2022 One year ago
A local radio personality doesn’t shy away from sharing his narrative as a member of the Nez Perce Tribe — and he doesn’t take the topic lightly. The University of Idaho Native American Student Center invited Daniel Spaulding to talk about representation in media during an evening keynote address on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. He spoke of his experiences as a radio host for the Nez Perce Tribal Radio Station highlighting the indigenous perspective. ... The University of Idaho’s largest endowment in its history was gifted an additional $2 million from the Huckabay family last month to help support its WWAMI Medical Education students. The Durward and Susan Huckabay Foundation Scholarship Endowment now sits at $14 million with the additional contribution. The scholarship endowment helps fund medical education and training for students in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Adrienne Fairbanks, an Idaho WWAMI student and mother of four, said she first decided to pursue medicine because of her experience caring for her grandmother in her teenage years, and later work in public health.
2018 Five years ago
Gubernatorial hopeful Brad Little, R-Emmett, said creating opportunities for Idaho children to thrive and for former residents to return have been his primary goals as lieutenant governor and will continue to be his focus if he is elected. Little spoke to a crowd of about 20 people Wednesday morning in the Whitewater Room of the University of Idaho Commons in Moscow. Little, a UI graduate, said his children are fifth-generation Vandals. ... Idaho Central Credit Union announced it will construct its first Moscow location this summer on the site of the defunct Nissan dealership on the edge of the University of Idaho campus, located at 525 W. Third Ave. While the company has 36 branches throughout the state, CEO Kent Oram said the Moscow-Lewiston area is one of the larger population centers that ICCU has yet to tap into. “That’s part of why we made our donation to the University of Idaho for the Idaho Central Credit Union Arena there on campus that will start being constructed next year,” Oram said.
2013 10 years ago
A local organization celebrated a historic milestone a century in the making this week. The Pullman Fortnightly Club, a women’s literary organization, began in 1893, back when there were no paved roads or sidewalks and only three telephones in the city, said 41-year member Karen Kiessling. Enoch Bryan, the first president of then-Washington State College, and his wife, Hattie Bryan, had just arrived in Pullman from Indiana. Hattie, trying to get acquainted in her new town, invited 12 women to their rented home for tea and asked them if they wanted to form a literary study group. ... “The soundboard is like the soul of a piano,” Clint Hughes explains. “It’s what vibrates, it’s like the speaker of the piano.” Saving those souls is the core of Hughes’ Moscow business, Grand American Pianos. While Hughes works on many types of pianos, his passion is for those made between 1900 and 1930, a period he calls the “golden age” of American pianos, when they were the focal point in many American homes and skilled craftsmen were plentiful.
