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ears to be in store for Odessa residents. Sore throats, colds and a bit of flu have kept many indoors for days at a time. Russian Tea is an old-fashioned and comforting citrus-infused beverage, “good for what ails you,” as the saying goes. Popular recipes from the 1960s relied on powdered orange and lemon mixes quite high in sugar content. Recently a member of a closed Facebook quilting group I belong to shared her grandmother’s recipe using fruit juices. The recipe has been...
ACH At home in Odessa Thursday, January 10, the Titan girls lost to ACH by a final score of 25-73. The game was a make-up date for the previous Tuesday's canceled game due to the weather. O-H 16 1 8 0 25 ACH 26 20 27 0 73 McKennah Davison led the Titan offense with 10 points, while Maleah Davison had seven. Caitlyn Schuh led in rebounds with five. Valley Christian On Friday, January 20, the girls played Valley Christian in Spokane Valley, losing 51-16. The statistics for this...
Dwayne S Giese was born August 27, 1943, in Spokane to Adie and Anna Giese. He passed away Sunday, January 22, 2017. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother Merlin and wife Amy. He is survived by two sisters, Vicki Raugust and Patsy Scott; three daughters, Tammy Giese, Lora Giese and Jamie Fukofuka; and five grandchildren, Jessica and Christopher Porter and Laiatea Fukofuka (children of Jamie). Zak and Axl Simmons (children of Tammy); and numerous nieces and nephews....
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, Jan. 16: Responding to the 200 block of West Willis, Harrington ambulance personnel assisted a woman who suffered a possible seizure. A vehicle traveling on U.S. 2 went into a ditch near Rob...
Marlin Carmen Eckhart and Ken Thompson found themselves topping the scores for the Marlin Gun Club Sunday, January 22, with each of them shooting a perfect 25. Mike French was right behind them as the only club member to shoot 24. Shooting 23 were Rich Swanson, Jim Imbert, Jan Jensen, Doug Brashear, Dave Asker, Mark Brashear, Bill James, Cody Follett, Mark Iksic, MacKenze Bemis, Cory Shearer and Travis Iksic. Scott Mortimer, Mark Edwins and Jeff Norley all shot 22, while Jakob Starkel, Dan Asker, Ron Lesser, Chase Janett,...
Carol J. Costlow (73) died January 17, 2017 in Odessa. Memorial services are pending. Full obituary will follow next week....
People of Odessa, we have reached a turning point. Well, perhaps I should say that we have reached an intersection. It’s up to this community, not just a few people, to decide which way to go. Each and every one of you will have the opportunity to help make that decision January 29. For 45 years, Deutschesfest has been Odessa’s biggest and best-known community event, at one time bringing thousands of people to our town to enjoy a day or a weekend, to eat great food, meet gre...
October The Harrington Opera House elevator was installed and passed final inspection prior to a gala celebration held October 1 to dedicate both the elevator and the Boston grand piano designed by Steinway that had been purchased over the summer. State representatives Tom Dent and Matt Manweller and state senator Judy Warnick were on hand for the event. Guided by Opera House Society member Gordon Herron, the three legislators cut the ceremonial ribbon to open the elevator for public use. Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center con...
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. It’s a Sunday in May, 1980, the Mt. St. Helens historic day. How did it start out for Clarence Eugene Lobe, Pat Gies, Don Schibel, Joyce Kiesz Fisher? All people related to the L-B-D. As for Joyce and I, it was around 9 a.m. when over the radio, we were told to look west toward Yakima, Washington. At the time, Joyce and I with our c...
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, Jan. 9: Responding to the 700 block of NE North Avenue, Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted an elderly woman who had fallen and became “extremely disoriented.” A woman asked for a snowplo...
Wellpinit The Titan varsity boys lost to Wellpinit at home in Odessa Tuesday, January 10, by a final score of 70-77. Ryan Moffet led all scorers with 41 points, but it was not enough to overcome an early deficit in which Wellpinit led 22-9 after the first quarter. The Titans came back with a 30-point fourth quarter, but time ran out. O-H 9 19 12 30 70 Wellp 22 21 12 22 77 Colton Hunt had 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Titans, while John DeWulf contrtibuted eight points and...
Over the past few weeks before the winter break, Odessa High School and Junior High School students were busy conducting independent science research entitled the Second Quarter Research Project. This project is designed to encapsulate the knowledge and the ability to formulate a testable research question, design and execute an experiment with quantifiable results, scientifically compare the experimental results with a control method and discuss their findings with the rest...
Charles (Chuck) Alfred Carnes passed away peacefully at 9 a.m. on January 7, 2017, at the age of 81 years. Born in Pasco on May 21, 1935, to Alfred and Pearl Carnes, Chuck passed away after a three-and-a-half-year battle with kidney failure while in Odessa Memorial Hospital. Chuck is survived by his wife Irene of Odessa, sister Carol (Bob) Hale of Kettle Falls, numerous nephews, nieces and cousins, in addition to three brothers-in-law: Ron (Jerrene) Ramm, Jack Ramm and Fred...
The fall 2016 honor roll list at Spokane Community College includes more than 2,300 students who must earn a 3.0 grade-point average or higher. Dylan Shockley and Daren Foley of Harrington and Caleb Singer of Odessa are local-area students who have been named to the honor roll. Community Colleges of Spokane is a 12,300-square-mile state community college district that includes Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College and six rural education sites serving residents in Pend Oreille, Stevens, Whitman, Ferry...
Wellpinit At home in Odessa Tuesday, January 10, the Titan girls lost to Wellpinit by a final score of 55-81. O-H 16 19 6 14 55 Wellp 19 14 17 31 81 Maleah Davison led the Titan offense with 23 points, while Caitlyn Schuh added 15 points. Defensively, three Titans were strong on rebounding, with Maleah and McKennah Davison and Alayna Watkins each getting nine rebounds. Cusick On Friday, January 13, the team played in Cusick and got their third win of the season by a final score of 51-30. Maleah Davison had the hot hand, as sh...
July Dr. Linda Powell, having served Odessa and its vicinity for the past 24 years, had given her notice to the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center and was celebrated on June 30 in the hospital atrium. She and her husband Steven Powell moved to Salmon, Idaho, where she joined a group practice of several other medical doctors. Two separate teams of students involved in the Odessa High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America won first place in the nation at the National Leadership Conference held this year in...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce, at its most recent meeting on January 10, held another lengthy discussion of its financial situation. As the Odessa Deutschesfest continues to decline in popularity, despite valiant efforts by the members of the Chamber board and those members who participate regularly in its meetings, the revenues of the Chamber continue to decline in lock-step. Last year, in fact, the Desert 100 hospitality tent made more money for the Chamber than did the Biergarten during Fest, according to Chamber...
The Dean’s List at Eastern Washington University is released after every fall, winter and spring quarter. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours and receives a grade-point average of 3.5 or better is placed on the Dean’s List for the quarter. For the fall 2016 quarter (which ended December 9, 2016), the following local area students were on the Dean’s List. From Odessa: Jacob DeWulf, Justin Hunt, Koralynne Kuch and Carley Williams. From Harrington: Jennifer Adams, Joseph Cronrath and Sidney Morri...
Last Sunday’s shooters at the Odessa and Marlin Gun Clubs were very cold, but they nevertheless participated in week two of the annual Spokesman-Review regional trapshooting contest. Odessa No shooters achieved a perfect 25, but TJ Main did manage a 24. Shooring 23 were Landon Lobe, Brady Gies, Jared Praetorius and Deanna Lobe. Shooting 22 were Traig Weishaar, Bill Weber, Tina Wentworth and Jon Fink. Lane Lobe and Brian Wraspir each shot 21. Finishing at 20 and under were Deric Schmierer, Matt Messer, Pilot Weishaar, C...
Marvin was a good friend and supporter when I was stationed in Odessa with the Washington State Patrol. I enjoyed and respected all of the Fink family. Odessa and Lincoln County have lost a true patriot. RIP, my good friend. Dennis and Sandy English...
In December, the Columbia Basin Development League’s Board of Trustees voted on recommendations from the League’s nominating committee, confirming a slate of trustees to serve on the 2017 executive committee. Kevin Lyle, Othello, who previously served as vice chair will take over leadership as the league chair, following two years of exemplary service from Orman Johnson, Connell. Lyle is the president of Windy Prairie, Inc. in Othello. Other executive committee members taking on new roles include Jeff Schibel and Clark Kag...
The Odessa Girl Scout Troop #3362 has teamed up with the Zion Emmanuel Lutheran Church to host a textile drive through Clothes for the Cause, a fundraising group that collects clothing, shoes, sheets, etc. and turns them into cash for fundraising organizations. The girls of Troop #3362 started this drive in order to help them raise funds for a trip to Washington, D.C. planned for June of 2017. They have held multiple fundraisers already to help them meet a $16,000 goal. Each...
It’s that time of year again to make a New Year’s resolution. Like the Roman god Janus, we look to our past to see what didn’t work as we hoped and then to the future with a new promise, which we probably will not keep. But we can take comfort in having good intentions. As a nation, we sometimes make promises that we don’t keep either. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had noted, one such unmet promise has yet to be fulfilled: Equality. When our Founding Fathers gave us the promissory note that “all men are created equal,” t...
April The Desert 100 motorcycle endurance race of the Stumpjumper Motorcycle Club was held the first weekend in April. The event was well attended and very few problems were reported. Odessa High School junior Molly Schafer was selected as Miss Odessa 2016. She will ride the Odessa community float in parades throughout eastern Washington during the spring and summer, spreading the word about the Odessa Deutschesfest and inviting everyone to come visit us the third weekend in September. Five Odessa High School science...
OLYMPIA – Gov. Jay Inslee and the Washington State Health Care Authority have announced a final contract that ensures the state can continue transforming health care to achieve better health, reward high-quality care and curb health care costs. “This agreement comes at a time when many people are feeling uncertainty about their health care,” Gov. Jay Inslee said. “As we work to protect the gains our nation has made in ensuring access to affordable, high-quality health care, we know that health transformation will continue in...
