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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, Jan. 4: After a Wilbur woman told dispatchers that her husband had not returned home the previous night, she found him sleeping in a chair in their garage. No injuries were reported after a v...
Janet P. Heimbigner, age 91, passed away January 4, 2016 in Odessa. Her home is in Odessa. She was born January 2, 1925 in Odessa to Karl and Pauline (Paulsen) Rodeck. Janet grew up on the Rodeck family farm west of Odessa and attended school in Odessa, graduating from Odessa High School in 1944. She then went to Eastern Washington College of Education (now EWU) and received her B.A. in Education in 1948. Janet married Ralph Heimbigner December 31, 1947, and they made their...
The Lady Titans won their conference game against Cusick Friday, January 8, in Harrington and lost a non-conference away game against Republic Saturday, January 9. O-H 10 11 13 22 56 Cusick 8 10 9 15 42 On Friday, Katie DeWulf helped lead her team to victory over Cusick, scoring almost a third of Odessa-Harrington's 56 points with 18. She also had four rebounds, six assists, two steals and a block, followed closely by Lanessa Simon who had a double-double with 15 points and 10...
The O-H Titan boys basketball team lost both of their conference games on Friday, January 8, and Saturday, January 9. The first loss of the weekend was to the Cusick Panthers who shut out the Titans in the third quarter while scoring 22 points of their own. Colton Hunt led the Titans with 13 points, 10 rebounds and five steals, followed by Colt Sanford with 10 points, seven rebounds, one steal and three blocks. Jayd Jennings had two points, two rebounds, one assist and one ste...
Opera House Society The Society held their first meeting of the new year January 4, with new president Billie Herron at the helm. Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Gordon Herron, Carol, Linda Wagner, Karen Robertson and Marge Womach also were present. The final payment for the grand piano for the opera house was made December 16, although donations continue to come in for that project. Wagner said she is working on the newsletter and Robertson will provide photos. Gordon Herron, head of the building committee,...
Dissatisfaction with government has a long history in this country. Henry David Thoreau noted this in his 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience,” where he claimed that to achieve “at once a better government,” individuals first have to become more just themselves before the government will follow suit. He further suggested that people needed to live their faith, not give lip service to it. Then the State would be just to all and “treat each individual with respect as a neighbor.” However, being just with one another and treating ea...
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, Dec. 28: Responding to the 100 block of Main Street, Davenport ambulance personnel assisted an 86-year-old woman who was experiencing chest pains. Washington State Patrol and Sprague ambulance...
Scott Heimbigner passed away doing what he loved most, hunting, on Tuesday, December 29, 2015. The youngest of four boys, Scott was born in Spokane on September 17, 1956 to Norma Jean (Couch) and Jonah Walder Heimbigner. He graduated from Odessa High School and Eastern Washington University. Through friends, he met and married Sherie (Winters). They would be celebrating 30 years of marriage in June. As an avid hunter, he spent as much time as possible filling his tags and his...
The Chamber of Commerce community celebration on New Year's Eve featured awards for the following: Business of the Year, Odessa Auto Parts; Volunteer of the Year, Marcus Horak; First Responder of the Year, Joe Schlomer; Educator of the Year, Ellen Holman and Student of the Year, Casey Schlomer. After the awards, the band played, the crowd danced and visited and played games. Raffle prizes were awarded. At midnight, Chiefs Bar & Grill personnel distributed champagne for all...
Janet Heimbigner died January 4, 2016, at the age of 91 at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center. Services will be held at Christ Lutheran Church in Odessa January 23 at 1 p.m. Full obituary will follow next week....
The Record has a new look beginning this week. We have changed over to a somewhat narrower format that will save us a little on our printing costs. We have maintained our six columns, but they are just a smidgen narrower than before. We will get the new advertising dimensions to our clients as soon as we have worked everything out. The question posed by one of our readers last week regarding the clearing of snow from SR 28 brought forth an explanation from another town resident who said an equipment failure had put a snow...
January January of 2015 began with community members being asked to meet with professional survey takers representing the Odessa health care facilities. Informal meetings were held with different groups of citizens each time to discuss health care needs and ways to meet those needs. The Odessa Chamber of Commerce held its New Year’s Eve celebration in the community center. Awards voted by members of the community at large went to Lise Ott’s quilt store ‘Experience Quilts!’ for Business of the Year, to Abby Reyes for First R...
Since at least 1879, with Adam Ludy and other Harrington pioneers, three simple words, Happy New Year, have echoed through the locale. Some winters, the greeting was delayed when heavy winter snows prevented people from circulating. In 1889, a Harrington news item bemoaned the new year with “Christmas is now over and the New Year is here with its many adversities and prosperities.” Once the town of Harrington was established, well before its incorporation in 1902, people would meet and greet on the earthen streets or boa...
Washington State University Extension and the WSU Oilseed Cropping Systems (WOCS) project are hosting workshops about canola and other oilseed production, marketing and end-use at three locations in late January: Colfax, Odessa and Dayton. Topics that are specific to each region were selected based on input from regional growers, industry and university faculty. Depending on the workshop location, crops covered will include winter and spring canola, winter and spring rapeseed, mustard and flax, and how those oilseeds will fit...
After a 10-year battle against cancer, Judith Ann Iverson passed away the afternoon of December 23, 2015. Born to Bill and Lucile Iverson at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane on May 3, 1947, she thrived with her brothers David, Larry and Norman and sister Sandy on their farm south of Lamona, in Lincoln County. She attended Odessa schools, graduating in 1965. Graduated in 1967 from Concordia College in Portland, Ore., she continued her education at Concordia Teacher's College in...
Nancy Elizabeth Liner 07/13/1945 – 12/18/2015 On December 18, 2015, surrounded by family, Nancy went to be with our Lord and Savior. Nancy was born in Spokane on Friday the 13th of July, 1945 to Herb and Millie (LeBret) Lyons. On December 18, 51years ago, Nancy met Gerald Liner at the Church of the Nazarene in Zillah, Wash. On their third date, New Year's Eve 1964, Gerald asked Nancy to be his wife. They were married in Deer Park on May 14, 1965. During their 50 years t...
Russell Thorson (80) died Saturday, December 19, 2015. He was born October 8, 1935 to Milton and Evelyn Thorson on their farm in Lake Crystal, Minn. Russell began painting with his father at age 12 and discovered he had a knack for it. He excelled as a marine painter. He restored a Deadliest Catch fishing vessel, was a member of the Tacoma Painter's Union Local #164 and started his own painting business. When he relocated to Odessa in 2002, his painting skills helped to...
After several years of no or very little snow for Christmas, Odessa has finally had a white one. Much welcome snow began coming down in mid-December. Right before the holiday, there was snow, then warm enough temperatures to melt some of the snow, then some very wet snow or a mix of rain and snow (those who shoveled any of it know how heavy it was), followed by a cold snap and more snow. So now folks are having to drive on streets that did not all get cleared and have deep rut...
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, Dec. 21: Reardan emergency personnel assisted Spokane County authorities with a one-vehicle slide-off on U.S. 2 and Coulee Hite Road. No injuries were reported after a semi-truck went off SR...
Elizabeth Jane Graves Gabe, age 95, passed away peacefully December 25, 2015 at Odessa Memorial Hospital in Odessa. She was born May 19, 1920 in O’Neill, Neb., the daughter of William Brown Graves and Julia Ann (Buckley) Graves. She is survived by her brother Howard Graves of Sioux City, Iowa, daughters Karen (Ron) Baumgartner of Fraser, Mich. and Cheryl (Neil) Jeske of Odessa, three grandchildren Lanae (Chuck) Carper, of Odessa, Michael (Becky) Jeske, of Olympia, Kimberly (Devin) Ryan, of Odessa and three g...
On the fall 2015 president’s list at Big Bend Community College, two area students were listed as having completed 12 or more graded credits with a grade-point average of 3.75 or higher: Odessa’s Jennifer Martin and Wilson Creek’s Stacy Sims....
Recently this writer viewed a photo of the Grand Social Brass Band that The Odessa Record published in its 1951 edition as the Golden Anniversary and reprinted in 8-18-1977. The photo, taken in 1901 or 1902 showed Art Kunkel, Garrett Bruchsen, Henry Reese, Joe Barto, Vincent Totusek (the band leader), Reinhold Weber, Louis Wraspir, Doc Kelley, Jake Wolsborn, Frank Quade and John H. Luiten. The Odessa Historische Museum has a great collection of early photographs. The museum also has memorabilia from Al Wagner’s band, i...
An Odessa resident asked The Record last week, after several inches of snow had fallen, why his early morning trip to a Spokane hospital, where his wife was to have minor surgery, was so treacherous and slow. In Odessa itself, he said, the major streets had been plowed and sanded. As he made his way on SR 28, he noticed that most county roads off to the side had also been tended to. The state road he was traveling, however, was a different story. Did the state not have enough employees to get the major roadways cleared, he...
Odessa High School FBLA partnerned with the Lincoln County Econcomic Development Council to address one of Lincoln County's greatest problems, "Youth Out-migration." Students are graduating from our schools and attending college but are not returning for employment. This leaves many positions unfilled or filled by commuters, which is a detriment to our economy. A career fair was hosted last year, and the feedback from students was that they liked the fair but wanted to see...
For 14 years, coach Mark Poth has draped a basketball jersey over a chair, and his Vikings players have tapped the #40 jersey as they were introduced for the Ryan Floch Memorial Games. The chair and jersey stay next to Poth until the handshakes at the end of the game. The 15th and final Ryan Floch Memorial Basketball Games will be played January 2, 2016 at Big Bend Community College. The women play the BBCC Alumni team at 2 p.m., and the men play against the Alumni team at 4...
