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Sometimes it just seems like life is not fair. That would be the attitude I would expect the Porter family to have at this point in time, especially Timmy, who is 22 years old and recovering from a devastating automobile accident. However, that is not the attitude this young man is embracing. According to his step-mom June Porter, it has been Tim’s good spirits and positive attitude that have helped the rest of the family to cope with his devastating diagnosis. On Sept. 16, Tim lost control of and was thrown from his a...
Margaret Allison Wiffin died at the age of 93 on Thursday, Oct. 25. She was born in Spokane, on March 12, 1919, to Reinhardt Gust and Maude Marie (Allison) Warsinske. She graduated from Ritzville High School in 1938 and then attended two years of Business College. After a high school romance, she married Owen Arthur Wiffin, on October 19, 1941. Owen worked at Gust’s Shell Gas Station and ended up becoming part owner. He went into the Army in 1943, and spent two years in India...
Linda Kay Holmes, died at the age of 62, on Thursday, Nov. 8, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. She was born May 13, 1950, to Otis and Irene McCain in Eupora, Miss. She was a 1968 graduate of Eupora High School. She was an active church member and a loving mother and grandmother. She is preceded in death by her parents, Otis and Irene; and a younger brother. She is survived by son, Dale Holmes of Caledonia, Miss.; daughter, Deborah Ramshur of Pearl, Miss.; significant...
Patricia Ann (Dahl) Strohmaier died on Monday, Nov. 5 in Spokane at the age of 79. She was born on May 24, 1933, to Clarence and Gladys Dahl of Spokane. In high school at Central Valley, she met Al Strohmaier, the love of her life. The two married June 10, 1951, and spent the next 61 years together as husband and wife. She is preceded in death by her parents, Clarence and Gladys; brothers, Robert, Willard, and Bruce; and a contingent of family and friends. She is survived by her loving husband, Al; children, Debra (Tom...
Sarah Jean Alspach died on Nov. 7 after a short illness, she was 89 years old. She was born Oct. 28, 1923, to George and Fannie Davis of Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1952, she married S. Grant Alspach. They lived in Indian Head before they moved to Parma, Idaho in 1956. The couple moved several times over the years, and in 1974, they bought the Sears catalog store in Ritzville. They retired in 1989, and remained in Ritzville until he passed away in March 2008. She...
Maria Kay Janzen died unexpectedly at the age of 47, on the early morning of Tuesday, Nov. 6, in Ritzville. She was born on July 23, 1965 to Herb and Terry Janzen in Ritzville, WA. She was the youngest of six children. She grew up in Ritzville and graduated from Ritzville High School in 1983. She was a happy go lucky, live your life kind of gal. Like her father, no one was a stranger; she treated everyone like a long lost friend. Her greatest gift in life was always trying to...
The state of Washington’s highest environmental honors went to the Washington Association of Wheat Growers (WAWG) and the Ritzville Warehouse Company on Nov. 12 at the Tri-State Grain Growers Convention in Coeur d’Alene. The Department of Ecology (Ecology) presented two Environmental Excellence Awards at the event, singling out the two entities for their “extra mile” work to protect the environment, while they do business that supports Washington’s economy. Ecology Regional Director Grant Pfeifer presented the award to WAWG P...
I enjoy hearing a good story about athletes; their backgrounds and how they got to the place they presently are playing. I’m talking about college athletes for the most part. The Eastern Washington Eagles have several transfer students but none from the junior college ranks. The transfers they have originally signed and played at least a year at the following schools: Boise State, Kentucky, Southern Methodist, Washington State and the University of Washington. The reasons w...
Before the campaign promises of more jobs and renewed prosperity fade away, elected officials need to understand that those promises must be kept. Our nation needs jobs and new revenue, but the critical question is, “How?” Make no mistake; President Obama and Congress have a daunting task ahead. First, they must understand that our problems won’t be solved by just heaping more taxes on families and small businesses making more than $250,000 a year. Families need to be able to save for their retirement or their kids...