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Members met at the Library with Janice McKay as hostess. Marilyn Harder gave the program about Dr. Nettie J. Craig Asberry, one of the women considered a “Notable Washington Women”, the theme for this year’s study. Dr. Asberry was born in 1865 in Kansas. Her mother was a slave and her father a white land owner. She was the first African American to receive a bachelors degree from an American college. Kansas had no restrictions on race or gender at this time. She received a Ph.D. and was an accomplished pianist. Dr. Asberry was married to Alber...
Whitman County Library Board of Trustees will meet next Tuesday, March 20 at 4 p.m. in the Norma McGregor meeting room of the Colfax Library. These meetings are open to the public and community members are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Peggy Bryan at the library. “March Madness” fun will be at the Colfax Library Thursday, March 15, for teen time from 3:30-4:30 p.m. School students may ride bus #5 with a parent note, walk or ride to the Colfax Library for stories, crafts, games and more. A Basic Software and Internet Computing...
Hooper Conly Merritt was honored in a retirement party in Hooper Saturday night. Conly retired in February after 18 years working for McGregor Land and Livestock. A potluck dinner was attended by many friends and family, including Tracy, Richard, and Brice Benne, of St. John, Martha, Thane, Ben, and Kirstin Merritt of Bremerton, Ken and Nancy Gould of Port Orchard, Wayne, Cathy, Erin, and Matt Randle of Fox Island, Tom and Wendy Tevlin of Garfield, Alex and Linda McGregor of Pullman, and John and Mary McGregor-Bolles of Moscow, along with many...
Whitman Hospital and Medical Center has a variety of professional staff to assist our patients and families. Our social workers are experts in assisting with understanding a new diagnosis and how that might change a patient’s life. They are also experts on the many community resources as well as end of life and palliative care support. Social workers assure that our patients are discharged to an appropriate care setting with the education and support they need to be successful after discharge. Our social workers also support our Ethics C...
Dusty The Karen Broeckel residence was Sausage Central this past weekend. Twenty-one people gathered to make about 400 pounds of sausage and later to celebrate March birthdays. Participants included Oscar Broeckel, Brian and Angela Broeckel and Graham, Dusty; Cliff and Jeanette Nolan, Greg, Gwen and Jason Nolan, Colfax; Patty Wieber, Andrew Nolan and Khendra Fenstermacher, Spokane; Tom and Doreen Riedner, Genesee; Tony and Denise Kendall, Tacoma; Ken and Pam Beasley, Waitsburg; Austin Beasley, W.S.U., and Zach Beasley, Bremerton. Karen...
Andrea Young, daughter of Greg and Connie Young, and Ben Cox plan a May 5 wedding at Trinity Lutheran Church in Endicott with a reception to follow at the Young farm near Dusty. A 2001 graduate of Colfax High School, Andrea received an undergraduate degree in agricultural communications from Washington State University in 2004 and a masters degree from WSU in agriculture in 2009. She is assistant director of recruitment and retention for the WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences in Pullman. The son of Bob and Resa...
Four years ago, Jodi and her family moved from Idaho to Washington to follow their ideal lifestyle. Jodi and husband, Brian, are ranchers. Brian grew up in Gooding, Idaho. As a rancher’s son, he learned how to work cattle and horses. Jodi grew up in Howe, Idaho, doing the same thing. They both were involved in the rodeo circuit when they met at a rodeo in Pocatello. They both have a great passion for horses and the quiet life of a ranch. Their children include Bailey, now 7, and Birch, 4. “We were unable to make a living ranching in Ida...
Ten Colfax junior class girls will compete in this year’s Distinguished Young Women contest Saturday, March 24, in the Colfax High School auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. This marks the 55th edition of the competition which began as Colfax Junior Miss. Saturday’s format will follow a “Clue” theme with entrants listed as “suspects” for the competition. Entrants and their talent performance are listed by order of competition as follows: Denver Campbell will perform a monologue, “Touch of the Master’s Hand.” She is the daughter of Jeff and Michele...
The History Channel • On April 1, 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of playing April Fool’s jokes. In keeping with the fun, in 1957 the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people harvesting noodles from trees. • On March 29, 1806, the Great National Pike, also known as the Cumberland Road, becomes the first highway funded by the national treasury. The initial appropriation of $30,000 was made by congressional act and covered the first leg through the A... Full story
For 624 Colfax School kids, the ride to school begins with him. In a job where a thousand things can get off track, he has kept everything rolling through five years of bi-annual inspections at a 100 percent pass rating. “It’s pretty impressive,” said Colfax Superintendent Michael Morgan of his Transportation Supervisor, Craig McCully. “The state must think it’s impressive too. He’s doing a good job maintaining the fleet.” A total of 18 buses and three motor pool vehicles are under McCully’s jur... Full story
Shifting The job creation numbers being touted by the Hawkins development, as reported in the Daily News and Whitman County Gazette, just don’t hold water. The Berkeley Research Group, a California-based consulting firm hired by Boise’s Hawkins Companies to do a study of the project, estimated that approximately 1,000 new jobs would be created on the Palouse. Berkeley further estimates between $24.7 and $28.2 million in full-time worker wages. These wages, plus millions more in benefits, will fill the pockets of employees and, by extension, the...
Better funding for bridges, a fix for the runway at the Pullman-Moscow Airport and considering road-side erosion in Conservation Reserve Program contracts topped the list of concerns brought by local officials to the regional director of Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers. Mike Poulson, agriculture and natural resource policy director for McMorris Rodgers, met with officials from Whitman County and the city of Pullman during the county commissioners’ regular meeting Monday morning. To much of their concerns, Poulson said deregulation could b...
AmericanWest Bank March 8 announced the promotion of Alan Hodges to branch manager for the Colfax and Palouse branches and the hiring of Kay Riebold as service and solutions manager for the Colfax branch. Hodges was raised in Mullen, Neb., and started his career in the Midwest. He has more than 33 years of experience and has been with US Bank and Wells Fargo. He joined AmericanWest last year. Riebold joins AmericanWest staff with more than 30 years of experience in banking with most of it at the former Bank of Whitman in Col...
A building permit to install a new front wall sign at Sterling Savings was issued to Sign Crafters of Spokane March 8 by the city building inspector. The sign will carry the company’s new name, “Sterlingbank.” It will replace the present Sterling Savings lettering.... Full story
W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. When I was in college, I belonged to a fraternity that was founded on the principle that if we were going to have a fraternity, we ought to have some principles. These principles were inflexible, inviolate and, we believed, probably written down somewhere. The badge of our fraternity reflected these principles. It was festooned with more than a dozen symbols, like eagles, candles and one we couldn’t quite make out but suspected was a turnip. One year, we fou... Full story
It started in 1935 with a $3.8 million loan to Cuba for the purchase of U.S. silver ingots. That loan, backed by the U.S. government, was the beginning of the Export-Import Bank. Today, the bank helps finance export sales by thousands of U.S. manufacturers. While it is little-known outside our nation’s capital, the Export-Import Bank is a lynchpin of our economy. It provides direct loans, loan guarantees and insurance to help finance sales of American goods and services overseas. In 2011, the Export-Import Bank provided $32 billion in f...
If anyone does a year-end wrap-up of the worst ideas of 2012, losing the presidential election deserves to be high on the list. A note of gloomy wishfulness has entered Republican thinking of late. Maybe a loss in November (if Mitt Romney wins the nomination) won’t be so bad because a cleansing fire will rid the party of moderates once and for all. Or, from the opposite point of view (if Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich were somehow to get nominated), a devastating defeat will teach the party’s purists a lesson. In any event, a Republican Con...
The county commissioners have taken a lot of heat over their support of the Hawkins retail mall project at the state line. In fact, they are being sued over it. Now, strangely enough, the debate over the project is changing. What started as claims of improper actions by elected officials has evolved into criticism of the project itself and the very idea of growth in the county. Critics are saying the Hawkins mall would hurt local businesses and would only provide low-paying retail jobs. Some have gone so far as to claim it would have an...
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. VOLUNTEERS RESPOND TO ALARM A Colfax rural fire truck and tanker responded to a report of a possible structure fire at the Colfax cemetery early Sunday morning. Volunteers discovered the fire was in the burn pit located at the back of the cemetery which is used for brush, limbs and other debris. The fire crews were logged back at the station at...
1. HISTORY: In what year did the RMS Titanic sink, killing 1,517 people? 2. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest country in South America? 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: In what year was the festival of Kwanzaa established? 4. POLITICS: Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman governor of what state? 5. MOVIES: Which Disney movie’s soundtrack features five Elvis Presley songs? 6. SUPERHEROES: What was the name of The Green Hornet’s car? 7. SCIENCE: What substance speeds the rate of a chemical reaction? 8. LANGUAGE: What is the meaning of the Latin word “co...
It was noted American science fiction author Philip K. Dick who made the following sage observation: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” The first chocolate factory in the United States was established even before the states were united. Back in 1765, two enterprising men named John Hanan and James Baker chose Dorchester, Mass., as the site for their factory, which they mechanized by using waterpower. If you’re like the average American, you eat 23 quarts of ice cream every year. You might be surpris...
St. John/Endicott Eagles, who brought back their first ever B baseball title from the 1B state finals at Parker Field last year, will play in the 2B ranks this year. The Eagles have added seven players from LaCrosse/Washtucna to the lineup, and the total enrollment bumps the club into the 2B bracket. Coach Rick Winters, who headed the Eagles while serving as SJE superintendent, departed the scene last year and is now athletic director at Southern Virginia. Key grad off the last year’s title team was pitcher Mason Van Lith. They also lost s...
Colfax Bulldog golfers booked a win in their opener Monday at Ritzville with a 218 team score. Bulldog golfers Tyler Stevenson, Kyle Johnson and Hunter Weitze and Bronco Colby Starring all tied for medalist honors with 42 scores on the par 35 course. Other Colfax scores were Bryce Kramlich 44, Ryan Christopherson 48, Corey Maltone 50, Casey Johnson 54 and Cody Gronning and Jay Hart, each 56. Other team scores were Lind/Ritzville/Sprague 257, and Inchelium 308. Coach Chris Gorton said the golfers were hit by wind gusts but not by rain. Teams...
Kelly Stewart, aka “Kraken the Whip” fights for a release from an Apple City Roller Derby foe during the Rolling Hills Derby Dames home roller derby Saturday night at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman. The match was the local Dames’ first ever home match after the team, made up of members from all across the Palouse, formed two years ago. The Rolling Hills squadron topped the Apple City club from Wenatchee 145 to 121 in front of a crowd of some 1,500 spectators, many of whom reported being baffled by the scoring system. The two teams put five skate... Full story
Colton hoop stars Haley Moser and Dustin Patchen received the player of the year honors for SE League girls and boys in the 1B division. Moser, a senior guard for the state champion Colton girls team, led the first team selections, joined by Briann Maley, Rosalia senior; Mackenzie Reddish, Rosalia sophomore; Alex Overton, Tekoa/Oakesdale junior; Jenna Moser, Colton sophomore; Payton Meyer, Colton junior; HayLee Koller, Pomeroy senior; Kaycie Adair, Garfield/ Palouse senior; Taylor Redman, Garfield/Palouse sophomore; Grace Druffel, Colton...
