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Chairman Justin Dixon named committee assignments in the first commission meeting of 2021 this week. Dixon will continue as chairman in addition to representing Garfield County on the Washington Counties Risk Pool, Washington Counties Insurance Fund, Blues Intergovernmental Council, the Snake River Salmon Recovery Board, and the Noxious Weed Board. Commissioner Jim Nelson will cover the Washington Association of Counties, the Legislative Steering Committee, Public Health District, Council of Governments Aging and Long Term Care and the Greater...
POMEROY–Inland Cellular began fiber optic installation this week, starting with the Jack Peasley residence on Arlington Street here Monday. He and a neighbor across the street will be able to test out the benefit of faster internet via fiber optic services as soon as Monday of this week. "It is starting here first and the house across the street," said Peasley. "It is so exciting to see it finally happening." Fiber optic availability to rural communities was made possible by legislation i...
Editor’s Note: Due to space constraints, this annual look back at the year just completed will be made in installments over the next several weeks. –Charlotte Baker MARCH 5). The new Garfield County Transportation Authority (GCTA) cutaway bus purchased through a Washington Department of Transportation (WDOT) grant for $73,328 is now ready for service. The Garfield County Commissioners discussed flood damage estimates of $240,500 from storms and runoff occurring February 6-7, 2020. Garfield County Commissioners held a public hearing on the pro...
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – E. M. Forster...
OLYMPIA–Like many of you, I’m encouraged by the news in recent weeks that COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna have been approved by the federal government and that doses of these vaccines are being shipped throughout our nation, including doses delivered to Washington. But I was unhappy to read a report earlier this week in the Spokesman-Review that inmates at the Airway Heights Corrections Center near Spokane and the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center near Connell were receiving the...
A. F. Branco...
Embarrassing moments. Nobody likes to talk about them. Oh, they’ll talk about slipping on the ice on their first date or getting bucked off a gentle horse. Other folks empathize and usually they laugh. But it makes people uneasy when it’s really embarrassing. They might titter nervously but if it’s really awful it makes us uncomfortable. It could happen to me! Like the time I leaned into a car window and asked a new acquaintance to dance and she didn’t have any legs. It was shattering to a hi...
Imagine you walk into a grocery store and instead of shopping for food based on quality and price, the market does not post any prices. You fill up your shopping cart with anything that looks attractive. At the check-out stand, a third party, let’s say your employer or the government, suddenly appears and pays for your groceries. Sounds crazy, yet that is exactly what happens when a patient visits a doctor or hospital. Whether you believe health care is a right or not, everyone can agree that m...
To the editor, In the December tenth edition of the East Washingtonian, there was a letter to the editor supporting voter fraud in the Presidential election. Generally, I read the letters to the editor, but before I read them, I do take note of the person submitting the letter. How this individual has been selected as the mouthpiece of the local Democrat contingent has me puzzled. After church one Sunday I was involved in a discussion with about eight parishioners. The conversation was politics. Every person participating in the conversation...
Employment opportunities for SNAP participants WASHINGTON, D.C.–The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced a final rule enhancing employment and training opportunities for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants. SNAP participants have exclusive access to training and support services to help them enter or move up in the workforce through state SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) programs. Sno-Park use soars OLYMPIA–Due to COVID-19 indoor entertainment restrictions, the Washington State Parks Winter Recreation Pro...
Well, we made it right? 2020 is over and now we can forget the last 12 months, right? I think I read somewhere that COVID–19, political drama, and racial tension would be over at 12 a.m., on January 1, 2021. Well, maybe not. As it turns out, life doesn’t work that way. Take heart! We are not the first to be daunted by a moving finish line. About 2500 years ago, the Jewish people were returning home after 70 years of forced relocation to Babylon. Imagine not one year of homeschooling, unemployment, and travel restrictions, but 70! Finally, aft...
The American Lung Association wants 2021 to be a quit smoking success! CHEYENNE, WY–One of the most popular resolutions at the beginning of each year is the desire to quit smoking, with more than 70% of smokers reporting they want to quit. Smoking is a risk factor for severe illness from COVID-19, which makes 2021 an even more opportune time to begin the journey to quitting once and for all. With the help of the American Lung Association, more than a million people have achieved success with their goal to quit smoking. The American Lung A...
Ten Years Ago January 5, 2011 The New Year opened with the temperature dropping into single-digit lows, following 4+ inches of snow that fell earlier. Since the first of the year, the temperature hasn’t been higher than 20 degrees F. Local recipients of grants from the Puget Sound Energy Foundation are Garfield County, Garfield County Super Citizens, Mule Deer Foundation, Pomeroy Community Center, and Pomeroy School District No. 110. Twenty-Five Years Ago January 10, 1996 If things go as planned, there will be quite a bit of digging, p...
STARBUCK–Three friends, with deep roots in this small town here, have collaborated on a book to preserve the local history. Starbuck: The Little Town That Could, is a 250-page, paperback that is available on Amazon. The book includes many photos, and chronicles events in a historical timeline. The chapters are filled with interesting facts about the railroad giving reasons for Starbucks existence, the Bell–a gift to the town, the people, churches, community organizations and social clubs, the...
Derek Steven Anderson January 6, 1993–December 15, 2020 Heaven gained an angel when our loving husband, son, brother, uncle and friend, Derek Steven Anderson, passed away on December 15, 2020, in Pomeroy. Derek was born January 6, 1993, in Othello, to Sandy Clarno Anderson, joining brother Donald and sister Kim. They moved to Pomeroy in 1998 where Derek became a 12-year member of the Pomeroy High School Class of 2011. He played saxophone and drums in band, and was a member of Knowledge Bowl, s...
OLYMPIA–When about two-thirds of legislators and I voted in 2015 for the “Connecting Washington” transportation package, we did so despite also passing a large gas-tax increase. We voted for this package–and gas-tax hike–mainly because it would fund needed highway projects throughout the state, including some in our very own 9th District. So, you can imagine how unhappy I was to learn that Gov. Inslee’s recent state transportation budget proposal might result in the delay of several road projec...