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Rosalia RACE plans breakfast, bake sale Rosalia Association for Community Enrichment (RACE) will host a membership drive and job fair breakfast and bake sale Saturday, March 27, from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Rosalia Community Center. Breakfast will be served from 8 to 11 a.m. for a suggested donation of $5 or more. Proceeds will go to help fund community events and education. RACE has two committees now and volunteers are needed for a softball committee and dance committee for the fall festival, 2010. They also need volunteers for the breakfast.... Full story
Food Assistance Programs Food Stamps If you’re not familiar with the Federal Food Stamp Program the first thing you need to know is that it changed its name. It’s now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (your state may use a different name), and it’s available to lower-income families and individuals. To apply, you’ll need to fill out a state application form, and SNAP benefits are provided on an inconspicuous plastic card that’s used like a debit card and accepted at most grocery stores. For seniors (age 60 and older... Full story
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution for Wednesday, March 24, will be Palouse Federated Church, 1 to 3 p.m., and Rosalia Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m. For Thursday, March 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 1 p.m.; Tekoa City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Endicott City...
Sophomores Geraldine Steiger of Dusty and Jerek Allen from west of St John were named to the dean’s list for the fall quarter at the Univeristy of Washington. Students are required to have at least a 3.5 grade average on a minimum of 12 hours of graded credit....
Jeremy John Peters A service celebrating the life of Jeremy John Richard Peters, 28, will be today, Thursday, March 11, at 11 a.m., Rosalia Assembly of God Church. Burial will follow at the Pine City Cemetery. He died Friday, March 5, at his home in Cheney. Born April 1, 1981, in Spokane, he was raised in Rosalia, where he attended school. Growing up he enjoyed the outdoors, hunting and fishing, trips to the Oregon coast and working on muscle cars and riding dirt bikes. Always very social, he enjoyed family gatherings and hanging out with... Full story
WHMCs mission, vision and values statement hangs on many walls throughout the hospital. If you have ever read it, you may know that our vision for many years has been to “renew and revitalize” the hospital. As a relative newcomer to the organization I have to say, “Well done!” to the board, staff and community. You have achieved your vision. The recent building projects, equipment upgrades and the dramatic success of customer service efforts are tangible proof of your success. Now we have a tremendous opportunity to aim even higher. It is time...
Garfield Palouse choir students, from both the middle school and the high school, were treated to a full afternoon of some Mozart’s finest music played by the Spokane Symphony and Symphony Choral Feb. 14. Tickets for the program were provided by the Garfield-Palouse Arts Booster organization. The program included performance by Garfield Palouse Choir Director Rebecca Hemphill, and featured crowd favorite Eine Kliene Nachtmusik and a concerto for flute and harp showcasing two of the Spokane Symphony’s principle players. Students attending wer... Full story
8 years ago, March 13, 1885 City Ordinance No. 64, passed Monday by council, makes it the duty of the city assessor to tax up to two dollars against all persons who keep a dog in the city. The old ordinance, requiring the marshal to collect a dog license, is repealed. As there is no penalty attached for non-payment of the assessment, dog owners will rest easy. No danger of the marshal killing your pups. Along the Whitman county shores of Snake river are numbers of Indians who make their living by fishing in the river and raising horses upon...
Colton Library collected about 20 cans of food for the Colton/Uniontown Food Bank in their Food For Fines food drive in February. Librarian Holly Meyer waived fines in exchange for patron’s food donations. From March 15 to April 19, the penny pig will be out to collect donations towards children’s programs at the library. Although this is called a penny drive, the pig happily accepts currency. Colors will be the Storytime theme at the Colton Library in March and April. Crafts and stories will revolve around a different color every week. Eas... Full story
Hooper Ian and Jessica McGregor hosted family and friends for daughter Lillian’s fifth birthday celebration Sunday. Guests included Hooper residents Conly and Betty Merritt, Rob and Laurie Moffitt, and Kate, Scooter, Claire and Collin Lyle, and Micalya Cramer of Clarkston. Bill and Della Evans hosted Della May Barr and George Leullen from Athena, Ore., last week. Anna May Tobin, along with daughter and son-in-law Cathy and Scott Blankenship traveled to Moscow Sunday to hear granddaughter Caitlin sing with The Vandaleers. On the way home they s...
Oakesdale Oakesdale High School Knowledge Bowl Team placed third at District competition and qualified for state competition. Members of the team include Drake Hinkins, Alisa Jones, Cora Fisher, Jeffrey DeGon, Danielle Jones and Trevor Renstrom. They will compete March 27 at West Valley High. The combo of Anna Mills, Jeffrey DeGon, and Michael Conklin performed at the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival Feb. 27. The competition this year used a rubric based scoring technique and their combo score sheet had numerous outstanding a...
Week of March 15-20, 2010 At Colton School: Monday: Chicken and noodles, rolls, green beans, fruit. Tuesday: Pancakes, sausage, hashbrowns, applesauce. Wednesday: Chicken patties on a bun, scalloped potatoes, apple slices, Jello. Thursday: Hamburgers, fries, fruit. Friday: Teacher inservice day. Sack lunches available. At Garfield/Palouse School: Monday: Chicken bunwich, lettuce, cheese, vegetables, jojos, fruit. Tuesday: Pizza, tossed salad, pineapple. Wednesday: Terri dippers, fried rice, green beans, fruit, rolls. Thursday: Hot pockets,...
Lamont Members of the Lamont Community Church served at the eastbound rest area recently. Upon investigation, the secretary of the Ladies Guild, Bonnie Swannack, found they have served there twice a year since 1990 and never missed the days assigned by the State Department of Transportation. When the group started doing this, it was necessary for them to make their own shelters because it was in the cold weather and too cold to be without some protection. Now, the state has installed a very adequate room with heaters, hot water and...
Artists honored last Thursday for their entries in the third annual H’Art of the Palouse street banner contest included, from the left, Jerry Jones, Colfax; Craig Whitcomb, Lewiston; Emily Adams, Kelan Becker, Debi Anderson, Brianna Reynolds, Mae Claypool, Jim Fitzgerald, Dick Gebhardt, all of Colfax. Unable to attend were Sarah Moore of Pullman and Lori Unger and Hannah Walker, both of Colfax. Receiving People’s Choice awards, determined by a vote of ballots in downtown business, were Adams in the adult division and Becker in the youth div... Full story
Ami, Daniel, Mark and Brandon When Ami Kramer was dating her husband Mark, owner of Kramer’s Funeral Home in Palouse, it was common for her to tell her family he would be at an event unless someone died. Now that they are married with a seven-year-old son Daniel, they don’t ever make definite plans. “We just fly by the seat of our pants,” Ami said. Ami Lemon Kramer grew up in Colfax as one of six children. She met Mark when she and some friends went out to play darts. At first, he was vague a...
Eight Colfax High school juniors will compete in the Colfax High School Junior Miss competition next Saturday, March 20, beginning at 7 p.m. in the CHS auditorium. Theme for the program will be "Expedition Junior Miss." Approximately $3,000 in scholarship prizes will be awarded, and the winner will compete in the Washington Junior Miss Competition at Pullman in April. Colfax Junior Miss Heather Harder and 2009 finalists Allison Vorderbrueggen and Brooke Waldo will participate in the Colfax program. Tori Benson, is the daughter of Max and Chris... Full story
Dan Lyons walks down Main Street Colfax last Thursday, covering a tiny portion of his 3,287-mile cross-country trek to raise awareness for Locks of Love, a charity which provides hairpieces for children who have lost their hair from medical treatment. The walk is Lyons’ fifth charity hike across the nation. No cell phone. No car. No bicycle. Just a pair of New Balance tennis shoes and a pack filled with donation forms, a tent, sleeping bag, a change of clothes and an umbrella to keep dry. Californian Dan Lyons is walking from Olympia to West P...
Washington state is going to begin taxing candy and bottled water to offset a $2.8 billion budget deficit. Is that going to affect your life much? Becky Burke, Pullman “I buy a lot of candy.” Are you going to cut back? “Probably not. I need candy to keep going.” Joseph Perry, Colfax “I think it’s a bunch of crap. There’s so much waste there, I don’t know why they have to tax the little things.” So are you a big bottled water drinker? “No, I drink pop. But they’re going to tax that like everything else we like.” Mallory Crass, Pullman “I drink...
As a world-renowned writer and social commentator, I’ve often stated that there are some notable differences between men and women. Thus far, no one has come forward to prove me wrong. Nor, frankly, has anyone thanked me for this observation, though I shudder to imagine what the world would be like if I hadn’t pointed it out. Let’s suppose for a moment that a man and a woman, both single, come down with the flu on the same day, with the same symptoms. If they each kept a diary of their experiences, here’s how it might look: Woman: I ache al... Full story
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. City nominates bridge ramps A plan to install ramps on the S. Main Bridge at Cooper has been nominated by the city for stimulus funding in the event the county receives stimulus authorization through the state Department of Transportation. Plans prepared by Erik R. Coats, Pullman consulting engineer, call for new ramps on each side of the... Full story
An order awarding possession for jewelry items to Harry Ritchie’s Jewelers, Inc., Portland, was filed in superior court Friday, March 5, against Double Eagle Pawn, Inc., Spokane. The order evolved from a suit Ritchie’s has filed against Anthony and Alicia Napier of Colfax in an attempt to recover jewelry which it alleges it sold to the Napiers on a 2003 retail contract. The court order against Double Eagles alleges six jewelry pieces are in its possession. The order requires Double Eagle to inform the court who has the jewelry if they do not... Full story
A crowd of roughly 1,700 munched away on Uniontown sausage at the 57th annual sausage feed March 7. Approximately 1,750 pounds of raw pork was squeezed into links to make more than 6,800 sausages. They were consumed by people from small towns in the area, the Lewiston/Clarkston Valley and Spokane. Even license plates from Canada were seen. “Boy, I tell you that meat was ungoshly good. It made good sausage,” said life-long Uniontown resident Ken Oenning, who has been stuffing sausages for the event for more than 40 years. Oenning said the meat t...
Palouse residents will soon be charged $25 for an annual permit to use the city’s chipping station. The new fee is the result of Whitman County no longer funding small-town use of the county chipper. “I think it’s fair and very reasonable. By the time you have to haul anything out of town- it’s very convenient to have it here in town,” said Palouse resident Connie Newman, whose family hauls small tree branches out to the city facility once a year when they prune. The Palouse city council March 9 approved adding the fee. Starting April 1,...
Start over is not code for stonewalling health-care reform President Obama and Democrats in Congress say that starting over on health-care reform is akin to stonewalling. They are wrong, just as wrong as those who want to do nothing. The problem is there is too much testosterone flying around the nation’s capitol and Americans are tired of the antics and political gamesmanship. It’s time to give them all an ice cold shower and send them back to work. Reforming health care is not about social engineering; it is not about jamming an unpopular and... Full story
Seattle Times: A change in ‘left coast’ outlook? I’VE LIVED in Washington state long enough to remember when the Seattle Times was considered a conservative newspaper. Compared to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer anyway. I don’t remember exactly when it started going the other way. But it did, to my great disappointment. I knew the reporters and some of the editors on both papers, and found the P-I’s to be more liberal than the Times. Richard Larsen was probably the best known and most respected on the Times as their chief political writer. H...
