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Pioneer Days were held in Davenport last weekend, with Odessa’s community float and royalty participating in the Saturday parade. Part of the weekend activities was a production of the musical Annie by Davenport Theatrical. The production was held at Davenport High School. Several people from the surrounding area had parts in the play, some of whom have been involved in theater in some way for years. Karen Brewster was in fine form and excellent voice as the irascible Miss H...
Kim Ramm of Odessa is the third candidate running for the Lincoln County Commissioner District #1 position in the August primary. Ramm and her husband Dale Ramm are the owners of Ramm Hardware in Odessa, a franchise of the Do It Best corporation. Kim Ramm is also known locally for her political activism. She says that she has been interested and involved in politics for almost as long as she can remember. She was on the Odessa Town Council for eight years, retiring at the end...
Wild and wooly weather has been keeping farmers and everyone else off balance this summer. Some summers, most of them actually, mean high temperatures of 90 degrees or more every day and absolutely no rain until September (okay, maybe one mid-summer thunderstorm). But the weather pattern has been very different this year, and many farmers are nervous. Rains in early June can mean an extra good wheat crop, with full kernels of good quality. But it can often also mean having to...
On July 3, the management firm that has operated Inland Empire Oilseeds for the past year, known as 1138, LLC, acquired 75 percent of the company from the original investment group that got the plant up and running. That group (consisting of the Odessa Union Warehouse Cooperative, Reardan Grain Growers, Reardan Seed, Greenstar, Michael Dunlap and Avista) retains ownership of the remaining 25 percent. Joel Edmonds remains the general manager, the same position he assumed when...
The 76th Odessa High School alumni banquet held last Saturday evening boasted one person celebrating her 80th high school reunion, while the class of 2012 also had one representative attending his first reunion. OHS graduate Austin Schmierer (2012) was on hand to accept his Alumni Association scholarship and Helen (Hopp) Wolf (class of 1932) was also present, bringing her 1932 high school yearbook with her. Therefore, for the first time in many years, someone other than Ed...
Odessa had foreign visitors last week, German citizens traveling through the U.S. and Canada, visiting relatives in Cincinnati and then venturing west. They were on their way to Vancouver (Washington or Canada? – we forgot to ask which) and ultimately Seattle, from which they would fly home to Germany. The two married couples had noticed the town of Odessa on their travel map, and since both gentlemen had been born in the vicinity of Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine), they were i...
The Rolling Thunder Saloon closed its doors last week, due to the pressures of a poor economy, said proprietors Nate Lathrop and Elisabeth Springer. The business has given up its liquor license, but it is nevertheless not for sale. The owners plan to keep the building, and, if things should improve economically over the next couple of years, there is a chance that the Saloon could re-open. Lathrop told The Record that he could no longer justify putting his own money into the...
The Odessa Town Council adopted its annual Six-Year Transportation Improvement Plan Monday night, putting the reconstruction of Fourth Avenue from First Street to Alder Street at the top of its list of priorities. The plan is used as a guideline by the town and by the state of Washington to allocate state funding and disbursement of matching municipal funds for the projects listed. Projects not included on the list, do not get funded. Citizen involvement is also needed to...
The Odessa Trading Company (OTC), with assistance from Ag Tech Services of Moses Lake, held its annual customer appreciation day last Thursday, May 24, with events beginning as early as 2 p.m. Representatives of Case IH and several other companies that supply equipment such as guidance systems and other specialized farming applications were on hand to show farmers and other interested citizens what their products could do. A special educational session on lube/filters was...
As many of our readers already know, Odessa’s very successful high school science teacher Jeff Wehr and his wife Julie, along with their two children Thorsen and Kiegan, are leaving Odessa at the end of the school year. The family is moving to Duvall, Wash., located in King County south of Monroe, where Jeff is taking a position at Cedarcrest High School. The Record asked him how it all came about, and he responded as follows: “It actually is a wacky story! We were not loo...
This year’s 21st annual winetasting and auction was another well-attended event that raised a generous amount of money from both Odessa residents and visitors from out of town. The proceeds this year will go toward implementation of the electronic medical-record-keeping system Carol Schott, chairperson of the organizing committee, said that the amount of money raised was about the same as last year, as was the attendance. She also added that expenses were somewhat higher t...
Last weekend was filled with activity both in town and outside of town. Motorcycle riders by the dozens came to Odessa and neighboring Wilson Creek last Friday and Saturday for a program and fundraiser regarding a proposed permanent memorial to fallen riders in the Northwest. We first wrote about this event in our April 5, 2012 edition. Riders began arriving in Wilson Creek on Friday evening. The Harvest Moon Tavern there welcomed them, making food and drink available. A...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday night and approved a resolution allowing the town’s engineering firm to apply for a matching-funds grant for the Odessa municipal airport. The end of the funding cycle has been completed, and there is money still left that can be awarded. Mayor Doug Plinski said he hoped that a successful grant application would allow for help in moving a roadway and making improvements to taxiways at the Odessa airport. Public Works Public Works director R...
A week of rain showers was what one of the Stumpjumpers had asked for when he was in Odessa for the White Knuckle/Frostbite races the preceding weekend. He got his wish. There was no dust to be seen, so this race was different from every other Desert 100 that has been run on Wes and Faye King’s pasture a few miles outside of Odessa. Riders came across the finish platform with their bikes, and often themselves, covered in mud. The campsite was a muddy mess in places, and f...
Whether you love or hate the Canada goose, you would have to admit that the one pictured above looks like the real thing. In 1982, John M. Schmauder completed “The Wonder Deek,” as he titled it on the bottom of the platform bearing his carving, a decoy representating a very lifelike Canada goose. The goose is carved out of sugar pine, a wood particularly favored by woodworkers, according Mark Fulford, the current owner of the goose. Securely mounted on a wooden platform, it...
This is part 3, the last of a series of articles about the Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) and the studies it has made of area water resources. Part 1 appeared in the January 19 and Part 2 in the February 2 editions of The Record. What happens now that the GWMA has created its hydrologic model and mapped many of the groundwater sources? Does the project stop here? GWMA project managers hope not, because there are still a lot of questions to be answered. The hydrologic...
O-H girls vs. Wellpinit Playing last week Wednesday, February 8, in Odessa, the Titan girls lost to Wellpinit, 43-38, in probably one of the sloppiest games they have played all season. Numerous turnovers and missed shots were the order of the day. O-H 9 8 9 12 38 Wellp. 7 14 13 9 43 Kendall Todd led the team with 8 points. Charli Moffet, Jessie Whitaker, Rebekah Marshall, Chelsea Fisher and Jordyn Tanke all had 6 points each. Hannah Schmidt, Carley Williams and Cydnee...
The wonders of the computer age! Without them, visitors to Odessa this week from Switzerland would likely never have known what happened to a long-lost relative who left his Swiss homeland before the turn of the last century to become a circuit-riding minister for several churches in the Pacific Northwest. Philipp and Marion Graedel are from Burgdorf, a city of more than 15,000 inhabitants not far from the capital of Switzerland, Bern. Burgdorf is located in the valley carved...
O-H vs. Inchelium The Titan girls traveled to Inchelium Tuesday, January 24. The O-H girls had a good first quarter, followed by a not-so-good second quarter to end the first half down by 10 points. In the second half, the Titans outscored Inchelium, but not by enough to make up the first-half deficit. Inchelium got the win, 50-44. O-H 10 8 9 17 44 Inchelium 12 16 8 14 50 Jessie Whitaker led the Titan scoring with 16 points. Cydnee Kieffer had 11, Kendall Todd 8, Rebekah...
O-H vs. Inchelium Tuesday, January 24, the Titans traveled to Inchelium with only the varsity teams competing. It was a lopsided 72-12 win for the Odessa-Harrington boys in a game that allowed plenty of scoring opportunities for several team members. O-H 27 24 14 7 72 Inchelium 2 4 2 4 12 Cade Weber and Markus Smith each scored 14 points to pace the Titans. Jared King had 12, Stetson Sanford 11, Justin Hunt 10, Jacob DeWulf 7 and Brett Larmer and Nick Tebow had 2 each....
Part 2 of our series on Odessa’s water issues (continued from the January 19 edition of The Odessa Record) continues this week. Why not just... dig deeper? Digging deeper wells into the Grande Ronde Basalt layer is one of the options available to the Town of Odessa in the future for meeting its municipal water needs. How deep? Based on current peak demand, the GWMA has estimated that a new well will have to supply 1,000 gallons per minute (gpm), be 700 to 1,400 feet deep (base...
O-H vs. Wellpinit Monday, January 16, was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and therefore a day off school but not a day off for basketball. The Titans traveled to Wellpinit to fight a disappointing, losing battle, 69-59. O-H 14 16 13 16 -59 Wellpinit 27 9 11 22 -69 Justin Hunt led the scoring with 18. Cade Weber had 13, Markus Smith 3, Jacob DeWulf 3, Stetson Sanford 11, Jared King 3 and Brett Larmer 8. King led in rebounding with 9 and in steals with 6. Larmer led with 4...
Last week, the Titan girls basketball team defeated Wellpinit and Valley Christian, while in between they lost to St. John-Endicott. O-H vs. Wellpinit The Titan girls headed out to Wellpinit Monday and picked up another win by a score of 39-36. After being down 16-6 at half time, Wellpinit came roaring back in the second half to make a game of it. The girls were able to hang on for the win, however. O-H 9 7 13 10 -39 Wellpinit 3 3 14 16 -36 Kendall Todd had a great game and sc...
The Titan basketball teams both had a very good week, with three games in the win column for each of the varsity teams, boys and girls. O-H vs. LaCrosse-Washtucna The Titan girls came out on top in Tuesday’s game in Washtucna against the Tigercats by a score of 33-25. O-H 8 5 6 14 -33 L-W 6 5 7 7 25 Jessie Whitaker led the scoring for the Titans with 12. Charli Moffet added 9, Jordyn Tanke 4, Chelsea Fisher 3, Kendall Todd 3 and Hannah Schmidt 2. Also playing but not s...
Last week’s front-page story on the Odessa Town Council meeting included information on a presentation given by Paul Stoker, executive director of the Ground Water Management Area (GWMA). A series of articles on area water issues begins this week.. What is GWMA? The GWMA is an area of about 8,300 square miles that includes all of Adams, Franklin, Grant and Lincoln Counties. Within this area is an aquifer system that supplies drinking water to 25 towns and cities, as well as i...
