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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 29: A deputy secured an open door at the former Ernie's Tavern building in downtown Davenport. Deputies took a woman into custody after receiving a report from a Moore Road residence of...
A small Beechcraft King Air 90 turboprop airplane made a rough landing at the Odessa Municipal Airport Monday when its right side landing gear collapsed upon touchdown. The plane then spun out away from the landing strip and onto the gravel parking area beside it. Its right-hand propeller blades were bent nearly in half, and the aircraft suffered other major damage in the mishap. There were no reports of injuries, nor was it known how many people were in the aircraft. The owner of the plane declined to be identified. There...
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...
JoAnn Hardt retired from the Marlin office of Central Washington Grain Growers after 17 years. She was essential to the running of the warehouse and maybe the town of Marlin, too. She officially worked as a bookkeeper and office manager, and unofficially as a historian, tour guide and information agent. Hardt said she ran the scales during harvest and sold the wheat and wrote checks to the farmers. During the last couple of years, CWGG was putting in a new computer system,...
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....
Christy Ann Martin passed peacefully at home, near Newport Wash., surrounded by her loving husband and daughters on April 15, 2013, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was welcomed into the loving arms of her sister, Donna and her brother Neil, as well as, many friends and family who had gone before her. She was born May 10, 1952, to Walt and Helen Winter of Odessa. A self-taught artist from an early age, she has always amazed us with her endless talents. From her...
Friday & Saturday Golf Special Saturday Events Vendor Sales in the Memorial Hall Homemade tacos, beans and rice $? Yard sales throughout town Quilt Show - Hosted by the Stitchen chicks Historic Opera House 10-3 p.m. Art Show - Featuring Les LePere 10-2 p.m. Art Room in the Historic Opera House Classic Car Show 10-3 p.m. 3rd. St. & Grover Hot dog or hamburger, chips and soda $8 Mock Jail Sponsored by Sprague Chamber of Commerce Bluegrass, Gospel and Country Music 9-1 p.m. FFA Annual Plant Sale 9-1 p.m. AG building on the east...
The Odessa Town Council and visitors present at the meeting Monday evening, April 22, were treated to a very pleasant surprise by Odessa resident Jackie (Jax) Allen. She reported that the Odessa Golf Course had been purchased Monday by her brother-in-law Jim McCullar of Soap Lake. McCullar and his wife Carolyn, both in their 60s, were winners of the Mega Millions lottery in January of 2011. They split their winnings with an Idaho resident and took home $190 million, half of...
Slow-cooker meal preparation fits nicely into spring activity schedules, allowing home cooked meals to be ready when a quick dinner is required. Fix-It and Forget-It, Feasting with your Slow Cooker, by Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good is one of my favorite slow-cooker recipe resources. There is a recipe for just about everything in it. Awfully Easy Chicken, by Martha Hershey of Ronks, PA is a wonderful base recipe for combining chicken and just about any bottled sauce....
Sixty-four years ago the commissioners of Lincoln Hospital District #1 advertised for construction bids for the Veteran’s Memorial Hospital in Odessa. Early in 1946, the Veterans of Foreign Wars had planned to erect a memorial to Odessa’s war dead. A living memorial in the form of a hospital was proposed rather than simply a monument. This grew into a community effort, with Lincoln County’s first hospital district being formed in Odessa. Financing was made available through Hill-Burton funding and a local bond issue. The h...
It's time for Spring Fling, and folks have been calling and asking about yard sale maps (yes, they're coming out today) and with questions about many of the other activities being offered in Harrington and Odessa. The quilters in both towns have been busy preparing for their annual shows, labors of love for sure. The Odessa show runs Friday and Saturday, the Harrington show just Saturday. The Odessa museum will also be open this year on Saturday, so both visitors and residents will have an opportunity to see the new displays...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 4/18/13: Chicago wheat futures haven’t done much the last few days as far as their closing prices anyway closing within one cent of the same price each of the last three days. There have been some large intraday moves but nothing that sticks. The western Plains HRW crop is in for another round of freezing temperatures tonight however that hasn’t generated much excitement in the market. Without some new exciting development taking place soon, it looks as...
I have a recurring dream. I actually think of it as a nightmare, but it doesn’t feature monsters or murderers. It features forgetting. In the dream, I am sitting in the hallway of my college dormitory, playing cards with a group of my friends, when I suddenly realize that I have forgotten to go to my forestry final. A surge of adrenaline (or some equally uncomfortable biological substance) floods my body, and I know that I will never graduate. The dream goes on for quite a w...
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...
Our holiday dinners get funnier each year. Take these last few years – I’ll use the Goetz family for example. We always eat between 12:00 and 12:30, mainly because Grandpa and our son Treg can’t wait another minute. Now Treg always sits by Grandpa, then Grandma has to find her own place at the table. And speaking of tables, we have now added a card table, because I’m too weak to put the leaf in the table to make it bigger. Although this last holiday, my brother-in-law, Greg, did fix it for me with lots of washers that ha...
The Friends of the Pool Walk-a-Thon takes place this Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. on the track at Finney Field. The children of Odessa take pledges and walk or run the track in order to raise money for the Odessa Aquatic Recreation Center. Prizes and special games are run throughout the event, and every child receives a special T-shirt. Special prizes are awarded to those who finish the most laps. It is fun for the participants and involves a good cause....
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
