Serving Franklin County, WA
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LIND – Here are the local anniversaries and birthdays for the month of December: Anniversaries Dec. 14 – Michael and Amy Branson, and Dick and Shannon Davis Dec. 22 – Greg and Jamie Schmunk Dec. 25 – Dave and Cheryle Allan Dec. 29 – Garry and Donna Bittick Dec. 31 – Palmer and Lauren Phillips Birthdays Dec. 1 – Mark Aby, tyler Ray Cashmere, Grace Kaplicky, Benjamin Blake and Beverly Lomax Dec. 2 – Sue Sackman Dec. 3 – Melissa Branson and Brynn Potts-Thome Dec. 4 – Jewel Stevenson and Denise Lund Dec. 5 – Dustin Norton Dec. 6...
At this time of the year, I usually take time to reflect on the several years I was associated with the game of football. Contrary to what some people think, football coaches teach their players much more than how to block and tackle. Coaches are teachers who use football as a vehicle to instill in their players the essential attributes of character, citizenship, and ethics. My first coach had instructions for almost every occasion. He would recite them and post different ones in the locker room. My favorite was, “Focus d...
It is that time of year when people put up their outside holiday lights and displays. Judging from our neighborhood they are decorating more than usual. In our country 90 percent of individuals say they plan to celebrate the holidays this year. Total retail sales between Thanksgiving and Christmas are projected to reach $957 billion. The setting for the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is reminiscent of bedecked suburban communities. Clark Griswold decorates every foot o...
School choice programs give families between $4,000 and $8,000 per student to cover the cost of private education. These programs provide families public assistance to select a private school if their zip-code assigned public school is not a good fit for their child. In the last two years, school choice has exploded across the United States. In 2019, private school choice programs in the U.S. served only 500,000 students, less than 1% of the nation’s school children. Today, 2...
OLYMPIA – Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is injecting himself into Idaho law. Last week, he joined 21 other Democrat attorneys general in a court brief to try to block the Idaho law requiring students to use restrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their gender. “In Washington, where the rights of transgender students are protected, public schools report no instances of transgender students harassing others in bathrooms or locker rooms,” Ferguson said in a press release announce he was joining other Democ...