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Garlan and Linda Cutler celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Sept. 23, 2011. The couple was married on Sept. 23, 1961, in Longview, at Trinity Lutheran Church with Pastor Wulf officiating. Their children, Todd and Cyndi Cutler, Neal and Yolanda Cutler, Carlan Cutler and Matt and Jamey (Cutler) Clark, treated the couple to a weekend retreat at Campbell’s Resort, Chelan. The couple along with their children, grandchildren and close family celebrated with an intimate l...
The management of Casuela’s Mexican Grill want to make sure their customers know that the business is open and ready to serve the community. Last week a couple of incidents, according to restaurant employees, led to some discussions in the community regarding the future of the establishment. On Monday, Oct. 3, the restaurant was closed while new carpeting was installed. On Thursday, the restaurant was closed until 5 p.m. due to a power outage. An Avista power pole in the alley behind the restaurant caught fire, knocking o...
Rose (Pflugrath) MacDonald, age 99, died at a local care facility in Brookings, Ore., on Oct. 3, 2011. She was born May 28, 1912, in Ritzville to Emmanuel and Christina (Stuckle) Pflugrath. She grew up on the family farm in Ritzville. There she met Ted Vaughn; the two were married in 1935 and moved to Wenatchee. They later moved to Pendleton, Ore., where they lived for 30 years. They later divorced. In 1975, she moved to Sunnyvale, Calif., where she sold stamps and arranged...
Angeline F. “Babe” Steinmetz, age 96, died Oct. 9, 2011, in Ritzville. She was born to George and Mary Lange Gleich on June 27, 1915, in Paha. She had seven sisters and three brothers, all deceased. She married Alex Steinmetz in 1931 and they celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in April 2006. Her husband died in September 2006. They had three sons: Larry and wife Eleanor of Liberty Lake, Lonny, deceased, and wife Sharon of Moses Lake, David and wife Barbara of Ritzville; 10 grandchildren (one deceased), 17 great-grandch...
Somebody reminded me the other day that I questioned Amanda Knox’s innocence four years ago and asked if I’m ready to apologize. Well, I made that assessment on the basis of what I read in the newspapers about the case at the time. She was saying one thing one day and something different the next. She may have been so drugged up at the time of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher that she has no clear recollection of how much of a part she took in it, but I still think she was there when it was done. And so was her...
In today’s era of $14 trillion budget deficits, $18 billion seems like chump change. But with every penny of federal spending on the chopping block, that amount is eye-catching. NASA needs that money over the next five years to build its new space launch system —a behemoth rocket that would eventually carry our astronauts to Mars. The rocket will be topped with a space capsule similar to Apollo, which carried Americans to the moon and back 40 years ago. The new rocket will be tested in an unmanned flight in 2017, with the fir...