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Two book clubs in Ritzville have announced meetings for the month of October. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Book Club will meet on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 10 a.m. at Perkins Restaurant. “The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction” by Linda Gordon will be the book selection. The Ritzville Public Library Book Club has scheduled its next meeting for Thursday, Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m., in the library basement. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot is the selection....
The annual meeting of Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW) is set for Friday, Oct. 21, at the Pillar Rock Grill in Moses Lake from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The all day and evening event is $60 and will include two panel discussions. One will focus on CPoW livestock processing facility and marketing of meats and the second will concentrate on the wolves in Washington state. There will be time for questions from the audience. A USA beef prime rib dinner is at 6-9 p.m. and will feature entertainment by Dave McClure, cowboy humorist,... Full story
BISMARCK, ND — Many people might imagine a tormented afterlife much like Dante depicted — fire, physical torture, and inescapable punishment. But one man’s unique interpretation can be found in a 1944 one-act play written by Jean-Paul Sartre called “No Exit.” Sartre’s depiction of hell is portrayed through three primary characters who are left in a locked room to torment each other. Their sins and desires are revealed through probing conversation, prodding and just being in each other’s company, and they soon realize that... Full story
Mildred Woodyard, former Washtucna resident, died Sept. 23, 2011, in DeKalb, Ill. She was born in 1919 and lived in Washtucna until 2007. She married Jim Woodyard and has three children, Ella, Chip and Susan. Services are pending. Burial is planned at Washtucna at a later date....
Have you noticed that some of the best comedic writing that is seen on TV has been coming from ad men doing insurance commercials? Some of those segments are really funny. Of course one of the real problems with commercials is that they get kind of stale after the third or fourth play. I do want you to know that I haven’t been influenced enough to change insurance companies; I just need a laugh now and then and many of the sitcoms really lack true comedic value. You can get a...
The Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce will once again coordinate the Toddler Trick-or-Treat event. The Halloween activity will be conducted on Monday, Oct. 31. The activity serves as a safe, daylight opportunity for families to take young children out for Halloween. They visit participating businesses where the costumed children can fill their bags with treats! Any business interested in participating in the activity should contact the chamber office at (509) 659-1936....
There are two open positions on the Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Any chamber member interested in serving on the board should contact the chamber at (509) 659-1936....
The Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce will host its annual community awards banquet and auction on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the C.J. Newland American Legion Memorial Hall. Nominations for the community awards, including Business of the Year, Volunteer of the Year and Farmer of the Year will be available at the chamber office beginning on Monday, October 3. The nomination form will also be printed next week in The Journal....
Voter registration deadlines for the Nov. 8 General Election are fast approaching. Anyone who is not registered to vote in Adams County may do so online at http://www.vote.wa.gov or in person at the Adams County Auditor’s Office at 210 W. Broadway Ave. in Ritzville. Call Heidi Hunt at (509) 659-3249 for more information....
Aug. 15, 6:50 p.m. – Washington State Patrol Trooper Tyler Fryberger requested a second unit at the scene of a DUI involving drugs at the westbound Schrag rest area. Dep. Dan Verhey responded as other WSP units were unavailable. Verhey transported a five-year-old child to the sheriff’s office where a family member was waiting to pick the child up. Aug. 15, 9:16 p.m. – Complainant advised that a male subject had failed to pay for several vehicle parts. Dep. Verhey contacted the subject, who advised a verbal agreement had o... Full story
Glumness of Washingtonians has plunged to a new low below zero, says pollster Stu Elway, lower than it was during the Great Recessions of 2008 and 2009. How do you measure glumness, which is pessimism as opposed to optimism? By asking questions like do you expect things to get better during the next year, i.e., nationally, in the state, and where you live? A couple of years ago, the answer was yes, today the answer is no. What sets my glumness meter off, however, is not so much the economy but what’s happening in the g...
Where is summer? It seems that just a few weeks ago we welcomed the bone warming heat of the summer sun, and now the mild and gentle feel of fall has befallen us. Golf, gardening and picnics will soon end as the days shorten, nights cool and we settle into the comforting predictability of the school year. Hopefully we have a ways to go before fall fully materializes, but two or three years ago Mark and I left town amidst a warm early October, and returned home a week later to frost-killed tomato bushes and gardens that showed...
Aug. 29, 2011 Stephen M. Clippinger entered a guilty plea to one count of second-degree taking of a vehicle without permission in a case filed on April 25, 2011. Judge Richard W. Miller in Adams County Superior Court sentenced Clippinger to 30 days in the Adams County Jail. Miller ordered Clippinger to pay $500 crime victim assessment, $200 criminal filing fee, $30 sheriff’s service fees, $350 court-appointed attorney and $500 fine. No supervision was ordered. Aug. 23, 2011 On March 10, 2011, Brandon Lynn Pierce pled g... Full story