Archive - 2011
September 7th
Phil Lee Hancock was born in Springfield, Illinois on Jan 17, 1940 to Charles and Lillian Hancock. He was the youngest of three sons and third of five siblings. Because of his brotherâs asthma condition, their family and grandparents all moved west to Arizona to a drier climate in 1943. They attended many different schools because of three rambunctious boys. One or the other was always getting expelled for one reason or another. He involuntarily joined the Marine Corps at the age of 17, where he got his GED.
Greg went to the Lord on the evening of September 1 in Spokane. He was born in Spokane on September 23, 1948. Greg met Karen D. Cole and they were married April 22, 1971. He went to west valley (Spo-kane). Greg was a sheep herder, work horse trainer (broke horses), rode in rodeoâs owned his own dairy and ran a motel. He was also minister of The United Pentecostal Church and started many churches, sold real estate, worked for Orkin Pest Control, sold Humana Insurance, sold mobile homes and worked at Big R in sporting goods, where he made many friends.
Evelyn Ada McMillan, a resident of Colville, passed away on September 1, 2011 in Colville at the age of 103. She was born on her grandparent's ranch near Princeton, MN on February 14, 1908.
Dorothy B. Reed, a resident of Colville, passed away on August 30, 2011 in Colville at the age of 77. She was born on Dec. 22, 1933 in Dayton, the daughter of John and Myrtle (Tate) Powers.
Going into the season, Colville High head coach Randy Cornwell knew there would be nights like this. In one of the worst beatings a CHS football team has absorbed in many years, the decidedly inexperienced Indians dropped a 41-7 decision to visiting Lakeland High last Friday night. For the Indians, who lost some key personnel to graduation on a 2010 team that finished 9-1, the inexperience was evident against a Lakeland team that was playing its second game of the season. The Hawks opened the season with a loss in Coeur dâ Alene to Lake City.
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Chris Rader, special to the S-E
The Jenkins High School (Chewelah) cross-country team has a bunch of fresh faces on the boys and girls teams this season to compliment returning state qualifier Christina Hall.
Head coach Pat Kostecka is still sorting out who is going to be running for his varsity, but he figures the Cougars are definitely ready for the challenge.
âWeâre not a very big school, but we have 26 kids out for cross-country which Iâm very happy about, and of those 26, we have 17 freshmen,â said coach Kostecka. âSo the leadership aspect of having Christina back is huge.â
Itâs customary for the S-E to check in with the Colville Food and Resource Center during near the beginning of fall, as the holiday season peaks over the horizon. This year, fall was too far away, according to CFRC Director Frani Roberts.
âUsually, I wait until the end of September, but I have to get the word out now,â says Roberts, motioning to the scant, nearly bare shelves in the food bank. âWeâre hurting and we need all the help we can get.â
September 2nd
When you take the challenge of trying to resurrect a high school football program that hadnât fielded a team since you were a young man, the task is nothing but daunting. After all, football teams arenât built in a season. Some arenât built in a century. So it goes at Northport High, where veteran high school football coach Don Fox came out of retirement down the road at Rice and agreed to help rebuild football. Well, Rome wasnât built in a day and neither will a competitive Mustangsâ football team. But progress has been made.
September 1st
As temperatures climbed to the mid to upper 90âs over the weekend, Northeast Washington Fair-goers like Shailey Olsen, 3, got creative when it came to finding ways to cool down. For more photos of the annual NE WA Fair, including the Junior Fat Stock Sale, check out this week's edition of the S-E.
Kristin Ann Engen was born in San Francisco on July 28, 1949, the third daughter of Earl and Adeline Engen and youngest sister of Mary Lou and Janice. Earlâs job necessitated a number of moves, so Kris lived in the west and east bay areas, in Yakima, and Seattle before the family settled in Yakima in 1955.
Kris attended Gilbert Elementary for first and second grade and then had the privilege of attending the brand new Robertson Elementary and Wilson Junior High schools the first years they were open, ultimately graduating from Eisenhower High in 1967.
