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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. Monday, Nov. 23: An electrical outage was reported in Sprague. A motorist advised dispatchers that her vehicle struck a large piece of glass near the city shop in the vicinity of Twelfth and Mor...
Clark Miller (77) was born October 5, 1938, to Fred and Katherine (Gies) Miller in Ritzville.He was raised in Odessa through 10th grade and graduated from Davenport High School in 1956. Clark married Hazel Buell on June 15, 1958. In the fall of 1961, they moved to a farm three miles north of Mondovi, where he lived until his death. Clark drove a Standard Oil fuel truck (for Dale McGath) from the fall of 1957 to 1961, delivering fuel to customers in Davenport, Fruitland,...
Swartz, Shirley M. (88) passed away on November 24, 2015 in Spokane. She was born June 18, 1927 in Mohler, WA to Donald and Lorena (Kupers) Hawkins. She attended school in Harrington, WA and married her high school sweetheart, Orville "Yogie" Swartz on June 15, 1944. They lived in Harrington, Ephrata, Odessa and Ritzville; where Yogie died at the age of 56. Shirley worked as a bookkeeper in Odessa and at the Ritzville Hospital, where she retired. Following retirement, Shirley...
The 2015 varsity football awards banquet was held last Thursday evening, December 3, and with eight awards there was plenty of reason to celebrate. Sage Elder took home four of the eight awards: Mr. Football, the Gale Martin Award and the 1st Team All Conference Awards for linebacker and running back. The other two 1st Team All Conference Awards went to Gaven Elder as a defensive back and John DeWulf as an offensive lineman. DeWulf also won the Thunderbolt Player of the Year...
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, Nov. 30: Deputies responded to a report of a vehicle traveling west in the eastbound lane of U.S. 2, almost causing a head-on collision in the vicinity of the county Transfer Station. Res...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record December 10, 1915 Hardware block going up rapidly. A week of favorable weather has enabled the force of men engaged on Odessa Hardware Co.’s new block now under construction, to make remarkable progress since our last publication. The building will be cut into four rooms, the corner of which will be the home of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, recently granted a charter as Odessa’s newest banking institution. The hardware store will occupy two rooms and the fourth will be home to an auto ga...
A few weeks ago, Odessa High School Junior Cole Kissler submitted an application to become one of Washington State's Aerospace Scholars and on November 24, 2015, Cole found out he was selected. Washington Aerospace Scholars is an educational program for high school juniors from across Washington state. The program emphasizes science, technology, engineering and math and encourages students to consider careers in these fields. Thanks to the Washington Aerospace Scholars...
Last week Tuesday, members of the Odessa community gathered in the atrium of the hospital to bid farewell to physician's assistant DJ Jones. He was recruited to join the Odessa staff in May of 2014. Since that time he and his wife has been searching for a suitable home to purchase or a property on which to build. Neither effort bore fruit, and ultimately the couple decided they were best off staying put in the Cheney area. Jones will work at Sacred Heart Medical Center in...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record December 3, 1915 The state Board of Health wrote to a mother in this state, calling her attention to the fact that the birth of her baby had not been reported. She replied, “I have had seven babies and this is the first time I have had to go through with all this foolishness.” Failure to register births often caused problems later in life. A Miss Brunner, born in Bellingham, went abroad to study in 1914. She was in Switzerland visiting her grandparents when the war broke out. She has bee...
Members of the local Girl Scout Troop have had a busy October and November with outings to the long-term care wing of the hospital, the Quail Court assisted-living facililty and the Odessa Historical Museum. These visits were part of efforts to earn new patches and badges. At Quail Court and the long-term care wing, the Girl Scouts played bingo with some of the residents. They also raked and played in the leaves outside the long-term care wing. These visits were part of earnin...
During the Scouting for Food event that took place on Dec. 14, Odessa Cub Scout Pack 784, along with family and friends, collected 1,400 pounds of food from the community and delivered the donations to the local food bank....
Members of the Odessa Healthcare Foundation met with Drex Palmer, ART, Radiology Department Director, who showed them the portable X-ray machine that the foundation purchased for Odessa Memorial Hospital with the proceeds of the 2015 Wine Tasting and Auction event. The portable X-ray unit is used when patients cannot or should not be moved to the radiology room due to their clinical condition. Instead, the X-ray machine comes to the patient. While the images of a stationary...
On November 18, superintendent Dan Read; principal Jamie Nelson; board chair Ed Deife; board members Heather Valverde, Joe Schlomer and Roland Singer and board member-elect Chris Crossley met in the school district office at 6:30 p.m. to review board policies and procedures and to discuss both the maintenance and operations and capital projects levy resolutions. This workshop was followed by an open meeting of the Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 in the high school library at 7 p.m., with the same...
Court 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, Nov. 16: Dispatchers referred a possible poaching incident in the vicinity of Addington Road near Reardan to the Washington State Patrol for investigation. Responding to the 1000 block of Was...
Windstorm Winds had been predicted to range near 65 mph on Tuesday and with that intensity Harrington was fortunate to have only minor damages to homes with roofing being the major complaint. One homeowner reported a limb lying on his roof. Dust was thick in the air all day, sometimes resembling dense fog. In the downtown business district, signs and awnings were challenged, with only one awning sent to the ground. The newly fixed roof on the former Harrington Haus was seen flapping in the wind all across the west end of the...
Ronald G. Walter died at his home in Spokane on Sunday, November 15, after a massive heart attack. He was born April 21, 1942 in Odessa to Jacob and Sarah (Scrupps) Walter. He was a 1960 graduate of Odessa High School. He was a member of the English Congregational Church in Odessa, where he was confirmed. He attended Eastern Washington University, then worked in Spokane at Campbell Industrial Supply, a machine shop and Kaman Bearing, where he served in sales and management for many years. He leaves behind his wife, Linda;...
How will Washington State University’s plan to have a second public medical school in the state of Washington impact Odessa? We believe it will make things better in a variety of significant ways. First, the vision for this medical school from the late WSU President Elson S. Floyd was to give rural Washingtonians help on a serious shortage of physicians in our state, not to mention on the shortage in our rural areas. As a land grant university, it is WSU’s mission to meet the needs of the people of our state when we are abl...
What if our crops and land were devastated by something totally unexpected or unforeseen? Hopefully we have some sort of contingency plan to fall back onto. But, what if we didn’t? This is more the case than we realize. The devastating loss caused by the Omak, Okanogan, Brewster and Conconully forest fires continues, and the ongoing needs are tremendous! A number of us from Christ Lutheran here in Odessa as well as other members of the Odessa community have taken the time and effort to make contacts with our neighbors to t...
The Odessa Community Center will be filled with vendors next Wednesday, December 2, for the annual kickoff to the local holiday shopping season, Christmas Fest. The doors will open at 10 a.m. and will stay open all day until 7 p.m. Handcrafted items that will be for sale include blankets, crocheted towels, wooden ornaments, LED angels, hooded bath towels, earrings, ornaments, miscellaneous crocheted and handsewn items, wooden decorations, aprons, Christmas decor, knitted hats, scarves and baby clothes, Christmas accessories,...
The Odessa Lions Club's 74th annual Turkey Carnival is Saturday, November 21, at the Odessa Community Center. The action kicks off at 2 p.m., with food being served. Bingo games begin at 3 p.m. and continue until all of the turkeys are gone. After bingo, the drawing will begin for raffle prizes. The prizes, which are donated by Odessa businesses and individuals, are listed below....
The 2015 Veterans Day dinner and continuous membership awards program were held November 11 in the social hall of Heritage Church in Odessa. Members of VFW Post #7395 and American Legion Post #105 organized the program and their auxiliary members cooked and served the turkey, potatoes, stuffing and gravy for the dinner. The side dishes and desserts were provided as potluck items donated by those who attended the dinner. Departed comrades from the past year were remembered:...
Odessa seniors, age 65 and older, have filled two classes that meet twice a week in Odessa's Old Town Hall from 9:30 to 10:30 and from 10:45 to 11:45 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The groups meet separately with instructor Kelly Weber, an employee of the physical therapy department at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center. SAIL stands for Stay Active and Independent for Life and entails movement, stretching and strength building with the ultimate goal of preventing falls and improving overall health. Class members are encouraged...
Thank you so much for the news you print. I grew up in your area. I was the first wedding at Zion Emmanuel on January 1, 1959. But Harrington was my town – first through 12th grade in Harrington schools. So I do appreciate the local news. I’ve only been gone from your area since 1970!!! Thanks for your news! Lorna Williams Olympia...
In Washington state, low mountain snowpack has caused the governor to declare a statewide drought emergency for this summer. However, for the majority of the growers in the Odessa Subarea region that use groundwater, these conditions are nothing new. Whereas most of the potatoes in the state are irrigated with surface water from the Columbia and Snake Rivers, farmers in the Odessa Subarea face drought-like conditions every year. The Odessa region is an outstanding region for producing potatoes, and the production in this area...
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center has been recognized by iVantage Health Analytics and the National Organization of State Office of Rural Health (NOSORH) for overall excellence in outcomes, reflecting top quartile performance among all acute care hospitals in the nation. “It is our honor at OMHC to serve the people of Odessa and we are proud to be able to do so with this level of distinction,” said hospital administrator Mo Sheldon. “Our mission is to bring ‘caring, quality healthcare to our community,’ and this is one affir...
