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‘A beacon of light in so many ways’
Family of Peter Zornes honors him
by hosting annual golf tourney
By Dylan Greene, Evergreen July 12,
2018
Joy Zornes, her family and the small
town of Oakesdale, Washington, have had to deal with the loss of Joy’s closest
friend and brother Peter for the past 12 and a half years.
To honor him, Joy, her mother Kathy and
father Tom have worked as a family to put on the Peter Zornes Memorial Golf
Tournament.
The annual tournament will be held 10
a.m. Saturday at the Colfax Golf Club for the 11th straight year. Joy said her
family decided to put on this event so Peter’s life and legacy could continue
beyond his death.
“All of us kind of realized that we
didn’t want Peter’s life to be only about the end,” she said. “We didn’t want
it to be a really awful story, we wanted him to be able to have a better
story.”
Peter graduated cum laude from WSU in
2003 with a degree in neuroscience and the goal of attending medical school.
Immediately following his undergraduate studies, he took a position as a
research assistant in asthma and allergy at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center to increase his chances of making it to medical school, Kathy
said.
Peter would return to Whitman County
18 months later for another research position at a bio-tech firm started by a
former professor. But on Dec. 10, 2005, he was killed in a double
murder-suicide inside a Pullman condominium complex. He was 25 years old.
Joy said when she heard the news, it
was devastating.
“We talk about being heart broken, but
I felt so broken and heart sick,” she said. “I knew I could always cry on his
shoulder, that’s just who Peter was.”
In the days after his passing, Peter’s
family began thinking of a way to memorialize him to make his death more about
his goals and aspirations and less about what happened at the end of his life.
They decided creating a scholarship in
his name was the best way to do this, so they worked with the neuroscience
department at WSU to create an endowment called the Peter A. Zornes Memorial
Neuroscience Scholarship, Joy said.
To get the scholarship fully-endowed,
the Zornes had to raise about $25,000 in five years, Joy said. After realizing
they had to raise the money as fast as possible, the family decided to hold a
golf tournament, Joy said.
In 2008, Peter’s family was able to
organize a tournament and award the first Peter A. Zornes Memorial Scholarship
to a neuroscience student at WSU despite it not yet being endowed.
Joy said she and her parents had no
idea what they were doing when they first started hosting the event. She even
recalled searching the Internet for answers on how to hold a golf tournament as
they were setting things up the night before the first tournament and finding
results that her mother couldn’t believe they didn’t find before.
The tournament was only supposed to be
a one-time event, but Joy said people kept coming up to them and suggesting
what they should do differently the following year, so they continued to host
it.
“The rest is history,” she said.
People come from all over to
participate in the event and remember Peter, Joy said.
“I’ll never forget that for the first
two, three months [after his death] something would happen,” she said, “and I
would pick up my cell phone to send him a quick text message or call him and I
would be halfway and [think] ‘oh yeah he’s not going to answer.’”
For the first few days after his
death, Joy said her family struggled coping with Peter’s passing as the details
of the incident slowly came out but the 400 or so people living in Oakesdale
were there for them when they needed it most.
Joy recalled having half of the town
in their living town within 24 hours of the incident and before they officially
knew Peter had died.
The town even led the effort to have
the scoreboard at the local high school baseball field named after Peter, and
the Zornes had to put a stone bench next to his grave because so many residents
visited Peter for hours at a time, Joy said.
“We came together and grieved and even
though we are all the time working to move past it, we’re doing it together,”
she said.
Peter became interested in
neuroscience after visiting WSU with Kathy and talking to people within the
department, Joy said. Peter quickly became fascinated with it, growing
ambitions of developing medicine that could save lives and hoping to learn
things about the brain that had yet to be discovered, Joy said.
Peter was also gifted athletically and
had to turn down a chance to play on the WSU baseball team in order to pursue
his academic goals, Joy said.
The scholarship the Zornes family
created aims to continue Peter’s dreams by giving back to neuroscience students
at WSU that are headed down the same path and looking to make an impact, Kathy
said.
Joy said this scholarship allows all
the work Peter started or would’ve completed had he still been alive to be
continued by others.
“To us Peter was … just a beacon of
light in so many ways,” she said. “It felt like if we didn’t take an active
stand against the darks that took him it would ultimately allow that to be his
defining factor, his defining characteristic.”
Recipients are neuroscience students
of junior or senior based on a number of factors including if they are
goal-oriented, compassionate and enthusiastic. Joy said the Zornes gets to review
all the applications sent in and offer their thoughts on who should be
selected, but ultimately the final decision rests with the neuroscience
department.
Kathy said the amount of money awarded
from the scholarship varies depending on the quality of the applicants and how
the fund is doing, but is usually between $1,000 and $2,000.
She also said the tournament has
evolved over the years and become more about what the scholarship fund will do
for the recipients who she believes have qualities that Peter possessed.
“Through that tournament we’re
providing an opportunity for people to gather,” Kathy said, “and to spend just
a pleasurable, enjoyable [time] doing something that contributes … which will
matter because neuroscience impacts so many of us in so many ways.”
Neuroscience has had a significant
impact on the Zornes family beyond just Peter. Kathy said on Christmas Day last
year, her husband had a stroke caused by congestive heart failure and
neuroscientists were able to get medicine to him in time to prevent long-term
effects.
In March, Kathy said doctors
discovered a tumor at the base of Joy’s brain and neuroscientists had to
perform multiple surgeries to remove it.
Kathy said they were able to see the
impact of neuroscience first hand and what the funding they’re providing
students with through the scholarship could end up doing.
“When you think about the lives that
will be touched, just the scope of that,” she said. “Maybe somebody else in
another town is going to have their daughter or mother or somebody saved by one
of our [students] someday.”
The Zornes are still looking for
people to register for the golf tournament and have plenty of open spots, Joy
said. The entry fee for the event is $85 and includes participation in the
18-hole scramble, a catered meal, a polo, a gift bag, golf balls and
involvement in contests and a silent auction.
For more information and to register
visit peterzornesmemorialgolftournament.com.
Joy said it’s been difficult not
having Peter around, but this tournament and scholarship is helping keep him
alive.
“It’s like I have a lifetime of
memories that I don’t share with anybody else anymore,” she said.
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Crews begin repaving Stadium Way
Portion of road will remain closed
through month of July, state provided funding
By Ian Smay, Evergreen
July 12, 2018
A small portion of Stadium Way near
the Stephenson Complex on the Southside of campus will remain closed during the
month of July as crews work to repave the road.
The project began Monday and is
scheduled to be completed on July 27, according to a WSU news release.
Adam Ferry, facilities services
project manager, said the repaving has been in the works for a while.
“That lower section of Stadium Way was
in pretty poor condition and has been on the books to be repaired for the past
few years,” he said. “This project is essentially to try to clean things up
down there and to start over new basically.”
Repaving the road is considered a
minor capital project, meaning the state provided the $434,000 of funding
needed for the road work, Ferry said. Motley- Motley Inc. of Pullman are the
company carrying out the construction work.
Road conditions is an area Facilities
Services focuses on, Ferry said, and Stadium Way needed attention due to its
high level of wear.
“We try to maintain our roadways the
best we can and this one was just starting to look pretty bad and feel pretty
bad when you would drive over it,” he said.
Craig Cole, director of construction
services, said this portion of Stadium Way was high on their list of projects.
“This was our next priority as you can
see it was in pretty bad shape,” Cole said.
Traffic detours have been set up in
the area as vehicles are only allowed to travel northbound in one lane, while
all southbound traffic will be forced to take an alternative route via Nevada
Street next to Cougar Health Services, Ferry said.
While the detours may have an impact
on traffic, he said buses will still be able to travel through the area as
discussions were held with Pullman Transit prior to the start of construction
to ensure bus service would not be disrupted by the work.
Ferry also said it was not possible to
avoid doing the work during Alive! orientation sessions, as there is not a long
enough break between sessions at any point during the month.
Ferry said Motley-Motley provides the
traffic control services and now is the ideal time to carry out these projects.
“Summer is the best time simply
because there’s less traffic in general with students being on vacation,” Ferry
said.
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Pullman
summer economy stronger than past years
Business
slowing less than normal, earlier months usually lowest
By
Carmen Jaramillo, Evergreen July 12, 2018
Pullman’s
economy slows as students leave campus to head home during the summer,
ultimately affecting local businesses.
The
U.S. Census Bureau estimates Pullman’s current population at about 33,000
residents. However, many of these are students at WSU who leave during the
summer months, removing a large number of consumers from the population.
Marie
Dymkoski, the executive director of the Pullman Chamber of Commerce, said
Pullman businesses do see a decrease during summer, but it’s not as significant
as in past years.
“Grocery
stores are going to be a little bit quieter,” she said. “Restaurants are going
to be a little bit quieter, but I think the dollar signs are still
appropriate.”
February
is actually the slowest month for business, according to sales tax revenue for
the City of Pullman provided by Dymkoski. Over the last five years, sales tax
revenue in February has averaged about $297,000, which is about $70,000 lower
than the monthly average.
Dymkoski
said this could be due to a national trend of reduced spending after the
holidays.
June
and July, however, differed from the Pullman average by about $7,000 and
$20,000 respectively. August and September are the months with the highest
average sales tax revenue, coming close to $60,000 above the overall average.
Dymkoski
said the way businesses usually offset the reduction in revenue during summer
months is by reducing hours, staffing less employees or closing altogether. But
this largely depends on the type of business.
Willow
Falcon, the owner of Glassphemy, said although she has seen up to a 40 percent
decrease in average sales during the summer, she does not close her store or reduce
hours.
“If
you shut your doors and cut inventory then you will definitely see a decrease
in business,” Falcon said. “Sometimes I even think I should expand hours. I’ve
never done less business because I was open more hours.”
Bruce
Calkins, owner of used bookstore Brused Books, said his shop sees more business
in the summer. He said business stays mostly consistent throughout the whole
year, but if there had to be a slow month it would be around February or March.
During
the summer months, however, Calkins said he gets more tourism business from
“book nuts” on road trips.
Dymkoski
said the Chamber and the City of Pullman sponsor events during the summer to
spur tourism. These include the Palouse Summer Series, a series of baseball
tournaments held at baseball fields all over Pullman and the surrounding areas,
a public concert series ..., as well as marketing portraying the Palouse as a
photography destination.
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Cutting
the cord? What you need to know to watch the Cougs
By
Barry Bolton Cougfan.com July 12, 2:42 PM
WHILE
THERE ARE MULTIPLE STREAMING OPTIONS out there, there are only two that carry
the Pac-12 Networks. Roughly 4-5 Cougar games a season are shown on the Pac-12
Networks, so here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking about cutting the
cord.
The
bottom line is that there isn’t one all-inclusive streaming option when it
comes to Pac-12 football games. So if you’re thinking about moving toward
streaming but still want to watch every Cougar game, you need to get a little
creative.
Pac-12
games are broadcast on three families of networks: ESPN, Fox and Pac-12
Networks. ESPN televises on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ABC, while Fox airs
its games on Fox or FS1. Both simulcast select games on ESPN Deportes and Fox
Deportes. There can also be an outlier here and there, such as the Cougs’
opener at Wyoming this season, which will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.
There
are two options for streaming the Pac-12 Networks: Sling and
FuboTV. Also available as a P12N streaming option in Canada is
DAZN.
Sling
is the lower cost option of the two, starting at $30 per month with P12N.
It also offers a Cloud DVR with 50 hours for an additional $5/mo. But the
ABC and Fox games might not be available depending on where you live and the
FS-1 games are only available as you go up in price. No matter the package,
Sling doesn’t offer much in the way of locals -- if at all, depending on your
market.
So
let’s say you have DirecTV, which doesn’t offer the Pac-12 Networks. But you’re
willing to pay $30/mo. during football season to watch the Cougar and Pac-12
games on P12N. Sling might be the best alternative as an add-on -- in
addition to your “main” cable or streaming option. There is no contract with
Sling or FuboTV so you can cancel anytime you want.
FuboTV
offers more channels than Sling and *probably* most of your locals (but perhaps
not all) depending on where you live. But you’ll pay more for FuboTV. The
first month is $35 for the lowest package -- but then increases to $45 from the
second month on. And to get all six Pac-12 feeds, you have to get the
sports add-on for another $9. A Cloud DVR with 30 hours is included in
every base package. You can increase your storage to 500 hours for
$10/mo.
But
the biggest knock on FuboTV, and it’s a deal breaker for many – it does not
offer the ESPN family of networks.
The
links you’ll want to look into to figure out what fits your needs best:
SLING
= https://www.sling.com
FUBO
TV = https://www.fubo.tv
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