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O-H vs. Liberty Varsity On Thursday, January 3, 2013, the lady Titans played a makeup game against Liberty, losing 25-31. O-H 4 10 5 6 25 Liberty 11 5 8 7 31 Chelsea Fisher led the Titan scoring with 12. Jordyn Tanke added 8, Cydnee Kieffer 3 and Katie DeWulf 2. Fisher had 14 rebounds and 3 steals; Tanke 4 rebounds, 5 steals and 5 assists; Carley Williams 2 rebounds, 1 steal and 2 assists and Katie DeWulf 2 rebounds and 1 blocked shot. “The Liberty game left us very d...
March The Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center and the Odessa Clinic 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 Medicaid and Medicare. The main advantages are that orders written by OMHC can be entered directly into the computer and all of the patient’s vital information will be immediately available. Also, diagnostic tests ordered will be made available for v...
Cal’s home was Spokane, where he passed away December 29, 2012. He was born in Irby, Lincoln County, WA on June 10, 1923. He graduated from Odessa High School in 1942. Cal was in the Army and the Marine Corps. He served in Iwo Jima where he was wounded and received a Purple Heart. After the military he attended Gonzaga University. Cal owned and operated the Graedel Insurance Agency in Odessa. He farmed the family farm for 24 years. He was a member of the VFW, the Spokane C...
The Odessa Gun Club met for the first time this season on Sunday, January 6, 2013. Participants who shot 25's were Jim Smith and Doug Tebow. Shooting 24's were Landon Lobe, Nick Tebow, Markham Nichols, Ryan Lewis, Jon Fink and Jared Praetorius. Mike Nichols, Jr., Tom Schuh, Nick Nelson and Brady Gies all shot 23's. Shooting 22's were Colley Walter, Bill Weber and Aaron Gies. Lane Lobe, Max Greenwalt, Justin Hunt and Brandon Larmer shot 21's. Shooting 20 and under were Cindy Groh, HaLee Walter, Wyatt Haase, Sam Greenwalt,...
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. Dec. 31: A woman told dispatchers that she found three of her horses missing, but three other horses of unknown ownership on property adjacent to SR 231 in the Sprague area. Deputies checked out an...
Crab Creek floods wrought destruction on Odessa several times during the 20th Century. They usually occurred at the end of January or in February, as the creek was swollen by runoff water. In the late 1930s, flooding was brought under control, for the most part, with dikes built through the town on both banks of the creek. One of the first and most awesome of Odessa’s floods occurred 104 years ago. The Odessa Record reported the disaster in its issue of January 22, 1909: The people of Odessa and the lower portion of Crab C...
The Dean's List is released after every fall, winter and spring quarter at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours (QHRS) and receives a grade-point average (GPA) of 3.5 or better is placed on the Dean's List for the quarter. If the student has placed a directory restriction on their records the name will not be released for publication. The following area students were named to the Dean’s List: Charlie Moffet, Staci Bewick and Michael Moore, all of Odessa. Brett Larmer, J...
The health of Washington’s rural residents is an ongoing concern. To address these concerns, the Washington State Rural Health Association, established in 1981, organized to collaboratively strengthen and improve the health of rural communities. Their work helps to establish policies and activities towards resolving identified issues relating to health and health care services for rural residents. Currently, they are seeking input from rural residents throughout the state of Washington and selected Lincoln County to host a ...
After the recent theatrical charade about the fiscal cliff given to us by the people elected to lead this country, I would like to inform them what Winston Churchill said regarding what they accomplished. “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." Joe Wollman Odessa...
In light of Duane Pitts’ piece about labor unions, maybe we should tell the rest of the story. I am including something I found in the Jewish World Review by Thomas Sowell and please note the place where he points out that labor unions do not create wealth. Dave McClanahan Odessa Union Myths By THOMAS SOWELL The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians. Nothing shows the utter cynicism of the u...
We had no sooner written our article last week on the uncertain situation at Inland Empire Oilseeds, LLC, and sent our paper off to be printed when we received in the mail that same day notification from the United States Bankruptcy Court in Spokane that IEO had filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on December 27, 2012. Our call to IEO general manager Joel Edmonds has not been returned. We called the Odessa Union Warehouse on Friday, January 4, and asked to speak to Keith Bailey....
A synopsis of the main events of 2012, as reported in The Odessa Record, follows below: January At the beginning of January 2012, police were following up and investigating the third break-in at Odessa Drug within the past several months. Narcotic drugs were the target and were the only items taken. This third break-in came early on December 26, 2011, even after proprietor Ted Bruya had installed surveillance cameras in the store. Unfortunately for law enforcement personnel,...
The Odessa-Harrington Titans took part in the winter break basketball tournament held December 27/28 in Rosalia. The girls varsity and the boys varsity both participated. To save on travel time and fuel expenses, the teams stayed overnight in nearby Cheney, along with their coaches and other chaperones. Besides Rosalia and O-H, Davenport and Wilbur-Creston also sent boys and girls teams to the tournament. Boys varsity O-H vs. Rosalia The O-H boys drew the host team Rosalia, a member of the Southeast 1B League, for their first...
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. Dec. 23: A deputy dealt with an injured deer that was involved in a collision with a vehicle on SR 231 at Little Falls Road overnight. Two flat screen TVs were taken during a residential burglary in...
Maxine Divito died December 29, 2012 in Odessa. She was born in 1919 in Tacoma to Joseph and Rebecca Zicha. She married Roy Divito in 1952 in Wilson Creek. She is preceded in death by her husband, parents, three sisters and one brother. She leaves behind a sister-in-law, Eunice Zicha of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. and nieces and nephews Dennis Ackerman of San Jose, Calif., Janis Ackerman Davisson (Alvin) of Ephrata, Judith (Divito) Ford of Odessa, Jeanne Divito Goetz (Tom) of Odessa, Joy Ann Divito Duzon (Jim) of Soap Lake, Dick...
Clarence Eugene Lobe died December 28, 2012 at his home in Odessa, surrounded by family. He was 83. Eugene leaves behind Lova, his wife of 43 years; his children, Bob Burns of Great Falls, Mont.; Marty (Terry) Burghard of Moses Lake, Becky (Skip) Regli of Odessa and Jim (Cindy) Lobe of Omak; six grandchildren, Kris, Steven, Kaylene, Bryce, Amber and Josie; seven great-grandchildren, Christina, Everett, Kiernan, Layla, James, Evan and Trevor and by his sister Barbara (Babs) of Spokane. He is also survived by his children of a...
Cook what you eat, and eat what you cook. Could this be your resolution for 2013? With rising food costs, meals take a bigger bite out of the family budget. Wasted food increases the cost, with no benefit to family or the budget. According to a CNN report, August 12, 2012, American families throw out 25% of purchased food, amounting to approximately 20 pounds per person a month, totaling from $1,350.00 to $2,275.00annually for a family of four. The article goes on to speak of...
BNSF trains carrying sleek new imported automobiles from Japan and Korea race through Odessa today virtually unnoticed. The vehicles, destined for Mid-western and Eastern markets are enclosed in container cars in trains which sometimes are nearly a mile long. A Great Northern train going through Odessa in the opposite direction 88 years ago was cause for quite a bit of excitement. It consisted of twenty-eight freight cars a each containing five new Buicks, and was enroute to Seattle, stopping at many of the stations along...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 12/26/12: I suppose I could make a stupid joke about Santa leaving the wheat market a lump of coal but I just don't have the energy. For now the path of least resistance is lower until export volumes improve or investment money decides that grains are once again the place to be. Going into the end of the year doesn't look like it will be any fun. 12/27/12: Blah blah fiscal cliff, blah blah investment money, blah blah export demand, blah blah labor...
The Great Northern Railway (today the BNSF) was ready to open its eight-mile-long Cascade tunnel on January 12, 1920, an engineering marvel of which all the world took note. The railroad was looking at a larger picture than the small towns it had once turned to for business, and the larger picture didn’t include Odessa. It was the beginning of the end of rail service to the town a trend which was to continue until today, when not only is passenger service long a thing of the past, but freight operations serving the community...
Members of the Odessa Lions Club drove through all of Odessa’s neighborhoods and came up with three homes they felt were tastefully and/or uniquely decorated for the holiday season. Receiving first place and the top prize of $75 was the home of Keith and Becky Kolterman, with decorations that extended from the front of the home and around to their spacious back yard. Second place and $50 went to Greg and Kellie Luiten, whose all-white light scheme was pleasing to the eye. T...
Rep. Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake, received her 2013 committee assignments this week. She will serve on three House committees: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Capital Budget; and Education. She has and will continue to serve as the ranking Republican on the Capital Budget Committee, which makes her responsible for negotiating with the chair of the committee on a final capital budget. Known as the “bricks and mortar” budget, the capital budget provides funding and bonds for long-term infrastructure needs throughout the sta...
Could someone please tell me the difference between a Wal-Mart employee working at minimum wage and enrolled in Medicaid and state or federal employees drawing a salary of $70,000 to $250,000 a year whose health care and pension is totally paid for by the taxpayer? Why are we complaining when we have 47 million people on food stamps and half that number of unemployed and some who don't want to work who are totally supported by the tax payer? Seems like Wal-Mart employees are at least working and paying taxes. Joe Wollman...
Mark your calendars now to attend the 2013 WSU Oilseed Production and Marketing Conference “Golden Opportunities” scheduled for January 22-23, 2013 at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick. Plan to attend the only conference in the Pacific Northwest addressing oilseed agronomy, processing, economics, marketing and end use. Several keynote speakers from major canola production regions of North America will highlight the two-day conference, including Gary Hergert, University of Nebraska; Bob Schrock, winter can...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 12/17/12: Wheat prices continue to trade a lower range that was established after the USDA monthly supply-and-demand report last week. Chicago futures fell 6 cents on the day and white wheat dropped 3. The HRW belt is supposed to receive some needed moisture this week. However, what they really need is a change in the long term weather pattern and not one rain/snowstorm. 12/18/12: Wheat prices finally got low enough to entice Egypt into a tender on Tuesday...
