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Five Odessa students were among the 463 competitors at the 54th annual Washington State Science and Engineering Fair (WSSEF) held April 1 and 2 at Bremerton High School. Odessa students won three first-place awards, one best-of-category award and eleven special awards, including the C.J. Croswaite Science Student of the Year Award. Of the hundreds of students vying for the top awards, only 10 of their projects were selected to go into the final round, including those of Kira...
This year’s Odessa Bike Week has come and gone, leaving some very tired volunteers in its wake, both Stumpjumper and Odessa Chamber members. As has been typical for the past couple of years, the weather for the Sunday Desert 100 race was cool and windy, resulting in a covering of dust over everything. The action started Saturday with Poker Runs and the running of the Mini-Desert 100 for the younger crowd. Some Odessa and other Lincoln County residents also participated. M...
Thorsen Wehr was reading a Popular Science magazine one day, and in an article saw listed the Top Ten Brilliant Minds. One person, a researcher at Cal Tech, was trying to focus sound like people focus light with a magnifying glass. Thor thought he would give that a try and began working on something somewhat similar, but different enough to call it his own. After some time, he e-mailed the Cal Tech researcher, Dr. Daraio, and she e-mailed him copies of her work to study. She said that when he finished his research, he should...
Fire Department Fire Chief Don Strebeck reported that the department has purchased nine state-of-the-art pagers for use by the department, the fire district, volunteers and the town. Strebeck and four volunteer firefighters will be attending a training session April 22 at the burn tower in Mead, Wash. They will be using one of the newly acquired fire trucks in the training. On April 15, the fire safety trailer sponsored by the Inland Empire Fire Chiefs Association will be at the school to train students on fire safety. The...
Gloria Taylor of Gloria’s Reflexology & T-Zone has announced that the current tough economic times have prompted her to close her office in downtown Odessa. The last day the office was open was Tuesday, April 12. She will still visit Odessa and treat her customers by making house calls for Reflexology and Aqua Chi treatments. “Allow me to come to you,” she says. She will be taking calls for appointments, so that she can schedule her time most economically. Gloria’s new motto is “Have chair, will travel.” But since she w...
Just over a year ago when President Obama, then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., rammed Obamacare through Congress, no one really knew what was in the 2,700 pages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). But small business soon learned that it wasn’t so affordable. For example, the law includes a provision that requires all businesses to file a 1099 form to the Internal Revenue Service for p...
What I need is a personality transplant. In the two weeks since I saw the doctor about my knee, I have reverted to what I consider to be my true personality - that of a banana slug. I haven’t been writing down what I eat. I haven’t really even been thinking about what I eat, but I’m pretty sure that whatever it was, it wasn’t good. But every day is a new day, right? And every new day presents us with the opportunity to be a new person, if only in small ways. I have a picture...
Washington State’s hospitals are strongly opposed to the House budget and its attack on hospitals and the health of our residents. The House budget makes deep cuts to payment rates and services that will directly impact safety net hospitals and vital services provided to Medicaid enrollees. The House budget violates all the agreements made last year on the Hospital Safety Net Assessment, and changes the assessment from a fee to a tax on hospitals and their patients. The result is a $250 million cut to hospital Medicaid r...
Recently I heard this complaint: What does the government do for us? Let me count the ways, starting with money. Only the federal government has the right to print money. This “government” money shows up in many forms. Some of us receive Social Security benefits, and some get Medicare and Medicaid assistance – all government programs. Many of us get cash at ATMs, and some of us even save money at banks – both insured by FDIC, a government program. Some invest in U.S. Treasury bonds, and some get farm subsidies. Both are sup...
In another strike against criminal activity in Grant County, members of the Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office and the Adams County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant Thursday morning, March 31, on a rural Soap Lake business believed to be trafficking stolen property. Around 8 a.m. on March 31, investigators executed a search warrant on a house and 30-acre parcel at Boneyard Recycling, 1974 County Rd 19.3-NE, near County Road A.5-NE, about three miles east of Soap Lake. The war...
Spring potluck meals brought a number of salad recipe requests. Dolores Cook brought a yummy elegant Molded Seafood Salad to a recent luncheon. The recipe is attributed to Mrs. Gale Salo in the 1967 edition of the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Cookbook. Dolores states that the secret to this recipe is to chop onions, celery and olives very fine. Dolores uses a fish shaped mold for this salad but individual molds or a clear glass bowl could also be used. This recipe would make a...
Raymond Fix and Greg and Christina Adams announce the marriage of their daughter Taylor Anne Fix to Colton Jerome Smith, son of Chelsey Smith. Colton is the grandson of Bruce and Deb Walter, and the great-grandson of Jerry and Barb Walter and the late Earl and Bobbie Null, all of Odessa. The couple was married November 13, 2010 at Bastyr University Chapel in Kenmore, Wash. The wedding reception was held at the Everett Naval Station. Colton and Taylor are now in San Antonio,...
Alyssa Iverson, 8, daughter of Todd and Victoria Iverson of Odessa, has won her age division in an art contest sponsored by The Old Hotel Art Gallery in Othello. The art contest is an annual event held in conjunction with Othello’s Sandhill Crane Festival, held this year on March 25, 26 and 27. The contest is held on Saturday, and entries are divided into divisions depending on age; 8 and under, 9-12, 13-15, 16-18 and adult. Any art medium is accepted, but the subject m...
Coming back after spring break and getting back into the school routine is always a challenge. The Odessa-Harrington golf team finished in the middle of the pack after traveling to Colville for a match Monday, April 11. Coach Sam Read reported that the weather was cool and windy, with light rain showers. Boys and girls played 18 holes. Kettle Falls took the boys’ team win, with a score of 444, followed by Lind/Ritzville/Sprague 464, Colfax 471, Northwest Christian 490, Odessa/Harrington 516, Davenport 548 and Republic 569. O...
Travis William Iksic of Odessa has made the honor roll at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. Students listed on the honor roll attend CWU and have qualified for the winter quarter 2011 honor roll. CWU undergraduates earning a 3.5 or better grade-point average on a 4.0 scale, while carrying at least 12 graded credit hours of study, are eligible for the honor roll....
The O-H track and field team was back in action Tuesday, April 12, at the District 7 NE 1B/2B League meet hosted by Liberty at Freeman High School in Rockford. The boys results follow: In the 200 meters, Austin Schmierer had a time of 29.43 seconds, for 20th place. In the 800 meters, Jacob Dewulf had an eleventh-place finish in 2:35.70, and in the 1600 meters he took ninth in a time of 5:44.05. In the 300-meter hurdles, there was an 11th place finish for Austin Schmierer in 53.96. Jacob DeWulf threw the javelin 96'06” for 1...
Tori Weishaar, age 10, daughter of Traig and Carmen Weishaar of Odessa, competed in the Eastern Washington State Sectionals April 9 and qualified for the Washington State Level 5 State Gymnastics Meet to be held in Pasco on April 29-May 1. Tori has competed in four regular meets this year, placing in each one with three second places and one seventh place. At Level 5, she competed against many other 10-year-olds. At each meet Tori competes in the vault, floor exercise, uneven...
David Reynolds, a 27-year-old Ephrata man, is safe after being rescued April 6 from a steep area near Lake Lenore Caves State Park. The man became stuck during a recreational hike, but was able to use his cell phone to call 911 around 4 p.m. Dispatchers were able to gather information to pinpoint his location and direct emergency crews from Grant Co. Fire District #7, Fire District #5, Grant County Sheriff’s deputies, and Washington State Park rangers to the scene. In all, about 25 emergency personnel responded to assist. T...
On February 25, 2011, Private First Class Colton Jerome Smith graduated basic training in Alpha Battery, 1/19 Field Artillery, 4th Platoon in the United States Army, at Fort Sill, Okla. Colton is the son of Chelsey Smith and grandson of Bruce and Deb Walter of Odessa. His wife, Taylor Smith, his mother Chelsey Smith and his grandmother Deb Walter were all able to attend the ceremony. Along with one other person, Smith was the leader of his platoon, nicknamed the Raiders,...
Odessa Record 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.) Dream 2. Continuation. Haase, John, (b. 10/24/1877, Kulm, Russia. d. 1971). John came to the United States in 1902 and resided in the Odessa area, either on a farm or in town until his taking residence in Spokane. He was a member of the UCC, aiding in the construction of the present facility. Mr. Haase was united in marriage in 1905 on Sept. 6, to Lydia...
Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna joined the attorneys general of 34 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia in objecting Tuesday to the settlement of a private, class-action lawsuit against DirectBuy, Inc., because it offers no real benefit to consumers. DirectBuy stores are independent franchises that charge thousands to join, as well as yearly fees. Customers are told they can purchase goods from manufacturers and suppliers at actual wholesale cost. The lawsuit (Wilson et al v....
Every spring, early in the past century, students at Lincoln County high school gathered for a tennis tournament combined with oratorical and declamatory contests. The third annual event of this kind was scheduled to be held in Odessa on May 7 and 8, 1915. The Odessa Record's issue of April 30 that year gave this account of plans for the big meeting. One of the largest school events in the history of the Big Bend country is scheduled for this town next Friday and Saturday, when the Odessa schools and Odessa citizens play host...
