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The Odessa and Harrington FFA chapters held their annual banquet in May, where new officers were elected, awards were given, and senior members received their FFA graduation cords....
The first-year FFA member team from Odessa placed ninth out of 76 teams (not 45 as stated in last week’s newspaper)....
Odessa's FFA eighth-grade First-Year Member Team made a presentation to the board on their project involving improvements to the ag department's greenhouse. They placed ninth out of 45 teams at the state FFA competition in Pullman. Members of the Odessa FFA Food Science Team also told the board about their participation at State FFA. FFA advisor Erica Whitmore asked the board to consider giving approval to overnight stays at the national FFA convention to be held in...
Students in the Odessa FFA Chapter and in the school’s agriculture courses have been very busy attending the State FFA Convention and preparing for their annual banquet. It was held Sunday, June 1, in the school multipurpose room as a joint effort between the Odessa and Harrington FFA Chapters. Students were recognized for their involvement in Career Development Events throughout the 2013-2014 school year. Students participated in Creed, First-Year Member Team, Food Science, Dairy Foods, Potato Judging, Prepared Speaking, E...
Teacher Grace Moeller and her 5th- and 6th-grade students mixed horticulture and civics when they transplanted flowers grown by Erica Whitmore's FFA horticulture class. The group met behind the Memorial Hall where the students learned to successfully remove the plants from their growth containers and place them into planters donated by local businesses and the city in previous years. The students learned that the plants will now survive with soil, sun and water. The most...
The Odessa FFA Chapter and Agriculture course students have been very busy attending the Spokane Jr. Livestock Show, gearing up for the Washington State FFA Convention, and preparing for their annual banquet. Sixteen FFA members from Odessa and Harrington exhibited their animals in the Market Quality and Fitting and Showing classes at The Spokane Jr. Livestock Show, May 6 –11. The students received purple, blue and red ribbons on their Supervised Agriculture Experience p...
It's official. The kitchen in the Odessa Community Center is now a USDA-certified commercial kitchen thanks to a year-long community effort spearheaded by Lindsy Starkel overseeing the project funded in part by the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, grant monies and individual donations. At its noon meeting Tuesday, the Odessa Chamber members present were informed of the kitchen's new status. Chamber president Marcus Horak said there were some minor fixes still to be completed on various pieces of equipment in the kitchen, but that...
The trapshoot held in Odessa Saturday as part of the Spring Fling activities was an Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA)sanctioned event. Nine teams were drawn to town on a day when rain threatened but never developed and wind was a constant bother. Odessa Gun Club member Landon Lobe told The Record that 13 or 14 teams would have been optimum in terms of having the local club make a little income, but he was happy nonetheless that those who turned out were having a good time. The Odessa High School FFA chapter sold...
At its April 23 meeting, the Odessa School Board approved contracts for the 2014-2015 academic year for all certificated teachers currently employed. It also approved the hiring of a new Kindergarten teacher recommended by the hiring committee, Jill Larson. Larson currently teaches in Wilson Creek but applied for the open Odessa position in order to join the faculty where her husband, Odessa third-grade teacher Tim Larson, also teaches. The Larsons also have their home in Odessa. The Kindergarten job became available when...
Old-fashioned plowing took place April 12-13 at the Keith and Leanna Schafer farm, where participants from Washington and Idaho brought teams of mules and horses to demonstrate how old-time farm equipment (plow and harrow) was used to work a field. The Odessa and Harrington FFA Chapters served lunch (sponsored by the Odessa Alumni Association) on Saturday and Sunday of the event, earning funds to support their Jr. Livestock Show projects. The two chapters also took in...
April 2, the Harrington Chamber of Commerce met at noon with Cassandra Paffle-Dick, Kathy Hoob, Cindy Haase, Sharon Nighswonger, Bunny Haugan and Marge Womach present. Discussion was held regarding the Lions Club's project of new picnic tables for the Harrington City Park. The chamber seemed to favor contributing to this project. They also wanted to look into a banner for the automobile for the Harrington Royalty which is a project organized by the Homemaker's Club. The...
The Farm Service Agency makes loans to youths to establish and operate income-producing agricultural projects in connection with 4-H clubs, FFA and other agricultural groups. Projects must be planned and operated with the help of the organization advisor, produce sufficient income to repay the loan and provide the youth with practical business and educational experience. The maximum loan amount is $5,000. The current April interest rate is 2 percent. Eligibility requirements: n Be a citizen of the United States (which...
At its March 26 meeting, the Odessa School Board approved the hiring of Tommy Galloway as assistant high school baseball coach and Tyson Linstrum as head junior high baseball coach and Lindsy Starkel as the new library paraprofessional to replace a retiring Apryl Wraspir, as well as overnight travel for the state FFA trapshooting team. The board approved the purchase and installation of carpet in the elementary and junior high hallways and in the preschool classroom. Transportation White presented the bus bids obtained by...
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.” - Wayne Gretzky From the ordering take-out, to choosing a baby name, we have all come to a point in our lives when we have been faced with a choice. I have seen too many people always choosing the same thing, the same methods, the same path they travel every time. It pains me to see so few people who are willing to try new things. One of these things is “the usual”. When I go out to eat or see a character on TV and they ask for “the usual”, it bothers me probably m...
On May 6 - 11, Harrington and Odessa FFA members will exhibit and sell the animals they have been raising for their SAE projects; the two chapters will take 13 hogs (Katelyn Worley, Steven Braun, Dylan Shockley, Joey Buell, Isabelle Phillips, Lanessa Simon, Derek and Jacob Montgomery, James Mann, William Mann), three steers (Max, Greenwalt, Caleb Singer, William Mann), two goats (Samantha Nighswonger) and five lambs (MaKayla Baird, Alexis Burdick, and Debra Armstrong). FFA members who will attend the Spokane Jr. Livestock...
The Odessa School Board met February 26, following a workshop to consider different superintendent evaluation options. Odessa High School senior Kimberly Nelson gave a practice speech to board members that she had prepared for FFA competition. She was commended by the board for her speech in terms of both its content and delivery. Personnel The board approved the retirement of junior-high science teacher Sam Read and librarian Apryl Wraspir at the conclusion of the school year. Also approved as coaches for spring sports were...
“Without labor, neither knowledge nor wisdom can accomplish much.” -FFA opening ceremonies, Advisor In my pursuit of happiness I have found that, in great part, the aspect of that pursuit which has brought the most toil, yet by far the most satisfaction, is the collection of knowledge. Within every category of knowledge, there is so much to be known that there never will be a single being alive who can acquire every bit of fact about it. Thus, knowledge is never-ending. We can know nothing, yet we can never know everything. W...
The Odessa and Harrington FFA Chapters and Agriculture courses have been very busy attending and preparing for events. District 9 kicked off their Career Development Events (CDEs) Monday, February 3, in Wilson Creek where students competed in Sub-District Creed and Job Interview. Job Interview is where FFA members are scored on their resume and cover letter prior to the event; and at the event they are interviewed on their chosen agricultural career. Odessa participants were,...
Odessa and Harrington FFA students traveled together to the Ag Expo held in Spokane February 4, 5 and 6. More than 50 students and chaperones attended the event, which also included displays by area vendors and visitors from throughout the rural area....
This year's Ag Expo in Spokane was well attended by Odessa and Harrington area farmers and business people, as well as the FFA chapters from both the Odessa and Harrington School Districts. Odessa's FBLA chapter also shared the spotlight by winning an award for their project partnering with the Ag Expo organizers (as highlighted in last week's issue of The Record). Implement dealers such as the Odessa Trading Company division of the Ritzville Warehouse and Walter Implement...
lunteers are the heartbeat of our community. These unsung heroes just show up to help and assist with all of the various behind-the-scenes activities that we so often take for granted. In a perfect world, lots of people would all help out a little. But we all know that in the real world it doesn't work that way. Especially in small towns, a small core group of familiar faces do 90 percent of the work. Justin Parr is one of those people. At Saturday night's New Years Eve Chamber party he was bestowed with the award for...
Volunteers are the heartbeat of our community. These unsung heroes just show up to help and assist with all of the various behind-the-scenes activities that we so often take for granted. In a perfect world, lots of people would all help out a little. But we all know that in the real world it doesn't work that way. Especially in small towns, a small core group of familiar faces do 90 percent of the work. Justin Parr is one of those people. At Saturday night's New Years Eve Cham...
Each of the seven rural libraries in Adams and Lincoln counties has received extra materials on their shelves due to a grant administered by the Washington State Library, and the efforts of Carolyn Peterson, Assistant Program Manager at the State Library (carolyn.petersen@sos.wa.gov). The Washington State Library is a division of the Office of Secretary of State. "We at the State Library are very pleased to give the CLRS grants to help these libraries grow their collections...
The Harrington City Council met Wednesday evening with all council members present. Much of the evening was spent on the budget for the upcoming year. Resolution 2013-190 for a sales tax levy to increase the property tax was passed with a vote of 4-1. Other discussion topics included repair of the sidewalk at the Hotel Lincoln (which the owner previously stated that won't be done until spring); street repairs; a letter from librarian Vivienne Schultz recommending Stacey Rasmussen to be on the library board (voted 5-0 in...
