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Lamont Lamont School reunion will be Saturday, June 30, at the Lamont Community Center beginning at noon. Invitations have been mailed, and friends, family, classmates, etc., are also encouraged to attend. The dinner will be catered this year by Cathy Jo’s Catering from Lind, Wash. For reservations at $23 per person, please contact Wayne Kelly, waynekelly60@gmail.com. The deadline is June 10 for reservations. Betty Stone, Patty Ethredge and Patty’s son Cody drove to Wilbur Sunday to see Tiffany and Seth Wagner and their new baby son, Gun...
Frank and Carla Ortiz of Tacoma announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Lisa Marie, to Christopher Ray Clausen, son of Mike and Regina Clausen of Rosalia. Lisa is a graduate of Spanaway High School, and Chris is a graduate of Liberty High School. Both are graduates of Washington State University. They plan a July 7 wedding in Spokane. Lisa is employed at SpaceSavers Northwest in Spokane, and Chris is an employee with the Wilbur Ellis Company in Tekoa.... Full story
Della and Bob Hill celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this month. Della Hilgert and Bob Hill were married June 9, 1962, at the Christian Church in Dayton. They have lived for more than 30 years in their 100-year-old house at Rosalia. They have three children, the youngest daughter at home, a son and daughter-in-law in Spokane and daughter and son-in-law in Florida; seven grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters....
Jennifer Claassen was born and raised in Portland, but she has the bonafides of a country girl. Her great-grandparents were fresh from Ireland when they participated in the great Oklahoma land rush in order to obtain a homestead. Their son, Jennifer’s grandfather, was eager to go to Kansas State University, and he persuaded the university president to offer “Papa” the job of caring for his invalid wife in order to get a degree. Grandpa graduated in agriculture and spent his career in agricultural extension in Kansas. Jen told family membe...
Lacrosse The family of Eddie Thompson is sponsoring a raffle of three different Scentsy Burners with one Scentsy bar. All proceeds will benefit the LaCrosse Community Pride store project. Tickets sell for a dollar each or six for $5. Tickets may be purchased at Startin’s Repair, Teapot Café, Pastime Tavern or Jasper Trucking. Drawings will be during the Farmers Festival picnic. Austin Jones, son of Mike and Evon Jones, qualified for the Hershey State Track Meet in the 50 and 100 meter races. Austin will compete June 30 in Tacoma. At the re...
Kelsey Simon of St. John has been awarded a Trustees Scholarship for $3,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year at Eastern Washington University. This award is given to continuing EWU students with a GPA of 3.8 or higher. Kelsey graduated from St. John-Endicott High School in 2010. The daughter of Ray and Regina Simon, she is pursuing a degree in nursing....
Dusty Dusty Farm Co-op/Four Star Supply will have a one day surplus sale of all the Four Star stores Saturday, June 9, from 8 to 5 in the NACA building located at the Dusty grain elevator. They have taken pallet loads of excess stock from all five locations for this sale. This will be almost all new items including boots, lawn and garden decor, hardware, work clothes and pet supplies. Country Bible Church will be cleaning along Highway 127 Friday, June 8, as part of the “Adopt a Highway” anti-litter program. Volunteers are welcome and sho...
Hooper Conly and Betty Merritt hosted family last weekend. Betty’s mother Eleanor Iten, and sister and brother-in-law, Bill and Judy Hammer, all from Fort Jones, Calif., and Betty’s niece, Shannon Hammer from Shasta Lake City, Calif., spent the weekend. They all traveled to St. John Saturday to attend the graduation of grandson Brice Bennett. They all attended a luncheon at the home of daughter and son-in-law, Tracy and Richard Bennett. Keith and Carla Danielson hosted a Horsemanship/Obstacle Clinic at their Hooper Crossing Ranch May 19- 20...
Nathan deAvila and Sage Hosford, left, each received a bicycle prize Tuesday as winners of the reading contest sponsored by the Colfax chapter of the Washington State Grand Masonic Lodge. The program evaluated 27 Colfax second graders in four areas, including test scores, reading rate and class grades. Colfax’s Hiram Lodge donated a book to each student in addition to awarding the bike prizes. Presenting the bikes to deAvila and Hosford Tuesday, from the left, were lodge members John Henry, Bill Tempel and Jim Berdal....
The History Channel • On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. Massachusetts had initially opposed the document as it failed to reserve undelegated powers to the states. • On June 23, 1902, German automaker Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) first registers “Mercedes” as a brand name. The famous Mercedes symbol, a three-point star, was registered as a trademark in 1909. • On June 24, 1915, young German fighter p...
She was sitting in the passenger seat of a car at the McDonald’s in The Dalles, Ore. Suddenly the door opened and someone grabbed her. Connie Marsh caught her breath. “Don’t you remember me?” said the person. She did, once she got a look at the young woman. It was one of many students Marsh taught in a 38-year career as a family and consumer science teacher in Tekoa. “We once ran into a former student at a truck stop between here and Seattle,” said Eric Marsh, Connie’s husband, who retired f... Full story
A revision in the Gar-Pal student handbook for 2012-13 will change the school’s cell phone policy. Superintendent Bev Fox announced the shift in a joint school board meeting with Garfield May 31, indicating that the policy will now be left up to individual teachers. Fox explained that the technology of smart phones has made them useable as a tool which several teachers would permit in their classrooms. The new statement in the handbook will read: “No electronic devices allowed without the tea... Full story
Right Turn on Red W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. It is a damp spring morning, and the mushrooms are popping up like Starbucks. I am running late for an appointment with my dental hygienist, a charming woman who is always ordering me to brush the back of my tongue, causing great upheaval in my life. No matter how many times I’ve tried to follow her instructions, it still gives me bulimia. “My gag reflex doesn’t like it,” I complain. “Couldn’t I brush something else? My knees, maybe?” “Your...
A few short days from now the Palouse Empire Fairground will once again be home to an amazing array of abused exotic animals. The traveling circus that visits us here in Whitman County each summer is the Jordan World Circus. Dozens of U.S. cities and counties, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Austria, India, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal and Slovakia have passed measures to ban wild animals in circus acts. Other nations, including Britain, Norway and Brazil, are on the verge of doing the same. The Palouse is home to not one, but two major c...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Justin A. Phillips, 24, and Julie A. Parzyck, 27, both Garfield, June 4. Dustin D. Dawson, 21, and Emily J. Shaw, 20, both Colfax, June 4. Thomas J. Storer, 66, and Babara J. Terrulli, 57, both Pullman, May 31. Bryan D. Minor, 23, and Ciara B. Strauss, 21, both Pullman, May 30. Darrin W. Headley, 45, and Sally A. Law, 36, both Oakesdale, May 30. Paul W. Wettin, 24, Pullman, and Emily A. McCarthy, 22, Lakewood, May 25. Matthew D. Hocrath, 24, and Tegan J. Van de Vliert, 29, both Pullman, May 24. Jeremy P. Stoa, 35, and Julie D....
A report on Colfax Police activities for 2011 shows traffic tickets issued by the police department has dropped more than 46 percent from 10 years ago. Assistant Chief Dave Szambelan, who presented the report to the city council Monday night, said he believes the drop reflects the department’s trend toward responding more to calls for assistance. Time spent responding to calls reduces officer time for traffic patrols, he noted. Colfax officers in 2011 issued 378 traffic tickets. In 2001 the count was 706. The total has declined for the last t... Full story
There comes a time when enough is enough. No more excuses, no more delays. In 1986, hospitals, local governments, schools, small businesses and doctors were fed up with the high cost of personal injury lawsuits and liability insurance. They successfully lobbied for tort reform legislation, which was signed into law by Gov. Booth Gardner. Fast forward to 2012 and you see that same tipping point with our public schools. Taxpayers are tired of hearing, “Just give us more money and we’ll fix our schools.” We’ve been there, done that and nothing...
SOMEBODY sent me a copy of a Facebook entry by one of her correspondents which offers “10 reasons to thank Obama.” I was sure the Facebook entry wasn’t original since practically the same list of reasons to vote for Obama appeared shortly thereafter in my local newspaper’s letters column signed by a Poulsbo man and letters responding to that have followed. I figure the list was hatched in Democratic talking points, which is the D campaign propaganda list available to Obama stooges, considering all had dates of inception which most ordinar...
The recall effort to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, came to a head Tuesday. Running to replace him was Tom Garrett, a Democrat and mayor of Milwaukee. In the simplest of terms, the recall and subsequent election was a contest of the Tea Party against public workers and unions. On Tuesday, Walker’s recall was rejected. He received almost 54 percent of the vote. Apparently, voters like what he is doing and want their leaders, as he said, to stand up and make tough decisions. Walker had tried to solve the state’s budget cri...
Colfax swim pool admission tickets are now on sale at city hall. Individual season passes this year will be $48, up from $45 last year and family passes for up to four members will be $100, up from $95 last year. Single admission will be $3.50 up from $3 last year. The pool will conduct four sessions of swim lessons with registration open the week prior to the lessons. Fee will be $20 per child. Youngsters must be over four years old and 42 inches or taller. Lesson dates will be July 9-13, July 16-20, July 23-27, and July 9-Aug. 3. A free swim...
St. John/Endicott golf coach Butch Howard and golf team member Sierra McCanna were incorrectly identified in the picture of the state champion Eagle team that appeared in last week’s Gazette. They were identified as Bruce Porubek, who no longer serves as a coach, and Erin Bailey, a grad off the team last year....
1. When was the last time the Angels missed the playoffs two seasons in a row before 2010-11? 2. Three times in the 1970s a pitcher set a new record for most saves in the A.L. Name two of the three. 3. In 2010, Auburn’s Cam Newton became the third player in NCAA Division I-A history to have at least 20 rushing TDs and 20 passing TDs in a season. Who were the first two? 4. Amar’e Stoudemire send a New York Knicks record in 2010 by scoring 30 or more points in eight straight games. Whose mark did he top? 5. Mats Sundin is the Maple Leafs’ all-tim...
Michael E. Fignani, 39, Spangle, was booked into the county jail early May 31 on probable drug charges after he was arrested the previous night at Oakesdale. A deputy’s report said Fignani was located in a red Ford Explorer which was parked off 27 at the south end of Oakesdale. The report said the officer stopped to determine if Fignani needed assistance and became suspicious when he detected the smell of marijuana after the suspect rolled down the window. Fignani, who told the deputies he was waiting at the scene to meet a train crew, c...
A five-year-old check fraud case was concluded May 25 when Rebecca Sue Meyers, 49, Reedsport, Ore., was sentenced to two months in jail after she admitted a charge of second degree theft. A second charge of forgery was dropped as part of a plea bargain agreement. Meyers was credited with 35 days already spent in jail since she was arrested on a warrant in Oregon. Arrest warrants were issued after she failed to make court appearances here after the two charges were filed against her in May of 2008. The charge involved $300 in checks which were... Full story
Jacey Johnson of Rosalia was named all-around champion for girls at the state finals of the Junior High Rodeo Association in Kennewick. She won the ribbon roping event and placed second in barrel racing, third in breakaway roping and fourth in goat tying. The prize for the all-around winner was a pair of Ariat boots....
