Heatons visit Florida to see daughter, grandsons

Dusty

Recently, Blake and Carmen Heaton spent 10 days with daughter and grandsons, Heather, Valente, Jeronimo and Xico in Islamorada, Fla. They attended Valente and Jeronimo’s last spring football game. This is the second season for them to play American football and both will be on varsity in the fall. They also attended Xico’s last baseball game, at which his team won the league championship and Xico qualified for the All-Star game. Xico has since played in that game and won All-Star pitcher and third baseman. This was his second season to play baseball.

The boys were excited to have Blake and Carmen there to help them work on their Hurricane (their school mascot) football car. They had seen pictures of the Colfax High Bulldog cars their uncles Christopher and Justin and their football teammates had painted when they were in high school and wanted to do the same.

On the return trip home, the Heatons stopped in Phoenix and had several hours to visit with their son’s family, Christopher, Erica and Justus.

Neil Appel coordinated a birthday dinner June 4 for his mother, Helen Appel at the home of his parents. Those present were Phil and Leslie Appel, Cheney; Eric, Shannon, Connor, Sarah, Kyle and Sidney Appel, Dusty; Caroline and Rob, Zack Kade, Elly and Luciene Kunkel, Pullman; Neil and Liz, John Paul and Grace Appel, Dusty, and Lisa and Travis, Miriam, Rachel, Emma and Collete Frei.

Several Dusty residents attended the wedding of Lauren Broeckel and Sam Hunt Saturday at the Moscow Elks Golf Course. The ceremony was outdoors and the reception was inside at the Lodge. Another reception will be at Portland, Ore., in July.

Larry and Karen Scaggs, Tehachapi, Calif., were weekend visitors at the home of his brother, Loren Scaggs, and Beth Christie. They, along with their mother Lorraine Scaggs, Colfax, and Homer Hopkins, LaCrosse, attended the McGregors picnic celebrating the company’s 135th anniversary in Hooper Saturday. Wylie and the Wild West provided the entertainment for the event. The group also went out to dinner at Eddy’s in Colfax Sunday evening. Larry and Karen left Monday to go to Mount Vernon to visit with Karen’s family.

Lino Perron returned to Cervinia, Italy, after spending a week at the homes of Bryan and Fran Jones. On Saturday, June 10, he attended the graduation from Walla Walla Community College of his daughter, Meggie Perron. Others attending the event were her mother Gena Jones, brother Damien Perron, grandmother Fran Jones, Warren and Julie Jones, Hayden, Idaho; Bruce and Hanna Jones, Burlington, Vt .; cousin Sharon Urtaza, Las Cruces, N.M .; cousin Emelie Jones, Spokane; Matt Corra, Spokane, and Paolo Migliavacca, Cervinia, Italy. Sunday, a reception was held at the home of Fran Jones for the graduate. Meggie will be attending the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., beginning in August.

Dick and Helen Appel’s youngest daughter, Susan Lynch, and daughters Cecilia and Abigail are here visiting for a couple of weeks. Her husband Joe is doing research at Purdue University and will join them later this week. Father’s Day, Neil, Liz, Josh, Noemi, Issac, John Paul and Grace Appel joined them for dinner. Eric and Shannon Appel joined them later in the afternoon.

Visitors at the Dale Broeckel home this weekend were his sister, Shirley Benham, nephew, Scott Benham, Haley and Burke, all of Seattle. Shirley’s husband, Frank, was in Spokane visiting with a friend while Scott was there on business for Pape´ Machinery. They returned home Monday.

Tim Johnson, Randy Bafus and Tim Rios hosted a Father’s Day barbecue for Kenny Pugh, Steve Maki and Dale Broeckel Sunday evening at Alkali Flat Arena. Also attending were Kim Gustafson, Fran Maki and Vicki Broeckel.