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Curtis E. Finck was born February 28, 1925 in Elgin, N.D. to August and Matilda Finck. Curtis grew up in North Dakota and in 1945 joined the U.S. Army where he served until his discharge in 1946 at Ft. Lewis, Wash. On June 1, 1952, he married Sylvia Bartalamay in Odessa, and they farmed and raised their family. Sylvia passed away in 1998, and Curtis continued to live in Odessa until his death on August 21, 2014 at the age of 89. He is survived by four children: Nancy Gillen,...
Nov. 7, 1936 - Aug. 19, 2014 Ernest (Ernie) Oster Sr. passed away peacefully at home August 19, 2014, in College Place. He was born November 7, 1936, in Odessa, to Jacob Oster, Sr. and Lorena (Giese) Oster. He attended West Valley High School in Spokane and spent eight years in the U.S. Air Force, spending most of his service time at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. He married Marjery (Marjie) Pickens at Millwood Presbyterian Church on January 7, 1958. They later...
Travis Melvin Todd and Martha Irene Taylor were married August 2, 2014, at six o'clock in the evening. The ceremony was officiated by Pastor Greg Thorn in a garden setting at the bride's childhood home in Brewster, Wash. Parents of the bride hosted the ceremony and reception. A rehearsal dinner BBQ and pool party was hosted by the parents of the groom at the home of Randy and Karla Phillips, uncle and aunt to the groom. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tim Taylor of B...
Birthdays for August 28: Alex King, Sherie Heimbigner, Joe Galloway, Sharon Fink, Bryce Haase, and Amy Robins. August 29: Janie Steward, Brody Pitss, and Lea Ann Schutz. August 30: Lexi Watkins, Jonny Hayashi, and Brian Haguewood. August 31: Koralynn Kuch, Roylin Price, Violet Fredrick, Chase Goetz, Gerald Liner, Jill Larson, and Julie Wright. September 1: Dale Ramm. September 2: Diana Finkbeiner and Isiah Chavez. September 3: Clay Floch, Jeanie Read, Mark Sebesta, and James Storfa. Anniversaries for August 28: Warren and...
Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon has announced additional tools to help schools serve healthier meals and snacks as students return for the new school year. The announcement includes $5.7 million in Team Nutrition grants to state agencies administering the National School Lunch and Child and Adult Care Food Programs. The grants will help states expand and enhance training programs that help schools encourage kids to make healthy choices. Several states will use the...
Children prepare for school The Summer Reading Program on Thursday, August 21, was focused on the approaching return to the school season. Meka Eaton led the eight children in coloring sheets with school bus, backpacks, and other school related images. Each seemed to have a postivie attitude about school beginning, and the children were able to compare home schooling to the public school room. They enjoyed a movie and snack time. Some were successful at creating paper bag pupp...
The descendants of early Marlin-area farmers Jacob and Eva Kallenberger gathered at the Old Town hall and Reiman Park in Odessa, with relatives arriving from many areas. Those attending from the Phil and Nettie (Kallenberger) Pfeifer family were Myrna Bischoff of Harrington; Bob and Lorene Arbuckle of Ephrata; Howard and Claudia Pfeifer of Wilson Creek; Loren, Sharon and Marty Pfeifer, Lois Starkel and Jean Starkel all of Odessa; Ronald Pfeifer of Randal, Wash. and Jerry and...
Many Odessa youngsters spent their last weekend prior to the start of the new school year at the pool, which remained open a week longer than usual this year thanks to a grant from the Odessa School District. Now it's back to school for local kids, as they say good-bye to summer....
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3: Deluxe cheeseburger, pasta salad, coleslaw, grapes, cantaloupe, and frosted cake. THURSDAY:, Sept. 4: Roast beef, mashed potatoes & gravy, mixed veggies, tossed veggie salad, whole wheat bread, Fruited Jell-o with whipped topping....
The latest cash grain market here showed Soft White Wheat up at $6.28. Hard Red Winter is up at $6.78. DNS is up at $7.58. Barley remains at $148/ton....
There is just a hint of fall nip in the air, children are back in school and life begins to return to routine. Deutschesfest preparations and shuttling kids to and from after school activities fill the schedules. What to fix for dinner? Christy Jordan of Southern Plate Magazine, has been sharing a novel idea in her e-newsletters, called “Bags to Dishes”. The premise is, put all the items you need in a 2 gallon zip closure bag and keep an assortment of the bags in a sto...
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, Aug. 18: An inmate in the county jail hid contraband food items, extra uniforms and bedding in a cell. Another inmate's dinner was eaten by a third inmate. Others confined there clogged a day room toilet... Full story
Lincoln County Fair results will not be released until next week when The Record will provide a full report. Anyone with photos to submit is asked to do so as soon as possible for inclusion with next week’s story. Audrey Beck of Odessa, a perennial participant at the fair, competed with several exhibits again this year in the sewing department. She won first place for all three of the sets of doll clothes she made. Five of the other six items that she either sewed or hand embroidered won first place and the other won a s...
To the Editor: The (Washington) Post has reported that according to a recent PDK/Gallup poll, the Common Core educational standards are losing support nationwide (August 19). The poll asked those opposed to the Common Core why they were opposed, giving them several possible reasons. The options did not include the reasons many educators oppose the Common Core: There is no need for a radical change in curriculum or testing. Substantial improvement will come only when we deal with the real problem: Poverty. When researchers con...
The variety of wheat being loaded into rail cars by Garrett Jensen and Brady Haase as reported last week was incorrect. It was club wheat....
Nearly every school in Washington is failing, at least according to the No Child Left Behind federal proficiency standards. Soon, parents will be receiving letters from those school districts explaining the failing marks. With it they’ll also get a letter signed by 28 state superintendents who insist the standards and failure label are antiquated, punitive and wrong. Superintendents and some parents insist the testing standards don’t account for other student and school achievement. “We have kids that are succeeding and b...
The Economic Development Council (EDC) invites Lincoln County businesses to attend two back-to-back events scheduled for Thursday, September 25. A social media marketing workshop entitled Winning and Building Business will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. at Davenport Memorial Hall (511 Park St.). Business owners and marketing staff will learn how to build business using websites, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+ and more. The workshop is free but requires preregistration at edcjoyce@centurylink.net or (509)725-1170....
The Odessa VFW Auxiliary is proud to announce that their youth essay programs will be available with the beginning of a new school year. These programs are open to all students in grades 3-12. The programs are open to public-school, home-schooled and parochial-school students. Any home-schooled students who would like to participate may call Leora Nixon at 982-2847 for the entry forms. This year the Auxiliary is proud to announce that the Harrington school students will be participating as well. Grades 3-5 participate in the...
