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Threats that morning snow showers may materialize by Thanksgiving Day have been just that; threats (so far). Snow or not, it is always a good time for soup. Vicki Strang recently shared her recipe for Gypsy Soup, a highly seasoned vegetable mixture that would easily accommodate the addition of leftover turkey and feed a dozen or so football fans on game day. Gypsy Soup 4 Tbsp olive oil 2 cups chopped onion 1/2 cup chopped celery 2 cloves garlic, crushed 2 cups peeled, diced...
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. Nov. 14: A caller reported someone had removed fence posts from a property line on West Second Avenue in Sprague. A tow truck was required to get a truck back on the road after it went over an...
For the week for October 31 through November 5, Kendall Todd of Odessa joined classmate Jared King (for 1B football) in being named WIAA/Seattle Times State Athletes of the Week for 1B volleyball. Through an oversight or some kind of confusion at the WIAA, her information was not forwarded to Odessa-Harrington athletic director Darin Reppe until last Friday. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that the information cited on the Seattle Times website stated that Todd...
The Odessa-Harrington Titan football team has joined the Titan girls volleyball team in qualifying for state tournament play. They defeated King’s Way Christian of Vancouver, Wash. in the first round of the State 1B playoffs held last Saturday in Centralia by a score of 76-36. In the other quarter-final game, Almira/Coulee-Hartline defeated Touchet, 52-8, in a game played Friday, November 18, in Moses Lake. Like the O-H game, this one went into the fourth quarter before the me...
The Odessa-Harrington Titans traveled six hours to Centralia to face the King’s Way Christian Knights in a battle to advance to the semi-finals. O-H 20 20 20 16 -76 King's Way 8 8 14 6 -36 The contest ended with over 100 points being scored, with touchdowns occurring fast and furiously. The game ended midway through the fourth quarter with a score of 76-36, a Titan blowout victory. Through the first three quarters of action, the Titans scored 60 points, 20 in each quarter. Off...
The 70th annual Turkey Carnival, sponsored by the Odessa Lions Club will be held this Saturday, November 19, at the community center. The kitchen will open at noon, serving burgers, drinks and pie. Bingo action for turkeys starts at 2 p.m. Tickets for raffle items will be drawn throughout the afternoon and evening. Patrons need not be present to win the raffle prizes. Tickets are available from any Lions Club member, as well as at Odessa Drug and Ramm Hardware downtown....
The fourth graders at P.C. Jantz Elementary School in Odessa attended this year’s Music Encounter at the Fox Theatre in Spokane. The theme this year was “The Spokane Timeline and Immigration.” Parent chaperones were Jennifer Martin, Kellie Luiten and Amber Zagelow. Bus driver was Ryan Schafer and teacher chaperones were Craig Holman and Ellen Holman. Afterwards, the students had a pizza lunch before returning home....
The Odessa-Harrington Titans girls volleyball team played some of the best volleyball of their season this past weekend in Yakima’s SunDome at the state volleyball tournament for 1B, 2B and 1A schools. The luck of the draw was not kind to the Titans, however. In its first game Friday, Odessa-Harrington faced Christian Faith, a number-one seed from Federal Way and lost, 19-25, 23-25 and 17-25. Later that same afternoon, the Titans rallied to defeat Shorewood Christian of S...
Hudson Lee Walter was born May 10, 2011, at 9:20 p.m. at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane. He weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and measured 20 inches long. His parents are Colley and HaLee Walter of Odessa. He joins his two brothers, Tucker and Sawyer, at home. Maternal gradnparents are Ron and Diane Nelson of Sandpoint, Idaho and paternal grandparents are Bruce and Deb Walter of Odessa. Maternal great-grandparents are Lois Renken of Odessa and Grace Nelson of Ephrata. Paternal...
Hi, here I am again. On the west side of Kagele road, on the west edge of the L-B-D in Lincoln Co. TS 21N, R31E, Section 36 is the Schibel farm. The attachment of the Schibel name to the farm started with Georg Peter before 1911, then Henry, Don and finally Jeff today (2010). One of Don’s sisters and her husband also farmed on the land for a period of time. Talking with Don Schibel and looking at the Schibel obituaries, I learned that in Russia about 1888, Georg Peter & K...
The Odessa Quilt Club hosted their third annual open house at Christ Lutheran Church fellowship hall Saturday, November 12. Event organizers provided kits and instructions for three choices of projects for guests to make: a “not so brown” lunch bag, a wine tote (or gift bag) or a purse. Guests included a mother-and-daughter duo, a mother-and-son duo, a grandmother-and-granddaughter duo, teenagers and adults of all ages and both sexes. The event began at 10 a.m. and ended at...
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. Nov. 7: Deputies responded to a Davenport woman's report of harassment. Deputies determined that a woman's report of seeing two people naked in a car parked alongside SR 2 was unfounded. A caller...
Staff reports Quite a few veterans, along with families and friends, turned out for the annual Veterans Day dinner held at the VFW hall in Odessa. Turkey and stuffing, potatoes and gravy were provided by the women of the Ladies Auxiliary, and guests were asked to provide a potluck salad or dessert. Lloyd Tebow was the featured speaker, assisted by son-in-law Alan Voise. Tebow and Voise flew to see the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. on an Honor Flight in September...
Odessa PTO (Parent/Teacher Organization) president Suzie Diefe has announced that the organization is kicking off a drive to replace the old manually updated Odessa Tigers sign located on the southwest corner of the Festplatz (corner of First Avenue and Division Street) with a new electronic reader board. The PTO has obtained a preliminary bid of $10,000 for a new sign. The company the PTO has been working with, Apex LED of Spokane, has reported that the existing pole and power supply should be adequate for the new...
The 6-3 Odessa-Harrington titans earned home field advantage last week, and played the pass-oriented 9-1 Colton Wildcats this past Friday night. On the first defensive play for the Titans, Jake Tanke (22) broke his fibula and is out for 6 - 8 weeks. The final score was 48-30, a convincing win which advanced us to the state quarter-finals! St. M's 12 12 8 16 -48 O-H 0 8 14 8 -30 Much like last week, holding onto the ball was a problem for both teams. Nineteen fumbles graced the stat sheet, nearly as many as last week. Jared...
Tekoa-Oakesdale won the State 1B volleyball tournament, defeating Colton 25-16, 25-13, 15-25, 25-23 in the championship match last Saturday night. Reardan garnered its second straight state championship in 2B volleyball, defeating Colfax 25-19, 25-23 and 25-17. In the 1A bracket, Colville overcame Castle Rock with scores of 26-24, 25-22 and 25-21. With the floor divided up into six separate volleyball courts in two rows of three each, there wasn’t much room left over for f...
There were great plans 76 years ago in late November 1935, for the rabbit drive to be held in the Irby area, which was expected to draw hundreds of Spokane sportsmen. Rabbit drives had been held since Odessa’s earliest days. Rabbits were pests, and throughout the 20th Century they posed a problem because they ate crops and spread disease. The 1935 drive was set for December 8, west of Odessa, in an area bounded by Batum Road on the east, a point one mile west of Irby Road in the west and the North Central highway (now H...
Some of you may have seen the ad in last week’s paper for a community Thanksgiving dinner at Old Town Hall. That’s my cell phone number on the ad. When I lived in Portland, a little over three hours from my family in Bickleton, I frequently had to work the Friday and sometimes the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I love my family, but six and a half hours in a car in one day just isn’t my idea of anything to be thankful for. Then I discovered Thanksgiving dinner at my churc...
Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers, along with county commissioners Rob Coffman and Dennis Bly, attended Monday night’s town council meeting. Magers was present mainly to address the proposed changes to the town’s contract for dispatch services provided by the county. The town originally contracted with the sheriff’s department for dispatch services in January of 1998, prior to 911 services being available to the county. For the past decade, the cost to the town has remained flat at $2,500 per year, based on the number of of...
Sourdough waffles, there is nothing like them. For years, I had a wonderful sourdough starter that I kept going by using every couple of weeks. Due to not enough waffles, bread and biscuits being made, that starter died. When the latest Hospital Auxiliary cookbook came out I decided to try Pauline Schimke’s sourdough starter recipe. So far I have been very pleased with it. Sourdough Starter 1 package active dry yeast 1/2 cup lukewarm water 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 Tbsp salt 1 Tbsp granulated sugar 1 1/2 cups room t...
For three weeks in November 1909 Odessa fretted over an act of charity which was reported to be coming its way. The town of Palouse in Whitman County, according to Spokane newspapers, was sending a freight car loaded with fruits and vegetables for the farmers of the Odessa and Quincy areas. The people of Odessa were indignant over the circulation of a report that there was a shortage of food, The Odessa Record reported in its issue of November 12. No one seemed to have known how the story about poverty in Odessa got started....
Dream 2. (Continuation): As he promised, the speaker that night at the Batum school, finished his presentation talking about Joyce Kiesz and her future husband, Larry. Fisher, Larry and Joyce Elaine Kiesz, (d. 7/20/2050, Larry – age 128, Joyce – age 127). Joyce will be born 1937 in Batum at the Raugust farm, one of four children born to Edward and Bertha Raugust Kiesz. Larry will be born 1936 in the Fisher’s addition at the Berry house in Palouse, Washington, one of two children born to Russell and Verna Manning Fishe...
Margie R. O’Neal died November 2, 2011 at Lincoln Hospital in Davenport, surrounded by her children. Marge was born on September 4, 1939 in Irby to Charlie R. and Ruth (Kissler) Jeske. She was the second daughter, joining her sister Shirley Ann. Marge received her formal schooling at Odessa schools. She was a member of the Christ Lutheran Church. Marge was known to family as a loving mother and grandmother. She is survived by her husband Clifford O’Neal of Creston; three sons, Rick A. Haase (Jim Terry) of Ogden, Utah, Bru...
The Odessa Cub Scouts of Pack #784 will once again be “Scouting for Food” this year. Over the past several years, the Cub Scouts have collected hundreds of pounds worth of food. This special food drive is used to provide Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for a number of families in Odessa served by the Odessa Food Bank. This past Saturday, the Cub Scouts distributed plastic bags to every household in Odessa. This coming Saturday, November 12, at 10 a.m. the scouts will pick the bags up from the front porches of all the hom...
At the November 8 meeting of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, Margie Hall, Executive Director of the Lincoln County Economic Development Council (EDC) distributed surveys to members and guests. The surveys are one of several information-gathering tools to be used by Eastern Washington University students who will be compiling the data for their senior project. The end result of the information gathering and analysis will be an economic development “vision” for the county. The survey questions were the same ones that residents...
