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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Solid Waste Advisory Committee meeting will be held on. Wednesday July 20th @ 1:30 pm in the Public Service Building, Main Auditorium, 310 N. Main Street, Colfax WA. Mark Storey Director of Public Works PO # 2011-164 27/1 NOTICE TO VENDORS AND CONTRACTORS Whitman County, Washington is soliciting vendors and contractors for placement on the following lists: 1General Government Office /Data Processing Equipment 2) General Government - Building Maintenance/Park and Recreation 3)General Government -...
Roland C. Cook A funeral service for Roland C. Cook, 84, lifelong Endicott resident, was Saturday, July 2, at 10 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Endicott with burial following at the Endicott Cemetery. The Rev. Philip Misner officiated. Mr. Cook died Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at Whitman Hospital in Colfax. Born July 5, 1926, in Colfax to Alex and Marie Bafus Cook, he grew up in Endicott and graduated from Endicott High School with the class of 1944. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served from 1944-1946 as a data processor near Pearl Harbor... Full story
World travel programs will be at the Rosalia library this summer with the theme One World, Many Stories. Youngsters can learn Irish music on July 12 and celebrate a grand finale with a Mexican celebration July 19. Hours are 1 to 2 p.m. Also coming to Rosalia this summer is Extreme Couponing July 11 from 7-9 p.m. with Tammi Lee. On July 14 from 4-6 p.m. residents can visit the library to learn more about downloading audio books from the library website. Rosalia Library is open Tuesdays from 10-4 and Thursdays 3-7 Librarian is Katie...
Members of the Grubbs family recorded this five generation family photo recently during a 99th year birthday celebration for Ruth Cook of Colfax. Ruth is pictured in front next to great-grandson Justin Grubbs who is holding two-week-old son, Quentin Grubbs. At left in front is Shirley Scott of Spokane, the baby’s great-grandmother. In back are Larry Grubbs of Spokane, grandfather of the baby, and Naten Grubbs, 8, also a member of the fifth generation....
Kids and adults were amazed June 14 to see bubbillusionist Jerome Watts create square and star shaped bubbles and bubbles that looked like a mini tornado. To top off his performance, Watts made a bubble so big four people were inside of it! Rosalia librarian Katie Littleton reminds all Rosalia kids to join the fun of summer reading at the library each Tuesday from 1-2 p.m., through July 19. On July 28 attendees should bring your patriotic spirit to enjoy an all American celebration with games, great stories and an inspiring 4th of July craft....
8 years ago July 2, 1886 A wandering hand organ grinder is the newest thing on the streets of Colfax. We believe he is the first to visit this town. Some citizens of Colfax want, and have proposed making an effort to secure, the location of the new territorial insane asylum at or near this place. As we went to press last evening, a young man named Reynolds was undergoing examination before Justice Shaw on a charge of furnishing liquor to an Indian. He was found in a thicket near I.B. Doolittle’s residence in the south end, seated beside a s... Full story
Time warped at Rosalia’s vintage Texaco Station last week, as crews filming a public television documentary brought Ford Model A’s and Model T’s for a photo op fill-up. Rosalia’s Mr. Texaco Mike Day even got into the act as he “filled” gas tanks dressed in his trademark green garb.... Full story
Spare Parts will perform on Empire Stage Spare Parts, a four-member acoustic band from Spokane, will appear in concert Saturday, July 9, at 7 p.m. in the Empire Theater in Tekoa. The group bills itself as a pop/rock/folk/country band, the result of the members coming from diverse musical backgrounds. Formed in 2008, Spare Parts quickly rose to prominence in the Spokane scene, winning the Top Performer award from among the 35 or so musical acts lining the Bloomsday route during the race that year. They also play at Artfest, Pig Out in the Park... Full story
COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENUS Week of July 11-15 Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday, July 13 — Tasty taco salad w/chips, fruit, cookie, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday, July 12 — Tasty taco salad w/chips, fruit, cookie, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Federated Church: Wednesday, July 13 — Tasty taco salad w/chips, fruit, cookie, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday, July 11 — Tasty taco salad, Jell-o carrot salad, fruit, dinner roll, cookie, milk, coffee or tea. Friday,...
Rosalia Garden Club will hold their annual rose show July 12 through July 14 at the Rosalia Whitman County Library. Roses will be entered on Tuesday morning from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and they must be botanically named. They will be taken out Thursday night, July 14 between 6:30 & 7 p.m. Local rose growers are invited to join garden club members in showing their best rose blooms. On July 13, garden club members will meet at the library for a 6:30 pm dessert. A short business meeting will tidy up unfinished business. The Smokey Bear Poster winners... Full story
Dusty Graveside services for former Dusty resident Barbara Schott were conducted at the Dusty Cemetery at Saturday, July 2. Kevin Brink and family, Pastor and Mrs. Grant Knowles and several members of the Power of Pentecost Church in Pasco had a religious camp-out at the Larry and Di Brink farm last weekend....
Lacrosse The DC Kids have returned from a week-long tour of Washington, D.C., and the outlying areas. Twenty-two students and nine chaperones left Sunday, June 20, and returned Monday, June 27. Highlights of the trip included visiting Monticello, Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg with a foot and ghost tour, Gettysburg, Mount Vernon, Arlington National Cemetery, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and changing of the guards, Library of Congress, the Holocaust Museum, Ford’s Theatre and the National Cathedral. Many memorials were visited during the tour i... Full story
Meet Melissa Gallegos, Garfield After living in bigger cities for so long, Melissa Gallegos and her family wanted a simpler life. They found that life when they moved to Garfield in 2010 to be closer to her parents, Joe and Kathy Merry. Melissa lived in Goldendale for 28 years before moving to Yakima for two years and then Centralia where she and her family lived for seven years before coming to Garfield. In Yakima she earned her degree in early childhood education. “I love kids,” she said. She...
Lamont On June 15 the Sprague-Lamont Red Hat Ladies club met at the Rock City Grill at the Spokane River Park Square for lunch. Those attending were Mary Anderson, Bea Butler, Jackie Brown, Kay Dirks, Anita Frederick, MArcia Landers, Jean Meyers, Shirley Miller, Nita Polda, Pat Peterson, Kathy Sheilds, Betty Stone, Nita Vold and Diane Cook. After lunch Betty, Pat, Nita P., Kay, Jackie and Kathy went to see the movie “Water for Elephants.” Betty Stone and daughters Debbie Gaffney, Patty Ethredge and Carolyn Behrens drove to Couer d’Alene recen... Full story
Between them, Curtis Scholz of Colfax and Dave Charles of Rosalia have climbed almost half-a-million feet into the sky to sneak a mountain’s view of the world. “There’s nothing like getting up at 10,000 feet,” said Scholz. “I could sit up there all day, just watching stuff.” “You get in a plane at 30,000 feet and you can see everything, but it’s all just little specs,” said Charles. “But being on top of a mountain gives you an entirely different view of the world.” As of Thursday, the two were packing up for a trek to California, where they wil...
Colton Library has 38 children signed up for summer reading with four programs remaining, and children through 12 years of age are encouraged to join in the fun. Colton Library now has a Facebook page. ‘Like us’ and the Whitman County Library page to keep up-to-date on current activities at your library.... Full story
Winners of the second annual Books for Bikes program, sponsored by the Oakesdale Masonic Lodge for students in Tekoa, Oakesdale, Garfield and Palouse schools, traveled to Wal-Mart in Pullman June 6 to pick out their prize bicycles. The lodge was assisted with a $500 grant from Wal-Mart to purchase the bicycles for the winners. The program encourages youngsters in kindergarten through sixth grade to read because the more books they finish the more entries they were allowed to submit for the bike prize drawing box at each school. Bike winners in...
The nation is two and a half years into the presidency of Barack Obama. What are your thoughts on his leadership so far? Millie Repp, Colfax Valori Marubashi, Colfax Brandon Heiser, Colfax LaVenna Cai, Colfax Cindy Hennigar, Colfax...
The Mysterious Case of the Horse in the Night Time W. BRUCE CAMERON Sometimes when my parents talk to me I can feel my brain turning over in its grave. Their stories can take on a surreal, surely-someone-slipped-me-some-LSD aspect. For example: Just past midnight a few nights ago, my mother awoke to the sound of a horse throwing up in the backyard. My mother has never heard a horse throw up before, so it is pretty impressive that she was able to identify the species of the animal solely by the noise it was making. When she looked out into the...
These reports are from the previous three 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. CHENEY MAN BOOKED FOR ASSAULT Steven Charles Long, 47, Cheney, was booked into the county jail early Saturday morning after he was arrested at Tekoa where deputies responded to a domestic violence report. Long was booked on probable charges of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and punching out the front window of her residence in Tekoa. According...
The Highway 26 entry bridge into Colfax begins to show signs of stress from the sagging walkway on its west side. State Department of Transportation crews have blocked off the sidewalk. Inspectors checked out the main supports of the bridge and determined they have not been impacted by the sag in the cantilevered sidewalk structure which was built out from the main bridge. Pedestrians can still cross the river by using the sidewalk along the Highway 195 bridge on the east side of the Corner Chevron....
Tread carefully on state health exchange Later this month, state legislators will begin discussions about designing and implementing a health-care exchange. If experience is a guide, and it is, Washington lawmakers should tread very carefully because recent events have shown how perilous such efforts can be. State health-care exchanges, authorized under the federal health-reform law, were originally characterized as virtual open-air markets where health-insurance providers would compete side-by-side so consumers could easily compare coverage... Full story
Photos on cigarettes follow many warnings SO WILL A PICTURE of a diseased lung, rotting teeth or a corpse on your cigarette package convince you to give up smoking? Because that’s what the Food and Drug Administration has ordered on every package sold after September, 2012. The aim, of course, is to cut down on tobacco use which, according to the American Smokers’ Rights Foundation, kills about 443,000 people a year. That’s out of the 43 million Americans estimated to be smokers. They don’t call them coffin nails for nothing. They’ve tried eve... Full story
On Tuesday, Casey Anthony, 25, was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. After a month long trial and three years of investigation, this verdict was handed down by a Florida jury in a brief 11 hours of deliberation. This case of the dead child, the lying mother and the dysfunctional family had captured the interest of the nation. The not-guilty verdict caused an immediate uproar. One pundit cried that it was the worse miscarriage of justice since the O.J. Simpson verdict. The prosecution had to prove beyond a reasonable...
Whitman Cougars have been booked for six games over three days in this weekend’s Junior Legion edition of the Palouse Summer Series. The Cougars will be among 13 entrants for the campaign which will start Thursday. The 13 teams, including two Canadian teams, will play at McDonald Park, WSU’s Bailey-Brayton Field and the Pullman High School field. The Cougars are booked to start today, Thursday, against the Spokane Cannons team at WSU. They will play at Colfax Friday at 9 a.m. against the Langley Blaze. Colfax again will be the site Sunday for...
