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POMEROY–Garfield County Sheriff's Office took into custody a male suspect, Tristan Charles Evans, 23, who was booked for Assault in the 1st degree, a class A felony, on February 4, 2021. Law enforcement personnel from the Garfield County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of an assault in the city of Pomeroy early Thursday morning, February 4. An unidentified male victim in his 40s was transported to the Garfield County Hospital District by emergency medical technicians from Garfield County Fire District No. 1. The victim was later t...
TOPEKA, Kan.–Pursuit of Excellence award recipient Annalynne (Van Vogt) Gonzales, graduated from Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a Masters in Nurse of Anesthesia (CRNA) on November 23,2020. Gonzales, graduated from Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a Masters in Nurse of Anesthesia (CRNA) and was honored with the Pursuit of Excellence award, a staff-nominated honor, at graduation. She successfully passed her board certification in December and has recently s...
By Charlotte Baker POMEROY–The East Region remains in Phase 1 of which Garfield County is collectively a part. The numbers for the area are apparently not within the parameters of Phase 2 requirements. The numbers here, are 668 COVID-19 tests given of which 557 were negative as of February 4, 2021 at 1 p.m. There have been 12 hospitalizations with four deaths. Presently, six positive COVID patients are recovering with no pending tests and 101 positive cases have fully recovered. Vaccines have been given to well over 200 people in the B1–65 yea...
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 SEPTEMBER 3). The County Commissioners approved the County Health District’s plan for this year’s “restructured” Garfield County Fair as submitted by the Fair Board with one exception: RV camping. The Fair’s Livestock Show & Sale is a go with COVID restrictions. Attendance will be limited to pre-registered exhibitors and household members, Garfield County Fair Board members, Garf...
POMEROY–December "Student of the Month" Emma Severs, nominated by Jessica Wolf, has lived through a year without sports, due to COVID-19, yet has spurred interested and development in sports in other ways. In other words, she has learned how to take the lemons you are given and turn them in to tasty lemonade. Pride This year Emma is showing pride during a frustrating Senior Year. This year Emma has not been able to participate in her sports activities due to COVID-19. Instead of being, o...
POMEROY–Captain America, a.k.a. Allen Mullins, passed through this fair little town Tuesday afternoon, January 26, on a walk to benefit military veteran Gary Jorgens. Captain America had recently been in Pullman and Clarkston, and was heading west on Highway 12. Mullins is from Dalton, Ga., and according to information on his facebook page, he "began walking for veterans in 2009, giving up his job as a house framer. He was inspired to reach out to military veterans when he realized that many v...
“What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.” – Jawaharlal Nehru...
OLYMPIA–The environment is unquestionably important to every one of us who live, work and raise families in our beautiful state of Washington. It has also become a political hotbed of polar-opposite views between urban versus rural, Eastern Washington and the Puget Sound, and between Democrat and Republican lawmakers. Gov. Inslee has reintroduced his climate change policies–the same ones defeated year after year in the Legislature since he took office in 2013. And for good reason. They are exp...
Do you believe in ghosts? How ’bout angels? Miracles? Taro cards? I grew up believin’ in Heaven and all its assorted angelic inhabitants and their counterparts in the singed black hats. Reincarnation wasn’t taught in Sunday School but we were encouraged to believe that souls existed. So, with this sort of background it was easy for me to accept ghosts. Especially when I saw the ‘ghost of Yankee Bill Summit.’ This experience happened many years ago, but I was a full-grown man with a full-grow...
OLYMPIA–Against the backdrop of now three separate income tax on capital gains proposals (HB 1496, SB 5096 and SB 5204) comes the question: What impact do these tax proposals have on the state’s competitiveness? We’ve previously documented the Washington Department of Commerce saying no personal or corporate income tax is a competitive advantage for the state. Now comes an interesting interview with one of WA’s newest CEOs to move from California–Tanium’s Orion Hindawi. Hindawi had many thoughtful things to say during a February 4, 2021 event s...
USDA appoint key senior staff WASHINGTON D.C.—The following individuals will hold senior staff positions in Washington, D.C. Senior Program Officer focusing on nutrition at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Anne Knapke was named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations. Liz Archuleta was named Director in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Archuleta served as a County Supervisor for Coconino County, Arizona, where she was the first Latina ever elected to that office in Coconino County. Staff Director for the S...
To the Editor, I would like to compliment the Garfield County Health Department and the Garfield County Hospital, in regards to their very organized structure for the purpose of giving Covid-19 vaccinations on January 29th, 2021. It ws professionally implemented and they covered all of the bases. I heard they did over 225 vaccinations without a hitch. That is a good result of significant preparation and productive work. Thank you very much. Respectfully, Charles Thomas Millspaugh Pomeroy, Wash....
February is here, and with it, Valentine’s Day. I remember the first time I asked a girl out. I was in sixth grade. She quickly turned me down. It took me three more years to work up the courage to ask another girl out, but I had learned and was more mature! This time it would be different! It wasn’t. I was again rejected. Ah, but a mere year later, the third girl I asked out…well, it ended in rejection. Based on my history I should have known better than to ask out that cute red-haired-girl my senior year, but I didn’t. She said yes. Four ye...
POMEROY–Weather again proved to be problematic for Pomeroy Gun Club members during the fifth week of the Camas Prairie 10 Week Shoot. High winds hampered the Junior Shooters on Saturday and the Senior Shooters faced near Blizzard conditions at times on Sunday. On Saturday, the 12-year-old and under shooters were led in singles by Peyton Cannon's score of 15, Carter Barron posted a 13. In Handicap Peyton had another 15 and Braxton McKeirnan managed a 13. Sub Juniors were lead in singles by the 1...
Ten Years Ago February 9, 2011 The Pomeroy Shrine Club raised almost $5,000 for the Spokane Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children and patient transportation fund in its recent donation drive. Denny Ashby Library patrons can now download audiobooks and eBooks from the library’s website thanks to a generous donation from the Shepherd Foundation and federal Library Service and Technology Act dollars. Twenty-Five Years Ago February 14, 1996 Though Garfield County didn’t suffer the major flooding of surrounding counties, roads here had a lot of w...
POMEROY–The Harold and Helen Shepherd Foundation has awarded $323,965.61 in the COVID-19 year of 2020. Since 1996 the Harold and Helen Shepherd Foundation has been granting money to various nonprofit organizations in Garfield County. For the year 2020 the Foundation has given $323,965.61. Harold and Helen Shepherd were Garfield County residents who dearly loved this community and upon their passing had a foundation in place to award grants each year to assist various non-profit organizations. Helen Morris Shepherd grew up Garfield County and w...
Garfield County Superior Court–Judge Tom Cox: January 6, 2021 Shanice Bonaparte, of Lewiston, pleaded guilty to felony Possession of Methamphetamine. Bonaparte was sentenced to: 90 days jail; $500 in legal financial obligations; as well as 12 months of Dept. of Corrections Community Custody. Garfield County District Court–Judge Tom Cox December 9, 2020 Gilbert Niebel, of Pomeroy, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor offenses of Trespassing as well as Trespass While Hunting. Niebel was fined $59...
POMEROY–Teachers are making their mark on education as many students excel academically through this difficult COVID-19 era. Those on the Honor Roll are acknowledged for their excellent grade point averages, and the Principal’s Honor Roster and High Honor Roster recognized outstanding academic achievement and effort. Following are the recipients of the 2020–21 first semester Junior and Senior high honor roll. Seniors: 4.00–Nicholas Vendeland and Maya Kowatsch; 3.25 to 3.99–Mason Baker, Natalie Bryson, Dillen Gerking, Hanna Gerking, Tyson Kim...