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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. Monday, Jan. 11: No injury was reported as a result of a one-vehicle slide-off on SR 174 just outside of Wilbur. The Washington State Patrol investigated the possibility that alcohol may have bee...
The Odessa Lions Club's annual crab feed was another well-attended success last Saturday night at the community center. Club members Jeff Schibel and Steve Powell made the trip to the coast to pick up the 300 freshly caught Dungeness crabs which were cleaned and cooked and put on ice right before being picked up and brought to Odessa. According to the club's kitchen chairman Clark Kagele, the Lions and their spouses used tried and true family recipes to prepare potato salad,...
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...
Carol J. Schuh passed away January 13, 2016, in Davenport. Her home was in Harrington. Carol was born January 4, 1931, in Irby to Henry and Marie Kiehn. She attended school in Ritzville and was a cheerleader and tennis player and graduated in 1949. She married Arthur Schuh on June 5, 1949 in Ritzville, and they moved to the family farm near Harrington. Carol enjoyed golf, Gonzaga and WSU basketball and watching her grandchildren play sports. She is survived by her husband...
Charles Lee Dahm passed away January 15, 2016, in Spokane. He was born March 13, 1936 as Charles Lee Wyrick. He became Charles Lee Dahm at the age of 10 when he was adopted by Harry and Ruth Dahm. He is preceded in death by his wife Norrita and his three older siblings Marvin, Gladys and Helen. He was raised all around Washington, from Othello to Deer Park. He met and married Norrita Greenwalt; she came with two children Craig Knudson and Candace (Knudson) Bundrock. They...
Greetings from the courthouse! As I'm sure most of you have heard, we had a very difficult time balancing the 2016 budget. I feel that it is extremely important to share with you, the taxpayers, the struggles that your local governments are facing. I will speak to Lincoln County's situation (current expense, not public works) but these same issues affect your towns, fire districts, hospital districts, schools and any junior taxing district in the state of Washington. There...
When Christian college students set out to help build a hospital for women and children in Syria, they didn’t need a miracle to raise beyond enough money in a single day. The students were attending an annual conference called Passion, a global gathering of college-age students that attracted 40,000 attendees over the past weekend in Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas. The passionate youth at the arena events, and others online watching the live-stream, donated $785,000 on the first day of the campaign alone. The $811,813 r...
The 2016 Cannabis Collaborative Conference, a two-day convention and networking event focused on the business side of the fast-growing cannabis industry, will take place February 3 and 4 at the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center. Featuring more than 80 cannabis industry speakers, including a keynote address from former NBA All-Star/former Portland Trail Blazer and cannabis advocate Cliff Robinson, the conference is expected to draw more than 2,500 attendees seeking to network and visit interactive workshops and hands-on...
Editor’s note: The Record neglected to publish the trapshooting results in last week’s paper, so this week’s article on the results is longer than normal with both weeks’ results included. Odessa On January 10 at the Odessa Gun Club, no one shot a perfect 25. Shooting 24 were Tom Schuh and Brady Gies. Traig Weishaar, Jared Praetorius and Colley Walter all shot 23, while Landon Lobe, Aaron Gies, Ryan Lewis, William Mann and Jon Fink shot 22. Hitting 21 were Lane Lobe and Mike Nichols, Sr. Those with 20 and under were Dalles De...
The Dean’s List for Eastern Washington University in Cheney is released after every fall, winter and spring quarter. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours and receives a grade-point average of 3.5 or better is placed on the Dean’s List for the quarter. On the Dean’s List for the fall quarter are Jennifer Adams and Kaeli Shockley of Harrington and, from Odessa, Mariah Davison, Jacob DeWulf, Justin Hunt, Jared King, Koralynne Kuch, Charli Moffet, Hannah Schmidt, Marci Steinbach and Carley Willi...
The Distinguished Young Women program committee at Almira/Coulee-Hartline High School has graciously decided to reach out to girls who are high school juniors in neighboring communities (within approximately a one-hour radius of ACH), which do not have a Distinguished Young Women Scholarship Program. If you know of ambitious, civic-minded young women who are high school juniors and interested in representing their community, in scholarship opportunities and in expanding their resumes, have them check out distinguishedyw.org...
Washington Governor Jay Inslee thanked President Obama for quickly approving his request for a major disaster declaration in connection with a November wind and rain storm. “I thank the Obama Administration for its quick response and appreciate this significant support,” Inslee said. “This was a record-setting storm that resulted in more than $21 million in damages. Our budgets are already stretched, if not entirely tapped. This assistance will help our communities get back on their feet and resume important services that...
Big Bend Community College Foundation scholarship applications for 2016-17 are available now on the college’s website at http://www.bigbend.edu/information-center/foundation/scholarships. Students must apply online. They can apply for the Foundation’s many scholarships using a single online application form. The deadline for receiving completed applications by the Financial Aid Office is February 19, 2016. Only completed applications submitted by that date will be considered. The BBCC Foundation awards approximately $130,000...
The Boards of Directors of Odessa School District #105 and Harrington School District #204 met in the Odessa High School library Wednesday, January 13, 2016, at 7 p.m. for a joint sports cooperative board meeting. Representing Odessa were superintendent Dan Read, principal Jamie Nelson, board chair Ed Deife and board members Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Janie Steward. Representing Harrington were superintendent/principal Justin Bradford, board chair Darren Mattozzi and board members Mark Kramer, Alan Tanke and Linda...
The Odessa-Harrington Titans had another tough loss Tuesday, January 12, when they played an away conference game against Wellpinit. The Wellpinit Redskins seemed determined to take the lead and not give any ground to the Titans. By the end of the first quarter, the score was 22-11 and the Redskins weren’t about to slow down. O-H 11 10 16 10 47 Wellp 22 21 17 20 80 Colton Hunt led in scoring for Odessa-Harrington with 21 points (two of them three-point shots), eight r...
Maleah Davison helped lead the Titans to victory Tuesday, January 12, with 11 points, eight rebounds and a steal. Katie DeWulf and Lanessa Simon each had nine points, with DeWulf contributing six rebounds, six assists, seven steals and a block, while Simon had three rebounds, an assist and three steals. Casey Schlomer had six points, 11 rebounds, three steals and two blocks. Kassidy Crossley and Amber Smith had two points each, with Crossley adding four rebounds and Smith...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record January 21, 1916 $10,000 fire loss at Harrington. Fire at Harrington last Saturday destroyed McInnis Bros. big barn, in which was also housed the service sttion and garage of W.H. Hart and the Hentry Fallert building used until the first of the year as a saloon. Both burned to the ground. The fire started in the repair part of the Maxwell serviice station. W.H. Hart had built a fire in his heating stove and stepped out for a few minutes. On opening the door on his return the smoke and...
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is now accepting applications from agricultural producers statewide who were impacted by wildfires in 2014 or 2015. Financial assistance is offered through the Wildfire Initiative of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to help address resource concerns on private and tribal land. The deadline for applications is Friday, February 19, 2016. NRCS will offer five financial assistance options: Option one offers assistance with prescribed and deferred grazing on privately opera...
Can you hear in space? Asked by a curious reader. Dear curious reader, Your question reminds me of an experiment: You put a ringing alarm clock in a jar and use a hose to slowly suck out all the air. As the air escapes, the ringing gets quieter until there’s no sound at all. The inside of the jar becomes what scientists call a vacuum. It’s empty. Just like space. Despite any zooms and explosions you may have heard in movies about outer space, sound actually can’t travel through empty space. That’s why on the moon, where t...
The Odessa Public Library, in a partnership with Big Bend Community College, is sponsoring a series of six workshops to teach basic computer skills. Beginning Wednesday, January 20, the first class will be an introduction class to the parts of the computer and how they are used; Wednesday, January 27, will be a class on keyboarding; Wednesday, February 3, will be an introduction to the Internet; Wednesday, February 10, will be an introduction to email; Wednesday, February 17, will be a workshop on Microsoft Word programs;...
June Odessa High School graduated 17 students on June 6, an ambitious group of young people who collectively were offered a total of $354,336 in scholarships and grants. Carol Green retired and closed the beauty shop behind her home that she had operated for many years. She and her husband, retired high school history teacher Dick Green, were planning a move to Spokane. The Odessa-Harrington Titan track and field team sent several members to the state meet in Cheney, where Sam Schafer had first-place finishes in the 100 m,...
