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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. 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...
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...
OH vs. Republic Junior varsity Friday night’s junior varsity game against Republic gave the young team its first victory by a score of 44 - 21. Freshman Casey Schlomer led the JV team with 17 points. Also scoring were Carley Williams with 11, Lanessa Simon 12 and Kaeli Shockley 4. Schlomer also had 11 rebounds, one steal and 2 assists. Simon had 7 rebounds, 5 steals and 3 assists. Varsity The varsity game was not an easy one for the Titans. Republic took the win 53 - 25. Chels...
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...
OH vs. Republic Junior varsity Stats on the JV game were unavailable. Varsity The Odessa-Harrington Titan boys basketball team started off their season with a bang by walloping their first two opponents. The Titans defeated the Republic Tigers 61-31 on Friday at home in Odessa, coming out strong and maintaining intensity throughout the game. O-H 19 11 15 16 61 Republic 3 9 13 6 31 Cade Weber led the Titan offense with 20 points, while Justin Hunt added another 16. Jacob...
“Christmas Time’s a Comin’…..Home for the Holidays”, familiar lines from popular Christmas songs, sounds, sights and aromas bring visions of seasonal delights to our minds. Time to get out your holiday recipes and plot a baking plan. I’ve added a new favorite to my list of Christmas recipes. Faux Pecan Pie was a hit with the family at Thanksgiving. This pie is made with pretzels, and if you choose a nut free brand (not produced in a factory where nuts are processed)...
Elizabeth Dammel, long time Mohler resident, died December 4, 2012, at home at the age of 101. She was the first daughter born to John Peterson Nyberg and Alma Harshbarger Nyberg in Greenacres, Wash. on May 21, 1911. Elizabeth was known as Betty Nyberg when she graduated from North Central High School in Spokane, acquired her teaching credentials from Cheney Normal and became a teacher at the Liberty Lake schoolhouse. She married Ernest Womach in June 1936, and they moved to...
“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...
Odessa merchants and business operators put considerable effort into their preparations for the holiday season 95 years ago. Here is the report by The Odessa Record in its issue of December 14, 1928: The business section of Odessa is “dolled up” for Christmas. The decorations, both for the streets and the stores, are the most elaborate ever seen here, which shows there is a real Christmas spirit in the air. The Odessa Commercial Club Decorations committee, consisting of E.J. Wachter, Ed Koth, H.G. Cordes and Fred Schuman, did...
I am so incredibly brilliant. I’ve been driving my latest automobile for two years now, and just discovered not only that it has fog lights, but that I’ve been driving with them ON for two years. My apologies to everyone. I know how annoying that can be. It just illustrates that my approach to new equipment may not be the best. I just hop in and start using whatever it is, figuring that the manual is only for when you run into problems, like setting the clock twice a yea...
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...
