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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. Feb. 27: Harrington area residents told dispatchers of problems with a third occupant of their home, from which a later report of a possible assault was received. A resident of the 32000 block of Whit...
Kramer Schutz, son of Ken and Lea Ann Schutz of Odessa, has been named to the Dean’s List at Carroll College, Helena, Mont., for the fall 2011 semester. Appointment to the Dean’s List at Carroll College requires an average of 3.5 or higher for all courses taken in a semester. Schutz was a 2010 graduate of Odessa High School....
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. Feb. 20: Davenport emergency personnel assisted a 46-year-old man who suffered a seizure. A caller reported a road restriction violation by a semi-truck traveling on Sterling Valley Road. Feb. 21: A...
Soup is always in season, making it the ideal menu staple for times when we seem to have all four seasons in any given day. Soup can be as easy as opening a can and heating the contents, or involve lots of chopping, sautéing, deglazing, boning and mincing. Dan Wilcox, The Odessa Record website guru, submitted a recipe for Chicken Noodle Soup that falls in the less labor intensive category. Usually I rewrite recipes into the standard formula for recipe presentation, but Dan...
They didn’t call them chambers of commerce in those days They were commercial clubs in all but the larger cities like Spokane. One hundred and eight years ago this week, the Odessa Commercial Club, forerunner to the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, was organized. That body, made up of the town’s civic and business leaders, has been an enthusiastic booster of Odessa ever since. It was designated the Odessa Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s. Here is the report of its founding, appearing in The Odessa Record on March 11, 1904. A meeti...
Stan Wills was one of the two gentlemen who came to Reiman Park in Odessa to demonstrate Colonial era clothing and other items, including muskets and coins. Stan Wills, age 60, recently took on a summer project. Half way between Sprague and Harrington on Hwy 23 there stood an old log cabin. The roof had fallen in, and it was about to be torn down and burned. Stan approached the current land owner and asked if he could have it. The land owner agreed, and the project began....
In last week’s special issue on FFA, we ran out of room for all of the news and pictures about local FFA activities. Our FFA coverage continues: For the 2011-2012 school year, the Odessa FFA chapter has 42 members. Seniors: Ashley Buchman, Elena Hernandez, Kaitlin Estep, Alyssa Woodruff, Morgan Nelson, Kyle Tebow, Rebekah Marshall and Hailey Williams. Juniors: Nick Nelson, Jared King, Justin Hunt, Justin Hauge, Nick Tebow, Lacey Nelson and Jessie Whitaker. Sophomores: Ryan G...
Two girls from the Odessa-Harrington Titans basketball team were recognized for their playing ability by being named to the Girls Bi-County 1B All-Opponent Team. Jessie Whitaker, the daughter of Richard and LaDawna Whitaker, was named to the first team. Jessie is a junior and attends Odessa High School part timeand is home-schooled the rest of the time. Kendall Todd, also a junior at OHS, is the daughter of Odessa school teachers Bruce and Kim Todd. Kendall was given...
Both Odessa and Harrington High’s Knowledge Bowl teams qualifed at Regionals February 24 at Whitworth University to move on to statewide competition to be held March 17 at Spokane Falls Community College. Finishing first in the 1B division was Wilbur with 102 points, Valley Christian second with 95 points, Odessa third with 93 points, ACH fourth with 81 points, Garfield-Palouse fifth and Harrington sixth. Competitors were presented oral and written questions drawn from the s...
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center employee Karen Carlson had just finished an all-day CPR training session when she had the opportunity to put what she had learned into practice. While eating at a restaurant in Moses Lake, Carlson heard someone choking behind her. The man’s wife was attempting to perform the Heimlich maneuver, but the man collapsed to the floor. Carlson was able to give him chest compressions, and perform a finger sweep of his mouth, after which, she said, h...
Last Wednesday’s severe windstorm raised havoc from one end of town to another. Those of us watching from the safety of our downtown businesses saw hordes of tumbleweeds blowing along First Avenue, with some then swirling down intersecting streets as suction created small whirlwinds off to the side. Garbage cans, their lids and all manner of other debris were swept into other people’s yards, Crab Creek and the surrounding countryside. Two homes on Fourth Avenue lost pine trees...
Going into Week 8 of the annual Spokesman Review Trapshoot, Marlin-Odessa still sat in second place, one point behind the Colton Gun Club and one point ahead of Garfield-St. John. Marlin Changeable weather still saw large numbers of trapshooters at the Marlin Gun Club February 26 when 62 shooters turned out in 39 squads. The only 25 was shot by Alex Ames. Shooting 24 were Dave Lang, Bill James, Mark Iksic, Doug Starkel, Mike Christ, Camden Eckhart and Kurt Moore. Scott Mortimer, Ken Thompson, Mark Edwins and Donna Thrall all...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 2/23/12: White wheat prices held steady even as Chicago futures prices closed lower on Thursday. The value of the dollar was down on the day but that didn’t help grain prices today. Export sales are delayed until tomorrow due to the holiday on Monday but are expected to show good totals for both corn and wheat last week. Spain reportedly bought some more U.S. SRW for feed and there were sales of 4 million bushels to unknown destinations as well recently. L...
The Odessa Record has been doing a great job keeping us up to date on the March 3 Republican Caucuses. One last reminder – there will be NO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY in 2012. The caucus is your only chance to express a preference for the 2012 Republican Presidential nominee. If you don’t like the straw poll results when they are reported Saturday night on the news, no complaining if you didn’t take time to participate Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to noon. Here is the key: You can only participate if you go to the correct caucus l...
The final discussion at Tuesday’s Chamber of Commerce meeting was about the current condition s of the float and the representatives needed to ride it. “I would pay to have my kid not ride on that float!” was reported as the reaction from many parents. This is not the first time this topic has arisen at Chamber meetings, which has been responsible for funding the float for the past few years. In previous years, young women of the junior class were encouraged to visit downtown businesses to help offset not only the cost of th...
At the February 23, 2012, meeting of the Odessa School Board, board members and administrators heard the concerns of several parents of 5th-grade students. Odessa 5th-graders this year do not have just one 5th-grade teacher in a single classroom. Instead, they have lockers and go to different classrooms for different subjects taught under different teachers, just as junior-high students do. After second-grade teacher Bev Scherr retired a year ago, the administration opted not to hire a replacement and shifted the other...
Town Marshal Mike Wren, who has worked for the Town of Odessa for the past five years, resigned Monday morning, a move that left town officials as well as the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office scrambling to cover the town’s law enforcement needs. In a letter of resignation read to the councilmembers by Mayor Doug Plinski, Wren stated that after 23 years in law enforcement, the last 5 of them in Odessa, he felt it was “time to move on,” and gave February 27 as the effective date for his resignation. Police report Deputy Marshal...
The Odessa High School FBLA chapter formed a partnership with 2nd Harvest Food Bank for the purpose of learning business skills from business professionals and applying that knowledge to benefit our local community. From this partnership, the FBLA chapter has implemented the Back Pack program. This program provides a backpack full of non-perishable food to 35 Odessa students each Friday to eat over the weekend. The food is packaged by Second Harvest Food Bank and distributed...
Hi, here I am again. Continued from last week “The Schibels.” On 09 April 1919, Henry Schibel married Katherine “Katie” Frick. Katie was age 19, Henry age 22. Katie’s parents were Heinrich “Henry” & Anna Margaret Schafer Frick. At the time, the Fricks were living in Adams Co. TS 20N, R31E, Section 2, about 1-1/2 mile north of Moody and almost 2 ½ miles southwest of the Schibel farm. I have been told the Fricks settled in the area around 1900; that they were the last in the area to farm with horses which was toward the end...
Sunday February 19 brought another large group of shooters and observers to the Marlin Gun Club, where 67 competitors (in 40 squads) took a shot at the standings. Marlin Dave Lang, Doug Starkel and Ken Eckhart all achieved perfect 25s. Shooting 24 were Bill James, Mackenzie Bemis, Jim Schell, Dave Pelham and Dean Moore. Mark Iksic, Travis Iksic, Mike Christ, Ken Thompson and Mark Edwins shot 23. Shooting 22 were Harlan Thrall, Daryl Kimble, Keith Lenssen, Dusty Kimble, Jake...
Whether you love or hate the Canada goose, you would have to admit that the one pictured above looks like the real thing. In 1982, John M. Schmauder completed “The Wonder Deek,” as he titled it on the bottom of the platform bearing his carving, a decoy representating a very lifelike Canada goose. The goose is carved out of sugar pine, a wood particularly favored by woodworkers, according Mark Fulford, the current owner of the goose. Securely mounted on a wooden platform, it...
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and IHOP restaurants will celebrate National Pancake Day on Tuesday, February 28, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. IHOP will be offering a free short stack of its famous buttermilk pancakes to each guest and, in return, diners will be asked to leave a little something behind for Providence Holy Family Hospital, Providence Mt. Carmel Hospital, Providence Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital, Providence St. Joseph’s Hospital, St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, Kootenai Medical Center and Inland Northwe...
Odessa High School won full accreditation from the state in February 1910. The upgrade had been due largely to the efforts of Principal William U. Neeley, who expanded the curriculum and hired additional teachers. The Record gave this report of the school’s new classification in the issue of February 25, 1910: Word has been received that Odessa high School has been fully accredited for all of the work now being done. This action was taken by the State Board of Higher Education at a meeting in Spokane last Monday. This s...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 2/15/12: White wheat continued to maintain its strength in the face of weaker Chicago wheat futures. Strong export feed demand remains the main driver. Egypt is in overnight for an all-comers tender. The tender over the weekend went all to the U.S., so we’ll see how this one turns out. 2/16/12: Egypt bought U.S. wheat for the second time in a week, as no other origins managed to book the business. Once again, there were no offers from Russia or the U...
This week is National FFA Week, and as it does every year at this time, The Odessa Record, with the support of the Odessa and Harrington communities, salutes the high-school and eighth-grade students who dedicate themselves to this extra-curricular activity at their respective schools. Their advisor Erica Whitmore holds half-time positions at both schools, a situation that keeps her very busy and very often driving on the well-traveled road between the two schools. Through FFA, young people learn practical approaches to the...
