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The Titan football team got their second win of the season last Friday afternoon, thrashing Selkirk by a score of 42-0. The game was played in Harrington and was one of the many events associated with the Harrington Fall Festival last weekend. The first of the Titans’ six touchdowns was made by Harrington junior Stetson Sanford on a nine-yard run into the end zone. Odessa quarterback Jared King ran the ball in again for the two-point conversion. King also made the next s...
The Odessa Parent-Teacher Organization bought T-shirts for all students in preschool through twelfth grade. They also bought shirts for all certified, classified staff and administrators. At registration, parents filled out shirt sizes for children, and two weeks later the shirts were delivered. Suzie Deife talked with the Harrington School District, which also provided shirts for the entire school, and “piggy-backed” on the same design. “The PTO raises funds for K-8, but we t...
Fundraising efforts continue for the San Felipe (Baja California, Mexico) mission trip scheduled to leave Odessa on November 5. The quilt to be raffled off is currently on display in the waiting room at the Odessa Clinic. The other item to be raffled, a lighted china cabinet, can be seen at Heritage Church. Raffle tickets are $5, and are available from Barb Schlimmer, Kim King, Sherie Heimbigner or Jon Hayashi, pastor of Heritage Church. The cabinet also contains several of...
Well. I got carried away. Miss Smarty-Pants, having so much fun and getting lots of positive feedback from her friends, has put her foot in it. You all know how it feels when you are attacked. A rush of adrenaline hits your system, causing your heart and respiration rates to increase. You may even feel a flutter in your digestive tract. It’s all a part of the “fight or flight” response. You can stand your ground and bare your teeth and take the chance of getting hurt. You c...
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. Sept. 19: A Reardan man described a fraudulent phone call from "the Court of Lincoln" attempting to collect a debt. No one was hurt after a vehicle went off SR 231 near Edwall and collided with a...
Howard W. Kissler died September 12, 2011 in Lakewood, Wash., surrounded by his family. He was born in Odessa on November 20, 1950, the fourth of five boys, to Fred and Clara Kissler. He graduated from Odessa High School in 1970. He grew up on the farm, which raised grain, cattle and horses. He then worked on a ranch at Marlin, which he managed for several years. After that, he took up trucking and stayed with it, working for several companies. He had worked for Prax Air...
The Odessa-Harrington Titan volleyball team split its most recent two matches, dominating Springdale before bowing to Davenport. O-H vs. Springdale The Titans defeated Springdale, 25-13, 25-19 and 25-6, September 20 at Harrington. Lexi Hirst (11-0), Koralynne Kuch (14-1) and Cydnee Kieffer (9-0) led the serving. Kuch and Kieffer each had two aces. Spiking was led by Kendall Todd and Chelsea Fisher, who combined for 11 kills and 4 blocks. Charli Moffet set 14 kill assists. On defense, Kira Powell contributed 6 digs, while...
When Ms. Ott, your roving reporter for The Odessa Record, belittles small communities, as I feel she did in her column of September 1, 2011, perhaps she should follow her own advice. In item #13 of her “big ideas for a small town” article she admonishes us to “not be mean spirited, as it is not helpful, and we should evaluate what we say before we say it.” She infers in her article that several of our small communities are resting on our laurels. I feel that is “mean spirited” and not helpful, when you don’t know the fact...
The 2011 junior-high football season is under way for the Odessa-Harrington Titans, with a large turnout of 22 seventh and eighth graders playing – 14 from Odessa and eight from Harrington. The Titans challenged Almira/Coulee-Hartline in the home opener and lost, 0-38. Caleb Behrens led the Titan team in tackles. The second game was much closer, with the Titans losing to Hunters-Inchelium, 14-24. The score at the half was 0-0. Caleb Behrens, playing at quarterback, scored a touchdown and made an extra-point conversion. Dylan...
The Booster Club will hold a dinner and auction on October 8, 2011. Happy hour starts at 5:30 with dinner at 6 p.m. Dinner will include steak grilled on an outdoor grill by Riders Club members, and music will be provided by Larry Moffet and Jeff Wehr. The goal of the Club is to earn money for warm-ups/jackets for all sports participants and to purchase portable sound systems for each school. There will be 12 live auction items and several tables filled with silent auction items. OH Booster Club 2011 Cash Donations Jim and...
Cooler nights are slowing most garden production. Zucchini though, seem to keep producing right up to the killing frost. Mrs. Jackie Winfrey of Quincy sent in her favorite zucchini jam recipe, Pina Colada Jam. She reports that this freezer style jam gets rave reviews. Pina Colada Jam 6 cups granulated sugar 6 cups shredded yellow zucchini 1 can (8ounces) crushed pineapple, un-drained 1/4 cup lime juice 2 packages (3 ounces each) pineapple gelatin 1 tsp rum extract Combine sugar, zucchini, pineapple and lime juice in Dutch...
Odessa in October 1905 was emerging from a business district of all wooden frame buildings to one with solid brick structures. The second week in October, fire broke out in one of the new brick buildings and spread to some of the remaining frame store fronts, wiping out nearly a block of downtown businesses. This account of Odessa’s greatest fire, one which threatened the entire town, appeared in The Record on October 11, 1905: Odessa’s third and largest fire in history occurred just about midnight Monday. It started nea...
After reading Bernie Sanders’ column last week, one has to think that this is what one writes when he wants more taxpayers’ money to waste on social programs. He makes it sound like this is the worst country in the world, that we have nothing but poor people and that they are worse off than the rest of the world. Here are some interesting facts about the poor in the U.S., which you will never hear or read in the main-stream media. “In a new report, Heritage's Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield lay out what the U.S. gover...
Editor’s note: The following article includes information from both the September 12 and 16 meetings of the Odessa Town Council. September 12 A lawsuit brought against the Town of Odessa in 2004 has been resolved. Town Council members went into executive session at the end of the September 12 meeting to hear from Mayor Doug Plinski that the suit had been dropped. Following the executive session, members met again briefly in open session to announce the decision received in the form of a letter from the court. Plinski said t...
The 41st Odessa Deutschesfest celebration is now behind us, and it’s time to regroup and think about what went right and what went wrong. Most vendors of food, crafts and souvenirs that we spoke to appeared to have done quite well. According to Nancy Kramer of the Friends of the Library, the used-book sale made more money than it did last year. Kelly Kissler Korpenin of JonathINN’s said that on Saturday she had to run out to the farm for some of the food that they had set asi...
Ephrata will hold its first annual Brewers' Harvest Expo Saturday, September 24, from noon to 6 p.m. on the Grant County Courthouse lawn. Visitors will be able to sample offerings from 11 northwest craft breweries. Admission is $25 and includes 12 two-ounce samples and a souvenir glass. Additional four-ounce samples can be purchased for $1 each. Organizer Denver Morford said the Expo will double as a fundraiser for college-bound high school athletes at Ephrata High. The Marty O'Brien Scholarship Fund was established in 2007...
Imagine being told you have cancer. It’s the diagnosis nobody wants to hear. At the time, you don’t think it can get any worse. Well, it can. Two years later you could be told the cancer is back. That’s what has happened to Michael Jeske, a member of the Odessa High School Class of 2000. Having graduated from the University of Idaho and received his teaching certificate, Michael landed his first teaching job on the “west side” in Rochester. He teaches agricultural mechanics and coaches track and field. In March of 2009, Mic...
Moses Lake Veterinary Clinic’s mobile van has stopped its weekly visits to Odessa. Over this past summer, the van parked each Tuesday morning next to Walter Implement on Dobson Road at the eastern town limits of Odessa. Sometimes, cars were lined up waiting for the van to arrive, but on too many days, only one or two people showed up or even none at all. With the current price of gas, the cost to the clinic’s current young animal doctors of buying the veterinary practice from the estate of their mentor Dr. Dwaine McIntosh, wh...
ABC News recently released a video of an armed robbery of a Walgreen's Pharmacy in Benton Township, Michigan which took place in May. The video showed two masked, hooded robbers brandishing weapons entering the nearly deserted store at 4:30 a.m. They grabbed an employee as a hostage and dragged him around the store. Pharmacist Jeremy Hoven tried to call 911, but then one of the two robbers jumped over the pharmacy counter and pointed his pistol at Hoven, who drew his own...
Howard Kissler, a former Odessa resident and graduate of Odessa High School, died September 12 following his battle with liver cancer. Services were held September 17 at Rainier View Church in Tacoma. Arrangements are through the Mountain View Funeral Home in Tacoma (website: http://www.mountainviewtacoma.com/home.html) If you go to the website, search under condolences for Howard Kissler, and you be taken to his pages, which includes an area where one can leave messages for the family. If you have a facebook account, a...
A memorial service for former Odessa resident Clarence “Jack” Meek will be held at the Odessa Cemetery Chapel this coming Saturday, September 24, at 11 a.m. Pastor Jon Hayashi of Heritage Church will conduct the service. The family invites anyone who knew Jack to join them at the service....
Odessa was late in getting electricity, not having illumination other than gas lights until August 1910. Telephone service had come earlier, in June 1903, even before the town was incorporated when service was offered to 25 subscribers. Among those, only three were residential subscribers, although all four saloons in town had telephones. Connections with the outside world remained spotty until a long-distance circuit was extended to Odessa in 1910. However, one still could not make a call when the central switchboard...
The Odessa Public Library is among the libraries in Adams and Lincoln counties that will soon have extra materials on their shelves thanks to a grant administered by the Washington State Library. The Connecting Libraries through Resource Sharing grant program has provided a $5,000 grant for seven public libraries. The Ritzville Public Library is the lead library receiving the grant, and Odessa, Davenport Public Library, Harrington Public Library, Hesseltine Public Library, Reardan Memorial Library and Sprague Public Library...
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). Dream 2. Continuation. Schmidt, Jacob J., (b. 8/17/1877, Neu Messer, Russia. d. 4/20/1950). Son of John Peter Schmidt and Maria Christina Oestreich Schmidt. He married Elizabeth Green on 1/13/1913, likely at the Schmidt homestead near Batum, Adams Co., Washington. Schnell, John, (b. 12/20/1860, Russia. d. 7/29/1936). Father: Conrad Schnell, born Russia. Wif...
The Titan girls varsity volleyball team had a split for the week in its games against Davenport and Liberty. OH vs. Davenport Head Titan volleyball coach Ken Scherr said of the September 13 contest against Davenport, “It was an off night for us, but Davenport is always tough, especially at their place.” Odessa-Harrington went down 25-18, 25-19 and 25-16 at Davenport. Serving leaders were Koralynne Kuch (8-0), Kendall Todd (7-0) and Amanda Hardt (11-0). Todd and Chelsea Fis...
