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Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. the Harrington Food Bank dispensed five tons of food at the Harrington Nazarene Church while God's Closet at the Harrington Community Church also had a good turnout and a great turnover of clothing which will allow their staff the space to put out a new supply of clothing that had been held in reserve. God's Closet was also open from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday with a much lesser turnout during the dust storm, but enough activity to keep it open. 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, Aug. 24: Harrington ambulance personnel assisted an elderly woman who may have suffered a stroke. Davenport ambulance personnel joined Reardan EMTs in responding to the 100 block of Maple in...
In 1883, August Bursch, Ludwig Hoffman and Gottlieb Mielke came to the Zion district without their families and established themselves sufficiently to summon their families in Minnesota anxiously awaiting the call to come west. In October, the families were reunited, and church services were held in the homes until the following summer. The edifice now known as the Zion Rocklyn United Methodist Church was the first organized church in Harrington when Rev. Adam Buehler was...
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. 17: An ambulance was sent to a residence on Aviator Lane in Grand Coulee for a man in his 90s with a medical issue. Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted a woman experiencing diz...
Free event The Harrington PTA is sponsoring a free event, an outdoor movie to be shown in front of the Harrington Elementary school, on Thursday, August 27, at 8 p.m. Drinks, goodies and popcorn will be sold at the event. Doggy Daze Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Doggy Daze will be held near the Harrington Opera House, with “dog washing” provided by Carol, as a yearly treat, and “grooming” furnished by Kristi Poteet, owner of “Me Too!”, a dog boarding and grooming business. Other activities include a moving sale...
Bridget Rohner, Lincoln County extension agent, helps out in Harrington with the summer reading program which recently concluded....
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. 10: Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted an elderly woman who fell. An individual who had a campfire going in the vicinity of Miles Creston and Hume roads north of Davenport was adv...
Harrington City Council Wednesday evening Mayor Paul Gilliland opened the city council meeting at 7:30 p.m. Those present included Peter Davenport, Levi Schenk, Mike Cronrath, Rick Becker, Bunny Haugan, Scott McGowan, Ashley Schenk, Sharon Schultz, Dick and Priscilla Derr, Justin Slack, Paul Charlton, Jay Gossett, Marge Womach, Terry and Diane Sanchez, Donita Simons, and Chris Hickman. Alan Gay had requested that the Mayor ask the council to take a straw vote for accepting or rejecting the grant from DOE for the sump pump...
DeWane Buddrius was born June 9, 1941, to Clarence and LuVerna (Weishaar) Buddrius in Odessa. After a brief battle with brain cancer, DeWane passed away on July 24, 2015, and went to his Heavenly Home. DeWane was a 1959 Harrington High School graduate. He married Carol Schultz on December 29, 1960. DeWane is survived by his wife of 54 years, Carol, daughter Juliann (Doug) Janke and son David Buddrius; grandchildren Ryan (Shannon) Janke, Stacy Buddrius, Kevin Buddrius, Janelle...
Mike Connolly passed away July 29, 2015 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. He was born July 7, 1956, in Tonopah, Nevada. He was raised in Reno, graduating from Manogue High School in 1974. Mike also attended the University of Nevada, Reno. Mike and Terry Mooney were married June 12, 1976. In 1977, Mike and Terry moved to Harrington to work on the Bly Ranch. It was there that Mike fell in love with cattle and horses. Later they moved to Odessa. Mike worked for Odessa Trading...
Summer reading ends Emma Aldrich organized the youngsters into the reading circle and began a story about Super-Hero Firemen. Bridget Rohner brought ample supplies for the 17 young super heroes to create costumes during their craft period. Masks for their eyes were colored and worn for most of the session. Rolls of foil were dispensed freely and the children used it to make protective helmets, capes for swift flight, claws for the ends of their fingers and weapons. One young l...
The Armstrong surname is familiar in the Harrington area. There were probably three W.B. Armstrongs in their family charts, but there was only one "Sleepy," whose given name was Edgar Alan Armstrong. Sleepy was a son of George Albert 'Doc' Armstrong (1857-1945) and his wife Mary Eliza Goodwin (1860-1941). George's father was a large farm owner in Texas where he also owned a store and hotel. At the end of the Civil War, G.A. was just seven years of age. In later years he could...
Harrington US Bank Building With the renewed interest in the Harrington Revitalization Plan, community members were pleased to see the work being done on the US Bank Building, originally built in 1909 for the First National Bank. The First National Bank was organized in 1908 and located in the Faulding building, directly east across the street with Pres. Harry Ochs, VP Thos H Brewer, Cashier W W Downie and four directors: J J Cameron, Grant McCann, Chas Hegele and T A Hansard. The excavation of their new building was...
HHPC The Harrington Historic Preservation group met August 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the cool of the beautiful Harrington City Park with Karen Allen, Celeste Miller, Lindsey Harder, Anita Harmon, Aileen Sweet and Margie Hall present. The sole purpose of the meeting was to review the draft from the community planning and design consultants at Studio Cascade, make corrections and return it to them with the expectation of a final draft to be received on August 10. The final draft will then be placed in a packet for the city council to...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record August 13, 1915 The commissioners of Adams County have just closed a deal for the purchase of a half section of land about a mile and a half north of Lind for the sum of $5,500, which is to be used as an experimental station and operated under the direct supervision of representatives of the agricultural department of the state college. Mr. McCall, representative of the agricultural department, is in charge of the farm. It is understood the expense of operating will be paid by the state...
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 27: No one was reported injured after two vehicles collided on SR 231 near the intersection of Little Falls Road north of Reardan. A man of about 70 years of age prompted concern in Alm...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record August 6 , 1915 The 18-day subscription contest of the Odessa Record closed last Monday evening after one of the most successful campaigns for new subscriptions ever held in this country. Miss Martha Schafer was the lucky winner of the diamond ring, and Miss Rose Lowe won the bracelet watch, each of these contestants having well up toward the million mark in votes. Maggie Deife was third, Trella Finney fourth, Hilda Schatz fifth, Emma Ruff sixth and Mrs. J.V. Ott seventh. Practically 200...
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 20: Three callers observed a man walking along Interstate 90 near Sprague carrying a guitar case. Odessa firefighters responded to a fire in a summer fallow field adjacent to Fink Roa...
Summer Reading In spite of summer vacations, Bridget Rohner has managed to keep the statistics high with the attendance this fourth week at 15 children. The group began with the reading of a story, for which the children were very attentive. The major theme this week was the five senses and the children thoroughly enjoyed the hands-on approach. Each was given a piece of paper to record their answers regarding the bottled aromas that they were sniffing. Victoria Rice helped the children with the hearing test, where the...
The wheat harvest in the Odessa area is about 90 percent complete, and as most people suspected when harvest began, the outcome has been rather dismal. Overall dryland yields were down by about 40 to 50 percent overall, according to Mark Cronrath at the Odessa Trading Company, even lower than the initial reports at the beginning of harvest. For the second year running, yields have been below average. On top of that, the dollar has been strong lately, which tends to depress wheat prices. At the Odessa Union Warehouse, Pearson...
The board approved the hiring of Kate Wenzl (Harrington’s new special education teacher) for head junior-high girls basketball coach and assistant junior-high volleyball coach and Danielle Vesneske (Odessa’s new special education teacher) as the junior-high assistant basketball coach. Both have previous experience. Football camp was held July 6-8 with 17 participants in grades 7-8 and 19 participants in grades 9-12. Boys basketball team members attended the Soap Lake basketball camp at the end of June with 15 par...
For the third week of the summer reading program, the children listened to a short story of the super-power of a dog’s nose which gives them the ability to find people lost in snow, or find drugs or explosives in the airport, or find lost children during a fire. Dogs have other super-powers that, with training, enable them to be seeing-eye dogs. Budding entomologists Cindy and Victoria Rice brought live specimens of insects in jars, while program director Bridget Rohner was well-prepared with placards depicting insects for t...
In recent issues of The Record we have shared the involved paperwork that early homesteaders had to complete and how they even had to involve their neighbors in the successful completion of the “patent” granting them the homestead. In the last issue the witness for John Unbewust was William Tinsley. The other witness was John Alexander, age 70, who lived a mile from John Unbewust and who cited as his neighbors John J. Curl and John Clark. Alexander had lived there six years prior to filling out the form.These documents giv...
The July 8 meeting of the Odessa and Harrington school boards was a special meeting held in Harrington to complete business regarding the two schools’ athletic cooperative that had been tabled at the previous meeting in June. The June meeting had drawn a relatively large crowd of parents from both towns who had expressed discontent with the Odessa board’s filling of a coaching position without the Harrington board’s expressed approval and various other issues of communication between the two school administrations and board...
Council meeting Wednesday evening, July 8, the Harrington City Council met with Mayor Paul Gilliland at the helm, and council members Peter Davenport, Terri Howe, Mike Cronrath and Levi Schenk in attendance; as were city clerk, Bunny Haugan and Alan Gay, of Stantec. Visitors included Priscilla and Dick Derr, Paul Charlton, Sharon Schultz, Donita Simons, Ashley Schenk, Crystal Hickman, Cody Anderson, Marge Womach and Justin Slack. Alan Gay announced that Harrington was awarded the $59,000 grant/loan for the study of sump pump...
