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Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about clinical trials and how to go about finding one? My wife has a chronic condition and we’re interested in trying anything that may be able to help her. Looking For Help Dear Looking, Each year, hundreds of thousands of Americans participate in clinical trials in hopes of gaining access to the latest, and possibly greatest, but not yet on the market treatments for all types of illnesses. But, you need to be aware that clinical trials can vary greatly in what they’re designed to do, so be careful to... Full story
Thursday, July 4 All branches of Whitman County Library closed for Independence Day. Friday, July 5 Uniontown – 10:30 a.m. – Children’s Summer Reading program Saturday, July 6 Albion – 2 p.m. – Children’s Summer Reading program Monday, July 8 Colton – 10:30 a.m. – Pioneer Miners with musician Hank Cramer. Malden – 6 p.m. – Fun Night of Music in the Park with Hank Cramer. Tuesday, July 9 Palouse – 9:30 a.m. – Gnomes & Fairies and the mischief they get into - performed by Hank Cramer. Tekoa – 10:30 a.m. – Music and dance with special guest Mi... Full story
COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENU Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — Tasty Taco Salad w/tortilla chips, jell-o carrot salad, fruit, cookie, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — Tasty Taco Salad w/tortilla chips, fruit, cookie, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday — Tasty Taco Salad w/tortilla chips, jell-o carrot salad, fruit, cookie, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday — Tasty Taco Salad w/tortilla chips, jell-o carrot salad, fruit, cookie, milk, coffee...
For the past several years, WHMC has contracted with QUE to make phone calls and assist with developing payment plans. Beginning this month, we are giving you what you have asked for. We are transitioning to a more traditional billing service with all billing, insurance reconciliation, financial assistance and payment plans handled in one place. We expect this change to improve service to you by having just one number to call for all billing and payment matters. During this time of transition, you may receive statements from both QUE and WHMC...
Loose bricks on top of the library building have become a problem to be addressed in Oakesdale. The town roped off the inner sidewalk along the front two sides of the building in May and has been looking for a contractor to perform the repair. “It’s an old building. There comes a time when things are loosening up a little bit,” said Mayor Dennis Palmer. A contractor came to look in June and he proved too expensive for the city, said Palmer. The mayor indicated that the project is expected to co...
Dusty Last week, Dellene Broeckel Burdsall, San Jose, Calif., was here to visit her sister, Janice and Norm Pauls, and brother, Eddie and Joan Broeckel. Janice and Dellene visited with Janice’s daughter DeAnna, and Dellene also got to play on four-wheelers during her stay. Tate and Rafe Carlson, Spokane, spent the weekend with their grandparents, Kim and Cindy Pitts. Last Thursday, David and Phyllis Stueckle visited with Charlene Beck in Walla Walla. She is the widow of one of David’s former Navy buddies. Friday, Karen Broeckel attended a cel... Full story
8 years ago July 6, 1888 The booming giant powder knocked us out of bed at sun rise to remind us of Uncle Sammy’s birthday. In Endicott news, the blacksmith shop owned by Eugene Francis has been rented by F.P. Wilson and L.T. Price. Mr. Francis will give his entire attention to his implement business. B.W. Renshaw’s team became frightened by the train the other day while his family was in the wagon, but by skillful management of the driver, the wagon was not upset. A bad scare was the result. E.H. Muntz has moved his harness shop from the...
St. John Kolten Cole June 21 graduated from basic training at the National Infantry Museum where he got to march across the field made up of patches of grass taken from every battle involving US soldiers. His mom, Shelley Cole, and aunt, Debbie Halterman, attended. After 13 months of a process to be accepted by the Army because of all the medical paperwork he had to provide due to his childhood asthma and bad knees, he was sworn in to the Army Jan. 3. Kolten chose infantry and March 5 flew to... Full story
Endicott Bob Curry just returned from his annual scuba diving trip. He has been diving with the same group of friends for four years. Past trips have involved living on a boat for the whole week visiting the Caribbean islands. The trip this summer involved flying to Roatan, an island on the northern coast of Honduras, then taking a small plane 26 miles to the very small island of Utila. There is no road to the Utopia Dive Village, so a 20 minute boat trip is necessary. Though remote, the resort...
‘Fish On’ series set at Dahmen Artisans at the Dahmen Barn features the July exhibit and several free activities during the month on the theme “Fish On!” Pastels, watercolors and oil paintings, all of fish, plus steel sculptures, fishing rods and fishing nets are featured in this exhibit. The show features art from Judy Fairly, Barney Saneholtz, Melissa Cole, Pat Elder, William Hendrix, Andy Sewell, Jackie Ryan and John Bergen. The artists will be present at a reception on July 14. No pre-registration is required for the workshops and demonst...
Gail and Phillip Gumm of Farmington celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary the week of June 17 with a family gathering at Seaside, Ore. Gumm of Farmington and Gail Schalock of Spokane were married June 21, 1953, at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Spokane while Phil was enlisted in the Navy. After his discharge the following year they moved to Farmington where they have farmed and lived since. Their children are Terry and Evie Gumm, Farmington; Kim and Roy Schulz, Tekoa; Brian and...
Don and Sherry Cox of Colfax celebrated their 50th anniversary in Maui with their family. Their daughter, Julie (Ben) McBride lives in Bickleton, and their son Craig (Kelli) Cox lives in the Colfax area. Don and Sherry Schluneger, who was born and raised in Colfax, met at Whitworth College and were married at Onecho Bible Church June 22, 1963. He retired in 1998 after serving eight years as superintendent at Colfax to conclude a long career in education. He later served as Ninth District... Full story
Baking and serving treats in Palouse since last August, Mimi’s Bakery is the retirement avocation of Steve and Mary Martin. They purchased land near Tensed, Idaho, many years ago for a retirement home and later concluded that they needed something to do when he retired from teaching music history. A native of Portland, Mary traveled a great deal while growing up. Her father was a plant pathologist. Steve grew up in Philadelphia. He taught at Grinnell College in Iowa, the University of W...
Washtucna’s eighth edition of its classic car show Saturday, June 29, brought a variety of entrants for the show and other events. Above left, Josh Crouse of Washtucna rounds the first barrel in the stick horse race. Ritzville Rodeo Queen Heidi Henning, who organized the event, cheers at right. Above right, among entries at the car show were a 1963 Volkswagen camper bus entered by Bert and Gayle Kinman of Walla Walla. The 1926 Bugatti replica roadster was entered by Mark Dade of Pasco. At l...
A city plan to clear weeds and brush along the river channels in town was called off because of concern that the project would violate the city’s animal ban. The abandoned goat project was brought up June 24 at the city planning commission session which was called to discuss possible revisions in the animal ordinance. City Administrator Carl Thompson said they had considered hiring goats to graze along the portions of the flood channel which extend beyond the concrete part of the channel. Goats are noted for their capacity to graze off bush o... Full story
Real estate transactions Robert W. Mitchell, Pullman, to Steve George, Moxee, 1970 20x60 mobile home on South Grand in Pullman, $20,000, June 25. David E. and Rebecca A. Pfeifer, Pullman, to Kyle Lee Druffel and Jennifer Ann Reyes, Pullman, house on NW Larry Street in Pullman, $222,000, June 25. Scott A. and Michelle L Poesy, Palouse, to Ruth Nelson, Pullman, house on E. Union Street in Palouse, $160,000, June 26. K&K Properties, Pullman, to Mark and Cheryl Brzoska, Yakima, Pullman Place on SE Shoemaker Place in Pullman, $440,000, June 26. K&K...
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2008. My favorite email thus far this year was from a reader who wrote, “Dear Bruce, I was reading your column over breakfast today, and I laughed so hard beer came out my nose.” I had to wonder if this beer-spurting problem occurred only during breakfast, or if she were, in fact, afflicted with (blessed with?) the tendency to spray beer whenever she laughed excessively. Either way, I imagined she was fairly popular in college. I also received a fair amount of mail asking, essen... Full story
Impeach Big Brother The balance between security and individual liberty has been defined: it is called the Bill of Rights. If this balance needs to be altered, only the people have the right to alter it. Edward Snowden knows this. Snowden knows that the trampling of our Fourth Amendment rights by the government is unconstitutional and illegitimate. It is illegitimate because the people have not sanctioned the surrender of their Fourth Amendment rights. It is up to the people, not the regime, to alter the balance between security and individual... Full story
It’s hard to believe there are starving people in the world when Americans shop in well-stocked supermarkets and dine out at any of our 618,000 restaurants. But the U.N. estimates that nearly 870 million poor people in developing nations suffer from chronic malnutrition. Its children’s agency, UNICEF, reports that one of every 15 children in those countries will die before the age of five. And the problem will only get worse: The world population is expected to increase by almost a billion people by 2030. At the same time, our agriculture lan...
THERE’S NOTHING so aggravating to the average taxpayer as learning that someone in high places slipped something over on you that benefited that person or his constituency at the expense of everybody else. Well, here we go again. The someone this time is Secretary of State John Kerry, although he was only a senator from Massachusetts when he did it. What he did was slip something into the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, that is resulting in millions of dollars for hospitals in his state, millions that will be deducted from what hospitals in... Full story
The following is a portion of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence signed in 1776 by 56 representatives of the British colonies in America. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government bec...
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. POWER OUTAGE IN COLFAX Residents in the east and southeast areas of Colfax report electrical service had been knocked out as of 10:16 a.m. Tuesdsay. One of the residents who called Avista said they reported power had gone out for 350 customers. The company expected service to be restored at about 2:30 p.m. The power outage stopped fans and air... Full story
Pullman Patriots dropped two games to the Spokane Northstars Monday at Jackson Field in Spokane to drop to 2-8 in the Spokane Senior Legion league. The Pats battled into two extra innings in the first game with a three-run rally in the top of the seventh, but the Stars scored the decider in the bottom of the ninth to snap the 3-3 tie. Patrick Jacobs started in the first game and Hunter Redinger went to the mound in the seventh. The Pats out-hit the `Stars 10-8 in the opener with Redinger rapping three with a double. Northstar bats came to life... Full story
Mike Day, the Gazette’s Rosalia reporter, competed in a newpaper toss contest at a recent Spokane Indians game. Day, a veteran distributor of the Spokesman Review and the Chronicle in Rosalia, hit all three targets....
The effort to build a skate park in Palouse is zeroing in on a location. Two weeks ago, the skate park committee, led by Aaron Flansburg, met and decided to aim for a spot in the city park between the pool and the basketball court. Previously, the three main locations deemed feasible by the committee were the city park, downtown, which would require donated or land that is purchased, and the tennis court area behind the school. “The vote went way, way in the majority for the city park,” sai... Full story
