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Odessa Schools Superintendent The administration and school board are committed to having an agriculture education program in Odessa that meets the needs of our students now and for their future. The biggest issue that we are trying to solve is to find a traditionally certified agriculture education teacher. We will continue to look for a teacher but are not optimistic about our chances. We can solve this problem and offer agriculture education in the next school year if we can find someone who can be “conditionally certified...
The Odessa School Board met May 27 in the high school library. Three students taking the Advanced Science Research class each presented a brief description of the work they performed this school year. Johnathon Brightwell described his research on finding a cheaper, less environmentally toxic substance for rocket fuel. He is working with a professor at Eastern Washington University on his research. Elizabeth Larson described her research on the relationship of price to UV protection level provided by sunglasses. Her research...
Paul J. Kuch passed away April 14, 2015 in Odessa. He was born December 7, 1943 in Odessa to Richard and Anna (Hemmerling) Kuch. He grew up in Odessa and attended school, graduating from Odessa High School, and also attended Whitworth College for a short time. Paul married Linda Barker on June 3, 1972 in Spokane, and they made their home in Odessa. Paul farmed for many years, drove school bus and later worked for the Adams County Road Dept., where he worked until he retired....
At the Odessa School Board meeting April 22, principal Jamie Nelson reported that state SBAC testing for all grades 3-8, 10 and 11 in English, Math and Science has begun. Scheduling is difficult due to the fact that testing is completed via computer. Nelson complimented Bev Scherr on her hard work leading up to testing. By watching webinar after webinar to learn how to register students, train teachers, create testing windows for kids and select tests, she then had to watch updated webinars when the state testing system...
The annual Odessa Healthcare Foundation Wine Tasting and Auction would not be successful without the many donations from the employees of the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center, as well as other individuals and businesses of Odessa and the surrounding area. Many talented artisans have generously donated handcrafted items to the 24th annual Odessa Healthcare Foundation Wine Tasting and Auction. This is by no means a complete list, but just a sampling of what you will find at both the silent and live auction Friday, May 1,...
Meeting March 25, the members of the Odessa School Board accepted the resignation of bus driver Mandy Smith and approved overnight travel for FFA trapshooting in Wenatchee and for the state science fair in Bremerton. On second reading, the board approved policies dealing with Co-curricular Programs (2150), Interscholastic Athletics (2151), Student Conduct (3240), Students and Telecommunication Devices (3245), Automated External Defibrillators /AEDs (3412), Medication at School (3416), Response to Student Injury or Illness...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record March 25, 1915 Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Rieke drove to Davenport yesterday afternoon in the Rieke auto to visit with Mrs. Wm. U. Neeley and little daughter, Wilma, who have been seriously ill this week with typhoid fever. John Geile, Jr., of Odessa, has been awarded $300 by the Great Northern railway company for damages received when struck by a train at a railway crossing in Odessa. The Odessa Hardware and Implement company delivered a Buick touring car last Saturday to C.T. Deets and another to...
Neil N. Lobe was born on March 20, 1950 in Ritzville to Leo and Viola Lobe. He grew up in Odessa and graduated from Odessa High School in 1968; he then attended college and graduated with a degree in mechanics. Neil married Colleen Haase on September 3, 1970 in Odessa. The couple raised their two children Penny and Landon on the family farm. They farmed for 44 years west of Odessa. Neil passed away on March 9, 2015 at his home in Odessa. He is survived by his wife Colleen at the home, son Landon (and Deanna) Lobe and...
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, Feb. 23: Someone knocked over the “click it or ticket” sign on the east end of Reardan. Responding to the 300 block of C Street, Sprague ambulance personnel assisted a local woman who thought...
At the school board meeting held January 28, school superintendent Suellen White read Governor Jay Inslee's proclamation that January be School Board Recognition month. Each board member received a certificate in recognition. Board action The board approved the resignation of Heath Voise as assistant football coach. The board approved required changes in policies dealing with students with disabilities; highly capable program; homeless students' rights and services;...
“As the new 4-H and FFA year is starting again, it is time to consider Farm Service Agency to financially assist in 4-H and FFA youth loan projects,” says Libby Anderson, Farm Loan Manager. FSA has established a great network with local 4-H and FFA leaders, local fairs, auctioneers and other to make this a successful program. FSA Youth Loans have become very popular as proven by the repeat youth loan borrowers year after year. FSA youth loan participants must remember to be responsible for the day-to-day care of their ani...
April The Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW) and the Livestock Producers Cooperative Association (LPCA) held their annual meeting in the Odessa Community Center. The two organizations worked diligently to make the livestock processing facility at the Odessa Industrial Park a reality, and the meeting celebrated their progress. Darren Summers, plant manager, said the plant had faced many challenges during its startup phase, including a three-week period in which no livestock was processed due to replacement of the floors...
Saturday morning, with great anticipation a small crowd waited at the Harrington Opera House lobby for the sixth annual pre-Christmas visit of Santa, whose arrival was heralded by the sirens of the fire truck that provided transportation while Santa's reindeer were feeding at the wide spot on Crab Creek near Harrington. From 10 a.m. to noon, twenty-two sittings for photos occurred with an elf-like lady in a grand vintage-style dress dispensing the bags of candy treats...
12 years ago From the Odessa Record November 16, 1939 Meetings were held in all the towns in Lincoln county to discuss the farm program for 1940. The importance of going into the program was explained: At the present time the world supply of wheat is two billion bushels more than at the beginning of the world war in 1914 and that after harvest in 1939 the Liverpool price was lower than it had been in the last 400 years. If there is no farm program in this country, it is the Liverpool price which must rule our west coast...
Katelyn Worley is a senior at Odessa High School and plays volleyball. She belongs to FFA and loves hunting and snowboarding. Katelyn’s parents are Mark Worley and Scotty Lanning....
The Odessa School Board, meeting October 22, 2014, heard from junior-high math teacher Larry Weber on the activities of the Odessa-Harrington Athletic Booster Club. The Booster Club has raised almost $90,000 since it began. It has used $66,914 of these funds on promotional activities, award celebrations for athletes, camps, facility and equipment donations, food at games for athletes, gifts, a digital sign for Harrington, mascot apparel, medical kits, peewee sports, repairs, sponsorships, scholarships, support for teams going...
The Odessa School Board met on September 24 for their regular monthly meeting to approve the resignations of Sam Read as golf coach and Rachel Roberts as assistant junior-high girls basketball coach, a salary rider adjustment in Julie Wehr’s contract, naming Terri King as Senior College Advisor, Ellen Holman as Senior Class Advisor, Ben Burbank as the FFA advisor and Landon Lobe as a volunteer trap shoot advisor. Principal Jamie Nelson told the board about upcoming homecoming activities planned for the week beginning O...
In the Fest supplement published last week as part of The Odessa Record, Tianna Gies was misidentified due to a reporter error. She is the granddaughter of Ruth Gies. Due to incorrect informationi supplied by the Lincoln County Fair, Marcus King was listed as having the overall grand champion market steer. That honor went instead to Colby Sooy of Odessa, the son of Tom and Megan Walter of Odessa, and King had the overall reserve grand champion market steer. Sooy had the FFA grand champion and King the 4-H grand champion. The...
Also missing from last week’s group picture were Caleb Singer, Morgan Lewis and Porter Whitmore. Max Greenwalt and Colby Sooy are FFA members and are not in 4-H. Jakob Starkel is a member of neither 4-H nor FFA and was merely an observer at the fair. The unidentified little girl in the picture is Laren Nelson, a great niece of Steve and Sally Siegel and a cousin to Caleb, Bradly and Macey Singer....
Colton Messer of Marlin won a blue ribbon for his booth containing a bee exhibit. Melloney Deife of Odessa won a special award for her Cutos of Pink poster In Herdsmanship, the Beef Barn won in the Large Animal category and the Poultry Barn won in the Small Animal category. In the Round Robin competition, Bradly Singer of Odessa won the 4-H Jr. Large Animal trophy, David Eldridge the 4-H Int. Small Animal trophy and David Hayashi the Open, Small Animal trophy. Beef Showing...
Peter Adam Weber passed away peacefully at the home of his daughter on July 9, 2014, in Mapleton, Utah. He was 89 years old. He was born on the family farm near Ritzville, Washington on May 11, 1925 to John and Lucy Weber. He was the fifth of 10 children. He grew up on a wheat farm near the community of Packard. He attended school in a small schoolhouse near the farm and graduated from Ritzville High School in 1943. He participated in several sports while in high school and wa...
What started out July 22 as a request to LCWLFPN by local dog trainer Kay Frazier asking if a bearded collie, featured on KREM TV as Spokanimal’s Pick of the Litter was still needing a home, has turned into so much more. What is meant to help one, oft times helps many. This has been evident so often for LCWLFPN in its first year as a pending non-profit, that it has been added to the motto. Events unfolded quickly last week in Davenport, once it was determined that Andy, a 10-month-old bearded collie featured last week as S...
The Odessa School Board held a budget workshop prior to the regular monthly meeting on July 23. The regular meeting opened with a budget hearing which produced no public comment. Under old business, the board approved Ken Schutz’s resignation as K-12 principal, three additional days for the superintendent for 2013-2014 and hired Jamie Nelson as the new P-12 principal for Odessa Schools, the salary schedule for the union-exempt employees. The board also hired Tim Hauge as the new bus driver, Jeff Nelson as the high-school a...
Odessa principal Ken Schutz and Harrington principal Jacob Bang have both accepted positions elsewhere for the coming academic year. Bang, whose wife has relatives in Ephrata, has accepted the 6-12 principal’s job at Soap Lake. Schutz will be heading to Ferris High School in Spokane. According to Schutz’s wife Lea Ann, her husband was not looking to relocate and was happy with his position at the school and his home in Odessa. However, he was invited out of the blue to interview for the principal’s position at Ferris and f...
