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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. July 9: A lightning strike set a tree on fire in the Neal Canyon area near Wilbur. Deputies were unable to locate a vehicle that a caller reported had run off Jones Bay Road and down a steep grade. A...
Area students named to the President’s List for the spring quarter at Big Bend Comunity College are Mackenze Bemis, Aron Mills and Mandy Smith, all of Odessa. Students must earn a 3.75 or better grade-point average (GPA) to be named to the President’s List. The Vice President’s List contains students who have earned a 3.33 to 3.74 GPA. Area students on the VP’s List are Natalie Fish, Austyn Kagele, Nelda Reyes, and Jeanette Samuel, all of Odessa and Lucio Chavez and Natalie Garrett of Wilson Creek....
The parts department at Odessa Trading Company has been awarded the 2011 Pinnacle Award, which was presented to OTC General Manager H.P. Carstensen and Parts Department Manager Ted Suchland July 3 by Greg Gresty, Case IH Territory Sales Manager. Also on hand for the presentation was James Hudson, Case IH Manager of Field Service Operations. The award is the outcome of the Pinnacle Footprint strategy from Case IH, a self-assessment program developed to drive dealer improvement...
At Monday night’s Town Council meeting, Mayor Doug Plinski administered the oath of office to Odessa’s new Chief of Police, Helen Coubra, who comes to the town from the Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s office, where she served as Deputy Sheriff. Once she had taken her oath, Coubra administered the Police Officer’s oath to Bryce Peterson, then gave a brief summary of her law enforcement career. Coubra began her law enforcement career in 1986, and said that her first signifi...
San Antonio, Texas was the destination for 18 students from Odessa High School who competed in the 2012 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership Conference. With the support of the Odessa community and the school, the students were able to make the trip of a lifetime. It was an experience we will not forget! More than 8,000 students from around the nation competed in 60 different events. Competition was tough, but our little high school was quite...
Odessa Record subscriber Larry Fisher of Spokane continues his series of articles on the history of the Batum/Lauer area (where his wife, the former Joyce Kiesz, grew up) Hi, here I am again. 9/10/1959 - TOR - The Odessa Chamber of Commerce has instituted action to get an extension of the present oiled road from Odessa to connect the missile site, a short distance. 12/3/1959 - TOR - Work started at Batum. Site is called "1A." Excavation will go down 165 feet. The number of men employed at the site should be between 150 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. July 2: Davenport deputies responded to a verbal dispute at a Fifth Street residence after a caller told dispatchers about loud shouting originating from there. Davenport ambulance personnel assisted...
A report first appearing in the Harrington Citizen and then carried in the Spokane Spokesman-review and the Seattle Times in July 1909 didn’t amuse R.S.Crowl, the editor of The Odessa Record. In fact, he was furious about a story, which had it that all of the farm land southwest of Odessa was adrift in sand. The Record fired back with this front-page article in its July 12 issue: If a person were inclined to believe all of the stories gotten up by many unreliable corespondents, by this time he might really believe that the p...
The Odessa Historical Museum has received a recent donation of books from the Virginia (Beck) Michel family. “Adams County Pioneer Edition” and “Black Rock Pioneer Edition,” published by the Ritzville Journal Times, include newspaper accounts of life in the Marlin/Black Rock/Ruff areas. The books have many photographs of pioneer life, including photos by the Black Rock area professional photographer Joshua Elmer. Also donated was a commemorative booklet with photos of all the graduating classes of the Marlin School Distric...
Ruth Go has completed her first year of medical school at the University of Washington, and is now spending the next four weeks in Odessa, shadowing Dr. Linda Powell and other providers at the clinic, Quail Court and the hospital. She is the latest in a long line of students to participate in the RUOP (Rural Underserved Opportunity Program) at UW. Go’s family is from Everett. Her mother is a pediatrician in Arlington (north of Everett), and her father is in real estate. She h...
What a wonderful feeling I had when I saw Anona Heimbigner's Thank-you in the Odessa Record several weeks ago! It doesn't seem like 69 years ago she so ably taught us in sixth grade to diagram sentences. I taught the same thing to my sixth-grade students my last twelve years of teaching here in Washougal. I often visualize sentences in their diagrammed form, especially when proofreading. Joyce (Napier) Goodale Washougal...
I urge your readers once again to contact their members of Congress and demand that Congress fix the problem it created in 2006 for the United States Postal Service. In 2006, Congress decreed that the USPS must fully fund current and future employees’ pension and health care costs to the tune of $5.5 billion a year. The Republican-dominated Congress required this funding to be done in 10 years to cover the costs for the next 75 years! No business pays 75 years into the future for its employees’ pension and health benefits. No...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 7/5/12: The grain markets continued their streak on Thursday as the hot weather continues. Next week is supposed to bring some relief from the heat in the corn belt, but rain is still lacking. New-crop corn traded out to a new contract high and Chicago September corn futures touched limit-up late in the day. Chicago wheat futures gained 38 cents, and white wheat gained 35. Export sales will be out in the morning. 7/6/12: Grain prices finally broke on...
On July 3, the management firm that has operated Inland Empire Oilseeds for the past year, known as 1138, LLC, acquired 75 percent of the company from the original investment group that got the plant up and running. That group (consisting of the Odessa Union Warehouse Cooperative, Reardan Grain Growers, Reardan Seed, Greenstar, Michael Dunlap and Avista) retains ownership of the remaining 25 percent. Joel Edmonds remains the general manager, the same position he assumed when...
Citing personal reasons, Odessa Public Works Director Roger Sebesta has resigned from his position, effective July 6. When asked about his future plans, Sebesta said that he does not yet know what he will do in terms of work or retirement. He said he has enough accrued sick leave and vacation time that he will not have to make that decision immediately. Assistant director Jerry Monroe has moved up into the director’s position, and the town is advertising for a third employee to join Monroe and Rod Webster on the town c...
The Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundaiton recently awarded a $15,000 grant to the Hartline Betterment Organization, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The vital funds will help support the completion of capital improvements for the Historic Hartline School Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse Project. The timely grant award, combined with additional funding assistance, will allow the HBO to proceed with planned exterior masonry repairs on the Hartline School. The charitable...
The Odessa School Board met Wednesday, June 27, 2012, to learn from Superintendent Suellen White that the open high school science teacher position being vacated by Jeff Wehr is still unfilled. High hopes that the early start to the hiring process would quickly lead to the selection of a replacement are now fading to concern, as five candidates have been offered the position only to have them opt for other positions elsewhere. In other personnel issues, the hiring of Frances Liner, Jennifer Swartz and Nancy Glines as...
Al Wraspir of Tucson, Ariz. died at his home on June 29, 2012, at the age of 78. He was born April 23, 1934, in Irby to Louis and Louise Wraspir and was raised on the family farm. He graduated from Marlin High School. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Rosemarie Ramm and brother Eugene Wraspir. He is survived by his wife JoEllen; sister Joyce (Lorus) Haase of Odessa; sons Michael (Beverly) of O'Fallon, Mo., Jerry of Odessa and Richard (Janet) of Seattle; and daughters Jennifer of Redmond, Melanie Garrison (Ron)...
The Odessa High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America sent 16 students to the national FBLA conference in San Antonio, Texas this summer, and the Chapter, as a whole, won first place for its Partnership with Business presentation. The group worked on a program with the 2nd Harvest Food Bank to provide backpacks filled with weekend take-home food for needy youngsters in area communities. Also competing very well and coming in second in the category of Business...
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. June 25: Dispatchers took a report of a truck that passed another vehicle on the shoulder, cutting it off, at the Spokane County line on SR 2. Damage was reported by the driver of the second vehicle....
Outdoor dining season has finally arrived, and with it, some nice melons in the markets. Whole melons by the pound are generally the most economical, but an entire watermelon can be overwhelming for one or two people. I recently created a recipe for a Watermelon Salsa that can be made with readily available ingredients. Previously I had seen several recipes calling for ethnic ingredients not available locally. This is a mild salsa, but adding additional jalapeños would...
The wheat crop of 1930 in the Odessa area was the worst in history up to that time, but it was only the beginning of what was to be four tragic years of crop failures, drought and depression. The nation was just beginning to experience the Great Depression, which would go on until the middle of 1934. By 1930, wheat prices had fallen to a 25-year low and would sink even lower by 1932 to only 32 cents a bushel. Here is a report which appeared in The Odessa Record on July 4, 1930, telling of prospects for that year: The wheat...
Helen May Wraspir, 92, longtime resident of Quincy, died at home on June 21, 2012. She was born on March 14, 1920, in Everett to Francis and Ordina Pope. She spent her childhood years in the Everett and Marysville area. She married William Wraspir on January 17, 1942, in Everett. After World War II, they moved to Odessa and in 1952, they moved to Quincy and lived there into their retirement. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Quincy. She is survived by her children, Morris (Janet) Wraspir of Kennewick, Clyde...
Several parents of spring 2012 college graduates from Odessa and its nearest neighboring towns submitted photos and information on their children’s progress. The official results have now also been released by Washington State University and are included below, regardless of whether prior articles have appeared in The Record about any given student. Honors earned by students are listed as follows: summa cum laude for a cumulative grade point average of 3.90 or better, magna cum laude for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.70 b...
Odessa Record subscriber Larry Fisher of Spokane continues his series of articles on the history of the Batum/Lauer area (where his wife, the former Joyce Kiesz, grew up). Hi, here I am again. At Batum, the first work will be the drilling of wells and lots of site work. One of the wells will be a 30-inch one, sunk to a depth of 90 feet, from where it will continue as a 24-inch well, the largest well ever to be drilled in this area. It will be an extra deep well, intended to go at least 1,000 feet in depth. The 30-inch well...
