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It’s harvest time again and I look at all of the huge equipment that works hard to get the crop into the grain elevators. This past weekend I was reading a bit of history that my uncle wrote about the family farm, my mom’s dad’s place. He wrote about the work that was involved to get the crop planted using horses. He also talked about harvesting with a 9 foot header. My neighbor’s combine header is 40 feet. Anyway going from a header to a pull type combine with a 14 foot he...
PASCO - A local boy won a state B cross country title Saturday, Nov. 5, at Sun Willows Golf Course. Ciaran St. Hilaire, a junior at Tri-Cities Prepatory, took gold in the boys division, finishing the 5,000-meter course in 16:27.4. He was among Jaguar runners that included freshmen Paul Beery and Brenden Bohrmann; sophomores Aidric Muzatko and Josh Nolan; juniors, Tyler Baerlocher, Patrick Kovis and Brian Sweeney; and senio Gabriel Bohrmann. Overall, the boys team finished...
I was reading the sports page this morning and saw the odds posted for basketball games that would be played later in the day. This early in the season there are a lot of games being played by the haves versus the have-nots. There are also some games that look highly competitive. The amount of points that the favorites are expected to win by varies from 2–32 points. Some of the game will be blowouts; a few will be nail biters. It’s early in the season and if you feel sec...
The Othello Golf Course recently hosted a fundraiser in support of Adams County Fire District No. 5 and the Adams County Sheriff's Office. The fundraiser included an auction, with funds earmarked for the purchase of speed signs in the towns of Lind and Washtucna, Sheriff Dale Wagner said....
As the college football season continues into the last third of the season you can see how fortunes have changed for some teams. My Eastern Eagles have fallen on hard times as several injuries have led to young players getting playing time and valuable experience. However, with the inexperience and youth factor it has meant a fair amount of missed blocks and tackles and some opponents have looked like All-Americans. Case in point, on Saturday the Portland State QB juked and ra...
It was quite the season that the Seattle Mariners had. It helps that there are more Wild Card teams otherwise the M's may have had to wait another year to make the playoffs. I know that there are a fair amount of purists out there that think only the division winners should make the playoffs. I remember when there were only the teams from the American League and National League and they played each other all season long and the team with the best record would go to the World S...
CHENEY – The Eastern Washington University community hopes Homecoming spirit will lift the Eagles football team back into its winning ways this Saturday. The Eagles (1-4) are off to their worst start in Big Sky football since 2011. They are hoping to upend the undefeated, No. 4-ranked Sacrament State Hornets (5-0) this weekend at home on Roos Field before an expected boisterous Homecoming crowd. Kickoff is at 4 p.m. Eastern returns home after losing, 45-21, to undefeated W...
PASCO — The Chinook salmon season closes Saturday, Oct. 8, due to fewer fish returning in the fall run on the mainstem Columbia River. Fisheries managers in Oregon and Washington decreased the number of fish expected to return in the fall run from a projected 323,000 to 267,000 when they met earlier this week. The Chinook closure is from the mouth of the Columbia River upstream to the U.S. Highway 395 bridge at Pasco. The Coho salmon season remains open, officials said. "Given this significant reduction in expected r...
I think we are all looking at the rising cost of living and we’re wondering where it will end or if it will end. I think it is frustrating when those people in power have a tendency to say that it’s not so bad or it won’t last long. That really doesn’t make me feel confident especially when those that are influential have other priorities. Who pays the price? Those that are in need are usually the ones that pay the biggest price. Those that can afford it usually are a bit unc...
CHENEY – Turkey hunting is coming to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in the fall of 2023. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are opening 1,883 acres in the Long Lake Unit of the refuge for hunting four days per week during the fall turkey season, from Sept. 1 through Dec. 31 beginning next year. The Long Lake Unit is located east of Mullenix Road, south of the city. The new Turnbull hunt would align with state and federal hunting laws, officials said. And hunting w...
OTHELLO – Eric Logan received the all-around cowboy honors from the Othello Rodeo on Sept. 16-17. Logan took home a total of $1,039 in prize money after taking second in steer wrestling and sixth in team roping. Overall, $35,269 were paid out to cowboys and cowgirls competing in traditional rodeo events; an additional $6,674 was paid out to women in breakaway roping. Logan wrestled his steer to the ground in 7.4 seconds, good enough for $839 in prize money. In team roping, he partnered with Tex Sutfin to rope their calf in 9....
KENNEWICK – Professional Bull Riders will buck into town for the Sept. 9-10 Tri-Cities Classic. The Toyota Center event will include some of the best bull riders in the world and the sport's rankest bovine athletes in the ultimate showdown of man versus. beast in a new series . In last year's Kennewick debut, Washington's own Cody Casper captured the victory courtesy of a flawless 3-for-3 performance at the inaugural performance. The newly launched PBR Challenger Series w...
ST. JOHN – Here are the results of the final sprint boat race of the season Saturday, Aug. 27, at Webb's Slough: Modified Class – Pour Decisions, driver Jason Perkins of Cheney and navigator Kyle Belles of Spangle, 1st; Purcell Racing, driver James Goldberg of Edmonds and navigator Jeff Purcell of Grapeview, 2nd; and Way She Goes, driver Jeremy Souza and navigator Jessy Law, both of Oak Harbor, 3rd. 400 Class – Punisher, driver Phil Miller of Castlegar, B.C. and navig...
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had read some history about my mom’s family. It is interesting to envision how life was over 100 years ago. Life was certainly not easy especially travel and the comfort of riding in a vehicle with A/C in the summer and heat in the winter was non-existent. I would have to say that those relatives that went before us were certainly a lot tougher than we have become. When I read the family history, I saw that my great grandparents and great u...
GOLDENDALE — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking public input on its draft status review for the Columbian white-tailed deer. The agency is recommending re-classifying Columbian white-tailed deer from endangered to threatened. Columbian white-tailed deer were listed under the federal Environmental Species Act in 1973, and by the state in 1980. Since then, the white-tailed deer population has fluctuated. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted estimated a low of only 545 deer in 2002 and an estimated p...
SPOKANE – The Eastern Washington Chapter of Delta Waterfowl will host its second banquet Oct. 1 at the Shriners Event Center. The event will include dinner, drinks, raffles, games, auctions and more. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.; dinner catered by Tomato Street starts at 7 p.m. Proceeds benefit projects to get more youth into outdoor activities, building hen houses for nesting waterfowl and local conservation projects. More than 200 outdoorsmen are expected to attend this year. Tickets are available in advance by emailing C...
Anytime we hear about a death of someone in the sports world sadness is the first thing we all think about. Last week we lost two within a couple of days Bill Russell was 88 and Vin Scully at the age of 94. Death is going to happen to all of us we have no other choices but doing something good with your life for as long as you can, should be the goal. These two gentlemen gave it their all and were respected for it. Bill Russell was recruited by one college the University of...
CHENEY — Long snapper Cody Clements represents Eastern Washington University on the FCS Preseason All-American football team, earning third team honors at his position. He was also selected to the second team on the preseason All-Big Sky special teams list. On the preseason All-Big Sky team, wide receiver Freddie Roberson was Eastern’s lone representative on the first team for offense. Joining him on offense were second team selections Efton Chism III at wide receiver and Wyatt Musser on the offensive line. Fellow off...
OLYMPIA – Several outdoorsmen and Eastern Washington county commissioners are expected to take the state Fish and Wildlife Commission to task during its three-day meeting this week. Northeast Washington Wildlife Group spokesman Dale Magart said Tuesday afternoon that the meeting “might be interesting.” Several outdoorsmen and Eastern Washington commissioners active in the Eastern Washington Council of Governments are expected to speak during the public input portion of the Fish and Wildlife Commission’s meeting at about 8...
The first thing I need to do is apologize for something I said in the column last week about Root Sports. Evidently the information I received second or third hand was not right. Root has not been purchased by another satellite provider. It seems that the provider that we have chosen has not been able to come to terms with Root Sports. I want to say that I am sorry for the confusion and misinformation that I put in the column a week ago. But if that is the worst thing I did...
WENATCHEE – Amid a record return of sockeye salmon to the Columbia River, sockeye fishing in Lake Wenatchee and the Wenatchee River is opening. As of July 22, more than 23,000 sockeye passed over Tumwater Dam on the Wenatchee River, state Department of Fish and Wildlife North-Central Fish Program Manager Chad Jackson said. Fishing in Lake Wenatchee will be open from July 28 through Aug. 31, with a daily limit of four sockeye (minimum size 12 inches). Anglers must release a...
Normally, I would have written a story or two about the Mariners season by now, but I have only been able to watch one game thus far. Why? Well, like many of you, we had Root Sports to follow the Emerald City nine. That is no longer the case. The television provider that we have no longer gets Root Sports. The provider that we once had purchased Root Sports, I’m sure figuring that we were going to change providers just to see Seattle baseball. In the words of Dan Carvey when he was impersonating President George H. W. Bush o...
CHENEY - Jennifer Casey of Mesa competes in breakaway roping during the Saturday performance of the Cheney Rodeo. She scored a time of 2.6 seconds....
It’s amazing when a person retires and there is a holiday. When I was working I really looked forward to having the day off but when you’re retired it is seemingly just another day like all of the others except that some businesses are closed and the mail will be a day late. But that’s okay I’ve adapted quite nicely anyway. You most likely heard the bombshell that UCLA and USC will be headed to the Big Ten in a couple of years. The payout for the two schools will be $80 mil...
It's amazing when a person retires and there is a holiday. When I was working, I really looked forward to having the day off. But when you're retired, it is seemingly just another day like all of the others - except that some businesses are closed and the mail will be a day late. (That's okay; I've adapted quite nicely.) You most likely heard the bombshell that UCLA and USC will be headed to the Big 10 in a couple of years. The payout for the two schools will be $80 million...