. Jody would appreciate any and all prayers for Allen.