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Annie Minor of Ellensburg was the top event money winner for the Palouse Empire Rodeo with a time of 2.77 in breakaway roping for a $1,204 first-place purse. Dusti Crenshaw of Touchet finished at 2.8 for second place and $996. Number-two purse winner was Preston Peterson of Hermiston with a 9.82 in tie down roping for a $1,018 purse, and number three was Italy Jo Sheehan of Shoshone, Idaho, who clocked 17.779 in barrel racing to claim the $1,007 prize. The Pro-West report noted none of the entra...
The Eagles opened with a victory for the 2019 football season. St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse beat Colton 48-26 at Colton Sept. 6. The win matched the Eagles’ total wins for last year (not counting a forfeit). “It was nice,” said coach Rich Hallenius. “Understatement of the year. This is the start we wanted.” St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse ran the ball most of the game, passing just 14 times. Senior Chais Anderson led with 190 yards rushing on 18 carries with two touchdowns. Doug Stach, a junior, h...
Tekoa/Rosalia rolled to Springdale and defeated the Chargers 76-28 in their season opener Friday. The two teams played close in the first quarter, but TR opened it up with 36 points in the second frame. Junior QB Anthony Gehring hit three TD for the night and totaled 169 yards passing. Senior Riley McLain rolled up 201 yards and scored three TDs. McLain was moved to QB in the third quarter and threw for 71 yards and hit two TDs. Kale Struble booked 151 yards receiving and was credited with eight tackles and four assists. He also recovered a...
The three-match volleyball jamboree at Colfax was called off Saturday because of a construction derailment. Athletic Director Gina Hopkins reported they had to cancel after learning the rest rooms were not hooked up to function for the event. Garfield/Palouse and St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse teams had been scheduled to play here. Coach Brandy Brown and the Bulldogs will now start the season with a league match Thursday at Asotin. Home opener for the Bulldogs will now be Sept. 26 with the LRS Broncs booked to be here for a league match. Colfax...
Oakesdale volleyball team rolled to Waitsburg Tuesday and booked a sweep. They booked the win with 25-16, 25-14 and 25-6. It was the first match for the Nighthawks under Coach McKinzie Turner who was hired to take the coaching spot vacated by Brandy Brown. LouEllen Reed rapped six aces and had 24 assists against the Cardinals. Payton Davis rapped 10 kills and Lauryn Rawls had six blocks. Jessie Reed finish with nine digs....
Results from Sept. 5 championship play: 8-10 years: Kaitlynn Ward 59, Vivian Riley 72. 11-12 years: Jacob Ward 62, Cooper Phillips 99....
For the week of Sept. 16 through Sept. 21, the community is invited to participate in events that promote cycling on the Palouse. The Pullman Chamber of Commerce, City of Pullman, Washington State University, The City of Moscow and University of Idaho have collaborated to present the third annual Palouse Bike Week Sept 16-21. The goals of the project are to raise awareness about alternative transportation, how to safely navigate around the Palouse region and being active. The schedule of events can be viewed at www.pullmanch...
Pullman 2040 is set to host its third leadership speaker series, today, Sept. 12, at the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport. The event features speakers from around the Pullman community including Anne McCoy, deputy director of athletics/SWA at Washington State University; Joanna Bailey, library services director at Neill Public Library; Jeff Guyett, executive director of Community Action Center; Tony Bean, executive director of the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport. Attendees will also have the opportunity to tour the Pullman-Moscow Regional...
The climate change debate continues. Democrat contenders for the party’s nomination for the presidency presented their views on the problem in a long town hall on CNN last week. The proposals and the suggestions varied. The presentation was one of the most extensive reviews of options and ideas about combating climate change. The issue is taking a lead position in the upcoming campaigns. Few are discounting it as a “hoax” or “fake news.” Of interest are the efforts to get broad policies in place to help combat the perceived threat to the world...
I have gotten to the point that every time my cellphone blasts its generic ringtone, I assume it's a robocall. My algorithm favorites are the recorded voices that start out saying, "Can you hear me?" and then pause a few seconds before continuing. I've taken to filling that brief void with a Bronx cheer or some other obnoxious sound. Then I hang up. Sometimes, however, when I check for messages or run into a friend, he or she might say, "I tried to call you, but all I got was you making bad-taste sounds." Worse is when it's a business call or...
#!*! People who live in a farming community and complain about the train. #!*! County painting lane stripes and then filling potholes over the new paint. #!*! People who make U-turns on Main Street! #!*! Still no new trees on Main Street. Only more removed....
Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson has, to his credit, seized the initiative in the battle over whether Britain will truly exit the EU, and on what terms. But no one can know how this high-stakes gamble will turn out. Johnson just lost his slender parliamentary majority, and the prospect of a new election looms. If things break the wrong way, the winner could be opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, a throwback leftist redolent of the bad old days of Britain's self-imposed stagnation. It's hard to exaggerate the threat represented by Corbyn and Co....
Rights In response to Mr. Carl M. Ogren’s anti-gun rant in last week's WCG, please allow me to paraphrase Voltaire when he said “I wholly disapprove of what you say―but will defend to the death your right to say it.” Yes, I know there is some disagreement on whether or not Voltaire used those words or whether that was an attitude summary given by Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906. In either case it was a noble ideal expressed well. My paraphrase…not so much. But here it goes anyway: I wholly disagree with what Mr. Ogren said, but with my “assault...
Our nation is on an unsustainable borrowing trajectory and it could get much worse unless voters start asking politicians: “How are taxpayers going to pay for what they promise!” We now owe over $22.5 trillion to lenders of which nearly half are off shore. (China $1.11 trillion). At the rate which we are selling treasury notes, the deficit will balloon to $24 trillion by 2020. That means when the presidential election rolls around next year, each taxpayer’s share of the debt will be $183,...
I had a wonderful opportunity in 2000. I was selected as part of Spokane’s sister city educational exchange, and taught English in the Japanese public school system. One of my students was considering applying to be an exchange student in America. She asked me several questions including how safe my country was. I assured her that the reports of violence were overblown by our free and open media. Although we were not as safe as Japan, we felt secure anywhere in our country. I couldn’t make that statement today. School shootings have rea...
REAL ESTATE Rebecca Perkins, Palouse, to Corrine and David Phillips, Jr., house with acreage on Olson Road, Palouse, $450,000, Aug. 27. Tami and Michael Schwartz, LaCrosse, to Kenneth and Susan Rette, six lots in block 2 of LaCrosse, $6,000, Aug. 28. Michael and Lori Jordan, Palouse, to Michael and Gerri Nordine, Garfield, house on Highway 272 west of Palouse, $287,500, Aug. 28. Robert Homer, Pullman, to Doug and Sherry Cox, mobile home on Terrace Estates, S. Grand, Pullman, $2,000, Aug. 30. Brian Scott Windsor, Colton, to Georgio and...
When it comes to showing animals at the Palouse Empire Fair, the first thought many might have is of children showing steers, pigs, sheep, goats and other varieties of livestock. There is another division of showing animals that gets much smaller – ― cats. "This is a great beginner animal project," said Tarri Steiger, superintendent of the cat show and historian for the Palouse Empire Fair Foundation. "A majority of these kids have been showing cats since they were Cloverbuds." This year had...
Art and Colene Sager were delegates at the International Flying Farmer Convention in Wichita, Kan. Colene received an award for “Woman of the Year” based on her participation in both Washington-Oregon Region and the International Flying Farmers. Included with the convention was a day of touring the area. The group of 90 members traveled in two buses and went to a salt mine which was 650 feet underground. The salt is used for road salt. Also of interest was a museum housing “Doc,” one of the eight B 29 World War II planes that have been restore...
Moscow Food Co-op donated $1,681 to Animal House Ferals and the Palouse Land Trust with funds gathered by the Co-op’s Dime in Time program. Co-op customers also donated $418 to a third, permanent Dime in Time beneficiary, the Co-op Community Fund, to bring the total donations to $2,099. Dime in Time is a community giving program that offers all customers of the Co-op a wooden dime for every reusable bag or cup they use. Customers donate their dimes to the beneficiary of their choice. Each Co-op shopper is invited to bring multiple reusable bags...
Scarlett McGregor, eight, won the Junior 4H division livestock judging contest at the Palouse Empire Fair Saturday. She also received the L. Clint Luce premier livestock judge award for the highest 4H score overall. McGregor was also the grand champion Cloverbud goat showman and placed 3rd overall in Peewee Cowpokes....
Eight years ago I had an allergy panel done in an attempt to control my severe environmental allergy symptoms with shots. I jokingly told the technician that if I turned up positive for chocolate that I would leave and never come back. It is, indeed, one of my daily indulgences. I am a bit of a chocolate snob and prefer dark to milk and, personally, do not consider white chocolate to be chocolate at all. The more bitter and complex the flavor, the more I enjoy it. Judging the chocolate contest...
Washington Idaho Symphony’s first concert of the season will be Sept. 14 and 15 with a celebration of the Music of the Stage and the Silver Screen. They will perform broadway favorites, and feature music from John Williams. Music will include pieces from the Star Wars film, The Force Awakens and Themes from Schindler’s List. They will perform at Pullman High School Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. and at Clarkston High School Sept. 15 at 3 p.m. General admission tickets cost $25, student tickets cost $15 with a limited amount of free tickets for WSU, UI...
All individuals eight and older are invited to enroll in Regional Theatre of the Palouse Performing Arts School. Fall workshop enrollees can save up to 10 percent by enrolling before Friday, Sept. 13. Participants will learn to work as a cast and build confidence together through singing, dancing and acting. Tap classes are weekly from 5 - 6 p.m. Thursdays Sept. 12 - Oct. 10. Tuition is $15 drop-in, $65 for five consecutive classes. Need-based scholarships are available. Open call auditions for “She Loves Me” and “Thoughly Modern Milli...
At Pullman Regional Hospital Grace, Amelia Lynn, born Sept. 2, 2019, at seven pounds, nine ounces, to Sarah Sperry and Darien Grace, Moscow. Baby joins sister Sabrina, two. Twitchell, Dakota Wesley Samisoni, born Sept. 3, 2019, at seven pounds, 14 ounces, to Wesley and Lesilie Twitchell, Colton. Paternal grandparents are Shelby Twitchell and Darrell Duncan, Colton. Baby joins brother Matthis, one, and sister Kalasia. At Whitman Hospital & Medical Center Dhillon, KJ Kaur, born Sept. 4, 2019, at eight pounds, to Jeet and Eva Dhillon, Colfax....
AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: Burger or chicken patty, fries, cheese, fruit Tuesday: Straw hats or burger, refried beans, fruit, donut Wednesday: Sloppy Jo or burger, salad, fruit, carrots Thursday: Pizza or chicken patty, caesar salad, pineapple, ice cream Friday: Corn dog or burger, nacho chips, veggies, fruit AT ENDICOTT SCHOOL: Monday: Chicken parmesan noodles, marinara sauce, salad, mandarin oranges Tuesday: Straw hats, broccoli with cheese, watermelon, cucumber sticks, muffin Wednesday: Pizza, salad, applesauce Thursday: Teriyaki chicken,...
