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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, Aug. 5: A Sprague man reported the tire on car parked in the 400 block of West 1st Street had been slashed. A Davenport man was arrested after an altercation with another man at a residence on Olsen Road North...
When I arrived at the home of Keith and Becky Kolterman, I was amazed at the beautiful, sprawling green lawn and manicured flowerbeds. “Your yard is amazing. It looks like a park,” I told them. “Funny you should say that,” Becky told me. Apparently, one day when she and Keith were inside the house, a car pulled up in their side yard. They watched as two adults, two kids and a very large dog got out of the car. The dog gleefully frolicked around their yard. They watched...
Wayne Geissler died August 11, 2013, at his home in Davenport. He was born October 7, 1918, to Edward and Lena Geissler. He grew up in Odessa and attended school there. He entered the U.S. Navy in 1942 and served for over 25 years, being discharged as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He farmed a little and drove truck for Huck’s Transfer for many years. He is survived by four children: Dianne (Dale) Cresap, Yvonne (Gary) Eyler, Robert Geissler and Jaunita (Carl) Schluneger; n...
Odessa voted to repeal 18th ammendment Odessa went to the polls on August 29, 1933, to vote for or against the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Five candidates from what was then Washington’s 8th Legislative district, including Lincoln, Adams and Ferry counties, were chosen as delegates to the convention for ratification of the proposed amendment to the Constitution. Two were against repeal and three were for. J.P. Keller, Odessa’s Ford dealer, who later became a state senator, was the local candidate as a delegate. In the ele...
Zucchini quiche, stir-fry, and yeast rolls are on the menu this week. Merleen Smith served a Zucchini Bacon Quiche at a recent brunch gathering that garnered numerous recipe requests. She got the recipe from Nancy Floether, who found the recipe in the 2004 August/September issue of Taste of Home Magazine. The recipe is attributed to Sheri Krueger of Black Creek, Wisconsin. Zucchini Bacon Quiche 1 tube (8 ounces) refrigera- tor crescent rolls 2 tsp prepared mustard 6 bacon stri...
In Part 7, we saw Common Core curriculum being used with second-graders in New York. For K-12, the standards, readings, and suggested curriculum remain about the same – developmentally inappropriate for learners, especially in elementary school. How did it come to this? According to the 2010 U.S. Census and the National Center for Education Statistics, 13,604 school districts oversee the more than 100,000 public schools serving about 50 million students. I understand that about 100 high-poverty school districts formed the bas...
HOHS meets in former newspaper office The Harrington Opera House Society held its monthly meeting Monday evening at 7 p.m. in the art room of the Opera House, with the vice president presiding in the absence of Linda Wagner. A total of 13 members were in attendance. Updates were provided on the group’s many renovation projects, including the stage lighting, the proposed elevator, potential sidewalk repairs or alterations and proposed entertainments. Tina Turner-Fisher, an artist, was present and spoke briefly of her i...
To the Editor: How lovely to write a little news article about the charm I left in your town. I just found out. Here are the links to the blog posts about Kiama's Charm in Odessa: http://catherinapetitvanhoey. blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/kiamas-charm-no-18-is-found.html http://catherinapetitvanhoey. blogspot. co.uk/2013/08/kiamas-charm-no18-news-coverage.html Catherina Hertfordshire, UK And from the blog: I had a lovely email/comment from two children, Makayla and Charleigh, from Odessa in Washington, who found charm no.18...
Our readers, and Wayne Frederick in particular, who brought in the unidentified mechanical part, will be pleased to know that someone has recognized the item featured on the front page of The Odessa Record last week. Mark Allen, a scrap-metal dealer, identified the item, and his wife Glenda brought the description in to us. It is the “inner axle for an old hay bind strap,” according to Allen. So now we know, and so do you. We thank the Allens for helping with the ide...
When I approached Dee Deife to ask her for an interview, without missing a beat she told me she needed to check her calendar to make certain she didn’t have any other interviews on Thursday. She has a razor sharp wit and a calming presence that draws people in. In some respects, she is a private woman, a keeper of secrets. I learned so much that I had never known about her -- her joys, her triumphs and some of her darkest hours. Dee was born in Tonasket, June 11, 1942. She w...
The Odessa Friends of the Library completed seven weeks of the summer reading program "Dig into Reading" at the Odessa Public Library. Each week featured a different subject, such as: big equipment that digs. Jim Williams, from the town maintenance crew, brought a front loader to show the group. Each child was encouraged to climb into the cab and have their picture taken, which they then took home with them. Burrowing animals was another theme. A story about a groundhog was re...
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 29: Personnel at Lincoln Hospital in Davenport voiced concerns that a prescription pad may have been stolen from the emergency room, but subsequent investigation revealed the suspicion to be without...
Area's car wrecks were numerous in early 1930's Pick up almost any issue of The Odessa Record from 1928 to 1933 and one of the headlines might well be “More Autos Wrecked here.” That was the headline on August 22, 1930, over a report of another accident at the Nemo crossing four miles east of Odessa and another right in town, at the notorious “Odell Corner” where State Highway 7 made a right angle at the intersection of what we presently know as Division Street and sixth Avenue. But 1935, the underpass a mile east of town at...
This week’s edition includes our back-to-school page, coming out somewhat earlier this year due to the way the calendar dates fall. Registration will take place next week, August 14 and 15, at school, and the first day of school for students will be August 28, a Wednesday. The week following school registration is the week of the Lincoln County Fair, so many Odessa members of FFA and 4-H will be busy grooming, showing and selling their livestock, as well as putting final touches on craft, cooking, sewing items or many o...
Recently, someone asked me to address (in this column) the issue of bringing more visitors to Odessa to shop in our retail establishments. Believe me, it’s not a topic foreign to me. Or to anyone else who belongs to the Chamber of Commerce. Or to anyone who owns or works in any of those aforementioned retail establishments. And I'’m including our restaurants in that category. The Chamber of Commerce, love ‘em or hate ‘em, has done a pretty good job of bringing people to town...
The Odessa School Board met Tuesday, July 30, in the high school library to approve a three percent cost-of-living raise provided by the legislature for the superintendent, principal, business manager, human resources director, facilities director and school secretaries. Also approved were salary riders for teachers’ contracts, adding 1.9 percent provided by the legislature. The board had the first reading of the Community Service Policy recently passed by the legislature and approved both the school nurse contract with t...
Harvest in the Odessa area has gotten into full swing, and only days into it, the fire calls have already been coming in to firefighters. At the home place of Mike and LuAnn Hardung about 10 miles east of Odessa, 88 acres burned last Friday, of which 52 were standing wheat. According to LuAnn Hardung, the cause was a bearing on a combine which overheated and dropped into the tinder-dry wheat. Her son Joel, who was helping Mike with the harvest at the home place, was driving... Full story
Zucchini plants growing in Odessa gardens are beginning to produce the annual over abundance of this versatile vegetable. There is no end to the number and variety of recipes devised to use up the abundance of fruit produced by this prolific plant. Cakes, breads, cookies, casseroles and salads, the recipes keep coming. Several years ago Cindi Bell, formerly of Odessa, gave me copies of a stack of zucchini recipes that she had collected and developed to incorporate zucchini...
1 years ago August 1, 1913 A topic that is interesting prominent farmers and business men, that of dairying in the Odessa valley, took a turn this week, when it became known that it was going to be brought up in some sort of definite form before the next meeting of the Odessa commercial club and the Farmer’s Union. It is thought that some definite action will be taken in the very near future on this live subject. Men who are acquainted with dairying conditions state that a small creamery could be kept going with 150 c...
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 22: Dispatchers received an “open air” phone call during which people were heard in the background talking about Darth Vader and Iron Man. Even though they heard no sounds of distress, they unsucce...
Some people in the world are really good gift givers. We all know the type. They find just the right gift at just the right time. Dale Winfrey takes this to a whole new level. He truly gave the gift that keeps on giving, the gift of a kidney. On March 13 of this year, he was wheeled into the surgical unit and donated a kidney to local resident Lois Hubbard. They were cousins and had kept in touch over the years. Their grandmothers were sisters. His mother had set up Lois’ parents, Clarence and Helen, on their first date. Dale...
Four Odessa High School graduates obtained post-secondary degrees this spring from Washington State University in Pullman. Honors earned by students are listed as follows: summa cum laude for a cumulative grade point average of 3.90 or better, magna cum laude for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.70 but less than 3.90 and cum laude for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 but less than 3.70. Ryan T. King received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Travis M. King received a Bachelor of Science in Animal Sciences, Corinne...
Wheat markets, along with corn and beans, continued their downtrends last week. Speculative funds hold a record short position in Chicago wheat futures and a sizeable position in the corn futures, and there has been nothing lately to make them want to cover these short positions. The weather in July in the cornbelt has been favorable, with most areas receiving timely rains with moderate temperatures. Forecasts call for more of the same. As a result, there has been active cash movement in the corn market from the farm and...
To the Editor: One thing that was not mentioned [in the article in the July 25, 2013 issue of The Record] is that Eddy [Kern] is the last living member of the Odessa Eagles, Aerie 3069 Fraternal Order of Eagles. We had the opportunity to visit with Eddy many years ago. He was the Aerie secretary for many years until they consolidated with Aerie 2, Spokane Eagles. When we get back from the International Convention in Reno, Nev., I will send a picture of the original charter from October 1, 1950. This will list all the members...
At Tuesday noon’s meeting of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, community kitchen chairperson Lindsy Starkel reported that Phase 1 of the project is on schedule to be completed by the first week in August. On Monday, July 29, the oven will be moved from The Kraut Haus into the new kitchen. At the end of July, the sinks, dishwasher and ice machine will be installed, and the electrical work will be completed. Starkel said electrician Larry Gustafson has been working very hard to g...
