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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, April 15: Davenport ambulance and MedStar personnel assisted a 60-year-old Davenport area man who may have suffered a heart attack. A Creston woman reported a dog continually comes to her...
Elizabeth Larson, an eighth grade student in Odessa is the state winner of the 2013 SunWise with SHADE Poster Contest. As the state winner, Larson will receive a digital camera. Larson's poster was chosen from thousands of entries by a panel of judges in Washington, D.C. as the top entry from Washington State. Larson is the daughter of Tim Larson, third grade teacher in Odessa and Jill Larson, first and second grade teacher in Wilson Creek. Larson's poster includes the...
At Medical Lake High on April 13, the Undeberg Invite was held with many eastern Washington teams participating. Team placement, boys: 1. Deer Park 84 2. Medical Lake 74 3. Reardan 73 4. Lind-Ritzville 50 5. Lakeside 46 6. Chewelah 45 7. Bridgeport 43 8. Kettle Falls 38 9. DeSales 28 10. Tekoa-Oakesdale-Rosalia 20 11. Wellpinit 19 12. Odessa-Harrington 18 12. NW Christian-Colbert 18 14. Liberty-Spangle 17 14. Newport 17 14. Soap Lake 17 14. Colville 17 18. Pomeroy 14 19....
The graduating class of 2013 will be presenting their senior project presentations and portfolios on April 29 in the school’s multipurpose room, with an open forum from 3 to 4 p.m. during which students will introduce themselves and their project and give a short summary about what they did. Following the open forum, three students at a time will present their projects at 4-4:30, 4:45-5:15, 5:30-6, 6:15-6:45 (see student schedule below). Anyone interested in being a part of this process and serving as a judge is asked to c...
The Odessa Friends of the Library are sponsoring a workshop at the library on Saturday morning, May 11 from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. The featured speaker Dr. Steve Becker. Autism and Aspergers spectrum has become widespread in our society and there are many questions being asked and research involved in finding a solution. One in 88 children now fall into the autism/aspergers spectrum. Many parents and teachers are searching for answers in coping with behaviors and vocational aspects of children in the home and school setting. Dr....
The Odessa Community Vacation Bible School is scheduled for the week of June 10 - 14 from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Odessa Foursquare Chuch, 111 E First Ave. The first planning meeting for this years VBS will be on Thursday, April 25 at 6 p.m. at the Foursquare church. Anyone interested in participating in VBS is encouraged to attend this meeting. Fresh fruits, vegetables, cheese/crackers can be delivered to the Foursquare Church that week during VBS. Also, any non-perishable food donations can be brought to Christ...
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, April 8: Someone illegally dumped garbage in a dumpster at Davenport High School. After contact with a deputy, the suspect agreed to pay for the school's disposal charges. Deputies...
Last Sunday, April 14, Old Time Farm Days was held for the second time at the farm of Leanna and Keith Schafer, located five miles west of Odessa on S.R. 28. The Bohnet family of Wilson Creek had put on an old-fashioned plowing event for 27 years up until two years ago. At that time Pete Nelson of Odessa and Jon and Michelle Overmyer of Davenport did not want to see the event discontinued. So they asked the Schafers if there was a place on their land where plowing...
Davenport league meet The Northeast 1B/2B Track and Field League Meet was held in Davenport Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The 1/B teams participating were Mansfield, Odessa-Harrington, Wellpinit and Wilbur-Creston. Individual Results, Boys 100 meters: Sam Schafer was fourth in a time of 11.77. 400 meters: Garret Braun was 12th at 1:02.43. 800 meters: Steven Braun took 8th in 2:26.33, Jacob DeWulf was 14th in 2:33.25, Tyler Paris 15th in 2:34.89 and Trevor King 16th in 2:39.85. 1600...
Odessa’s water supply was quite low and gasoline was hard to come by during the second week of May 1920. The water was scarce because the town’s north side well was no longer putting out at full capacity. Gasoline was in short supply because of an unprecedented demand by an ever-increasing number of motorists throughout the country. The Odessa Record carried this front-page story on May 14, 1920, describing the shortages: Odessa’s water supply promises to run hand in hand with gasoline for the next six weeks. Three excep...
On April 13, the Odessa-Harrington Titans traveled to Curlew for a double-header against the Cougars. The Titans won the first game, 6 - 1. Justin Hunt and Stetson Sanford made up the O-H battery, with Hunt getting the win. Doubles were hit by Cade Weber and Jared King. The second game was also won by the Titans, 10 - 0. King was the winning pitcher for the second game of the double-header, with Sanford again at catcher. Nick Tebow and Weber had doubles for the Titans. On...
Shari Wilson was spotted at the Quilt 'Til You Wilt Event at Heritage Church on Monday, March 18. She said she was working on a seventy-year old UFO (unfinished object). She said she had found a set of beautiful flowers appliqued on oval pieces of muslin in a cigar box in her mother's house. Wilson's mother lived in Colorado during the Dust Bowl years and when pressing the applique pieces, Sheri said she could smell the dust still in the fabric. She said her mother quit...
Jacqueline Eide has lived in the former Palace Hotel for most of her life. Her parents, Roy and Lucille (Hardung) Haskins, were living there and operating the hotel in the early 1960s when she and her two young daughters returned to Odessa to live. Eide was able to get hired on to the Odessa School District teaching staff and taught many of Odessa’s schoolchildren at P.C. Jantz Elementary School over the years until her retirement. The Haskins family ran the hotel from 1946 un...
Herbert V. Zimbelman has lived in the Odessa area all of his life. The third youngest of 10 children born to Gus and Emma Zimbelman in rural Lincoln County, Herb lived independently and pursued his interests and hobbies despite being profoundly deaf. Until only a couple of years ago, Herb owned his own home, where his basement workshop offered activities that kept him well occupied. Woodcarving was long a favorite hobby. He has created carved animals, airplanes, stagecoaches...
The Odessa-Harrington girls tennis team lost to Davenport by a score of 3 - 1. In the #1 singles game, Cydnee Kieffer defeated Williamson of Davenport, 6-1, 6-2. In the double match, Guhlke and Brown of Davenport defeated Phillips and Johnson, 6-0, 6-3. The Davenport boys team won its two matches by forfeit....
This morning I was nearly witness to an accident at the intersection of Highways 21 and 28. A large black tractor-trailer rig nearly T-boned a white SUV. It appeared to me that the accident was avoided by mere inches. The SUV had the right-of-way, but I don't know if the truck had stopped initially or if the driver just blew the stop sign. The thought of being run into by a semi is mind-boggling. I think it’s really pretty amazing that there aren’t more accidents at that inter...
After reading the letter last week from the person from Spokane, it reminded me of what Martin Niemoller wrote about the Nazis in Germany. “First they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.” There is not that much difference now as it was then, for if...
The Odessa School District has two STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) activities lined up for youngsters in the fourth and fifth grades. Two professors from Eastern Washington University will visit Odessa on two separate days next month. On May 10, the fifth-grade science class will meet in the junior-high science room from 12:30 to 3 p.m. to construct and test wind machines using different blade designs. On May 24, the fourth-grade science class will meet in the junion-high science room from 8:10-11: 45 a.m. to...
(Editor’s note: Last week’s column did not run, so it is included in this week’s Grain Report.) Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 4/3/13: Big rally in Chicago wheat futures today, which has so far continued into the evening session, as it was rumored that China was in buying a bunch of U.S. SRW. Unfortunately, for the first time in several months, soft white prices have broken their link to Chicago futures and have refused to budge, up only five cents from yesterday, while Chicago has g...
Named to the winter 2013 President’s List atBig Bend Community College in Moses Lake, having completed 12 or more graded credits with grade-point average (GPA) of 3.75 and above, were Mackenze Bemis, Natalie Fish, Aron Mills and Theodore Noble, all of Odessa, as well as Natalie Garrett of Wilson Creek. Named to the winter 2013 Vice President's List at BBCC, having completed 12 or more graded credits with a GPA of 3.33 to 3.74, was James Price of Wilson Creek....
The Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club members and many others arrived in throngs last Thursday, Friday and Saturday in all manner of vehicles headed to the Desert 100 site at SR #28 and Irby Road for this year’s classic endurance race for off-road motorcycles. Some came in huge, luxurious motor homes, other types and sizes of RVs, pop-up campers and even tents. Unfortunately for the racers and vendors at the site, the weather turned from the prior week’s balmy days to howling win...
The official filing period for the fall elections will be held May 13 through May 17, 2013. All offices are subject to both Primary and General Elections. If more than two candidates file for a position, the Primary Election would narrow the field to two candidates who would then appear on the General Election ballot. The filing fee of 1% of the annual salary shall accompany the Declaration of Candidacy. There is no fee if the office sought is without a fixed salary. Anyone wishing to file may do so at the Lincoln County...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday night for its regular bi-monthly meeting and under Public Input heard from Odessa resident Jim Boss about what he says are continuing problems with a neighbor who does not respect his property rights. Boss said he had complained about damage to his property to Odessa’s two most recent chiefs of police to no avail. The problems continue. A more recent problem involved him being blocked from leaving the back portion of his property by a large RV parked in the alley. His requests to have the v...
Regarding Gerald Ray’s recent letter to the editor, it’s obvious to me that he has been watching way too much Fox News – you know, the channel where rich people pay rich people to tell middle-class people to blame poor people. I suggest he check out www.inthese times.com and search for “The GOP’s One Trillion Dollar Lie – How a Right-Wing Whopper About The Cost of Welfare Was Born.” He will then find that the reality expressed mathematically is: Total Spending on Welfare/Those Who Receive Benefits = $24.77 per day. This is...
I can't pass up commenting on Gerald Ray’s letter (of last week). He never even looked the report up! I have attached it. So what is a poverty income? Whenever I copy information from the Internet which I want to pass on to a friend, I type the http:// address as a reference on the page. I learned this in college. Here is an example: http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/budget-background? is where you will find this misleading statement by the Senate Budget Committee: “Based on data from the Congressional Res...
