2022 One year ago
Three former University of Idaho standout athletes join two former high school administrators and coaches to compose this year’s inductees to the North Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame, officials announced. Football player Joel Thomas, women’s basketball player Emily Sann (nee Faurholt) and men’s basketball player Don Newman are the former UI athletes who will be inducted. They will be joined by former high school teacher, coach, administrator and basketball official Jim Wilund, who was scheduled to be inducted in 2020, and Duane Ward, who coached at his alma mater at Sandpoint High School for more than 50 years. ... A piano recording plays from a speaker in the center of the dance studio as a class of five ballet students lines up at the bar mounted to the wall at the Moscow Movement Arts Center. The students in Rachel Dodson’s ballet class meet three times a week for at least two hours at a time and the amount of time her students put into practicing is starting to pay off, as three of her students who applied to intensive summer programs have been accepted.
2018 Five years ago
Parents came out in droves for Mom’s Weekend at Washington State University, and despite heavy rain, hail and wind gusts, students and their moms still managed to not let the weather put a damper on a downtown Pullman painting project. The mural project — scheduled to color High Street Plaza — was organized by the Pullman Chamber of Commerce, the WSU Museum of Art and the WSU Center for Civic Engagement. The mural, to be called “Wings of the Palouse,” was designed by a WSU student and will feature a string of winged creatures pertinent to the Palouse. ... Herschel Williamson fitted a traditional beaded headpiece to his head as his mother tied buckskin fringe to the ends of two long, black braids that hung at his sides. Williamson, 12, has participated in traditional Native American powwows since he was 5 years old. For him, the ceremony is about celebrating his history and heritage. “It’s what we’ve been doing forever,” Williamson said as he prepared to perform in a traditional dance competition Saturday evening at the 19th annual Tutxinmepu Powwow at the University of Idaho Kibbie Dome.
2013 10 years ago
When Washington State University wheat breeding and genetics professor Kulvinder Gill worked on his family’s farm as a child in the Punjab region of northern India, he saw firsthand how devastating heat can be to wheat during certain stages of its growth. “That’s what made me start and continue to work with wheat, because that’s what we grew, and that’s what is close to my heart,” Gill said. Gill is now the Vogel Endowed Chair for Wheat Breeding and Genetics at WSU and is the project leader for a $16.2 million WSU research project to develop new varieties of wheat that can withstand higher temperatures. ... The Moscow School Board has confirmed Greg Bailey as the sole finalist for superintendent to replace Dale Kleinert who retires at the end of this semester. The superintendent for the Mountain View School District in Grangeville for the past five years, Bailey was the only finalist of seven applicants to be proposed to the board by a national search firm. “We were hoping that there would be several that we could interview, but it didn’t turn out that way,” said Dawn Fazio, school board chairwoman.
