The Columbia Basin Herald’s weekly gardening column is joining forces with the Bits & Pieces column. The Grant County Weed Board and/or WSU Master Gardeners will be featured each week, offering noxious weed education and gardening tips.

Normally the gardening column was published from the first Thursday in March through the last Thursday in June. We should be able to offer gardening information into the fall months by using this configuration.

Little known fact: The Columbia Basin Herald gardening column began as a part of the Bits & Pieces column some 15 years ago.

E-mail from Cheryl

Facts from the past gleaned from the Moses Lake Herald, Columbia Basin Herald and The Neppel Record by Cheryl (Driggs) Elkins:

From the CBH on Jan. 28, 1982:

Clinic reopens

The Warden Medical Clinic has reopened after a two-week closure.

Drs. J. Hake and R. Matthies now are available for referral through Physicians Assistants Bob Born and Jo Ribbeck, who alternate their time at the clinic.

The clinic is an extension of Dr. K.P. Conklin’s Doctors’ Clinic at Moses Lake. The Warden Clinic closed recently due to his illness. New hours are 1 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., Monday through Thursday.

Judge provided

Grant County commissioners have signed a contract with Electric city to provide a judge to hear routine traffic cases.

Electric City will pay the county $100 a month for the service. The town will be allowed to keep the fines.

Ski class set

Moses Lake Community Schools is offering a ski maintenance and safety class Wednesday at Frontier Junior High.

The class begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theater. It’s designed to inform skiers on maintenance of ski equipment. Safety tips also will be discussed. To pre-register or for more information call 765-1885.

Speaker slated

Dr. Richard Eby, author of “Caught up into Paradise,” will be the guest speaker at the Ephrata Foursquare Fellowship in Ephrata at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 12.

A California physician, Eby will discuss his religious experiences, which he says include glimpses of heaven and hell.

From the CBH on Oct. 17, 1980:

Cub Scout pack reorganizes

Knolls Vista Cub Scout Pack 74 was recently reorganized to include 26 new boys from the area. Total membership is presently at 40.

Adults volunteering their time to help with the group include Ron Cole, cubmaster; Jerry Thompson, committee chairman; Marilyn Cole, secretary-treasurer, and Rich Stepner, Webelos leader.

Sheila Thomson, Kay Hendricks, Alice Vaughn and Leanne Ellis are den mothers.

The group, which meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at Knolls Vista Elementary School, is open to any boy eight years or older.

The Cub Scouts will be selling energy seals door to door in their service area to earn money for pack projects.

In packages of 16, the seals, if placed over all electrical outlets, can save up to 20 percent energy loss.

On Nov. 9, the group will sponsor the Order of the Arrow Indian Dancers from Wenatchee. The performance will be open to all Cub and Boy Scouts at Moses Lake.

Chief Mo romps

The Chief Moses Braves socked it to Eastmont Thursday, running up 200 rushing yards to score a 38-24 ninth grade football win.

The Frontier Brave ninth graders also came up with a win, taking Cashmere, 14-12. Frontier’s seventh graders took a loss to Quincy, 40-26, while the eighth graders also had trouble with their Jackrabbit counterparts, losing 40-0.

Dennis note: The second paragraph begins, “The Frontier Brave…,” but aren’t the Frontier teams known as the Warriors?

Creston plant meeting due

An informal meeting on a proposed coal-fired, steam-generated electric plant at Creston will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the Ephrata Public Utility District building.

The plant, proposed by Washington Water Power Co. of Spokane, will consist of four 500-megawatt units, and is planned to be operational in the late 1980s.

Coal will be brought into the plant daily as fuel to heat water from wells near FDR Lake. The water will be transformed into steam needed to power electric generating turbines.

The meeting, sponsored by the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, will feature presentations from the council, which will outline the procedure to be followed in processing the power plant application, and a presentation from WWP representatives, who will give a general description of the project and the proposed site, give reasons why that site was selected, and also give a summary of expected environmental, social and economic impacts.

Included with the plant construction will be the siting of transmission lines in Douglas, Grant, Lincoln and Spokane counties, as well as in the communities of Wilbur, Electric City, Grand Coulee, Creston, Cheney and Spokane.

Othello farm banquet slated

The annual Adams County Farm Bureau banquet is slated Thursday at the Porterhouse Restaurant at Othello.

Three new board of director’s members will be elected during the evening, as well as delegates to attend the annual Washington Farm Bureau Convention.

Officials said a report would be given on the opening of the Farm Bureau’s new office at Othello, and a slide presentation will review the goals and accomplishments of the Farm Bureau. All members are encouraged to attend the banquet.