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The Aune family in Switzerland after Greg’s talk at the World Health Organization. Front row: Emma, Noah, Sophia and Eli. Back row: Jane, Christy, Greg and John Aune. Dr. Greg Aune, who grew up in Colfax, and his group held their fifth St. Baldrick’s Foundation event Saturday in San Antonio, Texas. Placed in an outdoor venue, it ran from noon to 5 p.m. with 100 people shaving heads. Food trucks, head shaving and a goal of $175,000 this year made this a Texas-size event. Dr. Aune’s handsome head...
Endicott Endicott Bible Church and Trinity Lutheran Church will sponsor the Easter Egg hunt again this year on March 26. The location has changed to the Endicott School grounds. Hunters ages 1 through grade 5 should assemble in the playground at 10 a.m. Cookies and punch will be served after the hunt. Easter breakfast will be served from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Easter morning at Endicott Bible Church. Come and enjoy the fellowship and free breakfast to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Easter worship service will be at 11 a.m. Trinity Lutheran...
The Spokane Conservation District, in partnership with state and local organizations, has secured $7.7 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program which directs funds towards conservation projects to help improve water quality, enhance soil health and support wildlife habitat. This is the second RCPP award in eastern Washington and northern Idaho since its inception in 2014. Spokane Conservation District has long been active in promoting the sustainable use of natural resources throughout e...
Dusty Country Bible Church will host a Homestead Ministries soup event April 10 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bagging soup mixes for the needy will replace the usual morning worship service, so dress casually. Everyone is invited to join. Soup will be served after the bagging. Recently, Harm and Jan Smith met their grandson Micah and his parents, Gina and Jason Morgan in Anaheim, Calif., to spend several days at Disneyland and California Adventures. Favorite rides were Thunder Mountain and Cars. Micah also received Jedi training while there. The...
Rosalia The Rosalia United Methodist Church and Assembly of God Church will offer combined services next week. All are invited to a Good Friday service at the United Methodist Church, 214 S. Whitman Ave., at 7 p.m. Friday, March 25. Vocalists and instrumentalists from both churches will provide music. Pat Atchison, pastor of Rosalia Assembly of God Church, will offer a meditation. This worship experience tells the story of Jesus' arrest and crucifixion. The solemnity of Friday will be...
Kira Cathey of Albion sits beside the box full of canned foods at the Albion branch of the Whitman County Library. The food was donated during county library Food For Fines program last month. The library donated that food to the Albion Food Pantry. Donations of $895 in non-perishable food and toiletry items from 145 residents were received during the 16th annual Food for Fines drive. Donations came in throughout Whitman County with almost a fourth of those not attached to the waiving of...
Plans are in full gear for the 40th annual Bloomsday race in Spokane, with plans to mark the milestone and bring special events for the event May 1. “Forty years is a milestone worthy of celebration,” said Lilac Bloomsday President Steven Jones in a Feb. 23 press release. “And while we promise that the essence of Bloomsday and the welcoming of spring that Bloomsday brings will not change, we are planning a few embellishments this year to make the 40th especially memorable.” Bloomsday began in 1977 with just more than 1,000 finishers; it is a...
A request to write off city charges on a water bill was rejected March 7 by the Colfax City Council. Andrew and Jaelene Gudmunson asked the city to forgive the sum due for water which was believed to have gone through the residence because of a faulty toilet. Billing for the residence during a three month period amounted to 12,991 cubic feet above normal usage for an extra $104 on the bill. The Gudmunsons said the faulty toilet was in a part of the residence which is no longer in use and they were unaware of the leak. The request stopped for...
The Perkins House Friday will be the site of the first Colfax garden club meeting starting at 2 p.m. Colfax residents Cherry Alice Van Tine and Joanne Gfeller have been recruiting members for a few weeks now. At the meeting, they plan to come up with an official name for the group. “We're thinking 'Digging in the Dirt,'” Van Tine said. “We're dirt diggers, not gold diggers,” Gfeller said. The duo said the meeting will include deciding the official name as well as getting things organized as far as members and projects go. Van Tine said the fir...
A sign alerts motorists to the accident about a quarter mile ahead. This semi truck hit a patch of ice Tuesday morning and jackknifed, coming to rest outside of the northbound shoulder of Highway 195. A semi truck slid off Highway 195 in the S curves area south of Colfax early Tuesday morning. The truck came to a stop almost perpendicular to the highway on the eastbound side just north of the 45 mph speed reduction sign. The driver reported he had hit a patch of ice and the truck jackknifed. The...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Andrew John Dournink, 23, Poulsbo, Wash., and Madeline Gracy Story, 20, Moscow, March 8. Joaquim Vogt Marques, 35, Pullman, and Camila Censosi Obniski, 35, Seattle, March 14....
Skyeler Nelson, the Burlington resident who was arrested in Palouse March 6 in what turned out to be an investigation of a counterfeiting case, was involved in a one-car accident the next afternoon on Highway 195 after his release from jail that morning on his own recognizance. Nelson was driving a 2002 Honda Civic northbound at 2:49 p.m., and the car drifted onto the shoulder of the highway. He over-corrected, and the car crossed the highway and struck the guardrail along the southbound side of the highway. Nelson had been arrested March 6 in...
Get ready! More colossal container ships are coming. We got a glimpse of the future this leap year when the Benjamin Franklin sailed into Elliott Bay. Four years from now, hopefully, many mega-container ships will dock in Puget Sound waters. The Benjamin Franklin is the largest vessel ever to call at a U.S. port. It is longer than two Space Needles stacked on top of one another; wider than a CenturyLink Field and rises 20 stories high. In fact, when fully loaded it barely fits under San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and when empty its 1...
Not My Child! Not too long ago, my son, Casey was hurt in a car wreck, and as a prevention specialist, I was most interested in the prescriptions―specifically, the type and amount of pain medications the doctor was proposing to give Casey. To my dismay, he was prescribed a very large dose of pain meds. Casey and I agreed that this prescribing practice was excessive, and he probably wouldn’t need most of the pills. Truth be told, Casey said, some of the people he knew at work would gladly take the surplus medication off of his hands. From a doc...
If there's anything we thought we knew about the GOP, it is that it is the party of Reagan. Paying obeisance to Ronald Reagan -- his memory, his accomplishments, his policies -- has long been the price of entry to Republican presidential politics. Yet here comes Donald Trump, who gives no indication of caring the slightest about Reagan's legacy, and he has rampaged to front-runner status anyway. It is like Trump set out to kick down the door of the House of Reagan and the structure teetered to the brink of collapse, more decrepit than anyone ha...
This campaign makes life really easy for us pundits. We don't have to be very creative or entertaining. There's no way anyone could imagine a campaign as bizarre as this one. But this is a mixed blessing. Analysts are supposed to, uh, analyze. In doing so, we're endeavoring to provide perspective on what has happened and to offer insight into what can be expected. Tragically, none of us has any earthly idea how the campaign will turn out -- or, to put it another way, whether there is any chance that Donald Trump actually could be elected...
According to a CNN report, about half the political ads running prior to Super Tuesday 3 were anti-Donald Trump ads. The one that gained the most traction was about his attitude toward women. This commercial showed a variety of women simply quoting some of Trump’s more sexist comments. Reportedly, it has gained tremendous internet viewership and has been widely seen on television. The ad was just part of the “stop Trump” advertising intended to slow his campaign. It was said that if he won both Florida and Ohio on Tuesday the Republican race...
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 live outside Colfax. DOE investigates Pullman fuel spill A follow up report on the gasoline spill Friday morning at the Mobil Station on N. Grand in Pullman said the Department of Ecology is now conducting an investigation to determine the cause of the spill. An estimated 200 gallons of gasoline was spilled during a transfer operation from the tanker to...
Special award winners for the Bulldog basketball banquet, from the left, were Carson Cloaninger, most improved; Danny Robinson, most valuable player; and Kenton Lyman, most inspirational. Cal Gregory, who was not present at the meeting, was named for the Coaches' award. Colfax boys basketball wrapped up another season last Tuesday with their annual banquet. Four seniors who sat at the head table along with the coaches were Dustyn Hall, Keith Gfeller, Kenton Lyman and Jacob Soncarty. Top...
The John Wayne Pioneer Wagons and Riders Association plan a 35th annual ride across the John Wayne Trail, the former Milwaukee Railroad route, which had been on a would-be legislative track for partial closure last fall. The group has scheduled their ride for May 19 through June 5 when they again plan to make an appearance in the Rosalia Battle Days parade. Tom Short of Woodinville, trail development coordinator for the riders, said the group had no second thoughts about scheduling the cross-state ride again this year. He noted some of the...
Pictures of the Southeast 1B Boys and Girls and Northeast 2B Boys and Girls All-league teams can be seen in the Weekly Pages for March 17....
Colfax Junior High wrestling year wrapped up with six team members placing in the big Bi-State tournament March 5 at Moscow Junior High. The Bullpups finished in the middle of the pack with 39 points, coming in behind the team win posted by Clearwater Valley of Kooskia which topped 100 points. Placing for the locals were Skylar Hollingshead, second; Austin Couch, Nolan Burrill and Braden Rogers, third; Caden Noha and Jonathan Logan, fourth. Kameron Greenhalgh, who qualified for a high seed in the heavyweight class, was unable to make the trip...
A new season for Colfax baseball is scheduled to get underway Friday when the Reardan Indians come to town for the season opener starting at 2 p.m. Reardan will be the first of 10 league foes booked on the NE baseball trail this year for coach Mike Parrish and the Colfax crew. Colfax enters the new year after last year's run all the way to the state 2B title game where they were stopped by Adna 2-4. That wrapped up a 22-2 run on the season which started with a sweep of the NE game. Colfax ran the win string all the way to the second round of...
Students from four area schools are participating in the Southeast Washington Large Group Festival in Colfax today. “We've never hosted it before,” reported Colfax choir director Cary Cammack. Colfax, Garfield/Palouse, St. John/Endicott and Pullman middle school students will be participating in the judged event. Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students from across the southeast Washington region participate in this festival each year. Cammack said judges will be on hand from local universities. Endicott Middle School band director Billy Ray...
The town of Farmington was named a 2015 Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation in honor of its commitment to effective urban forest management. Started in 1976, the Tree City USA program, sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Farmington achieved Tree City USA recognition by meeting the program's four requirements: a tree board or department, a tree-care ordinance, an annual community forestry budget of...
