Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
A slow ride on the ferris wheel Sept. 6 at the Palouse Empire Fair. For more fair photos, see pages 4-5B.
The annual second-weekend-in-September Palouse Days celebration returns Friday with events to run until Sunday at noon.
Along with the Saturday morning parade and 37th annual Palouse Show and Shine car show, new this year in downtown Palouse is more live music – with five bands playing across Friday night and Saturday. Also new are two brunch/lunch events Sunday.
"It'll be fun and exciting, we'll have live music all day long," said Paula Echanove, Palouse Days volunteer.
Palouse Days begins Friday with a sidewalk chalk art contest from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Entry forms are available at Palouse Caboose. At 5 p.m. a beer pong tournament starts at the Palouse Caboose and music follows at 6:30 p.m. from Pick Axe Bluegrass.
Down the street at the Congress bar, Blue Highway will play at 7 p.m.
On Saturday, the full schedule begins at 7 a.m. with the Lions Club Breakfast at West Main Street toward Hayton Greene Park followed by the Palouse River Run starting at 8 a.m. (5K, 10K, 1.5K), sponsored by Gar/Pal Young Life.
At 9 a.m. at the library, the Xenodican Club Book Sale begins, along with a quilt display and funnel cakes. On display at the Roy Chatters Newspaper and Printing Museum will be memorabilia from the Don and Teresa Myott collection.
"Palouse everything. Pottery, pictures, you name it," said Echanove.
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. is the Lions Club Palouse Days Car Show.
At 10 a.m. the Lions open their hamburger trailer downtown.
Also at 10 a.m. the parade starts, with the 2019 Grand Marshals named as a group – the founders of Haunted Palouse – a core of volunteers who started the two-weekend Halloween event 17 years ago and have worked on it since.
"We're hoping to have at least 15 of us on (a decorated truck) or walking," said Echanove, who is one of the honorees.
After the parade comes the annual ping pong ball drop for prizes, the egg toss and face painting. The Palouse Days photo booth – with costumes – opens downtown at 10:30 a.m., running until 1 p.m.
At noon, the duck race starts at the Bridge Street bridge before a reading from a local author of "A Worm's Tale: The Story of Louis T. Mulch III" at the Tony Kettel Skate Gardens.
From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., The Intentions will take the patio at Palouse Caboose.
The afternoon also features the Heidi Keen Classic Barley Bar Relay and a kids instructional skate clinic at the skate park, both at 4 p.m. A "Skate Jam" follows with live music at the amphitheater by Green Flannel at 5 p.m.
At the Palouse Caboose, the beer pong final four tips off at 5 p.m. too, followed by music from Odd Bird Blues at 6:30 p.m. and Blue Highway at 7 p.m.
On Sunday, the two new events are "Big Lebowski: National White Russian Day" which invites people to come to Palouse Caboose in slippers and bathrobes "whenever you get out of bed."
At 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., The Palouse Federated Church will hold a buffalo burger barbecue, for a $10 suggested donation.
Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.
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