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Children prepare for school The Summer Reading Program on Thursday, August 21, was focused on the approaching return to the school season. Meka Eaton led the eight children in coloring sheets with school bus, backpacks, and other school related images. Each seemed to have a postivie attitude about school beginning, and the children were able to compare home schooling to the public school room. They enjoyed a movie and snack time. Some were successful at creating paper bag pupp...
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. 18: An inmate in the county jail hid contraband food items, extra uniforms and bedding in a cell. Another inmate's dinner was eaten by a third inmate. Others confined there clogged a day room toilet...
Aug. 13, Mayor Paul Gilliland called to order the meeting of the city council with members Terry Howe, Rick Becker, Peter Davenport, Levi Schenk and Mike Cronrath present and Bunny Haugan, Scott McGowan, Margie Hall, Ashley Schenk, Charles Marsh, Sharon Schultz and Marge Womach in attendance. Margie Hall of the Economic Development Council gave an update of activities and meetings and provided the council with handouts. She noted that the mayors would be meeting on Sept. 12,...
Great Northern Railroad - Part 1, submitted by Marjorie Womach, was published on July 10 and Part 2 on July 17. Anyone interested in additional information on Northwest railroads may come to The Record office where we have several books for sale on the subject. In 1921 it was said that in order for the Harrington Harvester to sell its machines at distant towns, they used two small white mules that pulled and scratched their way up the old City Hall hill pulling one of their machines. They wrote that the belly of the mules...
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. 11: A county patrol car sustained no visible damage after a fawn ran into the car door. MedStar air ambulance used the U.S. 2 Telford rest area west of Davenport to transport a patient w...
The Harrington Opera House Society met for their monthly meeting, opened by President Mark Stedman and attended by Sheryl Stedman, Becky and Stephen Hardy, Carol, Edwin and Bunny Haugan, Billie and Gordon Herron, D. P. Charlton, Bonnie Hardy, Karen Robertson, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner. Progress might appear slow in regard to the opera house building projects, however the progress is steady in consistent increments following a master list of pieces of the structure that need work; each is thoroughly investigated 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, Aug. 4: Lincoln Hospital personnel treated a girl experiencing a possible allergic reaction and a "dizzy and weak" man who was transported from by Davenport ambulance from a Buckhorn Road r...
Junior-high football practice will start on August 20 in Harrington at 4 p.m. The bus will leave Odessa at 3:30. Practice will also be held in Harrington on August 21 and 22, due to the Lincoln County Fair being under way in Davenport on those days. Players should dress in running gear and make sure to have completed all the necessary paperwork. For questions, contact Coach Larry Weber at 988-0285....
1 years ago From the Odessa Record August 13, 1914 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, died at the White House in Washington, Thursday, August 6. The bad check artist arrested here last week was turned over to Spokane for similar charges there. There he also passed himself off as the man who had the tobacco, candy and news concession at the new Milwaukee depot, and tried to sell this concession to “Dutch Jake” Goetz of the Coeur d’Alene hotel. The government thermometer reached 103 Sunday after...
With ten young scientists-in-the-making present, the Harrington Library concluded its normal Summer Reading Program on July 31 and awarded five certificates for perfect attendance, those being Kaydence Brown, Annika Walters, Laurel Victor, William Victor and Ethan Victor. The science portion of the program focused this week on the creation of jitterbugs, dragonflies and bumble bees. Stacey DeWald kept the children actively getting their parts ready while Bridget Rohner 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, July 28: Harrington ambulance personnel transported a man from the 400 block of West Willis Street to Lincoln Hospital in Davenport for treatment of abdominal pain. Responding to the 100 block...
Laura Hardt, formerly of Odessa, celebrated her 97th birthday on July 31 with several relatives and friends. Hardt now lives at the Regency senior-living apartments in Spokane, near where her daughter Dixie Hardt Moore lives. Moore, her husband and extended family were on hand to play cards with Laura in the afternoon in the Regency’s hospitality room, then to accompany the birthday girl to dinner at the Golden Corral buffet-style restaurant. Also present to help celebrate the birthday, in addition to other relatives and f...
Humanitarianism is a wonderful endeavor and has the potential to save the world. But can Americans afford to create a “welfare state” for the world? With the national debt so far out of whack that no administration now or in the near future can possibly meet budgetary restraints, how is it possible to endorse, comfort, house, feed and heal the hordes of humanity crossing our borders to obtain the freedoms our forefathers shed blood to obtain for us? In our personal lives, just as in government, there is a finite amount of...
In November, 2001, following a two year period of interim ministering by Terry Van Blaricum, Pastor Bill Bull and his wife came to Harrington as the resident minister. Rev. Bull was born in 1944 and met his wife Bonnie in Princeton, Idaho. They have been married more than 40 years. They were the parents of three adult children by the time they moved here, Julia, Jeffrey and Janice. Pastor Bull's early career was in the lumber industry in Northern Idaho as a U.S. Forest...
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 21: White foam was observed coming from the top of a Burlington Northern train car traveling near SR 23. Cash was reported missing as a result of a burglary at a residence in the 2700 b...
Harrington Public Library in conjunction with Washington State University's extension office opened its Summer Reading Program, Fizz-Boom-Read, Thursday, July 10 from 3 to 5, led by Bridget Rohner and Stacey DeWald. Initially 18 youngsters entered and tried to contain themselves with the excitement of the first day. They settled in as each began to color with crayons the planets and solar system followed by posting them on the door to their Reading Room. James Smith read them...
With extremely hot temperatures in the preceding days, the Odessa area should probably be considered lucky to have had only one fire which was contained after about five hours. With all the news about the Carlton Complex fire in the north Cascades and the Buzzard Complex in eastern Oregon, apparently both started by lightning in many places and now being treated as fire complexes, people are a bit on edge and are following the news closely. The weather has been hot and windy,...
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 14: Sprague firefighters responded to a small brush fire on the Old Sprague Highway just east of Williams Lake. Odessa firefighters battled a brush fire at Rimrock and Brownswell roads n...
1 years ago From the Odessa Record July 23, 1914 “A family on every quarter section was the spirit of a meeting here this week. A speaker told of the immigration plan of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, to list land for sale and find settlers for this land. Sales people will be sent east to contact farmers who would come west. Over 60 farmers have listed land, headed by David Jasman with nine quarters, Fred Low, six, Wilhelm Isaak, Kelly Bros. and R.M. Kelly, four each. “The first grain of the 1914 season was received Tue...
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 7: Davenport ambulance personnel transported a jail inmate to Lincoln Hospital after she suffered a seizure. She later was returned to Adams County authorities. A fence at the AT&T s...
The Harrington Opera House Society met July 7 at 7 p.m. in the Art Room with the following in attendance: Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Carol, Paul Charlton, Linda Wagner, Marge Womach, Bonnie Hardy, Billie Herron, and Karen Robertson. Billie reported that Gordon received bids for the plaster work in the opera house auditorium and for the Americans with Disabilites Act-required ramp on the interior for the elevator. Mark Stedman informed the group that he and Gordon plan to hang the hardware superstructure...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record July 10, 1914 "For almost the first time in its history the Record was a day late. The paper was ready to go to press at its regular time of 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, but because of trouble on the WWP lines, printing could not start until Saturday. “A number of farmers in the Ruff section have started cutting their grain this week. Some of the finest samples shown here have been White Russian or Jones Fife. “Krupp was visited by two serious fires this week. Sunday evening the first bla...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency is seeking candidates for an upcoming farmer and rancher-elected county committee election. The Lincoln County FSA office will accept nominations through August 1, 2014. “Farm Service Agency county committee members provide that local link between the needs of Lincoln County farmers and ranchers and the federal farm programs,” said Farm Service Agency County Executive Director Melissa Michael. “That local voice is really important as we roll out the new changes from the...
Chamber meeting Wednesday noon, July 2, the Harrington Chamber of Commerce met, led by president Cassandra Paffle-Dick. Those present included Kathy Hoot, Carol, Cindy Haase, Bonnie Hardy, Bunny Haugan and Marge Womach. Considerable discussion was held on the city directory sign at the entrance to Harrington and its reconstruction. Estimates were obtained and proposals considered. The committee will now investigate the cost of having a local metal art worker construct the...
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 23: Odessa ambulance personnel assisted a 78-year-old man experiencing shortness of breath and hallucinations. Sprague firefighters responded to a 20- to 30-acre brush fire on U.S. B...
