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Tekoa School: Monday — No Meal Service Tuesday — No Meal Service Wednesday — No Meal Service Thursday — Meatloaf, baked potato, tossed salad, hot roll, goodie Friday — No Meal Service COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENUS Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — Spaghetti/meat sauce, green beans, pear salad w/grated cheese, french bread, dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — BBQ Chicken, potato salad, coleslaw, bread, fresh fruit, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday —BB...
Dear Savvy Senior, What resources can you recommend to help seniors with incurable vision impairment? My wife has macular degeneration and has become very discouraged. Looking for Help Dear Looking, Unfortunately, there are nearly 2 million Americans, like your wife, living with macular degeneration today, making everyday tasks like cooking dinner, reading the newspaper or watching television extremely challenging. Here are some resources that can help. Vision Rehabilitation The best place to get help living and coping with macular... Full story
Coon, Edgar George, first child born July 18 at eight pounds, six ounces, to Paul and Bridget Coon of Benge. Paternal grandparents are Dick and Paula Coon of Benge. Maternal grandparents are Bruce and Heidi Elliott of Kent. Wolf-Sheets, Max Jarrett, born July 24 to Rachelle Wolf and Terry Sheets of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Betty Sheets of Moscow and Gordon Sheets of Lewiston. Maternal grandparents are Ed and Phyllis Wolf of Pomeroy. The baby joins sister Tori, 12, and brother Rex, 14. Archibald, Hobbson England, was born July 26 at...
Kelly Melville of Lamont this summer participated in a Volunteer for Peace trip to Estonia. She and students from the United States and Europe worked on projects in the village of Kopu, Estonia. Kelly will be a member of the senior class this year at Sprague High School. She is the daughter of Liz Melville and the late Burke Melville of Lamont. I had been wanting to see another part of the world, meet new people, and I guess mostly go on an adventure. I also liked the idea of doing volunteer work while I was there. Most of the programs I found...
Long-time resident of LaCrosse, Theona Augusta Marsh celebrated her 100th birthday Monday, Aug. 7, with family and friends at a party in Kennewick. Theona and her husband, Gene, farmed in Winona until retiring to LaCrosse. Her family includes three children, 10 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and 26 great-great-grandchildren. Many attended the party.... Full story
Thirteen members of the Colfax High School class of 1949 returned for a 63-year reunion July 6-8. In front, from the left, are Alice Manchester Allenbach, Barbara Morgan McAvoy, Betty Morgan Culbertson, Jane Krueger (spouse of Darrel K.), Flora Burlingame (spouse of Arvin B). In the second row are Joan Brosinski Smith, Deloris Lanky (spouse of Kay L.), Marylou Johnson Merrill, Arvin Burlingame, Stan Vanos. In the third row are Betty Carrol Madsen, Fred Owen, Kay Lanky, Jim Merrill, Darrel Krueger. Missing the photo were Larry Hubbard and Reita... Full story
8 years ago August 12, 1887 There was a runaway six miles from town on the Spring Flat road Sunday. Five men in the employ of Bleeker, Spencer and Hoar were on their way to Pullman with Messrs. Bleeker, Spencer and McMahon following in a buggy. A band of loose horses frightened the buggy team, until it was impossible to hold them. The front of the buggy box was pushed from its fastenings. The hack team was whipped into a run to keep out of the way as there was no room for the runaways to pass. Trouble ensued when the buggy horses tried to pas...
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., will host an open house at its new facility in Lewiston Aug. 9, 2012, from 3 to 7 p.m. The event will feature tours of the manufacturing floor, product displays and information about the company and its industry. The Lewiston facility is SEL’s fourth manufacturing location, and more than 130 SEL employees are working there. Construction on the facility began in January 2011, and the production of plastic parts used in the company’s electronics equipment started in January of this year. A full man... Full story
Hog Heaven set for Dahmen Hog Heaven Big Band will play at Dahmen Barn Aug. 25 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. They play tunes from The Great American Song Book for listening or dancing. Admission will be $8 for a couple and $5 for a single. Children under 12 are admitted free. There will be no dance lessons that evening. The Hog Heaven Big Band has played on the Palouse for more than 35 years and has performed regularly at the Dahmen Barn since its grand opening in 2006. The 16 piece band includes two female vocalists. Folks are welcome to dance or...
Dusty Jennifer Broeckel Harkishnani, Seattle, arrived Sunday at the home of her parents, Ed and Joan Broeckel, to participate in a little bit of harvest. She will return to her home Thursday. Friday night dinner guests of Di and Larry Brink were Mike Stine, LaCrosse; Lucky and Joan Myrick, Dusty; Rich and Jennetta Myrick and children, Moses Lake; and Mike Myrick and friend Rhonda, Tacoma. Saturday, Joan and Lucky Myrick, Robb Myrick, Rich and Jenetta Myrick and children and Mike Myrick and Rhonda attended a Myrick family reunion in Walla...
Hooper Keith and Carla Danielson traveled to Faith Equestrian Center in Snohomish, July 21 and 22 to conduct a two day Keith Danielson Horsemanship/Obstacle Clinic. They were joined by son Tim Mock and his family, Erin, Ali, Jill and Kate. Jill and Kate then returned to Hooper with their grandparents for a few days of vacation. Tim and Erin Mock with daughter Ali spent July 25 and 26 at Hooper Crossing Ranch with Keith and Carla Danielson. Ali remained there with her grandparents and returned to Gig Harbor with Jill and Kate. The Danielsons...
Ysabeaux Ng, daughter of Eddy and Molly Ng of Colfax, received a gold medal at the national meeting of FCCLA at Orlando, Fla., for her entry in the applied technology category. She produced a video to use as a fund raiser for the local Dreamworks office. She scored 95 out of 100 points in the competition. Also attending the national meeting from Colfax FCCLA were Justin Williams, Washington state director of programs; Sara Teal, state vice president for Region 9; Kylee Gibson, Jasmine Lander, and Advisor Cathy White. The national meeting...
Taking care of visiting grandkids and taking them to swimming lessons in LaCrosse is keeping Jeannine Henley Larkin of Hay busy right now. Her daughter’s children enjoy a visit to Hay with recreation in LaCrosse. Jeannine’s ongoing project is her work with the LaCrosse Community Pride. LCP members find it challenging to keep their project, which is not just a store, moving ahead. At present they have a chiropractor and possibly a licensed massage therapist interested in having space in the store building. They are looking for other bus...
As winter wheat ripens for harvest, cranes continue to add pieces to some of the turbines at Palouse Wind’s 58-turbine wind farm in this vista from Highway 271 south of Rosalia. Crews have erected many of the towers for the north portion of the wind farm over the past month and have been placing naselles on their tops at a rate of about one a day for the past two weeks. Blades for the turbines are anticipated to arrive in the next couple of weeks. The wind farm is expected to be up and running by the end of the year....
The end is near for construction of the Port of Whitman’s $14 million fiber optic network link through Whitman County. Joe Poire, port executive director, reported to port commissioners at their regular meeting last Thursday, Aug. 2, that the Department of Transportation had issued its final permit, clearing the way for the strand fiber optic cable to be laid along Highway 27 from Oakesdale to Tekoa. “So the light is on at the end of the tunnel,” said Port Commissioner Tom Kammerzell. The SR 27 stretch is the last highway portion of the proje...
The Port of Whitman County is getting out of the water business. Port commissioners approved a contract at their regular meeting last Thursday, Aug. 2, that would transfer the port’s water and sewer systems to the Asotin County Public Utilities District. The district will use them to provide services to the tenants at the Wilma Industrial Park. The move means rates will likely go down for most port tenants, said Debbie Snell, port properties and development manager. Most tenants at Wilma are served with four-inch metered hook-ups. The port char... Full story
Whitman County commissioners Monday approved the installation of a new air conditioner that will cool data storage servers in the county’s information technology building. Pullman Heating and Air was the lowest of three local bidders on the project, quoting a price of $10,126 to install the new cooler. IT Director Chris Nelson said her employees have had to check the status of the servers over the recent hot weekends to ensure the chiller is keeping them cool enough to operate. Last year, a malfunction in the AC unit knocked out the c... Full story
Nineteen seniors-to-be were on stage Saturday night at WSU’s Beasley Coliseum to compete for the title of Washington’s Distinguished Young Woman. The event concluded with the entrants waiting on stage while the winners were announced by Kendall Earl, this year’s DYW, and Lenne Jo Best, Clarkston’s 1976 Junior Miss who went on to win the America’s Junior Miss title that year. Lindsay Webber of Colfax, center left, sang “Art is Calling for Me” and was named a co-winner of the talent competition. Webber was also named second runner-up. Sh...
Faith produces many things. One of those things is prayer. Not so much the “God help me” prayers, which can be reactionary, but the “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret” prayers. That was the title of one of my favorite books when I was about 12 years old. Judy Blume wrote a book about a girl whose mother was raised Christian, whose father was raised Jewish, and who herself was raised nothing. Even so, she talked to God. Not just requests or thanks but actually talked to God about what was going on in her life. Blume doesn’t have God talking...
W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. Most women I know like to go to spas, where they are pampered and catered to. Men, on the other hand, think it’s silly to spend all that money on something that should be provided free by their wives. In fact, most men I know would be baffled to hear that women can achieve a state of ecstasy by having seaweed rubbed in their faces. To give a male joy, the only thing he wants in his face is beer, beef and baseball. Now, if you’re like most people, you’r...
It’s hard enough for employers to cope with hundreds of new regulations passed each year, added to the tens of thousands of regulations already on the books. But now, agencies are adding insult to injury by imposing standards that are impossible to meet. The Small Business Administration estimates employers spend $1.75 trillion dollars a year complying with federal regulations, a burden that falls heaviest on small businesses, America’s job engine. The SBA reports it costs small employers more than $10,500 per employee to comply with federal re...
I CONFESS that I turned the television set off and hit the sack as the Andorra athletes were marching into the stadium for the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics. I knew there were 90 some countries yet to follow with the United States near the end and Paul McCartney as the piece de resistance of the finale, but I was already bored stiff. England had a tough act to follow in being expected to if not exceed, at least match the splendor of what China did but I expected better. Some of the best movies ever made have been English films and s...
Something special happened this week, and it had nothing to do with the Olympics. Nor was it in London. Actually, it was 350 million miles away. It was the landing of the Curiosity Mars Rover. The Curiosity rover itself is an amazing piece of equipment, able to perform a variety of scientific experiments. Its delivery on Mars was even more amazing. First, the rocket launch from Earth to Mars was precise, and the module entered the Martian atmosphere as planned. There it plummeted to the surface at speeds up to 13,000 miles an hour. A heat... Full story
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. **************** CLAY STREET FLOOD DETERRENT Proposed construction of deterrents to reduce the risk of water and mud again inundating Clay Street at some time in the future was introduced at Monday night’s city council session. Public Works Director Andy Rogers said construction of a vault and sediment pond to contain runoff water could be b...
St. John’s Michal Schuster shot a second place 76 in the Junior Golf Northwest tournament at Downriver Golf Course in Spokane last Saturday. Schuster’s score put her one stroke back of the 75 Savannah Bezdicek of Colbert, who carded the title in the 16 to 18 year old age bracket on the par 72 course. She also won the golf organization’s Liberty Lake Classic junior tournament in July. Schuster, now a senior at St. John/Endicott High School, finished third in the state B golf championships this spring in Tacoma. The Eagles’ team captured their s...