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The new Jennings Elementary School office takes shape in Colfax. The project is part of the district’s $250,000 safety and capital improvements levy which passed in April. The remodeled office will greet visitors instead of being around the corner from the school’s main entrance as the old one was. The new $45,000 office is expected to be completed in time for the start of the school year....
Racial Misunderstanding Maybe it’s time for a modern-day John Howard Griffin to write another “Black Like Me.” In 1959, Griffin, a white man, medically darkened his skin. He spent six weeks traveling through the rigidly segregated Deep South and kept a journal of his experiences as a black man. In the bestseller he wrote afterward, he described how accustomed he became to the “hate stare” he constantly got from whites. Fifty-four years later, it has been replaced by the “fear stare,” according to most blacks and other dark-skinned males of succ...
Washington’s High Cost of Doing Business Gov. Jay Inslee was in New York for the world rollout of BMW’s new electric car, the BMW i3, which is partially built in Washington. We are all justifiably proud of our state’s role and see the car as a harbinger of Washington’s economic future. The BMW i3 features parts made from carbon fiber processed at the SGL plant in Moses Lake. Because it is strong and lightweight, carbon fiber is used in the production of jetliners, fighter planes and racecars. Now, it’s making its way into the retail market to...
It started as Crazy Days and eventually evolved into Concrete River Days. Whatever its name, the Colfax summer festival was a longstanding tradition. Then, it fell out of favor for a few years. This year it was revived as the Concrete River Festival, and it was hit. The reincarnated festival had elements of the new and the traditional. A parade worked its way down Mill Street. Kids frolicked in a playland. The pool was open late. A variety of food was available, and merchants throughout the city offered specials. Small vendors offered their war...
Pomeroy 653, Pullman 305.5, St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse 248.5, Tekoa/Oakesdale/Rosalia 132 Sami Bailey of St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse finishes her stint in the medley relay win.for 18-under girls at Colfax. 100 Freestyle Girls 12 & under-1.Dani Johnson-Pm 1:13.9, 2. Drew Brewer-SJE 1:17.7, 3.Elsie Lupkes-Pl 1:26.4, 4. JordanWolsborn-Pl 1:27.0, 5.Emma Severs-Pm 1:29.5, 6.Megan Hoen-Pl 1:30.7. 14 & under: 1. Kacey Halbert-Pm 1:13.9, 2.Tabithia McCoard-Pm 1:18.3, 3.Hunger Hollingsworth-SJE 1:20.1, 4... Full story
Launch styles show a wide variation after junior swimmers heard the start signal at the Colfax pool last Thursday. Team scores PUL 381 G-P 302 COL 294 TOR 238 100 YARD FREESTYLE Girls: 12 & Under: 1. Elsie Lupkes PUL 1:25; 2. Savannah Logan PUL 1:29; 3. Jordyn Wolsborn PUL 1:31; 4. Jullene Sager COL 1:32; 5. MacKenna Roberts COL 1:35.00; 6. Jill Bruce TOR 1:35.90; 7. Ashley Haynes COL 1:41; 8. Tayma Vanek COL 1:43; 9. Jocelyn Gross PUL 1:44. 13-14: 1. Lyssa Blood G-P 1:19; 2. Alexis Maki COL...
The annual Ace of Aces competiton was last Thursday at the Colfax Golf Club. Weekly winners of the low gross score and low net score in Twilight League faced off in two flights. Eight players competed in the gross flight and nine competed in the net flight. The fields were reduced until only two players in each flight met on the 9th Hole to decide the winner. In the gross flight, Craig Gilchrist (right in bottom photo) bested Jim Heilsberg. Tom Fowler (right in top photo) outshot Tim Bruya to...
Two former distance runners at Colfax High ran in the Concrete River Festival half-marathon race early Saturday morning. Morgan Willson, who graduated last year after a career which includes wins in state distance finals and cross country won the race at 1:29.05. Kent Mackleit, a 1982 Colfax track grad, placed third. Mackleit came from Clinton Township, Mich., with his wife, Jeanette Smith Mackleit, for her 30-year class reunion....
Pomeroy’s power swim team served notice last week that they are on track to capture their seventh straight Cluckey Cup when the novice swim league caps off its summer season with the big league meet Saturday at Colfax. The Pomeroy crew rolled up a stong win last Thursday in the first of two prep meets before Saturday’s big finale. Qualifiers from seven novice teams will be in the championship meet which is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. The meet is officially titled the Jerry Cluckey Knights of Columbus Memorial swim meet. The late Mr. Clu... Full story
A group of supporters has re-formed to revitalize Tekoa’s Towne Square Park. The small park was created in 1988, at the site of a former parking lot on Crosby Street between the Tekoa Pharmacy and the former grocery store, which is now used for storage. The park was built as a way to honor state-level Tekoa High School student achievement, with a series of bronze leaves to note names and accomplishments. The park, which was funded by private donations, was turned over to the City of Tekoa a y...
While volunteers mobilize for the upcoming second Farmington Harvest Festival, the organizing committee has their eye on a project that may be built from its proceeds. The five-member group decided at their first meeting for the Sept. 21 Festival that they will aim to install an interactive splash pad in the city park. Chairman Frank Triplett estimates the feature may be 30 feet by 40 feet, beginning with a concrete pad from which will emerge fountains, buckets dropping, water guns and other features. “That’s the direction the committee is goi...
Anna Schluneger stands in front of the office window of Colfax High School where she spent the past nine years. Last week, she gathered her granddaughter’s artwork and the rest of her belongings in a small Bank of Whitman plastic bag. On Tuesday, she turned in her key to the Colfax School District office after 30 years. Since 1983, the voice on the phone and the face in the window as people walked into the high school or elementary school was hers. Anna Schluneger retired after nine years as s... Full story
Concrete River Festival Color Mob 5K volunteer crossing guard Sara White in action Saturday at Railroad Avenue. Doused by four colors, they had run the channel and now just had to cross the highway for the last six blocks to the finish line. That’s where Concrete River Days Color Mob 5K runners encountered Sara White, a volunteer crossing guard. “Come on gang! Alright! We’ll get you across. Let’s go!” she called out as a group hurried past her over Highway 195 from Railroad Avenue Saturday after... Full story
Contract negotiations are moving forward between the Colfax School District teachers union and district administrators. Meeting in near-weekly increments since June, teachers union president Ross Swan has attended meetings with Colfax Superintendent Michael Morgan. Morgan told the Colfax school board Monday night that he expects the process to be complete in August. “Our goal is to finish up in the next two meetings,” he said. Swan said that he is “cautiously optimistic” that an agreement will be reached by then. Discussions regard the next tw...
Larry Pfaff, left, presents a homemade ice cream scoop to Darlene Kroll in appreciation of her hosting ice cream block parties for the past 11 years. When Darlene Kroll wanted to get to know her neighbors, she thought what better way to get acquainted than to invite all of them to her home to share ice cream on a warm summer evening. On July 24, Kroll and her neighbors gathered at her home for the 11th ice cream block party. Kroll said the idea occurred to her when she and her husband lived on...
Travis Carlon, Pine City, Friday again waived his right to a speedy trial. The trial deadline is extended to March 30, 2014, close to two years after he was originally charged. The waiver was presented to the court by his attorney, Roger Sandberg of Pullman. Carlon has testified as a key witness in the three Lazcano murder trials in superior court this year. Now 36, he was charged April 4, 2012, with rendering criminal assistance to Frank and Daniel Lazcano who have been tried on charges of murder and kidnapping of Marcus Schur of Rosalia....
A burgeoning load of hay makes a tight turn in Colfax from Route 272 onto Highway 195 Saturday morning. Traffic in both directions was halted, and the truck just squeezed by some vehicles.... Full story
New signing for the Palouse Empire Fair’s unofficial field parking lot and designated smoking area will be on the things-to-do list in the final weeks approaching the fair. The sign projects were among topics discussed at the fair board’s July 22 session in the fair’s community building. Fair Manager Bob Reynolds said the crew also plans to attempt to shut down the little-used south entry gate to the fairground. The south gate has been located near the former fair office building on the side of the grounds near Highway 26. Key use of the south...
Runners slow down to get doused in color. This station was just beyond the water slide. Colfax shook off its summer slumber Friday and Saturday when the Concrete River Festival cranked up with a variety of new and old events. It was the first Colfax summer celebration in six years and returned the town to the lineup of other summer community events around the county. Runners proudly displayed their colors. “Overall, I think it was a great success. It brought Colfax back to life,” Mayor Todd Vane...
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR WHITMAN COUNTY Estate of TOM FREDRICK HASENOEHRL, Deceased. NO. 13 4 00067 4 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The above Court has appointed me as Personal Representative of Decedent's estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must present the claim: (a) Before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations, and (b) In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070: (i) By filing the original of the claim with the foregoing Court, and (ii) By...
