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By Cindy Klaveano Special to the East Washingtonian POMEROY–National Day of Prayer will be observed nationally as well as locally on May 4 at noon, at an as-yet undetermined location. This is the 72nd year our nation has set aside a day to pray for our country and its leaders. The day is being planned by volunteers of the local churches and will include a "prayer clock" which is carried out in each church throughout the day. Members of the churches sign up to pray for half an hour each for o...
The Little League season is underway in Pomeroy and these steely-eyed ball players are in the thick of competition. Both teams played a double header Saturday, April 22, and won both games....
POMEROY-The Port of Garfield County Commissioners agreed to pay the Garfield County Road Department for weed spraying and discussed the demolition of Warehouse 3 at their meeting on April 18. The Port will pay $1,480.20 to the County Road Department for spraying edges of the roads on Port property, mowing them, and applying a sterilant. The project is expected to take about 12 hours of work, and the price includes the cost of chemicals. Demolition of Warehouse 3 has been completed. Chris'...
POMEROY-The Garfield County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) signed a lease agreement and passed a resolution at their meeting on April 24. The lease is for Inland Cellular's cell tower site at Dodge. It will allow Garfield County to place their repeater on the tower, which it more suitable than the current site. The commissioners passed resolution 2023-09, officially stating the BOCC's support and agreement to the Hazard Mitigation Plan that was discussed last week....
POMEROY-The Garfield County Fire District No. 1 Commissioners (GCFD) discussed grants received as well as possibilities for expanding the training room and crew quarters at their meeting on April 11. The GCFD received a grant from Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response of $73,700, over a period of four years, to pay for volunteer recruitment efforts including professional videos and theatrical showings and 10 sets of new turnouts. The district also received $5,250 from the Garfield...
Garfield County Hospital District is proud to announce February's Employee of the Month, Daniel Bickerdyke. He was nominated by his co-workers who state, "He is great with the patients, goes the extra mile and always willing to help." Daniel was born in Panama on the Canal Zone. His father served in the Army and moved the family back to the United States when Daniel was very young. Reminiscing on the various places he lived, he named seven different states to include, Alabama, New Jersey, New...
“What is a soul? It’s like electricity - we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” – Ray Charles...
POMEROY––Pirate baseball fans have been treated to exciting baseball with Pomeroy splitting double headers against DeSales and Touchet, but playing taut ball in the process. The Pirates are battling for a fourth seed into district with the end of the season ahead. The Pirates played at Gar-Pal on Tuesday and visit Endicott to face SJEL in the season-finale twin bill Saturday, April 29. Presently the Pirates are one game out of a fourth seed into the district playoffs, Head Coach Kyler Lovgren sa...
When our state's budget surplus reached approximately $15 billion last year, many of us felt it was time to give some of that back to taxpayers in the form of meaningful property tax relief. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Instead, Democrat budget writers continued a decade-long trend of spending just about every dime given to them. They even changed some rules to take money that should have gone into the state's rainy-day fund, just so they could spend it on new programs and entitlements. Wh...
Ten Years Ago May 1, 2013 Pomeroy Spinners plan to begin the facelift on the outside of Maple Hall. Siding is being installed on the west side of the building as well as on the gable ends. Pomeroy School Board hired current high school principal Doug LaMunyan as the district's next superintendent and principal for the elementary and high schools.. Twenty-Five Years Ago April 29, 1998 Diane Prince, Pomeroy High School science teacher, received the Educator of the Year award from the Grand lodge...
PASCO–Chase Caruso continued her winning ways at Sun Willows Golf Course here Monday, April 24, shooting an 84 for first-place honors, with teammate Brady Bott tying for second in the boys' division with an 82, according to Al Damron, Head Coach of the golf team. Both members of the Pirate Golf Team are tuning up for the final push to Sub-District and District golf matches. "With the post season just around the corner, we are in a very strong position of hoping for a few spots in the state t...
COLFAX–Pirates Sidney Bales and Katie Boyer are pole vaulting well, both athletes taking first in the event at meets last week, the MacDougall Invitational here April 22 and at a NE 2B meet in Clarkston on April 18. At MacDougall, Bales cleared 13-0 and Boyer 8-6 for firsts in the pole vault, helping the boys to eighth place with 33½ and the girls to 12th place with 17 points. At Clarkston, Bales matched his 13-0 vault and Boyer set a personal record of 8-10. Bales also ran an 11-86 1...
POMEROY–Two painting with acrylic on a sourdough prepared canvas classes offered at the Blue Mountain Artisan Guild Gallery on May 11 at 2-4 p.m. and 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sign up at BMAG. SPOKANE–Take your team to HOOPFEST 2023 June 24-25. To sign-up, go to Spokanehoopfest.net. Registration closes May 14. POMEROY–Free puzzles at the Senior Center. Scan this QR code for access to the East Washingtonian website....