Friday, November 20, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Steve Mann doesn't look like an outlaw as he cheerfully harvests giant rutabagas and luscious lettuce bunches from a friend's garden in Kansas City, North. But technically he is violating Kansas City ordinances as he prepares to sell the produce. Bro ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:03 AM
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Next week we celebrate Thanksgiving. Although it is a movable feast, 59 years ago Thanksgiving was on Nov. 23. In 2009, Nov. 23 is this coming Monday, and for most it will be just another weekday. Not for me. Monday is my 59th wedding anniversary. Before my marriage, I had just weeks earlier be ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:06 AM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- Lewiston city leaders are considering a rule that would bar residents from storing piles of farm implements, bicycles, construction materials, appliances or other unsightly debris in their yards. City Code Enforcement Officer Steve Campbell says he's gotten co ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time. There isn't a farm within miles of where she grew up on Chicago's west side, but she's set to graduate with a bachelor's degree in crop sciences fr ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM
Rocky Patterson placed in seven of 10 rounds to win the world title at the Clem McSpadden National Finals Steer Roping Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Okla. The Pratt, Kan., cowboy earned a little more than $31,000 over 10 rounds to edge out two-time world champion Sc ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:04 PM
The closest the Germans got to invading England during World War II was their occupation of the Guernsey Island, a British possession off of France. The occupation is featured in an excellent BBC television series called "The Enemy at the Door," now available on video. But even more recently, ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:04 PM
Step back non-believers, Kody Lostroh is the newly crowned Professional Bull Riders World Champion. Lostroh won the title Sunday afternoon in front of a packed house in the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas. "It feels good. It's been a long week and it's good ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:48 AM
YPSILANTI, N.D. (AP) -- A broken pelvis and injured knee nearly put an end to North Dakota farmer Dustin Lien's harvest, but a group that helps injured farmers and the families of those who have died came to his aid. Farm Rescue sent volunteers to help bring in Lien's soybeans after he was crus ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:12 AM
The first ever Idaho Wine Boot Camp didn't entirely live up to its name. "Boot camp" suggests a grueling experience. This event wasn't -- unless you consider sampling good wine and food and stomping grapes to be arduous tasks. It was like boot camp in the sense that it was basic trai ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- After years of tilling away in obscurity, Will Allen has found sudden fame as the face of the urban farming movement. In the year since he won a so-called genius grant from a Chicago foundation, Allen has mingled with former President Bill Clinton, appeared in Oprah Win ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:04 AM
If you were early to church last Sunday and got up too early for work on Monday it was because the clock was off by an hour. By now, you should be settled into the new time in the semi-annual ritual of losing an hour in the spring and gaining it back in the fall. I read a newspaper story last ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:04 AM
Sometimes TV commercials are the best part of the show. My wife and I were vegging out in front of the TV the other night when a commercial came on and explained all the benefits of a satellite-connected computer system implanted in your vehicle. This device reports to headquarters, somewhere i ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:04 AM
NILE, Wash. (AP) -- Nothing is as it was just three weeks ago along this stretch of Nile Road. Certainly not State Route 410 or the Naches River. And not for people like Boyd Brown and Barb Milligan, whose lives have been changed forever by the Oct. 11 landslide that blocked a ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:04 AM
I remember an old rancher friend of my father's who had the keenest interest in when people were born. "When were you born, Sonny?" he'd ask, and I'd tell him I was born in '70. "Yes, nineteen a hundred and a seventy. Your dad, you know, was born in nineteen a hundred and twenty-one," he'd say wi ...
Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:03 AM
Leslie LePere doesn't consider himself only a farmer. Nor is he just an artist. Nope, the Harrington, Wash.-based resident is both. "I'm half-artist and half-farmer," he said. "Each one of those complements each other. Each one is extremely different, but I like to be able to sw ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:03 PM
An old friend of mine, the late Page Smith, wrote a syndicated column distributed by the San Francisco Chronicle. She would have called the column I am writing today "a breeder column," meaning that a column previously written breeds another column. Before you turn me off, with a shout of "enou ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:03 PM
WINSTON, Ore. (AP) -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants an Oregon wildlife park to stop using elephants to wash cars. An Oct. 22 letter from the animal rights group to Wildlife Safari calls the elephant car wash a "gimmick that does nothing to foster respect for ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:18 AM
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) -- Matea Huggins isn't even a teenager yet but already she's the star of a hunting tale that would enchant listeners at any Oregon campfire. It's even true, this story. Truth being a quality which is, well, a bit scarce in many of the yarns spun after dark ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:34 AM
Cody Ford can't wait for the 16th Professional Bull Rider World Finals to start this weekend in Las Vegas. The bull rider from Stanfield, Ore., is excited to be competing for the second time on the big stage at the Thomas and Mack Center. "Man, I'm just ecstatic about it to tell you ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:18 PM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indianapolis police say a 16-year-old boy from Texas who was in town for a national farm convention was critically hurt in a three-story fall from a mall escalator. Phillip Caler of Booker, Texas, was hurt about 2:45 p.m. Thursday. Police say he apparently w ...
Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:33 AM
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) -- Josy Pyne bought her first horse at age 48, following a bout with breast cancer. Following her triumph over cancer, horse riding and training became the guiding passions of her life. Pyne now owns two horses, which she refers to as "her boys": Rocky, a ...
Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:18 AM
staff writer Steve Brown is based in Salem. E-mail: sbrown@capitalpress.com. ...
Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:04 AM
Without planning to, I have just completed a national poll -- actually you might even go so far as to say an international poll -- that establishes clearly we are a world full of pack rats. Some weeks ago I wrote a column about attending a workshop on scaling down clutter. At most, I got a handful ...
Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:04 AM
Washington State FFA President Tucker Cool makes a special request to FFA student Jacob Hennings. As part of Cool's workshop session during a district leadership tour at Medical Lake High School on Thursday, Oct. 15, in Medical Lake, Wash., he asks Hennings to pull on a doubled length of ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:03 AM
DEER PARK, Wash. -- Heather McLagen grew up in FFA. Her father was an agriculture teacher. Her one regret from high school is not being even more involved than she was. So when she took over as adviser for the Deer Park High School FFA four years ago, she thought she could take it b ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:03 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Quick, what pairs well with feminism, guns and The New York Times? Apparently, wine. The California National Organization for Women, the National Rifle Association and the Times are just a few of a growing cadre of unlikely groups launching wine clubs as a way to raise ...
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