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For paid obituaries, see Weekly Pages: Oct. 6 Richard Lee Nervig, 1931-2016 John Bonwell Simpson, 1929-2016 Nona Evelyn Camp, 1916-2016 Edwin Johnson, 1962-2016 John Rodgers John (Jack) Rodgers, 75, long-time Colfax resident, died Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, at his home. A memorial service will be at Bruning Funeral Home Friday, Oct. 7, at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Lynn Nelson officiating. He was born in Colfax Feb. 17, 1941, to Dale and Esther (Schweiger) Rodgers. The family lived in Colfax and in Oregon while his father was working on dam projects....
Thursday, Oct. 6 Colfax – 3 to 6:30 p.m. – Voter Registration – Assistance from the League of Women Voters. Call the library for more information. Colfax – 3 to 6:30 p.m. – First Thursday – Join the Library for Creepy Colfax with Pumpkin Fest, Halloween fun for families and kids and Zombie Fest for teens from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact the Colfax Chamber at 553-9729. Colfax, LaCrosse and Tekoa – Storytime – Stories, songs and fun for kids and parents, visit the library Events Calendar at www.whitco.lib.wa.us for times. Frid...
Wheat Weaving 'shop at LaCrosse The LaCrosse Library will host a free Wheat Weaving Workshop at the Gathering Place Saturday, Oct. 8, at 10 a.m. Sue Morse from Edwall will conduct the workshop on the ancient craft. The class will include the origins of wheat weaving and a demonstration. Participants will learn how to clean and prep wheat, tie a proper knot and rope braid. Materials will be provided and no experience is necessary. Preregistration is required to ensure enough supplies. Class is appropriate for adults and attentive youngsters 10...
Wheatland Lanes in Colfax opened its Tuesday night Bi-City Bowling League this week. The United States Bowling Conference-sanctioned (USBC) league is for all skill levels – using a handicap system. Teams can be made up of a miminum of three or four members. Cost is $13 per week with a one-time $20 membership in the USBC. The league will run for four seven-week quarters. For more information call Jill Renna, manager....
A collection of photos and memorabilia of the past 100 years of the Uniontown Cooperative Association will be displayed Oct. 2-30 at Dahmen Barn in Uniontown. Founded on July 8, 1916, Uniontown Cooperative grew out of earlier 19th century efforts to reform farming and improve marketing practices. Cooperatives were designed to give farmers more control over the marketing of their products, and 2,000 cooperatives operated in the United States by 1900. The co-op purchased facilities previously owned by the Uniontown Farmers’ Union No. 34 and t...
The Working Poor will perform at Dahmen Barn in the new Loafing Shed Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. Admission is $12 at the door, and Wawawai Canyon wine and beer will be for sale to those 21 and older. The Working Poor is made up of musicians who have been playing music most of their lives and the age range of the members goes from the early 50s to the early 60s. They are a cover band for the most part but with some original music scattered throughout their set-list. Leader Daniel Mark Faller...
8 years ago The Commoner Sept. 25, 1891 The Commoner made mention some time ago of the removal of High Manning, of this city, to Tekoa. The Globe of Friday last has the following: The Tekoa bakery opened up Monday morning with a full stock of bread, cakes, pies, candies and cigars, and is already in a fair way to establish a large trade. Mr. Manning is a baker of many years experience, and with his model oven and shop which has been built at a cost of nearly $600, he will be able to supply the town with a first class quality of bread. This...
AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: Chicken nuggets, rice, fruit. Tuesday: Mac and cheese, smokies, breadstick, green beans, fruit. Wednesday: Maple bites, ham patty, tater stick, fruit. Thursday: Straw hats, refried beans, fruit, dessert. Friday: Deli sandwich, chicken noodle soup, fruit, veggies, Caesar salad. AT ENDICOTT SCHOOL: Monday: Chickenwich, fries, broccoli and cauliflower, banana. Tuesday: Mandarin chicken, rice, salad, bell peppers, applesauce. Wednesday: Nachos with lettuce and tomato, refried beans, peaches, biscuit. Thursday: Macaroni...
Loretta Higgins, Veronica Haymore, Nathan Brown, Dr. Jon Haymore and Isabel Haymore with their last cataract patient on their April medical mission to Honduras. Dr. Jonathon Haymore is a familiar doctor in Colfax, practicing at Inland Eye Center here and in Spokane. He sees patients and performs surgeries in Colfax on Mondays and Tuesdays. In early April, Dr. Haymore and his team went on a medical mission to Honduras in Central America. The trip was in the planning stage for six months. Dr....
Maximus Kangas-Hames of Potlatch Troop 358 leaps across a log in the camporee's obstacle course event. As many as 75 area Boy Scouts from troops in the Chief Kamiakin Scout district, 14 Army and Navy ROTC cadets from WSU and University of Idaho, VFW members and local law officers participated in the 2016 camporee Sept. 23-24 at the Marc Wartson horse ranch south of Dusty. Activities included shotgun and .22 target shooting, an obstacle course and a safety class. In the meantime, scouts and...
Lacrosse St. Joseph's Catholic Church will have pinochle night Wednesday, Oct. 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. Everyone is welcome, and they hope to see many pinochle enthusiasts. LaCrosse Café is open for business this week. The grand opening was Tuesday. Hours of operation will be Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Darlene Kates, Julie Roberts and Soni Broeckel are the new proprietors. In addition to their regular hours, they hope to have some special events and will be open extra hours during hunting season....
Teddy Roosevelt arrived at the Farmington railroad depot in 1908 on a cross-country tour. The three men standing in front of the crowd on the platform were the Hayfield brothers. This photo from the Whitman County Rural Heritage exhibit was contributed by Diane Hurley. An exhibit of historic images is on display through October at The Center at Colfax Library, 102 S. Main. This new collection from Whitman County Library’s Rural Heritage Collection features photographs from the towns of Albion, C...
Busch Distributors gas station reopened in Palouse Sept. 22 after expansion work took a week to 10 days longer than expected, mainly due to delayed arrival of the new, built-to-order tank. All that remains now is to add some signage and labeling. The former cardreader station on Mill Street was demolished after the Fourth of July and replaced with the new tank, new gas pumps, a new island and two new types of fuel for sale. The Palouse site's new, double-walled, steel fuel tank is underground....
A name has been settled on for Pullman's fourth elementary school. The Pullman School Board announced last month that the school has been named Kamiak Elementary following public input and a committee's selection. Pullman School Board President Dean Kinzer said a committee of school administrators, board members and residents took recommendations from the public, leading to a plethora of responses. “The committee received over 30 recommendations,” he said. “The committee narrowed it down to six and presented those. Kamiak was the highest recom...
Downtown Colfax investor Kim Nguyen was in town again last week and met with the Colfax Rotary and the community at the Colfax branch of the Whitman County Library Thursday, Sept. 29, to discuss her plans for the future of her buildings in Colfax. Nguyen made the visit, her fourth overall to Colfax, after Library Director Kristie Kirkpatrick invited her to come back and publicly share her plans. “She was thrilled to come,” Kirkpatrick told the Colfax Rotary at its monthly luncheon at the Methodist church. Nguyen first introduced herself at the...
GIRL SAID HURT IN FIGHT Colfax Police Sept. 28 responded to a report of a dispute involving four junior-high age girls outside of the library on Main Street in Colfax. The girls had been asked to leave the library after the dispute, according to the police report. A Colfax ambulance was dispatched at 4:55 p.m. to transport one of the girls to Whitman Hospital from her residence after she complained of pain in her neck from an injury which she allegedly sustained in the fight. FAIR EYES TURNOFF LANE PROPOSAL Palouse Empire Fair Manager Bob...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Gaudencio Topete Gonzalez, 61, and Carrie Denise Miller Appleton, 47, both St. John, Sept. 28. Munir Wesley Shah, 30, and Nasreen Sadaf Shah, 27, both Pullman, Sept. 30. REAL ESTATE SALES Fennimore family members Beverly Palmer, Redmond; Gary Rehman, Gresham, Ore.; Jeanne Hoffman, Bellevue; Lise Von Moos, Chehalis; Shannon Timm, Apple Valley, Mn.; Cynthia Warner, Edgewood; and Bryce Stephenson for the Verna Stephenson estate, ag land in the Rock Springs Gulch Road area southeast of Hooper, to Mark and Amy McKay, LaCrosse,...
Fresh Air We would just like to commend the teachers, administrators, board members and other support staff in the Colfax School District. According to the Gazette a couple of weeks ago, contract negotiations were not only successful, but positive and unifying. We found it a breath of fresh air to know you are successfully and happily working together to educate our children. Kirby and Liza Dailey, Colfax Kudos to deputy At a time in this country when the discussion about the police is primarily negative I want to write about a local deputy...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce looked at the cost of regulations in America and found that excessive regulations are undercutting our economy and costing us jobs. Federal rules alone in the past few years have exploded and the Chamber finds it costs our nation $1.7 trillion. State labor and employment law resulted in the loss of 700,000 U.S. jobs. On the other hand, paring back state regulations which exceed federal standards alone would spawn 50,000 new businesses each year. The Chamber report is not an indictment on government regulations, per...
The Charlotte rioters didn't know whether the controversial police shooting of Keith Scott was justified or not, and didn't care. They worked their mayhem – trashing businesses and injuring cops, with one protester killed in the disorder – before anything meaningful could be ascertained about the case except that the cops said Scott had a gun and his family said he didn't. Charlotte is the latest episode in the evidence-free Black Lives Matter movement that periodically erupts in violence after officer-involved shootings. The movement is beh...
What were they thinking? Although, the real question should be: Were they thinking? What could have possessed the Clinton and Trump advisers even to consider visits to Charlotte, N.C., while the city was under siege and caught up in a violently volatile reaction to the shooting death of still another black man by police. The mere consideration of the idea that they'd drop by was wrong on so many levels. First of all, it is near-certain that their presence would fan the flames that threaten to consume Charlotte. Secondly, as the mayor pleaded...
In case you missed the noise, the general election is November 8. That is just a month away. The country will be choosing its next president. This campaign season has been described as one of the most unorthodox and contentious of any in recent history. The charges and countercharges are unremitting. Each candidate has hardcore supporters who remain unwavering. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, of course, are the two candidates from the two major parties. The third party candidates have gained little traction. Clinton and Trump are older than...
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. TRACK PROJECT VANDALIZED Increased security measures have been installed at the Colfax Schmuck Park track project after the first application of latex covering on the track surface was vandalized. City Administrator Michael Rizzitiello said an obscene sketch was etched into the first layer of latex after it was applied to the track’s asphalt b...
Asotin's cross-country runners nudged the NE league's two power teams with a slim win Tuesday in a league meet in the rain at Colfax. The Panthers finished with a 53 to edge Northwest Christian by four points. St. George's finished third with 57. Asotin girls also took their side of the run with a 29 team score, a three-point win over the Crusaders. St. George's Madison Ward kept her string going with a win at 18:39 in the girls race, 41 seconds ahead of Emily Adams of Waitsburg. Asotin senior Thomas Weaklund won the boys race with a 15:51 on...
Under the homecoming lights, the St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles went down 56-34. Trailing 42-18 in the third quarter, the Eagles closed the Tekoa/Rosalia lead to within eight points early in the fourth quarter. SJEL junior Dustin Fox scored five touchdowns in the game, including taking the opening kickoff in for a score. “You can't get much more for a momentum builder than that,” said Eagles coach Ken Gering. Quarterback/running back Reagan Harrison rushed for 110 yards for SJEL on 16 carries while Chase Schluneger added 46 yards on the gro...
