Palouse on the Loose: Pt. II Tekoa Grilled Cheeus
April 27, 2011 
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There are no photos of our stop in Tekoa, WA. Frankly, there shouldn’t be. Other than the beauty of the town, our number one focus was lunch and that wasn’t a pretty sight.
We made it to the diner in Tekoa called “The Feeding Station“. The snowshoe fries were plentiful, the bathrooms scented and the theme… biblical. I do regret leaving with out their signature milkshake, Tekoa Tropic Thunder.
Tekoa rocks. And it’s under a big rock, Tekoa Mountain. There are only 800 residents, it’s not far from Moscow (which also rocks), and the grilled cheese can’t be beat.
Here’s their plea:
Tekoa is an excellent place to live. Imagine living in a town where folks are extra friendly; where people wave as you walk down the street; where housing prices are still extremely affordable and lots are just waiting for your new home to be built on them; where the schools are some of the finest in the State; where crime is almost unheard of; where the noon whistle signals lunch time every day; where everything is within walking distance. Yet despite its small size, imagine a town that is self supportive with a major credit card cardtrol for gas, a restaurant, a grocery & convenience store, a hardware & building supply store, bank, medical clinic and pharmacy, a U.S. Post Office, a small public airport, the second biggest public library in the county, separate primary and secondary schools, a Daycare Center, a fire department, police force and ambulance company, as well as many more businesses, churches and institutions. So come make your home Tekoa, it’s a great place to live.
To top that, the history of this place and many other Palouse towns is fascinating. It once was a hopping town when the railroad was at it’s peak, before cars and imported food. When all that happened, farming families moved away because farming wasn’t as lucrative anymore.
On our way out of town we took a walk down the main drag to find the Empire Theatre. We all were trying to convince Mark Anderson to host a Broken Mic Poetry Night there. I wonder how the residents of Tekoa would react to Chris Dreyer’s poetic rants about penises.
Photo Credit: Blush Response
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What would be the beneficial effects to the Palouse Spokane and the residents of the 5th Congressional District adopting a regionwide Intercity magnetic levitation train system?
Being able in 20 minutes to travel from Spokane to Tekoa or 30 minutes to Pullman, shopping, going on nature sojourns while allowing for larger populations to live in these formally focused farming communities and working in larger cities like Spokane Couer D Alene Pullman and Walla Walla.
This is the future for eastern I desire to see what about YOU??
Just imagine if the people of the fifth district decided together to put together an intercity magnetic levitation train system which with proper protections for natural areas to preserve our “near nature near perfect” quality of life that we have cultivated here in Spokane which has the potential to also be adopted by Palouse communities such as Tekoa which Mariah very accurate details in her post above.
My name is Adam Haines, do you want to be part of a TEAM to make this our area chosen reality? Send me an email with the subject headline “ATTN MAGLEV PROJECT” and share with me how I can contact you through email or over facebook so we can form an exploratory group to put together a plan of action for this idea whose time has come.
Almost forgot here is my email: adamhaines@gmail.com
I look forward to hearing from you all soon!
Adam Haines
We need to have poetry in Tekoa. But we must assemble and unmakedepressedbyresponseorlackofresponse-able crew of Spokanite poets. I think some poets are currently wandering the beautiful abyss of making poetry videos, maybe that will be our in. We’ll make some poetry movie shorts to show along with the performance? Perhaps it could be done.