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Crunchy kernels of barley tumble from Joel Williamson’s hands as he scoops them up, offering a taste. “This is a first: The inaugural batch of Lyon malt,” says Williamson, head maltster at Spokane-based craft malting company LINC Malt. “This is really good,” replies customer Heath Barnes, popping a few grains into his mouth. Commercial malts are often plain and basic, but craft-malted Lyon is different. Nutty and aromatic, this new Washington State University created variety brings greater depth to beer, explains Barnes, CEO of Washingto...
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. NEW BILDERBACK CASE STALLS The new case against Bobby Bilderback of Malden has been placed on hold because the alleged victim has stopped cooperating with the sheriff's office investigation. Prosecutor Denis Tracy, in a statement issued May 16, said without the man's cooperation charges against Bilderback cannot be pursued at this time. Tracy's...
This Colfax street scene from the 1950s was shot from just west of Mill Street facing northeast. The Colfax Motor Company is adorned with signs offering service for Hudson and Pontiac car brands, both now extinct. Partially visible to the right is a sign for the Daily Bulletin, and at frame left is the parking lot of the former Safeway grocery store. Photo courtesy of Jim Krouse. 125 years ago The Commoner May 19, 1893 When George McMillan, who was acting as deputy marshal of Garfield, went to L...
George Miller Oct. 14, 1954-May 17, 2018 George Neil Miller of St. John, Wash., died May 17, 2018, at the age of 63 years from the recurrence of a brain tumor. George was born October 14, 1954, in Colfax, Wash., to James Kenneth and Opal Irene Miller. George graduated from St. John High School in 1973 and from Spokane Community College in 1975, with a degree in diesel mechanics. He worked as a mechanic for St. John Hardware for 10 years before returning to the family farm. George married Andrea...
Dear Savvy Senior, Are there any special Medicare programs that help seniors with their medication costs? My 74-year-old mother, who lives primarily on her Social Security, takes several high-priced drugs that sap her income even with her Medicare drug plan. Looking for Assistance Dear Looking, Yes, there’s a low-income subsidy program called Extra Help that can assist seniors on a tight budget with paying for their premiums, deductible and co-payments in their Medicare (Part D) prescription drug plan. Currently around 10 million people are r...
Instructor Andrea Harp helps Darius, Zoe and Adele Graham make seed bombs during an after school program at the Malden Library. To make seed bombs, kids picked out their favorite colors of construction paper and tore them into smaller pieces. Next, Andrea placed the pieces into a food processor with water to make a paste. Lastly, the kids applied the paper concoction into molds, added their chosen flower seeds, added more paper on top and pressed it all down. Once the seed bombs are dry, they...
All 14 branches of Whitman County Library will close May 26-28 in observance of Memorial Day. Due dates for library materials have been extended in anticipation of the closure and no late fines will be charged. Drop boxes will remain open at all locations for returned items....
The Oakesdale track and field team, without a track, practices in March on the Oakesdale football field. The track team, which won the state 1B girls championship the past two years, also practices on town streets and about 10 times per year on the track at Cheney High School....
“Remembering through Walls and Names” by Dr. Ray Sun, WSU history professor, will be featured at Colfax Methodist Church next Thursday, May 31, at 12:15 p.m. This free program is sponsored by Whitman County Library in partnership with Colfax Rotary. Anyone wishing to order a $12 lunch for the event can contact the library at 397-4366 by May 29. His presentation focuses upon the Vietnam Memorial and the impact it has had in shaping subsequent memorials. Many now adopt the “wall of names” concept, including the 9/11 memorial and a major planned...
The Potlatch Junior Jammers take the gazebo in the park. Young superheroes and their chaperones. The pace car arrives for the kiddie parade. Flower sales start at the park. Jessie Grinolds and daughter Lacy ride in John Hoyt’s black car. Garfield auditor candidate Sandy Jamison. Here comes the horn section for the Vikings band. Luke Jones and Eddie O’Neil on guitar and drums. The economy of candy plays out in a moment: strategy, opportunity and I’ve-already-got-a-sucker. Queen Hope Krieb...
Rosalia Battle Days raffle tickets are on sale at the historic Texaco station on Main Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day until the annual town celebration June 1-3. Tickets are 3 for $1. “Battle Days” T-shirts from 2017 are also for sale at the station. Smaller sizes are $20 and larger sizes $25....
Palouse Knowledge Corridor’s Entrepreneur of the Palouse award in the business category went to Trent Bice, owner and operator of Allegra Printing and Image 360. For more than 20 years, the business has provided marketing materials, printing solutions and signs. Bice was credited for donating goods and services to help with various causes. The PKC non-profit award winner was Backyard Harvest and its director, Misty Amarena. Backyard Harvest provides fresh fruits and vegetables by developing a large volunteer gleaning program, facilitating c...
Lacrosse A dunk tank with a variety of dunkees will be located in the park during LaCrosse Farmers Fest June 23 between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. to support the 2018-19 LaCrosse Senior Class. There will be concessions by the tank with snow cones, Italian sodas, water and pop. There will also be a limited supply of LaCrosse Town/Farmers Fest T-shirts sold near the barbecue pit in the park with prices ranging between $15-$25. Pre-orders can be made now from a 2019 senior before June 8. Email orders: mpotesky@lacrossesd .k12.wa.us All proceeds will...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager, along with guest Weston Kane, flew to Yakima Friday and joined a group of Washington Flying Farmers touring the CubCrafters factory. This company was founded in 1980 and has grown to 350 employees who turn out finished airplanes that are patterned after the Cubs of many years ago, although much improved. They are so popular that any orders today would not be ready until 2020. Visitors at the home of David Stueckle this weekend were his son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, Doug, Cheryl and Ashleigh Stueckle of Coeu...
Library summer reading will begin next week Residents of all ages are invited to participate in Summer Reading 2018 with the theme “Libraries Rock!” The reading portion of the program starts countywide June 1. Community programs will begin May 29. To complete the contest, children must read 10 books or be read to for 10 hours. Teens need to read and briefly review three books. Adults must complete three checklist items, including reading, to complete the program, but can earn as many as 14 chances at winning the grand prize. Major donors for...
The WSU Raptor Club brought four of its rehabilitated birds to Colton May 17 for the Colton and Uniontown Library's after-school program. The picture shows a red-tailed hawk that the club has had for 14 years. The bird came to them with a broken wing which never healed well enough for her to fly again. Phyllis Van Horn, who recently celebrated her 16-year anniversary as a Raptor Club member, is seen here holding the hawk while she presents the program for children. This program was made...
Palouse's Hayton Green Park’s Roll of Honor recognizes area veterans for their service. Memorial Day was first recognized as Decoration Day. It was originally to help us remember all those who died during the Civil War. Never before had so many died during battle. Soon national cemeteries began to appear and Decoration Day was established in 1868 to help honor those lives by decorating their graves. The holiday was held on May 30 each year through 1970. In 1971, Memorial Day was declared a n...
REAL ESTATE Glen and Leilani Carpenter, Pullman, to Judith McDonald, house on Lost Trail Drive, Pullman, $249.000, May 11. Janice and Jan Busboom, Pullman, to Shane and Ann Lee, house on Banner Road, Pullman, $399,000, May 11. Steven and Carolyn Thomas, Pullman, to Shane and Sarah Corbin, Pullman, house on SE Dexter, Pullman, $382,000, May 11. Hamilton & Wood LLC to Eric Steinback and Tiffany Justice, 1979 14 X 66 mobile home on Professional Mall Blvd., Pullman, $32,000, May 11. Susan Bemis, Elkhart Lake, Wis., to Catherine Fox, Moscow, house...
From left, Sydney Berquist, Perry Imler, Anni Cox, Kari Largent and Kennedy Schmidt represented Colfax in the Leadership Development event and competed at the highest level, making it to the final round of this competition. At right is Colfax High School FFA Advisor Michael Heitstuman. Colfax FFA members spent three days competing at the FFA state convention May 10-12 on the WSU campus. Friday evening, freshmen girls competed in the Greenhand competition which allows them to work on speaking...
Every now and again I come across something that is unbelievably dumb. It seems that there is currently an epidemic of very stupid things in the news. I don’t have space enough to cover them all, so I have selected three that my old friend Oscar would say, “are as dumb as a whole box of rocks”. It should come as no surprise that the second runner up comes from the far side of the Cascades. It seems that King County is suing the five major oil companies for global warming. The petition alleges that the oil companies provided the gasoline that ca...
In the second century A.D., Jewish rebels who had stunned the Romans and liberated a portion of Judea over struck imperial coins with images and a message of their own, "Year One of the Redemption of Jerusalem." The leader of the Jewish rebellion, Bar Kokhba, was fired by a vision of a united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital, which had been the exception during the prior millennium, thanks to the depredations of the Assyrians and Babylonians, among others. But such was the power of the national idea -- and his messianic zeal -- that Bar...
On Sunday (May 27), actor/musician Gary Sinise will again co-host the National Memorial Day Concert from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. It will be the 29th annual concert on the 150th anniversary of Memorial Day. The format is much the same as in past years. Sinise and Criminal Minds star Joe Mantegna team with retired Army Gen. Colin Powell to remember those who have sacrificed for our country, our freedom and our way of life. It will attract millions of viewers across our nation and at American military installations around the world....
Hiding science? Our federal government's war on science took another step after the president made a decision to cut the budget of NOAA. This agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere. I am one of Whitman County's volunteer weather watchers. I am also a member of the Palouse Citizens' Climate Lobby. All of us know how excellent weather forecasting has become, thanks to NOAA. Way...
A couple of generations ago, there was a story about a well-connected Washington figure who encountered a corporate type who was having trouble with government regulatory officials. "Oh," said the insider. "I can help you with that." Quickly, the bad situation went away. The delighted executive insisted that he be charged for the favor, and very soon thereafter, received a bill for $10,000 (remember, this was way back when). The businessman was taken aback: "That's outrageous," he complained. "I need you to itemize the fees." It wasn't long...
Franklin County Coroner Dan Blasdel May 17 issued official identification and a cause of the unattended death of Noble Stoneman, the WSU graduate who fell into the Palouse River above Palouse Falls last May 10. Blasdel determined the cause of death was drowning, but said Noble was believed to be unconscious when he fell into the river basin above the falls. Stoneman was hiking along a path above the basin when the ground gave away. He fell approximately 100 feet and hit a ledge, then fell into the river basin. Blasdel said a fisherman at the...
