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How to Find the Best Medical Information Online Dear Savvy Senior, What are the best websites for finding reliable health information on the Internet? I usually do a Google search on a symptom, drug or health condition when I want to research something, but with so much information out there I’m not sure what I can trust. Untrusting Senior Dear Untrusting, You’re wise not to believe everything you read, especially when it comes to health and medical information on the World Wide Web. To help you sort through the online clutter and locate rel...
Exchange students from Europe, South America and Asia are looking for host family homes in Whitman County. Cindy Ethington, an International Student Exchange representative, said the students are from 15 to 18 years of age, speak English enough to communicate well and will arrive about a week before school starts. Five exchange students have been placed in homes throughout the county, Ethington said. For more information, go to www.ISErockymountainregion.com or call 509-760-2914.... Full story
The Inland Northwest Chapter of the American Red Cross is seeking nominations for the 2013 Hometown Heroes Awards to recognize the unsung heroes during its annual luncheon in November. Nomination deadline is Sept. 10. The categories include humanitarian, animal rescue, workplace safety, military, medical, law enforcement or dispatch, fire safety, wilderness rescue, water safety, community partner and local disaster hero. The incident must have occurred within the past year. Nominees must live within one of the counties in the Inland Northwest...
As of Monday, 1,147 primary election ballots have been returned to the auditor’s elections office. The office mailed out 11,159 ballots on July 19. Deadline for returning the ballots will be the primary election date of Aug. 6. Mailed ballots are required to have a postmark of that date or earlier. The ballot levy proposals carry turnout requirements of 60 percent of the ballots cast in the last general election. The turnout for validation of the Pullman election is 2,428. Turnout requirement for Garfield is 73 and for Farmington it is 22. T...
Members of the Pacific Rail Car Association made an unscheduled stop and visited with Rosalia residents two weeks ago. The speeder cars rolled past the Rosalia park just as the Rev. Stewart Nereim began a message during a community worship service in the park. He attempted to hold the attention of the audience as the cars rolled past one at a time. Just as they sang the last song of the service, the speeders returned and stopped to have a noontime lunch in the park. Paul Goyke and Bruce Henning...
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. **************** WELFARE FRAUD CONTRACT A contract for dismissal of welfare fraud charges against Karl Ian Keith-Andersson, 61, was filed in superior court Friday. The state has agreed to drop charges of theft by welfare fraud and providing false verification in exchange for an agreement by the defendant to pay back sums alleged due. Andersson...
Faith or Works? The New Testament book of Galatians is a treatise that explains the difference between living by Mosaic Law or living by Grace as taught by Jesus Christ and the apostles. The apostle Paul explained the grace gospel to the rough mountain people of Galatia and many of them believed in Christ as their Savior. They started learning how to live daily by grace under Paul’s teaching. It did not take long for the enemies of grace, those who lived by the Mosaic Law, to arrive in Galatia and distort the teaching of Paul and the message o... Full story
Colfax cheerleaders plan a car wash Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ackerman lot on North Main. Proceeds from the event will go to meet expenses for the cheerleaders during the year....
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution: Wednesday, Aug. 28: Palouse Community Center, 1 to 3 p.m.; Rosalia United Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 29: Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; LaCrosse, 110 N. Main, 8 a.m. to noon; Tekoa City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Endicott City Hall, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30: Colton-Uniontown, Uniontown Community Building, 8 a.m.... Full story
COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENU Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — Roast pork w/gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, dinner roll, salad, birthday dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — Roast pork w/gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, dinner roll, salad, birthday dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday — Chef salad, peaches, breadstick, dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday — Tasty Taco Chef salad, peaches breadst...
Many outpatient services Whitman Hospital and Medical Center can meet a wide variety of outpatient healthcare needs. We have a long list of medical specialists who visit our campus including cardiology, podiatry, allergy, urology, and gastroenterology. In addition, we have a full service radiology department. We offer digital mammography and xray, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT and MRI as well. All of our radiologic technologists are highly trained and many have dual certifications. Our staff will work to accommodate your schedule. Our Same Day... Full story
Thursday, August 1 Farmington – 4 p.m. – Children’s Summer Reading program finale. Colfax – 6 to 7 p.m. & 7 to 8 p.m. – Free Martial Arts & Self Defense Classes in the Center – First session from 6-7 p.m. for ages 4-12. Second session from 7-8 p.m. is for teens and adults. Friday, August 2 Uniontown – 10:30 a.m. – Children’s Summer Reading program finale. Monday, August 5 All fourteen branches of Whitman County Library closed for Annual Maintenance Week August 5-11. Many services will sti...
Clifford M. Imler Burial services for Clifford M. Imler, 66, will be Saturday, Aug. 3, at 10:30 a.m. at the Colfax Cemetery followed by a luncheon at Elmore United Methodist Church near Potlatch. Mr. Imler died Jan. 19, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in Merced, Calif. He was a 35-year resident of Merced. Born to Chauncy C. and Dorcas Brose Imler in Colfax, Nov. 2, 1946, he grew up on the family farm in Potlatch. He attended Potlatch and Palouse elementary schools and graduated from Palouse High... Full story
8 years ago Aug. 3, 1888 The circus has lost none of its glories and attractions it possessed a generation ago as was evident by the large and eager crowd awaiting its arrival at the depot Sunday afternoon. The irrepressible small boy spent fifteen hours at the depot listening for the whistle of the locomotive, and the fathers and mothers were not far behind him. On Friday afternoon last, the blacksmith shop of George Mood near Kamiak, was destroyed by fire. Mood had been at work in the shop and about 4 o’clock had left to do some work on a...
The second Palouse Music Festival drew another good crowd at Hayton Greene Park in Palouse on Saturday. Previously known as the Palouse Bluegrass Festival, a variety of genres of music were performed during the nine hour event. Artists included many local talents from around the Palouse region. In addition to the sounds of the festival, visitors were presented with various craft vendors to see and food and drink to smell and taste, making it an event for all the senses. Proceeds from the... Full story
All 14 branches of Whitman County Library will close Aug. 5-11 for their annual maintenance week. During the closure, a number of projects will be performed that are difficult to complete when the library is open, including carpet cleaning and computer upgrades. With the assistance of Microsoft’s software donation program, all staff work stations will receive upgraded operating systems at a cost of just $1,260 compared to $29,680 in retail prices. Computer Systems Administrator James Morasch will make the upgrades. During the weeklong c... Full story
Marimba band to play at Dahmen Sesitshaya Marimba Band will play an outdoor concert at Dahmen Barn in Uniontown Aug. 24 at 2 p.m. Admission for adults will be $8 with children 12 and under are free. Sesitshaya Marimba Band plays traditional and contemporary songs from Sub-Saharan Africa and shares the lively rhythmic sounds of the sonorous Kwanongoma marimbas of Zimbabwe. Built in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the marimbas produce the full earthy tones that characterize the music and are the only Kwanongomas in the region. The musicians create a unique,...
Dusty Doreen Riedner, Genesee, and Denise Kendall, Tacoma, are helping their brother Brian Broeckel with harvest. Recently, Tony Kendall, husband of Denise, brought his parents, Keith and Priscilla Kendall, from their home in Tacoma to help celebrate the 89th birthday of Keith’s brother, Tom Kendall, in St. John. Suzy McNeilly’s daughter Missy and her family have been visiting from Camp Pendleton, Calif., where Missy’s husband Mark is stationed with the Marine Corps. Grandson Gavin will be staying with Dick and Suzy for a few weeks. Many Dusty...
St. John Cooper Mills, 16, of St. John, recently returned home from the National High School Rodeo finals in Rock Springs, Wyo. He competed in the tie down roping as one of 162 contestants in the event and Cooper finished in the top 30. More than 1,500 other contestants from all over the USA, Canada and Australia competed. Cooper has been a member of the Washington State High School Rodeo Association for the last two years. Cooper is a junior at St. John High school. His parents are Rod and Jay Mills. Last week the St. John Fire Dept. was...
Rosalia Fire Department volunteers last week spent seven hours working on a landscaping project around the fire station. Concrete pillars were removed and replaced with railroad ties and landscaping paper in preparation for rocks. More work days are planned to finish the project by the end of summer. Photo by Mike Day.... Full story
Meet Will Ferguson, Colfax Will Ferguson learned to cook from his mother, but he didn’t realize how many of his law school classmates were great cooks until after graduation. Will left high school at age sixteen to attend Lewis & Clark State College and graduated at the age of 20. His hometown is Ahsahka, Idaho, near Orofino. He attended law school at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. Although it seemed that law school worked students to death for three years, “they really wanted you to lea...
Four seniors from Whitman County are among 20 contestants who will compete in the state Distinguished Young Women at Pullman Saturday. Contestants arrived in Pullman Tuesday to prepare for the program Saturday, Aug. 3, at Beasley Coliseum. They will compete for $10,000 in scholarships and a chance to advance to the 57th national competition at Mobile, Ala., next June. Nicole Renard of Kennewick, who won the state title last year at Pullman went on to win the national title. She will join Linda...
Real estate sales Dana Michael and Julianna Kay Jeske, Blanchard, Idaho, to Curtis P. and Phyllis J. Dorsing, Othello, condominium in Pullman, $119,500, July 23. Kelley Knudtsen, Pullman, to Sherol L. Cusary, Albion, home on N. H Street in Albion, $142,000, July 22. Mickey L. Vowels, Princeton, Idaho, to Jamie L. Gaber and Phillip G. Popchock, Cheney, house on E. 11th Street in Palouse, $69,000, July 22. Celeste A. Mills, LaCrosse, to Johnnie Lynn Garner, LaCrosse, two lots and a 1996 27x48 Skyline manufactured home on N. Clark Street in...
The Smartest Guy in an Empty Room Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2008. I was the smartest person I knew until I met other people. Smug in my knowledge of the world, I went off to kindergarten as a mathematical prodigy, master of the complex equation “2 plus 2 equals 4.” The first person I told this to, Tom Reddinger, was awed — he didn’t even know there was a 4. Other students, though, claimed to know this already, sneering at me and even going so far as to claim that “3 plus 3 equals 6,” which I realize is no...
Colfax CRF rated great We certainly appreciate the work of all those who played a part in bringing back Concrete River Days. It was great! Glen & Nancy Stanard, I-522 bad policy Despite the fact that hundreds of studies have proven genetically engineered foods to be perfectly safe, the promoters of Initiative 522 are trying to make Washington the first-and only-state in the country to mandate costly labeling regulations on these foods. Genetically engineered foods are the most rigorously tested food on the planet. They are also incredibly... Full story