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POMEROY-The first order of business at the regular Garfield County Commissioners’ (BOCC) meeting Jan. 27, Commissioner Justin Dixon was re-elected as the chairman of the GCHD board. The Garfield County Health District (GCHD) Administrator Martha Lanman, addressed the BOCC that the Southeast Washington Accountable Communities of Health (SEWA ACH) had met and elected two representatives from each county included in the association, Asotin, Garfield, and Columbia counties. Lanman will serve as a board member and administrator. The SEWA ACH has b...
POMEROY–Garfield-Palouse offered little resistance to Pomeroy as the league-leading Lady Pirates cruised to a 47-29 win, closing the regular season with a 9-1 league mark, 18-1 overall. Second to the Lady Bucs was Oakesdale, then Colton in third and GP in fourth. In the first round of the District 9 tournament, the Lady Pirates face GarPal at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14 on the maple in Pomeroy. In state RPI rankings, Pomeroy finished the regular season in first with an 18-1 record, 9-1 in 1B S...
POMEROY–The Garfield County Hospital District (GCHD) Board of Commissioners discuss the proposed contract with Allevant Solutions, LLC, for training and marketing services to enhance the swing bed portion of the hospital for the use of long-term transitional care patients at Monday night's regular meeting, February 3, 2020. Chairman, Cindy Wolf, began the discussion by reporting that she had been in contact with Deer Lodge Medical Center in Deer Lodge, Montana, which has been contracted with A...
POMEROY-The members of the Garfield County Ambulance Memorial Fund (GCAMF) advisory board met Monday, February 3, 2020, to discuss a proposal to move the fund management under the umbrella of the Garfield County Health Foundation (GCHF) Fund. The GCAMF would become a sub-fund under the GCHF. Donations could be made to either fund. Grant requests would still go to a committee for approval, and would be dispersed from the sub-fund. Chris Muñoz expressed some concern that there didn't appear to...
POMEROY-Pat Bly, Demo Derby promoter, met with the Garfield County Commissioners Monday, January 27, 2020, to make a presentation and ask for permission to conduct car races and a demolition derby on Saturday night of the 2020 Garfield County Fair. He has already presented the idea to the Fair Board, but was directed to the County Commissioners for the final authorization. Bly said his company provides the entire set up, tear down and damage control; spectator bleachers, straw bales for walls around the arena. They operate the event...
“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” – Marcel Proust...
Each legislative session, many bills are introduced by my fellow lawmakers. This year is no exception. As of February 6, more than 1,300 bills had been offered, not counting bills held over from 2019. But only a small number of these have a chance to become law. When a bill is introduced its immediately referred to a committee. February 7 was the cutoff date for Senate policy bills to be passed by the committees to which they’d been sent. Senate bills dealing with the three state budgets (operat...
That they would find each other would have been as unlikely to predict as the fall of communism or the good sheep market. She was old and a lifelong Southern Baptist. They were young and on a mission for the Mormon Church. A requirement of good ‘Mormonism’ for young men is to serve as a missionary for the church for two years. They are expected to go door to door wherever they are sent and spread the gospel of the Latter-day Saints (LDS), also called Mormons. Now if you think that’s easy, put y...
This is week five of addressing common questions and concerns about Garfield County Hospital District. If you missed any of the first four articles, they can be found East Washingtonian website or the Hospital’s Facebook page. This week we will be discussing hospital management. One of the most cited problems from rural hospitals around the nation is CEO turnover and GCHD has been no exception. The District has had eight different CEO’s over the last five years including our current leaders. Without consistent leadership it has been dif...
POMEROY–Character. I thought I knew what character meant until I had to write a speech about it for Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). My speech topic had to be based on a FBLA goal and among the outline there was one bullet point called “Build Character”. I have absolutely no idea why those words stuck out to me, but it impacted me. So, I decided to write my speech on character. As I began writing, I began to question what it really meant, and as it turns out, I had reason to quest...
POMEROY–The Denny Ashby Library and Friends of Denny Ashby Library are hosting a free community seminar “Springing into Spring-Getting Your Yard and Garden Ready” presented by Washington State University, Garfield County Extension, Master Gardeners at the Garfield Senior Center on February 24 at 12:30 p.m. The WSU/Garfield County Extension Master Gardeners will give some tips and research-based information on preparing your yard and garden for the upcoming year. Topics will include container gardening, seed starting and soils and other valua...
WALLA WALLA, Wash.–The Garfield Ambulance Memorial Fund (GAMF) has joined the Garfield County Health Foundation Fund (GCHFF) at the Blue Mountain Community Foundation (BMCF) with a fund transfer of $38,557.70. This financial melding is to strengthen and improve the health and well-being of the people of Garfield County. The Advisory Committee to the GCHFF, Leta Travis, Gary Houser, Louise Munday, Muriel Bott, Mike Field, Wynne McCabe, Bob Cox and Chris Munoz, welcomed the transfer of the funds to the Community Foundation. Lisa Gingerich met w...
POMEROY–Garfield County 4-H Livestock Club held their February meeting at the Fairgrounds on Sunday February 9. There were 13 members and three leaders present. We discussed that we have two members and one leader going to the Final Drive Show Clinic in Spokane on February 16. Our Judging Basket for the Spokane Junior Livestock Show benefit auction will be delivered this week to them for the auction on February 22. We have a few members interested in judging at the Asotin County Fair on April 2...
POMEROY-The Garfield County Fire District Board of Commissioners met Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at the fire station office, for their regular monthly meeting to finalize the plans for advertising for a new Fire Chief. The date for the meeting had been changed to the first Tuesday in the month for that purpose. The text and job description to be used in the advertising was approved by the commissioners, and plans were made to begin the ads in the second week of February. The open Fire Chief position will be advertised in the East Washingtonian,...
POMEROY–This past weekend marked the halfway point in the 10-week Camas Prairie Shoot. It was a great week with numerous shooters only missing one or two targets. There were three perfect 25s from the 16-yd line by Buck Geiger, Travis Ledgerwood, and Jeff Wade. Luke Ledgerwood also posted a perfect score during continentals. High scores for the fifth Camas Prairie Shoot are as follows: Adult 16yd-25s: Buck Geiger, Travis Ledgerwood, Jeff Wade; 24s: Brian Bingman, Clark Capwell, Justin Dixon, Terry John; 23s: Sean Beale, Lee Blachly, Robert D...
LEWISTON–On Saturday February 1, 2020, the Pomeroy Jr. High Wrestling team traveled to Lewiston to wrestle at the Jenifer Tournament. Pomeroy took 12 wrestlers to compete at the first tournament of the year. As a team, the Pirates placed sixth out of 12 teams, winning 16 matches and losing 18. Ethan Prevost, Walker Flynn, and Kyzer Herres all won their brackets and took home gold medals. "I was impressed at the aggressiveness our wrestlers demonstrated, and even though we have a lot to work on i...
POMEROY–Garfield County Commissioners opened ten Gould City-Mayview Road Phase IV project bids February 3, 2020. After the meeting began at 9 a.m., the bid envelopes started arriving. More seating was needed to accommodate the construction company representatives. Bids were received from: Selland Construction, Wenatchee, Wash., for $2,046,190.50; Barker, Inc., Dayton, Wash., for $1,944,343.13; Western Construction of Lewiston, Inc., for $2,662,080.55; Scarsella Brothers, based in Seattle, Wash., for $1,747,747.47; Debco Construction, O...
POMEROY–The Port of Garfield is hosting a community informational event to kick off the Fiber-to-the-Home broadband project at Maple Hall on Thursday, February 20 at 6 p.m. The Port will share information about construction design, the timeline and the contractors. Some contractors intend to attend the gathering. Bring your interest and your questions. For more information contact Port of Garfield Manager Diana Ruchert at 509-843-3740....
Ten Years Ago February 17, 2010 Pirate wrestlers placed third at Regional and ten will advance to State. Klytin Bott, Scott Wolf and Justin Aldrich won their weight class championships. By donating $1.00 to the relief effort for Haiti’s earthquake victims, Pomeroy students get to wear a hat during school hours for a day. Twenty-Five Years Ago February 15, 1995 Pomeroy School District patrons approved a $396,000 one-year maintenance and operations levy that included addition of an elementary administrator-curriculum person. Pomeroy High S...
Jan 21 Ambulance-164 Tenth St. Transfer-446 Pataha St. Truancy-789 Main St. Information-Snake River from Alpowa to Lower Granite Paper Service-1122 Arlington St. Traffic Hazard-Hwy. 12, M.P. 408 Jan 22 Sniff-Impound Lot Ambulance-1141 Arlington St. Jail Transport-789 Main St. to Asotin County Jail, Clarkston Wanted Person-789 Main St. Search Warrant-Impound Lot Ambulance-66 N. Sixth St. Information-50 Bowman Rd. Harassment-1090 Pataha St., Pomeroy High School Ambulance-789 Main St. Intoxication-1554 Arlington St. Jan 23 Sex Offense-No Entry...
January 8, 2020–Garfield County Superior Court–Judge Tom Cox David F. Edelman, of Portland, Ore., pleaded guilty to one count of Possession of Cocaine, a class C felony. Edelman was sentenced to 30 days jail; must pay $600 in legal financial obligations; and will be on 12 months Department. of Corrections (DOC) Community Custody. Renee R. Vasquez, formerly of Pomeroy, pleaded guilty to two counts of Possession of Methamphetamine, class C felonies. Vasquez was sentenced as a first-time offender to 30 days jail; $700 in legal financial obligation...
SPANGLE–Pirate wrestlers advanced to Regionals this Saturday at Reardan after competing in the District 7/9 South League Tournament last Thursday at Liberty H.S. Regionals starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at Reardan H.S. and the top four advance to state Feb. 21-22 at the Tacoma Dome. Braedyn White finished second in the 170 lb. division, defeating T. Ensley of Colfax by fall and then losing to J. Turner of Liberty. "White continued his strong season after a hard-fought loss in the f...
POMEROY–The Pirate boys' post-season play involves the Touchet versus St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse game, postponed from last Saturday due to flooding, and rescheduled for Tuesday night in Touchet. A Touchet win would give Pomeroy sole possession of fourth but an SJEL win would set up a Pomeroy-SJEL playoff game, set for 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in Colton. Visit eastwashingtonian.com for the breaking information. Either the Pirates or SJEL will face GarPal 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15 at Palouse, t...
The Pirate Junior High “A” volleyball team played two more games on February 3 and 6. Pomeroy hosted Colfax Feb. 3. We ended up losing by the scores of 25-16, 9-25, 11-15. “We played them earlier this year and lost all three games so I was very happy with not only taking a convincing game 1 from them but also playing a tough game 3,” said Coach Adam Van Vogt. “I feel like we’ve improved steadily every week this season and it is nice to see evidence of that based on closing the gap against an opponent we played earlier.” The team had its best se...