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Lamont The annual meeting for the Lamont Community Church was at the church Sunday. After the potluck dinner, the minutes were read from last years meeting, reports were read and the business of the church was discussed. Allen and Diane Cook drove to Kahlotus, last Friday, where they were joined by Sandi Miller, Logan and Kristen for a trip to Puyallup. They had dinner with Rob and Tracye Cook at Federal Way. Saturday, the group attended the first birthday party for Robbie Sweigert, the Cook’s great-grandson. Saturday afternoon, the Cooks a...
Lamont Members of the Lamont Community Church served at the eastbound rest area recently. Upon investigation, the secretary of the Ladies Guild, Bonnie Swannack, found they have served there twice a year since 1990 and never missed the days assigned by the State Department of Transportation. When the group started doing this, it was necessary for them to make their own shelters because it was in the cold weather and too cold to be without some protection. Now, the state has installed a very adequate room with heaters, hot water and...
Lamont Nita Polda, Betty Stone, Pat Peterson, Diane Cook, Kathy Shields and Jackie Brown joined 10 other Sprague-Lamont red hat ladies for a recent night out. They started with dinner at the Spokane Cathay Inn, then went to the Spokane Civic Theatre production of “Sylvia.” Don and Sherrill Nelson spent four days last week at the Washington State 1B basketball tournament in Yakima. The St. John-Endicott boys placed second and the girls placed fifth. Kaye Bailey recently attended the Boy Scout court of honor to see her nephew Michael Bageant rec... Full story
Lamont Brent Wecker of Napa, Idaho, son of Nancy Stromberger Wecker and Eldon Wecker, of Meridan visited with his grandparents, Dan and Jean Stromberger Saturday afternoon. Brent drove over from Moscow, Idaho, where he is working for 10 days to completely renovate a swimming pool at a fitness center there. Overnight guests, Friday, at the home of Allen and Diane Cook, were their daughter, Sandi Miller, and grandchildren, Logan and Kristen, Kahlotus. The Millers returned home Saturday afternoon Milly Kay and Bill Baldwin from Sammamish drove to...
Lamont Kay Dirks, a person who was raised and spent most of her life in the Lamont area, was made Citizen of the Year in Sprague at the Sprague Chamber of Commerce Banquet recently. Upon retirement from farming, she and her husband, Clinton, moved to Sprague. She taught in the Sprague Schools and when she retired from teaching, she served on the Sprague-Lamont School Board for some time. She was very active of the Lincoln County Habitat for Humanity, helped organize and maintain the community garden and is a member of the Red Hat Ladies. She...
Lamont Art and Jill Swannack, Owen, Lea and Carmen left Jan. 15 for Nashville, Tenn., to attend The American Sheep Industry Convention. While Art attended meetings, Jill was co-chairman of the Youth Committee. There were 26 children from the ages of eight to sixteen and they were kept busy making rope halters, playing games, learning about parasites that affect sheep, learning how to grade a carcass and cut it up. Sunday they had a party and later, they had a Pizza Party. The family attended the First Family Baptist church with an attendance...
Lamont Lamont has become famous after the picture of the Lamont city greeting sign was put in the Gazette last week. It should be known that Tim and Matt Polda and Rick Howard made the sign. Tim installed the sign in the middle of the night because he wasn’t sure if the city fathers would approve. At the time, he was about 16 years old. People have called asking about the lady mentioned in the article, Judy Dugger. She is a sister-in-law to Darcia (Tuggle) Dugger and is a lawyer in Washington DC. The town of Lamont and the Lamont Fire D...
Lamont Bill and Stella and Dean and Mindy Melville attended the wedding of La Rena Claassen and Daniel Draper at the Onecho Bible Church Dec. 31. The bride is a teacher of agriculture in the Washtucna School and the groom farms with the Draper Farms. Allen and Diane Cook attended services at the Highland Park United Methodist Church in Spokane last Sunday. Following the service, they joined Eddie and Seiko Edamatsu of Spokane and Phyllis Edamatsu from Dover, Del., at the Ming Wah Cafe. Phyllis returned to her home on Monday. Eric Ericson died...
Lamont Lamont Community Church has a new sign to show the location of the church in Lamont. It was designed, made and installed by Tim and Dave Stromberger of Davenport. The previous sign that stood in this spot for many years was made by Bill Miller who lived in Lamont and was the last operator of the train depot there. Dan and Jean Stromberger attended the 50th anniversary celebration for Don and Carolyn Fries Sunday at the Faith Bible Church in Spokane. Don is a nephew of Dan and a graduate of Sprague High School. Maggie and Nick Phyhos from... Full story
Lamont Diane Cook returned home Tuesday after spending three days in Norfolk, Va., as guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Ed and Ilene Dickinson. She then flew to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where she met up with Allen’s cousins and husbands, Donna (Cook) and Don Harbaugh, Missoula, Mont., Paula Cook, Nancy (Cook) and Dave Klotz, Tacoma and Shirley (Cook) and Larry Benson, Vancouver. They went for a 10-day cruise to the Caribbean Islands of St. Thomas, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin and Barbados. Diane reported a wonderful, fun-filled time w...
Lamont Lamont Community Church will present their Christmas program Sunday at 10 a.m. There will be a skit by the Junior Church children and musical numbers. Everyone is invited to attend. There is a community potluck on New Years Day beginning at 1 p.m. Television will be on for anyone who wants watch football games. All are urged to come and welcome in the new year. Lamont Women’s Club members served lunch to the crew that keeps the Lamont Grain Growers elevators working. Guests from the elevators were Art Boutain, Ron Dixon, Tom Pederson a...
Lamont Bonnie Swannack was a guest at the home of Janet and Mark Bowman to celebrate her birthday last Sunday evening. Also present were her husband, Bill, and Tom, Hollie and Tommie Sue Swannack. Ginny Rajala’s mother is recuperating and gaining her strength after knee surgery at St. Joseph Care Center. Because she wasn’t able to travel, her family took Thanksgiving dinner to the center. Present besides Ginny was her husband, Dave, Penny and PJ Dhillon and son from Kennewick, four sisters and one brother and families. One sister, Carol, is...
Lamont The monthly potluck will be at the Lamont Community Center Sunday, Dec. 6, at 1 p.m. Everyone is invited. Debbie and Nick Siemans were weekend guests at the home of Chet and Ardis Swift of Lamont. They are missionaries in Germany working with Trans World Radio. They are in the States visiting churches, friends and relatives and will return to Germany Dec. 18. Debbie is the daughter of Richard and Zelma Steward. Richard grew up in the Lamont area and graduated from Lamont High School in 1944. Jill Swannack and Linda Stanescu from Sprague...
Lamont The Art Swannack family went steelhead fishing at Heller’s Bar on the Snake River when school was out. The family caught a total of nine keepers, but it was reported Mom caught the most fish. Earl Swift and his grandson, Jared Wollweber, braved the cold and windy day to fish on Sprague Lake Saturday. Neither caught a fish. Jill and Art Swannack attended the Washington Sheep Producers Convention in Spokane last week-end at the Mirrabeau Hotel in the Spokane Valley. Art is the representative for Region 8 of the group. The focus of the c... Full story
Lamont Betty Stone, Georgia Bageant and Jennifer Larsen drove to the Eddy and Katie Bageant home near Davenport to see the Bageant daughters, Hailey and Ellie, in their Halloween costumes. Don and Sherrill Nelson watched their granddaughter, Kylie Nelson, play her team’s final soccer game for the year. Kylie is a second grader at Chester Elementary in the Spokane Valley. Kathy Shields attended a memorial service for Wayne Hagel at the Assembly of God Church in Medical Lake. Wayne and his wife, Nadine, were Kathy’s classmates at Cheney High Sch...
Lamont Denny and Linda O’Keefe drove to the coast last Wednesday and stayed until Sunday. While there, they visited with Linda’s sisters and families, the Womers and the Fosters. They also had two days of rest and relaxing at Clay Lock Lodge in the Olympia National Forest. They returned to Lamont Saturday night. Tuesday, Dan and Jean Stromberger received word of the engagement of Andrea Wecker, daughter of Eldon and Nancy Stromberger Wrecker. She will be married May 8 in Meridian, Idaho. Evelyn Shields remains at Manor Care Health Services in... Full story
Lamont This deer was shot by Chris Shields Saturday morning on the Ed Shields ranch. It was probably the largest deer killed so far in the area and also, one of the few bucks seen in the Lamont area. A Ritzville High School June graduate, Chris is a freshman at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. Lamont Grain Growers annual dinner meeting was Oct. 13 at the Lamont Community Center. The Lamont Women’s Club with co-chairs Sherrill Nelson and Bonnie Swannack in charge, served a lasagna dinner to guests. Board of Directors in attendance w...
Lamont Debby and Kevin Gaffney, Patty Ethredge, Carolyn Behrens and Dean Melville gathered at the home of Bill and Stella Melville Sunday afternoon to view the pictures taken by Betty Stone on her recent trip to Switzerland. Betty Stone, Nita Polda and Kathy Shields joined other members of their pinochle club at the home of Shirley Miller at Fishtrap Monday evening. Betty Stone won with the highest score and Nita was awarded for the lowest score. Nancy Wecker of Meridan, Idaho, flew to the home of her parents, Dan and Jean Stromberger,...
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...
Lamont Allen and Diane Cook attended the Garden Springs School/Community Reunion Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Windsor Grange Hall. Later in the day, the Cooks drove to Wallace, had dinner at the Jamison Hotel and stayed at the Old Brooks Hotel. They then drove towards Murray and returned home via Rockford and Spokane Valley Sunday evening. A community potluck at the Lamont Community Center will be Sunday, Oct. 4 with all encouraged to attend. Charlotte and Willard Bowen, who have been residing at Community Pride in St. John for several months,...
Lamont Janet Bowman, Hollie, Tommie Sue and Bonnie Swannack attended the Palouse Empire Fair Sunday afternoon. Bonnie had nine entries consisting of quilts and small quilted items and she received nine blue ribbons. Bonnie worked in the quilters booth at the Spokane Fair Friday and will go to Moscow to judge in the Latah County Fair next Thursday. Carmen Swannack won five trophies at the Palouse Empire Fair. One for best of show with her goat, the second in intermediate judging, third, fourth and fifth in the Skillathon in pigs, sheep and...
Lamont A community potluck will be at the Lamont Community Center Sunday, Aug. 30 at 1 p.m. Because of different holidays, the potluck dates this year are a little different. They are Oct. 4, Dec. 6 and Jan. 1. Rosie Melville celebrated her ninth birthday Friday, Aug. 21, at the St. John Park. Rosie is the daughter of Burke and Liz Melville and will be in fourth grade when the Lamont school starts Wednesday. Present at the party were Zeth and Zane Swanger, Emily Boutain, Alanna Aweson, and Alex Wheeler, Jacklyn Byrd, and Hannah and Laney...
Lamont Three weeks ago, Pete Swannack was injured when a gear assembly he was working on let go. When it did, it hit a ladder that Pete was standing on. Pete was knocked to the ground and sustained a hole in his lung and three broken ribs. When his wife, Sandy, who is an EMT, saw what had happened, she took him to Sprague and the ambulance drove him to a hospital in Spokane. At this writing, Pete is getting better every day. He has to be careful what he does. Amend Melville is driving the combine for Pete and Sandy and Aaron Spuler are driving...
Lamont Harvest started in the Lamont area July 21 when Mike Engles brought wheat into the Revere Elevator. On July 30, Mark Bowman brought wheat in from the Bill Swannack farm for the first load into the Lamont Elevator. As of this writing, 90 percent of the farmers in the area are harvesting, the wheat is producing average yield, and is of good quality. Allen and Diane Cook were overnight guests last Tuesday of their daughter, Sandi and her husband, Dennis, and children of Kahlotus. Allen rode on the combine with Dennis and experienced what it...
