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Kira Powell did it for the third year in a row, capturing first place in 1B girls golf in the rain at Lakeside in western Washington. Koralynne Kuch, Hannah Schmidt, Chelsea Fisher and Jordyn Tanke, the four girls running the 4x200-meter relay event at the 1A/1B/2B track and field meet in Cheney also brought home a first place. The Odessa-Harrington Titan girls track team was in a three-way tie for seventh place at the state meet held last weekend on the campus of Eastern Wash...
Kira Powell brought home her third consecutive State B golf championship last week, finishing just one stroke ahead of Emily Baumgart of DeSales HS and four ahead of Michal Schuster of St. John-Endicott. According to coach Sam Read, “Kira came through in some tough playing conditions and under a lot of pressure of being the two time returning champion, and terrible weather.” State B golf was held at Oakbrook Golf and Country Club in Lakewood May 22 and 23. Five Ode...
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. May 21: Dispatchers learned of a verbal dispute between a man and his baby's mother in the Creston area. A Circle Road resident reported people were shooting from the roadway and noticed after a...
Hi, here I am again. Continued from last week – the Kiesz Children….. Joyce remembers the following about living in the L-B-D: (30.) There was usually no room in the kitchen’s “cool box” for pies and other bakery goods so goods were kept on the kitchen counter. I’m sure today a person would keep them in the refrigerator. In the old days, no one got sick …. after all, when the items came out of the oven it didn’t take long for them to be eaten, like within two seconds. (31.)...
The Odessa High School Knowledge Bowl team has reported in from New Orleans that they ended the competition with a record of two wins and four losses. All the schools Odessa competed against had a high school enrollment of more than 500 and included both public and private schools. Their first match on Saturday was against Bayside, Tenn., where Odessa won by a score of 260-210. The next match was against North Babylon High of Long Island, New York, where the Odessa squad came...
A shade tree has been donated by the friends and family of the late Rex Gibson of Odessa. The flowering cherry tree was planted at the Twin Lakes campground by local Girl Scouts Mya and Natosha Boss (representing the Junior Girl Scouts) and Katreace Boss (representing the Brownie Scouts). All three will earn a badge for planting the tree. Anyone using the campground over the summer, fishermen in particular, are asked to water the tree each time they visit. Once the tree is...
Diane Whitman started working in the physical therapy department at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center in May of 1987 as a physical therapy aide. She took additional classes and became a licensed massage therapist not long after that. She has worked at OMHC for 25 years and in that time she has been a very important part of providing caring, quality healthcare to our patient population. She has built a large and dedicated massage clientele, while continuing to assist in the...
Thanks to the George and Dorothy Gies Foundation, 19 young women from Odessa High School had the opportunity to attend the Women Helping Women Luncheon in Spokane. The keynote speaker, Elizabeth Smart, inspired everyone to overcome adversity and live life to its fullest even after tragedy strikes. Elizabeth spoke of her abduction in 2002 at 14 years old. Her captors controlled her by threatening to kill her and her family if she tried to escape. The police safely retuned her to her family nine months later after she was...
Austin Schmierer, an Odessa High School senior who plans on studying biology, has been named a Washington Scholar for 2012/2013. The other two scholars are Elise Loggers of Colville and Lucy Hill of Wilbur. The alternate is Cory Sago of Colbert. The Washington Scholars program recognizes the accomplishments of four high school students in each of the state’s 49 legislative districts, three Washington Scholars and one alternate. A total of 196 Washington high school seniors have been honored as Washington Scholars or W...
Whitworth University held its 122nd commencement on Sunday, May 13, 2012 at the Spokane Arena. Matthew Jacob Zeiler graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He will reside in Odessa and plans to be part of the family farming operation. Matthew is a 2008 graduate of Odessa High School and is the son of Bob and Debbie Zeiler....
Kenna Schutz graduated from Gonzaga University on Mother’s Day 2012 with a double major in finance and accounting. She spent a semester studying abroad at Gonzaga in Florence, Italy. She has been hired by Quantum Corporation in Bellevue and will be working as a financial analyst, beginning May 29. She is a member of Beta Alpha Psi. She is a 2008 Odessa High School graduate, and her parents are Ken and Lea Ann Schutz....
Sara Laurece Fink of Odessa and Adam Jay Dirks of Ritzville will be united in marriage July 14, 2012, at the Heritage Church in Odessa with Pastor Tim Hauge officiating. Sara is the daughter of Neil and Lecia Fink of Odessa and the granddaughter of Marvin and Marilyn Fink of Odessa, and the late Laurence and Shirley Libsack. Adam is the son of Don and Sheryl Dirks of Ritzville and the grandson of Lloyd and Marjorie Tebow of Odessa, and the late Clarence and Greta Dirks. Sara...
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. May 14: Dispatchers were advised by the state Fish and Wildlife Department of its helicopter looking for bighorn sheep in the Lincoln area. A county Public Works vehicle was involved in a collision...
Barbeque season traditionally begins during Memorial Day weekend. Weather is usually conducive to outdoor dining by then, and an extra day off from work or school gives many folks time to prepare for a summer of al fresco meals. Start by making sure the grill is ready to use. Follow the manufactures instructions for cleaning and fueling your unit. Then you will be set to grill your favorite foods, as well as trying some new recipes. My favorite steak marinade is Great Steaks...
Graduation is near at hand for Odessa High School’s class of 2012. As the community observes the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Town of Odessa, we look back at the first high school graduation exercises, which took place 103 years ago this week. There was one graduate, Ella Williams. She must indeed have felt honored, as 300 persons came to see her receive her diploma. Even though the Class of 1909 had only one member, it nevertheless had a class motto, a class flower and class colors. Presumably, Miss Williams made...
As many of our readers already know, Odessa’s very successful high school science teacher Jeff Wehr and his wife Julie, along with their two children Thorsen and Kiegan, are leaving Odessa at the end of the school year. The family is moving to Duvall, Wash., located in King County south of Monroe, where Jeff is taking a position at Cedarcrest High School. The Record asked him how it all came about, and he responded as follows: “It actually is a wacky story! We were not loo...
Continuing her Advanced Science Research (for-credit class of independent study in the sciences), Odessa High School student Kira Powell returns from Pittsburgh, Penn. and the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a fourth-place award in the Plant Sciences category. Thousands of students from more than 50 different countries attended, 10 of the projects from Washington state alone. The competition was very demanding, and only one other project from Washing...
Monday, May 28, 2012, the Odessa Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #7395 and the Odessa American Legion Post #105 will present their annual Memorial Day services at Odessa Memorial Hospital Long Term Care Facility at 10:00 a.m. and at the Odessa Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. Flags will be dedicated for Kenny Allum and Dean Iltz during the service at the cemetery. Reverend Jon Hayashi of Heritage Church will be the guest speaker. The Odessa and Bohemian cemeteries combined contain the graves of 215 veterans, and each grave will be...
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7395 elected their officers for the 2012-2013 year at their April meeting. Officers elected are: President, Leora Nixon; Vice President, Kathy Ratkowski; Secretary, Shelly Dillard; Treasurer, Cassandra Nixon; Guard, Delores Cook; Conductress, Sally Siegel; Chaplain, Dee Litzinger; Patriotic Instructor, Cassandra Nixon; Trustees, Sally Siegel, Dee Litzinger and Lyndsay Reyes. As Odessa has the only auxiliary in the district, these officers will serve as District 13...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 5/18/12: It’s certainly been quite a week in the wheat markets as Chicago futures rallied nearly a dollar per bushel since Tuesday. New-crop soft white prices benefited much more than old crop but both enjoyed nice gains, although not nearly what futures were able to do. Basically the pressure of speculative liquidation from the past two weeks finally lifted, and then concerns over world weather for new-crop wheat started to pop up. Dry weather developing i...
Well, Congress is talking about reducing the food stamp program for the poor from around $1.48 a meal per person to somewhere between 98 cents to $1.23 a meal per person. So, here’s a two-step challenge for your readers: First step: Eat three well-balanced meals a day, each meal for $1.48. Try this for a day, for three days, for a week, for as long as you can manage. Second step: Eat three well-balanced meals a day, each meal for $1.23. Try this for a day, for three days, for a week, for as long as you can manage. Of c...
In a brief meeting May 22, members of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce voted to approve extending the Heimbigner addition to the community center from the existing outside kitchen wall north to the end of the building. The portion of the extension that will not be used for the current kitchen remodel will be framed in to be available for future expansion. It was also reported at the meeting that two individuals, whose names have not been released, have agreed to act as Biergarten co-chairmen for 2012. Justin Parr will continue...
The Odessa Museum will open for the season on Memorial weekend Sunday and Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. On the following weekends throughout the summer and into September, it will be open on Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m. A video of a slide program put together by Dr. John Gahringer is available for viewing on YouTube. The 30-minute program is titled "The Way We Were" and shows the early history and settlement of Odessa, along with the establishment of the museum. To view the show, go to the YouTube website and type in "Odessa...
Odessa Lions Club members broke ground Wednesday May 4 to begin the next phase of Festplatz improvements, installation of a permanent outdoor stage which will provide more space and flexibility for performers as well as general improvement in the appearance of the Festplatz. According to project chairman Dale Ramm, concrete forms are being installed this week, after which the site would need to be back-filled and compacted and concrete poured. Observers will probably not see...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday night to deal with routine matters affecting the community. Fire Department Town fire chief Don Strebeck told the Council that, after expenses, the consignment equipment auction held during Spring Fling made about $8,500 for his department. The auction drew 83 bidders present, vying for 100 lots of varying types of equipment. Strebeck also said that the department has purchased 14 sets of self-contained breathing appatus and 26 air tanks. He said he was able to get a reduced price on the...
