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  • Gimenez growing Back 40 BBQ

    Mike Gonzalez, Franklin Connection|Updated Apr 6, 2022

    PASCO - For Back 40 BBQ owner James Gimenez cooking has always been a family tradition. "My aunts and my grandma were always cooking. We all had a passion for cooking, but catering is a whole different ballgame. It's the major league of cooking," Gimenez said. Gimenez's father, Frank, moved his family from Los Angeles to Pasco in 1971 for a better life on a farm. "I've asked him numerous times. Why Pasco? He gave a one-word answer, "water," Gimenez said. "I don't know if you...

  • Northeast Washington whitetail hunting in jeopardy

    Dale Magart, Northeast Washington Wildlife Group|Updated Apr 6, 2022

    The Northeast Washington Wildlife Group is very concerned about the whitetail deer in District 1 of Region 1 in Northeast Washington. The harvest numbers for the area in 2019 and 2020 set record lows and the blue tongue outbreak in 2020 was worse than the very bad outbreak of 2015. The city of Colville removed over 160 carcasses from within city limits last year, in 2015 they removed 80. When asked if the state Department of Fish and Wildlife had any plans to help deer numbers...

  • Senator: Fuel-price increase hitting farmers

    Olivia Harnack, Whitman County Gazette|Updated Apr 6, 2022

    RIZVILLE – “We’re north of a dollar more in diesel than where we were before the invasion,” Sen. Mark Schoesler began in a recent interview. Schoesler, a farmer himself, represents the 9th Legislative District, including Whitman County. His comments came during an interview on the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on diesel fuel and farming. Fuel prices continue to rise leaving farmers forced to save and to hope for prices to drop, he said. “I still consider myself a farmer first and a senator second,” Schoesler said. “Ther...