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Thursday, Feb. 27 Colfax – Noon – Gentle Yoga with Suzy McNeilly – Pay by the month or by the class. Colfax – 6:30 p.m. – Zumba with Brenda Camp – Bring a friend and party yourself into shape. Pay by the month or by the class. Friday, Feb. 28 Colfax – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for toddlers, preschoolers and parents every Friday. Endicott, St. John and Uniontown– Storytime – Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more every Friday. Saturday, March 1 Colfax – 3:30 p.m. – The Wellington Disaster a...
8 years ago The Commoner March 1, 1889 Local capitalists and businessmen of Garfield and vicinity are pushing forward a project for the establishment in that growing town of a national bank with a capital stock of probably $50,000. Some of the stock will most likely be taken by Colfax men. Such an institution would be of immense benefit to the trade circles of Garfield and we hope it may be established. The second of the series of lectures under the auspices of the young people’s society of the M.E. Church, will be delivered by L.H. P... Full story
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., hosted 59 local eighth grade students representing 15 area schools Feb. 18 for the Getting Ready for Engineering and Technology (GREAT) Day at the company’s headquarters in Pullman. Among Whitman County schools attending the event were Gar-Pal Middle School, LaCrosse, Steptoe School, Colton, Royal Garrison, Lincoln Middle School, Pullman Christian School and Colfax Junior/High School. Other students were from Moscow, Lewiston, Clarkston and Pomeroy. A...
Tax forms from the Internal Revenue Service are now available from the Colfax branch of Whitman County Library. Copies of IRS forms 1040, 1040 A, and 1040 EZ and 1040 X along with a variety of 1040 schedule forms are available Residents who want to print their own forms or order them directly from the IRS website can visit www.irs.gov. Library computers and staff can assist in printing these forms at a copy fee of 10 cents per page. The library has also added a link to the IRS from its website at www.whitco.lib.wa.us.... Full story
Brent Conrad and Kelli Largent, both of Colfax, were among 359 students who have been named to the dean’s list for the 2013 fall semester at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. To be eligible, a student must earn a 3.5 grade-point average while taking at least twelve graded credit hours of classes.... Full story
Endicott Gun club report for Feb. 23: Division 1 Endicott Gun Club 93-100 Todd Strader 24, Brad Hergert 24, Ed Schultz 23, Travis Schluneger 22 Endicott Gun Club (663-700) Ladies Endicott Gun Club 38-50 Amanda Pelissier 20, Jessica Geissinger 18 Endicott Gun Club (288-375) Junior Endicott Gun Club 65-100 Connor Pelissier 19, Conrad Hergert 18, Joe Veitz 16, Carsten Miller 12 Endicott Gun Club (382-600) 21 Shooters No Wind, Bright And Snowy....
Qigong massage demo Licensed acupuncturist and traditional East Asian medicine practitioner Liz Lee will present Qigong self-massage exercise techniques to help alleviate neck and shoulder tension, headache and fatigue on Friday, March 7, at noon at Pullman Regional Hospital in conference rooms C/D. CLUBS & YOUTH GROUPS Athenaeum Nineteen members attended the last meeting. Chris Kackman presented a program on the city of Portland, Ore. She outlined Portland’s colorful past and described its many landmarks. Portland is a city of coffee, m...
Heather Sandberg is beginning to wonder if she wasn’t meant to be a farmer. She loves to garden and spends a lot of time during growing season in her yard. Her degree from WSU is in environmental science and she has worked in soil and water conservation. Growing up in Moses Lake, she met her husband in school, but they did not date until college. Roger went to Whitworth University majoring in economics, and Heather attended Washington State University. She says her family is trying to convert hi... Full story
Dusty Last week on Tuesday, Kim Pitts went to Spokane to attend the Harlem Globetrotters vs. the All Stars exhibition at the arena. He took his daughter Amanda and grandsons Tate and Rafe with him. Karen Bafus had won the V.I.P. tickets in a radio contest but was unable to use them so gave them to Cindy Pitts. Kim, Amanda and boys were able to “meet and greet” some of the players. Tate and Rafe were accorded the title of “Junior Trotters” and each received a jersey and a signed basketball. They plan on attending the next time the Globetr...
Left to right: Johnny Szwast, Connor Johnson, Dylan Nails, Hayden Fulfs, and Kierstyn York Out of 591 FLL Robotic teams in the state of Washington and British Columbia, 4H Palouse Area Robotics Team’s F.I.R.S.T. Lego League team from Colfax brought home the championship title this weekend. They competed against the top 54 teams (35 from the Seattle area) in Ellensburg on Saturday. Students were judged for design, project and core values before competing in the robot games. At the end of the c...
Cal Lewis, 12, sixth grade, demonstrates his project, the Gauss rifle, in which he used magnets to fire a small metal ball into the sandpit in the background. Gazette Columnist Jennings Elementary School held its annual science fair Feb. 20 and the judges were scientists from the area. Jennings students participate voluntarily, presenting demonstrations, collections or experiments. Each student has a board showing their findings, objects used in the project and then presents their project...
Tickets for Dissmore’s shopping spree can be purchased for $1 starting March 1 at Dissmore’s IGA in Pullman. People have until March 26 to purchase tickets. The winner of the grand prize will race through the store on Friday, March 28, at 5 p.m. to gather up to $500 in groceries. All proceeds from the Shopping Spree contest go to the Pullman Chamber of Commerce to support chamber events such as the July 4 celebration, National Lentil Festival, First Down Friday and Holiday Fest....
A public meeting entitled “Impacts of the Farm Bill on Both Farmers and Consumers,” will be Monday, March 3, 7 to 9 p.m., in the Gold Room of the Gladish Community and Cultural Center. The federal Farm Bill has a direct effect on the prices that each consumer pays for food and on the income that each producer makes. A panel of experts includes Palouse farmer Ben Barstow; Tory Bye, director of the Whitman County Farm Service Agency, and Dr. Joe Guenther, retired University of Idaho Agricultural Economics professor. Each will use his per...
Steve Rimbey stands on top of a scaffold making sure one of the pillars is level in the refurbished room at Events on Main in Colfax. His wife, Kari, standing next to the scaffold, is handing him some tools. They plan to call the extra space the Fireside Room which will hold an additional 50 people besides the main coffee house. They also removed a false ceiling to reveal the original ceiling tiles. The little coffee shop on the corner is adding a whole new room. Events on Main at N. 203 Main... Full story
Rosalia Town Council conducted its first public hearing for a Community Development Block Grant Feb. 11 and had a second one scheduled Tuesday evening. Mayor Nan Konishi said although not many people came to the hearing, there were many good ideas. Layne Merritt of JUB Engineering in Spokane is assisting the town as it applies for grants. The grants are distributed by the state Department of Commerce. He said the town is applying for two grants, one $25,000 grant for a wastewater facilities plan that would evaluate alternatives and costs for... Full story
Real estate sales Filemon and Claudia Figueroa Dominguez, Pullman, to Jose Juan Renteria and Rosaura Chagollan, Pullman, 1977 14x60 mobile home on the Pullman-Albion Road near Pullman, $10,000, Feb. 18. Copper Basin Construction, Hayden, Idaho, to Ryan and Megan McNannay, Moscow, a house on SW Junegrass Lane in Pullman, $207,900, Feb. 19. Clifford L. and Catherine Ann Keller, as initial trustees of the Cliff and Cathy Keller Revocable Trust, Cocolalla, Idaho, to Dogan Gursoy and Christina G. Chi, Pullman, house on NE Stadium Way in Pullman,...
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009. Last week, I explained that despite the fact that I had poured (plainly labeled) bird seed into a (universally recognizable) bird feeder in order to feed (well, duh) birds, a lawless squirrel had invaded. This so intimidated the local birds that they weren’t landing in the feeder, though I suppose they might also have been put off by the way my dog and I kept noisily charging out the door to curse at the squirrel. In the face of this injustice, I felt I had no choice but to...
Proud mama As I was hanging up my son’s Garfield-Palouse Letterman’s jacket this morning and washing his basketball jersey for the last time this season, I began to reflect on how much time and effort not only he, but his family, friends and fellow community members have invested into this basketball season. Starting back in the early fall, as the leaves began to turn and the football games were coming to an end, my son and his teammates were gearing up for another season on the court; planning their approach to the game, ordering their tea... Full story
The activist Florence Reece wrote the union ballad “Which Side Are You On?” in the midst of Kentucky’s so-called Harlan County War in the 1930s. Posed this question by the United Auto Workers, employees of Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn., plant answered that they don’t want to be on the side of a union that is slipping into irrelevance. Once a 1.5 million-member behemoth, the UAW has seen its membership decline to a fourth of what it was in the late 1970s. Everything had lined up for it in Chattanooga. Not only was VW officially neutral,... Full story
Death struck Highway 195 last week. Two young women were killed. Two others were injured. Nothing good can come out of such a tragedy, unless it reminds us to drive as if our lives and the lives of others depend upon it. Despite its neglect, there is still magic in the Codger Pole. Take another look at it. It deserves better....
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. STORM CULVERT SAID CLEAN The giant storm drain which was believed to be one of the key factors in the Colfax downtown flood Feb. 12 was checked out last week by a state DOT remote television camera crew and determined to be clean. The storm culvert, which runs beneath Canyon Street, was checked with cameras at three different locations and...
At the start of the season, the central question in Whitman County 1B boys basketball was whether Gar-Pal could beat Colton with Jake Straughan in the lineup. With Gar-Pal’s three strong guards a year older, could they counter the inside presence of 6’7” Dalton Patchen and the outside threat of Straughan, once he returned from a football injury? Three weeks ago, the Vikings answered the question by blowing out Colton, with Straughan in his third game back. Then they beat Pomeroy a second time... Full story
Round four of the Colfax-Northwest Christian hoop saga went to the Bulldogs Saturday night with a 50-49 win that stopped the Crusaders’ 25-0 season string. The win at Mead left the Bulldogs with the SE-NE tourney trophy and the number-one seed in Saturday’s state regional round. Colfax will go up against the Lind-Ritzville-Sprague Broncos Saturday at 2 p.m. at Cheney High School. The Broncos took the SE-NE number five slot with a 51-34 win over Dayton in the other game at Mead Saturday night. Co...
Final rounds of the SE girls tourney in Colfax last week ended with the top two teams in the league race collecting the tickets to this week’s ticket s to regional round of 16, the first chapter of the state tournament. Colton’s undefeated Wildcats, who are on the hunt for a record sixth straihgt state title, dispatched Tekoa/Oakesdale 62-28 in the title round Friday night, and the Nighthawks came back Saturday and stopped St. John 54-32 for the other regional ticket. Colton’s champ... Full story
The Colfax-GP combo returned from the state Mat Classic at Tacoma with two second-place medals and one third. All three medal winners were seniors. The mat classic included qualifiers from both of the state’s B division with eight qualifiers on the state grid in each class. The huge event featured wrestlers in all weight divisions with an estimated attendance of 26,000 over the two days. Evan Lord took second in the 220 class after going all the way to the title round. Lord was stopped 11-0 by Darrington’s Mason McKenzie, number two fin...