(National Lentil) Festival brings community (Pullman),
WSU together
Celebration kicks off next Friday with free samples from 350
gallon chili bowl
August
10, 2018 Evergreen
Pullman has celebrated community and agriculture the weekend
before classes start at WSU since 1989 through the National Lentil Festival.
Britnee Packwood, director of the festival, said this kind of
event is a “way to share the identity of an area.”
“A lot of people think we just grow wheat, but we’re so much
more than that,”
Packwood said. “We have vibrant communities, involved citizens.
Being able to carry forward your heritage and identity is why these kinds of
events are so important.”
The Palouse area grows 18 percent of the nation’s lentils,
according to the festival website. People from all over the country and the
world come to the Palouse to enjoy the festival, Packwood said.
The festival brings tourists from all around to enjoy everything
the Palouse has to offer, including the Palouse Scenic Byway, Palouse Falls and
the numerous farms in the area.
“The festival is community-sponsored but reaches far beyond the
community,” Packwood said. “It helps us share why we’re a cool little place
with the rest of the world.”
Packwood said this opportunity is great for new students to
explore the ‘snapshot’ of Pullman offered by local businesses offer.
“It’s really important for students to know about the community
they’ll be spending their next four or five years in,” she said, “and this
festival is a great way for them to get a glimpse of what this community is
like and be welcomed to it.”
Several popular aspects of the Lentil Festival include the free
lentil chili served Friday evening, the kid’s play area called Lentil Land, the
Tase T. Lentil 5K Fun Run, the WSECU Grand Parade and the cooking
demonstrations. Throughout the whole festival, several bands will take the main
stage to provide music for the festivities.
The 30th Annual National Lentil Festival will take place from 5
p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, August 17 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, August
18 in Reaney Park and downtown Pullman. Admission is free and open to the
public. Go to lentilfest.com for more information.
“The
Lentil Festival is a reminder that, yes, we are WSU, but also that Pullman has
a vibrant living space for people who’ve chosen to call this their long-term
home,” Packwood said. “It’s a way to bridge the gap between the university and
the rest of the community.”
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July 30,
2018 / Women's Golf
(ALIVIA)
BROWN GOES PRO
The
recently graduated star took to the course as a pro for the first time in
California.
From
Sports Info WSU
RANCHO
MIRAGE, Calif. - For the first time in her golfing career, recently graduated
star of the Washington State women's golf team, Alivia Brown, took to the tees
as a professional when she played in the Mission Hills event, the 19th event on
the Cactus Tour's 2018 schedule. Not only did Brown play her first professional
tournament, she also took home her first top-10 finish as the Gig Harbor, Wash.
native finished tied for sixth at two-over par. The Mission Hills event was not
only the latest event on the tour but also the richest prize to date on the
2018 schedule with a total purse of $25,370 being dolled out to the field.
Taking on
her first field of professionals, Brown found her groove on the final day of
play, July 27, when she carded the tournament's low round of -4, 68. Her 68
tied with one other golfer on the day for the low round and was one of just
five rounds shot in the 60s throughout the three-day tournament.
The top-10
finish for Brown continued a hot summer for the new pro after she finished
second at the 117th Women's Amateur Championship earlier in the month. Brown
recently finished her collegiate career at WSU where she became the only player
in program history to earn three trips to the NCAA Regionals as an individual.
Brown finished her senior season with a program-record stroke average of 72.79
while also setting the Cougars' all-time career scoring average at 73.79.
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August 9,
2018 / Men's Golf
From WSU
Sports Info
MEN’S GOLF
ANNOUNCES 2018-19 SCHEDULE
WSU opens
its fall season Sept. 17 in Fort Collins, Colo.
PULLMAN,
Wash. – The Washington State men's golf team will travel to at least five
different states as part of its 2018-19 tournament schedule, WSU head coach
Dustin White announced Thursday.
The
Cougars will open the season in Fort Collins, Colo., at the Fort Collins
Country Club for the Ram Masters Invitational, Sept. 17-18. The following week,
WSU heads across the state of Washington to Sammamish to play in the Husky
Invitational at Aldarra Golf Club, Sept. 25-26.
WSU will
play in one tournament in October and one in November, heading to Parker,
Colo., for the Paintbrush Intercollegiate, Oct. 8-9 and the Saint Mary's
Intercollegiate, Nov. 5-7, at Poppy Hills Golf Course at Monterey, Calif.
The
Cougars open the spring portion of their schedule Feb. 11-12 at the UC Irvine
Invitational at Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach, Calif. Following
that, WSU heads to Hawaii for the Jon Burns Intercollegiate at Wailua Golf
Course, Feb. 21-23.
WSU will
compete in three tournaments in March, beginning with the Bandon Dunes
Championship at Bandon Dunes, Ore., in the tournament hosted by Gonzaga. The
Cougars then travel to Tucson, Ariz., for the NIT Invitational, March 18-19,
before returning to Oregon for the Duck Invitational at Emerald Valley Golf
Club, March 25-26.
April
begins with the El Macero Classic hosted by UC Davis, April 12-14, in El
Macero, Calif., followed by a return trip to Eugene for the Pac-12
Championships at Eugene Country Club, April 22-24. Last year marked WSU's best
finish at the Pac-12 Championships as the Cougars placed seventh.
Washington
State is one of six hosts for the 2019 NCAA Regionals. WSU's regional will take
place at Palouse Ridge Golf Course, May 13-15, 2019.
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'Heat wave
of the summer' to end Saturday
Meteorologists
say temperatures are expected to drop sharply over the weekend following last
week's record heat on the Palouse
By Scott
Jackson, Moscow Pullman Daily News 8 10 2018
Thursday's
peak temperature of 103 degrees shattered the record high for Aug. 9, set back
in 1972 when the mercury topped out at 100, and with a high of 104 degrees
anticipated today, the Palouse is poised to break records once more.
National
Weather Service Meteorologist Bryce Williams said if the forecast high holds
true, it will be the first time in 90 years that the temperature reached triple
digits in the area on Aug. 10.
"Our
cold front slowed down a little bit from what we were thinking on Tuesday, so
we're not getting the little bit of cool down on Friday that we thought,"
Williams said. "We're still on track to cool down significantly for the
weekend."
Williams
said temperatures are expected to drop sharply over the weekend, with a
projected high of 85 on Saturday and 80 on Sunday. While those numbers are
expected to rise to the upper 80s and low 90s by the end of next week, Williams
said, it will be nothing approaching the current swelter.
On the
Palouse so far, Williams said the NWS has issued an air quality alert in
response to smoky skies, an excessive heat warning and a red flag warning for
possible windy weather and lightning. He said the coming cold front may provide
relief from the heat, but it also brings less welcome winds and chances of
showers and lightning - raising the possibility of a wildfire.
In an
attempt to escape the extreme heat, many Moscow and Pullman residents are
taking advantage of their local municipal pools.
"The
temperature here determines how busy it is more than anything,"
Hamilton-Lowe Aquatic Center Concessions Manager A.J. Bruce said.
A clutch
of local children established a lemonade stand on a street corner near the
HLAC, selling cookies and beverages in an attempt to capture some of the
traffic headed to the pool.
Andrew
Hurley, 11, and his twin sister, Raegan, alongside friends Jeremiah Balemba,
11, and Carsen Warner-Hall, 9, said they were raising money so they can buy
thank you gifts for their babysitter - 16-year-old Megan Watson, who was seated
nearby.
"We
did this last year, so we're also just doing it this year - it raises a lot of
money," Andrew said. "We try to do it on a really hot day."
Williams
said the extended forecast for the coming weeks doesn't show the return of the
record highs the region has been seeing in the past few days, though he
cautions the further out predictions are made, the more tentative they become.
"Even
when you get an extended outlook range, we're not seeing any strong signals of
a heat wave like this coming back," Williams said. "(This) definitely
could be the heat wave of the of the summer."
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Welcome
Wayside on the way
Pullman's
newest park to be completed in mid-September
By Scott
Jackson,Moscow Pullman Daily News 8 10-0 2018
After
spending years as a concept, Pullman's Welcome Wayside park is nearing a
completion date.
The most
prominent feature of the tiny welcome park, located on Davis Way just past the
Bus Transfer Station, is the 7-foot by 34-foot sign covered with 60 iterations
of the word "welcome," - all in different languages.
Project
Designer Ruth Younce said there is still much work to be done, but she expects
crews will have little difficulty meeting the Sept. 15 deadline for the
project.
Younce
said contractors were having trouble making progress on the project during the
busy summer months, but she now expects work to move ahead fairly quickly.
"We
should see major action here next week, I'm sure of it - we've already got
walls poured," Younce said.
Pullman
Mayor Glenn Johnson said the idea for the sign sprang out of similar projects
he had seen while he and his wife were traveling abroad.
"I've
seen that in other places, but where it really stuck with me the most is when
my wife and I were doing a Mediterranean tour, we got into war torn
Croatia," Johnson said.
During the
tour, Johnson said the effects of a decades-past war were still evident. After
rounding a wall peppered with bullet holes, he said he came upon the sign that
sparked Pullman's Welcome Wayside.
"You're
walking around and all of a sudden you look up at this big billboard - that
billboard has all these different languages that say, 'Welcome,' " Johnson
said.
He said
the sign stood out as an appropriate symbol for Pullman, noting nearby
Washington State University has a robust international program, Schweitzer
Engineering Laboratories brings in experts from all around the world and even
the town itself features at least 60 different languages.
When three
WSU architecture students approached him in 2012 to see if he had any ideas for
a civic project they could help design as students, Johnson saw an opportunity.
Students
from the school's architecture program teamed up, presented their ideas to City
Council and, in the end, Johnson and another professor from the school put
together a $1,000 prize for the winning team.
While he
had already gathered together community leaders to sponsor the project, Johnson
said when the city started receiving bids for the work, he realized they had
begun with low estimates.
Johnson
said when the bids came in too high, the project was shelved.
"I've
got to give a lot of credit to Ruth Younce, she's the one who re-engineered
it," Johnson said. "After we had the bids, they came out horrible, so
then it just sat there - if it wasn't for her, it might still be sitting on a
shelf someplace."
Younce,
who credits the project to many people, said just verifying the authenticity of
each language was a massive undertaking. Younce did add one special touch to
the park.
She
included "welcome" in Niimi'ipuutÃmt - the native language of the Nez
Perce Tri
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For once,
Cougs have a rangy corner
At
6-foot-2, Harper provides WSU secondary with rare height
By Dale
Grummert, Lewiston Trib
LEWISTON -
Washington State football recruiters don't land many tall, long-armed cornerbacks,
which maybe explains how doggedly they pursued Sean Harper Jr.
He grew up
2,500 miles from Pullman, and complicated the recruiting process out of high
school in Georgia by failing to qualify academically for NCAA competition.
Still, the
Cougars - specifically, Alex Grinch - stayed on him.
Grinch,
the defensive coordinator who jumped from WSU to Ohio State this year, actually
began recruiting the 6-foot-2 Harper when he was safeties coach at Missouri in
2015. When he landed the Cougar job early the next year, he persuaded Harper to
come with him to Pullman.
Even when
the athlete's grades didn't pan out and he enrolled at Holmes Community College
in Mississippi, Grinch stayed on the case.
"He
came to my school, we were talking every day - it was a bond, a friendship
bond," Harper said Thursday after the Cougars' final preseason workout at
Sacajawea Junior High in Lewiston.
Harper
tidied up his transcript during his two years of JC, signed with the Cougars
last year, then spent the 2017 season making the adjustment to NCAA ball,
starting two games for Grinch's defense and intercepting a pass in a big win
over USC.
But the
real payoff may come this year, now that Grinch isn't around to enjoy it.
Harper, a senior, has been sharp throughout camp, using his long limbs in
expected and unexpected ways. When he got beat by streaking receiver Drew
Jackson a couple of days ago, Harper caught up to the true freshman and punched
the ball out of his hands as he approached the goal line.
As the
Cougars prepare for their season opener Sept. 1 at Wyoming, Harper seems to
have taken an early lead in his duel with six-time starter Marcus Strong for a
No. 1 role. In certain coverage situations, his height gives him an advantage
over the 5-foot-9 Strong and the Cougars' savviest cornerback, 5-10 Darrien
Molton - two far more typical Cougar corners.
"You
try to get tall guys," WSU coach Mike Leach said. "It's tough to get
them across the board, so you better take some guys like Molton that are great
at flipping their hips and are just great corners. But you try to go as tall as
you can."
And don't
give up easily when you find one.
"WSU
showed me the loyalty," Harper said, "and I'm glad to be here."
Scrimmage
tonight
The
Cougars' practice Thursday, their last of six in Lewiston, was
"shortened" to two hours, not because of the 112-degree conditions
but because they want to conserve energy for a scrimmage tonight at Martin
Stadium in Pullman. Practice begins at 7:30 p.m. and the scrimmage starts perhaps
45 minutes later.
Leach
hopes the session lends some clarity to the Cougars' three-way race for the No.
1 quarterback job between Trey Tinsley, Gardner Minshew and Anthony Gordon.
"The
good news is they're all playing real well," the coach said. "But I'd
like to see somebody separate himself and really take control of it."
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WSU
FOOTBALL
Ten
questions and storylines to focus on ahead of Washington State’s first fall
scrimmage
UPDATED:
Thu., Aug. 9, 2018, 8:01 p.m.
By Theo
Lawson of the Spokesman Review of Spokane Washington of the Inland Empire
As
Washington State prepares for its first fall scrimmage Friday evening, we look
at 10 questions/storylines the Cougars could address in their mock which is
slated for an 8 p.m. start at Martin Stadium.
1. Can
three become two? – Mike Leach is in a hurry to whittle the quarterback race
down to two, but it doesn’t mean he’ll pull the trigger before he’s able to
complete a thorough examination of the candidates: Anthony Gordon, Gardner
Minshew and Trey Tinsley. The audition will continue for all three under the
Martin Stadium floodlights. It’s the first true scrimmage for Minshew as a WSU
quarterback and the first time Gordon and Tinsley will play under the lights in
Pullman with something on the line. “I’d like to see somebody separate
themself,” Leach said, “and really take control of it.”
2. Missing
up front – The absence of two key defensive players, Nnamdi Oguayo and Derek
Moore has become one of the more prevalent – and increasingly troublesome –
storylines of this preseason. Oguayo, a defensive end and WSU’s best returning
pass-rusher, missed his fourth consecutive practice Thursday. Rush
linebacker/defensive lineman Moore, a four-game starter last year, was absent
for the third time in as many days. Asked about their status Tuesday, Leach
responded with his common line: “They’re doing great.” But will either be
around Friday night?
3.
Divvying up the carries – Quarterback is actually one of two intriguing
position battles in the backfield. James Williams, Max Borghi and, yes, even
Keith Harrington are all still in the mix to contribute to the running game.
It’s probably only a matter of time before Borghi clamps down the feature back
role – be it later this season or at some point when his position mates
graduate – but I’d predict all three players are repped equally, just like the
QBs.
4.
New-look D-line – The defensive line obviously takes on a different shape
without Oguayo, Moore and Logan Tago, who’s been a non-participant in each of
the last two practices. Provided none of those three are dealing with anything
too concerning, Friday’s scrimmage is if nothing else a good opportunity to
spend reps on younger/less experienced players. Expect to see a handful of
combinations up front, keep an eye on the competition at nose tackle between
Taylor Comfort and Pono Lolohea and count how many positions Will Rodgers III
plays throughout the scrimmage. It could be as many as four (DE, DT, NT and
Rush).
5. Clarity
at kicker/punter – The mock game is crucial for Tinsley, Gordon and Minshew,
but equally so for a quartet of less identifiable Cougars: Jack Crane, Ryan
Henderson, Oscar Draguicevich and Oliver Graybar. Crane and Henderson are
gunning for Erik Powell’s kicking job, while Draguicevich and Graybar are
trying to nail down the starting punter duties, which will belong to a single
player this season rather than three. There won’t be much room for error for
the QBs tomorrow night – same goes for the specialists.
6. Who’s
blocking? – I’d still feel good placing a bet on Andre Dillard (left tackle),
Josh Watson (left guard), Fred Mauigoa (center), Robert Valencia (right guard)
and Abraham Lucas (right tackle) all getting week-one nods, but there’s been
plenty of experimentation up front this week and Leach indicated there’d be
competition at a few spots. Christian Haangana and Liam Ryan, especially, seem
capable of giving Watson a run for his money at LG.
7. Brandon
Arconado – Kyle Sweet’s absence has given the newly-scholarshipped receiver
some extended run down here in Lewiston. Arconado isn’t expected to crack the
rotation at “Y” receiver – Sweet and Jamire Calvin have cemented their jobs
there – but he’s been the top inside receiver at times over the last week,
hauling in three touchdowns during the team period Monday and Tuesday.
8.
Newcomers – A handful of the high school signees, junior college additions and
FBS transfers – err, transfer – will have to contribute in some fashion this
year. A few of the fall camp standouts we’ll keep an eye on: Minshew (QB),
Borghi (RB), Rodrick Fisher (WR), Drue Jackson (WR), Calvin Jackson (WR),
Lolohea (NT), Misiona Aiolupotea-Pei (DL), Kendrick Nunn (nickel), Halid
Djibril (nickel), Chad Davis (S) and Tyrese Ross (CB).
9. Getting
deeper – One of the first things Tracy Claeys identified during his first few
months as WSU’s defensive coordinator was a razor-thin secondary. The defensive
backfield is deeper in the sense that it added eight more bodies during the
signing period, but what’s the quality of that depth? Ross, Djibril, Nunn and
Davis all made plays during the first week in Lewiston. If they can take their
game back to Pullman, and maintain it over the course of the next few weeks,
it’ll be one less headache for the first-year Cougar DC.
10. Cool
down – Temperatures at Sacajawea Junior High began in the low-90’s at the start
of the week and climaxed at 107 by Thursday afternoon. There’s a 40 percent
chance of rainfall Friday night and temperatures could dip into the mid-60’s,
which would make the mock game feel like a cold front after a week under the
boiling sun in Lewiston.
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