Pullman Community Update July 2020

Pullman Community Update

VOL. 25 | NO. 7 JULY 2020

CITY OF PULLMAN | PULLMAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | PULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL | PULLMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT | WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PULLMAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

NEW MEMBERS

SPOTLIGHT

DawnMD LLC 540 E Main St, Ste A Pullman, WA (509) 566-9779 dawn.md Scheduled to open September 2020

MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS Membership dues are assessed on the anniversary month of a member joining the Chamber. Special thanks go out to the following businesses and individuals who have elected to continue their support of the Pullman Chamber of Commerce: • Aitken, Schauble, Patrick, Neill & Schauble • All About You Bridal & Prom • Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse • Apartment Rentals (Washington Apartment Rentals) • Beasley Realty • Corporate Pointe Developers, LLC • Roger Daisley • Dissmore’s IGA • Representative Mary Dye • Edward jones • Emmanuel Baptist Church • Express Employment Professionals • Dave Gibney • Gritman Medical Center • Health~Flow – Independent BEMER Distributor • Higginson’s Home Center & Sleep Shop • Inland Northwest Broadcasting • Irwin, Myklebust, Savage & Brown • j&h Printing Inc • Largent’s Pullman Appliance • Living Faith Fellowship • McDonald’s of Pullman • METER Group, Inc • Odom Northwest Beverages

Pita Pit is the future of quick, casual foodservice. We call it Fresh Thinking—Healthy Eating.

People are changing the way they eat—they want something unique and healthy. Our food is fresh, fun, and reflects a healthier and active lifestyle. Every pita sandwich is made fresh and customers have the ability to customize their pitas exactly to their liking. Pita Pit serves quality lean meats grilled to perfection, unique flavorful cheeses, fresh vegetables, exotic toppings and signature sauces which are then wrapped up in a steamed white, wheat, gluten free pita or served as a fresh salad. We also Have great sides, like Smoothies, prepped and made fresh right before you!

With two other successful Pita Pit locations under their belt, our new owners took over in the summer of 2016 to share their passion for fresh fast food with the Palouse. Since the change in ownership our restaurant has undergone significant changes and structural developments to bring you the food you like the way you like it hot off the grill when you like it.

Let one of our Flavor ambassadors whip you up one of our fresh-grilled flavor-filled pitas today, and you feta believe we got all the sides and extras you’ll need with your Pita as well!

You can order online for pick-up or delivery at pitapitusa.com.

Thank you for choosing Pullman Pita Pit and roll on!

• Palouse Discovery Science Center • Palouse Ridge Golf Club • Pullman Christian School • Pullman City Planning Director – Pete Dickinson • Pullman Civic Trust • Pullman Police Officers Guild

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Pullman Radio Stations Pullman Vision Source RE/MAX – Deb Sherritt Joe Schmick John Sherman Sid’s Pharmacy Sun Rental Center Sunset Marts/Busch Distributing

• Art Swannack • Wheatland RV • Whitman County Humane Society, Inc • Wysup Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram

In This Issue…

Pullman Chamber of Commerce Washington State University Pullman School District YMCA of Pullman Spokane Falls Community Colleges Community Action Center Rural Resources Community Calendar Whitman County Humane Society Pullman Kiwanis Pullman Regional Hospital Pullman Depot Heritage Center Gladish Community & Cultural Center

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PULLMAN Community Update ccooperpullman@gmail.com

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Alpine Animal Hospital

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Serving your pets’ needs on the Palouse since 1968.

Fireworks can be scary for your furry friends. Please schedule an appointment now to discuss safe and effective ways to keep them calm. Also, be sure to get your pet microchipped and ensure the registration is up-to-date, as more pets run away on July 4th than any other day of the year.

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PULLMAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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Pullman Chamber and Visitor Center • 415 N. Grand Ave. • Pullman, WA 99163 509-334-3565 • Fax: 509-332-3232 • chamber@pullmanchamber.com • www.pullmanchamber.com Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Staff: Executive Director: Marie Dymkoski • Tourism Director: Britnee Christen • Event Coordinator: Ireland Addis • Office Manager: Kimberly Marshall

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WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

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WSU Eggert Family Organic Farm enacts social distancing measures

WSU Eggert Family Organic Farm is open Friday afternoons through October. Customers are asked to wear masks and maintain a distance of 6 feet while waiting in line.

Farm manager Brad Jaeckel walks across the grounds at WSU Eggert Family Organic Farm during opening day of the farm's seasonal farm stand.

Produce is pre-bagged for minimal handling at WSU Eggert Family Organic Farm, now open for the 2020 season.

WSU Eggert Family Organic Farm has opened plots. Because of the pandemic, farm manager Brad Jaeckel says, the garden has experienced for business—with safety precautions. increased interest. To help, farm staff have advised The farm is following safety and socialthe garden’s leadership on purchasing components distancing guidelines similar to those recommended by the Washington State Farmer’s for installing drip irrigation systems for members.

The farm also donated parsley, rhubarb, tomato, Markets Association during the COVID-19 and onion starts. pandemic.

Produce is only being handled by staff members and pre-bagged for minimal handling.

Workers are sanitizing high-contact surfaces between sales and also using protective equipment. They’re also wearing masks.

Customers are encouraged to wear them, too.

Customers are also asked to maintain a distance of 6 feet while waiting in line at the farm stand, which opened June 5 for the 2020 season.

Eggert Family Organic Farm is now open 3 to 6 p.m. Fridays through October.

Similarly, the farm is teaming up with the Pullman Community Action Center and Colfax’s Council on Aging, which operate two of the major food bank systems in Whitman County and have seen an increase in customers since the start of the pandemic. Both organizations have worked with the farm in the past but are now able to purchase larger quantities of fresh produce, thanks to emergency funding, Jaeckel says.

Fruit and vegetable offerings will vary throughout the season.

Jaeckel asks customers to not bring their own In the months leading up to the opening, the reusable bags and, if possible, pay with a credit farm partnered with Pullman Koppel Community card to involve the least amount of contact. Or, Garden, where community members rent garden

try the farm’s new e-commerce site at css.wsu. edu/organicfarm to order bulk items and preorder for pickup at the farm.

Part of the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Eggert Family Organic Farm was certified organic in 2004. Jaeckel has been manager since 2005, the same year farm sales started. In 2015, the farm produced its first full harvest at its new 30-acre land assignment on Animal Sciences Road just east of the main WSU Pullman campus.

The best way to stay up-to-date about farm stand happenings and online ordering is to subscribe to the farm’s newsletter. To subscribe, visit: css.wsu.edu/organicfarm/learn-explore/ newsletters.

The farm can also be found at css.wsu.edu/ organicfarm and on Facebook at www.facebook. com/WSUOrganicFarm/.

Museum offers art online

disasters, using radioactive materials to shape artwork and video footage of haunting beauty.

The Tokyo-born, Seattle-based multimedia artist channels seemingly contradictory visions in her new immersive installation, available through March 20, 2021. Plus, links to three special video presentations linked can be found in the sidebar of this exhibition.

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU remains closed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. But art enthusiasts can still view exhibitions online.

Four new exhibits are available on the museum’s website. They opened at the end of May and will be virtually available through the temporary COVID-19 closure. End dates are open, except for the one listed below.

Here’s a quick look at each exhibition:

• Betty Feves: The Earth Itself features a wide range of clay art—from early figurative and architectural forms to functional wares and large-scale sculpture. Feves, a pioneering ceramic artist, studied art at then-Washington State College in the late 1930s.

• Follow the Sun: The Holland and Orton

Etsuko Ichikawa, Leaving A Legacy, Detail, 2017.

Collections features an array of artistic themes and approaches, including portraits and American landscapes representing ideal beauty and westward ambition and migration. They are among the museum’s founding collections.

• Etsuko Ichikawa: Broken Poems of Fireflies expresses a prayer for the future through cautionary tales of nuclear waste and natural

• Trimpin: Ambiente 432 allows viewers to experience the soothing sounds of 12 motion-responsive resonator horns suspended from the museum’s ceiling—and tuned precisely to 432Hz—as they sing in response to movement. A special video, created in partnership with Washington State Magazine, allows visitors to experience this sound installation online during the closure.

On the web: museum.wsu.edu.

PULLMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

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BOARD REPORT

Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Nathan Roberts, Board Member

The challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic offered Pullman Public Schools new opportunities to learn and challenges to overcome during the 2020 academic year. Regardless of the continuing challenges we will face in Fall 2020, we can rest assured knowing that that we will not lose focus on our central mission and the work of educating our children, improving our culture and achieving greater equity for our students and community. Our clear mission and cultural beliefs will guide us through.

hard at work planning the last day of school before the state mandated closure for COVID-19.

The closure was announced that Friday afternoon so there was little time to prepare. I watched as these people, whose lives were being turned upside down by COVID 19 along with the rest of us, spent an entire weekend planning the sudden end of school for our staff and students. We planned communications, activities, and events to tie up loose ends and help everyone by sending them off with a memorable experience.

In my three years as a director of the Pullman Public Schools I’ve had the privilege to witness and learn from people who exemplify great leadership. I’ve learned that leadership is often about making a plan and then getting out of the way, enabling others to create solutions that best fit the situation, and ensuring people feel valued and empowered.

Unfortunately, that Sunday evening we got the call that we had to cancel school on Monday.

Though all our plans were dashed, our staff, teachers, and administrators picked up the pieces and resolved to move education online and put the students first. It was this tireless dedication to our students, even in the face of what some would consider a hopeless situation, that I learned the most about leadership and the importance of our cultural beliefs. They are our purpose, our guiding beacon in rough seas, and we use our beliefs to guide our decisions and ensure we keep our objective clear.

But above all I’ve learned the importance of having a defined set of cultural beliefs to guide decisions big and small. Our staff, teachers, and administrative team have exemplified leading by our cultural beliefs throughout the COVID-19 closure. I’ve seen many instances of our six cultural beliefs being put into action—to put “students first,” to have “mutual respect,” to “build together,” to “cultivate trust,” to “take action” and to make “shared decisions.”

I’m proud of the work our schools have done to shape these cultural beliefs over the last several years. We can’t know what is going to happen come Fall 2020, but whatever happens Pullman Public Schools has our mission and cultural beliefs to guide us. That is the promise we make to the Community. We have the right principles and the right people to meet the challenges of educating during a pandemic and we will persevere by relying on our cultural beliefs and wonderful people to lead us through.

Though we may not all consider ourselves leaders, we can all do something to help get through this next year. In leading by example, supporting others in their roles, or taking on new responsibilities as a community member, teacher, On Sunday, March 15th right before we closed or parent, we can all help navigate the changes to come both in education and our community. all school buildings, I witnessed an exceptional The important thing for our district is that we instance of these beliefs in action. I spent the continue to use our cultural beliefs to inform our better part of the day with our district leaders decisions and keep our priorities clear.

2020 PEF Scholarship Recipients Congratulations to the following PHS graduates named as recipients of 2020 Pullman Education Foundation Scholarships!

Class of 1948 Scholarship - $1000 Kimball Cordova Class of 1956 Scholarship - $750 Julia Jitkov Class of 1960 Scholarship - $1000 Kalista McCafferty Corrine Simasko Scholarship - $1900 Molly Davidson Future Teacher Scholarship - $2000 Madison Oelke Jessica Clark Scholarship - $1000 Hallie McDougle Mary Paznokas Scholarship - $500 Whitney Heusser Noah Evermann Scholarship - $2500 Hua Ming Newman PEO Chapter S Scholarship - $1500 Melody Gebremedhin Ryan Brindamour Scholarship - $1000 Marshall Hill

Board of Directors Jim Evermann Director, District 3 jfe@psd267.org

Nathan Roberts Director, District 4 nroberts@psd267.org Amanda Tanner Director, District 5 atanner@psd267.org Allison Munch-Rotolo Director, District 2 Amunch-rotolo@psd267.org President Susan Weed Director, District 1 Sweed@psd267.org

Congratulations to our 2020 Retirees!

• Janet Adams, Teacher at Kamiak Elementary • Mary Lopes, Nurse • Alison Mixter, Registrar at Lincoln Middle School • Frieda Nutsch, Food Service at Lincoln Middle School Thank you for your service, dedication, and commitment to the students and staff of Pullman Public Schools!

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Pullman Public Schools Construction Updates

Right & Below Right: Floor Plan of Whitman County Transportation Cooperative

Above: Renderings of Whitman County Transportation Cooperative

Lincoln Middle School Renovation & Expansion The Lincoln Middle School project is moving ahead! In April, the school board approved awarding the construction contract to Wellens Construction, out of Enterprise, Oregon. Wellens recently worked on the Colfax High School remodel. Contractors are currently starting work on the LMS site, placing fencing and erosion control, and starting demo work. Over the summer, crews will be working steadily! We hope to have the entire renovation and expansion completed by fall of 2021.

Transportation Cooperative Final construction documents for a transportation cooperative were discussed by the school board on June 10th, and will move to an action item on June 24th. The site plan for this project is currently being reviewed by the city. In addition, we will receive notification from the state in early July about funding for the transportation cooperative. If the state approves the proposal, roughly $5.3 million of the cost of the transportation cooperative will be covered by the state.

Pioneer Center The district offices are housed in Pioneer Center on Dexter Street.

District office staff are in the process of moving into spaces in Pioneer Center recently vacated by Pullman Parks & Recreation. We are looking forward to having more office and meeting space!

The Pullman School District Board of Directors and the Pullman School District shall provide equal educational opportunity and treatment for all students in all aspects of the academic and activities programs without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, honorably-discharged veteran or military status, sex, sexual orientation (including gender expression or identity), marital status, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability, participation in the Boy Scouts of America or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. The district will provide equal access to school facilities to the Boy Scouts of America and all other designated youth groups listed in Title 36 of the United States Code as a patriotic society. District programs will be free from sexual harassment.

The following employee has been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Roberta Kramer, Assistant Superintendent, Pullman School District Administrative Offices, 240 SE Dexter Street, Pullman, WA 99163, 509.332.3144. Applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations in the application process by contacting the Personnel Coordinator at (509) 332-3584.

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Pullman Public Schools: @PullmanSD Lincoln Middle School: @LMSPrincipals Pullman High School: @PullmanHS Kamiak Elementary School: @PullmanKES Franklin Elementary School: @FESFoxes Sunnyside Elementary School: @SESSuperstars Instagram: @Kamiak.Elementary.School @SunnysideSuperstars

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SPOKANE FALLS COMMUNITY COLLEGES

JULY 2020

Pullman Offering New STEM-Majors Courses STEM-major courses in biology and mathematics will be available at our Pullman Center starting this fall.

Take these core courses in your discipline and prepare for a transfer to a bachelor’s program within a year at the college sophomore level and expand your choice of transfer institution expanded. Or add a second year to finish an Associate’s degree with us. We are pleased that we can offer the Palouse community an expanded course program in these uncertain times. Start your college education with us this fall and take advantage of our excellence in teaching and learning, , small classrooms and personalized campus support, flexible schedule options, and at the best tuition price you will find.

Calendar • July-Aug Adult Basic Ed, GED/HS Completion Online Drop-in Every M-Th • July-Aug Course Placement, by Appointment • July-Aug Fall Quarter ’20 Registration – While Seats Last!

• July 14 SFCC Honors Student Recognition • July 21 College-bound this Fall: Info Session to Start with Us! • Sept 21 First Day of Fall Quarter ‘20 • Dec 11 Final Day of Fall Quarter ‘20

Celebrating

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Community Colleges of Spokane is celebrating twenty years of transforming lives at its Pullman campus. Located on the WSU campus, SFCC Pullman provides universal access to college for new and transfer students as well as to Palouse area high school students. Registration for fall quarter now underway:

Years on the Palouse

• Full- and part-time, on-the-ground and online pathways to Associate degrees • Sophomore- and junior-year university transfer • Running Start for WA high school juniors and seniors • GED and High School completion • Adult Basic Education

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Mayor Johnson reappointed to WA Association of College Trustees CCS Trustee and Pullman Mayor Glenn Johnson, well known for his longtime service to Community Colleges of Spokane and WSU Pullman, has been re-appointed to the board of the Washington State Association of College Trustees (ACT), serving as the co-chair of the Legislative Action Committee.

Pullman Mayor Glenn Johnson

Dr. Johnson began his college studies at Modesto Junior College in California, earned a BA at Sacramento State University, a masters at UCLA and a Ph. D at the University of Iowa. He is in his fifth term as Mayor of Pullman and has served the community and the state on a number of boards.

He retired as professor emeritus from WSU after teaching in the Murrow College for 35 years.

Looking ahead at the transformative impact post-secondary institutions can have locally and state-wide, Dr. Johnson believes that our community colleges will be pivotal in the economic recovery of our state following Covid-19. “Community Colleges have proven over the years to be flexible, adaptable and responsive to the needs of our state and they are poised now to help the state in our recovery, “Johnson said. We are grateful for his leadership and passion to extend the promise of higher education to all WA communities and residents.

Caitlin Palmer, English and Creative Writing faculty, secures book contract Caitlin Palmer joined the SFCC faculty in September 2019. She has taught English, Literature, and Creative Writing at the Pullman campus. She is a writer originally from the Midwest who writes about small beauty. Caitlin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho, where she served as the fiction editor of Fugue and the program’s Hemingway Fellow.

Hi Caitlin, you have some excellent news to share about your creative practice?

The project I'm working on is a novel entitled Slow Fault, about a young woman in rural Missouri who gets caught up in questions of loyalty surrounding eco-activism. I just Caitlin Palmer signed a contract with a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit for representation, on the track to sending the book to publishers within a year!

I know from writer friends about the frustrations and disappointments of searching for an agent and publisher. How was your journey to get to this place?

In some ways, my route to an agent happened very quickly. I was selected for a fellowship during my last year getting an MFA at the University of Idaho, meaning I got a release from teaching two classes to focus on writing. Last summer, I was selected to attend the Tin House Writers Workshop, where out of our workshop with writer Claire Vaye Watkins, I was chosen for a one-on-one mentorship and full manuscript consultation. After working on it for a year, I started sending out to agents in February, and heard back on my first round of emails.

Sounds like you were really focused and made a number of things work for you?

In other ways, though, the process has been longer - I was out of school for ten years before getting an MFA, writing and living and working on figuring out my own "voice." Now, working with an agent who also represents Ted Chiang, author of Exhalation, I'm very excited to see what comes! A long road, with more steps ahead, but this is the first towards a professional writing career.

Mailing address: SFCC-Pullman PO Box 642451, Pullman WA, 99164-2451 Physical address is at 185 Veterans Way, Pullman WA, 99164, the building just to the east of Daggy Hall on WSU’s campus.

Pullman@SFCC.Spokane.edu • 509-332-2706 • Pullman.sfcc.spokane.edu

COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER

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The Food & Shelter Folks Poverty on the Palouse Quiz Test your awareness of poverty in Whitman County. Answers given below.

1. What is the annual income that puts a family of two adults and two children at the “poverty line” in 2020?

A. $12,760 B. $21,720 C. $26,200 D. $39,640 2. What does ALICE stand for?

A. Asset-Limited; IncomeConstrained; Employed B. Adults Living In College Environment C. Average Limited Income Consumer Enterprise 3. The percentage of people living in poverty in Whitman County is: A. 9% B. 12% C. 22% D. 27%

4. In Whitman County, what fraction of families headed by single moms with kids under 18 are experiencing poverty?

A. One-tenth B. One-quarter C. One-third D. One-half 5. In Whitman and Latah Counties, what percentage of households are “cost-burdened;” meaning they pay more than 30% of income in rent or mortgage payments?

A. 30% B. 37% C. 40% D. 43% Answers: 1 – C. 2 – A. 52% of Whitman County households fall in the “ALICE” category. 3 –D. For comparison, in Washington State it is 10%.4 – C. 5 – B.

Riverview Apartments Now Leasing!

Meet the Staff – Jennifer Cheslek, Housing Solutions Specialist How long have you worked at Community Action Center?

It will be one year in August. I started out doing part-time energy assistance, and part-time housing, in November I started full time in housing.

Describe what you do at Community Action Center.

My job entails supporting folks who are homeless or about to become homeless within 14 days, to get them stably housed. We try to support folks by helping with a security deposit on a new place, or giving eviction prevention so they can stay in their home. We help people who are on the streets or couch surfing. We are also doing a youth homeless demonstration project, helping to house kids who are homeless between the ages of 18-24.

We live in a bubble in Whitman County and it just means people don’t see homelessness; it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In Whitman County homelessness can be anything from what we think of as homelessness, you know, people carrying a backpack and walking down the street, or people living in outbuildings without electricity or running water. But we also see students and adults who are couch surfing or living in their car.

What’s special about your job?

I think for me what is special is being able to help people take that one stressor off their plate. It may be helping a single mom with security deposit to get into her own place, because she has a job but the deposits are overwhelming. Right now it’s also helping people furloughed from the University. People are going from a great salary to no income, just waiting until unemployment comes in.

If you don’t have a house, everything else is hard. You are not eating well or sleeping well. Being able to clean yourself and your clothes is difficult. At Housing Solutions we talk with people about their goals, and help them work through what they need to do and problem solve to reach those goals. I get to celebrate success with people as they achieve something they have worked really hard to accomplish.

What do you do in your free time?

I like to spend time with my family and friends, hang out and cook and play cards. We like to go fishing.

Community Food Building A is opening July 2020.

Lease up your unit now! Available: 1-BR/1 bath, 2-BR/2 bath, and 3-BR/2 bath units, water/sewer/garbage incl., washer/dryer hook-ups in each unit, central heat & A/C, some units have eat-in kitchens, community room, exercise room, decks or patios for all units. One Pet Allowed, some limitations apply (requires $350.00 deposit and $20.00 a mo. Pet Rent) Assistance Animal exclusions available. Income limits & Rent Limits apply

by Household size. 3 accessible units. Housing Choice vouchers welcome.

Managed and Owed by CAC. Call David at 509-334-9147 or email rentals@cacwhitman.com.

COVID-19 Microenterprise Assistance Grants Awarded to Small Businesses Community Action Center is administering $80,000 in Whitman County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding to keep small businesses afloat during COVID-19 shutdowns. Thirteen local businesses received grants. In most cases grants will be used for brick-and-mortar location costs so business owners won’t lose their space. Some projects also include money to pay staff or keep inventory stocked.

“BEST NEWS EVER!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!! Please accept a giant virtual hug from my whole family!” said one local business owner, upon hearing about the award.

The small businesses receiving grants represent food enterprises, storefronts on Main Street in Colfax, businesses in small outlying communities, and a variety of businesses in Pullman.

We are NOT taking food donations at the moment due to hygiene and safety concerns. We encourage you to go online and make a donation to Community Food! Your donation will help us buy essential food for people who are experiencing hunger. Please donate at: https://www.cacwhitman.org/donate/ We ARE accepting non-food donations. We are in need of: • Toilet paper • Cardboard boxes/disposable paper and plastic grocery bags (for food distribution) • Cleaning supplies (disinfectant, disinfecting wipes, sponges) • Diapers sizes 4, 5, 6, Pull-ups, and wipes You can bring donations to 350 SE Fairmont Road in Pullman weekdays from 8:00-4:00 (closed for lunch 12:00-1:00). To donate, please come to the parking lot, call the front desk, and we will have a staff member come to your car to take the donation.

FOOD PANTRY

BREAD ROOM

MONDAY

Closed

TUESDAY

Closed

WEDNESDAY

11 am – 1:00 pm

THURSDAY

2 pm – 4:00 pm

8 am – 4:30 pm Please note our 8 am –– 4:30 pm Free Room is now 8 am – closed 4:30pmdue to COVID-19 8 amregulations.

– 6:00 pm

FRIDAY

Closed

8 am – 4:30 pm

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NOW OFFERING CONTACT-FREE CHECK IN

Happy Independence Day Wishing you and your family a safe and festive July 4th holiday.

For your safety and convenience, Pullman Regional Hospital Clinic Network practices are now offering contact-free, electronic check in through Phreesia. That means you can electronically: • Submit photos of your insurance cards or identification • Update your registration information • Upload payment information for balances and co-payments • Link directly to a telemedicine visit The following practices are part of the PRH Clinic Network: • Palouse Psychiatry & • Palouse Heart Center Behavioral Health (509) 336-7577 (509) 339-2394 • Palouse Pediatrics • Palouse Pulmonology & (Pullman office) Sleep Medicine (509) 332-2605 (509) 338-6000 (MoscowBefore office)Your Visit or When You Arrive!

• Pullman Family Medicine (208) 882-2247 Faster, smarter (509) 332-3548 check-in experience,

Check in on Your Device delivered via email or text message

Done on your own time, from the privacy of your own device

Professional Mall II 1260 S E Bishop Blvd Ste C Pullman, WA 99163 509-332-1564

Greg Bloom Financial Advisor

Ryan Hamilton Financial Advisor

Simple and quick arrival at the office

Make sure we have an up-to-date email address or phone number

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RURAL RESOURCES

JULY 2020

Call today (509) 332-0365

Rural Resources is Hiring!

Full Time Case Manager in the Health Homes Program: This team member provides important care coordination services to eligible individuals and their families. Assesses needs, develops and monitors service plans, makes appropriate referrals and serves as a client advocate with other service providers. Our Case Managers work with individuals and their families to assist them in identifying and accessing supports.

Uses health education and motivational interviewing techniques to promote engagement in goal planning, increase resiliency, and define a pathway for continued health improvement.

Case Manager acts as a liaison between programs and applicable health professionals to ensure client needs are met in a wraparound approach.

For more information please see https://ruralresources.org/jobopenings/ or call 509-684-8421

Services during COVID-19 YES, we are still here to serve you! Our Pullman office is closed to the public for your safety, but you can schedule an appointment, reach us by phone at 509-332-0365 or email info@ruralresources.org. We are continuing to enroll community members, their families, and caregivers in a variety of support programs. Services including information/referral, in-home respite care, caregiver support, emergency buttons and more are still available to eligible people in Pullman and throughout Whitman County.

You call it helping; We call it Caregiving Are you helping a loved one? Do you take time out of your schedule to go to the doctor with an aging parent? Help a spouse manage their prescriptions? Help a neighbor get their mail? You are a caregiver and support is available for informal caregivers! Rural Resources Family Caregiver Support Program can provide direct support, support groups, respite, housework, emergency buttons, counseling and more. Call Cherie at 509-715-0360 for additional information.

Information, Assistance, and Options Counseling Information, Assistance and Options Counseling—How can we help you? We are here to provide any help you may need in identifying applicable support services. We provide information about your options for accessing community resources and empower you to make the best choice for your circumstances. We provide information about supported living, and information about maintaining independence at home. If you need assistance or have questions, please email info@ ruralresources.org, or call Mari at 509-715-0357.

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JULY 2020 The Pullman Community UPDATE is published monthly by: City of Pullman Pullman Chamber of Commerce Pullman Regional Hospital Pullman School District Washington State University

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• Pullman Farmers Market, 3:30 – 6:30 p.m., Brelsford WSU Visitor Center

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WHITMAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY

JULY 2020

Star Pets It’s Christmas in July! The WCHS is pleased to ammounce that it has received a generous $1,000 grant from the Petfinder Foundation.

The foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life of shelter pets like Pippin, pictured here, so that they are happier, healthier, and more adoptable.

Made possible by Petfinder and The Orvis Company, America’s oldest mail-order outfitter, the grant will provide support for our dog enrichment program. Pippin can’t wait to see what toys the staff will order!

A little Soda or Pop will quench your thirst for kittens!

Soda is an effervescent kitten that lives up to his name. He’s bubbling over with gusto and is the perfect combination of spunk and loving. Pop is as sweet as can be, reaching out from his kennel for attention and love. These bubbly kittens will grow and learn very fast.

Kittens do best in pairs or with another friendly cat to teach them the ropes! Since kitten season has arrived, there are many lovely purr babies waiting for a good home.

Kittens 4 months old and younger are $170 and kittens 5 to 7 months old are $120! To sweeten the deal, on two-fur Tuesdays, you can adopt 2 for the price of one.

CONTACT

SHELTER 1340 SE Old Moscow Road, Pullman • shelter@whitmanpets.org Shelter hours: Open: 1-6 PM Monday-Saturday.

Free roaming cats (both feral and stray) are the most significant source of cat overpopulation. They produce approximately 80% of the kittens born each year. Reducing the number of feral and stray cats and managing their care is the goal of Trap-NeuterReturn (TNR).

TNR improves the quality of life for existing colonies, prevents the birth of more cats, reduces the number of cats over time, and reduces or eliminates nuisance behaviors associated with cats that aren’t sterilized. It also helps reduce the spread of disease to housecats.

WCHS has Cat Traps that can be lent for this purpose. See our website under Shelter Services and Community Assistance.

POOCH PARK at Pullman • (509) 416-6181 poochpark@whitmanpets.org • Open dawn to dusk daily

WCHS PRESIDENT Kym Darling www.whitmanpets.org • Phone 332-3422

PULLMAN KIWANIS

12th Annual

Stuff the Bus Over the last decade, the Kiwanis Clubs of Pullman and Moscow, in partnership with local school districts and our community partners, have helped thousands of local children who require school supplies.

Please donate before August 7, 2020, by sending a check to Pullman Kiwanis, or donating online at The ongoing health and economic crises due to COVID-19 make the need even more serious pullmankiwanis.org/stuff-the-bus. and urgent for our schools, families, and We look forward to your support. communities.

If you have a gently used musical instrument to This summer, we will collect monetary donations donate, please drop it off at the Pullman School for school supplies, to reduce risk for teachers, District office. We’ll have it reconditioned, and volunteers, and school staff. give it to Pullman schools!

In order to make 2020 another successful year, we would ask you to support Stuff the Bus at any level. Your generosity can make a difference this year more than ever. www.pullmankiwanis.org

Everyone can help!

JULY 2020

PULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL

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Local Financial Advising Firm Collaborates with Women Philanthropists in Support of Pullman Regional Hospital’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund Since its inception in 2015, the Guild has raised and gifted more than $160,850 to regional non-profits who empower women and children’s health and wellness and Pullman Regional Hospital. Membership contributions and events fund the guild’s charitable giving.

In 2019, the guild gifted $32,000 to eight regional non-profits and the Hospital. In addition, the Guild’s inaugural Girlfriends Gather event raised $7,800 and was gifted to Families Together for People with Disabilities.

The Pullman Regional Hospital Women’s Leadership Guild helped raise $25,550 in support of the hospital’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund through their first online giving event. Pullman financial advising firm, Values & Vision—The Feuerstein Group at Waddell & Reed, matched donations dollarfor-dollar, up to $10,000.

“We knew our marquee event, Girlfriends Gather, would need to look differently this year because of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” said Guild chair, Angie Feuerstein. “We’re ‘can do’ women, so we put our heads together and went virtual for our philanthropic event in support of our hospital.”

“This is a remarkable demonstration of the power of philanthropy,” said Rueben Mayes, Chief Development Officer for Pullman Regional Hospital. “We are so grateful for the Guild’s ongoing work to empower women and children and cultivate a group of women

philanthropists. The match provided by Values & Vision is extraordinary. We are so appreciative of the generous leadership from The Feuerstein Group.”

“We just really prefer Pullman Regional Hospital. It’s worth the drive for us,” Brittany Babino, Lewiston.

BirthPlace is Women’s Choice—again!

Thank you for making Pullman Regional Hospital’s BirthPlace one of America’s Best Hospitals for Obstetrics in 2020.

Check us out online at www.pullmanregional.org/ birthplace. New features include: • Virtual tour of BirthPlace and what you can expect in our award-winning facility • Redesigned BirthPlace webpages for easier navigation and information every expectant mom wants to know • New podcasts on the Basics of Breastfeeding & PostPartum Depression from our team of experts

The Guild has 48 members and is chaired

by Angie Feuerstein with board members Ashley Alred, Karlene Beaumont, Susie Skavdahl and Stacey Swift. To learn more about membership, contact Stephanie Pierce at Pullman Regional Hospital Foundation (509) 332-2044.

Learn more at www.pullmanregional.org/wlg

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PULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL

JULY 2020

Advance Practice Provider Excellence Award Congratulations to Dave Rees, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, for receiving the 2020 Pullman Regional Hospital Advanced Practice Provider Excellence Award. Dave was nominated for helping to empower those he works with, his “can do” attitude, and understanding that excellence in patient care comes from a dedicated and encouraged team.

Dave Rees, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

Critical need for blood during the summer Donations of blood drop dramatically during the summer, and we are already seeing a critical need for blood. To help make sure patients have what they need, Pullman Regional Hospital is hosting a blood drive with Vitalant on Friday, July 3 at Gladish Community Center in Room 211 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In less than an hour, you can make a donation that has the power to save up to three people! Make an impact; schedule today on Vitalant’s website.

JULY 2020

PULLMAN DEPOT HERITAGE CENTER

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GLADISH COMMUNITY & CULTURAL CENTER

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JULY 2020

YMCA Day Camp comes to Gladish The YMCA of the Palouse offered Day Camp programming for youth in grades K-5th through June 19 at Gladish for families of essential workers.

The Summer Day Camp program started on June 22. Depending on when the public schools will allow the camp to return to Sunnyside Elementary, it may still use the Gladish location throughout the summer.

The day camp can register up to 27 youth ages 5 to 12. Its program ends on Aug. 21.

Camp organizers plan to continue with STEM-based activities along with outdoor fun as much as possible.

“We are very grateful to Gladish Community Center staff and to the Friends of Gladish Board for providing us a place to run our day camps until we are able to operate again at the schools,” said Josh Paparazzo, director of program for the YMCA. “Because of this, we are able to offer needed programing and serve our Y families and the Pullman area community.”

Gladish Notes...

Harder elected board president

For more information about YMCA Summer Day Camp, questions can be directed to staff at operations@palouseymca.org or by phone at (509) 332-3524.

David Harder, owner and principal investigator of Plateau Archaeologi-cal Investigations, will serve a second year as president of the Friends of Gladish Board of Directors.

Elected recently to complete the executive group are Anna-Maria Shannon, vice president; Anna Grindeland, secretary, and Melissa Solen , treasurer. Directors on the board include John Ayers, Richard Domey and Natalie Fisher.

Friends contributions support facility Friends of Gladish continue to receive support from the community as part of its membership campaign. Individual membership is $35, a family membership is $50 while supporter memberships are $100.

Those who have joined in recent weeks include Jonathan and Natalie Fisher, Rex and Alice Davis, Henry Merrill, Melissa and Rebecca Solen, and Garren and Anna-Maria Shannon.

Donations can be dropped off or mailed to Gladish at 115NW State St., Suite 212.

State commission expected to consider PCM request The Washington State Charter School Commission at its June meeting is expected to review a proposal that Pullman Community Montessori be allowed to open as a charter school.

According to Laylah Sullivan, chair of the local organizing committee, the final decision for approval or denial will be made on Thursday, June 25, at the Commission’s Resolution meeting. Commission meetings are open to the public. The outcome of the resolution is then reported to the Washington State Board of Education.

Historically, Sullivan said, the meeting is also a final opportunity for commissioners to ask the key team members more questions as most of them were not present during an earlier interview.

The meeting will be conducted via Zoom this year rather than expecting teams to travel to Seattle. Results will be posted https:// charterschool.wa.gov/.

“If we are granted approval we will move forward with plans outlined in our application,” Sullivan said. “I will step down from my chair

Montessori youngsters at Gladish.. Photo by Alicia Baker of audalia CREATIVE

position to assume the Head of School role while The school would propose to open for K John Cassleman, a current board member, steps through 5th graders in late August 2021. up to assume the role of board chair.” The board expects to increase membership to 11.

Gladish Community and Cultural Center Business Directory • GLADISH is great for Education… Celebrations… Performances… and Events. Contact us today.

ARTS • Community Band of the Palouse, 509-334-6270 • North Star Music • Red Dog Art Room, Rhonda Skaggs, 509-339-3891 • Trisha Mallet Piano Studio 509-592-3610 • WA-ID Symphony, 208-874-4162 CHILD CARE AND RESOURCES • The Learning Center, 334-1234

DANCE STUDIOS • Rising Stars Dance Studio (509) 432-6961 FITNESS/WELLNESS Aloft Yoga and Nia, aloft-yoga.com Lifespan Counseling, 206-910-7138 Mantis Martial Arts LLC Palouse River Rollers Pullman Kokondo Academy 509-995-2894 • Rolling Hills Derby Dames rollinghillsderbydames.com • Wheat Whackers www.wheatwhackers.com • • • • •

ORGANIZATIONS • Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse, 509-332-4357 • Amalgamated Transit Union • American Legion Post 52 • Apostolic Faith, 509-338-5869 • Friends of Hospice, 509-332-4414 • Good Deeds Mortgage, 509-339-7110 • Idiopathics • Mumma Insurance, 425-455-1406 jeffm@mummainsurance.com • Plateau Archaeological Investigations 332-3830

• Whitman County Genealogical Society Library, 332-2386 • Whitman County Historical Society Archives, 334-3940 • Work Source, 509-553-3496 mwood@esd.wa.gov SCHOOLS • AC Driving School, Room 306 • Montessori School of Pullman 334-4114

Please support your community center and become a Friend of Gladish.

Send a $35 (Individual), $50(Family) or $100 (Business) donation to: 115 NW State St., Suite 212A, Pullman, WA 99163 Or give online here: www.gladishcommunity.org Email us: Gladish@pullman.com

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