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NOTICE OF A DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) AND A CONDITIONAL USE HEARING The Whitman County Planning Office issued a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Shawnee Rock proposes to move a temporary asphalt batch plant to their Shawnee Road quarry for a paving project on SR 195. The parcel is located on the NW corner of Shawnee Road and Albion-Parvin Road in Section 33, Township 16 N., Range 44 E., W.M., Whitman County, Washington. After...
For full obituaries, please visit the Weekly Pages section for the week of 8/2/12.... Full story
8 years ago August 5, 1887 Some time during Thursday night of last week, Chas. S. Lewis and James Lane, the only prisoners confined in Whitman county jail, made their escape and are still at large. Owing to the damp, unhealthy condition of the cells, which, on account of the leaky condition of the jail are unfit for the most depraved criminal to occupy, the prisoners were allowed to sleep in the outer room, the walls of which are made of timbers two by eight inches in size, nailed together with spikes. The only implement known to have been in...
Week of August 6-10 Tekoa School: Monday — Pizza, apple juice, pears Tuesday — Hot dogs, sweet potato fries, applesauce Wednesday — Deli ham sandwich, apple juice, peaches Thursday — Spaghetti, green beans, tossed salad, garlic bread Friday — No meal service COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENUS Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday —Tasty taco salad with chips, salsa, cheese, dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — Tasty taco salad with chips, salsa, cheese, birthday dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-...
Rosalia Seventeen members of the Oakesdale High School class of 1962 gathered for their 50th-year reunion at the Spokane Ramada Inn. Sharon Byrum Siders from Mishicot, Wis., won the prize for coming the farthest. Each class member shared their favorite memory of their years at Oakesdale School. Many classmates attended all 13 years of school together. In front, left to right, are Sharon Byrum Siders, Dorene Fox Prior, Doris Pittmann Johnson, Marcia MacQuarrie Wagner, Charles Murphy, Ron Johnson,... Full story
McElroy, Kasen Toussaint, first child born July 3, at seven pounds, 10 ounces, to Vhonda McElroy of Pullman. Maternal grandparents are Mary Curry and Patrick Hill and David and Moala McElroy of Tacoma. Worl, Jazmine Lynn, born July 10, at seven pounds, 12 ounces, to Josh Worl and Jennifer Vance of Albion. Paternal grandparents are Carol Montoure and Darle Aclaire of Albion. Maternal grandparents are Penny Roberts of Sagle, Idaho, and James Vance of Jopline, Mo. The baby joins a sister Sarinaty, 7, and brothers Zach, 12, Devin, 4, David-John, 2,...
Mimi’s Bakery in Palouse announced its grand opening Friday, Aug. 10, from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free samples, coupon giveaways and door prizes will be handed out. Owners Steve and Mary Martin of Tensed say there will be a few “soft openings” between now and Aug. 10. Mimi’s Bakery is located on the Beach Street side of the St. Elmo Building. It will specialize in handcrafted breads and pastries made from scratch. This includes breakfast sandwiches, salads with dressings along with fresh-baked cinnamon rolls. It will be the second food service...
Palouse School District will hold a surplus sale Saturday, Aug. 4 at Palouse School, 600 East Alder Street. Most items will be sold for any offer over $1. Some may be pre-priced. The sale will open at 7 a.m. for viewing and purchasing from 8-12 p.m. Prices will be reduced at 11 a.m. Items for sale include portable radios, a refrigerator, a fertilizer spreader, overhead projectors, bed frames, 15 volleyball jerseys, a 10-gallon fish tank and several other items. The full list of items can be viewed at www.garpal.net... Full story
Tina Ochs is the descendent of adventurous people, and she has carried on the tradition. Her parents, Helen and Lloyd Ochs, skied in the 1960’s when few people their age did. They also owned a private plane and flew for many years with the Flying Farmers. Her home in Palouse belonged to her grandparents, Jim and Gracia Callison, and she visited there frequently as a child. When the Callison family left Kansas in the 1920’s, Jim had the whole family stamp the dry Kansas dust from their shoes when they reached the state line. Jim Callison had...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager spent the week of July 17 - 23 at the International Flying Farmers Convention in Calgary. While in the area, they went to the historic, museum style Bar U Ranch where there was a campfire lunch, wagon rides, cookies from a wood burning range, etc. They toured the Banff-Lake Louise area where they rode a gondola to the top of a mountain at Banff. They also had quite an experience crossing the border, especially from Canada to the U.S., in their private plane. Karen Broeckel was in Polson, Mont., July 26 - 29 for a... Full story
The History Channel • On Aug. 16, 1896, George Carmack spots nuggets of gold in a creek bed near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory. His lucky discovery sparks the last great gold rush in the American West. Over the next two years, as many as 50,000 would-be miners arrived in the region. • On Aug. 17, 1915, Charles F. Kettering is issued a patent for his “engine-starting device” — the first electric ignition for automobiles. In the early years, drivers used hand cranks to start the internal combustion process that powered car engine...
Lindsay Webber of Colfax, Jordana Dahmen of Colton-Uniontown and Shayla Robinson of Pullman are among 19 entrants now in Pullman preparing for the Distinguished Young Women competition this Saturday at WSU’s Beasley Coliseum. Entrants will participate in fitness, self-expression, and talent competitions. They will meet with a panel of judges for interview competition. More than $10,000 in college scholarships will be awarded. Other contestants from Bi-County League schools are Andria Strite of Davenport and Amalia Perez of R...
Cowboy poets to ward off ‘Dog Days’ Palouse Country Cowboy Poetry Association will present “Forget the Dog Days of Summer” at the Dahmen Barn Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. In 1991 Baxter Black, probably today’s best known cowboy poet, told a group of Palouse country enthusiasts gathered in Asotin that cowboy poetry was the fastest growing western cultural activity and that they should get involved. In 1995, following a cowboy poetry workshop led by local poet Gene Semingson, the group decided to develop a more formal organization, and the Palouse C...
New owners took over the last two Bank of Whitman buildings in Whitman County last week after purchasing the Endicott and Rosalia branches from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Spokane-based Rosacott, LLC, purchased the former branch building in Endicott for $500 July 6 and bought the former Rosalia branch for $3,000 July 5, according to real estate affidavits on file in the county treasurer’s office. Tom Power of Spokane said he and partner Robin Rohwer submitted bids on the buildings under a sealed bid sale conducted by the FDIC l... Full story
The Colfax School District will join with Spokane’s District 81 in a food service buying agreement for the upcoming school year. The arrangement, approved by the Colfax school board Monday night for a one-year trial, allows for the district to buy its items as part of a larger contract through District 81. The district includes Central Valley, East Valley and West Valley schools. Several other smaller districts are also on the list, said Colfax District Business Manager Reece Jenkin. “The mor...
A refinishing project for the stage in the community building of the Palouse Empire Fairground was approved at the July 23 Palouse Empire Fair board meeting. Work on the stage surface is expected to start Monday. Cost of the project will be paid through the Palouse Empire Fair Foundation. Work on the stage has been undertaken as part of a plan to upgrade the community building which has become a major source of rental income for the fair. Wedding receptions, reunions and other gatherings are located in the building which is often rented in... Full story
Members of the Colfax Planning Commission endorsed a proposal to re-zone two segments of Mill Street from commercial to a residential zone. The proposal will now go before the city council where a formal hearing will be required before it goes to a vote of the council. The rezone petition was submitted by Anna Schluneger, agent for Kincaid Real Estate. Potential buyers of houses in the two neighborhoods have found banks and other loan companies reluctant to approve loans because of a three-year rebuild requirement for houses located in the... Full story
Formal charges against Jocelyn Elise Gates, 23, Yakima, were filed July 24 by the prosecutor’s office. Gates was arrested on a warrant early last Friday as a suspect in the alleged theft of a motor home at the Wheatland Storage lot on the Moscow-Pullman Highway. The missing motor home was located when LaCrosse volunteers July 9 responded to a report of a motor home ablaze on a frontage road along Highway 26. She has been charged with burglary in the second degree for the alleged break-in of the Wheatland Travel storage lot where the motor h...
W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. One of the most important things a father can do is teach fiscal responsibility to his teenage children, which is sort of like teaching appetite restraint to piranhas. The teen years represent a transitional period of life where people attempt to establish themselves as independent individuals by dressing exactly like their friends. They tend to confuse “need” with “want,” believing they need the most popular cell phone, they need the coolest kind of skateb...
Informative Since returning to Colfax four years ago, I have tried to attend the monthly Colfax Chamber luncheons as often as possible. I appreciate the efforts of current Chamber President Kathy Mayer and Secretary Kathy Clark, with the help of others, to bring in a variety of speakers. Two of recent note were Colfax Mayor Todd Vanek and the Eastern Washington Director of the Washington Policy Center, Chris Cargill. Both presenters were very informative, professional and positive. I was encouraged by what I heard from them. Colfax is...
Crew members for All-Surface Roofing of Spokane begin the re-roofing of Jennings Elementary school gym Tuesday in Colfax. After completion of the estimated one-week project, the crew will move to the roof of the Colfax High library to apply a maintenance coating....
Some activists believe there is no such thing as a good dam, that we should destroy all dams to restore fish runs, no questions asked. A more balanced approach would be identifying dams we can live with, and dams we can live without. When the Elwha Dam was completed in 1913, people cared more about electrifying the Olympic Peninsula than protecting migrating salmon. After all, salmon were plentiful and electricity was the force driving economic growth. But the dam denied salmon and steelhead access to their traditional spawning grounds about...
DID YOU EVER see an election year before where so many candidates worked so hard to paint themselves as members of the middle class? It’s because the middle class is where the majority of voters are, of course. And in these days of high unemployment and escalating food prices, it’s not exactly conducive to be above the rest of us in earnings and status. Millionairess Susan Delbene, who wants to be the new 10th district congressman, refers to being successful in business and says she’s running “to rebuild the middle class.” Every candidate... Full story
Robert “Bob” Russell Curtis died last week. He was 87. Bob was the long-time announcer for the University of Idaho Vandals. He called Vandal sports for 51 years, covering hundreds of football and basketball games. He rightfully was known as the ‘Voice of the Vandals.’ His broadcasting job brought him celebrity and many honors. Some people knew him only as a vibrant sports announcer and a true supporter of Vandal sports. He was dedicated, tenacious, tough and respected. His death has prompted many prominent sports figures to recount stories...
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. **************** DUST ABATEMENT Dust abatement treatment for unsurfaced Colfax alleys on the North Flat was slated to be done Wednesday by the contractor Roadwise Inc. Streets listed for application were Moller Road, Lake Street along Eells Park, the alley between Morton and Sumner and the E. 300 block of Wawawai. The dust abatement treatment ha...
