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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...
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...
Justin Hunt, Jared King, Cade Weber and Markus Smith were invited to speak at 2nd Harvest Food Bank’s Agency conference in Spokane, Washington. The FBLA members shared how a group of students, Odessa’s FBLA chapter, successfully implemented the backpack program in the Odessa School system, providing 35 students with food to eat over the weekends throughout the school year. Riley Allen has volunteered to pick up deliveries for the food bank and for the backpack program fro...
The Lincoln County Conservation District Conservation Day was held on May 10, 2012 at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds. A total of 156 students from Davenport, Reardan, Harrington, Odessa, Christian Heritage, and Wilbur attended the event. Classes held were Fire Prevention, presented by Doug Bonstrom, Nancy Harada, and Stephanie Regan of the Airway Heights Fire Department; Weather, presented by John Livingston, of the National Weather Service; Electricity, presented by Eddie...
District Champions The Titan baseball team won the district championship Monday, May 14, over Northport by a score of 8 to 2. They now advance to regional play Saturday, May 19, at Central Valley High School in Spokne Valley (821 S. Sullivan Rd, Spokane Valley). Saturday schedule: 10 a.m. Northport (Dist. 7 #2) vs. Colton (Dist. 9 #1), winner to 4 p.m. game, loser out. 1 p.m. Touchet (Dist. 9 #2) vs. Odessa-Harrington (Dist. 7 #1), winner to 4 p.m. game, loser out. 4 p.m....
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). Hi, here I am again. Continued from last week - the Kiesz children... Joyce remembers the following about living in the L-B-D: (14) Using wood stoves to cook/bake, to heat water for washing clothes, taking baths, washing hands and face, etc. (15) Using the back door to the main house to go outside to the underground cellar where the vegetables, the food tha...
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 7: Burlington Northern Santa Fe officials requested the Sheriff's Office to remove trespassers and not permit camping on railroad property. A CenturyLink sub-contractor advised of vandalism at a...
The Odessa School District, in cooperation with Educational Service District #101, will be providing a Childfind Screening clinic on Thursday, May 24, 2012. The screening will be offered at no cost to children of concern, ages three through five. By identifying children at an early age, we can better prepare for their future educational needs. The screening will take place in the preschool classroom at P.C. Jantz Elementary School. The screening itself takes about an hour to complete. During this time, a screening test will...
Spring Fling wrapped up with the seventh annual Friends of the Pool Walk-a-thon held Sunday, April, 29, raising over $4,500 for the organization’s projects. According to Suzie Deife, FOP President, a total of 65 walkers collected pledges. Most of them were school-aged children, but participants ranged in age from one year old to adults who joined in and took advantage of the fresh air and exercise. The pledge walkers walked or ran a total of 1,246 laps around the track at F...
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 Blackwood Legacy Quartet comprises Rick Price, Luke Yates, Daniel Rivera and Daniel Childs and is one of the most successful and hardest working gospel music groups today, touring more than 250 dates per year. The award-winning group will present a special concert Tuesday, June 5, at 7 p.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church (602 E Amende Drive) in Odessa. Admission is free and a love offering will be received. Built on the legendary music of the Grammy and Dove award-winning Blackwood Brothers Quartet, Rick Price and Chris...
The Odessa Community Vacation Bible School is scheduled for the week of June 11-14 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Odessa Foursquare Church at 111 E First Avenue. Fresh fruits, vegetables, cheese/crackers can be delivered to the Foursquare Church that week during VBS. Also, any non perishable food donations can be brought to Christ Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall by Saturday, June 9. Expenses are always incurred for this event and those wishing to make a monetary donation may send it to Christ Lutheran Church, PO Box 400, or...
The Odessa float will be making its debut appearance Thursday, May 17. Justin Parr reported that the float will follow "the usual route" which follows First Avenue east, loops up to the hospital, west to the school and then back down Alder Street to return to First Avenue and the community center. Parr said that the float should be on the route beginning at approximately 7 p.m....
A report in the May 3, 1907, edition of The Odessa Record on the volume of wheat received at Odessa warehouses during the preceding season emphasized that the town was the world’s largest primary wheat shipping station. Odessa area wheat field had been in production less than 10 years but more wheat was being shipped out of Odessa than at any other point along the Great Northern railroad, and that included Montana, North and South Dakota and Nebraska. A large sign painted on the side of the Odessa Flouring Mill proclaimed t...
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...
Even though we already ran a story on this event based on information supplied by science teacher Jeff Wehr, we are including this article because it provides additional information Kira E. Powell, a student at Odessa High School finished in first place in the environmental sciences category at the 50th National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) held May 5-6 in Bethesda, Md. The award comes with a $12,000 scholarship. Powell presented her original research project, “The Development of a Novel Sodium Polyacryl-ate...
This year’s 21st annual winetasting and auction was another well-attended event that raised a generous amount of money from both Odessa residents and visitors from out of town. The proceeds this year will go toward implementation of the electronic medical-record-keeping system Carol Schott, chairperson of the organizing committee, said that the amount of money raised was about the same as last year, as was the attendance. She also added that expenses were somewhat higher t...
Powell repeats Kira Powell has returned from the 50th Annual Science and Humanities Symposium held this year in Bethesda, Md., where she once again earned first place in Environmental Science and, once again, could fly to London, England to represent the United States at the London International Youth Science Forum, just as she did last year. Her decision to attend is still uncertain, as the timing may interfere with fall college activities, and, altruistically, says her...
This past winter, students from Eastern Washington University assisted the Lincoln County Economic Development Council (EDC) with a countywide strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) survey. The students analyzed the survey results, reported their findings and pointed out a couple of holes in our survey coverage (one being a shortage of input from our youth). The EDC went back out and gathered the missing data. A second team of students, this time from Gonzaga University, agreed to incorporate the new survey...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 5/2/12: Big washout today in the grain markets, yet there didn’t seem to be any terrible news item that caused it. Soybeans closed down 18 cents, which was probably overdue after the run they’ve been on lately and that seemed to allow everything else to get hammered, too. Wheat was off the most, as there certainly isn’t the tight supply situation as there is in corn and beans, and the winter wheat tour is roaming through Kansas and finding excellent yield p...
