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Colfax See the reasons The City Council meeting on March 16 was very well attended, primarily due to discussion over the city’s plans to sell the Police Department’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I would hope that people will continue to come to City Council meetings, to see how such decisions are made, and the reasons council members have for making them. Frank White,...
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. SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES ARREST Casey James Wade, 31, Clarkston, has been summoned to court April 10 to face charges stemming from an arrest at Shopko in Pullman. The charges note that “special circumstances” were involved. The charges allege Wade used magnets to de-activate a spider security device which was attached to a Polaroid Tablet. Acc...
The ninth annual Art Demonstration Day at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown will be April 11 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year’s theme is books. Visitors will be able to meet artists who create books of various types, alter books, bind books or make art from books. The Shop at the Barn sells books by regional authors and will have several on site autographing copies. All participants hail from the Palouse region. Artists Nancy Attebury and Laurel Macdonald create the artwork for the books they publish. Laurel will demonstrate how she cuts linoleum bl...
The Palouse Area Robotics Team, the SciBorgs, won the F.I.R.S.T. Central Washington University district event last weekend. They will compete in the Pacific Northwest FRC Championship rounds April 1-4 at Eastern Washington University among 64 of the top teams from Washington and Oregon for a chance to go to the FRC World Championships. The SciBorgs is a 4H robotics team open to all Colfax, Garfield-Palouse, Pullman, Colton and Moscow high school students who wish to participate....
Sarah Bofenkamp of Palouse qualified for the deans’ list at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, Calif., with a grade average of 3.5 or higher. She is majoring in English....
Kimberly Groom, Tekoa High School senior, has received a $3,000 Presidential Scholarship to Eastern Washington University for the 2015-16 Academic Year. To qualify, students must have a cumulative high school grade average of 3.8 or higher, or qualifying test scores. Groom played basketball, volleyball, golf and cross country at Tekoa and served as ASB vice president. She is the daughter of Duane and Debbie Groom of Tekoa. Haynes earns scholarship Jessica Haynes, a 1999 graduate of Colfax High School, has received an $800 Roland & Marian Lewis...
8 years ago The Commoner March 28, 1890 The Spokane Falls Spokesman, in speaking of Oakesdale says, “The farmers’ alliance plays an important factor in the economy of this section. They have a large stock of implements in their new location at Henkle & McCoy’s old store, where almost constantly men can be seen examining and making selections.” The state legislature, which has been a monumental disgrace from the first, put a cap-sheaf upon its ignominious antics when one of the members of the House, Brown of Spokane, and Sergeant-at-Arms Ehman...
Colfax baseball team took both sides of a doubleheader over Northwest Christian Friday at McDonald Park to open the season. Both games ended with a Colfax posting a 10-run margin. The Bulldogs had strong pitching from Garrett Burke and Danny Robinson who each allowed two hits in taking the wins. Colfax took the opener 12-2 with nine hits. Cal Gregory, a freshman, and Kenton Lyman each had two hits in the first game. Gregory finished with three RRIs. The Bulldogs took the second game 10-2 with Robinson on the mound for the two hitter. Burke had...
Connor Pelissier, an Endicott Gun Club Junior trap shooter, won high overall in juniors handicap both Saturday and Sunday at the Camas Prairie Trap Shoot last weekend in Walla Walla. He also won the high in the overall handicap. Joe Vietz, a junior shooter from Endicott, shot his first 25 score....
When Colton and Sunnyside Christian finished their championship game March 7 at Spokane Arena, the 89-70 win by the Wildcats sent officials checking out the record book. The total score booked by the teams in the 1B title game topped any mark in 1B history for girls. The top team score on the 1B books since the 2007 was the 68-32 Colton win over Tekoa/Oakesdale last year. In 2B records, listed since 1978, the undefeated SJE team coached by Loren Carlon in 1996 holds the top mark at 73 in their win over Sunnyside Christian. The Colton-Knight...
The defending state 1B softball champions began their season with a loss. Splitting a doubleheader at Dayton, Colton took the second game to begin the year 1-1. Garfield-Palouse also got underway this week, beginning with non-league losses to Asotin and Potlatch. Asotin 25, Garfield-Palouse 7 Asotin 25, Garfield-Palouse 3 The Asotin High School softball team put together 50 runs in nine innings to take a doubleheader over the Vikings, 25-7 and 25-3. The first game was called after four innings while the second lasted five, due to the mercy rule...
Three local basketball players from Whitman County named to the all-state 1B or 2B teams were, from the left, Tyler Thurman and Mitch Jamison of Garfield/Palouse and Kasey Johnson of Colfax. All three played in the All-State game March 14 at Eastside Catholic High School in Sammamish. The event was sponsored by the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association. Thurman was named as the 1B All-State Player of the Year. He is the son of Will and Penny Thurman of Palouse. Jamison is the son of Mitch and Sandy Jamison of Garfield, and...
Southeast 1B league baseball got underway this week for the 2015 season as Colton opened up their defense of the state title with two non-league wins. Garfield-Palouse began the season in Richland, splitting a league double-header with Liberty Christian. Colton 9, Weiser 3 Junior Carter Dahmen delivered a strong pitching debut as the Wildcats won their opening game of the 2015 season at the Asotin tournament. In five innings on the mound, Dahmen allowed no runs, two singles and one walk with six strikeouts. A total of 46 of the 73 pitches he...
Colfax and Garfield/Palouse/ Oakesdale teams rolled to West Valley in Spokane Saturday to take part in the giant Howard Dolphin Invitational meet. Colfax Coach Jason Cooper noted the Bulldogs have about 50 tracksters out for the action this year. Colfax girls took the state 2B title last year, but a lot of the big point producers have graduated off the squad. Cooper noted some of the new recruits for the Bulldogs this year show promise for picking up some of the competition points which departed with last year’s graduation. The West Valley open...
Carmen Swannack of Lamont was also among WSU students who qualified for the president’s honor roll at WSU for the first semester. Her name was inadvertently omitted from last week’s listing....
The Helping Other People Everywhere service club of Upper Columbia Academy in Spangle will assist Friends of Lone Pine Cemetery on a work day April 22. The day will begin with the group’s regular meeting at 11 a.m. with lunch at the Feeding Station in Tekoa. From there, members will meet the HOPE crew at the cemetery for brush clean-up around cemetery headstones. All others are welcome and encouraged to join the effort. Tools and equipment will be available for any other volunteers who would like to help. Refreshments will be s...
The hiring process for a superintendent for St. John-Endicott Schools has been underway since the start of the year and closing of the application period will be next Tuesday, according to Toni Blackwell, St. John school board chairperson. Last year, Jim Baldwin was hired as an interim superintendent. Baldwin served as superintendent for both schools. He spent most of his career in Montana, but said he always wanted to come to Washington or Oregon. After Tuesday’s closing date, they will set up dates for interviews. She said the hiring firm r...
The 2014 National Lentil Festival of Pullman won five awards at the Washington Festivals and Events Association’s Summit Awards at the Northwest Festivals & Events convention in Olympia March 15-17. The lentil festival received gold awards for best commemorative poster and best new green program, and silver awards for best social media campaign, best other merchandise and best promotional brochure. All were in the budget category more than $75,000. The poster entry included the 2014 poster by Kurt Snyder, and the green program submission i...
Will Ferguson and Kathy Wride, members of the Hospital Foundation board; Linda Marler, president of the board; Bob Stueckle and Hank Hannigan, hospital CEO. Whitman Community Hospital Foundation received a donation of $2,500 from Bruce Sinkbeil, a member of the 1974 Colfax High School class who is now a math teacher at Newburg, Ore. Sinkbeil received the $2,500 through Monsanto’s America’s Farmers Grow Communities competition. He is a college classmate of Bob Stueckle and maintains contact with the farm scene here by helping Stueckle in har...
Whitman County Commissioner Art Swannack Monday issued a response to a March 19 posting on Facebook that contended he is “pro wolf.” The Swannacks late last year sustained losses to their sheep herd near Lamont and the disappearance of one of their Anatolian guard dogs, Chase, right after the sheep loss. The March 19 posting, by Chandie Morse Bartell, who wrote she was representing the Washington Residents Against Wolves said: “Warning! Vote him out! “Local sources have informed me that Whitman County Commissioner Art Swannack is pro-wol...
Avista has announced a power outage is planned for Tekoa and Oakesdale late next Wednesday and early Thursday. Power will be shut down at 11 p.m. April 1 and restored at 4 a.m. April 2. The outage is required to replace equipment in a substation which serves the area....
Chisels await their turn in the fields near Tekoa last Friday, March 20. Farmers were busy in the fields until rain hit the area during the first part of the week....
Future operations at the Colton Post Office remain to be decided after recent organizational changes by the U.S. Postal Service. Late last year, in the process of the U.S.P.S.’s Seattle District changing the Colton office to six hours per day instead of eight, Postmaster Bob Broderick retired. Since then, employee Debbie Niehenke has been running the location, which changed in classification (due to less hours) to what is called a “Remote Managed Post Office.” In turn, Niehenke’s title was later...
An article about plans for a Palouse Skate Park in the March 19 edition of the Gazette contained mischaracterizations. Organizer Aaron Flansburg was misquoted saying the design features “three covered steps opposite a 12-inch high manual pad.” His correct statement was “curved,” not covered. In addition, the article incorrectly noted a Palouse planning commission meeting March 17 in which the concerns about an “amphitheater” feature of the park were discussed. In fact, the meeting was not of the planning commission. It was an informal me...
Barb Curtiss, proprietor of the Route 26 Cafe in LaCrosse, had one of her busiest nights of the year Saturday night. Her husband Keith and other friends helped with a crowd that at one point numbered 50 people. She finally closed the doors after 9 p.m. The closing included lots of hugs and farewells because it was the last night of business. She had informed LaCrosse Community Pride, owners of the restaurant, that she could not continue to operate because of health reasons. Her contract with the Pride group, which owns the building, began last...
