Yakima Herald-Republic back issues from March 2003:
Read Across America Plans Birthday Celebrations for Dr. Seuss
Mar 01, 2003; ... Oh, the places you'll go! Especially when you read a book by legendary children's author Dr.Seuss. Almost everyone has a favorite book by Dr. Seuss, the popularwriter who created such classics as "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,""The Cat in the Hat," "Green Eggs and Ham," "Hop on ...
Red Cross Month to Kick Off With Wednesday Breakfast
Mar 01, 2003 ... A breakfast honoring local heroes on Wednesday will help kick offNational Red Cross Month. The annual event, held by the Yakima Valley Chapter of theAmerican Red Cross, is expected to draw a large crowd. "Last year we had over 200 people attend, and this year we'rehoping for ...
Letters to the editor
Mar 01, 2003 ... Roe v. Wade Luncheon To the editor - Planned Parenthood of Central Washington wouldlike to thank the League of Women Voters and the YWCA for co-sponsoring the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade luncheon on Feb. 4.The event drew 150 people and raised over $3,000. Planned ...
Death Notices
Mar 01, 2003 ... Diana Dale Holden Diana Dale Holden, 57, of Moxee died Thursday at her home. Mrs. Holden was born in Kensal, N.D., and moved to Washingtonstate as a child. Survivors include two sons, Mike Holden of Moxee and KevinWissman; a sister, Patty Denton of Moxee; and six ...
Body & Soul Briefs
Mar 01, 2003 ... Habitat's ReStore Shows Off New Digs Location, location, location. Recycle, recycle, recycle. Yakima Valley ReStore has moved to 202 W. Mead Ave. The store, a building materials thrift shop, is operated by YakimaValley Partners, Habitat for Humanity, the local, ...
Originating in Japan, the Buddhism practiced in Wapato is known as the Shinshu Jodo, or Pure Land Teaching, the family crest of which is omnipresent in the
Mar 01, 2003 ... Buddhist temple ....
Clifford Trent
Mar 01, 2003 ... Purdy & Walters at Floral Hills, LynnwoodLYNNWOOD, WA - Mr. Trent was born on Nov. 18, 1912 to Abigah andMartha Trent at Thornfield, MO. In 1932 he married Beaulah Goodnight.They had a son, Trellis and daughter, Irene. After his wife died in 1938 he married Cendie Deckard in ...
Festooned witht streamers, folded paper cranes and hanging lanterns, the Buddhist hall next to the Yakima Buddhist Church in Wapato sis ready for
Mar 01, 2003 ... Sunday's annual fund-raising dinner. Mas Wada, 82, is caretaker ...
Lorraine V. Brooks
Mar 01, 2003 ... Purdy & Walters at Floral Hills, LynnwoodSEATTLE - Lorraine V. Brooks passed away Feb. 27, 2003 at her homein Seattle. She was 73. Mrs. Brooks had been a member of the TietonPresbyterian Church. She enjoyed gardening and children, and taught Sunday School formany years ....
Underpasses Moving Ahead; City Council Discussion Set
Mar 01, 2003; ... The city of Yakima may soon begin designing plans and buyingproperty for a pair of railroad underpass projects that aim to helptrains and cars avoid one another. City staff members on Tuesday will ask the Yakima City Council fordirection on the nearly $25 million project to build ...
Ensconced in the shrine in the Yakima Buddhist Church, a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha represents the ideals of Buddhism: serenity, peace and freedom from
Mar 01, 2003 ... earthly desires ....
Fred C. Smith
Mar 01, 2003 ... Keith & Keith Funeral HomeYAKIMA - Fred C. Smith, age 82, of Yakima, died February 26, 2003.He was born April 6, 1920 in Crowburg, Kansas to Fred D. and Mamie C.(Denier) Smith. He attended school in Kansas and Washington. Thefamily moved to Washington in 1929, back to Kansas in ...
Dancing the Night Away -- Kids from Toppenish and Eisenhower high schools were shakin' up the dance floor Friday - and one of the parties went on until dawn
Mar 01, 2003 ... today. Toppenish, above, was celebrating its fourth annual DanceMarathon. The 11-hour event, hosted by the Family Career andCommunity Leaders of America club, drew 98 dancers and was expectedto earn $2,000 for Special Olympics. At Ike, ...
Water May Be in Short Supply -- But this irrigation year looks better than 2001
Mar 01, 2003; ... February's below-normal precipitation has further dimmed theoutlook for summer water supplies in the Yakima Irrigation Project,making some water rationing a certainty. The coming season, however, is not expected to approach thehistoric 2001 drought, when some irrigators received ...
Connie J. Butler
Mar 01, 2003 ... Shaw & Sons Funeral DirectorsYAKIMA - Connie J. Butler, 46, of Yakima, died at her home onMonday, February 24, 2003. Connie was born Sept. 12, 1956 in Portland, OR to Wallace andJanice (McIntosh) Comegys. Connie was raised and educated in Yakima.After her schooling she ...
Stan Dyke
Mar 01, 2003 ... Langevin-Mussetter Funeral HomeYAKIMA - Stan Dyke, 65, of Cowiche, passed away Thursday, February27, 2003 at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Stan was born September 4, 1937 in Ellensburg, to Hiram and JennieDyk. He was raised and educated in Ellensburg. Upon graduating ...
West Valley's Jessica Robinson, right, pulls down a rebound away from Clarkston's Jaci Zipse during the 3A regional championship at Central
Mar 01, 2003 ... Washington University ....
Corrections: Due to a reporting error, the five stages of grieving were listed incorrectly in a story Friday about the death of a Roosevelt Elementary
Mar 01, 2003 ... School student. The stages are: denial, bargaining, anger,depression and acceptance. Due to a reporting error, a Friday story said the Monson Ranchesfeedlot in Sunnyside would ...
Facts and Records
Mar 01, 2003 ... Births Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital WRIGHT - To Carmen McClintock, Yakima, a daughter, Nadia Monet, 7pounds, 4 ounces, 9:18 p.m., Feb. 14, 2003. Grandparents are Don andSuzan Catron of Selah and Terry and Rita McClintock of Missouri. BEAUDRY - To Ty W. and Mandi K ....
Utility Fee -- Request to Track Costs Nixed
Mar 01, 2003; ... State regulators on Friday refused to act on a request fromCascade Natural Gas to formally track legal costs related to theYakama Nation's franchise fee. However, the request will stay on file at the Utilities andTransportation Commission, which protects the company's right to ...
[The high-school football season could arrive a week earlier this fall]
Mar 01, 2003; ... The high-school football season could arrive a week earlier thisfall and feature a four-game "Kickoff Classic" at Seahawks Stadium if aproposal to move up the opening day of practice is approved by theWashington Interscholastic Activities Association executive boardthis ...
Around The World
Mar 01, 2003 ... McDonald's to Serve Healthy Food to Brits LONDON - Stung by criticism that its food is laden with fat andsalt, McDonald's said Friday its British restaurants will be thefirst in the world to sell fresh fruit. Starting in April, grapes and sliced apples will be sold in ...
Former Governors Lead Effort to Stifle Expanded Gambling
Mar 01, 2003; ... SEATTLE - All five of Washington's living former governors havesigned on to a new citizens' group formed to oppose expandingnontribal gambling. Members of the Citizens Against Gambling Expansion are "troubledthat big-time gambling interests are in our state Capitol ...
Mobilization Hits Close to Home -- More state residents are preparing for assignment to the Persian Gulf, including some from Central Washington
Mar 01, 2003 ... COMPILED FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS Two more Navy ships and a Prowler aircraft squadron from WhidbeyIsland are heading to sea as the United States prepares for possiblewar with Iraq. The number of Washington residents deployed or mobilizing for waris approaching ...
Gunmen Attack U.S. Consulate -- 2 Pakistani officers killed, five people hurt in Karachi
Mar 01, 2003; ... KARACHI, Pakistan - Anti-American violence returned to thesouthern port city of Karachi on Friday, when gunmen ran out of apark and opened fire on Pakistani police guarding the U.S. Consulate,killing two officers and injuring at least five other people. It was the first attack ...
CBA -- Ever-Changing Sun Kings Hammer Grand Rapids
Mar 01, 2003; ... Winds of change are blowing hard around the Yakima Sun Kings, butFriday one thing remained constant - when the team picks it up ondefense and plays together, they are one of the ContinentalBasketball Association's best. Despite missing two of their top players - and poised to ...
Lockheed-Martin to Check Backgrounds of Airline Passengers
Mar 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTON - Defense contractor Lockheed-Martin will develop a newsystem to check background information and assign a threat level toall commercial air passengers, the Transportation Departmentannounced on Friday. The company, which employed Transportation Secretary Norman ...
Judge Keeps Longview Smelter Plugged In
Mar 01, 2003 ... LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - A federal judge Friday issued a temporaryrestraining order that ensures five more days of electricity for theLongview Aluminum smelter. The Bonneville Power Administration had been set to switch offpower to the plant Friday. U.S. District Judge John W ....
Columbia Shuttle Disaster -- Administrator: NASA Would Have Tried to Save Shuttle
Mar 01, 2003; ... LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON - NASA would have worked around the clock to saveColumbia if it had known the shuttle was in danger, the agencyadministrator said Friday, rejecting suggestions that an in-flightfailure of the orbiter's heat-shielding system would have beenimpossible ...
Goodbye INS, Hello Homeland Security
Mar 01, 2003; ... DALLAS MORNING NEWS WASHINGTON - At the stroke of midnight Friday, the Immigration andNaturalization Service ceased to exist, bringing to a close atumultuous, often controversial history that stretches back 112years. As the 36,000 men and women of the INS are absorbed into ...
U.S. Won't Send Combat Troops to Philippines -- Opponents in nation's congress threatened to impeach president
Mar 01, 2003; ... LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Friday backed off a plan to sendAmerican combat troops to help wipe out the Abu Sayyaf rebels,following widespread criticism that the move would violate thePhilippine constitution. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and ...
Columbia Shuttle Disaster -- Disaster Investigators Want NASA Officials Off Board
Mar 01, 2003; ... THE ORLANDO SENTINEL HOUSTON - The board investigating shuttle Columbia's accidentwants NASA officials removed from the inquiry because of possibleconflicts of interest. Sources close to the probe say board leader retired Adm. Harold W.Gehman Jr. is seeking reassignments of ...
U.S. Dismisses Missile Move -- Diplomatic discord follows Baghdad's plans to start destroying missiles today
Mar 01, 2003; ... LOS ANGELES TIMES BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq said Friday it will begin destroying itsbanned Al-Samoud 2 missiles today - but Baghdad's first significantmove to dismantle a weapons system only complicated the Bushadministration's efforts to rally support for a new resolution pavingthe ...
Ephedra to Take Warning Labels -- FDA opens public comment period that could lead to ban
Mar 01, 2003; ... LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON - The government's top health and marketing officialstook steps Friday to reduce the potential risks of productscontaining the herbal stimulant ephedra, including proposing a labelwarning of heart attack, stroke and even death. The officials ...
Columbia Shuttle Disaster -- Calm Before the End -- Videotape shot on shuttle just before disaster shows relaxed astronauts
Mar 01, 2003; ... THE ORLANDO SENTINEL ORLANDO, Fla. - Unaware they were living their final moments,Columbia astronauts marveled at the brilliant flashes outside theirwindows as superhot gases engulfed the shuttle during its re-entryfrom space. "It's glowing pretty good now," co-pilot William ...
Secretary of Labor Unites Union Chiefs Against White House
Mar 01, 2003; ... THE WASHINGTON POST HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Labor leaders leaving an annual gathering hereThursday carried with them the challenges of a movement facing lowmembership, a stagnant economy, eroding benefits - and anger over aprivate confrontation with Secretary of Labor Elaine ...
Prep Basketball -- Rams Win Regionals -- West Valley stuffs Clarkston en route to 3A regional crown
Mar 01, 2003; ... ELLENSBURG - Without benefit of a driver's license to take herteammates to the Class 3A state tournament, West Valley freshmanCassidy Murillo offered them a ride on her back. The freshman point guard completed a brilliant two-game regionaltournament performance, doing everything ...
Around the Valley -- Rollover Accident Lands Man in Hospital -- Police Search for Owner of Car in Garage Fire -- Gardening Symposium Gets Under Way Today --
Mar 01, 2003 ... Junior League Accepting Scholarship Applications Rollover Accident Lands Man in Hospital SUNNYSIDE - A Sunnyside man was in satisfactory condition Fridaynight after his truck rolled and struck a tree a few miles southeastof here. Guadalupe M. Garcia, 34, was receiving ...
Prep Basketball -- Playoff Roundup
Mar 01, 2003 ... Eisenhower Girls Fall to Pasco in Big Nine Semis YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC PASCO - Michelle Elliot scored 14 of her team-high 16 points inthe fourth quarter as Pasco's fourth-ranked girls basketball teamrallied to beat Eisenhower 56-46 in the Big Nine district semifinalson ...
Prpe Basketball -- Class 3A Boys Regional - Rams Dodge Elimination, Get Clarkston Again -- WV gets Bantams in winner-to-state game
Mar 01, 2003; ... ELLENSBURG - There is an adage about a cat having nine lives. West Valley basketball coach Jim Berndt is well aware that hisbattered team has used enough lives for an entire litter. Berndt and his Rams needed to use one more Friday afternoon to getpast Mid-Valley League rival ...
Prep Sports -- WIAA Considering Massive Changes
Mar 01, 2003; ... THE SEATTLE TIMES The high-school football season could arrive a week earlier thisfall and feature a four-game "Kickoff Classic" at Seahawks Stadium ifa proposal to move up the opening day of practice is approved by theWashington Interscholastic Activities Association executive ...
Pirates Pick Their Spots to Explode
Mar 01, 2003; ... SPORTS COLUMNIST They don't do it on purpose. Do they? A Davis opponent - the Richland Bombers, in this case - takes thePirates' court, executes its game plan and seems in control of thegame. The Bombers are bigger than the Pirates - as are some eighth ...
Projects Aims to Turn Pond Into Great Fishing Hole
Mar 01, 2003; ... ROCK ISLAND - Tom Ellis squints into the sun glinting off Putter'sLake. Country rock streams from a portable radio, punctuated by thesound of his drill sinking into the trunk of an old Christmas tree. He runs a cable through the hole and attaches it to a cinderblock.Soon the tree ...
Prep Basketball -- Davis Acting Like Playoff Veterans
Mar 01, 2003; ... Up and down the roster you won't find much playoff experience onDavis' boys basketball team. And coach Shag Williams doesn't mind pointing that out. But the history is definitely there and in a packed, noisy homegym these young Pirates lived up to it Friday ...
Sun Kings Update
Mar 01, 2003 ... Next game Opponent: Grand Rapids Hoops (20-24). When, where: 7:05 p.m. today, SunDome. Radio: KUTI Yakima (1460 AM). Season series (4 games): Tied 1-1. Notes MOVING ON: With the pending departure of Fred Vinson, Yakima'scoaches were left ...
College Roundup
Mar 01, 2003 ... Wildcats Split Two at Softball Tourney YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC RICHLAND - The Central Washington University women's softball teamsplit two games at the eighth annual Central Washington SoftballInvitational Friday. The Wildcats (1-1) defeated Whitworth 6-5, butlost to Western ...
CBA -- Mr. Goldwire Goes to Washington
Mar 01, 2003; ... Winds of change are blowing hard around the Yakima Sun Kings, butFriday one thing remained constant - when the team picks it up ondefense and plays together, they are one of the ContinentalBasketball Association's best. Despite missing two of their top players - and poised to ...
Beef & Buddhism -- Wapato's Buddhist temple is holding its annual dinner on Sunday; it's a chance to eat well and learn much
Mar 01, 2003; ... WAPATO - In the quiet gymnasium, dimly lit lanterns, large origamicranes made from silver paper and garlands of colored tissue hangfrom the ceiling and walls. Voices echo in the empty room where long tables are neatly linedup. But on Sunday, hundreds of people will sit ...
Counterprotest to Play Carries Rally -- Police estimate about 500 people turn out in support of "The Laramie Project"
Mar 01, 2003; ... Protesters were peaceful, but plentiful, in Ellensburg Fridayevening. About six people showed up to picket against "The LaramieProject," a play being performed at Central Washington Universitythis weekend and next. But those numbers were heavily outflanked by students, ...
Man Files Claim Against County Following Accident
Mar 01, 2003 ... A White Swan man who claims an unlit and inadequately signed LowerValley intersection contributed to an auto accident two years ago isseeking $1.3 million in damages from Yakima County. Eugene Wong, 50, is disabled from the extensive injuries hesustained when his motorcycle was ...
Sea of Stone Surrounds New Museum
Mar 01, 2003; ... TACOMA - At the heart of this city's new art museum is acourtyard, surrounded by mirrored two-way glass and open to the sky -a storeroom of natural light that spills into the galleries spiralingaround it. In the weeks before the Tacoma Art Museum's grand opening May 3,stone ...
Bush Forest Policy Offers More for Timber Industry, Less for Endangered Species
Mar 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTON - In just six months President Bush has succeeded inredirecting the nation's forest policy toward the liking of thetimber industry. Endangered species are getting less priority while environmentalreviews and public appeals are being reduced and in some caseseliminated, ...
Legislature 2003 -- Labor Leaders Bash GOP
Mar 01, 2003; ... OLYMPIA - Union leaders accused Republican lawmakers on Friday ofdeclaring class warfare on workers, pointing to GOP proposals to capthe minimum wage and repeal workplace ergonomics rules. Several hundred union leaders and workers gathered for theWashington State Labor Council's ...
Man Guilty of 1966 Sharecropper Slaying
Mar 01, 2003; ... JACKSON, Miss. - A federal jury convicted a 72-year-old man Fridayin the 1966 slaying of a black sharecropper, a crime prosecutors saywas staged to lure Martin Luther King Jr. to southern Mississippi tobe assassinated. Reputed Klansman Ernest Avants, a stroke survivor, remained ...
Case for a Moral War -- Countering widespread clergy protest, two lay Christians justify using force against Iraq
Mar 01, 2003; ... President Bush has been trying for months to make the case forusing force against Saddam Hussein, but he has won little supportfrom leaders of American and European churches. Yet after heavy, perhaps unprecedented, church agitation and peaceappeals from the likes of the pope and ...
[ The hits just keep on coming. ]
Mar 01, 2003; ... The hits just keep on coming. A day after losing Damian Cantrell for the rest of the regularseason, the Yakima Sun Kings learned that they have likely lostAnthony Goldwire for the rest of the season as well after the guardwas called up by the Washington Wizards on ...
Smithsonian Opens Exhibit on Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mar 01, 2003 ... WASHINGTON (AP) - Torn from their land and hauled to a strange newone, Africans are shown in a Smithsonian exhibit as cogs in a forcedlabor system that helped build the foundations of America's economicmight. The exhibit at Washington's Anacostia Museum, "Captive Passage:The ...
All in the Family -- Picatti Bros. readies for third-generation ownership in its five-company business
Mar 02, 2003; ... At Picatti Bros., owners print their home phone numbers on theirbusiness cards. They seal large contracts with handshakes. They even drive to Portland or Seattle on weekends to buy partscustomers need to keep running during emergency equipment failures. While the ...
Mary M. (Back) Nissen
Mar 02, 2003 ... Shaw & Sons Funeral DirectorsUNION GAP - Mary M. (Back) Nissen, 82, of Union Gap passed awayFebruary 25, 2003 at the Parkside Nursing Care Center. Mary was bornOctober 25, 1920 in Baltimore, Maryland to George and Mary Back. Sheattended Catholic grammar and high schools as a ...
Mary Elizabeth Snow
Mar 02, 2003 ... IMPERIAL BEACH, CA - Mary Elizabeth Snow, 72, passed away February11 in Imperial Beach, CA after a battle with lymphoma. She was bornon September 22, 1930 in Dayton, WA where she was raised on thefamily ranch by her parents Everett and Nettie (Lacey) Stearns. She graduated from ...
Death Notices
Mar 02, 2003 ... Sandra L. Ekstrum Sandra L. Ekstrum, 63, of Selah died Friday at Yakima ValleyMemorial Hospital. She was born in Bend, Ore., where she was raised and educated. Survivors include two sons, David of Beaverton, Ore., and Kevin ofNewburg, Ore.; one daughter, Terrie Black ...
Business Records
Mar 02, 2003 ... Business Licenses Estrada Auto Body, 516 S. Third St., Juan M. Estrada, owner. Rad Media Services, 105 S. Third St., Suite 21, Richard Adams,owner. Designworks, 6821 Ravensgate Way, Fugawee Inc., Corp. owner. Sevigny Construction Inc., city of Yakima, George ...
Volunteer Opportunities
Mar 02, 2003 ... Here are this week's volunteer needs in the Yakima Valley: HOSPICE TRAINING: Providence Home Care and Hospice is nowreceiving applications for the spring Hospice Volunteer TrainingProgram. Participants receive training on communication skills, griefissues, bereavement support and ...
Boy Struck By Car in Satisfactory Condition
Mar 02, 2003 ... YAKIMA - A 7-year-old boy was hospitalized in satisfactorycondition Saturday after he was struck by a car on the west side oftown, police said. The boy was playing with a group of children about 1 p.m. when heran into the street on West Nob Hill Boulevard near North 76thAvenue, ...
Business Records
Mar 02, 2003 ... Building Permits Yakima Eusebio/Caroline Herrera, $500, 1806 N. Fourth St., residential. YVCC, $55,387, 1100 S. 16th Ave., commercial alterations. Habitat for Humanity, $58,359, 1613 Willow St., single-familyresidence/new. Yakima Valley Partners Habitat ...