Back Issues: From the pages of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News
2022 One year ago
The start of this school year brought a pleasant surprise for a Moscow mother who has appreciated the effort from a pair of school district employees who have greeted her daughter each day in Nimipuutimt, the language of the Nez Perce Tribe. Gia Paul, the mother of a third-grader attending Moscow’s McDonald Elementary School, was filled with joy this fall when she first heard her daughter’s school bus driver, Ken Nuhn, and student aide, Jay Dearien, welcome and bid farewell to her daughter, Laren, in Nimipuutimt. ... Pullman Regional Hospital and Washington State University will hold a ceremony to celebrate its combined efforts in developing the Family Medicine Residency program. This program has been in the works for more than a year, gaining accreditation in May 2021. The center will provide physician residents a clinical space to learn and practice patient care. Physician residents are medical professionals who graduated from medical school and are continuing their education to complete training and choose a specialty, the release stated.
2018 Five years ago
When 25-year-old Matthew Sutherland, a Democrat, decided to run for state representative in Washington’s 9th Legislative District, it was clear it would be an uphill battle. After all, a Democrat hasn’t been elected to the Pos. 2 seat since 1937. Facing off against longtime Republican incumbent Joe Schmick, R-Colfax, in a historically red district, Josh Maasberg, Sutherland’s campaign manager, said the two most common problems people tend to have with the campaign is party affiliation and Sutherland’s age. ... For those on the Palouse who can’t travel the world, Festival Dance Academy is bringing the world to them, one performance at a time. Festival Dance is the product of the talents of two University of Idaho students in 1972. “(Carl and Jaye Petrick) were teaching dance and acting classes and they started putting on performances,” said Joann Muneta, a member of the Festival Dance Board of Directors. “They were so talented that they ended up getting a grant to start a professional ballet company here in Moscow.”
2013 10 years ago
A University of Idaho professor is spearheading a project that, to his knowledge, is the only one of its kind in the country. Erik R. Coats, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, and a team of student researchers are producing biodegradable plastic from an unlikely source: cow manure. “It has significant potential,” Coats said of their work. “We use a lot of plastic, and it would be great to be producing a type of plastic that’s biodegradable and people would be a lot more comfortable recycling.” ... The death of 97-year-old Ruth Vanderwall has marked the end of an era, said friends and devotees, just months after the death of her husband, Dean. “But there will always be stories and pictures and memories, and they will live on,” said Elena Panchenko, choir director at St. James’ Episcopal Church, where Ruth sang for more than 30 years. The Vanderwalls were known for their efforts in forming the Washington-Idaho Symphony, the Friends of Music Chorale, the Idaho-Washington Concert Chorale — now the Palouse Chorale Society — and their devotion to the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre.
