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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. March 5: A woman described "a strange Facebook message" she had received. A 4-wheeler was blamed for tearing up Denny Station Road and leaving ruts in the roadway. A Davenport woman reported she was b...
Due to the high cost of fresh crab this spring, the Odessa Lions Club offered a “Surf and Turf” dinner featuring steak and lobster instead. The dinner was held March 10, and drew over 200 diners. Crews were kept busy in the Heimbigner addition to the Community Center as well as outside the main kitchen, cooking both entree choices on grills. The Lions serve the community in many ways, and the annual dinner is one of the more entertaining. They also host the Turkey Car...
As the long day of judging and presenting finished, Odessa High School showed their academic prowess in science at the Mid-Columbia Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Kennewick on Thursday, March 8. More than 30 schools representing the finest young scientific minds vied for top prizes in categories ranging from behavioral science to zoology. The following students did an outstanding job of presenting this year's research: Kira Powell: The Development of a Novel Sodium...
The Bi-County Academic Competition for children in grades 3 through 8 was held in Reardan recently and was attended by nine area schools, including Odessa and Harrington. Awards were presented to the top six students in each category (spelling, math, speech and geography) and for each of the six grade levels. Each category had anywhere from eight to 25 participants. Harrington Harrington sent 19 students to the competition. Those finishing in the top six were: Jordan Larmer,...
Long-time Odessa resident Ruth Suchland died Tuesday, March 7, 2012 in Puyallup at the age of 86. She was born April 6, 1925 in Odessa to Henry and Kathryn Derr. She was a 1943 graduate of Odessa High School and married Reinhold Suchland in February of 1948. Over the years she owned and operated several restaurant and antique businesses in Odessa. She is survived by her children Dick Suchland and wife Barbara of Auburn, Wash., Craig Suchland and wife Michele of Anchorage,...
Well, it is getting to be springlike around Odessa. At the same time, it also means that the time leading up to Deutschesfest is growing ever shorter. Maybe its time to start working on our German, too. Ron Sowinski, who visited Odessa a few months ago, was stationed in Germany during the Vietnam era and is happy to share this anecdote with our readers. I was with a small group of Army guys who had just flown from the USA into Frankfurt, Germany on a commercial flight. We were met and taken to the Frankfurt Bahnhof (railroad...
Melissa Greenwalt, daughter of Brad and Judy Greenwalt of Odessa, was named to the Dean's List at the University of Idaho for Fall Quarter, 2011. Students who maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher while carrying a minimum of 12 credits are eligible for the award. Greenwalt was a 2010 graduate of Odessa High School, and was class valedictorian....
A new display is coming soon to the Odessa Historisches Museum, if enough contributors can be found: Odessa High School class rings. Over the years, each member of the graduating class has had the option of purchasing a class ring bearing the year of graduation. Though not as popular as it once was, the buying of class rings is still an option today. Paul Scheller of the Odessa Historical Society thought those rings and the changing styles through the years would make a nice display for the summer months when the museum is...
As of this week Tuesday, Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center and the Odessa Clinic have converted their record-keeping to an electronic format. The move to computer-based records was prompted in part by incentives offered by the government programs of Medicare and Medicaid, which offered incentives to medical facilities making the transition, said hospital administrator Gary DelForge. The software package alone comes at a cost of $600,000. Necessary hardware and equipment,...
Continued from last week Recently Odessa FFA Chapter members Caleb Singer, (son of Roland and Jennifer Singer of Odessa), Stacia Lesser (daughter of Tracy and Katherine Lesser of Marlin) and Alexis Burdick (daughter of Deric and Marra Schmierer of Odessa) competed in the Sub-District 9 Creed Career Development Event (CDE) at Wilson Creek. All three did an excellent job presenting the FFA Creed to a room full of spectators and judges (Odessa FFA members Max Greenwalt and...
The school musical being performed this year by Odessa youth under the direction of Craig and Ellen Holman includes students in Kindergarten through high school, as well as several home-schooled youngsters. The play is the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast. The cast includes four narrators: Alyssa Woodruff, Elizabeth Larson, Stacia Lesser and Danielle Tebow. The female lead, Belle, is played by senior Charli Moffet, her father Maurice is played by sixth-grader Kiegan...
Odessa’s Old Town Hall was the designated site for Republicans of Lincoln County Commissioner District 1 to caucus on March 3. A total of 18 precents were represented at the event. This was the first time Lincoln County had held pooled caucuses by commissioner district. Norman Ott, Area Chairman for District 1, reported that 76 people participated at Old Town Hall, with 27 going for Ron Paul, 22 for Mitt Romney, 17 for Rick Santorum, 8 for Newt Gingrich and 2 undecided. R...
The Harrington Opera House Society (HOHS) is getting ready to start a new season of events with the return of the Grammy Award winners Tingstad & Rumbel on March 17. A presentation by missionaries Larry and Susan Weil is set for Sunday, March 18, the Ritzville Community Theatre will perform their original audience interactive play “Three in a Row – a Game Show” on April 21, and there will be a quilt show and performance by the Coulee Community Choir the weekend of April 28-29...
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. Feb. 27: Harrington area residents told dispatchers of problems with a third occupant of their home, from which a later report of a possible assault was received. A resident of the 32000 block of Whit...
The 94th annual Spokesman-Review Inland Northwest Trapshoot contest officially ended as of Sunday, February 26. The combined Marlin-Odessa teams finished in second place, one point behind the Colton Gun Club and one point ahead of Garfield-St. John in Division I. The Odessa Gun Club finished out the season with an extra day of shooting March 4, including a few extra contests and individual rankings. Landon Lobe, Jim Smith and Tyler Smith all turned in perfect scores of 25. Nick Tebow and Ryan Lewis shot 24, and Randy Gies,...
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. The next articles presented about relatives from the L-B-D are because if I don’t, I will be asked to leave my Spokane home permanently. I will find all my possessions out in the street. Clothes cut in pieces, computer destroyed, truck tires slashed, money source gone. I guess, I would be “homeless,” “penniless.” Therefore the next...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 3/1/12: Grain prices took a bit of a break on Thursday but that's to be expected after the run they've been on lately. The U.S. reportedly sold 120,000 metric tons of HRW to Iran overnight, which sounds strange to me given the economic sanctions that have been imposed on them. White wheat posted another strong week of export sales with 5.7 million bushels last week again leading all classes of wheat. The river system shuts down for annual lock maintenance...
They didn’t call them chambers of commerce in those days They were commercial clubs in all but the larger cities like Spokane. One hundred and eight years ago this week, the Odessa Commercial Club, forerunner to the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, was organized. That body, made up of the town’s civic and business leaders, has been an enthusiastic booster of Odessa ever since. It was designated the Odessa Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s. Here is the report of its founding, appearing in The Odessa Record on March 11, 1904. A meeti...
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center employee Karen Carlson had just finished an all-day CPR training session when she had the opportunity to put what she had learned into practice. While eating at a restaurant in Moses Lake, Carlson heard someone choking behind her. The man’s wife was attempting to perform the Heimlich maneuver, but the man collapsed to the floor. Carlson was able to give him chest compressions, and perform a finger sweep of his mouth, after which, she said, h...
Last Wednesday’s severe windstorm raised havoc from one end of town to another. Those of us watching from the safety of our downtown businesses saw hordes of tumbleweeds blowing along First Avenue, with some then swirling down intersecting streets as suction created small whirlwinds off to the side. Garbage cans, their lids and all manner of other debris were swept into other people’s yards, Crab Creek and the surrounding countryside. Two homes on Fourth Avenue lost pine trees...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 2/23/12: White wheat prices held steady even as Chicago futures prices closed lower on Thursday. The value of the dollar was down on the day but that didn’t help grain prices today. Export sales are delayed until tomorrow due to the holiday on Monday but are expected to show good totals for both corn and wheat last week. Spain reportedly bought some more U.S. SRW for feed and there were sales of 4 million bushels to unknown destinations as well recently. L...
The Odessa Record has been doing a great job keeping us up to date on the March 3 Republican Caucuses. One last reminder – there will be NO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY in 2012. The caucus is your only chance to express a preference for the 2012 Republican Presidential nominee. If you don’t like the straw poll results when they are reported Saturday night on the news, no complaining if you didn’t take time to participate Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to noon. Here is the key: You can only participate if you go to the correct caucus l...
The final discussion at Tuesday’s Chamber of Commerce meeting was about the current condition s of the float and the representatives needed to ride it. “I would pay to have my kid not ride on that float!” was reported as the reaction from many parents. This is not the first time this topic has arisen at Chamber meetings, which has been responsible for funding the float for the past few years. In previous years, young women of the junior class were encouraged to visit downtown businesses to help offset not only the cost of th...
At the February 23, 2012, meeting of the Odessa School Board, board members and administrators heard the concerns of several parents of 5th-grade students. Odessa 5th-graders this year do not have just one 5th-grade teacher in a single classroom. Instead, they have lockers and go to different classrooms for different subjects taught under different teachers, just as junior-high students do. After second-grade teacher Bev Scherr retired a year ago, the administration opted not to hire a replacement and shifted the other...
Town Marshal Mike Wren, who has worked for the Town of Odessa for the past five years, resigned Monday morning, a move that left town officials as well as the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office scrambling to cover the town’s law enforcement needs. In a letter of resignation read to the councilmembers by Mayor Doug Plinski, Wren stated that after 23 years in law enforcement, the last 5 of them in Odessa, he felt it was “time to move on,” and gave February 27 as the effective date for his resignation. Police report Deputy Marshal...
