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City Council The Harrington City Council met August 10 with the full council present: Mike Cronrath, Justin Slack, Peter Davenport, Levi Schenk and Rick Becker, city clerk Bunny Haugan, maintenance supervisor Scott McGowan, and visitors Celeste Miller, Sharon Schultz, Sharon Alumbaugh, Dan Fromm, Paul Charlton and Marge Womach. Celeste Miller, Harrington Historic Preservation Commission chair, described the Preservation Commission's current project, the proposed restoration...
Some additonal pictures of the destruction caused by the recent Irby and Black Rock Road fires have been provided to The Record by Teresa Iksic and Stan Dammel. Since The Record is able to run color this week, we have included a color picture on the front page of one of the recent fires. More color pictures are available at The Record's website at www.odessarecord.com. High temperatures and dry conditions mean that brush fires large and small continue to keep area...
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, Aug. 8: Windy conditions caused a Sunday blaze near Irby Road and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks to flare up, requiring Odessa firefighters to return to the scene. Responding...
Water fountain In January of 1990, Phyllis Mann requested permission of the city council to purchase and present the city with a lovely water fountain which would be dedicated to the memory of her husband, Art Mann, who had died in July, 1989. In April 1990, Joe Forkner (city employee) informed the council that the new 30-inch high drinking fountain would be installed on the north side of the (old) restrooms. Due to its original location, it had come into disrepair. Recently...
1 years ago The Odessa Record August 11, 1916 The interior of the Empress Theatre has been improved by the addition of a new curtain. The curtain contains advertisements of the principal business houses of the town and is the work of J.M. Deeds a scenic artist of Spokane. Cooper Bros. will be with us on Wednesday, August 16, with many new and novel features, and it can truthfully be said to be a good one, presenting so many pleasing high-class original feats, acts and wonders, making it now the best of all tented...
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, Aug. 1: Almira EMTs and Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted a 1-year-old girl who suffered cuts to her head after hitting it against an air conditioner. Responding to the local post off...
The Odessa School Board held a budget workshop in the district office at 6 p.m. on July 27, with superintendent Dan Read giving a brief overview of the revenues and expenditures budgeted for each of the funds. The board also completed Read’s evaluation and discussed goals for the next school year. Board chairman Ed Deife then opened the budget hearing at 7 p.m. in the library just prior to the regular monthly meeting. Read gave a brief overview of the 2016-17 budget proposal, handing out a 2016-17 materials, supplies and o...
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, July 25: No one was injured after a vehicle left SR 231 about four miles south of Edwall. A Mill Canyon Road resident told dispatchers she was “tired” of having to deal with a loose llama t...
Stolp visitors Dick and Bev Larson of Yakima came to city hall July 26, looking for information about the town. It didn’t take long for Ed Haugan to arrive to take them on a tour of the refurbished Harrington Opera House in the Bank Block of 1904. They were pleased to have been able to see it all. We learned from Bev that she was born and raised with her brother and sister on her father’s farm nine miles north of Sprague, near the old Pioneer Picnic Grounds. Her parents were Paul and Hazel Stolp and she came here this bus...
Harrington Nazarene Installation On July 17, Randy Craker, district pastor, installed Pastor Cade Clarke and his wife in a “Service of Covenant and Commitment.” Noteworthy were commitments made by Pastor Cade which included, “I will establish my ministry upon the Bible as the Word of God. I will be a man of prayer.” Forty or more people filled the sanctuary and many stayed for the barbecue after the service. Pastor Cade has reinstated the Wednesday evening meeting as a Bible study service and a Youth Group at 6 p.m. He is a...
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, July 18: A Creston man reported a storage unit in the 300 block of SW C Street had been broken into. A lock was cut off and the contents rummaged through, with some items stolen. A caller repo...
1 years ago The Odessa Record July 21, 1916 Back from Ellensburg: Ye editor and family returned Sunday evening from Ellensburg where they attended the thirtieth annual meeting of the Washington State Press Association, making the trip overland. Inquiries before starting as to the condition of the Vantage ferry road, received all kinds of answers from good to bad and indifferent, and making the trip proved that all were right at least in spots. With the exception, however,...
The Odessa area wheat crop is now being harvested and delivered to the town's two grain cooperatives. The Odessa Trading Company (a division of Ritzville Warehouse) received an initial load of club wheat on July 1 in the Batum area southwest of Odessa, according to marketing manager Mark Cronrath. He estimates that about 30 to 35 percent of the wheat harvest has already been delivered to the Trading Company's rural and in-town stations. Over at the Odessa Union Warehouse,...
EWU Dean’s List Graduates of Odessa High School and Harrington High School attending Eastern Washington State University have been named to the Dean’s List. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours and acheives a grade point average of 3.5 or better is placed on the Dean’s List for the quarter. Odessa: Jacob DeWulf, Koralynne Kuch, Garrison Schmierer, Marci Steinbach and Carley Williams. Harrington: Jennifer Adams and Sidney Morris. WSU President’s List Area students attending Washington State University who hav...
Opera House Society Two meetings were held Monday by the Society in the Art Room, one at 6 p.m. to discuss the October 1 Gala Event, followed by the regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Those attending were Linda Wagner, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Gordon and Billie Herron, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Carol and Marge Womach. The Society is planning a dedicatory social event to celebrate the acquisition of the elevator and the grand piano. Discussion was primarily brain-storming to set the event parameters. Wagner was selected to chair...
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, June 27: A Davenport woman reported receiving fraudulent phone calls from someone identifying themselves as with “Children’s Chance.” Aboard a house boat in the river north of Hawk Creek cam...
1 years ago Local history buffs were investigating a photo post card that had been donated to Harrington City Hall by Tom Wilson. The photo showed a portion of a parade going south on 3rd Street in Harrington. The post card had not been mailed and had no information at all on it. The old Adams and Mitchum building on the corner of 3rd and Willis could be seen showing a "Drugs" sign across the east side of the building. A portion of the Harrington Opera House could also be...
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, June 20: After a Davenport mother’s call to dispatchers about her two sons, ages 9 and 12, not returning home from the Water Park pool, a couple of deputies launched a search that ended when...
Gazebo The Harrington City Park gazebo, built in the summer of 1955 by the Lions Club, was set to be demolished this week when a group consisting of Gordon Herron, Mike Herron and members of the 4 x 4 Club contacted the Lions Club and Mayor Haas to seek to preserve the structure and gain ownership. Since the city council had authorized the Lions Club to demolish it, the Lions Club had the authority to remove it in one piece or many. It has now been relocated on the corner of 3rd and Glover, an old gas station lot now owned...
The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the high school library at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, 2016. The meeting was preceded by a half-hour workshop for the purpose of budget preparation and review of the facilities/grounds project list to be completed over the summer. It was attended by superintendent Dan Read, principal Jamie Nelson, facilities director Justin Parr and board members Ed Deife, Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Janie Steward. Following the workshop, school business manager Juli...
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, June 13: A deputy provided traffic control after a motor home towing a boat became inoperative in the middle of Hawk Creek Road at Miles Creston Road. A patrol vehicle was involved in a collis...
Memorial Flags On Flag Day and Father's Day, the new Memorial Flags were waving in the Harrington cemeteries, Hillcrest and St Francis. The Memorial Flags project was completed prior to Memorial Day, a joint effort of the Harrington Homemakers and the Lions Club. More than 66 flags were purchased. Honor flags were purchased for Mike Wines, Ed and Jacque Sewall, Bill and Pearl Floyd, and Bill and Frieda Oestreich. Some individuals received more than one memorial flag, and some...
SPOKANE, Wash. (June 9, 2016) – Northwest Farm Credit Services has awarded the Harrington PTA in Harrington, Wash., a $1,500 Northwest FCS Rural Community Grant. "The Harrington PTA was ecstatic to hear the news about receiving the Northwest FCS grant," said Kelli Tanke, Harrington's school office manager. "Our school's aging playground equipment had to be torn down because it was infested with hornets and yellow jackets. The safety of students is of utmost concern, but we s...
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, June 6: A Mondovi area resident described a man looking into the windows of a house from a patio. A woman was observed sleeping in a running vehicle parked at the U.S. 2 Telford rest are...
The monthly meeting of Opera House Society met Monday evening in the Art Room with Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Karen Robertson, Carol, Gordon Herron, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner attending. As the completion of the elevator installation is nearing, the building committee has a short list of finishing touches that will be worked on, including the state inspection of the elevator on Tuesday, chandelier controls and an air conditioner electrical fix. New carpeting has been laid where needed, and finishing...
