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Menus Week of Feb. 8-12, 2010 At Colton School: Tuesday: Grilled cheese sandwiches, cup of soup, fries, fruit. Wednesday: Hard-shell tacos, green beans, fruit, fruit turnovers. Thursday: Corn dogs, fries, corn, fruit. Friday: Hamburgers, green salad, fruit. At Garfield-Palouse School: Tuesday: Hot dogs, pork n beans, fruit, green salad, pudding. Wednesday: Tacos, lettuce, cheese, corn, fruit. Thursday: Chicken bunwich, lettuce, cheese, nachos, fruit, green beans. Friday: Stick Day. Bread sticks, fruit sticks, potato sticks, carrots, celery stic...
Jeanette Weber A rosary service for Jeanette Teresa Meyer Weber, 85, will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Uniontown. Funeral mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, at St. Boniface with vault interment to follow at St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery. Viewing will be at Kimball Funeral Home in Pullman today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. She died Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010, at the family home in Uniontown. Born May 29, 1924, in Colton, to Walter and Teresa Haupt Meyer, she grew up on the family farm at...
Eight enter Junior Miss Eight junior class girls have entered this year’s Colfax Junior Miss competition. They have been practicing for three weeks for the event which has been scheduled for March 20. Theme of the show will be “Expedition Junior Miss.” Each contestant has been asked to appear in some type of expedition outfit. Entrants include Tori Benson, Shaina Simonson, Maggee Cochran, Emily Ledbetter, Brooke Webber, Ashlynn Thompson, Kaci Kopczynski and Kara Foreyt. Connie Ellis and Evanna Morgan are co-chairing the event again this year....
Colfax native Brandi Campbell is serving as a Navy third class petty officer aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan which is currently involved with the Haitian relief effort. The Bataan can produce hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per day. Campbell serves as one of the ship’s quartermasters who are responsible for navigating the ship. Her father Charles Campbell resides in Colfax....
Oakesdale schools recently announced their first semester honor roll. Students receiving all A’s are Desiree Chappell, senior; Kaela Dewan, sophomore, and Jacey Headley and Alexa Lindgren, eighth grade. Earning grade averages between 3.50 to 3.99 were Drake Hinkins, Katie Graffis, Cora Fisher, Joey Hooper, Brandon Hovde, Alisa Jones and Nick Wright, seniors; Debby Betz and Chloe Rambo, juniors; Anna Mills and Danielle Jones, sophomores; Courtenay Perry, Dusty Haggerty and Katie Renstrom, freshmen; Sarah Fisch, eighth grade, and Kristina T...
Lacrosse Big Al’s Invitational Pool Tournament was Saturday, Feb. 6 with 16 teams participating. Alan Thompson and Butch Kneale captured the top spot. The team of Eric Startin and Don Maier came in second, and Richard Barry and Jen Broeckel placed third. District Basketball will begins this week with the Tigercat boys playing SJE in St. John today at 6 p.m. The girls played their first SE district playoff game Wednesday evening. Rowdie Jo Broeckel celebrated her first birthday. A Western theme celebration was Saturday, Feb. 6, with 20 plus g...
Rosalia Australian champion bush poet and entertainer Milton Taylor and cowboy poet Dick Warwick of Oakesdale will bring a blend of humor, outback wisdom and Down Under lore to the Budding Rose Gallery in Roslia, Feb. 14, at 1 p.m. The performance will follow a performance at the Dahmen barn Feb. 13. For the Dahmen Barn performance they will be joined by the Urban Coyote Bush Band, a four-piece combo specializing in rollicking songs and music from the Australian folk tradition. In Rosalia, the...
The power to overcome Many years ago the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick told of a teenage girl stricken with polio. As he visited with her, she told him about a conversation she’d had with one of her friends, who told her, “Affliction does so color life.” To which this courageous young girl agreed, but said that she would choose which color. At her young age she had already discovered one of life’s great secrets: It’s not what happens to you that matters as much as what happens in you. For faith in God does not so much shield us from dang...
Hospital rated tops by patients Hospital patients rated their experience higher than 99% of other American hospital patients during the last quarter of 2009. Whitman Hospital uses a company that surveys patients from 1,800 hospitals about their stays. Questions cover physician and nursing care, tests and treatments, treatment of visitors and family, meals, the facility and the admission and discharge processes. “Improving each patient’s experience makes them more satisfied with their care and more loyal to the hospital,” says Debbie Hoadl...
Colfax state qualifiers, from the left, Kelsey Nails, Lindsay Webber, Kyle Largent, Wayne Sandell, Ben May, Hannah Higginson and Tarryn Anderson perform Jazz Gloria for adjudicator Dr. Sheila Converse at the District Solo & Ensemble Festival at Lincoln Middle School in Pullman on Saturday, Feb. 6. Performers are judged on interpretation, tone, intonation, technique and choice of literature. Among those receiving a superior rating in each category, the number one performer was declared the winner and qualifies for the State Festival at Central...
—Something Blue Photo Kasi Matsumoto, daughter of Greg and Kathy Matsumoto of Spokane, and Corey Ewing, son of Joffre and Dianna Ewing, Oakesdale, will be married June 5, 2010, in a garden wedding at the Ewing’s family home in Oakesdale. Family and friends are invited to celebrate at the reception that evening in Spokane. A 2001 graduate of Shadle Park High School in Spokane, she is currently employed at Marcella’s Bridal in Spokane. Ewing, 2001 graduate of Oakesdale High School, served in the Air National Guard with duty in Qatar. A 2009...
Dusty The Blue Mountain Troublemakers, The Ryegrass String Band and Wannigan performed a benefit concert which was the senior project of John Hockersmith, a member of the Troublemakers band and student at Waitsburg High. The Blue Mountain Troublemakers also include Mariah Bathlow of Dayton and Zach and Austin Beasley of Waitsburg, sons/ grandsons/nephews/great-nephews of the afore-mentioned spectators. The concert concluded with all three bands on stage to perform the “Orange Blossom Special.” A dinner was served following the performance. The...
Tekoa Plans are underway for a new outdoor market in Tekoa, the “First Saturday Outdoor Market.” It will be on the corner of Crosby and Warren on the first Saturday of each month, starting in May and continuing through September at 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Committee members are Sandy Dehan, Teresa Hoke-House, Teresa Raines, Wendy Sienknecht and Eileen Soldwedel. They are seeking vendors selling baked goods, bedding plants, fresh eggs, homemade crafts, produce, seeds and more. Tekoa for several years operated a farmer’s market at the flathouse on N. Cr...
Kathryn (Katie) Lee Cloaninger and Christopher Cole Heller were married Sept. 26, 2009, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Colfax. Abbot Adrian Archer officiated the ceremony. Katie is the daughter of Craig and Leslie Cloaninger of Colfax. Cole is the son of Kim Jaeger of Oak Harbor and Barry Heller of Boise. Music was provided during the ceremony by pianist Lynn Forrey of Colfax and violinist Kyla Heller of Boise. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a white A-line organza gown trimmed with white satin ribbon. She carried a bouquet...
Lindsey Ann Eggen, daughter of Mark and Shauna Eggen of Auburn, and Thomas Harlan Tribbett, son of Jim and Jeanne Tribbett of Colfax, were married Oct. 17, 2009, at the Coeur d’ Alene Assembly of God Church. The Re., Roy Jeremiah, former pastor of Peace Lutheran in Colfax, officiated at the ceremony. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a two piece Badgley Mischka dress. A sweetheart neckline trimmed with a delicate tulle accent completed the bodice of a short mini dress made from silk Peau de soie worn under a full tulle skirt a...
Malden Library started the new year with a new program, “Knit Wits”. Every Thursday the group meets from 1 to 3 p.m. to learn, teach, and share their knitting and crocheting skills. Program hostess is Carolyn Sturgeon. The tenth annual “Food for Fines” drive will be during February at all library branches. Library users exchange non-perishable food items for up to $10 in outstanding library fines. All food collected in Malden will be distributed in Malden. Storytime is every Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Kids of all ages are welcome to join us for sto...
The ladies of Enchanted April. From the left standing are Jane Lear and Sarah Kelley; center, Troy Sprenke; front Hallie Harris and Patricia Gardner. A Regional Theatre of the Palouse production of Matthew Barber’s “Enchanted April,” will run Feb. 11-13 and Feb. 18-20 at 7:30 p.m. in the RTOP Theatre at 126 N. Grand in Pullman. Matinees Feb. 13 and 20 will start 2:30 p.m. AnaSofia Villanueva directs the play that tells the story of four wildly mismatched British women who head to an idyllic Northern Italian villa in an attempt to escape their...
Sheri Grisham has always wanted to run a café and now, as owner of the St. John Inn Café, she is getting that chance although it is her first time doing anything like it. “I’ve always just liked to cook,” said Sheri. When Sheri left her hometown of Lewiston and moved to Alaska, she left behind the family she had grown up with. During her 26 years in Alaska, she created her own extended family during holidays by inviting over others who didn’t have anywhere to go. Those open-arm holidays...
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution for Wednesday, Feb. 24, will be Palouse Federated Church, 1 to 3 p.m., and Rosalia Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m. For Thursday, Feb. 25, distribution will be Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 9 to 10 a.m., LaCrosse, 310 B 4th (small building behind small white house, 310 4th St.), 9 a.m. to noon; Tekoa City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Endicott City Hall,...
Nicole Bertsch and Kate Hergert enjoy the new puppet stage at storytime session at the St. John Library. The stage and puppets were donated to the library by Riley Brennan, on his sixth birthday, and his parents Tiffany and Patrick....
Monday is President’s Day. Who’s your favorite? Verna Stephenson, LaCrosse “JFK.” Why? “I just think he did a lot for our country.” Brian Berntgen, Oakesdale “I’d have to say my favorite president would be, not George W. Bush, but his dad.” Why? “I just like the way he ran things.” Fritz Soumokil, St. Helens, Ore. “I spent 32 years in the Marine Corps, and the best president I served was Reagan. But Nixon took us out of Vietnam, so...” Jeff McCoskey, Colfax “I have no favorite president. I never have. They’re all just politicians.” Shawn Goul...
Farmers are invited to attend a workshop on aphid and virus management in legume crops Tuesday, Feb. 16, at the Harvester Restaurant in Spangle from 8 to 10 a.m. Sanford Eigenbrode, University of Idaho Entomologist and a team of researchers will lead the discussion. The workshop will be free and is open to anyone interested. A non-host breakfast will be available. This event is offered by WSU Spokane County Extension....
Dr. William Pan, WSU nutrient management specialist, and Jeremy Smith, St. John area farmer, will be featured speakers at the Palouse Direct Seeders breakfast next Thursday, Feb. 18, in the Colfax Methodist Church at 7 a.m. The breakfast will be hosted by Northwest Farm Credit. Dr. Pan will present research on efficiencies of various fertilizer uses with direct seed technology. Smith will speak on the use of his direct seed system and how it has impacted his ranch. The meeting will conclude the group’s winter series. For more information, c...
Sheriff Brett Myers was first, and several of Whitman County’s elected officials followed suit this week in announcing their intentions to seek another four years in their respective offices. Myers Monday announced his campaign for a third term as the county’s top law enforcement official. Myers, a former deputy, unseated Steve Tompson as Sheriff in the 2002 election and was unopposed in his 2006 re-election bid. Coroner Pete Martin, the longest tenured elected official will run for the post for the eighth time this summer. He was app...
A proposal by some Harrington area residents to end the sports cooperative for Sprague and Harrington led to the issuance of a clarification statement last week from the Sprague and Lamont school boards. Doug Shields, chair of the Sprague School board, explained they decided to issue the statement because of what they believe to be some misrepresentations which have been made in regards to the proposal. Some residents of Harrington have pushed for an end to the present cooperative agreement in favor of forming a new cooperative with Odessa...