School will hit the road at Dusty

Dusty

The Jones Schoolhouse is scheduled to be moved from its current location, a few miles east of Dusty, for more than 100 years to its new home on the Palouse Empire Fairgrounds at 9 a.m. July 14. Anyone who plans on being on Highway 26 between Colfax and Dusty that morning should be advised to possibly find another route.

Plans are for the schoolhouse to become a meeting place for small groups and a museum of early educational days in Washington. Eric Appel organized the move and local volunteers have prepped the building. The building was donated by the Repp family.

Carol Kyllo recently was on the east coast where she attended the graduation of her granddaughter Khristin Kyllo, daughter of Tom and Julie Kyllo, from James Madison High School in Vienna, Va. She stayed for a couple of weeks for a visit. On July fourth, she was a guest for lunch, along with Donna Hansen, at the home of Steve and Paula Laurens in Endicott.

Brian and Angela Broeckel traveled to Grangeville for Saturday’s celebration of life for Ron Jones, a fraternity brother of Brian’s in Delta Chi at the University of Idaho. Jones died in December.

Norm and Gloria Erickson were in Everett and Lynwood over the July fourth weekend. They stayed with Al and Goldie Foss and also visited with Gracia Stueckle in Everett. They visited with Carol Erickson and Cam Erickson in Lynwood.

Steve and Carol Moore and family spent July fourth with Carol’s parents, Vern and Arlene Stambaugh, at Hayden Lake. They watched the fireworks display over Coeur d’Alene Lake.

Art and Colene Sager spent Fourth of July weekend with her brother and sister-in-law, Bob and Judy Record in Newburg, Ore. They all attended the 75th anniversary year of the rodeo at St. Paul.

David and Phyllis Stueckle spent the afternoon of July fourth in Endicott, partaking of their many activities. They stayed for the fireworks in the evening.

Kim and Cindy Pitts and their children, Carrie Pitts of Phoenix, Ariz., Amanda, Erik, Rafe and Tate Carlson of Spokane and Jen, Ryan, Kellen, Beckett and Willa Hammons of Boise, Idaho, spent the fourth of July weekend at their lake cabin on Priest Lake.

More than 50 descendants of Philip and Magdalena Broeckel, Jr. met at Schmuck Park in Colfax Sunday for a family reunion. Friends also attended. Besides Whitman County, family members arrived from Bellingham, Bellevue, Tacoma, Puyallup, Spokane, Liberty Lake, Ritzville, Waitsburg, Dayton, Genesee and San Francisco. Entertainment was provided by the Blue Mountain Troublemakers, a blue-grass band from the Dayton-Waitsburg area. Band members include Mariah Barthlow, John Hockersmith and Zach and Austin Beasley, great-great-grandsons of Philip and Magdalena.