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Twenty-five animal heads and furs have been on display in the Harrington Public Library since June of 1973. The late Louis Schultz was a Harrington farmer who enjoyed game hunting when he was not busy keeping his farming operations going. He began game hunting in 1946 and made two trips to Africa, trips into British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska....
In the Art Room at 7 p.m. December 1 the Harrington Opera House Society met for its annual meeting and election of officers. The election committee, Bunny Haugan and Billie Herron, submitted the names of the present officers as the ballot for this election and allowed the group to add names for consideration. With no additions, the ballot was voted as unanimous acceptance with President Mark Stedman, Vice-President Carol, Secretary Linda Wagner, Co-Treasurers Ed Haugan and...
Saturday morning, with great anticipation a small crowd waited at the Harrington Opera House lobby for the sixth annual pre-Christmas visit of Santa, whose arrival was heralded by the sirens of the fire truck that provided transportation while Santa's reindeer were feeding at the wide spot on Crab Creek near Harrington. From 10 a.m. to noon, twenty-two sittings for photos occurred with an elf-like lady in a grand vintage-style dress dispensing the bags of candy treats...
Lynn and Eric Tingstad performed at the Harrington Opera House to an audience of more than 110 on Friday evening, Nov. 7. President Mark Stedman of Harrington Opera House Society introduced Tayla Lynn, a granddaughter of the country star legend, Loretta Lynn. Tayla grew up in the heart of Tennessee. She introduced Eric Tingstad, a Grammy Award winner, who had previously performed in our opera house as Tingstad and Rumble. The free flowing program seemed to be decided moment...
Tuesday evening, Oct. 28, the Harrington Public Development Authority met at 7 p.m. at the city hall. Josh Steward called the meeting to order with the following present: Allen Barth, Margie Hall, Jay Kane, Bunny Haugan, Mark Stedman, Paul Charlton, Dillon Haas, Steve Hardy and Marge Womach. The primary discussion topic continued to be the vacant buildings and means to remedy the problem. An estimate by a contractor for one vacant building to be made structurally sound included roof and floor replacement which would make the...
HHPC Saturday morning, Oct 18, at By By MARJORIE WOMACH October 18, at 10 a.m. a meeting sponsored by Harrington Historic Preservation Commission (HHPC) was held to discuss the Harrington 2000+ Plan Update, a construct to develop and cultivate business interest in the revitalization of Harrington. Welcoming remarks were made by Celeste Miller, president of the HHPC, and she turned the meeting over to William Grimes and Chaz Bates of Studio Cascade. Those present were: Terry...
Harrington PDA President Josh Steward called the Tuesday evening meeting of the Public Development Authority to order at 7 p.m. with Jay Kane, Bunny Haugan, Dylan Haas and Marge Womach present. Members contributed what each knew of interest and activities surrounding the potential purchase of empty buildings, including recognition that several contractors from other cities had been to Harrington to examine buildings. Haas reported that he had been to the meeting of the Economic Development Council in Davenport with...
The Harrington Chamber of Commerce met Wednesday, September 3, under President Cassandra Paffle-Dick. Chamber members present were Bunny Haugan, Margie Hall of the Lincoln County Economic Development Council, Kathy Hoob, Cindy Haase, Allen Barth, Summer Clark (of US Bank), Sharon Nighswonger and Marge Womach. Margie Hall informed the Chamber that the broadband grant application had been submitted and may be viewed on the EDC website. She also announced two events by the EDC...
Aug. 13, Mayor Paul Gilliland called to order the meeting of the city council with members Terry Howe, Rick Becker, Peter Davenport, Levi Schenk and Mike Cronrath present and Bunny Haugan, Scott McGowan, Margie Hall, Ashley Schenk, Charles Marsh, Sharon Schultz and Marge Womach in attendance. Margie Hall of the Economic Development Council gave an update of activities and meetings and provided the council with handouts. She noted that the mayors would be meeting on Sept. 12,...
Great Northern Railroad - Part 1, submitted by Marjorie Womach, was published on July 10 and Part 2 on July 17. Anyone interested in additional information on Northwest railroads may come to The Record office where we have several books for sale on the subject. In 1921 it was said that in order for the Harrington Harvester to sell its machines at distant towns, they used two small white mules that pulled and scratched their way up the old City Hall hill pulling one of their machines. They wrote that the belly of the mules...
The Harrington Opera House Society met for their monthly meeting, opened by President Mark Stedman and attended by Sheryl Stedman, Becky and Stephen Hardy, Carol, Edwin and Bunny Haugan, Billie and Gordon Herron, D. P. Charlton, Bonnie Hardy, Karen Robertson, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner. Progress might appear slow in regard to the opera house building projects, however the progress is steady in consistent increments following a master list of pieces of the structure that need work; each is thoroughly investigated and...
With ten young scientists-in-the-making present, the Harrington Library concluded its normal Summer Reading Program on July 31 and awarded five certificates for perfect attendance, those being Kaydence Brown, Annika Walters, Laurel Victor, William Victor and Ethan Victor. The science portion of the program focused this week on the creation of jitterbugs, dragonflies and bumble bees. Stacey DeWald kept the children actively getting their parts ready while Bridget Rohner was...
In November, 2001, following a two year period of interim ministering by Terry Van Blaricum, Pastor Bill Bull and his wife came to Harrington as the resident minister. Rev. Bull was born in 1944 and met his wife Bonnie in Princeton, Idaho. They have been married more than 40 years. They were the parents of three adult children by the time they moved here, Julia, Jeffrey and Janice. Pastor Bull's early career was in the lumber industry in Northern Idaho as a U.S. Forest...
Harrington Public Library in conjunction with Washington State University's extension office opened its Summer Reading Program, Fizz-Boom-Read, Thursday, July 10 from 3 to 5, led by Bridget Rohner and Stacey DeWald. Initially 18 youngsters entered and tried to contain themselves with the excitement of the first day. They settled in as each began to color with crayons the planets and solar system followed by posting them on the door to their Reading Room. James Smith read them...
Chamber meeting Wednesday noon, July 2, the Harrington Chamber of Commerce met, led by president Cassandra Paffle-Dick. Those present included Kathy Hoot, Carol, Cindy Haase, Bonnie Hardy, Bunny Haugan and Marge Womach. Considerable discussion was held on the city directory sign at the entrance to Harrington and its reconstruction. Estimates were obtained and proposals considered. The committee will now investigate the cost of having a local metal art worker construct the...
The Harrington Opera House Society Rummage Room held its function on Tuesday, June 17, during the 11-4 p.m hours of the library's book sale. Considering it was on a weekday, there was a better than anticipated donation of about $160. Rain did not deter the treasure seekers. All funds donated are held for the eventual purchase of an elevator. The rummage events are planned to discontinue for the summer. Bar Code Training with Gary Bortel June 18, Wednesday, Gary Bortel of the Washington State Library came to Harrington at 9...
This school year, 2013-14, is a walk down memory lane for one of Harrington's finest school teachers who has retired after 34 years of teaching, the first five years in Reardan Public School and the remaining 29 years at Harrington, serving the fifth and sixth grades. Moeller began her memories in Harrington schools in 1956-57 when she was enrolled in the first grade at which time her class consisted of: Kenneth Wagner, Roger Rieth, Ronnie Timm, John Carstens, Marc Andersch, Michael Lucht, Devin Smith, Diane Kloster, Linda Ev...
By MARJORIE WOMACH Harrington Public Library The Harrington Library has received a new shipment of fiction paperback books. The authors include J.A. Jance, Lee Child, James Lee Burke, James Rollins and Stuart Woods. The library is awaiting Mayor Paul Gilliland to order the necessary equipment for the library to begin its training with the scanning of bar codes. Gary Bortel of the State Library is planning to come this month for that purpose. Donations continue to come in to the library, some of the more recent items included...
The Harrington Public Development Authority meeting was held at the Harrington Golf & Country Club at 7 p.m. Tuesday in a most congratulatory spirit following the successful promotion of the Spring Festival. Josh Steward opened the meeting. Bunny Haugan resumed her secretarial role, and Allan Barth, newly appointed vice president, were the members present. Others in attendance were Margie Hall of the Economic Development Council, Paul Charlton, Karen Robertson and Marge...
Normalcy on Friday, April 25th, was replaced with an aire of activity, stirrings, comments about the untimely spring showers and chilling winds, and people briefly stopping to greet one another as they hurried in their last minute preparations for the Spring Festival. Poking one's head into the Studebaker Garage, buckets of water and rags were busily removing the dust from the last of the beautiful display automobiles for the Third Annual Classic Auto Show in Harrington. Altho...
By MARJORIE WOMACH Since 1988, under Clay Henry until the present under Michael Cronrath, the Harrington eighth grade Washington State history class has taken a historic field trip. This year many of the eighth grade students, Alex Bruce, Colton Jacobsen, David Kennedy, John Tanke, Robbee Kiefer, Evie Mann, and Amber Smith and sophomore student Brilee Sewall, with teacher Michael Cronrath, chaperone Kelly Tanke and driver Tony Hamilton embarked Tuesday after lunch for...
The family of Mark Wetjen donated two leases, a business certificate, and a winter jacket once owned by Dr. L.F .Wagner, an early day physician in Harrington, to the Harrington Museum. LaFayette F. Wagner, 28, married Ida A. Sierman on August 21, 1907 at Hope, Bonner County, Idaho. Since Dr. L.F. Wagner, formerly of St John, Washington, had purchased a half interest in the business of Dr. J.M. Gunning, the Wagners moved to Harrington following their marriage, where they...
Monday evening, April 7, the Harrington Opera House Society met for their monthly meeting, which was opened by President Mark Stedman. Those attending included Linda Wagner, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Sheryl Stedman, Billie and Gordon Herron, Karen Robertson, Marge Womach, Rick Smith, Jen Mallery, Bonnie Hardy and her son Stephen and Becky Hardy via Skype. The building committee chair, Gordon Herron, summarized the discussions from that committee's meeting. Two lists were generated, the first, a list of all projects that currently...
April 2, the Harrington Chamber of Commerce met at noon with Cassandra Paffle-Dick, Kathy Hoob, Cindy Haase, Sharon Nighswonger, Bunny Haugan and Marge Womach present. Discussion was held regarding the Lions Club's project of new picnic tables for the Harrington City Park. The chamber seemed to favor contributing to this project. They also wanted to look into a banner for the automobile for the Harrington Royalty which is a project organized by the Homemaker's Club. The...
Mayor Paul Gilliland opened the town council meeting on Wednesday evening at 7:30 with all members present (Terry Howe, Levi Schenk, Mike Cronrath, Rick Becker, Peter Davenport); visitors were Celeste Miller, Ashley Schenk, Brad Scott, Sharon Schultz, Marge Womach, Bunny Haugan and Scot McGowan. Celeste Miller brought the proposed contract from Studio Cascade for the council to approve for the signature of the mayor. Studio Cascade was chosen by the Harrington Historical Commission to continue working on the 2000 Plus Revital...
