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The annual four-day run of the Palouse Empire Fair begins Thursday morning, with gates open at 8 a.m. The 2019 fair will feature the dedication of the new rodeo grandstand, with ribbon cutting Friday at 6:30 p.m. before the opening rodeo session. Following is a performance by Wylie and the Wild West, playing from a flatbed truck in the arena. A change this year is the queen's coronation/Palouse Empire Fair Scholarship Program moving from Friday night to Thursday night at 6 p.m., with six girls representing their towns in the competition. The fa...
Colfax Fire Department will host an open house Sunday, Sept. 15, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Colfax Station, 400 N. Mill Street. Members of the department invite the public to come and check out the station and the equipment and to honor Jim Krouse for his 50 years of dedicated service to the department. Krouse joined the department in 1969. At age 74, Jim is still one of the most active volunteers on the roster and serves on ambulance calls a month as an EMT. He rarely misses a fire call. Krouse...
Following a contentious public hearing, Whitman County commissioners voted Tuesday to extend the county marijuana moratorium for six more months. The vote was unanimous. Commissioners Art Swannack, Michael Largent and Dean Kinzer previously stated their intention to extend the moratorium to allow time for the county planning commission to finish work on a proposed ordinance to regulate marijuana operations in the county. The hearing started with Public Works Director Mark Storey, who oversees th...
Fair entertainment this year will include a mix of veteran Palouse Empire Fair acts along with some new faces. Perennial hypnotist Jerry Harris will again perform at the fair for 2019. He aims for a family-friendly, educational nature to his shows, teaching on the power of our subconscious minds. He has performed as a hypnotist for more than 30 years, including audience participation at each outing. For music, the Auf Gehts German band will appear again this year at the fair. The off-shoot act...
The Endicott Food Pantry had its grand re-opening Thursday, Aug. 29, after it changed its service from bagged groceries to a 'shopping model' of pantry distribution. Paige Collins has made a push for pantries in the area to switch to a 'shopping model' because it is a much more dignified way to serve those who need food. Years ago, Collins helped CAC in Pullman adopt the same, and the Colfax Pantry is an example of how this is done. Families in need have very little 'choice' as to how they...
On Aug. 28, Washington State Health Officer Dr. Kathy Lofy signed a statewide standing order for naloxone, a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. The order works like a prescription and allows any person or organization in the state to get naloxone from a pharmacy. An overdose of opioid drugs like prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl can cause a person’s breathing to slow or stop. Naloxone can be given as an injection or a nasal spray to someone experiencing an overdose. It works by temporarily blocking the effects of o...
Whitman Hospital is seeking businesses to have a donation jar at their counter to help raise funds for the “Paint the Town Pink” fund. Those who donate can put their name in a drawing for a door prize. The Colfax fund was established in 2017 to increase awareness of breast cancer and to raise funds to help those who may need financial assistance with breast health services at the Whitman Hospital. The funds are distributed through a partnership with Every Women Can and Breast Cervical and Colon Health Program. Those interested in par...
A motion for a 10-day furlough from jail by Kent W. Kimberling, who was jailed Aug. 6 after deputies received reports of threats he had made against others and later allegedly confiscated loaded guns and a cannon at a residence where he was residing in Garfield, was denied Friday morning in superior court. Kimberling, 61, had submitted a list of items which he wanted to accomplish while on the proposed 10-day release. After his arrest, Kimberling was denied consideration of pre-trial release until he underwent a mental health evaluation which...
Kyle Johnson pushed the ball up the floor for Coach Reece Jenkin as a starting guard for Colfax High School on the 2012 2B state championship basketball team. He then played a year for Spokane Community College and earned a business management degree from Whitworth. Now he works a different kind of stage as a singer/songwriter, under the name of Kyle Richard, a folk-pop act, a guy with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal. Richard is Johnson's middle name. He has played around Spokane/Coeur d'Ale...
Whitman County Genealogical Society will host a free fall mini-seminar at Bishop Place Independent Living Social Room Sept. 14 from 9 to 11:45 a.m. Dan Owens from Neill Public Library in Pullman will present “Using the Public Library for Genealogy and Local History.” It will include information about resources in the library’s Palouse Heritage Collection. In the second session, Dulce Kersting-Lark from Latah County Historical Society will present, “Archival Power: Demonstrating the Importance of Primary Sources to Stakeholders and the Public....
The City of Palouse has adopted a flag. Approved at the Aug. 27 city council meeting, the design was brought to the council by resident Moses Boone. Boone and wife Amberly stated at the Aug. 27 meeting that they will donate money toward having some flags made. Moses Boone, a Palouse resident and farmer, briefed the city June 11 on flags, flag designs and symbolism, culminating in his proposal for a Palouse flag and showing his design. The proposal and design then went to the city council’s policy and administration committee, which later r...
Colfax volleyball again this year will compete in the young mode. The Bulldogs, who graduated just two seniors off last year's squad, will hit the boards Saturday with zero seniors in the lineup for this year. Coach Brandy Brown, who will head the team this year, notes the team's lineup will include players who rolled up at lot of experience with last year's club. Headed by Coach Molly McNeil last year, the Bulldogs were stopped short of a return to state after they were stopped in the second...
Colfax Bulldogs will make a short trip to Liberty Friday to open the season against the Wahkiakum Mules in the first of two games on the Lancers’ turf. The Colfax game will be one of two matchups at Liberty where the two NE neighbors will host the same two SW schools that hosted them last year. Liberty will have a rematch with Napavine in the second game Saturday. Wahkiakum last year advanced to the state playoffs and bowed 28-35 to Tri -Cities Prep in the first round. Napavine rolled all the way to the state 2B title game where they were s...
A last, free boater education course for 2019 will be offered on Sept. 10-11, Tuesday and Wednesday in Pullman. The seven-hour class covers the basic rules of safe boating. The course will be taught by Whitman County Sheriff’s Deputy John Guidice, from material developed specifically for the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission. The course will be run from 6 to 9:30 p.m. both nights at the Pioneer Center, 240 SE Dexter in Pullman. Attendance at both nights is necessary to complete the course. “Adventures in Boating Washington, A C...
Anglers on the Snake River this fall will be allowed to keep only one hatchery Steelhead this fall in Washington due to a cut by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife to reduce the limit in half because of this year’s expected below-average run. Steelhead over 28 inches must be released.Steelhead fishing season for 2019 began Sunday....
In Colfax Junior Golf League results for Aug. 29, for nine holes, in the 11/12 year-old division, Jacob Ward led with a 61, followed by Cooper Philips in second place. For 8-10 year-olds, Vivian Riley shot 60 and Kaitlynn Ward 63....
The St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse Eagles are back on the football field, set to open the 2019 season at Colton Friday at 7 p.m. Practice started on Aug. 21 with harvest taking players away at various times. "Some kids still with a little acreage that they're cutting," said second-year varsity coach Rich Hallenius. The team has 21 kids on the roster, a group which went to a team camp in Ephrata over the summer. "A lot of kids didn't know where Ephrata was," Hallenius said. They slept on the floor...
DeSales High School of Walla Walla, one of the long time campaigners in the state A division and then in the 2B division, has dropped down to 1B football for this season and will play in the SE eight-man league. The Irish gridders at one time were one of the tough teams in the former SE-A league and an annual foe of the Colfax Bulldogs who played in the same league. For years, DeSales has been one of four schools in the state who decided to play above their respective WIAA division according to enrollment. The WIAA 2016-2020 classifications...
Volunteers responded to three fires in the area last Wednesday, Aug. 28. The fires at times threatened houses, but crews were able to stop them. Crews here joined District 13 volunteers to a fire reported along Highway 26 near the Luther curve, west of Colfax. The fire started along Highway 26 on the south side and burned up into pasture and one to two acres of crop land. The fire was seen as a threat to the Eric Larson residence, and the Colfax number two pumper was dispatched for standby duty...
DRUG ARREST IN COLFAX Shanna M. Edwards, 35, Spokane, was booked into jail here early Aug. 28 on the probable charges of driving with a suspended license, and possession of heroin and methamphetamine. Edwards was arrested in Colfax at about 8:20 p.m. after she was seen driving on Main Street in the vicinity of Cougar Food Mart. Sheriff Sgt. Keith Cooper’s report said Edwards had been arrested by a deputy on 195 near the Spokane Ccounty line and ticketed for driving without a license. He said he later observed her driving on Main Street in C...
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. LAST GRANDSTAND COMPONENT A crew from Greg's Electric of Colfax Monday worked to install a distribution box on the main switchboard for the fairground. The switch box is located on the south end of the new grandstand. Greg Harazin said they had been promised delivery of the switch box by Aug. 9 from the supplier in El Paso, Texas, but the box...