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POMEROY-Garfield County Hospital District (GCHD) is experiencing a Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) shortage, an outcome of the education shutdown due to COVID-19 restrictions. It was expressed at the GCHD Board meeting September 1; they are experiencing a shortage of CNAs. It is a problem other area hospital are also experiencing, caused by the lack of training classes being offered due to COVID-19 restrictions. This has forced GCHD to hire CNAs through a staffing agency, which is at a much greater expense. The board has been informed the...
POMEROY––Zero DB, new contractors for the construction of the Port of Garfield’s broadband project, have begun work and expect to have it completed by early December, 2020, reported Diana Ruchert, Port Director, at the meeting of the Port’s Board of Commissioners on September 1. Zero DB has divided the construction area into three sections, and as each section is completed and tested, the Port will allow internet providers to begin signing up individuals for service. These sections are the remaining area of the original Phase 1 plans under t...
Garfield County Courthouse's stoic Civil War bronze statue keeps steady vigil over downtown Pomeroy, in front of the historic 1901 courthouse. The Grand Army of the Republic placed a statue in 1904, which was removed in the 1950s, and replaced with this one in 2000, courtesy of VFW Post No. 2351 and the Garfield County Pioneer Society. -File photo...
POMEROY–The Garfield County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) in final discussions over overnight camping for the restructured Garfield County Fair plan as of their meeting on August 31. The BOCC has yet to finalize the overnight camping plan for this year's "restructured" Garfield County Fair. A preliminary plan has been drawn up, but was not ready to present to the BOCC for approval. Commissioner Justin Dixon will submit it to Commissioners Wynne McCabe and Bob Johnson later that a...
POMEROY––Fire lines were deemed completed and the majority of crews were working their way out of the 486-acre Rattlesnake Fire as of September 1, reported the USFS Incident Management Team working the fire located twenty miles south of Pomeroy and thirteen miles southeast of Dayton. A type 2 crew was assigned to remain on the fire for a few days. The Rattlesnake Fire was in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness on the Pomeroy Ranger District, burning in a fifteen-year old fire scar. Some burning and smoldering in heavier fuels remained last week, par...
STARBUCK–Kyler Lovgren has been selected as Plant Manager at Lyons Ferry for Columbia Pulp, LLC. In this new role he will lead the operations at that location. He will also be responsible in the efforts drive the company forward as the only tree-free pulp product in North America by improving processes, and methods of deliverables, and growing employees. Lovgren, a three-year company employee, started with the company as Manager of the Maintenance department, overseeing the construction of t...
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill...
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Catching avocado rustlers is sort of a cross between the Covid virus, wildfires, exchange students bearing addictive goodies and coon hunting. “All right, come down outta that tree and drop that avocado. Frisk him, Ken and don’t forget to check for lemons.” In the southern California county of Ventura you will find the occasionally fractious co-mingling of densely populated residential areas and intensive orchard and truck farming. I’m sure there was a time when farmers gladly supplied their n...
Ten Years Ago September 8, 2010 Elton Brown was honored by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife earlier this summer for decades of volunteer service to hunter and shooting education. Brown volunteered as a Washington Hunter Education program instructor for 30 years, and been active in the Pomeroy Gun Club, especially with the Pomeroy Junior Trapshooting program, for 50 years, donating not only time but money and equipment. Garfield County Sheriff’s Department will participate in the first nationwide prescription drug take-back day. Tw...
POMEROY–People almost never fully agree on one thing, and it’s usually the minor, irrelevant thing people get upset about. Why is that? Why do we take the time to yell and bicker with each other when really, we could just compromise and move on? I understand people have different views on a wide variety of things which exposes other points of view. That’s a good thing. Being the head-strong person, I am, I defend what I believe in. I don’t become argumentative until people tell me I am being i...