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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. January 17 Traffic stops: 4 An Edwall woman reported cows were in her pasture. She said this has happened several times. Theft was reported. A caller from the city of Sprague reported an animal attack, saying two Germ...
Continued from last week JUNE The Chamber board announced that the 50th anniversary of Deutschesfest would be postponed. Odessa High School senior Maddy Wagner was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, one of only 161 high school seniors in the U.S. to be so honored. The senior class held a parade of cars along First Avenue in downtown Odessa, then gathered at the golf course for photos. A windstorm damaged farm homes in the Mohler and rural Harrington areas, sparing Odessa by veering...
DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Health Public Administrator Ed Dzedzy and other county health staff often receive calls from residents asking when they can receive the Moderna vaccine aimed at preventing COVID-19 infection. Giving those callers a clear answer is difficult, however, because the department now is not sure how many doses the county will receive from the state on a weekly basis until the Friday prior. This has created a frustrating situation for Dzedzy and his staff, he shared with the Lincoln County Commissioners a...
DAVENPORT – The Lincoln County Commissioners heard a proposal for administering a tourism tax in 2021 from Margie Hall, director of the Economic Development Council, at the commissioner’s Jan. 19 meeting. The tax, which the county has partnered with the EDC in some form for the last 10 years to administer, would be aimed at increasing tourism in town in 2021. Traditionally and theoretically, 2% of the 8% sales tax the county receives from tourism activities is used for tourism, commissioner Scott Hutsell said. Hall gave a d...
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. January 10 Traffic stops: 1 A woman reported at least six cows in her pasture belonging to unknown persons. She said this has been a recurring issue. A woman reported an injured cat in her yard. Suspicious cir...
ODESSA – As of Jan. 4, 2021, Odessa Golf and RV has new owners. D & H Rentals, LLC, a local Odessa company, has purchased the business. A second local business, Odessa Farm Links, LLC, has been established by Dillon Jahns and Hannah Schmidt to lease the golf course and RV park and manage all related operations. The two say they have plans to keep up with the current level of maintenance that has garnered much attention since Jahns began working at the course in 2013. His l...
Allen Ivan Kuest was born on January 11, 1936 to Reinold Kuest and Leona Fink-Kuest at Irvy, WA. Allen passed away on January 14, 2021 in Odsessa, WA. Allen graduated from Odessa High School in 1954 and was a lifelong farmer in Odessa. He is also the former owner of Al’s Roofing. Allen was a member of the Odessa VFW and served 4 years in the United States Army. He served as President for the Vernonia Oregon Booster Club and was also a member of the Odessa Riders Club, M...
JANUARY The year 2020 began with Odessa High School sports as the #1 story of the new year, as the Tiger football team received accolades and honors for its undefeated season, which culminated in the team’s second consecutive 1B state championship. Odessa senior running back Marcus King was named Player of the Year in the 1B category by the Associated Press and was also placed on the first team statewide as a linebacker. He was joined on the first team by wide receiver Brady Walter, linemen Jaden Hunt and Pilot Weishaar and d...
Alice Schmierer – One day at a time sweet Jesus, was a favorite line from one of the many tunes Alice Schmierer loved to sing. Her last day with us here was January 15th, 2021. She passed away peacefully to join her Lord in heaven and to hold hands once again with her husband Alvin Schmierer. Alice was born in a 3 room house just a few miles up a gravel road from Odessa, WA. The town she would call her home for all of her 96 years. She was raised on the family homestead farm w...
1 years ago Jan. 21, 1921 All arrangements have now been completed for the Odessa Fire Department boys’ dance, which will be held at the Community Hall next Friday night. For a number of years the annual firemen’s dance was considered the social event of the season, and the fire lads are determined this dance shall be no exception to the rule. They have engaged the OCB orchestra to furnish music for the occasion and request the dancing public to come early and stay late and have one of the best times of their lives. The...
ODESSA – The Odessa Chamber of Commerce met via Zoom on January 12 to nominate officers for the coming year and discuss other business. Present via the Zoom feed were President Zach Schafer, Larissa Zeiler, Jeff Huiras, Norm Ott, Laura Estes, Terrie Schmidt-Crosby and Matt Roberson (briefly, until he got busy at his store). The nominations from those attending were: President: Jeff Huiras Vice Pres.: Norm Ott Secretary: Terrie Schmidt-Crosby Treasurer: Larissa Zeiler At-large board members (2): Matt Roberson, Michelle M...
ODESSA – The windstorm that tore through Odessa and the rest of eastern Washington on the night of January 12/13 uprooted trees and sent garbage cans and other items not battened down into the streets and other people’s yards. At the home of Annie Walter of Odessa, a large evergreen tree toppled onto the garage, damaging a wall and part of the roof. At the home of Tracy Walter, a similar scenario prevailed, although the tree that toppled did not hit any structures. Folks woke...
ODESSA – Daniel Glaze has joined the staff of Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center as a nurse practitioner, bringing the current staff to four full-time providers. He joins family nurse practitioners Kyle Anderson and Ruby Ayers and licensed social worker James DeDeaux. His first day on the job was January 4. Glaze, 42, is a native of the Florida panhandle, from a town near Pensacola. He and his wife Kayla, also a Florida native, have two children, a daughter Sidalee, 13, and a s...
Date H L Rain Snow January 6 39 27 0.04 0 January 7 39 28 0.09 0 January 8 36 28 0 0 January 9 34 24 0 0 January 10 33 27 0 0 January 11 36 29 0 0 January 12 40 32 0.5 0 January precipitation: 1.37...
ODESSA – The latest cash grain market in Odessa shows Soft White Wheat, bushel is at $6.24. White Club, bushel at $6.34. Hard Red Winter, bushel at $6.72. Dark Northern Spring, bushel is at $6.56. Barley at $160 per ton and Triticale at $170 per ton....
SPOKANE – Ireland Luiten, a resident of Odessa, has earned placement on the Gonzaga University President's List for the Fall semester of 2020. Students must earn between a 3.85 to 4.0 grade-point average to be listed....
January and the new year often bring the urge to spring clean. Finding places for new Christmas gifts spurs the need to purge unused items or bring them out to replace the old and tattered. A close look at kitchen pantry items may also have you discovering a number of specialty items that didn’t get used over the holidays. One option is to donate those items to your local food bank. On the other hand, food dollars were spent on these items and there are many non-holiday recipe...
1 years ago Jan. 14, 1921 Claude M. Chilson and Paul T. Bockmier have received permission from the city council to flood the portion of the street between the Finney Lumber company and the Great Northern tracks to make an ice rink for the benefit of the Odessa public. Water Superintendent Schoonover will run water each evening until there is a good coat of ice. Odessa lumber dealers, the G.W. Finney Lumber company and the Standard people, have announced that they will swallow a loss and put down the price of lumber a drop...
Joy Puglisi, 73, passed away Jan. 10, 2021, after a hard battle against idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Joy was born Aug. 10, 1946, to Leland and Velma (Henderson) Jorsch of Tacoma, Wash. She has been a resident of Odessa for over 14 years and had made numerous friends. Joy loved to paint and sold several paintings while she was a member of the Kent Valley Art Club. Joy leaves behind her husband of 55 years, Charles Puglisi Jr.; two children, Danell (Mark Moore)...
Linda Howe, 61, of Odessa, died Dec. 30, 2020, following a battle with cancer. She is survived by her life partner, David Elkins; two daughters, Darci Elkins Wood and Kori Elkins; and grandson, Seth Wood. The family thanks the Odessa Community for their condolences, donations and prayers....
Douglas William Roller, 67, of Odessa, Wash., passed away Saturday January 2, 2021, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Wash. He was born Dec. 10, 1953, in Wenatchee, Wash., to William and Esther Roller. He attended Odessa High School, graduating in 1972. Doug is survived by his wife, Sue; three children, Dustin (Terri) Roller, T.J. (Deidre) Roller and Nicole Roller; one sister, Lynnae (Dan) Sowers; nine grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. He is also survived by Marie Gettman, a longtime family friend. Following...
Now that we know a new year doesn’t exactly mean a clean slate, it’s time to get down to business. Most of you already know that rejuvenation of Old Town Hall is one of my favorite obsessions. The Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society has managed to make quite a bit of progress in the past few years, with some amazing assistance from the Odessa Chapter of FBLA. The front steps have been repaired, the dining room has been painted, the kitchen got a facelift, there is a new weather resistant coating on the roof, and the windows ha...
DAVENPORT-The Lincoln County Health Department received 200 more doses of the Moderna vaccine aimed at preventing infection of COVID-19 Jan. 11. It is a beginning-of-the-week trend the department hopes will continue, and grow, on a weekly basis as the fight to curb the virus continues. "We hope to receive even more than that each week eventually," Health Department Public Administrator Ed Dzedzy said. 700 vaccine doses have arrived in the county so far. 100 of those doses are...
DAVENPORT—High winds swept across Eastern Washington the night of Jan. 12 and throughout Jan. 13, creating power outages and felled trees across several counties. Lincoln County hadn’t been blustered as hard as Spokane County by press time, but effects were still felt. The school district here closed to in-person learning Jan. 13. The district asked students on its Facebook page to check in with teachers by 10 a.m. to get work done, if possible. Meanwhile, the Reardan-Edwall School District has gone remote through at lea...
DAVENPORT-- The Lincoln County Economic Development Council has closed the books on 2020, ending a year that did not go as planned. Due to the pandemic, the EDC set aside previously scheduled projects and focused their attention on obtaining and utilizing Coronavirus Relief Funds. Since Governor Inslee’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order took effect in March, the EDC has facilitated over $700,000 in grant awards. The federal CARES Act provided for Coronavirus Relief Fund payments to state and local governments to combat the e...
