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  • Love - The Odessa Record "By Your Relative"

    Updated Sep 20, 2012

    Odessa subscriber Larry Fisher of Spokane continues his series of articles on the history of the Batum/Lauer area (where his wife, the former Joyce Kiesz, grew up). Hi, here I am again. When comparing L-B-D lifestyle for children of those early years vs today’s children, it is like comparing apples to oranges. Today most children have HDTVs, cell-phones, i-pods, computers, ATVs, ORVs, cars, pickups, motorbikes, motorcycles, automatic weapons, toys, many changes of clothes, a million choices of food types, AM-FM radios, p...

  • Apache Pass aftermath hard on ranchers

    Updated Sep 20, 2012

    What came to be called the Apache Pass fire started the weekend before Fest at around 3:30 p.m. on September 9 as a fast-moving storm system moved through the area. Several lightning strikes were reported, but there was little or no rain and the dry grass and brush in the scablands went up like a torch. By the following Monday at 6 a.m., the Spokane County Incident Management Team took over the management role from the local volunteer fire departments. Personnel and equipment...

  • George Richard (Dick) Brockway

    Updated Sep 20, 2012

    George Richard (Dick) Brockway, 89 years old, died at Samaritan Hospital on September 11, 2012. He spent the last 13 years living in Soap Lake, Wash., and he had previously lived in Ephrata for 43 years. He was born in Helena, Montana on January 28, 1923 to Harry and Martha Brockway. George was married to Lucille on September 30, 1944 for 52 years. He was enrolled in the United States Navy in 1942 and served aboard the USS Nevada during WWII and was honorably discharged in...

  • Court Report

    Updated Sep 20, 2012

    Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor's note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Sept. 10: A caller reported someone had cut the head off a deer after it was hit by a car on Menke Road. Swanson School and Schmierer roads were closed at their intersections with Hatten Road were...

  • This Week in Odessa History

    Updated Sep 20, 2012

    Work on the Grand Coulee Dam began in 1933, but it wasn’t until after World War II that the Columbia Basin project was realized and the area bloomed with irrigated crops. Even as early as 1936, however, engineers were beginning surveys of the Basin, platting the farmland which would flourish and eventually transform the sleepy village of Neppel into a bustling commercial and distribution center called Moses Lake. Other towns, then all smaller than Odessa, were to benefit and grow as a result of the project-- Ephrata, Quincy,...

  • Advice from a small town girl

    Lise Ott|Updated Sep 20, 2012

    Deutschesfest is over for another year, and it seemed to be a good one, thanks to a lot of small town heroes. Our little four-day extravaganza does not just happen spontaneously, as everyone who has ever been involved already knows. I try to make sure to remember just how much work goes into making Fest happen, both on the scene and behind it. Because I (try to) play in the Oom Pas and Mas, I am frequently on the scene. I wear my dirndls and have a smile on my face, and am...

  • Great weather, great fun, great Fest

    Updated Sep 19, 2012

    Odessa Record staff reports We don’t yet have the full story on Fest, but from what we have heard so far, it appears to have been successful once again. Some local business people were nervous Friday, which to many seemed much quieter and smaller compared to the usual crowd. The Thursday night activities had been well-attended, but then most folks seemed to hole up in their travel trailers for most of Friday. Saturday, however, was extremely busy, and people filled the s...

  • Small Business Fair to be held in Renton Sept. 29

    Updated Sep 19, 2012

    Once again, the Washington Small Business Fair Committee is offering its free Bizfair. The Bizfair offers information to the general public about many topics of interest to small businesses including starting a business, expanding a business, and tips on how to succeed in business. It will focus on programs offered by federal, state, and local government agencies, local chambers of commerce, and business and trade associations. Bizfair will take place Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Renton Technical...

  • Weekly grain report

    Updated Sep 19, 2012

    9/17/12: Monday just goes to show you how crazy things can get in today’s grain markets. Soybeans finished the day limit down, at 70 cents in Chicago futures, even though there were 7.7 million bushels of soybeans sold to an unknown destination over the weekend. The dollar was up and all the commodity markets suffered. Crude oil dropped $3/gallon in under a minute late in the trading day. Wheat prices dropped 45 cents from Friday morning’s recent high. Corn and soybean harvest yields were talked about as being better than exp...

  • Sausage Bowl: Titans fall to Touchet

    Updated Sep 19, 2012

    The Odessa-Harrington Titans were defeated by the Touchet Indians September 14 in Odessa’s Sausage Bowl under the lights at Finney Field, 42 - 60. After last week’s loss of starting quarterback Jared King, out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL, and of Markus Smith for a couple of weeks due to a concussion, the Titans were counting on other players to step into the breach. They did so, and generated an effective offense. The defense suffered the losses in this game as two linemen, Zack Schaal and Ricky Hedreen, wer...

  • Cronrath named to summer semester honor roll at WSU

    Updated Sep 19, 2012

    Matthew L. Cronrath has made the President’s Honor Roll for the summer semester at Washington State University. To be eligible for the honor roll, undergraduate students must be enrolled in a minimum of nine graded hours in a single term at WSU and earn a grade point average of 3.75 or earn a 3.50 cumulative GPA based on 15 cumulative hours of graded work. Cronrath is a 2008 graduate of Odessa High School and the son of Mark and Dorris Cronrath of Odessa....

  • Mary Frick

    Updated Sep 19, 2012

    Mary Frick, 85, a longtime resident of Moses Lake died September 12, 2012. Mary was born October 10, 1926 in Kittanning, Pa. to Eugene Ralph and Frances Maude Boarts. She graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with degrees in music, history and geography. She was a teacher in the Clallam Bay, Marlin and Ephrata school districts. While teaching in Marlin she met and married David W. Frick. She was confirmed into the St. John’s Lutheran Church in Kittanning and attended Salem Lutheran Church in Marlin. She was a memb...

  • How to become a superstar student, Part 3

    Duane Pitts|Updated Sep 19, 2012

    Last week we looked at Michael Geisen’s comments on developing effective habits in the classroom. This week, this National Teacher of the Year in 2008 gives us some real life ideas about working cooperatively in groups. Since you are in school, how do you go about making a group’s effort effective? Good question. Geisen stresses a few points that all of us, teenagers and adults alike, can take to heart. First, since we all come to a team with our weaknesses and strengths, we need to value each person for what he brings to...

  • Letter to the Editor: Medicare recipients should pay bigger share

    Updated Sep 19, 2012

    I learned a lot about Medicare in the last year. A knee replacement (that went south) and an infection I picked up at the hospital enabled me to extend my hospital stay. I was then taken to a recovery center for a total of 52 days before I was able to go home. I am thankful that my teacher’s retirement insurance covered basically everything that Medicare didn’t. Our country and its Medicare and Medicaid systems are broke and they can’t afford to keep paying such a large percentage of the medical costs! Medicare paid out $...

  • Lincoln County Fair board wants help from its towns

    Updated Sep 19, 2012

    The Lincoln County Fair Advisory Board is looking for a 2013 fair theme and would like the citizens of the Lincoln County communities to add their creative ideas to the effort. County residents are asked to submit their fair theme ideas to Kim Groh of Almira via email at kimgroh@centurytel.net. Anyone without computer access may bring their suggestions to The Odessa Record office, and we will submit them to Groh. Entries are due by October 14, and the Lincoln Country Fair Advisory Board will pick one lucky entry at the next f...