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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....
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...
The Odessa High School Knowledge Bowl team headed to Arlington, Wash. this past weekend for the state competition and brought home fourth place. Final standings for the state's 1B schools were: 1. Pope John Paul II 2. West Sound Academy 3. Waitsburg 4. Odessa 5. Riverside Christian 6. Almira/Coulee-Hartline Members of the state varsity team for Odessa were Cole Kissler (the team captain), Molly Schafer, Elizabeth Larson, Kiegan Wehr, Rebecca Fortner and Thomas Parham. Kissler...
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...
Marguerite Heimbigner was born January 21, 1934, to Martin and Elfrieda Bauer in the family home in Ritzville, the second of three children. She died March 15, 2017, in Odessa. She is survived by daughter Marla (Ernest) Mills of Odessa; son Wade (Holly) Heimbigner of Vista, Calif.; grandchildren Hollye (Todd) Keister of Tacoma; Joel (Jennifer) Heimbigner of Charlotte, N.C.; Bethany (Anthony) Vaughan of Escondido, Calif.; and Aron Mills of Odessa; and great-grandchild Emery...
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 13: Wilbur school personnel requested an ambulance for someone with a possible broken ankle. A pothole turned into a large crack across the entire west lane on Hawk Creek Road near Gun...
The Odessa School District, in cooperation with Educational Service District #101, will be providing a Child Find Screening clinic on Thursday, April 13, 2017. The screening will be offered at no cost to children of concern aged three through five. By identifying children at an early age, we can better prepare for their future educational needs. The screening will take place at P.C. Jantz Elementary School and takes about an hour to complete. During this time, a screening test will be administered to assess the child’s l...
Kaylene James is a busy lady. Along with a husband (Brian), two children (Evan 15 and Merick 1), she also owns and operates a licensed daycare, Kinder Haus Family Home Childcare. One would think finding time for herself, let alone any additional projects, would be difficult, maybe even impossible. If you thought that, you thought wrong. James has found a new project involving something near and dear to her heart. Children. She has now started GO! Odessa Recreation, a...
At its monthly meeting last week, the Odessa Chamber of Commerce heard from float committee chairpersons Kevin and Amy Schaeffer that work will begin as soon as the community center becomes available. In the meantime, Amy has been busy organizing the pageant at which Miss Odessa 2017 will be selected. Two candidates will vie for Miss Odessa, Maleah Davison and Danielle Tebow, at Any Occasion Banquet Hall on April 9, a Sunday, at 2 p.m. Sandy Smith will be the emcee for the program, and judges from other communities are being...
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...
William John "Bill" Miller, 86, passed away on Sunday March 5, 2017. Born May 14, 1930 in LaSalle, Colo. to William Daniel and Josephine "Jo" Regina (Bolig) Miller. Bill was only six years old when his father passed away. He later gained a new dad when his mom married James Ambrose "Bruce" Conlin. Bill attended LaSalle Schools, Big Bend School, and graduated from College High in Greeley in 1948. Bill played basketball in high school. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy, entering...
On his family's farm, young Mason Lewis and his grandmother found the first buttercup of 2017 to be reported to The Odessa Record. Mason is the son of Tim and Jennifer Lewis of Odessa and the grandson of Rick and Marilyn Smith of Odessa. His older sister Morgan also brought in the first buttercup a couple of years ago....
Kennewick, WA – After an eight-hour day of continually presenting their research to experts in the field, the student scientists from the Advanced STEM Research Laboratory at Odessa High School exhibited their academic prowess in science and engineering at the Mid-Columbia Regional Science and Engineering Fair on Thursday, March 9, 2017. Over 100 high school student researchers represented the finest scientific minds vying for top prizes in STEM-related categories. There are three rounds of judging, each round with more a...
The Odessa Volunteer Fire Department held its seventh annual equipment auction Saturday, March 4, and was able to draw a better crowd than had been expected thanks to some last-minute additions to the list of items for sale. Only one of the items in the auction failed to sell. After last year’s auction that included several estate sales and vehicles from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the firefighters were expecting that this year might look like a flop in comparison. They were therefore pleasantly surprised when sev...
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 6: Deputies investigated a machine shop burglary on Corbett Draw Road in the Almira area. Three sheets of plywood were reported missing. Someone stole a trailer hitch valued at abo...
To the Editor: Upon reading all the comments and letters from all the Democrat supporters claiming the Republicans were holding up progress all these years, we have finally got the safest and best country to live in. Now since have President Trump in office, all you read and hear is that it’s Trump’s fault; he’s to blame for everything. So under those circumstances we only have one person to watch. And our economy is sure to improve because of all the money the Democrats are spending on travel expenses, and the money being...
A crowd filled the cafeteria of the Odessa schools March 8 for the special meeting called by the Harrington and Odessa School Boards for the purpose of discussing further the athletic cooperative between the two districts. The group was about evenly represented by people from Harrington and Odessa. Both communities have had open meetings in their respective towns this winter to discuss various aspects of the cooperative (see sidebar for the report by Mark Smith of the Davenport Times on the Harrington meeting). The meeting wa...
With the White Knuckle and Frostbite races set to begin the weekend of March 25-26 and the Desert 100 endurance race coming to town the following weekend, the members of the Odessa Town Council met Monday evening and approved an ordinance allowing the riding of off-road vehicles such as dirt bikes, as long as they are properly equipped, to drive on Odessa’s streets, thereby making it possible for more of the race visitors to come into town for shopping or any kinds of events that might be taking place. Recent changes in s...
On March 20, quilters from all over the northwest will converge on Odessa for the 22nd straight time to quilt their hearts out. This will be the 22nd year of the annual event. Quilting begins at 6 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m. and takes place at the Odessa Community Center. The Odessa Quilt Club sponsors the event, providing the venue, coffee, tea, water and sweet rolls for the crowd. A potluck lunch is served buffet style at noon, and leftovers are brought back out for the evening meal at about 6 p.m. To help defray the cost of r...
Student-led conferences for Odessa school children in pre-school through grade 11 have been set for Wednesday, March 29, through Friday, March 31. School will be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. on these days. All of the students have been scheduled for a specific conference time. Parents should receive a designated date and time slip from each child’s homeroom teacher or the office. Those who have not received a date and time slip by the end of March 17 are asked to please call Linnie Largent at 982-2603 or Chris Luiten at 9...
The January 29 community forum on the future of Deutschesfest resulted in lots of feedback and ideas for improvement. The comments received were compiled last week by the author and Lise Ott. Next week, we hope to offer clarification of some of the suggestions and provide a basic framework for volunteering to take on some of these tasks. Biergarten Quality of bands has not improved – has really declined. Whiskey D & the 8 Balls cleared the Biergarten out last year. Raise the gate $5, $10, $15 – people will pay it (Le...
The Odessa schools will present Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr. on Tuesday, March 30, at 10 a.m. (limited seating) and 7 p.m. (open seating). Ellen Holman is directing approximately 40 students from grades 2-12 in the one-hour musical based on the 2008 Broadway production and the 1989 animated film. The Little Mermaid Jr. takes place in a magical kingdom beneath the sea, where Ariel, the young mermaid princess, longs to leave the ocean to live in the world above. She’ll have to defy her father, King Triton, escape from the...
Odessa HS FBLA put in a lot of hard work this year with the seventh grade class for their American Enterprise Project. The topic this year was fair trade, a type of business operation for trade in which fair prices are paid to producers in developing countries. It is a trading partnership based on transparency and respect that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to and securing the rights of, marginalized producers and workers. FBLA membe...
