Conclusion Re: Our Great Local Paper

Despite having a senior granddaughter from Genesee and a senior great-niece from Colfax both competing in post-season volleyball, this rainy Wednesday morning should allow me time to conclude my remarks started in the October 6th Gazette edition regarding the Gazette’s remarkable achievement, despite being without the services of a guy that both the Wilmont and Forgey Gazette’s had and who to me is a Colfax legend. My great old time friend Jack McBride (wrestling coach par excellence, along with Richard Felber, Ed Olson, and several others Colfax has been blessed with over the years). The guy Jack referred to in the paper and the one I’m speaking of is of course Jerry Jones. I don’t know how many reams of news and photos he provided Bill and Gordon, but it must have been tremendous and I will mis his loping, smiling, j-walking, across Main Street several times a day to get the news. Perry White would have called him a “News Hound”.

Speaking of local “Best in the State Award, I and we have not and cannot forget the “best Funeral Home in the State of Washington” awarded a few years back to Craig and Nikki Corbeill and their great professional staff. I know from personal experience that from death to the final burial you will not receive better respect and dignity than from Craig and his associates and I wasn’t surprised when they received their award.

In conclusion, all you small business owners (I was one for 41 years), imagine being a guy like Mr. Harnack who takes a chance, buys a small newspaper in a small town and small county and in just three short years his paper is acknowledged by its peers as the best in its category in the state. What a remarkable achievement for him, his hardworking reporters, photographers etc, and for us in Whitman County.

Denny McDonald

Colfax