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On the first day of spring break, April 3, 2017, 12 students spent the day in the basement of the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center becoming certificated babysitters. This brings the total to 93 students who have participated in a Babysitting Basics class. Beginning in 2010, the Odessa Healthcare Foundation, as part of its goal to provide health education to the community, began sponsoring this class for youth interested in improving their skills as babysitters. Meagan...
Over the last several years, Almira Community Church has hosted an annual Men’s Conference called Anvil. Unfortunately, they were unable to put another Anvil conference together this year. Heritage Church has stepped up to assist. This is not a replacement for Anvil, but a substitute. We want to welcome all men, fathers, sons, grandfathers, singles, to join us for our theme “Be Still…” Taken from Psalm 46:10. We as men find it hard to be still. We were created to work. We strive to make things better or run more smoothl...
The winter 2017 Vice President’s List from Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake includes the names of students who have completed 12 or more graded credits with a grade-point average of 3.33 to 3.74. Odessa High School students in the Running Start program Hannah Sheldon and Colby Sooy were named to that list....
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 3: Sprague ambulance personnel assisted a woman who hurt her head in a one-vehicle collision on Interstate 90. An Odessa caller told local police that she had watched a man take som...
Bremerton, WA – Seven inspiring students from the Odessa Science Department presented their independent science and engineering research on April 1, 2017 at the 60th Annual Washington State Science and Engineering Fair. For the first time in Odessa Science history, and among the hundreds of students attending, these student scientists earned first place in their respective categories, along with the following other top Washington state awards: Elizabeth Larson: "Integrating C...
Pullman, WA – Four years ago, Elizabeth Larson entered the ASR Laboratory with a curiosity in the computer science field. She is interested in becoming a computer programmer or engineer and centered her research on coding-related projects. In 2013-2014, Elizabeth created some very innovative and independent research, where three-dimensional digitally animated frames were played with different numbers of revolutions on each frame, affecting the final length of the video in time...
The Desert 100 off-road motorcycle endurance race may have been the largest ever judging from the size of the campsite at the corner of Irby Road and SR 28. Configured like a giant "L" the site certainly covered more ground than we had seen before at prior races. The official results are still being tabulated and finalized and will be posted on the website of the Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club as soon as possible. As for how the Odessa vendors did, information is still being...
Winter has finally passed. Spring has sprung with daffodils in bloom and tulips not far behind, with many other lovely treasures pushing their way up through the soil. And now it’s time to meet some new neighbors. John and Faye Hill and their two adorable sons, Raymond and Rawlins, arrived in Odessa in November 2016. Before leaving the Seattle area, they did some research on the school districts in this area and found Odessa to be the best. Based on the information they found, they made the move and are happy about their d...
Edna Janke-Jorgenson passed away peacefully on March 30, 2017, three days before her 105th birthday, at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center. She was born April 2, 1912, in Chester, Mont., the first child of David and Mary (Heimbigner) Heimbigner. The family homesteaded in the Chester area for several years. When Edna was three, they moved to the Ritzville area where her father farmed. They then lived in the Odessa, Lamona and Batum areas, and Puyallup, for various lengths of...
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, March 27: Responding to the 500 block of NW Armstrong, Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted an 80-year-old woman who fell and hit her head. Burlington Northern Santa Fe personnel were not...
The O-H Titan golf team has had a slow start to its season due to weather conditions. The first match at Odessa was cancelled due to poor course conditions. The team played Inchelium at Harrington March 21, with John Tanke leading the team as the low scorer. Ritzville won the next match on March 28, where Colt Sanford was the best scorer for the Titans. Asotin was the winner of the match. Friday, the team traveled to St. John for an invitational match on the first day of good weather. Coach Mike Greenwood said all of the O-H...
Patricia A. Kissler passed away on April 2, 2017 in Spokane. A funeral service will be held Friday, April 7, 2017 at 1 p.m. at the Heritage Church in Odessa, with burial at the Odessa Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Odessa Healthcare Foundation, Heritage Church or Hospice of Spokane. Full obit to follow in next week’s paper. Strate Funeral Home, Davenport, is caring for the Kissler family....
The conditions for last weekend's races put on by the Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club on property south of town owned by Jerry and Ellen Schafer were not optimum. Recent rains left the ground wet and soft. But that never stops this motorcycle crowd from braving the elements and pitting their skills against natural and man-made elements to finish their races in record times. Some local riders participated, including Keith strebeck, who finished first in the 15 and under...
orman Gene Pouley, age 81, passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 26, 2017 at his home in Odessa with his loving family at his side. He leaves behind four children Rick (Billie Jo), Sherri (Marty) Sackmann, Tracy (Brian ) Sangster and Terri (Casey) Nielsen; 12 grandchildren Dennis, Tiffany, Colby, Nicole, Keith, Alyssa, Blayne, Kristen, Bryce, Brady, Wyatt, Ashlyn, Corbyn, Keonna, Nigel and one on the way. His oldest son Gregg preceded him in death in 1977. Born and raised...
Last Saturday's Ezra Gordon Invitational in Colville was the season's first meet for the Odessa-Harrington track and field teams, both boys and girls. The O-H boys took third place as a team, and the O-H girls placed 11th. Other teams participating were Colville, Curlew, Cusick, Deer Park, Kettle Falls, L.V. Rogers, Liberty (Spangle), Mary Walker, Newport, Northport, Oroville, Priest River Lamanna, Republic, Selkirk, Tonasket and Wellpinit. The teams from Deer Park and Colvill...
PDA activity The Harrington Public Development Authority met March 21 with the following present: Josh Steward, president; Allen Barth, vice-president; Bunny Haugan, secretary; plus Heather Slack, Paul Charlton, Margie Hall (Lincoln Co. EDC), Marge Womach and Cherie MacClellan. The group discussed the functioning of the WiFi network and the service provided to the historic district by Spectrum. Those involved seemed well satisfied and consider it a worthwhile investment in...
Wilbur On March 21 at Wilbur, the O-H Titans played their first baseball games of the season, a non-league double-header against Wilbur-Creston. The Titans managed a split decision, winning the first game and losing the second. O-H 4 1 0 2 4 3 0 14 14 1 W-C 0 0 0 4 0 7 2 13 8 4 The Titans started off with four runs in the first inning and had a comfortable 11-4 lead going into the sixth inning. Wilbur-Creston pounded out seven runs in the sixth and added two more in the seventh before the Titans got the final out, stopping...
Ryan Moffet, a freshman member of the Odessa-Harrington varsity basketball team, has received honorable mention following selections made to the Associated Press Washington 1B all-state basketball team by the state’s sportswriters and editors. Not only was Moffet the leading scorer for the Titans, he was also the leading scorer among the state’s 1B schools. He is the son of Larry and Heidi Moffet of Odessa....
The Odessa School Board held a workshop in the superintendent’s office at 6:30 p.m. March 22 for the purpose of discussing the superintendent’s evaluation. Attending were superintendent Dan Read, board chairman Ed Deife, Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Janie Steward. In the high school library at 7 p.m., the open meeting was held with Deife, Valverde, Crossley, Steward and Read present, as well as principal Jamie Nelson and business manager Juli Weishaar. Also attending were Justin Parr and Travis Schuh. The board app...
Odessa’s feral cat problem has grown to unmanageable proportions in various hot spots all over town. Citizen complaints and concern by the health care community have prompted the Town of Odessa to pass an ordinance requiring pet owners to license their cats as well as their dogs, so that efforts to trap the feral cats do not scoop up people’s pets along with the wild ones. Police chief Tom Clark has been working with Adams County Pet Rescue on ways to humanely deal with the feral cat problem, as well as with loose dogs who...
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, March 20: Large amounts of water were reported in the vicinity of Welch Creek Road north of Creston. Items were reported missing after a burglary at the R&R Auto Repair and Towing Co. in the...
Quilt Til You Wilt took place Monday in the Odessa Community Center with many kinds of activities and presentations going on all day long. By noon approximately 80 of the expected 100 or so visitors to the event had arrived and set up their work stations on the community center's long wooden tables. Sewing machines hummed, conversation and laughter came from all parts of the room and those present appeared to be fully engrossed in the art of quilt-making. The potluck lunch at...
The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame committee has resumed its meetings in Odessa under its chairman, current OHS athletic director Bruce Todd, and has selected the inductees for the 2017 induction year. Last year’s inaugural ceremony was held at the high reunion in June, and this year a similar ceremony will take place. This year, the committee has selected 10 individuals and two teams that will be honored at the reunion and have their names and short bios added to the display case in the Odessa High School gym. The a...
A closing date of March 28 for the sale of Odessa’s mothballed biodiesel processing facility will pass, like so many dates preceding it, with no action taken. The sale is however still pending following Monday evening’s meeting of the Public Development Authority in the hospital guild room. PDA president Kim Ramm, PDA manager Stacey Rasmussen and the group’s other members were once again disappointed at the time-consuming process leading to a possible sale that is no longer being measured in months but in years. With Richard...
Council members discussed a suggestion from town clerk Gail Kiesz that the parking along the side of the community center be changed to angle parking. The reason for the change was that large pickups in particular take up too much of the roadway when parked facing straight in toward the building. Since the roadway is also a designated truck route, future issues could arise. Deciding that the issue needed more study, the council opted to table it until the next meeting. Odessa Cemetery Cemetery issues were raised by public...
