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NOTICE OF DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) AND A PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING Whitman County Planning issued a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Whitman County proposes amendments to its zoning ordinances, Chapter 19.10 — Agricultural District; Chapter 19.15 — North Pullman-Moscow Corridor District; Chapter 19.16 — South Pullman-Moscow Corridor District; Chapter 19.30 - Light Industrial District; Chapter 19.42 — Rural Communi...
AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: Burrito, corn, tater tots, fruit. Tuesday: Mac and cheese, smokies, bread stick, fruit. Wednesday: Pizza, pineapple, Caesar salad. Thursday: Straw hats, refried beans, fruit. Friday: Grilled cheese, tomato soup, fruit, dessert. AT COLTON SCHOOLS: Monday: Tacos, Mexi fries, fruit. Tuesday: French toast, eggs, hash browns, fruit, juice. Wednesday: Rib-B-cue sandwich, fries, baked beans, fruit. Thursday: Chicken nuggets, romaine salad, fries, fruit. Friday: Country fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, apple...
Thursday, May 14 Colfax, LaCrosse & Tekoa — Storytime - Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more. Visit our Events Calendar for times and themes. Colfax — Noon — Flex and Flow Yoga with Suzy McNeilly — Pay by the month or by the class. Colfax — 7 p.m. — Zumba with Jenna Miller — Latin inspired cardio workout. Try your first class for free. Friday, May 15 All Locations Closed — Annual Staff Meeting day. Online services and digital collection remain available. Saturday, May 16 Endicott — 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Endicott Flea Marke...
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution: Tuesday, May 26: Colfax and Steptoe, 121 N. Main, Colfax, 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 27: Palouse Community Center, 1 to 3 p.m.; Rosalia United Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; LaCrosse, 110 N. Main, 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 28: Albion Town Hall, 4 to 6 p.m.; Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; Colton-Uniontown, Uniontown Community Building, 6:30 to 8 p.m.; Malden/Pine City Town Hall, 8 to 10 a.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church,...
Rosalia’s 15-year-old cowboy Justice Garner makes a catch during a tie-down roping session at the Washington State High School Rodeo in Goldendale Saturday....
Dear Savvy Senior, Do you know of any financial assistance programs or other resources that can help seniors with home improvement projects? I would like to help my 86-year-old father make a few modifications to his house so he can live there as long as possible, but money is very tight. Inquiring Daughter Dear Inquiring, There are actually a number of programs available that can help seniors with home repairs and improvement projects for aging-in-place, but what’s available to your dad will depend on his financial situation and where he l...
Family concert set for May 16 The annual family concert of the Palouse Community band will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 16, in the Domey Auditorium of the Gladish Center in Pullman. This year’s concert will include “Everything Is Awesome” from the Lego Movie; “Cubano Bueno,” which features local guest percussion players; “Selections From the Sound of Music,” and the patriotic marches of John Philip Sousa. Following the 40-minute concert, audience members will have a chance to try to play some of the instruments. This concert has been develope... Full story
Mike Stine, Norma Gibson and Drew Parks of LaCrosse participated in the East Regional Special Olympic tournament last weekend in Cheney. Norma received a gold medal in the shot put and bronze in the walk. Mike received the bronze medal in the walk and sixth in the shot put. Drew received a gold medal in the 400, fourth place in the 200 and fifth place in the long jump. They qualified to participate in the summer games May 29-31 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord....
A graveside memorial service for Wanda M. Bryngelson, 84, will be held on Friday, May 15, 2015, 10:30 a.m. at the Freeze Cemetery north of Potlatch. Mrs. Bryngelson died early last Tuesday, May 5, 2015, at the Kindred Nursing & Rehab - Aspen Park in Moscow, ID. Born on Feb. 2, 1931, at Princeton, Idaho, to Glenn and Mary Lienhard Ackerman, she attended the Potlatch schools and graduated from Potlatch High School in 1948. She married Gordon “Buzz” Bryngelson May 29, 1948, at Coeur d’Alene, and t... Full story
The National Lentil Festival poster unveiling and wine vs. brew tasting sponsored by Chipman & Taylor Chevrolet will be at The Cider House June 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. This event serves as the kickoff for the 27th annual National Lentil Festival, which will be Aug. 21-22, 2015. This year’s poster artwork was created by Rob Smith of Colfax. Signed posters will available for purchase along with the 2015 souvenir t-shirts and other merchandise. Starting June 4, remaining signed posters will be available to purchase online at lentilfest.com. Tickets t...
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 7:12) This is possibly the most familiar thing that Jesus ever said. Most people refer to it as the Golden Rule. It is the pinnacle of social ethics & our behavior toward each other. It challenges us to be active in extending ourselves to each other. It is one thing to say, "I must not hurt anyone." It is another thing to say, "I must do something good, kind and useful for people." To do no harm requires no action. To be...
6 – 10 am: Boy Scout Breakfast, GP Middle School Cafeteria 8 – 10 am: Moose on the Loose 5K Run, Start at Garfield City Park 10 – 2 pm: Vendor Sales, City Park Silent Auction, City Park Raffle 10:00 am: Lineup for Big Parade, with start time @ 11 am **Start at the gas stations 10:30 am: Lineup for Kiddie parade on California, and costumes judged **start on California, signs to be posted 10:45 am: Kiddie parade starts with prizes for top 3 costumes 11:00 am: Parade starts, Boy Scouts present Flag & the Star Spangled Banner sung 12 pm: Crown...
Kaylee Michelle Zimmer of Richland, daughter of Mike and Lorie Zimmer of LaCrosse, and Cameron Edward Boffey of Richland, son of Larry and Marcia Boffey of Camano Island, plan a May 30 wedding at the Terra Blanca Winery in Benton City at 6:30 p.m. A 2008 graduate of LaCrosse High School, the bride-elect is attending Washington State University- Richland where she is studying for a degree in elementary education. Boffey, a member of the 2004 class at Stanwood High School and a 2009 graduate of... Full story
Lacrosse The Awesome Authors Inc. Book Company, which consists of third, fourth, seventh and eighth graders, are taking orders for a pre-sale of a book containing a collection of stories they have written and illustrated. They are still in production mode. Books will be available May 18. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the Eric Binks fund. The price is a donation of any amount. Contact any student from those grades or teachers to order. LaCrosse third through sixth graders attended an interactive concert with the Spokane...
Barb Kinzer is one of the few women around who enjoys both horses and decorating cakes. Raised as the oldest “boy” in a farm family, she quickly showed an aptitude for mechanical things and animals, but the cooking side was nurtured, too. Loving to make custom cakes for friends and family, she enjoys the creativity and artistic fun of baking and decorating. Baking and icing cakes were how her mother lured her into the kitchen to learn to cook. Once there, she learned to cook other foods, too. Wi...
Dusty Dusty Cemetery has scheduled a work day for Monday, May 18, at 8:30 a.m. Volunteers are asked to bring weed eaters, shovels, blocks and bars. A meeting will follow the work session. Sunday, approximately 20 family and friends celebrated Don Moore’s 90th birthday at Hill Ray. Included in the group were his sons and their families: Steve and Carol Moore and David and Lauren; Dan and Jill Moore and their daughters’ families, Miranda and Sam Kimmel and Avery and Jena and son Malachi, and Jim Moore. A week ago, Di Brink drove Mike Stine, Nor...
Rosalia Rosalia volunteer firemen Saturday plan to power wash the streets for Battle Days June 6. In order to help make this wash effective, Mayor Nanette Konishi asks business owners, chamber and council members and employees to join in to sweep up the sand and grit from the sidewalks to the curbs, and from there shovel as much as possible into containers to be dumped. This will help insure that the grit doesn’t get washed back onto the sidewalks and help minimize what goes into storm drains, t... Full story
Colfax High School Jazz band topped their competition division Saturday in the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival at Mt. Hood Community College. Director Mike Morgan noted the first-place win was the third awarded to the Colfax band over the four years this year's seniors have been in the program. Judges from Lewis and Clark College and Willamette University scored the Colfax band 93 out of a 100 and 92 out of a 100 respectively. The band's competition set includes "Aaron's Blues," "I Remember Clifford" by...
Endicott Elizabeth Circle met at Trinity Lutheran church Monday, May 11, to work on blankets. Ladies present were Carol Hannas, Louise Owens, Gail Bilow, Barbara Huntly and Ann Stoner. Winners of the Endicott Registered Shoot were as follows: A Class: Jimmy Arrhenius; B Class: Butch Johansen; C Class: Diane Koppel; D Class: Liam Anderson; Junior: Carson Schimmer; Ladies: Jesica Geissinger; Handicap Event #2: Winner: Garrrett Schlimmer; Runner Up: Carson Schlimmer. Handicap Event #3: Winner: Terry Leinweber; Runner Up: Diane Koppel. 200 Bird...
Washington’s snowpack melt this year was earlier than usual, according to data from the 2015 forecast by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The fifth NRCS report issued Friday noted the snowpack on the west side of the state is mostly gone. The prior NRCS report reported 74 percent of our long-term monitoring sites set new record low snowpack, according to NRCS Water Supply Specialist Scott Pattee. He added a warm and dry March set low snow pack melting earlier than usual.” Pattee said... Full story
Green lumber cars frame the fields north of Garfield this week. The cars nearly matching them in color. At the top, a sprayer works its way along a fence line....
How is Seattle’s Lighthouse for the Blind connected to the Export-Import Bank? Very closely. Since 1918, The Lighthouse for the Blind has provided education, training and manufacturing jobs for people with visual and hearing disabilities. Of the 400 people currently employed there, approximately 240 are blind or deaf-blind. In its certified machine shop, the Lighthouse employs more than 70 visual or hearing-impaired machinists whose customer list includes the Federal Defense Logistics Agency, The Boeing Company and BAE Systems. The m...
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2010. I’ve read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account. Most people won’t buy their dogs a smartphone, though, so you don’t see too many canines tweeting their friends unless they have access to a computer. Probably from the dogs’ point of view there are a lot of words they would just as soon not know, the N-word being the most obnoxious. Here’s an excerpt from a dog’s wiki-dictionary on known words:...
Three things Could we ask our state legislators to do three things regarding recreational drugs? One would be to take some action against the largest recreational drugs. What’s to stop our state from declaring that alcohol, tobacco (and marijuana?) are semi-legal drug s— legal enough to be sold in restricted circumstances, but not legal enough to be advertised? Tobacco kills 420,000 Americans each year, and alcohol is the number one drug related to crimes of violence, including violent sexual predations, and produces about half the workload for...
Our country is unraveling, right before our eyes. No longer can we treat the eruptions of violence in places like Baltimore as isolated incendiary incidents. If, as a nation, we don’t take immediate remedial action, which means a complete overhaul of a brutally unfair system, the grudges that have simmered for so many generations will explode wherever there are people who are oppressed by those who benefit from a grossly inequitable economic system. It’s too easy to dismiss the rioting in Baltimore as the actions of some punks who went on a r...
