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Harrington Opera House Society The Harrington Opera House Society met Monday, April 4, at 7 p.m. with Carol, Sheryl Stedman, Billie and Gordon Herron, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Linda Wagner, Marge Womach and Karen Robertson present. Gordon Herron of the building committee reported on the present status of the progress of remodeling and alterations for installation of the elevator due to be delivered April 18. It is anticipated that the installation will require seven to 10 days. The building committee had met with Avista, Herron...
Harrington Golf & Country Club With sunny skies and beautiful weather all day Saturday, April 2, approximately 35 to 45 people worked at the Harrington Golf & Country Club course for most of the day. Some were students earning community service hours. By 12:30 p.m. burgers and soft drinks were served to the crew, and some continued to work until 3 p.m. The clean-up project was considered a great success with good support from the community. Trees at the golf course had...
New pastor Harrington United Methodist Church and the Zion United Methodist Church have recently been blessed with a new pastor, Michelle Mitchell, commuting from her home north of Davenport. She comes with a diverse work history and commitment to service in a wide range of ministries. She spent 25 years as a university professor with a PhD in computer science. “My most recent full time appointment was at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, although I taught as an adjunct at Whitworth for a couple of semesters after moving to S...
Grand piano arrival Tuesday, March 15, two men from Big Al’s Moving arrived at the Harrington Opera House with the new Boston 7’1” grand piano by Steinway which they disassembled, wrapped and carried up the wide, old staircase (about 30 steps total) to the opera house auditorium. Should anyone really want to know what that process looked like, one observer commented that “these two men were like a well-oiled and high-powered machine, with a ‘whoof’ at each and every stair which seemingly set the cadence to the motion with...
Missionaries Sunday, March 6, the Harrington Church of the Nazarene hosted missionaries, Larry and Susan Weil, who have been on furlough from Mozambique nearly a year. They presented a slide show of their mission work and both spoke during the presentation. They have been in the mission field for about 18 years, since One Mission Society began work there in 1996, and have been instrumental in building a school complex there. They will return to the same mission field in about five weeks and will be there another four years...
Harrington Historic Preservation Commission The Harrington Historic Preservation Commission met March 1 with members Celeste Miller, Karen Allen, Aileen Sweet, Lindsey Hutsell and Anita Harman, as well as Margie Hall of the Economic Development Council and visitors Amy Foley and Marge Womach. The group held elections, with Celeste Miller reelected as chair, Lindsey Hutsell co-chair (replacing Karen Allen, who had served for several years). Several local citizens have been appr...
Harrington Historic Preservation Commission Saturday, February 6, the commission met at the Miller residence with Celeste Miller, Aileen Sweet, Anita Harman and Lindsey Hutsell present. Suggestions had been made to invite specific citizens to ascertain their potential interest in serving on the commission, since there is a need to increase membership. However, no one had been contacted in the interim. A motion passed to have Hutsell create a time-line of the group’s accomplishments from its inception to the present. Informati...
City Council Mayor Dillon Haas opened the meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 10, with Councilmembers Rick Becker, Mike Cronrath, Justin Slack, Levi Schenk and Peter Davenport, plus City Clerk Bunny Haugan and Maintenance Director Scott McGowan. Visitors present were Dick Derr, Jacob Montgomery (student), Chris Hickman, Donita Simon, Marge Womach, Sharon Schultz and Doug Miller (of Kimble Mid-West). The mayor updated the council on various maintenance projects, stating that he had recently toured the wastewater...
Harrington Opera House Society Billie Herron, president, opened the January 7 meeting, with Linda Wagner, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Gordon Herron, Carol, Sheryl Stedman, Marge Womach and Karen Robertson in attendance. "Going Up" and "Going Down" were the two foremost concerns of the evening. Gordon Herron addressed the smooth transition between the removal of walls and old staircases in the basement, and moving stored items out of hallways. For the going-up portion of construction, the ramp within the Art Room for ADA-compliant ac...
Harrington United Methodist Church Sunday, January 31, 2016, marked the close of 12.5 years of faithful service of Pastor Cyndi Wutz to the Harrington United Methodist Church and the Zion Rocklyn United Methodist Church. At 9:30 a.m., Pastor Cyndi preached her final sermon, “God Be With You,” to a full church, complemented by the Community Church congregation joining for the occasion of her retirement. By request, Terry Battermann performed on his guitar “A Prayer Like Any Other.” Linda Wagner played “Hallelujah” by Leonard...
City Council An energetic but focused 26-year-old Mayor Dillon Haas opened his first city council meeting, the first city council meeting ever to have such a youthful man at the helm in Harrington. Preparations for the meeting included rearranging the seating, with the council members lined up on the far side of the table facing the audience and the new mayor sitting at the west end. The city clerk swore in Justin Slack at City Council Position #3, followed by the swearing in...
Opera House Society The Society held their first meeting of the new year January 4, with new president Billie Herron at the helm. Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Gordon Herron, Carol, Linda Wagner, Karen Robertson and Marge Womach also were present. The final payment for the grand piano for the opera house was made December 16, although donations continue to come in for that project. Wagner said she is working on the newsletter and Robertson will provide photos. Gordon Herron, head of the building committee,...
Since at least 1879, with Adam Ludy and other Harrington pioneers, three simple words, Happy New Year, have echoed through the locale. Some winters, the greeting was delayed when heavy winter snows prevented people from circulating. In 1889, a Harrington news item bemoaned the new year with “Christmas is now over and the New Year is here with its many adversities and prosperities.” Once the town of Harrington was established, well before its incorporation in 1902, people would meet and greet on the earthen streets or boa...
Recently this writer viewed a photo of the Grand Social Brass Band that The Odessa Record published in its 1951 edition as the Golden Anniversary and reprinted in 8-18-1977. The photo, taken in 1901 or 1902 showed Art Kunkel, Garrett Bruchsen, Henry Reese, Joe Barto, Vincent Totusek (the band leader), Reinhold Weber, Louis Wraspir, Doc Kelley, Jake Wolsborn, Frank Quade and John H. Luiten. The Odessa Historische Museum has a great collection of early photographs. The museum also has memorabilia from Al Wagner’s band, i...
When Santa appeared earlier this month, some were disappointed that he was not accompanied with a white layer of snow, but there is now hope for a traditional white covering of the fields, where children can enjoy sledding and other outdoor activities that depend on snow. Many are excited with the Season’s activities and eyes glisten in the presence of a well-decorated tree. The Harrington Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, focused on blessings, and worked with Harrington High School Honor Society students to bring l...
Harrington Opera House Society Linda Wagner, Sheryl and Mark Stedman, Ed Haugan, Carol, Paul Charlton, Billie and Gordon Herron, Karen Robertson, Sue Lani Madsen and Marge Womach were present as Mark Stedman opened his last meeting as president of the Harrington Opera House Society. In reviewing the minutes from the previous meeting, mention was made of the $9,000 grant that the Harrington Public Development Authority received to help connect the business district with NoaNet...
Harrington Christmas bazaar And what to my amazement was all that commotion and clatter; I rose from my seat and raced into the streets to see what was the matter. Sirens, more and louder sirens, closer and faster, as though the whole city were in a disaster. No Prancer, no Dixon, but oh, what a sight; Santa hanging on to the rear of the fire engine so tight. Children were rushing to see who was coming, and before long Santa was taking his seat in the opera house lobby....
On Thanksgiving morning, the doors of the Harrington Memorial Hall were opened to the community for a time of celebrating a multitude of blessings through music and song. Food preparers began as early as 8:30 a.m. The worship team of the Harrington Community Church and spontaneous volunteers from the community alternated and played from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. which included Sheryl Stedman on the piano, John Larsen on the banjo, Dillon Haas on guitar and piano, Steve and Rebecca...
Windstorm Winds had been predicted to range near 65 mph on Tuesday and with that intensity Harrington was fortunate to have only minor damages to homes with roofing being the major complaint. One homeowner reported a limb lying on his roof. Dust was thick in the air all day, sometimes resembling dense fog. In the downtown business district, signs and awnings were challenged, with only one awning sent to the ground. The newly fixed roof on the former Harrington Haus was seen flapping in the wind all across the west end of the...
Veterans Day program The yearly Harrington Veterans Day Program organized by history teacher Mike Cronrath was held November 10, at 10:15 a.m. at the Harrington school gymnasium. Panels of art displays created by the students graced the pathway across the floor to the bleachers. This display was entitled, “The Star-Spangled Banner Through the Eyes of Our Children.” The exhibits were done by the high school art class and the 2nd/3rd grade art class, guided by their instructor Denise Hoffman. Copies of the pictures were put...
Harrington Opera House Society The Harrington Opera House Society met for its monthly and annual meetings Monday, November 2, with Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Gordon and Billie Herron, Carol, Ed Haugan, Linda Wagner, Bonnie and Mike Hardy, Dillon Haas, Stephen and Becky Hardy, Shelly Quigley, Karen Robertson and Marge Womach present. They reviewed the highlights of the Community Organizations Meeting, Harrington Happenings, with many positive comments about how well the sharing of project information is working. It was reported...
Peter Davenport at Opera House Friday evening, October 30, Margie Hall of the Lincoln County EDC introduced Peter Davenport, the Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, a Harrington City Councilman and the owner of a nearby missile site. Davenport’s presentation was a benefit for the Harrington Public Development Authority, and Hall explained that the mission of the PDA is to bring economic development to Harrington. This was Davenport’s fourth presentation in the Harrington Opera House since 2009. He questioned him...
Harrington musician Harrington resident Rebecca Hardy is a young, talented musician who was home-schooled in K-12, primarily by her mother, and participated in the Running Start program at Skagit Valley College, receiving two AA degrees before transferring to Eastern Washington University at Cheney in 2007. Rebecca's mother played the violin and loved classical music, which accustomed her ears to the classical repertoire. Her grandmother also played the piano. One day when...
With the upcoming mayoral contest in Harrington, the history of previous mayors might be interesting reading. Homesteading in the Harrington vicinity began in earnest in 1879, and the premature plotting of the town of Harrington occurred in 1882 with little development in the town site prior to the arrival of the railroad in 1892. Ten years later, the town of Harrington was incorporated and its first mayor selected, A.C. Billings. Billings was 40 years of age when he took...
Needham Concert On September 22, the members of the Needham family provided Country and Christian music to an audience of 50 or more at the Harrington Opera House. It was their final performance before their return to Nashville, Tenn., having played at 14 locations in 21 days. Dave Needham introduced his father David (on acoustic guitar and harmonica) and his sister Diana Mummert, who writes most of their songs and plays the mandolin. Diane's husband Steve was on percussion, a...
