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The Tekoa Trail & Trestle Association and the Rosalia Chamber of Commerce have begun what they hope will be greeting the new year with a new, uniquely Washington tradition of "Lights Across Washington." This new annual goal is to have a large holiday light display in every community along the epic John Wayne Trail to celebrate the holidays and Washington's only cross-state trail. Each year we would partner with one or more of the 18 Washington towns and cities that the trail...
Member of the Tekoa City Council and president of the Tekoa Trail and Trestle Association. During the final budget conferences of the 2015 legislative session, behind closed doors, Representative Joe Schmick (9th District, Colfax) placed into the capital budget a proviso that took 135 miles of the John Wayne Trail, 6,000 acres of parkland, and gave it away, at no cost, to 200 adjacent property owners. It was a land grab done without any public announcement or input. When asked later why he made such a move to close the...