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Mark Mansell, former school superintendent and football coach at St. John/Endicott, plans a solo bike tour across the United States this summer to raise funds for Leader Dogs for the Blind. Mansell, now superintendent at LaCenter, is a member of the Lions Club at LaCenter. The tour is being done in partnership with Leader Dogs for the Blind and the nation’s Lions clubs. Supt. Mansell noted Cycling for Leader Dogs began as a simple idea of one Lion member riding a bicycle to help those in need. The effort has grown into a significant team e...
Endicott Gun Club held its official registered shoot last weekend, with more than 80 shooters lining up to gun down clay pigeons. Winners were awarded for various classes in shooting events both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday winners in singles competition were: Dennis Rickords - AA class; Travis Beck - A class; Terry Leinweber - B class; Wayne Brannon - C class; Richard Villa - D class; Diane Koppel - Ladies; Hunter Weitze - Juniors; William Johnson - Veterans. Johnson, Leinweber and Bill Gamble were winners in the doubles events. Sunday...
After booking a 3-1 run at the Bob Haggart memorial tournament at Selah, the Pullman Patriots Legion team returned to the home territory for a 1-3 mix-up with the Northeast 49ers in the senior Legion League. The NE club nipped the Patriots twice in Spokane Tuesday night, 3-2 and 6-3 after booking a split at Bailey-Brayton field on Monday night. The series left the Pats 2-3 in league play. Northeast scored all three of their runs in the second inning and held off the Patriots for the first win at Spokane Tuesday. The locals took the loss after...
Water-spewing, mud-chewing racing action returns to Webb’s Slough outside St. John Saturday as the United States Sprint Boat Association kicks off its 2012 season. The jet-powered race boats will descend on the town Friday night, lining Front Street with their boats for safety and technical inspections. The line-up gives race fans a chance to view the boats at their polished best before they are coated with mud from the Webb’s Slough track. This marks the sixth season the boats will rip through the narrow channels at Webb’s Slough. Saturday’s r...
Team managers and coaches for the novice swim league met back in April to work out details for the new season. The group convened at Eddy’s for a dinner meet. Colfax Coach Matt Ross said one new feature for this year’s competition will be an all-league meet to start the season. The meet has been booked at the Colfax pool for Saturday, June 30. After the all-league meet, the teams will take a break during the following week because of the Fourth of July holiday which falls on a Wednesday this year. After that the league will conduct meets twi...
The 36th annual Colfax Junior rodeo hosted 145 contestants who competed at the Palouse Empire Fairground Saturday and Sunday. The junior wranglers, parents, fans and the animals had to deal with rain and mud for the Saturday events, but they had a break in the weather on Sunday. All around champion cowboy awards went to Traver Johnson of Eltopia who landed the honor for the second year in a row. Traver competed in the PeeWee boys division, ages 6-8, and won the calf riding, stake and poles events. He placed second in barrels, dummy roping and...
THURSDAY Federal agents targeting child predators arrested 190 suspects who distributed or produced photographs or videos of child pornography in an operation during the month of May that reached across the United States and into four foreign countries. The Texas Department of Transportation is looking to post an 85 mile per hour speed limit on its soon-to-be completed Highway 130 which runs from San Antonio to Austin, the highest posted speed in the country. Bulgaria’s national history museum announced plans to display a “vampire” skele...
Stored freight cars returned to the former Colfax-Pullman railroad link along the S. Fork of the Palouse River late Saturday. The Washington & Idaho Railroad, which leases the line from the state, moved the cars north so they could continue a weed control spray operation on the south portion of the tracks. Freight cars were moved last week to clear the lines for spraying near Albion. Residents along the line Monday reported freight cars were rolling back along the line north of Albion for the first time in nearly two years. Bob Westby, manager...
Rosalia’s city government is nearly running out of cash. A report issued last week by Washington State auditors found the town has overspent in its last three budgets. Those deficits left the town with a cash reserve of $33,000 at the end of 2011, about one percent of the town’s annual budget. To cover the gap, the audit report said, Rosalia officials have used seven loans from its wastewater treatment plant fund over the past six years to cover $108,319 of overspending. Similar findings were discovered by state auditor’s in the town’s 2006 fi...
After four to five years of leaks, the Jennings Elementary gym and the Colfax High School Library will undergo roof work this summer. After efforts by moisture detectors to find the leaks failed, Supt. Michael Morgan applied for and received a $90,000 emergency repair grant from the State of Washington to fix the roofs. The school district hired a project manager, Dan McDonald of the Garland Company, Sandpoint, Idaho, who sent out a call for labor bids June 7 for the projects. McDonald and...
Almost four years after the Great Recession ground it to a halt, the real estate market on the Palouse is about to pick up steam, a panel of realtors and land-use experts predicted in a meeting Tuesday. “We’re definitely in an area that should be growing,” said Shelly Bennett, a realtor with Palouse Commercial Real Estate. Bennett’s firm presented its second annual commercial market review at Pullman’s Belltower Tuesday. Experts like Pullman Planner Pete Dickinson and Jeff Jones, director of Moscow’s urban renewal agency, reported increasing...
Oakesdale’s Front Street widening project will move forward after completion of an archaeological survey required by the state. The Transportation Improvement Board project went on hold in April when the town received a letter from the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. It stated that the area of Oakesdale’s project had potential for archaeological resources, and that the scale of the ground to be disturbed posed a threat to those resources. In turn, the Dep...
Whitman County’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Task Committee decided Tuesday night to call back three of four entities that had requested .09 economic development funds. Rejected was a $15,000 request by the Pullman-Moscow Airport to fund an upgrade of its emergency communication system. “How is it creating jobs by buying radios?” asked committee member Dale Miller of Uniontown. Board member Marty Mullen of Pullman noted the project already has funding from the Federal Aviation Administration, the Port of Whitman County and Avista. The funds deriv...
Two people who were riding in this 1988 Dodge Caravan were taken by ambulance to Whitman Hospital June 7 after the van was hit by two trucks on Highway 195 at the Hume Road intersection six miles north of Colfax. Rescue crews had to extricate John R. Keefe, 45, Port Ludlow, from the van which he had been driving. Also taken to the hospital was his son, Sean Keefe, 14. According to the Washington State Patrol report, John Keefe was driving southbound on Highway 195 in the 1988 Caravan at 3:10 p.m. when he stopped to make a left turn onto Hume...
One of Colton’s three wells has been shut down due to E. Coli contamination found in a test sample. After a sample turned up coliform bacteria on May 15, further testing showed evidence of E. Coli in the well. An engineer from the Washington State Department of Health arrived June 4 and directed the town to disinfect the well. Strom Electric of Troy, Idaho, has been hired for the job, and Colton Mayor Jerry Weber expects the outfit to do the work this week. “We’re just following the proce...
Motions seeking amounts due after Friday’s superior court orders in the Kentucky Bluegrass civil suit seek more than $2.9 million in payments. The court Friday entered an order that Scotts Co. was responsible for a 20-cent bonus which was included in production contracts signed by growers with Seeds, Inc., of Tekoa over a three-year term. Also, another motion seeks an additional summary judgment for more than $1.4 million for interest alleged due from the court’s first ruling in favor of Seeds Inc. 18 months ago. Friday’s presentation of court...
Tekoa’s Slippery Gulch Days will come alive for its 84th edition Friday and Saturday. Perennial events like the parade, egg toss and duck race will be mixed in with new features such as “Are you Smarter Than a 50-Year Grad?” and “Small-Town Idol.” “It’s a fun day. There’s something for everyone to do,” said Co-Chair Melinda Wilkins. “Number one: we would like to see nice weather,” said Mayor John Jaeger, the other co-chair. “But last year it rained and we were fine with it.” Indoor events will...
Carmine Petracca, 65, Lewiston, talks with troopers after he made an emergency landing of a single engine Cessna airplane on Highway 195 in front of the Inland Power at Hubbad north of Colfax Monday morning. He managed to land the plane after clipping residential power service and telephone lines with the tail of the airplane as he made his approach. According to the report by WSP Trooper Bruce Blood, Petracca said he had departed Lewiston for Spokane early Monday and the 1958 Cessna 182A, began to have engine problems north of Colfax. He...
A new LaCrosse will be on display during the town’s annual Farmers’ Festival this weekend. Along with the regular parade, barbecue and mudfest, LaCrosse will celebrate its efforts to turn around an economy that has been struggling for years. “LaCrosse is not the little town that could. It’s the little town that is,” said Randy Myklebust, one of the board members of the LaCrosse Community Pride nonprofit. Highlight of the festival weekend will be a dedication of the new grocery store and marketplace building at 2 p.m. Saturday. LaCrosse...
Facility will be able to load 410,000 bushel trains in 8.5 hours. McCoy Land Company will host a groundbreaking ceremony next Wednesday to mark the start of construction on its $17 million shuttle train loader. The company is a joint venture by local grain cooperatives CoAg and Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative. The loader will be located just north of McCoy siding, along State Route 271 south of Rosalia. The 1.3-million-bushel, state-of-the-art train loader will reduce the time needed to fill 110-car unit trains. The longer trains net...
Picketers stood outside the gates of the Jordan World Circus Tuesday at the Palouse Empire Fairground, protesting against what they view as cruel animal training methods. “Circuses are very cruel to animals. They use inhumane training methods to get these animals to do what they want them to do,” said protester Cindy Wines of Moscow. The Jordan Circus and its collection of exotic animals performed two shows Tuesday at the fairground. The four protesters held signs made by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, and distributed...
