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Lacrosse The performance of Mr. LaCrosse has been canceled, but the Friday night hamburger barbecue will still be offered from 5-7 p.m. Proceeds of the barbecue go to the Dick Robert's Memorial Scholarship. Evening activities for the LaCrosse Farm Festival on June 20 include a catered Porky's Pit Barbecue at the LaCrosse Cafe. The meal will be available between 5-7 p.m. Please pre-order dinners from Carol Cauley at Jasper Trucking by June 6. Following the dinner is a Wine & Stein (6-9 p.m.) from Iron Horse Brewery sponsored by the LaCrosse...
Lacrosse Early arrivals for the LaCrosse Farmer's Festival June 20 can eat breakfast at the LaCrosse Café from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Breakfast will include sausage gravy over biscuits, scrambled eggs, coffee and juice. The traditional noon barbecue beef sandwiches will be in the LaCrosse City Park sold by the LaCrosse Community Club. Homemade pie and coffee will be for sale, and the Schwans Ice Cream truck will be available. Saturday evening, a catered Porky's Pit Barbecue dinner will feature barbecue pork, homemade French bread, coleslaw, potato...
Lacrosse The Awesome Authors Inc. Book Company, which consists of third, fourth, seventh and eighth graders, are taking orders for a pre-sale of a book containing a collection of stories they have written and illustrated. They are still in production mode. Books will be available May 18. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the Eric Binks fund. The price is a donation of any amount. Contact any student from those grades or teachers to order. LaCrosse third through sixth graders attended an interactive concert with the Spokane...
Lacrosse LaCrosse Farm Festival will start June 19, 2015, with a barbecue and Mr. LaCrosse Contest. Saturday the morning activities will be a book signing by Lois Olmstead, quilt show, senior car wash, rummage sale and silent auction to benefit LaCrosse Community Pride, Grand Parade, noon chalk art and pit barbecue sandwiches sold by the LaCrosse Community Club. Afternoon activities will be a new horseshoe tournament sponsored by the LaCrosse Gun Club and a Golf Shot Money and Prize Scramble, free swimming, races, and a 3-on-3 hoop tournament....
Lacrosse A community forum followed the presentation of the film “Dryland” March 26 in LaCrosse. Pictured, from left to right, are moderator Randy Suess, Alex McGregor, film producers Richard Wilhelm and Sue Arbuthnot, and Matt Miller and Josh Knodel, the young farmers featured in the film. “Dryland” is available for check out on DVD at Whitman County Library or for purchase. Approximately 60 people attended the screening of Dryland at The Gathering Place March 26. The directors, Sue Arbuthn...
Lacrosse An Easter pageant hosted by all LaCrosse area churches will be Sunday, March 29, at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church. Children from preschool through junior high will participate. “Reading is Like Riding. . . Your Imagination Goes Wild!” was the theme printed on the 2014-15 Book Bash t-shirts designed by the participating fifth graders. Students in preschool through sixth grade participated. Students who voluntarily read the required minutes for their grade were: Jack Baser, Boden Olson, Chase Harder, Gracie, and Cooper Schwartz, Bro...
Lacrosse All children, preschool through sixth grade, are invited to join the Selbu Lutheran Church Sunday School slated to start Sunday, Feb. 22, at 11 a.m. The program will run six weeks through Sunday, March 29. For more details, contact Cindy Wigen, Peggy Bryan or Pastor John Cross: jcradio@aol.com....
Lacrosse Winners for the Pastime Tavern Pool tournament Jan. 17 were Butch Thomas and Iva Roberts, first place; Laura Smith and Nick Beckman, second place and Allan Thompson and Deb Casey, third place. Next tournament will be Saturday, Feb. 7. Contact Allan Thompson to enter. December winners for the pool tournament were Ashley Goolsby and John Brenk, first place; Charlie Oles and Jacob Wigin second place, and Bruce Kyllo and Ruth Thomas, third place....
Lacrosse Donations are being accepted by LaCrosse Community Pride to assist with recent repair costs. Repairs include labor and supplies to replace one of the compressors in the grocery store freezer, the compressor itself was under warranty; labor and parts to repair the fryer in the café; new door for the cafe to seal off the cold air from the basement into café kitchen. These combined repairs amounted to more than $1,950. In addition, legal expenses for transfer of the Rock Houses which were recently donated by the Owings family totaled m...
Lacrosse The annual LaCrosse Winter Concert will be Wednesday, Dec. 17, in the high school pit with a matinee at 1 p.m. and evening concert at 6:30. Kindergarten through fifth graders and seventh and eighth graders will perform....
Lacrosse Pictures with Santa will be offered Saturday, Dec. 6, when the jolly old elf makes his appearance at the Gathering Place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. His visit is sponsored by the LaCrosse Business Association. Activities will also be provided at the library. The annual Giving Tree, again sponsored by LaCrosse Community Outreach, is being hosted by Jasper Trucking this year. The tags are on and available for pick up. Wrapped gifts need to be returned with gift tags to Jasper Trucking on or before Wednesday, Dec. 17, before the close of...
Lacrosse Santa will be at the Gathering Place Saturday, Dec. 6, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Children will have the opportunity to make ornaments in the library. The ornaments are provided by Friends of the LaCrosse Library. Free picture with Santa sponsored by the LaCrosse Business Association. Wednesday night, Dec. 3, is the Community Conversation meeting sponsored by LaCrosse Community Pride. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the Gathering Place. At this meeting the LaCrosse Community Pride committees will report on activities along with gathering...
Lacrosse LaCrosse Beautification Committee is naming a Holiday Yard of the Month in December. Residents are encouraged to have Christmas lights and decorations up by Dec. 17 at 6:30 p.m. for judging. A business decorating contest will also be underway. Votes can be left at Jasper Trucking, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Dec. 8 to Dec. 17. The winners of the Halloween contest: Infant-2 years old, Hudson Startin as Raggedy Ann; 3-5 year old Boden Olsen; 6-8 year old Chase Harder as a skeleton joker; 9-11 year old Isabella Olsen as a zombie slayer;...
Lacrosse Third, fourth and fifth graders traveled to Spokane on Thursday, Oct. 30, to attend the Spokane Symphony presentation for students at the Fox Theater. After learning about all the sections of the symphony and listening to many beautiful songs, they went to the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture in Brown’s Addition of Spokane. They viewed many interesting exhibits....
Lacrosse Every Friday, LaCrosse third and fourth graders have been working with the seventh and eighth graders to study economics. The group is collaborating to start a book publishing company where the students will set up a business structure, survey their target market, write the stories and publish their book. Last Friday, the group had a special guest speaker come to assist them with their start-up business. Ryan Hamilton, the manager of the Colfax and LaCrosse Umpqua Bank branches, spoke to the students about everything they would need...
Lacrosse The sixth grade speech class is organizing a Freedom Walk to be part of the Veterans’ Day program Nov. 10 at LaCrosse school. The assembly will begin in the school pit area at 10:30. Matt Decker, president of the Marines of the Palouse, will be the guest speaker. Immediately following the assembly the students in grade 5-12 will walk from the flag pole to the town Gathering Place behind flags carried by the sixth graders. Lunch will be served at the Gathering Place for students and any resident who signs up by Nov. 6 by calling the s...
Lacrosse The LaCrosse Business Association Halloween Chili/Hot dog feed will be at the Route 26 Café Halloween night, Friday, Oct. 31. Food and refreshments will be served from 5 to 7 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for best costume at 5:30. The Halloween carnival will be in the firehouse from 7 to 8:30....
Lacrosse LaCrosse's 2014-2015 Community Calendars are available for purchase for $8 at the school or at Jasper Trucking. They provide a listing of school events, birthdays and anniversaries. LaCrosse Business Association Yard of the Month winners for the season were May - Alan and Darleen Knott; June - Lynn and Sharon Bruce; July - Larry and Sandy Martin; August - Gary and Lynn Wargo and September - Norm Bafus....
Lacrosse The LaCrosse Farm Women’s Club will meet Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. at LaCrosse City Hall. The recipient of the September Yard of the Month award was Norm Bafus....
Lacrosse LaCrosse Community Pride conducted a silent auction in the Gathering Place during Farmers’ Festival. All proceeds will be used to pay the monthly expenses for the library, kitchen and Gathering Place. These expenses include utilities, property taxes and insurance. A wide variety of donated items totaled 104. Some of the items were 30 tons of rock, Tigercat apparel, leaf blower, candle basket, scrap booking basket, children’s Lego sets, battery operated International tractor and wagon, bottle fed baby goat, 4-month-old lamb, var...
Lacrosse Preparation and practice is in full swing for the 2014 Mr. LaCrosse competition. The theme this year is “Hot, Hot, Hot” and it will be June 20 at 7 p.m. at the LaCrosse School. A barbecue dinner will be at 5 p.m. Contestants are Cole Evans, Cameron Ellis, Jacob Johnson, Jason Wigen, Tom VanCamp and Nick Zinthaefner. They will compete in fitness, talent and formal wear. All proceeds help support the Dick Roberts Memorial Scholarship....
Lacrosse The Church at Hay was decorated with baskets of yellow carnations and white irises for the May 23 wedding of Tom Cauley, Sr. and Carol Audet. Tom Cauley Jr. was his father's best man and Carol's attendant was her daughter Kaylynn. The bride was escorted by her son, Troy. The couple's wedding trip was to the annual family reunion at Riparia. Forty-four family members gathered at the home of Jeanine Henley in Hay to celebrate the 95th birthday of Frank Henley, former resident of Hay who now resides at Newport. Four generations of...
Lacrosse Bob and Leanne Bafus attended the graduation of their daughter, Samantha, from the University of Idaho Saturday. She has a business degree with an emphasis in human resources. They were joined for a celebration lunch by Jeff and Norman Bafus, and Cindy and Kim Pitts. All helped pack up her belongings and move her to Spokane where she started a job on Monday. LaCrosse Community Pride will meet today, May 22. Tedd Nealey, board member who is heading the economic development plan, will discuss ways to market the community and attract...
Lacrosse LaCrosse FFA had a very successful year at the Spokane Junior Livestock Show. The show started with success in the meats contest where LaCrosse placed second. Team members were Jason Wigen and Cole Evans (tied for fifth individual), Jessica Guske (10th individual), David Alguea, Graham BeDell, Abby McGregor and Weston Miller. Evans also won the State FFA Livestock Judging Contest by topping 177 participants from around Washington. Ten members exhibited 16 animals including 11 goats,...
Lacrosse LaCrosse Community Pride plans a silent auction to raise funds for operation of the public section of the LaCrosse Market building. The auction will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the community part of the market which includes a meeting area, an area for DECCA students and the LaCrosse Branch of Whitman County Library. LaCrosse Community Pride is responsible for maintenance, utility, insurance and tax bills for that part of the property. Residents can participate by donating items for the silent auction or making a financial donation...
