Articles from the February 3, 2011 edition
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Aeschliman wins award
John Aeschliman of Colfax, recently won first place in the A division of the No Till/Strip Till Non-Irrigated of the 2010 National Corn Growers’ Association’s Corn Yield Contest in Washington. Aeschliman won with Pioneer brand hybrid 39D95, whi...
Farmers pack Colfax meeting on oilseed crops
“It’s always been successful but it makes me pull my hair out.” That was the way Dayton farmer Bob Hutchers summed up his years of growing canola on his farm, as he gestured to his bald head. Hutchers grows 115 acres of canola, the most common oilse...
Deputy clerk yet to be hired: Uniontown hires city clerk
Uniontown hired a new clerk Jan. 27, one of the last positions to be replaced after several city staff members departed at the end of last year. Melani Roach of Genesee will now work at least 20 hours a week, if not more, as part-time clerk for the...
Volunteers restore Palouse bark at park
The North Fork Palouse River shifted piles of playground bark when it flooded Jan. 17. Jan. 27, police chief Jerry Neumann, shown here aboard a utility tractor, was amid roughly 20 volunteers who scooped the bark back to its appropriate location....
The world - Feb. 3, 2011
THURSDAY Spurred on by an internet campaign against President Hosni Mubaraks’s three-decade rule, thousands of Egyptians take to the streets in mass protests. The Mexican military seized a medeival-style catapult smugglers were using to hurl m...
County officials admit mistake in letter
Whitman County Commissioner Greg Partch and Auditor Eunice Coker erred in their Jan. 20 statement about the source of local funding for the county’s new elections office. A letter written to voters and reported on in the Gazette said portions of t...
District 14 gets new truck
The Colton/Uniontown fire district will soon acquire a new water tender with a $490,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security. The county’s southern-most fire district, District 14, hopes to have the 3,500-gallon water tender on line by t...
Cracks force shutdown of Uniontown bridge
Whitman County has closed Babinski Bridge east of Uniontown to heavy traffic after inspection crews noticed upwards of 400 cracks in the foundation of the concrete span. Because of those cracks, the county has limited traffic on the heavily used...
Colfax Chamber installs Julie Womack as president
About 60 people Saturday dined at Hill-Ray Plaza for the first Colfax Chamber of Commerce installation banquet in four years. Julie Womack gave a brief talk on her outlook after taking the top job. Womack, who moved to Colfax after her husband,...
Crash on Malden Road
Matthew McPherson, 35, Malden, was unhurt Jan. 25 in an accident on the Malden/Pine City Road west of Rosalia. According to the Washington State Patrol report, McPherson was driving a 2002 Isuzu Trooper westbound at 8:20 p.m. when the SUV drifted...
School survey online
Different versions of a Colfax school community perspective survey appeared on the district's web site last Thursday. The district plans to conduct the survey over the next three weeks with a report scheduled for the Feb. 21 school board meeting....
Extension session set on black stem rust
An education meeting on black stem rust will be Feb. 11 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Spokane County Extension Education Center, 222 N. Havana Street in Spokane. Scientists from WSU and the USDA will present on the biology of the stem rust pathogen...
File meth sale charges
Michael A. Holmes, 25, former Colfax resident, was formally charged in superior court Jan. 26 with three drug counts. The Quad Cities Drug Task Force report noted Holmes came under suspicion after informants told officers he was supplying...
Widmans bag buttercup prize again
Angelina and Reed Widman of Rosalia claimed the 2011 Gazette buttercup sweepstakes prize with this beauty they discovered Saturday. This is the fourth straight year the Widmans have claimed the prize with buttercups that appear on a south slope near...
Another Gorilla in action at Colfax
One local gorilla was also on the Colfax basketball court Friday night when the Davenport Gorillas visited town. Senior Tuffy Hickman portrayed a gorilla in search of a snack when he chased top banana Damon Buck during a lull in the court action....
Ballots due Tuesday on funding measures
More than a third of the ballots sent out for Feb. 8 special elections have already been mailed back to the Whitman County elections office. Of the 3,276 ballots mailed, 1,159 had been filled out and mailed back as of Tuesday. Voters in the town of...
Reception Friday: Nuxoll’s 50-plus years of law in Colfax started with Gonzaga course change
If the math classes at Idaho’s Greencreek High School in the late 1940s had extended beyond plain geometry, a big chapter in Colfax legal history would never have happened. Also, the firm of Libey, Ensley & Nelson, Inc. would not be inviting one a...
Fire districts struggle to deal with shortage of volunteers, EMTs
Rural fire departments in Whitman County are facing a downward trend in volunteers available during the day, in addition to dropping numbers of volunteers with EMT training. To manage, the Rosalia fire department has plans to hire a part-time...
Legals - Feb. 3, 2011
MEETING CANCELLATION NOTICE The February 25, 2011 regular meeting of the Whitman County LEOFF I Board has been canceled. The next regular meeting of the Board will take place Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in the Whitman County...
Letters - Feb. 3, 2011
Include TAC I urge Whitman County residents to request the inclusion of a Technical Advisory Committee in the requirements of the Conditional Use Permit for wind power energy generation companies doing business in Whitman County. Certainly in the...
W. Bruce Cameron - Lies My Parents Told Me
I was only 15 years old when my father finally told me the truth about Santa Claus. “Son,” he said, “Santa’s sleigh causes a warp in the space-time continuum, which is why he can visit every child’s house in a single night.” Later, of course, I found...
Don Brunell - Fixing Washington’s pension problems
You see a lot in the news these days about public employee pension costs pushing cities and states to the brink of bankruptcy. Private sector employers confronted the same crisis years ago and are still struggling with it today. Eager to avoid costly...
Adele Ferguson - Baby brother after discovery of cancers
IT’S HARD to concentrate on everyday things after you’ve learned that someone in your family has cancer. In my case, it’s my baby brother, not really a baby considering our ages, but he is No. 9 among the ten children in the family. I am No. 2. No...
Pet peeves and okeydokes - Feb. 3, 2011
#!*! Colfax City Council’s continued “No response,” “No action” on the deer population problem. +++ The world famous crab feed. #!*! The blu-cru and cheerleaders being banished to the end of the gym. #!*! The bad pot holes on 195 from here to Pullma...
Opinion - Silver Helmet: Years of dedication recognized
Jerry Jones, editor of the Gazette, was recently awarded the Silver Helmet Award. It was given by the Washington State Football Coaches Association for his continued, dedicated service to rural county high school football coverage. It is a fitting...