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Odessa High School's 13 graduating seniors celebrated the beginning of their new futures June 4 in the school gymnasium (see page 4 for pictures and student speeches). Some will further their education and some will go straight into the workforce. AnnaRenée Bockman will attend Studio Beauty School. Directly entering the workforce will be Hunter Bramer, Johnathon Brightwell, Garrett Gross and Caleb McNeil.Heading to Spokane Falls Community College are Casey Schlomer and Paige...
Today our class comes together one last time to celebrate how far we have come. Some of us have been together since preschool, while others have joined us along the way. We are a very diverse group, but one of the things we have in common is that today we are all receiving our diploma from Odessa High School. After today, some of us will go to a four year university, some will go to community college or trade school, and others will enter the workforce, but Odessa will remain...
A niece of former Odessa resident Noreen Groh submitted a story of recognition Groh received recently at Touchmark on South Hill Retirement Community in Spokane. She was honored as Resident of the Month for June 2016 by the Resident Council, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the quality of life at Touchmark. At a ceremony announcing the honor, council vice president Don Rice described her outgoing nature and friendly, warm, welcoming...
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, May 30: Trader’s Express in Davenport was given erroneous information by a driver who attempted to leave with a gas nozzle still in the vehicle’s tank, breaking it off. No one was hurt af...
Connie Tschritter, 66, a longtime Marlin resident, passed away Saturday, June 4, 2016, at home. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, June 13, 2016 at Heritage Church, 302 S. First Street in Odessa. Please sign the online guestbook or leave a note for the family at www.kayserschapel.com. Arrangements are in the care of Kayser’s Chapel & Crematory. Connie was born in Spokane Sept. 16, 1949, the daughter of Laurence and Louella (Haase) Smith. She married Don Tschritter, and they made their home in Marlin. Connie e...
Athletes from the Odessa-Harrington track and field team and their parents and friends were presented with end-of-season awards at a backyard barbecue Friday, June 1, at the home of their head coach Travis Schuh. Most Valuable Player awards went to Gaven Elder for the boys and Lanessa Simon for the girls. The Captain’s award for the combined team went to Lanessa Simon. Most Inspirational awards went to Shelbey Watkins for the girls and Sage Elder for the boys. Cole Kissler w...
The Odessa School District announces the sponsorship of the Simplified Summer Food Program for Children. Meals will be made available at no charge to attending children 18 years of age and younger. In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its agencies, offices and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age o...
November 28, 1950 - May 26, 2016 Patsy Hoefel was born in Odessa on November 28, 1950 to Harold and Emogene Hoefel. She passed away in Seattle on May 26, 2016. Patsy is survived by her sister Karen and good friends Patrick and Margie Leach and numerous cousins and friends. Patsy is preceded in death by her parents, Harold and Emogene. Patsy grew up in Odessa, attended school there and graduated at Odessa High School in 1969. At that time she pursued her passion for teaching an...
Odessa High School graduates 13 students Saturday morning at 11 a.m. in the school gymnasium. In addition to the awarding of diplomas, the program will include a song dedicated to the graduates composed and performed by two of their teachers, Larry Moffet and Jeff Wehr. The students themselves have compiled a video retrospective of their own lives that will also be shown. As in years past, the students will give flowers to members of the audience who have guided them on their...
For the second year in a row, the Odessa High School Chapter of FBLA has been selected as one of the six top winners in the nationwide Lead2Feed program. The Odessa community is invited to join a celebration of the students' achievement this Friday, June 3, from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in the school multipurpose room. The student-led leadership projects resulted in awards of $275,000 in grant prizes for U.S. non-profits and $170,000 in technology packages for winning schools. Six s...
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, May 23: Dispatchers took another report of an IRS scam incident from a Davenport resident. Executing a search warrant at a residence in the 1000 block of Thirteenth Street in Davenport, dep...
As the 80th alumni banquet nears, you’re about to honor 20 of Odessa’s most talented athletes! As a member of the class of ‘67, I’m compelled to write about the “intense” bullying a group of us endured by a few members of the class of ‘66! The constant bullying started in the sixth grade [and continued] through high school, PE and sports events! It left me with lasting scars and a struggle to attain a positive self-image. You know who you are bullies. An apology to me and the others would be nice! I understand that anti-bul...
The 2016 FFA Awards were given out at the awards night May 26, 2016 at school. Membership degrees were awarded as follows: Discovery degrees for junior high membership went to Jakob Starkel, Kaitlyn Zagelow and Ben Melgren, with Starkel receiving the outstanding discovery degree pin. Greenhand degrees for first-year membership at the high school level went to Isabelle Talancon, Maleah Davison, Garrett Gross, Rochelle Schuh, Anna-Renee Bockman, Theron Schlomer and Lane Lobe. Schuh received the outstanding greenhand pin....
If you’ve lived in Odessa for any length of time, then you know who Paul Hopp is. I’ve never heard anyone utter as much as one cross word about Paul. To know him is to love him, and if you don’t love him, you don’t know him. With a passion for woodwork, Paul is normally covered in wood chips or blanketed in sawdust. He is also the kind of guy with a hand to lend, a grin on his face and a genuine smile for everybody. He will also readily hand out a good teasing and fully e...
May 15-21, 2016 is the 42nd annual National EMS Week. In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized EMS Week to celebrate Emergency Medical Services practitioners and the important work they do in our nation's communities. Back then, EMS was a new profession, and EMS practitioners had only just started to be recognized as a critical component of emergency medicine and the public health safety net. A lot has changed since then. EMS is now firmly established as an essential public...
Reporting to the Odessa Town Council on May 9, Lise Ott, chair of the Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society said that after struggling for a year or so to keep the group together, a group of knowledgeable and energetic people has come together to assist with the project. Faye King serves as the secretary/treasurer, and the other members are Marlene Kramer, Nancy Smith, Paul Scheller, Kathy Ratkowski, Terria Smith and Lynn Allen. Ott says the group is still hoping to find a member who has grant-writing experience. The project...
Over the past five months, Advanced STEM Researcher and Odessa High School junior Cole Kissler has been taking a rigorous online course developed by NASA and the University of Washington, considered Phase One of the Washington State Aerospace Scholars Program. Washington Aerospace Scholars is an educational program for public and private high school juniors across Washington state. The program emphasizes science, technology, engineering and math, and encourages students to...
Dorothy Francis Frederick was born in Chicago, Ill. on October 4, 1913 to Matt and Katherine Mandernach. She passed away in Odessa on May 12, 2016. Dorothy is survived by a son, Bill (Cindy) Giles, a daughter, Loretta (Tony) Weber; two granddaughters, Toni Weber and Robin (Charles) King and two great grandsons, CJ and Zachary. Dorothy is preceded in death by her husband, William Frederick in 1989, along with several brothers and sisters. Dorothy and William farmed in the...
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, May 9: Reardan emergency personnel assisted Spokane County authorities who discovered a vehicle off the roadway on Coulee Hite Road with the driver at the wheel. A collision involving a veh...
It is that time of the year again. The 80th annual alumni banquet is approaching fast and will be held Saturday, June 18. Invitation letters to alumni for whom we have addresses have been mailed. If you are an Odessa High School graduate and would like to be included in the alumni database, please get your information to Leffel, Otis & Warwick as soon as possible. If you have moved, had a name change or know of someone who has passed away, please contact us with any changes. You can contact the office by phone at...
Odessa’s Travis Schuh turned in the fastest time among Odessa and Lincoln County runners in Spokane’s Bloomsday race May 1. He finished his race in 48:55, narrowly outpacing Davenport’s 18-year-old Nathan Hopkins who had a time of 50:07. Almira’s Darren McCall finished in 1:05:34, Creston’s Alicia Rosman in 1:21:21, Edwall’s Mariah Wollweber in 1:31:42, Harrington’s Jaeger Jacobson in 1:09:45, Reardan’s Carson Torkelson in 1:17:40, Sprague’s Tracey Korthuis in 1:12:36 and Wilbur’s Eric Wyborney in 1:00:12. Schuh plac...
The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame, approximately a year in the making, is about to induct its inaugural class of athletes, coaches, teams and contributors at the annual alumni banquet to be held June 18 in the Odessa Community Center. A committee headed by chairman Bruce Todd, athletic director at Odessa High School, has been meeting about once each month since March of 2015 to lay the groundwork for the hall of fame. Vice chairman Jon Heimbigner, an OHS alumnus, has contributed his expertise in establishing sports halls of...
The O-H Titans hosted the NE 1B championship meet in Davenport May 3, competing against 11 teams, including Almira/Coulee Hartline, Columbia (Hunters), Curlew, Cusick, Inchelium, Northport, Republic, Selkirk, Valley Christian and Wellpinit. The top teams for the boys were Valley Christian first with 168 points, Odessa-Harrington second with 123, Selkirk third with 96.5. Wellpinit and Republic took the fourth and fifth positions, respectively. For the girls, first place went...
The silver anniversary of the wine tasting, microbrew tasting and auction put on by the Odessa Healthcare Foundation to benefit the local medical campus was a well-attended event again this year. After 25 years, the event has not gotten stale or dated. The brews and wine flowed, as did the conversation. Clark Kagele did his usual stellar job of emceeing the event, and Jacob Barth of Yarbro Auctioneers returned again this year to serve as auctioneer, a profession he learned at his grandfather’s knee. Some of the funds r...
Each year in May, our nation sets aside a moment to celebrate National Hospital Week. The national theme this year is “Health Care from the Heart” – which is something that the employees at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center do very well every day of the year. Please join in thanking the dedicated professionals who stand ready to care for friends, neighbors and visitors at all hours of every day. “I am proud to say that our staff provides care from the heart all the time,” said Mo Sheldon, CEO of OMHC. A hospital is more than...
