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Colfax author Mark Gudmunson recently published a Christian book he deemed a miracle in the making as it was inspired by God. Do you believe in miracles? Cathy Ulibarri, Pullman I do. Tell me your miracle. My miracle is my triplets. I’ve had seven pregnancies and lost all of them. This was pregnancy number eight.” Sandy Honn-Ruediger, St. John I’ve seen many. Such as? I was walking across the street in Spokane when a woman came speeding through the crosswalk. It felt like someone picked me up and put me on the sidewalk. My feet barely touch...
I think of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it’s not clear to me why Earth even needs a “day,” since a spin on its axis creates a day. That’s like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes. Us: Hey, Earth! Know how you’ve given us all these days? Well now we’re giving you one! Earth: I’m thrilled. Don’t get me wrong: Earth is one of my favorite planets. A lot of my friends live there. When I was in grade sc...
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. Issue warrants for duo Arrest warrants were issued Friday for Pamela Rogers and Michael Schaub, Pullman residents who last month were allowed to undergo drug treatment as an alternative sentence after being convicted of possession of methamphetamine and property stolen from student residences in Pullman during the holiday break. Prosecutor... Full story
Zombies? Can someone explain a few things to us? Here are our questions: Less people attended the Colfax TEA Party rally than last year. Do less people care about the direction our government has gone this past year? The MUMS ladies, who have devoted several years to making Colfax a pleasant and welcoming town, have just given up. Does anyone else care? The Palouse Region is on the verge of being ravaged by industrial wind farms, which do not produce energy that will ever help our grid and come at an unbelievable economic cost to all, except...
Canceling the Constellation program – the successor to America’s historic space shuttle program – is a huge mistake, but that is exactly what President Obama plans to do. He told folks at the Kennedy Space Center that he is also abandoning returning to the moon. Instead, he plans to send astronauts to asteroids and, eventually, to Mars. Obama wants private companies to take over shuttling astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station, but until that happens, the U.S. would pay $50 million a pop for our astronauts to hitch a ride...
After years and years (since the end of Prohibition) of having to buy booze from the state instead of being able to pick up a fifth at the grocery store the way it is in many other states, a couple of initiatives have been filed that would accomplish that. A.T. Song brought in the filings and is believed to represent a coalition of grocery stores. Whether they can get the 241,000 signatures needed by July 2 to get something on the November ballot is the first hurdle. They’ll get plenty of help though from the media, especially the Seattle Times...
#!*! The two county commissioners who appear to regularly meet illegally. #!*! Business people who park without regard for their customers and the customers of other businesses. Send your Pet Peeves and Okeydokes to the Gazette P.O. Box 770 Colfax, WA 99111 or bring them by the office...
Colfax voters have done the right thing. They approved the two year levy request for the school district. At this writing, with ballots still to be received and counted, the levy has received a 58 percent approval. With a mere majority needed for passage, it is very unlikely the levy will fail as the count continues. Despite certain misgivings and a wide range of concerns about operations at the school district, the voters in the district have put their money into the school coffers to insure good educational opportunities for the students....
Bulldog golfers topped a five-team Bi-County meet at the Colfax course Friday with a 212 team score. Caleb Bravard was medalist with a one-over 36, five strokes ahead of the number-two finisher. Other scorers were Tyler Stevenson 42, Kyle Johnson 43, Henry Ensley 32, and Cory Maltone 49. Lind/Ritzville followed in team scoring with a 233, followed by Odessa at 240, Northwest Christian 241 and Davenport 299. For the Bulldog girls, Paige Mackleit carded a 62 and Alex Mackleit finished with a 67. No school fielded enough girl golfers for team...
Harrison Electric of Colfax submitted a bid of $79,669 for installing conduit and copper wire for the field lights at McDonald Park. The bid April 20 exceeds funding available for the project and the joint city-school McDonald Park committee will decide on the next move. Harrison also offered an alternative bid of $62,599 for installing aluminum wire. The bid was opened Tuesday morning. The nine light standards have been erected around the baseball and softball fields, and members of the McDonald Park committee have targeted this summer to put...
Mother Nature gave local golf teams just enough time to get 18 holes in the book Tuesday afternoon. St. John/Endicott and Tekoa/Oakesdale/Rosalia duffers returned slightly soaked from a four-team match on the Veteran’s Memorial at Walla Walla. SJE Coach Doug Schuster credited DeSales’ host coach with pulling off a “Moses trick” to get the rains to half. Erin Schuster carded a 98 and bring home the medal in girls’ play. Her sister, Michal, finished second at 103. Nighthawk Casey Brown booked a 79 to top the local boys contingent, six strokes o...
This Garfield-Palouse Middle School team won the eighth grade boys class of the Dogwood Dunk 3-on-3 tournament at Lewis Clark State College. The event is part of the Dogwood Festival in Lewiston. The team has played together since the third grade and also won their division last year. Left to right are Zach Kuehner, Race Martin, Hunter Woltering and Mitch Jamison....
Targeting a 10-0 win string posted by the league-leading Davenport Gorillas, Colfax softball players rolled north Saturday for a Bi-County showdown. They came within a run of stopping the D streak in the first game and then dynamited it with a 16-hit attack in the second game. The split left Davenport at 11-1 and Colfax at 10-2 with two league rounds left. Davenport senior Kenzie Graber and Colfax sophomore Amy Hickman battled in both games. In the first game, Davenport posted a 3-0 lead after four innings and picked up two more in the top of...
Members of the GP-Colton and TOR track teams ventured north to Coeur d’Alene Saturday and took advantage of big school competition on a blustery day at the Rasmussen Invitational meet. The Viking-Cat boys finished in 18th place in among 21 schools with entrants from schools in all sizes., TOR’s Desiree Chappell had the top local finish. a fifth in the shotput at 34-9. Shae Carson of Coeur d’Alene booked a 37-10 for the win. Chappell also placed eighth in the discus at 94-9 behind the Carson’s big win at 136-8. GP Coach Scott Kent credits...
A revamp of the state’s hoop tournaments, which is expected to include a gathering of all B qualifiers back in Spokane, was sparked by WIAA fund woes and concerns about overall loss to class time and travel costs. A report of the WIAA executive board session last week from Ryan Peplinski, athletic director at St. George’s who represented the district at the session was circulated to Bi-County schools this week. Peplinski’s report pointed out the state hoop playoffs have always been the top revenue generator for the WIAA, but reduced incom...
The SJE-LW and Asotin track teams dueled April 21 in an SE meet at Colfax with the Eagle-Tigercats prevailing. Asotin and Logos tracksters, the Idaho guests, upped the competition in several events. The 100 sprint featured a duel between Jeff Kent and Sam Robertson, Colton senior who is competing with the Vikings. Robertson came back to win the 200 with Scott Eberle of TOR placing second by two tenths. The SJE-LW team picked up wins from Warren Miller in the 400 and high jump, Cody Siegel in the 800 TOR’s Quinn Lautenslager pegged a 149-3 f... Full story
Colfax baseball players continued their Bi-County string with two big wins at Davenport Saturday. The Bulldogs downed the G club 14-4 in the first and 11-0 in the second game. Colfax had been slated to play Liberty in a league doubleheader Tuesday, but the game was rained out. They now are slated to get the game in today, Thursday. In the first game at Davenport, senior Brandon Hoadley continued his string for the 14-4 win after getting a rough start. Hoadley allowed just one hit, but Davenport put up three runs in the first two innings. “He w...
Nighthawk Kiah Madison slides into the plate at Garfield Saturday ahead of the toss back to Viking catcher Emily Witthuhn. The two east side teams, who will be 2B contenders in the SE playoffs, split the doubleheader in windy conditions. The GP Vikings and TOR Nighthawks split a doubleheader Saturday on the windy Garfield field while the Colton Wildcats crunched their TCP twice at Colton. The pair of wins advanced Colton’s overall record to 11-3. Touchet’s powerhouse team took two big wins over the Tigercats Saturday at Washtucna. Colton defeat...
DJ Brown of the TOR Spartans goes into the plate headfirst in the first game Saturday at Garfield. Taylor Christopher, Viking pitcher, attempted to get the tag down on Brown but the ball got away. St. John/Endicott and the TOR Spartans took wins over the past week while the south side of the SE took a toll in other baseball matchups. TOR Saturday took a pair of wins over the GP Vikings at the Garfield field. The first game finished a 13-12 after a dramatic final inning which saw the Vikings charge. The game went into the last inning on a 7-7... Full story
THURSDAY Eleven workers had still not been found after a British Petroleum oil rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico after burning for 36 hours about 42 miles off the Louisiana coast. More than 120 workers were on the rig when the fire began, most being evacuated to land before the collapse. Air Force officials blasted off a prototype X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle carrying a miniature space station from Cape Canaveral. Built by an alliance of Boeing and Lockheed Martin engineers, the unmanned rocket is being considered as a next-generation space...
Reform of Washington State government ground to a halt when legislators gave themselves the ability to raise taxes. “Once they suspended (Initiative) 960, that turned off the lights on any hope of spending reform,” Rep. Joe Schmick, R-Colfax said in the Gazette office last Thursday morning, April 22. Frustrated by the Democratic majority’s decisions during the recently closed special session, the 9th District legislators, all Republicans, spoke with the Gazette on a post-session tour of the district last week. “We missed an opportunity,” said S... Full story
Starting April 30, construction crews will be tearing up 8.6 miles of Highway 195 south of Colton in a federally funded contract to resurface the highway. One lane of traffic will be kept open as crews alternate through phases of the construction, which is expected to continue until late June. Ten days will be spent resurfacing the highway through Uniontown. Crews will strip the roadway down to the sub-grade gravel and rebuild from there. Poe Asphalt of Pullman won the contract for the $2 million project. The DOT is paying for the project with... Full story
Oakesdale’s business incubator may be the center of wind farm development in eastern Washington. The city council unanimously approved a lease with wind power firm First Wind to rent the incubator at its April 19 meeting. Council approval of tenants and a review of their business plans is one of the steps in renting out the office space, which was remodeled by the city last year. Ben Fairbanks, First Wind’s western region business development manager based in Portland, Tuesday told the Gazette his firm is looking at setting up a central off...
Blew’s construction workers lay down wet cement outside the remodeled Colfax library. Remodeling of the Colfax branch of the Whitman County Library is two months away from completion, knee-deep in wet cement, drying paint, clouds of dust and slowly-emerging renovations. The project has been set back by about three weeks because the crew digging space for the elevator shaft ran into excessive ground water and more rocks than anticipated. A new elevator, a skylight, handicap accessible restrooms, new windows, new doors, carpet and a remodeled c...
In a response filed in superior court April 22, Colfax attorney Will Ferguson denied Stephen Bravard’s answer to the port’s negligence suit for damages from a fire last year at Boyer Marina. The response said the port continue its suit for $3,335 in damages alleged to have been caused to a dock at Boyer by a fire which started on a houseboat Bravard had moored to the dock. The port alleges in its suit Bravard was negligent in the use of electrical heaters which caused the wooden houseboat to catch fire and damage railings, bumpers and electrica...
