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With the passing of Barbara Bush this past week, it seems appropriate to share her recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies. During the 1992 Bush/Clinton presidential campaign a family favorite from each of the candidates wives were shared with the public. The recipe is very similar to the recipe 4H Cooking Clubs used in the 1950’s, when chocolate chips only came in 6 ounce packages and brown sugar was commonly measured by tablespoons in recipes. This is a small batch recipe. I r...
Spring Fling weekend brought quite a large crowd to town. By all accounts, the various events around town were well attended, the garage and yard sales did well and non-profit groups were also very happy with their fund-raising results. Car and bike show Despite early morning rain, the Car and Bike Show at Spring Fling did well. Saturday morning, the rain slowed and then stopped, but the new stage built for the event was too wet to be used. Therefore, the music was moved into...
It is finally spring in Odessa, and the world is beautiful. Let me introduce you to my neighbor Frank Clark. Frank was born April 29, 1947 in Everett. He grew up in Lake Stevens with his parents and five sisters. He graduated from Lake Stevens High School in 1965, and soon after graduation he joined the U.S. Marines. He served two full combat terms in Vietnam. During that time he met a girl in Japan. They married and through that union two daughters were born. The marriage...
The Undeberg Invite in Ritzville April 28 saw the Odessa boys' team finish in a tie for sixth place with Colfax, while the girls' team finished in 14th place. Lakeside High School of Nine Mile took first place in both the boys' and girls' meets. Gaven Elder placed first in both sprints for the Odessa boys. Boys 100 Meters 1. Gaven Elder 11.48 16. Jonny Hayashi 12.38 200 Meters 1. Gaven Elder 23.64 11. Brady Walter 25.1 400 Meters 21. Jonny Hayashi 57.32 PR 37. Brian McDonald...
Continued from the April 19, 2018 issues of the Odessa Record. 75 years ago The Odessa Record April 15, 1943 Club members hold judging practice: The Odessa 4-H beef club members held a meeting at the Mark Smith and Praetorious brothers ranches, where they had access to several groups of choice beef steers for practice judging and coaching on showmanship, as a warmup practice before the Odessa and Spokane junior livestock shows. Those taking part in the contest where Bud 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, April 23: State Department of Transportation personnel reported spray-painted graffiti at the U.S. 2 Telford rest area. A responding deputy was unable to find any tagging there. After rec...
The Tigers played their frequent nemesis Almira/Coulee-Hartline Tuesday in Hartline, losing both games of the double header as ACH managed late inning hits to take a win in each of the two games. Both teams had been undefeated up to that point in the season. The losses put the Tigers in second place in the league, with ACH first. ACH In game #1, the Tigers scored a run in the first inning and maintained the lead all the way through the fifth inning. The sixth inning was the heartbreaker for the Tigers as ACH picked up three r...
Gather your friends and make plans to attend the 27th Annual Wine Tasting, Microbrew Sampling & Auction this Friday, May 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the Odessa Community Center. The live auction will showcase many fantastic items and here are some of the NEW donations you will see this year: For your home Get ready to turn up the dial and start up the Pit Boss 820 Deluxe Pellet Grill. You will be able to bake a pizza, smoke up some ribs or sear a steak with the delicious flavor imparted by the wood pellets. With a wide range of...
A group of concerned citizens including Terry Connolly, Janie Steward, Shelley Hauge, Deanna Nelson, Connie Greenwalt and Tracy Walter attended the Odessa Town Council meeting April 23 to ask council members to consider the feelings of loved ones who regularly visit the cemetery and to consider passing a proposed amendment to Ordinance #687 which recently took effect. The main focus of the ordinance is to prevent damage to the town’s equipment. Mower blades in particular have been broken in the past by hitting hard objects h...
The second junior-high track meet for NE 1B/2B schools was held April 26 in Odessa. Results shown indicate each athlete’s placement in the first column, followed by their name, time/distance and whether the unit was a personal record (PR) or season record (SR). Boys 100 Meters 7th grade 7. Anthony Wiles 15.70 6th grade 1. Jared Valverde 14.94 2. Chad Strebeck 15.15 19. Nicholas Glasow 20.15 200 Meters 7th grade 4. Tristan Smith 30.52 PR 6th grade 2. Jacob Scrupps 30.91 400 Meters 6th grade 2. Jacob Scrupps 1:06.58 PR 800 M...
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has released a free mobile app to connect with members of the Lincoln County community through their smartphones and tablets. The new app allows Lincoln County Sheriff personnel to quickly disseminate emergency alerts and post news about missing persons, traffic delays and weekly crime reports. In the event of an emergency, app users receive instant notification via their mobile devices. This does not replace the county emergency alert system, but enhances it for day-to-day c...
To be included on the winter 2018 honor roll lists at Spokane Community College (SCC) and Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC), students must earn a 3.0 grade point average or higher and be full time (at least 12 credits). In our local area, Raymond Harrington of Harrington and Joshua Watkins of Odessa were among the more than 2,300 students named to the SCC honor roll. SCC is one of the largest community colleges in the state and serves more than 20,000 students every year. SCC has provided college transfer,...
On Wednesday, April 18, the track and field team competed at Lakeside High School in Nine Mile against the following teams: Colfax, Davenport, Garfield-Palouse, Harrington, Lind-Ritzville, Oakesdale, Reardan, St. George’s and Wellpinit. The Odessa boys placed third and the girls placed fifth. Colfax won the boys’ competition, and Oakesdale took first on the girls’ side. NE 1B/2B D7/9 League Meet Boys’ team 100 meters Gaven Elder took first place in 11.35 seconds. Jonny Hayashi fourth with a time of 11.81. David Hayashi...
On April 17, the Tigers played Wilbur-Creston in a double-header at home. Wilbur-Creston In game #1, the Tigers started out a little slow, as W-C grabbed a two-run lead in the first inning before Odessa pulled one run ahead in the second. In the fourth, however, Tiger bats came alive, scoring 11 runs, while the Wildcats’ score remained at two. They picked up one more run in the fifth for a final score of 14-3 in favor of Odessa. Going all the way as pitcher in game #1 was Tim DeWulf, who threw 83 pitches, striking out six a...
Gary Seibel passed away April 14, 2018, at his home in Odessa at the age of 69. Gary was born April 21, 1948 in Ritzville to Henry and Coral (Wolverton) Seibel. He grew up in Odessa and attended Odessa Schools and always considered himself a member of the class of 1968. Gary’s newspaper delivery career started in 1963, when he started delivering the Spokane Daily Chronicle, an afternoon paper, which eventually merged with the morning seven-days-per week newspaper, The S...
Spring is finally here, as the weather has warmed up considerably despite some chilly mornings. It is also time for Odessa’s annual Spring Fling, with garage sales all over town, the crowd-pleasing quilt show and car show, the horseshoes tournament at Finney Field, Activities Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Quilt Show in school gym, Fourth Ave. and Second St. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society indoors at the Old Town Hall on First Ave. next to Odessa Foods. 10 a.m. large FFA/FBLA yard sale at former home of Viola Els,...
The WSU Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture has announced the names of its 2018 outstanding students, faculty and staff at its annual convocation ceremony. Award winners include outstanding sophomore Stacia Lesser of Marlin, a 2016 graduate of Odessa High School. All of the disciplines of the college of engineering and architecture nominated one student. Lesser was nominated for electrical engineering and then went on to win the overall sophomore award. She does...
The 27th Annual Wine Tasting, Microbrew Sampling and Auction is fast approaching. On May 4, the Odessa Healthcare Foundation will be raising funds to support a special “Eldercare Package” for Quail Court Assisted Living. Two specific needs will be met with this package: First, emergency generator support; second, a wander management system for Quail Court. It has long been a requirement for hospitals to ensure that emergency power is available to meet patient care needs in the event of a power outage. While emergency pow...
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, April 16: Harrington Golf and Country Club personnel advised dispatchers they were tending to a wounded owl at the golf course clubhouse. The message was referred to the local state Fish and W...
1 years ago The Odessa Record April 19, 1918 Fred Lenhart writes from Bronx, N.Y., April 8, 1918 Dear Mr. Weik, As it is raining this afternoon so we can’t work, I thought I’d write you a few lines, as I think you will be interested to know how and where some of the “home town” boys are. Two other Odessa boys, “Babe” Smith, John Roth and myself left Camp Lewis in December and landed in good shape in Washington, D.C. We had a nice stay in tents down there. It was rather chilly, but we pulled thru in the best of health. I l...
The members of the Odessa Healthcare Foundation board have been busy gathering donations, creating live auction packages and putting the finishing touches on the 27th annual Odessa Healthcare Foundation Wine Tasting, Microbrew Sampling and Auction. On Friday, May 4, 2018, the Odessa Community Center will be filled with friends seeking a new wine to taste, sampling a favorite microbrew, nibbling on appetizers prepared by the Odessa High School FBLA and other volunteers, bidding on silent and live auction items and supporting t...
The Washington State Leadership Conference of the Future Business Leaders of America was held in Bellevue on April 4-7 and was attended by 31 students from Odessa High School. The trip began with a stop at Central Washington University where former FBLA members and Odessa High graduates Carsen Weber, John DeWulf and Trevor King, all brothers of current chapter members, gave the group an awesome tour of the campus. The trip continued to Bellevue where students were allowed to...
Gary Seibel, a life-long residednt of Odessa, died April 14. Information on services and an obituary will run next week....
To the Editor: Thank you Jill [Connolly] for your wonderful letter. You are so right. The cemetery is so lonely and forgotten looking – no flowers or fixed decorations, etc., the things that were put there with love and respect for the loved ones we have laid to rest there. Many local towns have cemeteries that have beautiful flowers all the time; it shows people care. Odessa, well it is bare and lonely looking, like no one is remembered. Whoever took that right away is an uncaring person. This new ordinance put in place i...
What a wonderful surprise met Merleen Smith when a knock came to her front door from Marcus Horak who was delivering food to The Odessa Food Bank on behalf of The Stumpjumpers who had generously donated many food items to help stock the shelves there. The Odessa Food Bank is most appreciative for the support given by the Stumpjumpers who come to our community each spring....
