Articles from the July 5, 2012 edition
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Hospital Highlights
I’m sure you are wondering what the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act really means. The Affordable Care Act is designed to accomplish several things including the expansion of Medicaid to many low-income adults, the creation of the h...
Sgt. Garrett ends overseas deployment
Army Staff Sgt. Steven E. Garrett, a 1995 graduate of LaCrosse High School, has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base to serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Garrett is a wheeled-vehicle...
Legals
NOTICE OF DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) AND A PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING Whitman County Planning issued a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following...
Good old days
8 years ago July 8, 1887 Hardly had the smoke cleared away from the wreck of his big hot air balloon on the Fourth before Prof. Stinson had sent east an order for a gas balloon, which he expects to have here in time to make an ascension during the...
Ten GP students earn all-A grades
Garfield-Palouse High School students who topped the honor roll for the final term with all-A grades included Heidi Jamison, Jeffrey Kent and Jonathan Kuehner, seniors; Cassie Thompson, junior; Chandler Pfaff, Taylor Redman and Kathryn Yoder,...
Palouse Ice Cream Social will benefit center project
The annual Palouse Ice Cream Social will be Sunday at the Palouse City Park from noon to 4 p.m. The social will again feature homemade pies, Lions Club burgers, beverages and music. Members of...
Eagles graduates of 1960s gather for reunion
—Janet Leifer photos St. John High School graduates from the early 1960s gathered for a reunion at the St. John Community Building Saturday. The reunion included golden grads of 1962 plus graduates of 1961 and 1963. Graduates of the class of 1961: F...
Spare Parts will return to Tekoa
Spare Parts, a versatile five-member band from Spokane, will return to the Empire Theatre in Tekoa Saturday, July 7 at 7 p.m. Their wide-ranging repertoire includes songs from pop, rock, folk and country genres and spans from the 1950s up to contempo...
Raptor club will show birds of prey
WSU Raptor Club members will bring birds of prey for a program at the Colfax Library Thursday, July 12, at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to the free, family program sponsored by the Friends of Whitman County Library. The club is a non-profit volunte...
Salmon River art now at Dahmen barn
Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown this month features an exhibit by the Salmon River Art Guild. It includes paintings in a wide variety of mediums: oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastels with subjects of landscape and still life. Gourd art,...
BIRTHS
Thomas daughter born Thomas, Samantha Katharine, born June 18, 2012, at eight pounds, five ounces to Tyler and Rachel Chastain Thomas of Silverdale. Maternal grandparents are Jerry and Mary Chastain of LaCrosse. Paternal grandmother is Marcia Thomas...
EWU lists students on spring honor roll
Twenty-seven area students qualified for the dean’s honor list at Eastern Washington University for the spring quarter. To qualify for the honors list, an undergraduate is required to earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on most courses. A...
Upgrades at UI Hartung Theater
Gazette Intern The Idaho Repertory Theatre’s summer season has been cut short this year due to construction projects in the University of Idaho’s Hartung Theater. The theater’s rigging system, as well as its stage and the flooring, are all being remo...
Erin Flaherty, Jacob Nelson exchange vows at Red Barn
Erin Flaherty of Moscow, Idaho, daughter of Steve and Melissa Flaherty of Colbert, and Jacob Nelson of Pullman, son of Craig and Sheryl Nelson of Pullman, were joined in marriage June 9 at Red Barn Farms in Colton. The Rev. Matt McNelly of Pullman...
Seutters celebrate 50th in Alaska
Carl G. Seutter and Barbara Jo Ellis were married June 23, 1962, at the Community Presbyterian Church in Oakesdale. They lived in Delaware and then Oklahoma where he was employed with General Motors at Midwest City. They then retired and lived at...
My favorite recipes
Heather and Mat Smith are busy entrepreneurs who operate Smith’s Country Store in Rosalia. A graduate of Rosalia High School, Heather was raised in Rosalia. Her mother, Zana Riley Lindgren, still resides in Rosalia. Her father was the late Phillip L...
Sterling Bank to host open house at LaCrosse
An open house for the new Sterling Bank branch at LaCrosse will be next Thursday, July 12. Sterling opened its new branch Monday in the former location of Bank of Whitman. The building was purchased from the FDIC by the LaCrosse Community Pride. The...
Trio attends wedding of niece in Tacoma
Dusty David and Phyllis Stueckle and Ann Emerson of LaCrosse drove to Puyallup last Friday to attend the wedding of the women’s niece, Kari Aune, daughter of Norm and Barb Aune, to Eric Kelly. The traditional wedding took place in the Tacoma First L...
Lamont Library friends sell books for building
Lamont Friends of the Lamont Library with Ruth Simpson at the helm conducted a book sale in the new Lamont Library June 22-24. It included a bake sale and a raffle. Gale Mann won the grand prize, an Afghan and hand crochet slippers. Proceeds will be...
Palouse cook Bev Spencer
The letter was noted at the Palouse school board meeting June 28. It was the resignation of Bev Spencer from the kitchen cook position, after 10 years. “What if we just didn’t accept it?” asked Brend...
Rumble strips removed from SR 27
State transportation crews recently filled in the center line rumble strips on State Route 27 in eastern Whitman County. Al Gilson, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, said soft ground had sunk the low parts of the strips, and that...
Moments in Time
The History Channel • On July 22, 1598, William Shakespeare’s play “The Merchant of Venice” is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control ove...
Whitman County begins 2012 budget process
Whitman County has begun the difficult process of finding how to pay for its operations next year. County commissioners put out the official call for department budgets for its roughly $14 million current expense fund last Monday, June 26....
St. John’s reunion brings 130 graduates
More than 130 graduates of St. John’s Academy gathered for a reunion at Colfax’s former Catholic school last weekend. “It sure brings back a lot of memories from those tough old nuns,” said Martin Marler, a former student who still lives in Colfax....
Colfax man faces car theft charges
Justin J. Hardgrove, 30, Colfax, has been summoned to appear in court July 13 after a charge of theft of a motor vehicle was filed against him June 26 in Whitman County Superior Court. The charges followed an investigation by Colfax officers last...