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Family and friends gathered together on Sunday, July 1 at the Wheat Growers Building to celebrate 50 years of marriage between Del and Carol Schwisow. The couple had married on July 1, 1962. Laura Evans recreated a replica of their wedding cake and Margaret Farris cooked a Sunday brunch for all in attendance. An estimated 120 people attended the event, mostly Washington State University supporters, as both Del and Carol are Cougar fans. Photos and keepsakes of the couple were...
Charles Lester Snouffer of Louisburg, Kan., passed away Friday, July 6, at North Point Skilled Nursing Care in Paola, Kan., at the age of 97. He was born May 12, 1915, to Verlin V. and Mary Alice Phillips Snouffer, on the family farm near Somerset, Kan., becoming the third generation of Snouffers to live there. Two of his great-grandchildren live there with their parents today. He graduated from Paola High School in 1934, where he’d been a guard on the football team. After high school, he moved to Lind, to work for P...
Violet Kohl passed away on Monday, July 2, at Mission Healthcare in Bellevue at the age of 99. She was born on Feb. 23, 1913, in Lind to Jacob and Maria Pflugrad. The family lived in Lind until Jacob retired in 1926, when they moved to Walla Walla. She married Johnnie Harl Kohl on June 21, 1934, in Walla Walla. Their marriage continued for 62 years, until Johnnie’s death on Dec. 21, 1996. She is survived by three sons, Johnnie (Dee) Kohl of Renton, Wash., Richard Kohl of Bellevue and Gary (Lin) Kohl of Houston, Texas; five g...
Richard “Dick” Leonard passed away on July 9, in Spokane, at the age of 86. He was born to on July 9, 1926, in Northport, Wash., to Alva and Dorothy Leonard. He attended West Valley High School and joined the Navy on July 9, 1943, at the age of 17. After returning in 1947, he continued his military service in the reserves until 1955. In 1951, he married Eileen Keebaugh who would stand by his side for the next 60 years. The couple continued to live in Spokane raising their fou...
The parts department at Odessa Trading Company (OTC), a division of Ritzville Warehouse Company, has been awarded the 2011 Pinnacle Award. The award was presented to OTC General Manager H.P. Carstensen and Parts Department Manager Ted Suchland on Tuesday, July 3, by Greg Gresty, Case IH Territory Sales Manager. Also on hand for the presentation was James Hudson, Case IH Manager of Field Service Operations. The award is the outcome of the Pinnacle Footprint strategy from Case IH, a self-assessment program developed to drive...
Second Harvest Inland Northwest and Emanuel Lutheran Church will host a mobile food bank distribution on Friday, July 20 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Emanuel parking lot. Second Harvest’s mobile food bank program gets nutritious fresh foods to hungry people in rural and urban communities served by food pantries that lack adequate refrigeration to safely handle perishable products. “Getting donated food to where it’s needed most is one of our biggest challenges,” said Jason Clark, Second Harvest’s executive director. “The mobi...
Writing a sports column can be very interesting to say the least. There are those times when the topic and story just flows so easy. There are other times when it’s a grind. But whatever it is, I try to put it all together and come up with something that is enjoyable to read. I hear from a lot of people who are very kind and tell me how much they enjoy reading this column. I know that most people want to read about stuff that they can relate to but that is not always going t...
Apparently, the battle for clean energy can be a very dirty business. For years, the Sierra Club has been waging an all-out war to end the use of coal. Dubbed “Beyond Coal,” the campaign includes a hit list of coal projects the Sierra Club is targeting, including “green” projects designed to reduce coal plant emissions to zero. The Sierra Club is getting help in its war on coal from the Obama administration. Not surprising, since candidate Obama famously warned that, as president, he would endeavor to bankrupt the coal in...
A few years ago, I wrote an article outlining recent changes to the state’s Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and how those changes would impact farmers, small businesses and local commerce. While there are no impending major changes at the state level for farm CDLs, recent legislation and new federal requirements have brought (and are bringing) about changes that you may need to be aware of. This session, the state Legislature passed Senate Bill 6423, which clarifies the current exemption farm vehicles receive fro...