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Week of Sept. 13-17, 2010 Endicott School: Monday: Hamburgers, Jo Jos, watermelon. Tuesday: Poor boys, baked beans, banana. Wednesday: Chicken fajitas, applesauce, cinnamon squares. Thursday: Fish sticks, corn, fruit tray, roll. Friday: Straw hats, green beans, cantaloupe, scone. Garfield/Palouse School: Monday: Terri dippers, fried rice, vegetable, fruit, rolls. Tuesday: Chicken tenders, potatoes, veggies, fruit. Wednesday: French dip sandwiches, potatoes, vegetables, fruit. Thursday: chicken bunwich, lettuce, cheese, tater tots, fruit....
Lamont Last Sunday, Ted and Priscilla Clark and their five children, missionaries from Morelia, Mexico, and Eldon and Judy Clark from Moses Lake were guests at the Lamont Community Church. A potluck was in the basement of the church followed the service. The Clarks have been serving in Mexico for 23 years and all their children were born there. Bill and Janet Stromberger were visitors at the home of Dan and Jean Stromberger on Labor Day. Bonnie Swannack received all blue ribbons for her crib quilts, large quilts, wall hanging, sewing kits and...
The Palouse branch library will resume weekly storytimes Friday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. The program spotlights early language skills, letter recognition, math, science, and social skills. Fun stories, crafts, songs and finger plays help young children learn. “Once a child gets into the library, they are likely to find a book that interests them, which is half the battle of getting them to read,” said Palouse Librarian Holly White. Palouse library hours are Tuesdays 11 to 6, Thursdays 2 to 6, and Fridays noon to 6 p.m....
LaCrosse Lena Cox celebrated her 96th birthday with lunch at the Davenport Hotel Sept. 6. She was accompanied by Durand and Roberta Cox. Plans for an evening out on Oct. 2 including dinner, drinks and entertainment with comedian Leif Skyvig have been finalized. The Community Pride grocery store committee will serve barbecued pork loin with fresh applesauce, rolls, roasted red potatoes, salad and dessert. Happy hour will begin at 6 p.m. with snacks provided. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. with the show beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets are available... Full story
Dusty Dusty B.B. Club members are some of the special invited guests at the dedication of the Jones Schoolhouse on the Palouse Empire Fairgrounds today. Barb and Bruce Wollstein, Lacey, recently treated Dick and Helen Appel to a Mariners/Minnesota ball game in Seattle to celebrate Dick’s birthday. Dick and Helen went on to Brush Prairie to visit with their daughter Deb Stavig. Her husband Bob was in China on a business trip. Bob and Judy Records of Newberg, Ore., brother and sister-in-law of Colene Sager, spent the weekend with Art and C...
Rosalia Rosalia Garden Club will resume monthly meetings Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. at the home of Marvalee Peterschick, Plaza. Anyone interested in visiting or becoming a member may contact Kathy Hilliard, club president. Joe and Julie Griffin received the club’s Garden of the Month award for September. Community Birthday Calendars can be picked at US Bank. Those who ordered them but have not paid owe $6. You can still purchase them for $6....
Garfield UMC starts ‘living fully’ series The “Living Fully-Dying Well” series sponsored by Garfield United Methodist Church Garfield, will begin next Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m. This is a video and workbook series developed by United Methodist Bishop Rueben Job. The workbook costs $10. To have a workbook available at the first session, call Pastor Peggy Ray at Pullman. peggyray@pullman.com Topics for the series are Wednesday, Sept. 15-Living Fully; Sept. 22-A Theology of Aging; Sept. 29-Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life; Oct. 6-Dying... Full story
Kasi Matsumoto, daughter of Greg and Kathy Matsumoto, Spokane, and Corey Ewing, son of Joffre and Dianna Ewing, Oakesdale, were married June 5, 2010, in an afternoon ceremony attended by immediate family at the Ewing family home. The Rev. Eric Buhl officiated at the ceremony by the garden and ponds. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an ivory lace gown with crystal beads and a sweetheart shaped neckline with a black sash. Her bouquet was made of ivory hydrangeas and lilies. Maid of honor was Mari Matsumoto, twin sister of the...
Rod and Delores Huxoll Wickizer celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 28 in Colfax. They were married Aug. 22, 1960, in Wrey, Colo. They resided in Nebraska until moving to Colfax in 1966. The celebration was hosted by their children, Brenda Wickizer, Lori and Mark Gudmunson, Tracey and Sally Wickizer and Kevin Wickizer, all of Colfax. They have 11 grandchildren and two great-grandsons....
After being frustrated by wheat prices that soared and then crashed, Bill Myers of Colfax started looking for a better way to market his wheat. While researching the dilemma, he kept coming across people selling wheat direct to the consumer. He had never really considered eating his own wheat before—the only time he had was at harvest when he would grab a handful to munch on. Bill looked into it more and found that more nutrients are taken out than put back into “enriched” four. Kelli Colli... Full story
Jim Lyle strives for color consistency in Grange Booth entry. Picking the green peas out of the yellow splits that act as the background for the Whitman County Junior Grange booth at the Palouse Empire Fair brings back a lot of memories for Jim Lyle of Ewartsville. “I’m 62 now, and I think I’ve been doing this since I was about seven years old,” Lyle said while putting the finishing touches on the booth Tuesday. “So you do the math on how long that’s been. I hate to think back that far.” LaJeanne Proctor and Carol Lawson, members of the LaDow G...
8 years ago, Sept. 11, 1885 A barn, eighty tons of hay, a lot of harness and farm implements, all the property of Henry Ackerman of the Alkili Flat, went up in smoke last Friday afternoon. There was no insurance on the property, and the loss amounts to about $800. Two of Mr. Ackerman’s boys, the oldest about five, working in consort with a bunch of matches, did the business. Sam T. Riggs, committed to the county jail last Saturday in default of $2,000 bail, on a charge of horse stealing, attempted to affect his escape Sunday night. He w...
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution for Wednesday, Sept. 22, will be Palouse Federated Church, 1 to 3 p.m., and Rosalia Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m. For Thursday, Sept. 23, distribution will be Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 9 to 10 a.m., LaCrosse, 310 B 4th St., 9 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. Distribution for Friday, Sept. 24,... Full story
The Bible records generations of God’s wonderful and mind bending works. I enjoy reading about all the miracles and events that God has performed in His divine plan. However, there is one major work of God that many disregard and blame on natural events, nature, or human error. I am referring to the work of disaster and calamity which I will refer to as negative historical trends. When I read in the Bible such passages as Isaiah 45:6-7, “That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that there is no one besides Me (God). I am the...
NOTICE OF SEPA MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (M-DNS), AND AN ADMINISTRATIVE USE PERMIT Whitman County Planning issued a Miitgated Determination of Nonsignificance (M-DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Konen Rock Crushing Inc. acting on behalf of Tidewater Barge Lines Inc., has filed for an Administrative Use Permit for additional rock crushing of mined material from the adjacent Port of Whitman mine. This rock crushing will be done in addition to rock crushing of...
Dear Savvy Senior, I’m in the market for some senior-friendly furniture and could use some help. My husband and I have arthritis and have gotten to the point where getting up from a seated position – especially from our living room couch and recliners – has become a real chore. Can you recommend some good cushioned lift chairs or furniture accessories that can help us? Can’t Get Up Dear Can’t, The task of sitting down and/or getting up from soft cushioned furniture is a common problem for many seniors who struggle with arthritis pain and mobili...
Adams, Samuel Jay, born Aug. 28, 2010, at eight pounds, 14 ounces, to Zach and Crystal Adams of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Scott and Sharon Adams, Pullman. Maternal grandparents are Cliff and Joan Nelson, Winlock. The baby joins one brother, Austin, 3. Al Khaiyali, Sarah, born Aug. 31, 2010, at nine pounds, four ounces, to Al Tiyb Al Khaiyali and Samia Al Furji of Pullman. The baby joins one brother, Elwan, 13 months. Carrier, Lynay Anna, born Aug. 31, 2010, at seven pounds, seven ounces, to Jenny and CJ Carrier of Pullman. Paternal...
Robert E. Daily The funeral service for Robert Daily, age 93, a retired Palouse area farmer was Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, at 11 a.m. at the Potlatch Presbyterian Church. Pastor Larry Veith and the Rev. Kathy Kramer co-officiated. A private family burial at the Greenwood cemetery in Palouse preceded the ceremony. Mr. Daily died Sept. 2, 2010, at his home doing what he enjoyed, driving the tractor and working the land. Born April 11, 1917, in Palouse to Lester and Gertrude Daily, he attended the Daily School and graduated from Palouse High... Full story
Whitman County commissioners Tuesday approved a collective bargaining contract for 2010 with the county’s jail workers’ union. “I think it’s a fair deal,” said Commissioner Greg Partch. “I’m glad we were able to settle with them. The contract is retroactive to the start of the year. Major benefit to the jailers came in an extra “step” tacked on to their classification system. The county has a classification system in which employees receive “step” raises based on how long they have worked for the county. While courthouse employees have 16 ste... Full story
The 2010 regional transportation plan for the four-counties of southeast Washington was completed last month by the Palouse Regional Transportation Planning Organization, or RTPO. Under state mandates, the plan must be updated every five years and is used to identify key regional transportation concerns. Whitman belongs to the Palouse RTPO with Asotin, Columbia and Garfield counties. The report was prepared by JUB Engineering of Spokane, according to Duane Wollmuth, executive director of the RTPO and the Southeast Washington Economic...
In a unanimous vote last Thursday, Sept. 2, Port of Whitman County commissioners voted to allow themselves to opt to take $200 monthly compensation. Commissioners Dan Boone of Colton, John Love of Garfield and Don Cox of Colfax passed a resolution that allows each commissioner to make an individual decision on whether to collect the pay. State law allows commissioners of port districts to take the compensation once the agency’s yearly operating revenue tops $1 million. That happened at the port last year, the first time the port topped seven f...
Therefore In response to Roger Whitten’s letter Sept 2: Mr. Whitten you did not file against the two commissioners personally, you filed against them as commissioners. You filed against them and the way you believe they did or did not do their jobs. Therefore the county (taxpayers) would be paying for their defense. Kerry Moser, Colton Passing the buck Roger Whitten is trying to pass the buck for what even Roger acknowledges was a $19,632 unnecessary County expenditure for Commissioner legal defense in the matter of Roger’s failed recall com...
Few things have ever given me as much national pride as learning that an American named Monte Pierce currently holds the world record for firing a dime the longest distance (10 feet, 10.5 inches) using his earlobe. China’s economy may be growing faster than ours, and maybe we aren’t competitive at soccer, but at this, using ears as slingshots, we excel. Take that, world. I learned about this dime-shot accomplishment from the folks at Guinness, who manage the most famous list of the World’s Records for Things Idiots Do. Take, for example, Shrid...
In the competition for $3.4 billion in education grants under President Obama’s Race to the Top, Washington is near the bottom. We ranked 32nd out of the 36 states that applied. While the Race to the Top program stresses innovative reform and stringent evaluation of student and teacher performance, our application was a mishmash of platitudes and promises. But chief among our shortcomings was a lack of support for reforms from the teachers unions and our anti-charter schools law. Charter schools are a major focus of the administration’s edu...
REMEMBER the big flap last November when unknown hackers illegally broke into a server at a British climate institute and stole and published on the Internet thousands of emails and documents in which global warming scientists privately discussed how to silence anyone who disagreed with their view that mankind is the cause? All hell broke loose in the scientific community, considering the climate institute at the University of East Anglia is the main source of information and advice on climate change for the United Nations. Further, an... Full story
