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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, July 18: A Creston man reported a storage unit in the 300 block of SW C Street had been broken into. A lock was cut off and the contents rummaged through, with some items stolen. A caller repo...
The article from OMHC on bullying was great. I would add one thing. Bullying is committed by all ages, not just children. Most of us learn it before pre-school, from peers and our living environment. Some of us continue it for our whole life. We are all different and unique in our own way. Take Bill Gates of Microsoft and Steve Jobs of Apple. Both were labeled odd, nerds. Look at them. We should not be afraid to be ourselves, ever. Let’s all stop and think. THINK T - IS IT TRUTHFUL? H - IS IT HELPFUL? I - IS IT INSPIRING? N...
We in this country don’t build walls. We tear them down. As a matter of fact, we have talked other countries into tearing down their walls. So why would we even think of building a wall here in the United States? Are you going to let some fool tell you that this country is not great? I sure as heck am not! I know this country works best when we all work as one. Heck, man, we’ve done it lots of times. The last time was right after 9/11. Don’t you believe and have faith that we have it within us to do it again? I know that...
1 years ago The Odessa Record July 21, 1916 Back from Ellensburg: Ye editor and family returned Sunday evening from Ellensburg where they attended the thirtieth annual meeting of the Washington State Press Association, making the trip overland. Inquiries before starting as to the condition of the Vantage ferry road, received all kinds of answers from good to bad and indifferent, and making the trip proved that all were right at least in spots. With the exception, however,...
Mark Alan Wagner died June 30, 2016 at Hospice House North in Spokane at the age of 62. He was born on January 10, 1954 to Roscoe and Blanche Wagner (both deceased). Mark has a brother, Randy Wagner and is survived by Robert Wagner and wife, Christine; niece Michelle and her husband, Jacob Beitinger and their children, Eliana and Holden. He was raised in Odessa and graduated from high school in 1972. Mark played football and basketball (played at state tournaments in 1971),...
Sandi Smith's farewell was celebrated on Thursday, July 7. She started her career at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center in 1992 by taking the nurse aide course with Diana Finkbeiner, RN as her instructor. After a brief job change in 1995, she came back to OMHC, still as a nurse aide, and later decided to pursue a career in activities for long term care patients. Ultimately, she earned her "Activity Director Certification" and then became the Activity Department Director in...
The Odessa area wheat crop is now being harvested and delivered to the town's two grain cooperatives. The Odessa Trading Company (a division of Ritzville Warehouse) received an initial load of club wheat on July 1 in the Batum area southwest of Odessa, according to marketing manager Mark Cronrath. He estimates that about 30 to 35 percent of the wheat harvest has already been delivered to the Trading Company's rural and in-town stations. Over at the Odessa Union Warehouse,...
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, July 11: EMTs from Reardan and Edwall assisted Davenport ambulance personnel in caring for a 67-year-old Edwall woman suffering severe abdominal pain. A Davenport woman reported she was the...
Herman W. Schmierer, passed away July 18, 2016, in Odessa where he has lived for all 95 of his years. Funeral services will be held Monday, July 25, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church in Odessa with Pastor Tim Hauge officiating. Graveside services will follow at 3:30 p.m. at Fairmount Memorial Park, 5200 W. Wellesley in Spokane. Memorials may be made to the Christ Lutheran Church or to the Odessa Museum. Please sign the online guestbook at www.stratefuneralhome.com. Strate Funeral Home in Davenport is caring for...
EWU Dean’s List Graduates of Odessa High School and Harrington High School attending Eastern Washington State University have been named to the Dean’s List. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours and acheives a grade point average of 3.5 or better is placed on the Dean’s List for the quarter. Odessa: Jacob DeWulf, Koralynne Kuch, Garrison Schmierer, Marci Steinbach and Carley Williams. Harrington: Jennifer Adams and Sidney Morris. WSU President’s List Area students attending Washington State University who hav...
I was asked a question last week about our ads for staff and thought it might be helpful to discuss the continuing need for OMHC employees, especially in the nursing department. The workforce shortage was even a topic of discussion at a recent rural hospital CEO round-table. The American population living today has advantages that none before us has had. We live in a time of tremendous medical advances which allow us to live longer and with a greater quality of life than ever before. In addition, the healthcare industry is...
WARDEN – Farmers, local dignitaries and water managers celebrated construction of the new Lind Coulee Siphon complex. It’s part of a 10-year effort to bring surface water to hundreds of deep-well irrigators now relying on a declining aquifer known as the Odessa Subarea. With the flip of a switch and raising of a gate, water from the Columbia River poured through newly built siphons to be delivered to farmers growing potatoes, corn, alfalfa and seed crops in the rolling hills near Warden in eastern Washington. “Today beaut...
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, June 27: A Davenport woman reported receiving fraudulent phone calls from someone identifying themselves as with “Children’s Chance.” Aboard a house boat in the river north of Hawk Creek cam...
Rhonda Freeman arrived in Odessa from Miami, Florida. She says Odessa is quite a contrast to Miami, but a welcome one. She is married and has four children ranging in age from 26 to 41, three girls and one boy. She has been a registered nurse for 33 years and a nurse practitioner for four years. She had worked for 27 years at the hospital she left to come to Odessa. She and her husband agreed that some traveling would be a great way to experience different areas ofthe...
William "Bill" Jessett died June 8, 2016. He was 88. He was born April 28, 1928, in Pullman. He was the oldest of three sons born to Alfred William Jessett and Elma Newkirk Jessett. He spent his childhood and teen years in Odessa, graduating from Odessa High School as valedictorian. Bill attended Washington State College for several years before moving to Washougal, the home of his grandparents. Bill worked at the Crown Zellerbach (Georgia-Pacific)paper mill for 30 years,...
(Washington, DC) – The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) recently honored Sam Smith as the recipient of the Harold R. Gordon Memorial Award at the 86th Annual Convention in Albuquerque, NM. This award is the health insurance industry's most meaningful and significant honor. NAHU annually awards the industry's greatest accolade, the Harold R. Gordon Memorial Award, which recognizes the recipient as the industry's "Person of the Year." The recipient is s...
re Center and members of the Odessa community said good-bye to Dr. Linda Powell in the hospital atrium June 29, showing appreciation for her years of dedication and commitment to providing quality healthcare and being an active member of the community for the past 24 years! Powell's dedication to the patients of the community is perhaps most exemplified by her time spent as the primary and only resident town doctor. She ensured that there was always a provider available to...
Finally everything is posted at 3:05 a.m., and FBLA advisor Terry King and the other chaperones and helpers are so proud of the 21 students who have worked so hard to make this trip to the National Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The competition is crazy, with 100-120 teams in the various events and only 14-16 making it to the finals. At the end of the event, there were some very happy faces and some very sad ones. These teams made it into the finals: the Community...
In the past 16 years, the Odessa Public Development Authority has been able to assist several private entities in the construction of their operational space through funding provided by the Washington State Department of Commerce’s Community Economic Revitalization Board and the Washington State Department of Agriculture. The majority of these projects are thriving in our area and providing much needed jobs and commerce to Odessa and Lincoln County. The Odessa group’s projects have been going through exciting changes rec...
Now that school is out, Odessa parents and school-aged children are asked to please remember that riding bicycles on sidewalks in the downtown business district can be extremely hazardous. According to reports by some local business owners, there have already been some very close calls, mostly involving elderly citizens. Children also need to be reminded that most doors to those businesses downtown open outward toward the street. If a child zipping down the sidewalk on a bike is hit by someone opening the door while leaving...
I hope that the residents of Odessa appreciate the people who work at the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center. I was recently a resident there for two months receiving physical therapy after a difficult hip replacement. I have never been in a medical facility where everyone is so helpful and caring, and I’m truly talking about everyone. There are a number of medical facilities that could learn a lot on patient care from the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center. I would like to personally thank each and every employee of OMHC f...
Every Wednesday from June 29 through August 3, the Odessa Public Library will host its annual Summer Reading Program. “On Your Mark, Get Set, READ” will allow children to explore all things sports and fitness while incorporating a love of reading all at the same time. Activities will include learning about sports/games, costume contests, craft projects, experiments, even a sock hop. Prizes will be awarded for a wide range of activities, such as completing weekly reading logs/challenges, presenting book reports to the gro...
The recent power outages that have plagued Odessa over the past few weeks are still being investigated by local Avista representative Sam Mullins and his colleagues. An area outside of town was pinpointed, but replacement of nearly every piece of equipment at that location has failed to fix the problem. Mullins said that a new testing gun was set to arrive Wednesday in hopes that a solution could be found. That means that power could fail again Thursday morning when the testing takes place. Everyone at Avista was stumped,...
The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the high school library at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, 2016. The meeting was preceded by a half-hour workshop for the purpose of budget preparation and review of the facilities/grounds project list to be completed over the summer. It was attended by superintendent Dan Read, principal Jamie Nelson, facilities director Justin Parr and board members Ed Deife, Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Janie Steward. Following the workshop, school business manager Juli...
The Odessa pool opened June 19, under the direction of this year’s pool manager Katelyn Worley and her assistants Casey Schlomer and Shelbey Watkins. Lifeguards this year are Maleah Davison, Parker Valverde, Patrick Valverde, Alayna Watkins, McKennah Davison, Rebecca Fortner, Brenna Carstensen, Mya Boss and Natosha Boss. As in past years, the pool will be closed Mondays. Open swimming for all ages will be offered Tuesdays-Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m. and again from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. Adults only s...
