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Pedestrians may want to avoid the southwest corner at the intersection of First Avenue and Division Street for the next week or two, as phase one of a restoration project is underway. The corner building, owned by John and Michelle Melgren, is home to Any Occasion Banquet Hall and The Odessa Record offices. The Melgrens have contracted with Peter Cooper of Coeur d’Alene, a specialist in brick walls and masonry, to remove layers of paint, replace decayed bricks, tuckpoint a...
The Knoell family will be celebrating Jakob Knoell’s 100th birthday on September 3 and 4. He was born September 4, 1911, in the Black Sea area called Bessarabia. He immigrated to the United States and Odessa in 1952, with his wife of 71 years, Lydia. His children, Marianne Saltz (Soldotna, Alaska), and Vern and Joni Knoell (Colbert/Lamona, Wash.), as well as his grandchildren Jeannette Ducker (Kasilof, Alaska), DiAnna Leaders (Soldotna), Tami Knoell (Spokane), Kristi and M...
The Odessa School Board met Wednesday, August 24, to hear about the final preparations for the start of school on August 31. After the meeting board members toured the school buildings to see what had been accomplished over the summer in terms of repairs, new installations and repainting. Handicapped-accessible bathrooms have been installed in both the kindergarten and first-grade rooms, and a wheel-chair ramp leading from the elementary wing to the upper hallway was nearing completion and expected to be finished by the...
Destiny Skidmore, how can you compare Bob and Bonnie Dewey to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is being sued left and right for their labor practices. You know nothing about these people or about labor law. “Help your neighbor!” has nothing to do with business. Bob and Bonnie Dewey come from a small town also; they do have the same family values. But they are in business to make money. Go to the food bank if you can’t afford food or get an EBT card. Newcomers continue to come to Odessa for the cheap housing. You have a drug store, a healt...
Subject: A good interpretation of the Federal Budget If anyone is puzzled by the effort to "substantially" reduce federal spending and is confused by the absolutely huge numbers involved, the following is a primer to understand why this issue is so critical to our country's economic health. It also portends to the mountain of federal debt faced by our children and our grandchildren. Federal Budget 101 The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we c...
I have way more ideas than I have energy or know-how to bring to fruition. I have ideas for quilts. I have ideas for redecorating the house. I have ideas for how to gain control of the garden. And I have lots of ideas for the “betterment” of Odessa. Not that Odessa needs “betterment” – it’s a lovely community. Odessa has held up to the decline of rural America much better than many other communities. But I don’t think we can afford to rest on our laurels, and I think about i...
In a 1913 effort to bring new industry to town, the Odessa Commercial Club targeted a creamery as a likely prospect. The club made a survey of the dairy cows in the Odessa area, and a poll was taken among local farmers to determine whether they would increase their dairy cattle herds. The following year, a creamery turning out dairy products including butter and ice cream was established by Hugo Kleeman, who brought in experienced creamery operators form Germany to set up the business. Here is The Odessa Record’s report in i...
Zucchini abound in Odessa gardens now that some hot weather has arrived. If you are looking for zucchini you don’t have to search very far, just ask a few neighbors or friends and soon you will have plenty to try the recipes in this column. I have been overwhelmed with zucchini recipes. Though I have plenty of zucchini, I have not enough time to test drive all these recipes. Joyce McClanahan agreed to test out Cindi Bell’s recipe for Vegan Zucchini Bread. She reported tha...
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): Raugust, Rudolph, (b. 9/30/1896, Eigenheim, Bessarabia, Russia. d. 7/28/1992). Was a son of Jacob Raugust Sr. – Rudolph served in the U.S. Army during WWI. When he returned from the service he married Margaret Reimann, and moved to Monroe, Washington, where he was employed at a sawmill. He also work for a time at the Carnation Co. T...
We know that driving while you are distracted can be fatal, but apparently texting while walking can lead to serious consequences as well. In Philadelphia, texting pedestrians are on notice that their cell phone habits will have to change. In May, The City of Brotherly Love launched a campaign called “Give Respect, Get Respect.” According to CNET News, the program is “geared toward preventing unsafe behavior on the roads, including pedestrians who talk and text while they cros...
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. Aug. 22: A deputy responded to a report that a front left wheel came off a vehicle, blocking the southbound lane of SR 231 near Broadway Avenue in Reardan. The company working on electrical lines...
At the regional and state science fairs held earlier this year, Odessa middle-school student (now incoming high-school freshman) Thorsen Wehr, by taking first place at both events, earned the right to enter the Broadcom MASTERS™ science research competition. The competition is a program of the Society for Science & the Public (SSP) and is the premier competition for sixth, seventh and eighth graders, where they demonstrate their mastery of math, applied science, technology and...
Deutschesfest food chair Lindsy Starkel presented a preliminary proposal for an upgrade to the community center kitchen. Starkel emphasized that the upgrade would be a “reorganization” of the space, not a remodel. She reported that the Chamber of Commerce has given her preliminary approval for up to $25,000, and that if the council agreed, she would begin working with a designer to complete the plan. In addition to funding from the Chamber, Starkel plans to ask for contributions from organizations who would use the kit...
Normally, I don’t let other people’s opinions bother me. Everyone has them, and I don’t always agree with them. That’s life. That being said, I have to admit that I was personally offended by Ms. Skidmore’s opinion on newcomers to Odessa. I have only lived in Odessa for a year now. I don’t have family that was (always) here, but family here nonetheless. I needed a place to start over, get back on my feet and get my son away from overcrowded classrooms. I found all of that here in Odessa and NEVER have I once stolen from...
Every year when my subscription to The Record is due I think I should let it drop. However, I know I would miss reading of events there. It is hard to believe that I have been gone from Odessa over five years but I still miss my life there and all the friends and acquaintances I know. I enjoy reading Lise's article each week. Best wishes to all. Shirley Hoefel Ainsworth, Neb....
Have you ever heard those stories about the person who starts to resemble their pet? It appears that human couples are similar in that they begin to take on one another’s personality traits over time. Alex Crees, writer for AskDrManny.com, reported on the results of a study released earlier this week, funded by The National Institute on Aging, which indicates that couples not only “adopt similar music tastes, or turns of phrase, couples also tend to pick up each other’s unhea...
Last Friday, we took a much-needed day off and drove to Leavenworth to see “The Sound of Music” being performed this summer on one of that fair town’s three theater venues. Prompting us to go see this particular production was the fact that it was the final performance for one of the two groups of child actors involved that included Kameron and Jared Goetz, the sons of Kevin and Jennifer Goetz of Coulee City. Their great-grandfather is Al Goetz of Odessa, currently a resid...
Dream 2. Continuation. Lobe, Emanuel T. “Mike,” (b. 12/19/1904, Odessa, Washington. d. 1/2/1991). Parents: Gust and Mary (Greenwalt) Lobe. He grew up in Odessa and in 1926 married Annie Heimbigner. After working as a wheat rancher in the area, they moved in 1932 to Malaga, and he was employed as a truck driver for Landreth Timber Co. and for Peshastin Lumber Co. Leffelbein, John B., (b. 1885. d. 1958). Melcher, George, (b. about 1881, Russia. d. 1955). Following his marriage to Katherine in Russia, he was called for army dut...
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. Aug. 15: Avista Utilities and Davenport firefighters responded to the 700 block of Maxwell Street to deal with a broken residential gas line. A bicycle was pulled from Cottonwood Creek in the...
Odessa once campaigned strongly for better roads. All through 1920s and into the early 1930s, emphasis was on the North Central Highway, today’s State Route 28, as the shortest and fastest cross-state highway. Then in 1937, a new plan came into being. A direct route from California and the south to Grand Coulee Dam could pass right through Odessa on State Route 4 (now State Route 21), leading from Highway 395 at Lind, and then through Odessa, and Wilbur and on to Grand Coulee Dam. As fate would have it, in ensuing years, t...
Way back in 1901, on the 15th of May Unto the Eckhardt’s was born, an angel that day Raised on the farm, she liked the outdoors She’d clean the barn, and do other chores She’d milk the cows, hoe weeds in the field Butcher the chickens, then potatoes were peeled She grew to a woman, and became Henry’s wife Then Odessa was home, for the rest of her life Along came Barbara and Norma, and as I recall Twins Yvonne and Richard, the youngest was Paul Canning fruit for winter, wiping li’l noses that run It’s time to fix supper, her...
According to her daughter-in-law, Joni Knoell of Colbert, "Lydia asked to join us for a morning during harvest at our wheat farm near Lamona. With her terrific curiosity and recalling hand cutting and threshing wheat when she was a child of 7 or 8, she said 'I just want to know how it works.'" Her son Vern told The Record he was able to tilt the combine until the ladder touched the ground making it easier for his mother to climb up onto the combine....
Odessa firefighters have been busy since about mid-July, when any small spark from any source could ignite tinder-dry grass or wheat. The calls seem to come in every other day or so, pulling the volunteers from their regular jobs and sending them out to save someone’s cash crop or cattle pasture. This past spring’s frequent showers no doubt helped to produce plenty of fuel in the form of lush wheat, as well as lush growth of everything else that grows in the scablands. Sin...
It is always around this time of year when the toy companies begin introducing their latest toys at conventions and trade fairs, gauging reaction and putting together their big marketing push for the holidays. This year, there will be a toy that is already quite successful across Europe, but new to the U.S., and it is creating quite a stir. It is a baby doll. That in itself is nothing new; it is what this doll does that has some parents and child development specialists up in...
Doesn’t it seem that all you hear from the President and the Democrats is “tax increase, tax increase,” and “tax the rich, tax the rich.” Well, according to the IRS there are 8,274 people who make over $10 million a year. That is a total of $240 billion dollars. Another 227,000 people earn a million or more a year. If you take all their money, it wouldn’t be enough to run the current government for a period of 20 days. Any tax increase passed by this administration will do nothing for the deficit. Doubling federal inc...
