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POMEROY–Operation Christmas Child boxes will be filled with seasonal delights by the First Christian Church and residents of the Garfield County Memorial Hospital again this year. The First Christian Church will be holding a packing party on Sunday, October 23, after worship service. Last year they packed around 40 boxes and hope to have a similar amount this year. Shirley Fisher stated that residents of the Garfield County Memorial Hospital will also be packing boxes. They will pack six s...
Ten years ago October 10, 2012 Caroline Wendt, who was serving Pomeroy Post Office as officer-in-charge since August during the transition after Bill Chandler’s retirement, will be at the facility on a permanent basis. The friendly, energetic manager received her official appointment to the position on Oct. 1 as the office’s postmaster. In her career with the Postal Service that started in 1990 in Endicott, Caroline has served as postmaster in that city as well as in Starbuck and Waitsburg. Fri...
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather...
When they asked Jesus what the greatest commandment was, He said that it was to love God, with every part of ourselves. Then, He thought it was necessary to add a second part to His answer- "Love your neighbor as yourself". He didn't say it in way that meant, "Hey, you know what else is also probably a good idea? Love your neighbor." Rather, He refused to allow the love of neighbor to be separated from loving God. In fact, Jesus said loving God and neighbor was what the whole Law was all about....
Ten years ago October 3, 2012 Making sure that district patrons are aware of the website www.psd.wednet.edu and how it can make connecting with the district more easily is important to Marcus Pederson, school district music director and the technical coordinator. Pederson helped develop the website through a contract with Educational Service District 123. The project started in 2011 and was completed at the end of the year, with Pederson training on the “Joomla!” site-builder software. The mos...
Robert Dixon “He is such a kind man.” The times I have heard that said are innumerable. Robert was born April 11, 1939 at home in Pomeroy, Wash., to Clayton and Helena Dixon, joining his brother Eugene and his sister Sally. He was premature and his father created an incubator out of a shoe box in a dresser drawer. He grew to be a strapping 6 ft 190 lbs. Due to his mother’s heart condition Robert spent most of his childhood being cared for in various households. His Mother passed away when he was 10 yrs. old. A few years later good frien...
“The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.” – Finley Peter Dunne...
Garfield County Hospital District is proud to announce June's Employee of the Month, Val Tewalt. She was nominated by her co-workers who state, "She has a great attitude and is always helping out where needed." Val was born in Newport, Ore. but was raised from her youth in Lebanon, Oregon on the eastern edge of Willamette Valley. Her earliest work experience began at age 12 where she worked at the Willamette Speedway Racetrack selling food and drinks at a concession stand. "My brother, who was...
Ten years ago September 26, 2012 Toni Cloud and Katelin Turner each won $50 as winners in the teen summer reading program at the Denny Ashby Library. The tow participated in the “Own the Night” program. Participants submitted short book reviews for each book read and these two lucky readers had their reviews drawn by library board members. Toni said her favorite book read this summer was Divergent by Veronica Roth. Katelin said her favorite was The Beetle and Me by Karen Romano Young. It mig...
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain...
Ten years ago September 19, 2012 Delbert Niebel retired from bringing bids at Fair market sale. He received a plaque from the Garfield County Market Sale Committee recognizing the auctioneer’s 30 years of service to the Fair’s livestock market sale. After calling the first Grand Champion of the sale, Delbert was brought into the arena that is named after him and honored by the Market Sale Committee and an appreciative audience. He then took a seat in the stands, winding up three decades beh...
“The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” – Edward Gibbon...
POMEROY-The Man Cave show opening at the Blue Mountain Artisan Guild on September 8 featured exhibits such as knives, taxidermy, restored cars, engineering projects, wood, metal, and clay working, and painting. The show is sponsored by Jarillynn Farms, and the featured artists are the men who exhibited their work. The junior featured artists are Nick Hastings, Conrad, Corbin, and Colyer Nelson....
COLFAX–Kendal Dixon and Colby Legerwood achieved high marks and awards at the Whitman County Palouse Empire Fair in Colfax, Wash. on September 8-11. Dixon, a senior at Pomeroy High School and FFA member place fifth overall in the Livestock Evaluation contest at the Palouse Empire Fair. Ledgerwood, a sophomore at Pomeroy High School and FFA member, left with Reserve Grand Champion Market Steer; Grand Champion Feeder Steer; and Reserve Champion in Fitting and Showing....
Ten years ago September 12, 2012 The 2012 Garfield County Market Sale will showcase 67 exhibitors with market animals to sell. The 67 animals consist of four lambs, 23 steers, and 40 hogs. The sale begins a 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 15. Larry Ledgerwood of the market sale committee said these 4-H and FFA members "have worked over the summer to care for their animals and will work hard throughout the fair preparing and showing them prior to the sale." The market sale committee invites...
POMEROY–The Blue Mountain Artisan Guild (BMAG) pillow case painting classes will begin October 6; one at 3-5 p.m. and another class at 6- 8 p.m. Each participant will paint a 16 X 16 pillow case using a fall theme. The cost of the class will include all paint materials, pillow case and the insert form. Early sign up at the BMAG gallery for one of 10 available spaces is important to order supplies. A deposit is required....
POMEROY–The Stay Active and Independent for Life (SAIL) classes will begin at the Senior Center on Tuesday, September 27 at 1:15-2:30 p.m. The Garfield County Health District once again brings back exercise classes designed to strengthen, improve balance and enhance fitness for adults 65 and older. Each Tuesday afternoon, this nine-week course will provide a scheduled routine of physical activity indoors where the environment is always good, no matter the conditions outside. Research has found as a person ages, they experience muscle loss w...
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw...
Kenneth Ledgerwood March 1, 1954–September 3, 2022 Kenneth "Coug" Ledgerwood died September 3, 2022, in a kayaking accident. He was in one of his favorite places, the Salmon River, surrounded by the people he loved most. Kenneth "Coug" Ledgerwood was born March 1, 1954 in Pomeroy to George Ledgerwood and Dorothy (Prater) Ledgerwood. He attended Holy Rosary School and Pomeroy High School, graduating in 1972. After high school, he graduated from WyoTech with a degree in automotive mechanics. A...
POMEROY–Garfield County Hospital District welcomes Marybella Dodson to its staff on Tuesday, September 6. As a newly hired nurse practitioner in primary care services, Dodson will see patients at the Pomeroy Medical Clinic. Prior to joining GCHD, Dodson was employed as an acute medical nurse as part of COVID-19 deployments at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, Idaho; The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash.; and Long I...
Ten years ago September 5, 2012 For the first time since 2005, Deb Waldher won’t be in the kindergarten classroom when the first day of the school year, and the first day of school ever for these students, comes today in the Pomeroy School District. Deb retired from teaching at the end of the 2011-12 school year. Attorney General Rob McKenna, Republican candidate for governor of Washington, will be in Pomeroy on Friday, Sept. 7. Twenty-five years ago September 10, 1997 With Labor Day falling o...
The moon as seen from Peola Road on Pataha Flat on September 1. It was very yellow that night. It put me in the mind of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme "Hey, diddle, diddle" as if a cow was about to jump over it. My dog was a sport and didn't laugh. Just as well because I didn't see the dish run away with the spoon. But I thought I could hear that old cat playing on the fiddle. -EW photo by Naomi Scoggin...
“Thinking: the talking of the soul to itself.” – Plato...
Ten years ago August 29, 2012 With the 2012 harvest in Garfield County just about done, Pomeroy Grain Growers general manager Bob Cox’s evaluation is that it’s “another good year” for county farmers. Bob estimated that 85% of the fields had been harvested as of last week and that everything should be “in the bin” by Labor Day. Though 2012’s yields are “not quite as good” as the record yields of 2011, they’re still above average. And prices are $2.00 higher this year, and the $9.00 Portland quot...
POMEROY–The Blue Mountain Artisan Guild (BMAG) kicks off the “Man Cave” art show with a reception scheduled at the gallery on September 8 at 5-7 p.m. The “Man Cave” art exhibit and reception sponsored by Jaril Lynn Farms, will display various creations of many different mediums from local adult men artists and craftsmen. They will be joined by junior artists Conrad, Corbin and Colver Nelson, and Nick Hastings. Mark your calendar and invite your friends and family to this special event....