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OH vs. Tekoa-Oaksdale Junior varsity The junior varsity boys game was won by the Titans. No further information available. Varsity The Titan boys had no trouble defeating T-O, with inside passes that no one blocked and that resulted in two points nearly every time. The game was just as lopsided as the girls game, but this time with the Titans coming out on top, O-H 13 19 20 7 59 Tek-O 3 5 2 4 14 Justin Hunt led the Titan offense with 14 points. Cade Weber had 11, Jake Tanke 9...
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. 10: Sprague ambulance personnel responded to the unattended death of a 51-year-old woman in the 400 block of West 6th Street. One person was transported to Lincoln Hospital in Davenport after a o...
Snow on the ground, the last days of school for the year, company coming and the bustle of the season seems to make kitchens the hub of activity. Let’s start off with an easy but a bit unusual, Apple Cranberry Salad, quick to prepare at a moments notice, from ingredients you can keep on hand. I came across this recipe in my dads recipe box. It was written out in his own hand using a fountain pen, but no notation of where or when he got the recipe. My guess would be around 1...
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...
The accounting firm of Leffel, Otis & Warwick, P.S., with CPA offices in several nearby towns throughout the area in addition to Odessa, has provided two articles to help remind readers that actions can be taken now to reduce tax burdens come next April 15. Tax changes and upcoming deadlines With another calendar year-end almost upon us, it is important to review some upcoming deadlines for 2012 and changes for 2013. Payroll: The payroll tax cut for the employee’s share of Social Security taxes is set to expire January 1, 2...
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...
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. 3: Sprague firefighters extinguished a vehicle on fire on I-90. A caller told dispatchers he was missing a money order as a result of vehicle prowling in the 1000 block of Adams Street in...
When BNSF trains going in opposite directions pass each other there appears to be perfect synchronization as one train eases onto the Odessa sidetrack and the other speeds by. One hundred and one years ago, before radio control and electronic switching, engineers of the steam locomotives relied on telegraph messages they picked up from one station to the next along the rail line to determine the positions of other trains on the track. Railroad operations weren’t as smooth then as they are today. The Odessa Record, in its i...
Christmas Fest 2012 was another success for the Junior Livestock 4-H Club and the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, as no fewer than 268 people signed in at the Odessa Community Center last Wednesday, December 5. Many others visited without signing in for prizes. Door prizes donated by the vendors and by various individuals in the community were awarded to 33 people whose names were drawn throughout the day. Donating vendors were Gerald McAllister, Odessa FFA (Poinsettias), New...
Star Night at Big Bend Community College is when scholarship donors and scholarship recipients get to know each other. “The scholarship donors enjoy meeting the students, and pass their values on to them,” said LeAnne Parton, Executive Director of the BBCC Foundation. “One of those values is to give back when you can.” Billed as a celebration of student achievement and donor generosity, the Star Night dinner sponsored by the Foundation is held in the fall when student...
Brandon and Kayla Meise of Odessa are the proud parents of Ruger Charles, born on October 9, 2012. He weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and was 18.25 inches long at birth. He has one big sister, Myakoda at home. Ruger’s paternal grandmother is Anita Zweig of Arizona, and his paternal grandfather is Chuck Meise of Odessa. Paternal great grandparents are Clark and Evelyn Zweig of Omak and Earl and Ramona Meise of Odessa. His maternal grandparents are Missy O'Bryan of Omak and Jack O...
More than 40 quilters and quilt appreciators attended the Fronen Steppdecker, Odessa Quilt Club Christmas dinner party held at Any Occasion Banquet Hall the evening of December 3. Helping Hands Catering, by Marla Beth, prepared the meal of green salad and rolls followed by Aussie Chicken, with seasoned potatoes and snow peas and a choice of Mint or Caramel Chocolate Cake for dessert. Several quilting-related games were played throughout the evening, with prizes provided by...
The Odessa Town Council meeting Monday night turned into a festive occasion, as council members quickly dealt with issues on the agenda, then spent the rest of the evening wishing a fond farewell to retiring town clerk Linda Burghard. Mayor Doug Plinski and the council members also presented Burghard with a parting gift engraved with their thanks and best wishes. Refreshments followed. Police Dept. Police Chief Helen Coubra reported that things had been very quiet over the...
OH vs. Soap Lake Junior varsity There was no junior varsity game, just the boys and girls varsity games, followed by the college game at the Floch Memorial games held in Moses Lake Friday night, December 7. Varsity The Titan boys held off a strong start by Soap Lake and put out a huge fourth quarter spurt to take the game, 51-38. O-H 10 11 9 21 51 Soap L. 13 13 10 2 38 The Titans simply were not hitting from 3-point range, with only 20 percent of their shots falling through the net. The bright spot was free-throw shooting,...
The Harrington School District, like its neighboring districts, is gearing up for the winter break. The district will release students early (12:30 p.m.) on Friday, December 21, and school will remain closed through January 2, 2013. But plenty of activities remain before the staff and students head off on their break. Next week Tuesday, December 18, will be the day of Santa’s Workshop for all Harrington students (K-12). It will be open from noon to 3 p.m. That same evening at 7 p.m., K-12 students will participate in the C...
Every two years, each political party meets to elect it’s leadership team. Lincoln County Republicans met in Davenport on December 6 and elected the following to lead the local conservative political organization: Chairman: Sue Lani Madsen (continuing from previous term) Vice Chairman: Scott Hutsell State Committeewoman: Bonnie Hardy State Committeeman: Peter Davenport Secretary: Merrie Foster Area Directors: Scott Hutsell, Mark Stedman, Rob Coffman (for their respective commissioner districts) Shelley Sieverkropp is s...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 12/7/12: Chicago wheat futures lost 2.5 cents this week. However, soft white prices improved 11 cents since last Friday, due to increased export business highlighted by last weekend’s Egyptian buy. It seems like the prices in the rest of the world have risen to the point where soft white is once again competitive in these larger tenders, which bodes well for our prices moving forward – versus the other classes of wheat anyway. Tuesday next week the...
The drought in the Midwest just keeps making headlines! The Midwest lies above Lake Ogallala, which is the largest underground lake in the U.S. It is large in the area of its borders, but not in its capacity as the farmes, towns and business have been pumping many billions of gallons of water for irrigation and various uses. This helped turn dust bowl land back into farm ground. They have been pumping at a rate that will dry it up between 2025 and 2030. Thus, they started looking north to the Great Lakes. This would seem to...
goodjobsfirst.org reported the following data about the hidden cost to taxpayers of companies whose employees earn so little that they have to apply for state aid to make ends meet. For the state of Washington, the figures are from 2006. Nothing current seems available, but given the trend nationwide of more and more companies' paying their workers a minimum wage, the cost to taxpayers averages around $1,000 per employee, according to Alan Grayson, newly re-elected congressman from Florida. No wonder the working man and...
The Odessa Public Development Authority (OPDA) has signed a design/build contract with Spokane-based Garco Construction for a new 7,000 square foot USDA livestock processing facility to be built in the Odessa Industrial Park. The OPDA will lease the facility to the Livestock Processors Cooperative Association (LPCA) with a purchase option. The LPCA was organized in 2010 under the leadership of the Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW) and currently has 62 members. On October...
“As my daughter was heading off to Afghanistan in March 2011,” said Susan Ryan Walter of Odessa, “she said that it would be cool if I could make patriotic quilts for everyone. Lovely idea, but all my red, white and blue material was home in Washington, and I was in Florida to house- and pet-sit for her while she was gone!” Walter asked members of the Yahoo group, Stashbusters and members of the quiltingboard.com if they would donate a 12-inch block so she could make the qui...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 11/30/12: Wheat prices closed the month on a sour note as soft white dropped 20 cents from Thursday. That spurred the Egyptians into action as they announced a tender after the close whether or not there's any Black Sea wheat in play will probably determine our direction on Monday. Soft white has been doing some decent export business recently with 7.5 million bushels sold this week, leading all classes....
At its regular meeting November 28, school superintendent Suellen White told the Odessa School Board she was recommending a rollback of the 2013 levy passed last February (and to be collected beginning in April of 2013). The original levy amount was $698,000. She recommended rolling back $48,000 of that figure. This will mean collecting $24,000 less during the spring budget cycle and $24,000 less next fall in the next budget cycle. The rollback was made possible because several of the threatened budget cuts to school funding...
The Floch Memorial Games will be played this year at Big Bend Community College on Friday, December 7. Odessa/Harrington will be the home team, playing Soap Lake High School with both girls varsity and boys varsity teams playing. There will be no JV games. BBCC will play Bellevue Community College (men only) following the two high-school games. The gate receipts and donations will go to the Ryan Floch Memorial Scholarship, which supports student athletes graduating from Class B high schools in Eastern Washington. The Floch Me...
