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Dusty Linda Hennigar attended the 50th wedding anniversary of Jack and Marilyn Roberts Hennigar, Harvard, Idaho, Saturday. Jack, who was from Riparia, and Marilyn, who was from Hay, were married in LaCrosse on June 23, 1962. The 50th celebration took place at The Log Cabin Inn in Potlatch and was hosted by their children, Randy and Pat Hennigar of Deary; Steve and Lori Thompson of Potlatch; Joyce Carpenter of Potlatch, and Chuck and Terri Cone of Cheney, and 14 grandchildren. Saturday night guests of Blake and Carmen Heaton were Ray and...
Kaysha Lyman caught the attention of her evaluators during her senior project presentation—she fed them cupcakes. Other seniors in her group brought photos, scrapbooks, even a porch swing, but Kaysha brought food. Kaysha, a 2012 graduate of Colfax High School, is the daughter of David and Benay Lyman. She has an older sister, Dakota, and a brother, Kenton, who just turned fifteen. Seven of her classmates were centering their senior projects on job-shadowing, but Kaysha wanted to be more original and learn something new, so she began to look a... Full story
Seventeen Endicott-St. John students and parents returned Saturday from a trip to Washington, D.C., and New York City. The junior high and high school students departed June 17 and toured the Capitol, White House, Smithsonian, various war memorials, Presidential monuments, Arlington Cemetery and the new Martin Luther King Jr. Monument. In New York, they visited the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park, Rockefeller Plaza (NBC Studio Tour and the Today Show), Mets baseball game, Central Park, Time Square, 5th Avenue and 911 Memorial. Students...
Gazette News Intern On Memorial Day, residents of the Whitman Health & Rehab Center in Colfax were thrilled by the gifts they found themselves to be receiving from a stranger, Joey Reyes Owen. She made 48 quilts and donated them in memory of her father, Fidel Reyes. “It was just a labor of love,” she explained. Joey was born and raised in Colfax, one of the daughters of Josie and Fidel Reyes who immigrated to the area in 1965 from Cuba. Now living in Marysville, her love, appreciation and dedication to the art of sewing was learned as a young g...
A new grant received by Artisans at Dahmen Barn will bring artists into Colton School next year. A total of $8,200 was awarded to the organization earlier this month by the Inland Northwest Community Foundation. Dahmen Barn Manager Leslee Miller is now working to put together the program which will begin in September. The effort follows a pilot project conducted in March in which Colton-Uniontown students painted satellite dishes in Uniontown. McGregor Co. cleaned the dishes, and paint was... Full story
Palouse Empire Muzzleloaders’ 21st edition of their Rendezvous along the Palouse River at Manning mixed some relaxing scenes with the noise of black powder. Donal Wilkinson helps Wilson Caisley, 13, load a vintage rifle on the shooting range at top left. Alex Harrison of Potlatch is in the back. Dave Benson of Onaway and Kevin Quinn of Spokane, top right, visit in front of the vintage-style camp tents. Clark Sherwood of Lopez Island lines up his pistol, lower left, on the shooting range, and Laila Ives gets some archery instruction from Alez K...
More than 100 alumni of St. John’s Academy in Colfax are slated to return to the city’s former Catholic school for an all-school reunion this weekend. Organizer Susan Huber McGregor of San Francisco said more than 100 are expected for Friday evening’s events. She estimated 150 had responded for the lunch and special mass Saturday. “We even have three nuns who used to teach there coming,” she said. The school operated under St. Patrick’s parish from 1915 through 1966. Many of the Cuban kids, refugees who were sent here by their parents dur...
W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. Over the years, I’ve come to wish that I’d stuffed my wallet as much as I’ve stuffed my face. “Sorry,” I see myself saying as someone tries to hand me some $20 bills, “I can’t take any more — I’m completely full.” My current wallet has been with me for what seems forever — proof that starving something enables it to live longer. I guess I don’t really even look at it unless I need money — which is, come to think of it, how my children treat me. I just take fo...
Two Whitman Hospital staffers sustained minor injuries June 21 in attempts to subdue a patient who reportedly became unruly in the emergency room. One staff member sustained arm scratches and one was head butted in the struggle, according to Interim Chief David Szambelan who responded to the scene at 8:36 a.m. Two deputies and a State Patrol trooper also responded to the scene. Szambelan said hospital staffers reported the patient had left the room where he was being treated and became unruly. Staff members at the hospital were able to get the...
We all know about the nation’s weak economy and tough job market, but the prolonged recession is hitting high school and college students as well. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the number of high school students with jobs is at its lowest level in more than 20 years. In 1990, 32 percent of high school students held jobs, compared to 16 percent today. The anemic economy is largely to blame. According to the Washington Times, sectors that traditionally offer teens their first gig, such as fast-food chains, m... Full story
I HOPE the next debate engaged in by our two major candidates for governor has more I’s in it and less you’s and he’s. That is, I want to hear each, Democrat Jay Inslee and Republican Rob McKenna, say “this is what I am going to do about job creation or education” or whatever rather than a lot of “You’re making promises you can’t fulfill,” Inslee to McKenna, or “He opposes tax reductions for any purpose,” McKenna about Inslee. Here’s some more out of their first debate in Spokane: Inslee, “I am concerned he will reduce environmental prot...
On Tuesday, an agreement was reached in the United States Senate to freeze the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford student loans. The expiration of that special rate program on July 1 would double the rates students would have to pay on new loans. The current rate is 3.4 percent. Should the program expire, the rate will jump to 6.8 percent. Both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are backing the extension of the lower rate. Apparently, both sides are satisfied, although some arcane accounting was used to achieve the agreement....
While teachers, police and firefighters stand in the unemployment line, our government sinks millions of dollars into finding out that John Edwards is a creep and Roger Clemens is really big. Is anybody watching this Justice Department? Prosecuting attorneys make their living by choosing who to press charges against and how vigorously to pursue those charges. On a local level, that system tends to work well. Prosecutors in Centre County, Pa., went hard after former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on 48 counts for taking...
Gazette Editor Research of Whitman County’s lone known link to the massacre of Chinese gold miners in Hells Canyon on the Snake River indicates an official investigation was never conducted here 125 years ago. The naked body of a Chinese male, believed to be one of 34 victims of the massacre, was found naked with a single bullet hole at Penawawa. The sketchy accounts carried in frontier newpapers was reflected in what was then called the Palouse Gazette, a predecessor of this paper which was then in its 10th year of publication under Charles B....
Team Libey won the championship match of the Colfax Golf and Country Club’s Men’s Club Twilight league after topping the playoff matches last Thursday, June 21. The Libey squad of Tim Heiydt, Tom Levi, Scott Harriman and Craig McCully won the National League title in the regular season and topped the American League champ Ace Hardware team of Jim Heilsberg, Barry Folsm, Sr., Barry Folsom, Jr., and Allan Hodges with a 40-32 score in last Thursday’s playoff. AL number two Medical Micro Machining topped NL number two Coca-Cola 38-34 to claim...
Washtucna again will offer many attractions Saturday when the seventh edition of the Classic Auto Show rolls onto the school playing field. Organizer Bill Plumb said the show normally attracts 80 entrants with cars, trucks motorcycles and other vehicles. This year’s show will include entrants who are coming from Everett and Walla Walla to join the area car fans. Feature events will start with breakfast served by the Volunteer Firefighters starting at 7 a.m. Car show registration will begin at 8 a.m. and the actual show on the field will be f... Full story
She used to go to school across from the Colton Booster Gun Club, now she goes to work next to Cameron Indoor Stadium. Kelsey Schultheis, 23, of Colton, just started a new job in the Duke University Athletic Department as an assistant equipment manager. Schultheis moved to Durham, N.C,. after a year at the University of Northern Colorado as co-head manager for equipment. It was a decision that took some time, and no time, to make. “Do I want to live on the east coast and be three time zones a...
Pullman Patriots Wednesday started play in a five-day edition of the Palouse Summer Series at Colfax. The series will feature 24 teams which will compete in four divisions. Winners of each division will be in the final rounds Sunday for the championship. The Patriots are booked for a series game today, Thursday, at WSU’s Bailey-Brayton Field, and Friday at 9 a.m. at Lewis-Clark State College. Saturday, they will play at Pullman High at 11 a.m. and then return to Colfax at 6 p.m. After again advancing to the semi-finals in tournament play at E...
Colfax teenager Hunter Weitze downed 97 of 100 clay pigeons to win the Travis Iksic Handicap shoot in the 72nd Washington State Trapshooting Championships in Walla Walla Friday. He also shot a 96-96 to claim the sub-junior championship and earn a spot in this August’s Grand American shoot in Sparta, Ill. The 15-year-old Weitze was attending basketball camp when he decided he wanted to go shooting. At 8 p.m. he called his dad, Eric, to come pick him up at Eastern Washington University. At 8 a.m. Friday, he was at the Walla Walla Gun Club shootin... Full story
THURSDAY North Carolina’s effort to become the first state to compensate people subjected to involuntary sterilizations failed when legislators passed a $20.2 billion budget that does not include proposed $50,000 payments for each of the 146 victims still alive. Nearly 7,600 people, mostly women, were sterilized from 1929 to 1974 in a state-sanctioned eugenics program that forced sterilizations and castrations on citizens deemed unfit to bear children in North Carolina. Convicted sex offenders and child predators will have to post their c...
The wooden planks are musty and untouched, but a new electrical cord runs along the floor. The St. Elmo’s Building in Palouse has a new owner and a new vision. Seth Anawalt of Pullman, bought the property last November and has been putting work into his vision of its future. “Every time I walk in there, it’s got a good feeling to it,” Anawalt said. “My idea is to do a balance between a motel and apartments on the second and third floor. I want to plan apartments that could also serve as tempor...
Celebrants at this weekend’s Steptoe Community Picnic will have a new seat to enjoy their lunch on as the Steptoe Fire Department constructed a memorial park for former Fire Chief David Mitchell. Mitchell was the last living founding member of the town’s volunteer fire district, serving more than 50 years with the department. He joined the brigade as a teenager and later served as Fire Chief. He was a commissioner for the fire district when he died at age 72 in December 2010. The Steptoe Fire Department raised funding for a memorial stone to...
The Garfield School District and Palouse School District will hold a joint meeting tonight, Thursday, at Palouse at 7:30. Items on the agenda include summer hires, teacher resignations, student accident insurance, coaches’ hiring for next school year and more. The meeting will be held in the school library and is open to the public....
The $3.5 million project to rebuild Colfax Airport Road will indeed begin this year, Whitman County Public Works Director Mark Storey reported Monday. After a lengthy effort to acquire the right-of-way for the project, the county finally secured all its necessary property last week, Storey said. The project will widen the road, add shoulders, open up some of the road’s tight curves and better angle its slopes. Colfax Airport Road, a major bypass thoroughfare for WSU traffic off Highway 26, was originally slated to be rebuilt last year, but a... Full story
Palouse Empire Fair board members Monday night gave a green light to proposals for upgrading the stage in the community building and revamping the lights in the room. Fair Manager Bob Reynolds said the fair should look at the project as an investment which will make the facility more appealing to families and groups to rent during the off-season. Reynolds noted that at one time the fair’s community building was used for theater productions, and improvements, including a curtain, will increase its chances for additional use in that mode. The c... Full story
