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I did not realize that in this election cycle, Washington voters will have two education-related initiatives to consider. One is Initiative 1185. In a nutshell, it requires a two-thirds majority of the legislature to increase taxes. In other words, a one-third minority can stop any funding for education in the state if the majority of the legislature approves it, among other issues. The state Supreme Court has ruled that the legislature must fully fund education, which it has not been doing for years even though voters have...
Last week Wednesday, the annual event that has come to be known as Women’s Health Night was held in the Heritage Church social hall. Filling the hall nearly to capacity, the crowd had come to learn about ways to maintain good health, be tested for high blood pressure, have their bone density checked and gather information from various health-related organizations present. Members of the Odessa High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and their p...
Fire roared through two downtown buildings owned by the Odessa Union Warehouse Tuesday night, destroying them completely. An evacuation order was issued by the Odessa Police and Fire Departments and went out to nearby residents through the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office automated calling system. According to town Fire Chief Don Strebeck, the first 911 call was received at 8:15 p.m. The members of a bunco group were meeting at Any Occasion Banquet Hall, and one of them, P...
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. Oct. 8: A large amount of grain and a dead deer were found on SR 28 north of Odessa. Three deer were found "piled up" at the intersection of Bull Run and Circle roads, prompting dispatchers to...
When we go to vote (but let’s vote where it will make a difference) please do not keep voting for the same person that holds the House seat now held by Cathy McMorris Rodgers. I do not understand how she keeps her seat. Cathy no longer represents us here. She has pledged her votes to Grover Norquist. I don’t know about you, but I did not vote for him; no one did! He is for big corporations. He held up the farm bill and Cathy supported that because to pass the farm bill and help farmers in this area would make the Pre...
The Titans upped their record for the season to four wins versus three losses with a victory over Entiat last Friday in Odessa. O-H 18 16 16 16 66 Entiat 6 0 6 12 24 The game’s first score came on a 5-yard run by Cade Weber, with the extra-point attempt no good. Most of the rest of the game was an exercise in watching Sam Schafer break away for long TD runs, the first being a 60-yarder into the endzone. Again, the extra-point attempt was unsuccessful. Entiat put the ball into the endzone on a 1-yard run, but they, too, w...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 10/11/12: There were no Earth-shattering revelations on the most recent USDA supply-and-demand report, however it was considered at least favorable to corn, soybeans and wheat. Corn supplies were reduced a little more than expected and in line with the drop from the stocks report at the end of September. Soybeans didin’t get as big a bump to ending stocks as traders feared they might, due to corresponding increases in projected demand. Wheat supplies w...
O-H vs. Liberty The Odessa-Harrington Titans volleyball team defeated the Liberty High School team in an away game October 11 by 3 games to 1, with scores of 25-8, 23-25, 25-9 and 25-20. On service, Jordyn Tanke and Kendall Todd both served 20 times with 100% accuracy. Chelsea Fisher and Cydnee Kieffer each had three aces. Fisher had 17 kills, and Tanke added nine more, with 25 kill assists put up by Koralynne Kuch. “The serve-receive team of Lexi Hirst, Tanke and Kieffer did an outstanding job as well,” said head coach Ken...
The Odessa-Harrington junior-high football team traveled to Almira October 11 for matchup with the Almira/Coulee-Hartline junior-high team. After O-H trailed 0-6 at halftime, the game ended in a 12-12 tie. Caleb Behrens scored on an eight-yard touchdown run to tie game at 6-6 at the start of fourth quarter. ACH came back to score with 1:10 left in game, taking the lead, 12-6. Cole Kissler then ran the following kick-off back 75 yards to tie the game 12-12. Coach Larry Weber said, “The defense stepped up and played hard. T...
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced Monday that the statewide burn ban on DNR-protected lands, that had been extended twice, would expire Monday night (October 15) at midnight. Also, Naneum Ridge State Forest was set to open at midnight, as fire danger caused by the Table Mountain fire was reduced by recent rainfall and moderating temperatures. “My thanks to the public for their help and restraint during a difficult and prolonged fire season,” said Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Gol...
Refurbishing of Schmidt Insurance Company’s building on First Avenue is now under way. The renovation includes mortar repair and cleaning of bricks, as well as the installation of a new awning. The structure, one of the largest and most impressive of Odessa’s downtown buildings, is the home of Schmidt Insurance Services and the Quilt Crossing. 108 years ago this week, the building was under construction. The Record reported in its issue of October 13, 1905, that it would be the largest and finest business building in tow...
This is Newspaper Week. For several years it has been the custom to write feature stories on newspaper work, the freedom of the press. But this year The Odessa Record is entering its 60th year, and it is important to know that at least one of its original subscribers is still among the readers. Last week 1220 papers were printed, and all were sold except the file copies. How many readers the Record has is something we wouldn’t even try to guess. Any subscriber can tell of the friends who read his paper, causing us to w...
The O-H Titans junior high football team, consisting of sixth, seventh and eighth graders from both Harrington and Odessa are making progress in learning the game and working on their skills. They lost their first game of the year to Valley by a score of 26-0. They also lost to Inchellium in their second game last week but improved and generated some offense. The score was 30-12. Head coach Larry Weber says his team is playing better on defense but needs to eliminate some turnovers and work on sustaining drives on...
Odessa’s Oom Pas and Mas German band has been on tour the past two weekends, playing at Oktoberfests in Coeur d’Alene and Spokane. The Coeur d’Alene event on September 29 had a microbrew tasting event thrown into the mix of entertainment, food and beer. The German-American Society in Spokane held their own Oktoberfest celebration on October 6, which was incidentally the final day of the Munich Oktoberfest after which all other such events are named. After a meal of grill...
In a non-league match against Columbia High School in Hunters on October 2, Odessa-Harrington overwhelmed Columbia in three straight games to take the match 25-7, 25-5 and 25-12. Kendall Todd led the Titans offensively with eight aces, followed closely by Jordyn Tanke and Cydnee Kieffer with seven each. Chelsea Fisher had five kills and Katie DeWulf had four. On defense, Kieffer got three digs, and Fisher got one block. Koralynne Kuch was credited with eight assists and Alexa...
The Odessa-Harrington Titans lost to the Almira-Coulee City-Hartline Warriors last Friday, October 5, in Coulee City. O-H 0 6 6 14 26 O-H 14 8 16 8 46 The first quarter of play was all ACH, first on a three-yard run by Mitchell Hunt and a successful two-point conversion on a running play, followed later by a 55-yard run by Jon Heathman, with the extra-point attempt no good. O/H struck first in the second quarter on a 25-yard pass to Carsen Weber from quarterback Justin Hunt. The attempt for extra points was no good. ACH then...
Odessa Record subscriber Larry Fisher of Spokane continues his series of articles on the history of the Batum/Lauer area (where his wife, the former Joyce Kiesz, grew up)....
David Michaelson, currently of Harrington and formerly a resident and business owner in Odessa, has received word that two additional writing awards have come his way. Michaelson’s science fiction trilogy has received an Honorable Mention for the first book, “The Centauri Intervention.” The sequel, “Bittersweet Colony,” has been awarded First Runner Up by the Military Writer’s Society of America at a recent convention held in Dayton, Ohio. These are Michaelson’s second and third awards. He also won a Silver Medal in 2010...
The Odessa Horseshoe Club hosted the state-sanctioned Odessa Open tournament September 29. Eighteen mixed players turned out for the competition, 7 each in classes A and B, and 4 in Class C. Tournament winners in Class A were Lee Zalesny 1st, Les Myers 2nd and Monty McLaughlin 3rd. In Class B, they were John McCarthy, Sr. 1st, Kaiti Reeves 2nd and Harold Boyer 3rd. Class C was won by Loren Totusek 1st and Sharon McLaughlin 2nd. "Everyone had a good time," reported Kathy Ratkowski of the club, adding that the beautiful...
Evie Weber, formerly of Odessa, entered into God's arms on September 29, 2012. She resided at the Guardian Angel Homes in Liberty Lake, Wash. Born to Anna (Franson) and Robert White of Ritzville on May 16, 1930, Evie grew up 12 miles north of Ritzville along Crab Creek at Rocky Ford. A hard working farm girl, she attended the country school, along with her siblings, one half mile from her home until entering Ritzville High School and graduating in 1948. It was in high school...
Doris (Jones) Amen passed away on October 6, 2012 in Carlsbad, Calif., at the age of 93. She was the daughter of Walter and Ethel (Piatt) Jones, born on February 3, 1919 on her Grandmother Jones' farm north of Dayton, Wash. She was the second of three girls raised by her parents on their wheat farm. She first attended a one-room school for six years, New Hope Grade School, and then studied at Dayton where she graduated from high school as valedictorian in 1936. Doris attended...
Walt Larson of Ellensburg died September 23, 2012. He was born April 30, 1924, in Glendive, Mont. and grew up in Circle, Mont., the fifth of 10 children of Ben and Josephine Larson. He was proud to be a World War II veteran, entering action on D-Day + 1 at Omaha Beach and serving in Europe as part of a Signal Radio Intelligence company. Walt married Mary Lou Harrison September 17, 1948 in Billings, Mont. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in...
As the Monday night meeting of the Odessa Town Council was working its way toward a late-night session on the budget for the new year, Mayor Doug Plinski showed the Council and guests a slide show of many of the town’s properties and their states of repair and/or disrepair, as the case may be. Many were “gifts” made to the town over the years by well-meaning citizens and organizations, but they have ultimately become rather serious liabilities at this point in time. Assets vs. liabilities Plinski’s presentation was intende...
The next time someone counters your political view, don’t get too excited. Just tell him or her you’ll be glad to discuss politics when he or she has read the U.S. Constitution and made an attempt to understand it. And go ahead and read it, yourself. You can find a readable, printable copy of the Constitution at www.wallbuilders.com. You may say, “Well, my political opponents aren’t going to read it, and, now, I have no chance to debate the issues with them and change their minds.” Right. Someone who might be convinced...
Work has begun on the next phase of the community kitchen upgrade, and the storage areas that were on the north side of the kitchen have been demolished. Asphalt from the existing concrete pad out to the end of the building has been broken up in preparation for removal. Michelle Melgren reported that the $10,000 rural development grant awarded by the Lincoln County Economic Development Council has been received. Rod Webster, who has been working on the kitchen project, said...
