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Washington State FFA Officers attended the the Port of Whitman board meeting last Thursday in Colfax. They included President Sadie Aronson from White River, Treasurer Kyle Johnson from Yelm, Secretary Naddile Widner from Walla Walla and Sentinel Zachary Schilter from Chehalis. Not in attendance was the State Reporter Karlee Hansen from Ellensburg who was at the Nevada State Convention in Reno. After the regular business of the meeting was finished the port commissioners invited questions from...
Sometime Wednesday morning the first auditorium seat bolt was to be pulled by contractors to begin the Colfax school remodeling project after two years of planning, including funding approval by voters for an $18.9 million bond passed in February 2018. In the past two weeks, district staff and students – including P.E. classes – cleared out designated rooms in the high school to prepare for contractors to start over spring break. “They will begin in earnest at the high school,” said Superin...
Cherry Alice Van Tine and Jim Lemon, the local coordinators for Wreaths Across America, have been working at Bruning Funeral Home to look up records of veterans who are buried in the Colfax cemetery. The Colfax Cemetery has graves that go back to 1895 and more than 10,000 people have been buried there in that time. Van Tine and Lemon have already found more than 630 veterans in the records and believe many more are there. Back in December, Van Tine, as the coordinator for Wreaths Across America...
Kaitlyn Nave and Joel Larson from the Endicott/St. John Science Olympiad team placed third in the Density Lab, earning a medal. They were the highest placed finishers from the school at the regional Olympiad March 9 at Spokane Falls Community College. The team was missing a few of its members and had less than half the number allowed, too few to be able to make it to each of the 23 competitions. The team ranked in last place of the 20 teams, but they didn't place last in a single competition...
U.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers expressed support for a March 19 announcement by President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that Brazil has agreed to implement a duty-free tariff rate quota for wheat, a longstanding part of Brazil’s World Trade Organization agreements. The new development opens an annual opportunity for U.S. wheat farmers to compete equally for 750,000 metric tons (about 28 million bushels) of wheat. “We are grateful to the Trump Administration for championing the int...
A hearing on the application of McCoy Land Co., a subsidiary of Pacific Northwest Farmers’ Cooperative, for a conditional use permit for grain storage on a 66-acre parcel site at the intersection of Highways 26 and 127 just south of Dusty has been scheduled by the Whitman County Hearing Examiner for April 25 in the auditorium of the Public Service Building at 7 p.m. The company originally sought a zone change and that brought objections from Dusty area residents at a Sept. 5 session which was continued until Oct. 3. The Oct. 3 session was d...
Under the 2014 Farm Bill, Congress enacted a number of disaster assistance programs to assist livestock producers affected by severe weather conditions. These programs, which have been reauthorized in the most current 2018 Farm Bill, include the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) which provides financial compensation for livestock lost due to qualifying weather related causes; Livestock Forage Program (LFP) which covers losses to grazing lands due to wildfire and drought; and the Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) which covers a wide...
The Palouse Scenic Byway group Monday discussed funding for updating the Dan Walker production videos. About six years ago, Dan Walker Productions of Lewiston recorded 17 videos of communities and sites along the Palouse Scenic Byway. Fourteen of those videos were from places in Whitman County. Some of the locations mentioned are Kamiak Butte, Steptoe Butte, the Codger Pole, Dahmen Barn and Palouse Falls. Currently the group is gathering the funds for the project to update the videos on the...
Washington Trust for Historic Preservation conducted a focus group at Perkins House in Colfax hosted by Val Gregory, the executive director of Colfax Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Association and Historical Society. Washington Trust for Historic Preservation is a statewide nonprofit for historic preservations throughout the state, not to be confused with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, though the two groups share similar missions. The representative from the Washington Trust...
Colfax baseball players added the wins to their season ledger during the week with a power pair of wins over the LRS Broncos Friday on the Bailey-Brayton turf at WSU, and a big win over St. George's Monday on the grid at Whitworth. The wins leave the bulldogs at 4-1 on the new season with a league double booked with Reardan here Friday. Friday's double with the Broncos actually extended close to the 9 p.m. mark after the two varsity teams got off to a late start because the Colfax and Liberty ja...
Colfax bats came to life in a big way Saturday at Ritzville where the Colfax girls took two big wins over the LRS Broncos. Colfax totaled 29 hits over the two games with the Broncos. The two wins at Ritzville advance the Colfax record to 3-0. Colfax tagged 11 hits in the first-game with a non-league game set at Colton Wednesday afternoon. The Bulldogs won the first game 13-2 in five innings and took the second game 21-3 over four innings. "Our hitting was out of control. We just hit and hit and...
Colfax Bulldog girls capped off the hoop season Monday night with the annual sports banquet. The awards and dinner finished winter campaign which saw a young and speedy Colfax team pick up wins, build a lot of steam late in the league, run and battle to within one win to getting into the final state rounds. The Bulldogs were knocked out of the title bracket in the district run at West Valley by Liberty, and then stopped by Davenport in the match for the last ticket out of the West Valley show...
The Colton baseball team got two shutout wins in a doubleheader against Touchet March 23, played at Clarkston. The Wildcats won 10-0 and 20-0. In the first game, pitcher Jon Bean delivered 11 strikeouts in five innings, starting with eight of the first nine Touchet batters. In the second game, Reece Chadwick went 7-for-7 batting for the Wildcats, with seven RBIs and five extra-base hits. The team is now 4-1 on the season and 3-0 in league. Colton’s 12th year coach Pat Doumit leads the Wildcats back after a second-place finish at state 1B l...
Playing at Pomeroy Tuesday, the Colton High School softball team lost to their Southeast 1B league rival as the Pirates opened up a lead in the sixth inning. Pomeroy put together 11 hits total, with two each from Alyssa Wolf, Emma Severs and Avery Rukert. Colton got hits in the game from Rylee Vining, Jordyn Moehrle, Abby Kelly and Josie Schultheis. The Wildcats were set to play next at home Wednesday against Colfax....
Tuesday’s golf opener at Colfax, which had six teams on the guest list, was scratched because of soft conditions on the course. The course is now open for play, but was considered too soft to take traffic generated by boys and girls teams from as many as six schools. The delayed Colfax golf season should get underway today with a match set at Bryden Canyon in Lewiston....
Kyle Gaumitz, 24, Pullman, pleaded not guilty in superior court Friday morning to five charges of extortion with sexual motivation. Judge Gary Libey allowed Gaumitz continued pre-trial release, but said he had a concern for public safety because of the serial nature of the alleged crimes, and he ordered any use of computers by Gaumitz to be monitored to insure the defendant does not contact victims, other possible victims or possible witnesses. The WSU investigation report filed March 5 with the charges against Gaumitz included a long list of...
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. CORONER'S REPORT ON WILMA DEATH Coroner Annie Pillers March 20 issued a report on the death of Derick Paul Abshire, 33, the Lewiston trucker who was killed in an accident March 14 at the Port of Wilma. The report said Abshire sustained massive head and torso injuries when he was struck on a...
The investigation into the Trump campaign and presidency was concluded last week by special counsel Robert Mueller. A brief summary of this investigation has been released. The full report has not. The White House claims total vindication of the charges. The Democrats are seeing this as just the beginning and will be conducting their own investigations. All this is aside from the various cases working their way through the courts. Now despite all the accusations of a political witch hunt and counter claims of “collusion” and obstruction, the...
Pet Peeves The cost of vehicle registration for seniors and the handicapped. Give us a break....
The Democrats could use some sex education. Right now, their candidates are multiplying like crazy, all clamoring for that top berth on the party's presidential ticket. They're clearly in need of some berth control. Absent any family planning, however, they'll keep sprouting -- young sprouts and old ones, black and white, male, female and alternative. There's even an avatar named Beto. Beto O'Rourke is an empty baseball-cap-wearing concoction of millennial cliches, sharing every facet of his existence on social media. Thus far, Beto is coming a...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated itself an organization hostile to women and people of color. It fired its co-founder Morris Dees for unexplained reasons and removed his bio from its website at the same time it pledged to train its management in "racial equity, inclusion and results." Simultaneous with the cashiering of Dees after nearly 50 years at the SPLC, roughly two dozen employees wrote a letter warning "allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism threaten the moral authority of this...
After two and a half years and forty million dollars there are no indictments for any collusion of any kind, yet the Democratic Party persists in their attack on the president, who has stated all along that their was no collusion. The Special Counsel decides what information, if any, should be disclosed. It is written in the constitution. It is the law. The Senate Democrats do not dictate what information should be disclosed by the Attorney General. Democrats should read the Constitution once in awhile. It is an manual for procedure and how to...