Residents work together on condo rose garden

Two Wheatland Arms Condominium residents admired the blooming roses and other flowers Monday morning as they sat on their porch.

Life-long Whitman County resident Armeda Hayer has been one of the many caretakers for the Wheatland Arms rose garden since her arrival in 2007.

Hayer said the garden has been around for years, and she put her touch on the garden by planting pink roses, which are in full bloom currently.

Hayer has lived all her 94 years in Whitman County. She was born and raised on a farm just southwest of Pullman. She moved to Colfax in 1941.

Hayer graduated from Colfax and met her...