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Dusty Don and Kay Stinson, Branson, Mo., parents of Jen Claassen, visited Wes, Jen, Bo and Lauren from March 21-29. While they were here, they all celebrated Bo’s 15th birthday and Wes’s 40th. This past weekend, Bo and Lauren were in Seattle with the Onecho Bible Church Youth Group at the “Acquire the Fire” Christian youth conference. Connie Nafziger Hopkins, her children and grandchildren, Spokane; Viv Nafziger, Colfax, and Breanna Bowlin, daughter of Rob and Audrey Nafziger Bowlin, Findlay, Ohio, were in the Dusty area recently to visit a... Full story
Ce’Nedra Thomas was named Miss Tekoa at the March 24 program at the Empire Theatre. Kayler Dub is the first princess and also won the Miss Congeniality award with Princesses Darby Ratz and Nicole Zimmerman rounding out the 2012 court. Ray Bernard hosted the evening entitled “Bayou Beauties”. Special guests were Ashley Stabl and Jonathan Smith who performed an East Coast swing routine. The court’s first official duty will be riding in the Lilac and Armed Forces Torchlight parade in Spokane May 19.... Full story
The History Channel • On April 20, 1841, Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” first appears in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. It is generally considered to be the first detective story. Like the later Sherlock Holmes stories, the tale is narrated by the detective’s roommate. • On April 22, 1889, at precisely high noon, thousands of would-be settlers make a mad dash into the newly opened Oklahoma Territory to claim cheap land. All told, from 50,000 to 60,000 settlers entered the territory that day. Towns l...
Members of the Inland Empire Mini Club made a luncheon stop in Colfax March 3 and parked in formation on the downtown lot next to US Bank. The feature show is actually the historic Colfax scene painted by members of the Colfax Arts Council....
Whitman County’s first budget amendment was approved Monday by commissioners, finalizing a simplification of county accounting practices. The amendment added $1,165,935 to the 2012 current expense budget, lifting expenses from $12,896,617 to $14,062,552. Financial Administrator David Ledbetter explained the total will be unique to 2012, as it includes a loan for major projects on the courthouse complex and reflects a switch in the county’s accounting practices. County officials, in an effort to meet state audit standards, opted to prepare the...
The annual Palouse Chamber of Commerce Downtown Open House will be next Saturday, April 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year the event will also include its first Home Business Expo. The Downtown Open House is held the same weekend as the WSU Mom’s weekend. Home crafters, artists, contractors and other home-based businesses will be in the Palouse Community Center that day to introduce their goods and services to residents and visitors. Home businesses that are already Palouse Chamber members can reserve a table for $5. The event fee for n... Full story
Palouse Police Chief Jerry Neumann asks residents to beware of a telemarketing scam which has recently targeted local residents. The chief advises caution with aggressive telemarketers who claim a summons for a court appearance has been issued to the persons they call. The chief noted a summons cannot be issued via telephone and do not call for a payment in fees....
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. I read recently that moving from one home to another is the second-most stressful activity that a human being can undertake, so I decided to try it. The first most stressful thing is death, which I think I’ll put off for a while. With death, though, there’s a definite end to the whole ordeal, whereas with moving there’s a sense that it won’t be over until you’ve experienced the first most stressful thing. I made the decision to move the way women make the decision to have a s...
Crosswalk concerns With the work proposed on State Route 195 this summer, I wish to inform the Gazette’s Colfax readers about my concerns for pedestrian safety. I am particularly worried that there will be more fatalities in our crosswalks. Of particular anxiety are two intersections, one between Greg’s Electric and Columbia Bank and the other between Palouse Empire Pest Control and the Siesta Motel. At this time, the possibility for improvement in safety would seem to be better for the crossing intersection of Thorn Street and Main Street sin...
The efforts for improvements to the old J.C. Club building continue in Tekoa. The longtime bar and social club next to the Empire Theater is now a community center. City council members walked through it two weeks ago to see what improvements are still needed in the building, which the city took over last year. Council members noted a door change and wheelchair accessible entryway are needed, along with heating and kitchen work. They also went down to the basement to inspect the water problem....
Palouse Conservation District’s annual Whitman County Envirothon competition will be April 26 at Klemgard County Park. Open to high school students, it offers an opportunity to extend knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management. Topic for this year is salt and freshwater Estuaries. The one-day event, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., encourages students to exercise their problem solving skills as they rotate through five stations including soils/land use, aquatic ecology, forestry, wildlife and a current environmental issue. T...
Whitman County Parks and Recreation board’s April meeting will be at Wawawai County Park at 3:00 p.m. April 12. Agenda items include the developing Kamiak Trail and updates on Klemgard and Wawawai Parks, Kamiak Butte, Elberton and the Bill Chipman Palouse Trail. The meeting at Wawawai begins the annual warm-weather series of board meetings at the various parks....
Last year, Fotis I. Antonopoulos, a successful Web designer in Athens, decided to set up his own e-business to sell olive oil products. It took him 10 months, winding his way through the city collecting dozens of forms and stamps of approval, including proof that he was up- to-date on his pension contributions, before he could get started. But, according to The New York Times, even that was not enough. In perhaps the strangest twist of all, his board members were required by the Health Department to submit lung X-rays and stool samples, since...
WELL, AFTER TWO years, the tennis ball known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, has finally landed in the U.S. Supreme Court. We may know in June, we may not know until the end of the year or we may have to wait until 2015 to learn whether it will remain the law of the land in whole or in part. Obamacare, the linchpin of President Barack Obama’s legacy, was passed on March 23, 2010, as a plan to provide health care and insurance for the 50 million Americans who are uninsured. Without it, we were told, Medicare a... Full story
Republicans are getting closer to deciding on their nominee to run against President Barack Obama in the upcoming election. Tuesday night Mitt Romney won three more victories in the race for the party’s nomination, handily winning the primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The roster of possible Republican nominees has shrunk over the months. Only Rick Santorum appears to have a viable chance to oust Romney, but even in Wisconsin, where Santorum put in a significant effort, Romney won 45 percent to Santorum’s 38 percent. Rom...
Asotin girls booked a power win last Friday in the second SE district meet in Clarkston when tracksters received a moderal break in the weather. The Panther girls rolled up 152 points with the SJE-LW combo club second with 66 and Tekoa/Oakesdale/ Rosalia third with 57. Other team scores for the girls were Waitsburg/Prescott 49, Gar/Pal-Colton 40.5, Pomeroy 35.5 and Walla Walla 25. Waitburg/Prescott dominated the boys side with a 159 point total. Other team scores were DeSales 96, Asotin 87, Pomeroy 66, Walla Walla Valley 37, GP-Colton 29, SJE-L... 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. CHIEF APPLICANTS TOTAL 11 Eleven applicants have qualified for the second round in the hiring process for a new police chief. Deadline for application was last Monday, City Clerk Connie Ellis told the city council Monday night. Next round of the hiring process will be an oral review board which will begin Monday. The board will consist of three...
Community Colleges of Spokane’s Pullman Education Center will host a Running Start information night Wednesday, April 18, beginning at 6 p.m. at 115 N.W. State St., Suite 3015A, Pullman. Running Start allows high school juniors and seniors to earn college credits while completing high school academic requirements. After an overview presented via interactive television from the Colville Center, high school students and parents will meet college instructors and current Running Start students at Pullman Center. Running Start college credits t...
A new computer business is open in Colfax in the same location where the owner and his wife once ate pizza on a date. Shawn Burt has opened Colfax Computer Services at the former site of Old Whitehouse Pizza. Since that date in 1995, Shawn and Janni Burt married and have had five children. In 1997, Shawn was hired at the Bank of Whitman in information technology where he worked for 15 years, including seven months on contract work following the transition to Columbia Bank. Burt opened his store...
Colfax golfer Tyler Stevenson tied Joel Meyers of Pomeroy as both shot 39 in a water-logged par-35 nine hole high school golf match at the Colfax Golf Course last Thursday. One stroke was taken off all scores, as the first hole tee box was again moved up to avoid fairway puddles. Stevenson’s score led the Bulldogs to win in boys team competition. Colfax boys collected a 212 to edge the Pirates’ 215. Tekoa/ Oakesdale/Rosalia boys were third with a 248 with St. John/Endicott in fourth at 255. Michal Schuster of SJE took the girls medal with a 4... Full story
1. In 2011, Minnesota’s Francisco Liriano became the fifth pitcher from the Dominican Republic to toss a no-hitter. Name three of the other four who did it. 2. Alex Rodriguez holds the record for most home runs by a third baseman for a season (52). Which two players tied for the second-highest mark? 3. Tom Landry was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and stayed in that position for 29 years. How many head coaches has Dallas had since? 4. Entering the 2011-12 season, how many times had the Marquette men’s basketball team been in the...
Teams in the SE track loop headed south last Wednesday to Shockman Field in Milton-Freewater to test their track skills with host McLoughlin High in what became a cross-state meet. The Mac High hosts placed second on both sides of the meet behind the SE power teams, the Asotin Girls and the Waitsburg/Prescott boys. The Cardinals posted a slim 12-point edge over the hosts, but Asotin girls dominated. Among top performers for county tracksters were the SJELW 4 X 200 girls relay team which won on a clock of 2:02.97 with Gail Harder, Rachel...
Colfax and Reardan girls Tuesday booked a softball split in a makeup game at Schmuck Park. The Reardan team rolled to Colfax during the spring break for the first action at McDonald Park after the record onslaught of March rains. Reardan won the first game 2-1 after the Bulldogs lost one runner at the plate during a seventh inning charge. Coach Terry Eng said a lot of Tuesday’s outcome had to do with solving the pitching style of Reardan thrower Chantel Heath who allowed just six hits and walked nobody in the first game. “We just cou...
Colfax wrestlers Friday had their end of the season banquet. Coach Dennis Gransberry noted the Bulldog grapplers marked big improvements this year. All members of the Colfax squad except senior Justin King are expected to return to the mats next year. Colfax advanced three wrestlers into the regional finals at Kittitas and two wrestlers, King and junior Daython Maltone, came within a win of getting a ticket to the state mat classic. Maltone, who pulled a rib muscle at Kittitas, engaged in heavyweight tangles with three Bi-County wrestlers who w...
First baseball games at McDonald Park netted the first baseball wins Tuesday for Coach Mike Parrish and his young baseball crew. The Bulldogs bounced Reardan 11-1 in the first game and 9-6 in the second game. Reardan rolled south to make-up games which were rained out last week during the swampout at McDonald as a result of record rainfall in March. A couple of dry days put the Colfax baseball complex on line after all March action was scratched. Latest victim was a four-team spring tournament set before the spring break. Sophomore pitcher Patr...
