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Tekoa Churches plan Thanksgiving service For the 36th year, Tekoa churches will host a joint Thanksgiving service, bringing people together to give thanks and to pray for community needs. The event will be Sunday, Nov. 20, at Sacred Heart Church in Tekoa at 7 p.m. The service follows a format in what has become a tradition in these 36 years with scripture readings, songs by church youth groups, other music by those present, a Friendship Circle when those present offer petitions about community needs and a communal singing of the Our Father to...
Colfax Police have received approximately 10 reports of credit card fraud from local residents. Chief Bill Hickman Tuesday said the fraud reports are similar to the reports which have hit Pullman. Some of the details in the Colfax fraud cases differ from the reports at Pullman, but generally they follow the some mold. Hickman said many of the fraudulent purchases made with Colfax credit card holders have been made in the Middle East with some of them made in the Pasco area....
Kyle D. Phillips, 21, Clarkston construction worker, was flown by MedStar to Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane after he was injured in a rock pit accident near Malden Monday morning. According to a report from the sheriff’s office, Phillips was operating a large Caterpillar pit dump truck when he backed over the edge of a gravel stockpile. The truck rolled over backwards down a 20-foot slope and landed on its top. Phillips was employed with DeAtley Crushing which is now operating at the Van Dyke gravel pit. Additional investigation on the i... Full story
In the town of Palouse, big plastic crates stack up alongside a house. What they are there for could soon be found in a grocery store or vending machine near you. The crates are retrieved and new ones arrive by truck, filled with apples from Wenatchee, the central ingredient in Noah’s Ark Foods’ Dutch Apple Rings. The baked, seasoned snacks are made in one part of Mike and Mindy Hicks’ garage, the first 10-pound bags of which are stored on shelves in the second part of their garage. Mike, a for... Full story
Ground was broken Nov. 14 for a 28,000-foot expansion of Decagon Devices at Pullman. The project will convert parking lot space and land the company already owned. The new space will be two levels, with a lower level for a manufacturing shop and the upstairs slated for future growth. The $2.1 million project is expected to be complete in the middle of next summer. Decagon was incorporated in 1983 and now employees 100. The company makes scientific instruments for measuring moisture in the environment. The devices are used in such endeavors as...
First Wind Tuesday purchased the turbines for its Palouse Wind wind farm currently under construction in northern Whitman County. The company issued a news release Tuesday saying it had ordered 58 turbines from manufacturing firm Vestas for the Palouse Wind project. First Wind also purchased 19 turbines for its Bull Hill Wind project in Maine. Palouse Wind has the county’s permission to install 65 turbines, but Ben Fairbanks, First Wind’s western regional business development manager, said the firm identified 58 locations as the best con...
Cheaper homes and departure of senior faculty at WSU pushed up Whitman County’s real estate activity during the third quarter of 2011. Washington’s Center for Real Estate Research issued its quarterly report last week, showing a 65 percent increase July through September in home sales over the same period in 2010. In Whitman County, 430 homes sold, compared to the 260 sales in third quarter 2010. Glenn Crellin, director of the center at WSU, said the increased number of sales is more reflective of last year’s depressed activity. Crellin said th... Full story
Monday, Nov. 21, there will be a meeting called by the Colfax School District to be held in the high school library at 7 p.m. for the express purpose of getting feedback from the community as to the amount that should be put before the voters for next spring’s Colfax School District special levy. At the meeting we will receive the latest projections for District revenue to be received in the next two years and estimates of School District costs, in all of the spending categories. The State of Washington has a $2 billion hole to fill, and u...
Sometimes Dinner Really Bugs Me You may wonder why insects are causing so much buzz lately. Its because people are eating them — and not just in order to get on Reality Television. For example, in San Francisco, there's a food truck named Don Bugito that serves such fare as tacos made with fried wax-moth larvae. Look it up if you don't believe me. They also make food out of pallid worms, but I imagine when you hold the pallid worms up to the wax moths, the worms pale by comparison. Eating bugs is called entomophagy — or, for short, gross. Mos...
President Obama says he will delay until 2013 a decision about the $13 billion Keystone pipeline, which would carry Canadian oil to Gulf coast refineries. Supporters say the 1,661 mile pipeline would create as many as 20,000 high-paying construction jobs, reduce our dependence on oil from unfriendly nations and revitalize the stricken Gulf Coast economy. Opponents worry about potential environmental impacts, and Midwest property owners in the path of the pipeline say “not in my backyard.” Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the delay ma...
Colfax Arts Council has moved the 2012 edition of their H’ Art of the Palouse street banner contest to a later schedule to disentangle the annual event from the holidays, according to Debi Anderson, Council president. The fifth annual contest will begin right after the New Year and end with the artists’ reception in May. “We decided participants might enjoy having the contest at a time when they are not busy with holiday activities,” Anderson said. “We have always gotten started in late October and hit both Thanksgiving and Christmas in a sche... Full story
Raised on the Palouse, Eliza is a farm girl surrounded by fields of food she cannot eat. When Eliza was young her mother, Rebecca Dark, a home economics teacher, discovered she was allergic to dairy products. For many years, Eliza continued to suffer symptoms from unknown food allergies. Years later, she discovered she is also gluten intolerant. “I would be so hungry but so overwhelmed by what I could and could not eat,” Eliza said, “I would go to the fridge and just eat a carrot.” Eliza said most prepared foods have gluten or dairy product...
A jungle atmosphere filled Tekoa’s Empire Theater last weekend when local students worked with the Missoula Children’s Theater to stage two showings of “The Jungle Book.” The two-man traveling show rolled into Tekoa Monday and cast the musical with students from Tekoa. They rehearsed over the week before performing Friday night and Saturday afternoon. James Heer’s Mowgli holds fire to scare Shere Khan, played by Tanner Madison, who has Jaedyn Norweed’s Hathi the elephant in his clutches. Monkeys Jazmynne Brydahl and Jacob Madison quiver as t...
Colfax The Supreme Court decided last week it would hear arguments about the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms. Do you think they should be repealed? John Perry, “No I don’t. How can we turn our backs on the 30 million people who don’t have health care.” Cindy Pitts, LaCrosse “It’s so complicated, I just don’t know. I guess it all depends on what your personal needs are, whether it’s good or not.” Craig Roberts, Potlatch “If it costs us all as much as it looks like it does, we might as well just take care of it...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Hector Arredondo, 19, and Melody J.J. Camp, 19, both Pullman, Nov. 11. WHITMAN COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS Dennis Nygreen, Colton, pole building, $35,000, Nov. 14. Mike Warnecke, Uniontown, shop addition, $55,000, Nov. 8. Jean Anderson, Ewan, propane stove, $953, Nov. 8. Dale Lyon, Pullman, pole building, $26,000, Oct. 27. Floyd Honn, Endicott, re-roof shed, $15,437, Oct. 27. R&K McMurray Farm, shop, $120,000, Oct. 26. Ron Druffel, Colton, new home, $324,635, Oct. 25. William and Lori Knox, Colfax, new home, $80,000, Oct. 24....
Veterans Day ceremonies were observed throughout Whitman County Thursday and Friday, as students, soldiers and citizens pulled out their patriotism to give thanks for those who served. Above, the VFW Honor Guard of Bill Hoffmann, Ken Hames and Bill Tensfeld fire a volley at the end of the Rosalia veterans program. At top, first grader Aspen Heise shows grandfather Dean Heise her handprint on the Steptoe School’s student-made flag after the school’s Veterans Day pageant. , Steptoe Principal Eric Patton shows off a selection of his col...
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. ***************** Autumn explodes at Eells Park Miya Ensley delights in the autumn extravaganza that was Eells Park in Colfax last Friday. Orange, yellow and red leaves from the park’s many deciduous trees left a delightful, shin-high carpet on the park that attracted both human and canine leaf lovers. Below, Ensley’s dogs wrestle over a vol...
LaCrosse Community Pride continues to take strides towards the complete renovation of the historic building that will house a grocery store, community center and library. The organization received its official 501 C 3 IRS rating as a non-profit organization, officially making any donations tax deductible on tax returns. Major donations continue to be provided to this community project. Store front glass, electrical, plumbing and various amounts of labor have all been donated by business entities. Fund raising will be accelerated now that the...
Garfield School and Palouse School boards will conduct a joint board meeting tonight, Thursday, Nov. 17, in the Garfield school library at 7:30 p.m. The new business will include a discussion of a fifth-grade co-op between Garfield and Palouse which already co-ops sixth through twelfth grades....
Oakesdale’s annual school play this year will be “Night of the Living Beauty Pageant”. It will be performed Saturday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. Cast members are in grades 7-12 with a total 31 participants. The farce promises to unleash mayhem with much madness and laughter. Admission will be $6 for adults and $4 for senior citizens and children. The Nighthawk Booster club is currently putting together an order for Nighthawks shirts/sweatshirts with a new logo. Anyone interested in ordering one or joining the Booster Club can contact Brenda McFar... Full story
Pete and Sandi Swannack recently traveled to Lake Havasu, Ariz., where Pete received instruction to become endorsed to fly float planes. Already a private pilot, he took ground school instruction and then trained in a Cessna 172 which is very similar to his Cessna 175. He passed everything with flying colors and was very excited to earn the endorsement. On their way home, they stayed two nights with former St. John spray plane pilot, Wes Gossard. Larry and Susan Weil were guests at the Lamont Community Church Sunday. The Weils have been...
James P. Dever, 54, a resident of Tensed, Idaho, died Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, at Hospice House of North Idaho in Coeur d’Alene, after a courageous battle with cancer. He had been in failing health since April. In accordance with his wishes, a funeral service will not be conducted. Born Nov. 26, 1956, at Los Angeles to Donald P. and Arlene Canzone Dever, he attended schools in Edmonds and graduated from Edmonds - Woodway High School in 1975. He married Lynn C. Davidson at Edmonds Jan. 3, 1981. The couple lived in the Monroe area for several y...
ACTUALLY, I was a little surprised that Initiative 1183, moving liquor sales from state operated stores to grocery stores, passed as hugely as it did. I thought our side – I opposed it – of firemen, doctors and nurses would be influential in convincing voters this would expand the availability and use of alcohol but there’s an old axiom in politics about looking to where the money is, and Costco’s $22 million spent on the campaign to pass it certainly had to help. However, the money Bellevue millionaire developer Kemper Freeman put into Ti... Full story
Funeral services for Geraldine (Geri) Lederer, 84, will be today, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, at 11 a.m. at the Latah Country Bible Church in Latah. A private family burial will precede the church service. Pastor Mark Mewhinney will officiate at the service. Mrs. Lederer died Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, at Hospice House of Spokane following a long battle with cancer. Born March 6, 1927, at Palouse to Clarence and Vera Whitcher Shepherd, she attended schools in Palouse, Cheney and Spokane where she graduated from Lewis & Clark High School in 1945. She...
NOTICE The Town of Rosalia Town Council is accepting letters of Interest for the vacant Council position #5. Letters of interest will be accepted until December 9th, 2011. Please submit letters to the Town of Rosalia, PO Box 277, Rosalia WA 99170. 46/1 NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING TOWN OF ST. JOHN The 2012 Preliminary Budget Hearing for the Town of St. John will be held on Monday, November 28, 2011, in the Town Hall at 6:30 p.m. Copies of the proposed budget may be obtained from the Town Clerk's office during normal business hours from the date of...
