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DAVENPORT--Northeast 2B athletic directors elected today to push back the start of most fall sports to Feb. 15, a two-week delay from the previously planned Feb.1, after COVID-19 numbers in the East region failed to indicate that the region would be in "Phase 2" of Gov. Jay Inslee's state re-opening plan. Football will "hopefully" start five days earlier, on Feb. 10, Reardan co-athletic director Eric Nikkola said, as 10 football practices must occur before games can begin. Other league fall sports are cross country,...
DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Health Public Administrator Ed Dzedzy and other county health staff often receive calls from residents asking when they can receive the Moderna vaccine aimed at preventing COVID-19 infection. Giving those callers a clear answer is difficult, however, because the department now is not sure how many doses the county will receive from the state on a weekly basis until the Friday prior. This has created a frustrating situation for Dzedzy and his staff, he shared with the Lincoln County Commissioners a...
DAVENPORT – A few hundred yards north of the baseball fields off McInnis Road on the northeast side of town lie four sewer lagoons on premises the city uses as spray irrigation for sewer lagoon water. The lagoons are staggered in elevation. Chemicals are put in the top lagoon, and the water flows from one to the other. The roughly 75-acre area now needs a new farmer to partner with the city through a public contract to maintain and farm the land in exchange for the ability t...
DAVENPORT – The Lincoln County Commissioners heard a proposal for administering a tourism tax in 2021 from Margie Hall, director of the Economic Development Council, at the commissioner’s Jan. 19 meeting. The tax, which the county has partnered with the EDC in some form for the last 10 years to administer, would be aimed at increasing tourism in town in 2021. Traditionally and theoretically, 2% of the 8% sales tax the county receives from tourism activities is used for tourism, commissioner Scott Hutsell said. Hall gave a d...
DAVENPORT-The school district here is one of 12 districts statewide participating in a COVID-19 rapid testing pilot program, where staff members voluntarily test themselves using a swab and receive results within 24 hours of the swabs arriving at a lab. The process involves a few coughs and the ability to summon saliva. "Our district is one of 12 school districts that have been recently selected by the Washington State Department of Health to participate in a state-funded COVI...
Douglas William Roller, 67, of Odessa, Wash., passed away Saturday January 2, 2021, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Wash. He was born Dec. 10, 1953, in Wenatchee, Wash., to William and Esther Roller. He attended Odessa High School, graduating in 1972. Doug is survived by his wife, Sue; three children, Dustin (Terri) Roller, T.J. (Deidre) Roller and Nicole Roller; one sister, Lynnae (Dan) Sowers; nine grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. He is also survived by Marie Gettman, a longtime family friend. Following...
DAVENPORT--Many high school sports leagues around the state are making their own decisions about how to proceed with fall sports, which the WIAA had tentatively planned for Feb. 1. Today, the Northeast 2B League decided to aim to start all fall sports that day, with the possibility of another delay coming. Reardan co-athletic director Eric Nikkola, who took part in a league-wide athletic director's meeting, said that a final decision on whether to start Feb. 1 will come Jan. 2...
DAVENPORT-The Lincoln County Health Department received 200 more doses of the Moderna vaccine aimed at preventing infection of COVID-19 Jan. 11. It is a beginning-of-the-week trend the department hopes will continue, and grow, on a weekly basis as the fight to curb the virus continues. "We hope to receive even more than that each week eventually," Health Department Public Administrator Ed Dzedzy said. 700 vaccine doses have arrived in the county so far. 100 of those doses are...
OLYMPIA--Davenport native and Christian Heritage graduate Josh Regan (above) was one of the Washington State Patrol troopers standing guard late Sunday night at the state Capitol in advance of the opening of the legislative session....
DAVENPORT—High winds swept across Eastern Washington the night of Jan. 12 and throughout Jan. 13, creating power outages and felled trees across several counties. Lincoln County hadn’t been blustered as hard as Spokane County by press time, but effects were still felt. The school district here closed to in-person learning Jan. 13. The district asked students on its Facebook page to check in with teachers by 10 a.m. to get work done, if possible. Meanwhile, the Reardan-Edwall School District has gone remote through at lea...
DAVENPORT—A country glued to the news sat in stunned silence on Jan. 6, as a pro-President Donald Trump far-right extremist mob rushed the Capitol building as Congress and Vice President Mike Pence convened to read the results the electoral vote of Dec. 14 that certified the 2020 general election results confirming Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as president-elect and vice president-elect. Rioters broke into the Senate rotunda, with one man famously dressed like a buffalo sitting in Pence’s seat. (The vice pre...
DAVENPORT-- The Lincoln County Economic Development Council has closed the books on 2020, ending a year that did not go as planned. Due to the pandemic, the EDC set aside previously scheduled projects and focused their attention on obtaining and utilizing Coronavirus Relief Funds. Since Governor Inslee’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order took effect in March, the EDC has facilitated over $700,000 in grant awards. The federal CARES Act provided for Coronavirus Relief Fund payments to state and local governments to combat the e...
DAVENPORT-Kody Becker was promoted to the role of chief criminal deputy for the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department's command staff team effective New Year's Day, Sheriff Wade Magers announced via a social media post Jan. 7. Kody has many years of experience and is extremely knowledgeable with quality leadership and investigative skills," Magers wrote. "I am proud to promote Kody and know he will do an outstanding job serving you and representing our office with class and...
Long time Medical Lake resident, Rosalie C. Williamsen, 91, passed away peacefully in her sleep Jan. 2, 2021 and joined her husband, Rev. Stanley Williamsen in heaven. Rosalie was born in August of 1929 in Edinburg, ND to parents Amund and Helen Nygard. At age 16, Rosalie graduated high school from Hillcrest Academy in Fergus Falls, MN. Following graduation, she moved to Seattle to attend the Lutheran Bible Institute and be near her sister Arlett. She met and married Stanley...
LUITEN, M. Robert (Age 93), passed away January 8, 2021 in Davenport, WA his home Davenport, WA. Bob was born on December 3, 1927 in Rathdrum, ID to Jacob and Martha Luiten. The family moved to the Davenport area where Bob attended school and graduated from Davenport High School. Bob married Irene Reinbold on April 2, 1948 in Davenport, WA and they raised their four children until Irene passed away in 1994. Bob later married Phyllis Reed Stuckle on March 16, 1996 in Davenport...
Compiled by Georgia Smith of The Times In the Past January 11th, 1951 70 years ago Army Decorates Sgt. Carl Olsen Was Killed in Action In Korean Battle Sgt. 2/C Carl C. Olsen son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Olsen of Creston, has been awarded posthumously the army’s Silver Star Metal for bravery. Sgt. Olsen was killed September 19 while serving with the United States Second infantry division on the Persan perimeter front in Korea. Only Two weeks before his death, Sgt. Olsen was awarded the Bronze Star medal. He was a veteran o...
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. January 3 Traffic stops: 3 A Reardan man reported that a black Ford F-150 hit a power pole. The driver was out of the vehicle and awaiting a response. A male subject wearing flannel was reported to be walking aro...
DAVENPORT-Drew Lawson, formerly a reporter for the Davenport Times and Cheney Free Press, is now editor of The Davenport Times full-time. Local readers may recognize Lawson's name, as he has reported on Reardan news, Lincoln County prep sports and other community/news items for the Times part-time since June 2020. Lawson, of Cheney, will now be concentrated solely on bringing reliable, community-oriented coverage to Davenport, Reardan and the rest of the Times' readership. "I...
DAVENPORT-The explanation of where solid waste goes after being dropped off at the Lincoln County Transfer station is fairly straightforward: It is loaded onto a train, transported to Spokane and then redirected to Roosevelt Regional Landfill in Klickitat County. However, where does the recycled material go? The answer depends on what type of material is in play. Scrap metal "usually" goes to Schnitzer Steel Industries, which has locations the transfer station gives the metal...
DAVENPORT—Scotty Duane Maiden, 30, of Davenport, and Michelle Leigh Hopkins, 47, of Davenport, were booked into Lincoln County Jail on Dec. 29 on charges of dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the 1st and 2nd degree and possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the 1st and 2nd degree. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received information from the Internet Crimes Against Children, who track cases regarding sexually explicit images of minors on the int...
The calendar has flipped, and a new year is facing Davenport and Reardan. The Times spoke with Davenport mayor Brad Sweet and Reardan mayor Gail Daniels to discuss their cities and towns looking to 2021. Sweet: Locals hopes 2021 is "return to normal" City residents would prefer that 2021 brings a return to life as normal: A time where businesses are open, people can gather and community events can bring locals together. That was the sentiment shared by mayor Brad Sweet when...
Hello readers of The Times. You may know me as Drew, the scrawny, 14-year-old-looking reporter who has been covering Reardan news and education, Lincoln County preps sports and miscellaneous news and community features over the last seven or so months. You may know me from before that as sports editor and co-managing editor of Eastern Washington University’s student newspaper, The Easterner. And you may know me from before that if you are related to me. For local readers, t...
Canfield, Carl Makepeace: (1932-2020); Carl was born on January 31, 1932 in Davenport, Washington, the son of Carlton L and Verna M Canfield. Carl spent his youth at the family farm located between Harrington and Davenport. When Carl was 8 years old, he was afflicted by polio, which resulted in his right leg being slightly shorter than his left. However, to Carl this was simply an inconvenience and he did not allow it to affect his life. His attitude was an inspiration to all...
In the Past Compiled by Georgia Smith for The Times January 4th, 1951 70 Years ago New Year Storm Lashes Region The New Year came to Davenport bringing with it the winter’s first storm. The area was buffeted Tuesday by winds of upward to 40 miles an hour which drifted the some six inches of snow that fell and threatened to close roads. The high winds caused minor damage to electrical service and telephone lines. Drifts and poor visibility made roads between Davenport and Reardan virtually impassable at mid-morning Tuesday, 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. December 27 Traffic stops: 21 A driver was cited and released for failure to transfer a vehicle title. An elderly church goer was assisted in navigating icy paths on the way to church. A caller reported that her hus...
