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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. 12: A malfunction was reported at the Mondovi railroad crossing. A woman reported someone living on property adjacent to SR 25 north of Davenport without paying rent. A deputy checked out a report of an a...
The Odessa School District staff committed to having Great Expectations for students and each other during the 2012-2013 school year. This commitment produced amazing results in what students learned, how they behaved, and what they accomplished. As the 2013-2014 school year begins, we are committing ourselves to go Beyond Great Expectations. We are committing ourselves to making sure every student is given every chance to be successful. The teaching staff will spend Monday, August 26, working with Greg Benner to continue...
Opera House Progress For the past seven years the Harrington Opera House has used spotlights or work lights for the stage lighting depending on the type of performance to be given. The Opera House Society obtained two grants to cover the expense of the first phase of new stage lighting. These grants, the Florence Wasmer grant (a part of the Inland Northwest Community Foundation) and The Building For the Arts Grant from Washington state (the largest share), covered the expense of the parts and installation of two of the six...
S. Holman qualifies for Whitworth Laureate Society SPOKANE, WA (08/15/2013)(readMedia)– Stephanie Holman of Odessa has been named to the Whitworth University Laureate Society for Spring semester 2013. The student qualified for the academic honors society by maintaining a grade point average of at least 3.75 during the semester. Located in Spokane, Whitworth is a private liberal arts university affiliated with the Presbyterian church. The university, which has an enrollment of nearly 3,000 students, offers 60 undergraduate a...
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...
The grain markets have been in a downtrend for the last couple of months, pressured by very favorable weather in the central U.S. and continued selling by speculative funds. Traders were surprised that in the July crop report USDA increased acres and production despite the flooding and planting delays that the cornbelt experienced for most of the spring. Heading into Monday’s report, most traders were looking for a 14 billion bu corn crop and a 2 billion bu carryover for next year. Once again the market got caught leaning the...
National Night Out or “America’s Night Out Against Crime,” as it is also known, was established in 1984 by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and promotion of various crime-prevention programs. The aim is to promote involvement in crime-prevention activities, form police-community partnerships, develop neighborhood camaraderie and send a message to criminals that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back. N...
The town of Odessa has an ordinance governing the numbers of pet cats and dogs any given household may have (without requiring a kennel license) and stating that pet owners are responsible for cleaning up after their animals. Animals running loose, getting into other people’s yards or defecating on downtown streets or lawns are subject to capture by local police, and fines may be levied against the owners. But what if the animal is not a personal pet? What if it is a wild animal that has found life in Odessa to be a v...
I just got back from a short stay in my home town. I’m pretty sure I should have stayed longer, but I ran away. I usually do. My dad fell last week, and the results weren’t particularly pretty. When I arrived at his house Saturday afternoon, he was asleep on his bed. That was enough to alarm me. My dad has always been a pretty good napper (wherever he happens to be – on the porch or at the table) but if he’s in bed in the middle of the day, you know it’s serious. After he...
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...
Harvest is just about over for the Odessa area, and it looks as though yields were down in some places and above average in others. Some farmers reported far more frost damage than they had anticipated. Especially when going through low-lying parts of their fields and then up onto hills, the change was sometimes quite dramatic. Dryland wheat ranged from the low 30s to the mid-50s (bushels per acre). One Lamona-area field of dryland wheat farmed by Tom Evavold produced 69 bushels per acre. Some other fields of wheat planted...
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...
