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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, Nov. 25: Reardan emergency and Davenport ambulance personnel responded to the 400 block of East Cottonwood Avenue in Reardan to assist a 50-year-old man with a leg laceration. Lincoln Hospital personnel...
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, Nov. 18: Davenport ambulance personnel assisted a 93-year-old woman experiencing "general sickness" and high blood pressure. A deputy responded to an alleged anti-harassment order violation involving two...
Sunday evening at 7 p.m., the Harrington United Methodist Church sponsored this year's annual community Thanksgiving service. Randy Behrens of the Harrington United Methodist Church opened the evening service with a welcome and the Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. This was followed by "Come Ye Thankful People Come". Tony Hamilton of the Community Church led in the Responsive Reading and the Lord's Prayer. An offering was taken for needs of local people. Unable to attend, Jo Gooley had volunteered to represent the Catholic Churc...
Alexis Taylor Hodge was born at Kadlec Medical Center in Richland, Washington on October 8, 2013 weighing in at 4 pounds 15 ounces and 17 inches. Hodge is the daughter of Jonathon and Shannon Hodge of Kennewick. Grandparents include Kevin and Brenda Blair of Davenport and Gary and Kristi Finck of Odessa. Paternal great-grandparents include Stanley Banks of Spokane and Michael and Cecelia Hodge of Kihei, Hawaii. Maternal great-randparents include Curtis Finck, Ramona and Earl...
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, Nov. 11: A Harrington man reported hearing "strange noises coming through his wires and showerhead" at his residence in the 400 block of Main Street and thought the source "might be a neighbor playing a...
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, Nov. 4: Shortly after the owner of llamas in the Redwine Canyon area reported them missing, a man called in to report that he found llamas in a field across from his home on Nelson Road East. A motorist...
Sam Mullins was born in 1961, the son of Ruby Music and Toby Mullins. He grew up in Packwood and Randall in southwest Washington. His father was a logging truck driver. We laughed about a caption I once saw on a photo in the newspaper of a logging truck that had spilled logs on the highway. "How much wood can a wood truck chuck?" it read. Even though his father was 15 years older than his mother, they died within two weeks of one another about 25 years ago. He was not surprise...
Students tour missile site north of Harrington Michael Cronrath, instructor of Current World History and World War II and the Cold War, took nine of his students on Friday, Oct 18th, to Peter Davenport's missile site. Mike Perry and Tony Hamilton accompanied the group for the one-and-a-half-hour tour. Since Cronrath's classes had been studying the beginning of the nuclear age and the opportunity availed itself, arrangements were made for the trip. The students, aged 15 to 18,...
Growth and progress were in the minds of almost everyone in the fall of 1960. The town’s population had reached an all-time high. A home building boom was continuing. Downtown, new businesses were opening. Also prominent on page was announcement of plans for the nursing home in Odessa as part of a $314,000 expansion program of Odessa Memorial Hospital. The Odessa Convalescent Center was opened in 1963. Here is The Record’s report appearing 53 years ago this week: The Odessa Memorial Hospital administrator, speaking to mem...
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, Oct. 28: A Davenport man reported that his bank had alerted him about the attempted unauthorized use of his credit card to purchase security equipment in India. The credit card had been used to purchase fuel...
The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners announced the 2013 Rural Development Fund grant awards at its regular meeting Tuesday, November 5. n $20,000 was awarded to the Odessa Chamber of Commerce for its WSDA-certified commercial community kitchen within the Odessa Community Center. n $20,000 was also awarded to the City of Davenport for a restroom/concession facility for the Field of Dreams Sports Complex. n $15,000 was awarded to the Harrington Opera House Society for sidewalk improvements, including ADA-compliant ramp...
The Odessa School Board met Wednesday, October 23, for its regular monthly meeting, with board members engaging in a workshop just prior to the meeting to review board policies. Bi-County Professional development On October 4, area teachers and para-professionals participated in a Bi-county regional professional development day, where National Principle of the Year, Trevor Green from Toppenish, presented the keynote address. Each school district gave a presentation on programs they were proud of and wanted to share. Odessa...
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, Oct. 21: Corrections deputies had to deal with an assault involving two male inmates who had been arguing with each other. A woman gave deputies "a stack of paperwork" regarding an alleged trespassing...
Reported in The Record 37 years ago was an occasion of considerable significance to Odessa Post #7395 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars– its members had burned the mortgage. The event had taken place at the annual Veterans Day dinner in the V.F.W. Hall. It signified the final payment of $1,000 on the V.F.W. Building, previously named the Finney Building, one of the oldest structures in downtown Odessa. D.M. Hemmerling, a signer of the original mortgage on the building with Mr. and Mrs. Al Wagner, Bob Lubold Jr., V.F.W. c...
By MARJORIE WOMACH Saturday morning three professors from EWU and some of their students congregated at the Harrington Memorial Hall with members of the Harrington Historic Preservation Commission and community leaders for a preliminary explanation of the goals for the day. Mayor Paul Gilliland welcomed the guests to Harrington and spoke briefly, and participated with one of the groups for the entire day. Teresa Brum, Urban Revitalization instructor, Margo Hill, Community Development teacher, and Dick Winchell, chairman of th...
The Odessa-Harrington Titan Athletic Booster Club dinner and auction is this Saturday, October 26, at the Odessa Community Center. Happy hour starts at 5:30, with a steak dinner to be served at 6 p.m. and the auction beginning at 7:30. The event is held annually and its location alternates between the two towns. Proceeds from the event are used to purchase uniforms and equipment for the various sports teams participating as Titans under the Odessa-Harrington cooperative agreement. Items in the auction include: A Titan...
The Odessa Record stood the expense of bringing a sales expert to town to boost the spirits of businessmen and merchants. “The Odessa commercial Club will give the entire membership a chance to meet John W. Allen, of Seattle, head of the sales service department of the Washington Press Association. “Mr. Allen is said to be a rapid fire, interesting and entertaining talker. He is a sales expert, and his work consists principally in teaching merchants and sales forces the fundamentals necessary in modern merchandising.” The Rec...
KSPS to air broadcast about Harrington Opera House Scott McKinnon and Bill Fitzner, camera man, of KSPS TV came to Harrington Wednesday morning, Oct 9, and met with Gordon and Billie Herron, Linda Wagner, Ed Haugan, Bonnie Hardy and Marge Womach. The group toured the 1904 Bank Block building that contains the Harrington Opera House. Each room of the edifice was investigated and discussed in terms of past usage and present plans. Upstairs in the opera house proper many photographs were taken of the stage, the backdrops, and...
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, Oct. 7: A collision involving a vehicle and deer occurred on SR 28 about three miles north of Harrington. Two dozer batteries were among items missing from a railroad worksite on the Old Sprague Highway near...
An air show was the highlight of the dedication of Odessa’s new airport 62 years ago. The runway had been extended by an additional 1,000 feet, a large parking area had been put in beside the runway and a four-airplane hangar had been built. Application had been made for landing lights at the field, and a new windsock had been acquired. The Rev. R.H. Satterfield, president of the Odessa Flying Club, was in charge of the dedication program, presiding over the air show and delivering the address during the airport d...
Odessa-area women were treated to their 12th annual evening of medical information, dinner and camaraderie on Wednesday, October 9, as the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center and Odessa Healthcare Foundation joined forces to put on an event dubbed “An Evening in Paris.” Odessa Clinic manager Barb Schlimmer spearheaded the event, and as in past years, the basement of Heritage Church was filled to capacity (attendance was 106). Blood pressure checks were available, as were fre...
Frank and Leo Guth were among Odessa’s first business operators. Just as the town was incorporated in 1902, several new businesses opened to make Odessa a full service center. Among them were the flour mill, built and operated by Portland Flouring Mills; the Odessa mercantile, later to become the long-running Michaelsen & Koth general store, and the Odessa Hardware & Implement Company, founded by the Guths. Some of Odessa’s pioneer wheat growers were major stockholders in the Guth’s firms, which sold shelf hardware, farm...
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, Sept. 30: A truck was observed hauling an oversized boat without appropriate signage on SR 25 about 17 miles north of Davenport. Windy conditions forced a brief interruption of service for the Keller ferry....
David Michaelson, a writer residing in Harrington has received word that two of his books have won medals awarded by the Military Writer's Society of America. His young readers book, Butterfly Dust took the Gold Medal. The story of his twelfth summer, Rapscallion Summer, was awarded the Silver Medal for humor. David's latest book, The Adventures of Gopher Piddington (along with all his books) is now available at the Davenport Times office, The Ritzville Art Center, Cow Creek Mercantile and through major online booksellers....
Harrington Celebrates in the Rain The revived and historic Huff ‘N’ Puff race added to Harrington’s Fall Festival brought out tremendous support in spite of the weather forecast. Steady rain, ranging from light mist to outright downpour, suspended promptly at 8:45 a.m., just as Ron Mielke was approaching the starting line. Manning the entry table were Betty Warner, Jordyn Tanke (FBLA president and daughter of Alan and Kelli Tanke), Madison Charlton (FBLA treasurer and son o...
