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8 years ago, Oct. 10, 1884 It has been charged that the Gazette has changed its position on the railroad question since the territorial convention. This we deny, and next week will publish the proceedings of the Farmer’s Association, show the position each prominent member took, and prove that the Gazette has been and is consistent. We will show that the Republican platform takes the same position as did the association they are bound to support the republican platform and the nominee of the party. Boise Statesman – Early last Sunday mor...
Week of Oct. 12-16, 2009 At Colton School: Monday: Italian dunkers, yogurt cups, corn and fruit. Tuesday: Dino nuggets, rolls, fries, fruit. Wednesday: Waffle sticks, sausage patties, tator tots, strawberries. Thursday: Spaghetti with meat sauce, mozzarella twisted stix, green beans, fruit. Friday: Taco pockets, green salad, fruit. At Endicott School: Monday: Hamburgers, JoJos, Apple Slices. Tuesday: Sloppy Joes, Corn, Fruit Tray. Wednesday: Burritos, Veggie Tray, Muffin, Pears. Thursday: Poor Boys, Baked Beans, Banana. Friday: Fish Sticks,...
Harold Powell The funeral service for Harold Powell, 90, life-long Colfax resident, will be today, Thursday, Oct. 8, at 11 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church. Burial will follow at the Colfax Cemetery. Mr. Powell died Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, at the Whitman Hospital in Colfax. Born Feb. 16, 1919, in Colfax to Dave and Margaret Eisinger Powell, he was raised in Colfax and graduated from Colfax High School with the class of 1937. He played football in high school and in 1988 played the Codger Bowl, a 50-year renewal of the Colfax-St. John game. He is... Full story
ROSALIA The “Raising the Roof “ concert for the Rosalia performing arts center Saturday raised $340. The concert featured the Wide River Band. The concert attendees included Mayor Ken Jacobs and city council members Becky Cook credited Erma Jean Widman and John Melspaugh for their ongoing support of the Performing Arts Center project. Next performance at the center will be during the Rosalia Harvest Festival Oct. 24 at noon....
October is filled with events for children at the Colfax Library. 3rd Thursday Club for kids in grades 1-4 is Oct. 15 from 3:30-4:30. Children of all ages are invited to a family pumpkin decorating party on Oct. 28 from 3:30-4:30 and regular children’s Storytime programs are each Thursday with Baby Time for ages 0-2 years from 10:10-10:30, Toddler Time for ages 2-3 from 10:30-11:00 and Preschool Time for ages 4 and up from 11-11:30. The Whitman County Library Board of Trustees meets Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 4:30 in the Garfield Branch. Agenda for t...
Bank Left to show Helm paintings Featured artist for Bank Left Gallery at Palouse for October is Tamara Helm, WSU Art department faculty member. Her exhibit is “Past to Present,” a compilation of over 40 paintings. The opening reception with the artist will be Oct. 10 from 1-5 with live music from 1 to 3:30. This exhibit will run Oct. 10 to Oct. 31 and is free to the public. In honor of Frida Kahlo, Tamara’s favorite artist, dinner at the The Bank Left Bistro that evening will feature recipes inspired by Frida’s fiestas. Reservations for the... Full story
Children at Storytime in the Garfield Library have been making fall wreaths and popcorn sheep. Storytime at Garfield is at 1:30 p.m. every Wednesday for children preschool-age and younger. During this hour-long program, children listen to book readings, sing songs, and create crafts through weekly themes. First fall needlework night will be Oct. 12 at 6:30 p.m. Last year, a variety of crochet projects were introduced to beginners. Those who attended last year have requested to keep sessions on the agenda and they have been scheduled the second...
Lamont Lamont Grain Grower Manager Jim Fuhraman, his brother, Mike, and five friends spent four days on a float trip on the lower Salmon River in Idaho. They fished for bass, hunted birds and ran the rapids during the 80 miles of their river trip. Kathy Shields recently spent three days with 18 classmates from the Cheney High School Class of 1951. They had their 58th reunion dinner at Templins Resort in Post Falls. The first night was dinner at the Hot Rod Cafe. The next day was a 90 minute cruise on Coeur d’Alene Lake and a banquet for 32 t...
LaCrosse A benefit spaghetti feed for the family of Andrew Swank, Valley Christian football player from Hauser Lake who died Sept. 27 from injuries sustained in the homecoming game at Washtucna, will be Tuesday, Oct. 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Washtucna school cafeteria. Donations will be appreciated. Benefit events for the family were conducted at several schools and games around the area last weekend. Friends and family from near and far arrived at the home of Carol Kyllo recently to shower Brenda Camp with baby gifts and happy wishes. Lunch... Full story
Rosalia businesses have decorated in advance of the Harvest Festival which has been scheduled for Oct. 24. Pumpkins, corn stalks and window designs line the sidewalk at businesses along Whitman Street.... Full story
Dusty David and Phyllis Stueckle and Art Sager attended memorial services for Marvin Rudolph, LaCrosse High School graduate of the class of 1954, in Pasco Saturday. Sager had to wait until Sunday to fly home due to the adverse weather conditions. He stayed overnight at the home of Jack and Gayle Heaton. Art and Colene Sager helped their grandson Kenneth, son of Blake and Marcy Sager of Colfax, celebrate his fifth birthday Sunday....
Endicott, CARLA ROOT, Gazette Correspondent Endicott Community Club sponsored a Wine and Microbrew Tasting party at the Endicott Food Center last Saturday, Oct. 3. Members of the club include Jenny Meyer, Sue Bafus, Gail Bilow, Janet Luft, Don and Jackie Lust, Jerene Grey, Jim and Sharon Huff, Leslie Starrett, and Helen Jane Hughes and others. If anyone is interested in joining the club, please contact any of the members. Others are encouraged to attend and can contact any club member. A school open house, which offers a chance for parents to...
Belmont Visitors at the Robert Miller home this past weekend were Dirk and Karla Sigrist of Renton and their four boys, Jeremy, Jonathan, Joel and Jesse. They returned home Sunday and hit part of the dust storm between Ritzville and Moses Lake. Karla and Gracie attended Hullabaloo in Colfax Saturday. Saturday evening Kent and Diane Miller and Kiah, Colfax, joined the family in Belmont for dinner. The family sang Happy Birthday to all those with October birthdays. They were Diane, Oct. 5; Jeremy, Oct 13; Kiah, Oct. 21; Jesse, Oct. 23 and...
Katie Lynn Dennis, daughter of Bob and Linda Dennis, Damascus, Ore., and Jacob James Heilsberg, son of Jim and Sandy Heilsberg, Colfax were married in an evening ceremony May 30 at the Old Laurelhurst Church in Portland. Todd Kinley, youth pastor from Onecho Bible Church, officiated at the ceremony. Decorations were candles lining the aisle and stage and varied glass centerpieces with tea lights. Music was “If You Could See What I See,” sung by the groom’s parents. Pianist was Becca Couch, friend of groom. The bride, given in marriage by her f...
Meet Kynda Browning, Tekoa City Clerk Katra, Kolby, Ashley Roechs and Kynda After walking into a job as city clerk in Latah 15 years ago, Kynda Dye Browning is now taking on bigger things as the city clerk for Tekoa. Kynda was working part-time as the clerk for Latah and Worley when Tekoa Mayor John Jaeger approached her about taking the fulltime opening at Tekoa. “John wooed me away,” she noted. Kynda grew up in Grangeville, Idaho, but her family moved north to Spokane and then to Latah. She attended and graduated from Liberty High Sch...
Nineteen members of the Puget Sounders chapter of the Antique Outboard Motor Club gathered at Boyer Marina last weekend. The club’s local visit was hosted by Sandy and Dave Holtzheimer of Colfax. Seven of the 1950s era boats departed the marina Saturday morning for an upstream cruise to Wawawai. The vintage boats had plenty of room to spare as they went through the Lower Granite locks, upper left. The Holtzheimers, upper right, get underway in their 1959 Bell Boy, which was produced in Bellingham. Mike Bailey of Colfax, lower left, pulls the s...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ navigation lock at The Dalles on the Columbia River will remain closed for approximately the next week while engineers repair the downstream gate. The lock was shut down Sept. 29. A team of engineers and welders is working around the clock to repair extensive cracks on the lower portion of the downstream gate, according to a news release from Col. Steven Miles. More than 12 million tons of commodities pass through the system of dams and navigation locks on the Snake and Columbia river shipping route from L...
Whitman County will pay the same rate in 2010 it did in 2009 for housing its juvenile offenders at the Martin Hall detention facility in Medical Lake. Nine counties use the facility. County commissioners signed on to the $1.9 million Martin Hall budget for 2010, with the county’s incarceration rate staying steady at $135 per bed stay. The county has vowed to pay for 912.5 bed stays in 2010, regardless of how many county juveniles are actually sent to Martin Hall. At a cost of $135 per bed, the county will contribute $123,187.50 to the f... Full story
Uniontown police department has just purchased a used police car with a $9,999 grant of federal stimulus funds. The new car is a trade-in from the Pullman Police department. Now patrolling the town streets is a 2005 Ford Crown Victoria with less than 60,000 miles on the odometer. The new car replaces Uniontown’s 16-year-old patrol car which the city will put up for sale, Police Chief David Lehmitz said. Their new car was purchased for $8,000 out of the grant proceeds. The rest of the $9,999 grant went to converting the car, which had been strip...
The two Republicans running for the 9th District Legislative seat laid out their platforms and answered questions at a forum in Pullman City Hall Monday night. Susan Fagan of Pullman, the former public affairs director for Schweitzer Engineering, said she would work for a better business climate in Washington. Pat Hailey of Mesa, a farmer and the widow of the late Rep. Steve Hailey, said she would work to promote the needs of the agricultural community at the state level. Both answered questions from the packed city council chambers. With no...
A pile of grain was found outside the Pacific Northwest Grain Cooperative elevator on Last Street in Colfax Tuesday morning. The street was blocked off to traffic while crews vacuumed up the grain, estimated to be about 2,500 bushels. Chief Bill Hickman said the grain spill is suspected to be the work of vandals. The grain auger was believed to have been turned on sometime after 12:30 Tuesday morning. Estimated time for removing the spilled pile was two to three hours....
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Rick Swinney, Potlatch “You know, I heard this years ago, but I forgot the answer. I’m gonna say 3,077, though.” Joe Gleese, Spokane “I don’t eat candy. It rots your teeth, man, rots your teeth.” Jessica Geissinger, Endicott “732.” You really counted? “No. It just sounded like a good number.” Scott Lynass, Potlatch “Hmmm. You know, some of them are less crunchy than others. I’ll say 550.” Tracy Winebarger, Spokane “Man I don’t do the Tootsie Pop. It’s too much work - too much...
How Not to Lose Weight W. BRUCE CAMERON A few weeks ago, Time Magazine ran a cover story that declared that “Exercise won’t make you lose weight,” which is a real shame because I’d just been thinking that it was time to work out, maybe drop 10-15 pounds that afternoon. The article was written by John Cloud, who says: a) he’s exercised for years, and b) he’s never been overweight, therefore, c) working out doesn’t do any good. Sounds good to me. Further, though the same article claims that the federal government classifies two-thirds of... Full story
Pullman and Albion could be among 15 communities in the Northwest that will teach the nation how to be “smarter” with how power is delivered to homes. A group of energy companies, led by Avista, is hoping a $38 million project will make energy delivery to Pullman customers more efficient. The project is part of a $178 million five-state project by 12 energy companies that is being spearheaded by Battelle, the company that operates the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in Richland. Battelle has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy for...
Truly a shame Like many other Gazette readers, we’ve followed the recent drama surrounding the Knowledge Bowl program - how the advisor’s resignation prompted the elimination of the program, how the school board was unaware of the pending elimination, how after considering several options, the board then chose to implement a one percent cut to all extracurricular staffers in order to generate enough revenue to fund the Knowledge Bowl program, and how that decision has caused unhappiness among the staff mostly because they had been given no war...
