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Though Christmas was a quiet day, it was a merry one, especially for the little folks of Odessa. Christmas gifts and Christmas cheer in the shape of confections, nuts and other dainties, in which the little ones entered into the occasion could not bring back memories that made all feel younger and better for the day. Christmas eve was an exceptionally joyous one for the boys and girls as the Presbyterian, Methodist and the German Congregational Sunday schools furnished their pupils and friends with Christmas trees and...
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. 2: Deputies were unable to locate a gray SUV described by a caller as having a gun sticking out a window while traveling between the school and city park in Harrington. A cow was observed walking on SR...
Each of the seven rural libraries in Adams and Lincoln counties has received extra materials on their shelves due to a grant administered by the Washington State Library, and the efforts of Carolyn Peterson, Assistant Program Manager at the State Library (carolyn.petersen@sos.wa.gov). The Washington State Library is a division of the Office of Secretary of State. "We at the State Library are very pleased to give the CLRS grants to help these libraries grow their collections...
The Titan girls basketball team started their season last weekend, December 6 and 7, with games against Republic (away) and Moses Lake Christian Academy at Big Bend Community College (for the annual Floch Memorial Games), getting one win and one loss in the process. On Friday, after trailing at the end of the first quarter, Republic came back to tie the game at the half. After a back-and-forth third quarter, the Tigers caught fire and outscored the Titans 20 to 4 in the...
In the O-H Titans' first game of the year, "the Titans played as a team," said head coach Travis Schuh. "Every starter contributed in some way statistically." Starters were juniors Carsen Weber, Trevor King, Sam Schafer and Shane Whitaker and senior Jacob DeWulf. The only other senior on the team, Madison Charlton, is recovering from knee surgery for a torn meniscus and did not suit up. Schuh said he hoped Charlton would be able to rejoin the team toward the end of the season....
Virginia Esther Parn, 91, a longtime Hoquiam area resident, died Monday, December 2, 2013, at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen. She was born June 18, 1922, in Odessa, Wash., to Jacob P. and Katherine (Lenhart) Weizel Virginia was raised on the family farm between Odessa and Ritzville. She attended school and graduated from high school in Odessa and then the Eastern Washington University in Cheney, where she earned her degree in Education. Virginia taught at Central Elementary and Lincoln Elementary Schools in...
By KATHY TAYLOR Larry and Linda Gustafson's lives are rich with history and many funny stories. Married 48 years, their love of fun and adventure is a special bond they share which has been embedded deep within their children as well. I arrived out at their farm house in the country which they have lived in since 1976. I fell in love with this huge dog in the yard. It was about five degrees outside and I was rubbing his face and ears. I thought he was growling at me and then realized he was being very verbal about how...
By LISE OTT I just returned from the Odessa Clinic, where it took about 90 seconds to get my flu shot. I'm a big believer in flu shots these days, when it seems any little respiratory bug can knock me for a loop. I suspect there is a genetic link there somewhere, as any little respiratory bug will send my father to the hospital. Which is where he is as I write this. My younger sister caught a cold right before Thanksgiving, which means she was in full "giving" mode just as...
As reported in an earlier issue of The Record, the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) has awarded road and sidewalk improvement grants to Odessa and 102 other local agencies totaling $111.4 million at its November 22 meeting in Bellevue. The grant funding comes from the revenue generated by three cents of the statewide gas tax dedicated by the state legislature for TIB programs. The town of Odessa was awarded $730,201 in TIB funds to reconstruct Fourth Avenue. The project will improve access to the...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce has elected its new slate of officers for 2014 by unanimous acclamation: President: Marcus Horak Vice Pres.: Marlon Schafer Secretary: Michelle Melgren Treasurer: Larissa Zeiler Board of directors: Justin Parr, Victoria Iverson, DeJay Buck (biergarten chair) New Year’s Eve party The final (brief) business meeting of the year will take place December 31 when the Chamber throws a New Year’s Eve party for the Odessa community from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Any Occasion Banquet Hall. Tickets are $10 per...
Odessa High School science teacher Jeff Wehr has informed The Record that his former science student, Kira Powell (now attending the Colorado School of Mines), has officially had a minor planetoid named after her, 28537 Kirapowell, discovered Feb. 29, 2000, by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Team at Socorro, New Mexico. Kira Elizabeth Powell (b. 1994) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her plant sciences project. She...
According to Damon Pistulka, Transmessis Columbia Plateau (Odessa’s biodiesel facility, formerly IEO) started crushing canola and making biodiesel December 4. The first load of canola meal was shipped December 5, and the first load of biodiesel has been made and is now awaiting shipment....
Christmas and fruitcake seem inseparable. Some people love fruitcake, and others loathe the hefty loaves of candied fruit and nut-laden cake. The best fruitcakes feature just enough batter to hold the mixture together, and a lengthy soak in rum never hurts either. Some years ago, Claudia Schorzman of Spokane Valley shared her recipe for Mincemeat Fruit Cake, a somewhat lighter version, baked in wide mouth pint jars. The presentation makes delightful Christmas gifts. Mincemeat Fruit Cake 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp...
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, Nov. 25: Reardan emergency and Davenport ambulance personnel responded to the 400 block of East Cottonwood Avenue in Reardan to assist a 50-year-old man with a leg laceration. Lincoln Hospital personnel...
The Odessa Record of December 1924, in a report headlined “Holiday Season Is Drawing Near,” told of brisk sales in stores, the free distribution of Christmas trees and plans for church programs. With the moderation of the weather during the past week, which has made it so warm that the puddles in the streets did not freeze last night, one can hardly realize that the holiday season is so close at hand. Merchants report that Christmas buying started early and that business has been good, so it is up to people who want to get...
Tyler was born October 29, 2013, to Michael and Katy (Nelson) Ordway in Spokane. He weighed nice pounds, and was 20.5 inches long. The family resides in Spokane. Katy is the daughter of Dennis Nelson and Deanna Nelson. Maternal great-grandparents are Dolores and the late Bill Graedel of Odessa. Paternal great-grandparents are Carole Nelson and Russ Wilson of Pahrump, Nev. Michael is the son of Frank and Tammy Williams of Moses Lake. Paternal great-grandparents are Ben and...
The annual Christmas party co-hosted by the Odessa and Canniwai Granges will occur Friday, December 13, at 7 p.m. at the Old Town Hall in Odessa. This year's party will not include dinner, but will be a social event including coffee and dessert. Donations to the Odessa Food Bank are encouraged. As always, the group will review activities over the past year and will round off the evening with some Christmas carols....
Thirty-six people attended the third annual community Thanksgiving dinner last week at the Old Town Hall in Odessa. The dinner is sponsored by the Odessa Masonic lodge members who provide the turkey for the feast. Organizer and turkey cook Lise Ott reported that the "pot-luck" meal was delicious as always, but that a couple of people were taken aback when no potatoes arrived. Diners included a number of single individuals, but also families and groups of friends. Games of...
As state and national STEM standards continue to evolve, so must our methods for teaching science, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). At Odessa High School, one of the research models is a year-long course entitled Advanced STEM Research (or ASR as the students call it). The new ASR motto is: Science and engineering are verbs, not nouns! For those new to the community, ASR is an elective science course where students create, conduct, and present unique student-driven STEM research. Students engaging in ASR make...
State Senator Mark Schoesler (9th District) and Representative Judy Warnick (13th District) were awarded Honorary Life Memberships by the Columbia Basin Development League during their conference and annual meeting held in Moses Lake last month. Clark Kagele, a League board member said that, “Legislators from the 9th and 13th Districts provided the leadership to get the job done and worked to secure the largest state investment ever in Project infrastructure. Schoesler, the Senate Republican Leader, and Warnick, the then r...
The Odessa Lions Club Turkey Carnival, held last Saturday in the community center, was another successful venture for the service club that has been a fixture in Odessa for decades. This was, in fact, the 72nd Turkey Carnival in Odessa’s history. Businesses and individuals donated prizes for a raffle that, in addition to the bingo games played for turkeys, raised money for the club’s various civic and national projects. A “spin the wheel” game also allowed participants to win...
TransMessis Colombia Plateau, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TransMessis Renewable Energy, Inc., has announced that it had closed on an approximately $6 million restructuring of the integrated canola crushing and biodiesel production operation in Odessa. This restructuring includes an operating agreement on the physical plant with the Odessa Public Development Authority, investment in working capital to allow an immediate restart of production, and additional investment to allow an approximately three-fold increase in the...
Chambers of Commerce, governments, schools, libraries, PDAs, architects, real estate agents, banks, business owners and entrepreneurs were all represented at the 2013 Rural Pathways to Prosperity Conference in Odessa and all had the same goal – to learn how to build their entrepreneurial community. The November 15 conference was different from typical statewide conferences where everyone comes together in a single location. Instead, it used technology to simultaneously involve folks at 11 locations around the state, making i...
Monday night’s town council meeting on November 25 brought a big smile to the face of Odessa mayor Doug Plinski, as he announced that the town had been approved to receive a grant in excess of $760,000 for the purpose of rebuilding the Fourth Avenue roadway. The town is expected to come up with $30,000 in matching funds. Hoping to combine the Fourth Avenue project with the already approved Fifth Avenue project to provide economy of scale, Plinski said all of the hard work o...
TransMessis Columbia Plateau LLC, the new tenant of the biodiesel production facility in Odessa, Wash., has lined up seed supply for the facility’s planned start-up in December, but the firm continues to scout for additional supply. “We’re always looking for seed,” Joel Edmonds, president of TransMessis Columbia Plateau, or TCP, told the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) last week. As reported by OPIS, the Odessa Public Development Authority (OPDA), which is responsible for leasing the facility, announced last week th...
