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The waves of grain have begun to fall to the combine-harvester’s sickle. The wheat harvest began last Monday with the first load of wheat hauled to the Ruff elevator of the Odessa Trading Co./Ritzville Warehouse. Mark Cronrath, grain manager at OTC, says the wheat coming in has been nice and dry, with tests showing a range of 10 down to 8.2 for moisture content. Dryland wheat, he said, has been running from the high 50s to the low 70s in terms of bushels to the acre. No i...
I read with interest your article on water diversion to Crab Creek proposed in 1931, and felt the need to offer a correction and expansion on the Big Bend Water Resource group’s efforts. The plan to reuse polished water from Spokane’s waste treatment did not die because Lake Creek filled up (and dried out again.) It died because, in my opinion, the City of Spokane had no interest in the project. The City of Spokane has no interest in the project because the Department of Ecology permits them to release their waste water int...
Nickolas Steven Campbell died after a boating accident on Lake Roosevelt on July 23, 2011. He was 19 years old. Nick was born May 5, 1992 in Spokane. He was a 2010 graduate of Odessa High School, where he was a four-year letterman in football, basketball and baseball. He was also a certified lifeguard. Nick lived in Spokane and was employed by RNR-RV. Nick loved his family and friends. He especially enjoyed the out-doors … hunting, fishing, camping, go-cart racing, and b...
Ronald Kae Stehr, 74, died July 31, 2011 at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane from complications of diabetes. Ron was born in Odessa September 23, 1936, where he resided on the farm with his parents, Fred and Helen Stehr, brothers Les and Tom and sister Peggy. Ron graduated from Odessa High School in 1954 and spent two years in the U.S. Army. Upon coming home to Odessa he continued on the family farm with his wife Delores, children Tami, Jeff and Juli, until he moved to...
One of the first persons to settle in southwestern Lincoln County, long before Odessa came into existence, was Pat Sullivan, Like many of the first pioneers, he was legendary. Somewhat of a recluse, not much was known about his background. His ranch was in Marlin Hollow, and Sullivan Lake is named for him. Sullivan died August 18, 1908, at his home. The Odessa Record in its issue of August 21 reported the death and at the same time gave its readers a lesson in temperance. Word reached town Monday evening of the death of...
Lovely, just ripe, peaches tempted me at the market this week. Remembering that I had saved an unusual peach based recipe from Better Homes and Garden Magazine, I purchased six and proceeded to make Cheesecake-Stuffed Peaches. The recipe is attributed to Dee Guelcher of Acworth, Georgia. Several cooking websites sent out email reminders that this is National Cheesecake Week. The hour or so baking time for traditional cheesecake seems a bit daunting during August heat, but...
Staff Sergeant Phillip McClanahan, son of Erin Volkmann and stepfather Paul Volkmann of Spokane and grandson of Dave and Joyce McClanahan of Odessa, recently received his Air Force Crew Wings after completing the Basic Sensor Operator Class at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He finished the class as one of only two distinguished graduates. He was pleasantly surprised to have his brother, Ben Volkmann, who lives in Houston, Texas, pin on his wings. Both Phil and...
With completion of the GWMA groundwater model, identifying solutions begins with the launch of two new modeling projects to assess municipal groundwater supplies and identify sustainable wells along the east low canal. For the past two years, the Columbia Basin Ground Water Management Area (GWMA) has been developing a sophisticated computational groundwater model of the four Columbia Basin counties. This year the state appropriated $1.0 million for GWMA “to use the model to help answer critical questions about groundwater s...
The Odessa School District Curriculum Advisory Committee has new openings for elementary and middle-school parent representatives. Parents of Odessa students who are interested in serving on this committee are invited to contact or leave a message for Bev Scherr at 982-2111, Ext. 108, or to contact the school district office at 982-2668. The Curriculum Advisory Committee plans to meet at 7:30 a.m. each month on the Thursday one week prior to the monthly School Board Meeting. The names of interested candidates will be...
The board of directors held a budget workshop prior to the beginning of the July 27 meeting of the Odessa School Board. School superintendent Suellen White explained aspects of the new funding formula being used for the first time for the coming school year. The formula is used to determine how changes in student population effect apportionment of state funds to the districts. White said she was concerned about micro-management of school districts by the state legislature when using the formula, because it could affect local...
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. July 25: A Davenport woman reported a possible violation of a protection order after receiving several unwanted calls to her cell phone and an unwanted individual showed up at her residence. About...
IEO is back in business. That was the theme of the open house held at the plant last Thursday, July 21, with company employees serving sausages and hot dogs, potato salad and baked beans to anyone who cared to come. Joel Edmonds and Wally Kempe of the new management firm overseeing operations were both present and shared the duties of cooking and leading tours through the plant. Pearson Burke also led many of the tours, and as the employee with the longest tenure, was well...
Nick Campbell, a 2010 graduate of Odessa High School, has died in a tragic boating accident on Lake Roosevelt last Saturday, July 23. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), with help from the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, the National Park Service and the Colville Tribe, was able to recover Campbell’s body Tuesday afternoon from very deep water, said LCSO Undersheriff Kelly Watkins. Watkins was working Saturday and was on a Sheriff’s Office boat with other LCSO de...
Rural Odessa fire chief Roger Sebesta, Town of Odessa fire chief Don Strebeck and more than 20 other area firefighters responded to a blaze that started north of Marlin Monday and quickly spread to cover about 2,000 to 2,500 acres of mostly sagebrush-covered pasture, plus some wheat fields. One structure was also lost to the flames, a machine shed belonging to Marlin farmer Ron Lesser, along with all of the equipment stored in it. In all, 11 vehicles fought the wind-whipped...
Kyler and Brooke (Voise) Lovgren are proud to announce the arrival of a son, Lincoln James, born on June 20, 2011 at 4:41 a.m. in Hermiston, Ore. He weighed six pounds, nine ounces at birth and was 20 inches long. His maternal grandparents are Alan and Diane Voise of Odessa, and his paternal grandparents are Pat and Bobbette Lovgren of Heppner, Ore. Great grandparents are Lloyd and Marge Tebow and Richard and Rita Voise, all of Odessa....
The runway expansion project at Odessa’s airport continues to be a challenge, with “two steps forward and three back,” according to Odessa Mayor Doug Plinski. The FAA representative assigned to the project has requested another environmental assessment regarding the building of roads. This request forces the town to return to the planning stage at a point where the town was ready to begin the implementation phase. Public works Odessa fire chief Don Strebeck and rural fire chief and public works director Roger Sebesta were...
The talk about diverting water from the Columbia River and the Spokane rivers to Crab Creek goes back a long way. Most recently, the Big Bend Water Resource group worked toward filling Lake Creek with water from Lake Roosevelt and, possibly, purified Spokane waste water. Lake Creek eventually filled on its own, so the plan died. In the 1950s, there were thoughts of damming Sylvan Lake, east of Odessa, to irrigate thousands of acres of farmland southeast of town. That dream also died. The idea of bringing water to the Odessa...
Korianne Scheller, the Deutschesfest publicity coordinator, presented a request for additional funding for a feature ad and story to run in Venue magazine, a free publication available at various locations throughout Grant, Lincoln and Adams counties. Scheller recommended the expenditure based on a 25,000 estimated readership for the publication. The feature would also be published on Venue’s website. The publishers are also offering a reduced rate for local advertisers for the issue. Scheller’s request was approved una...
Seaman Justin Ryan Jarschke, son of Butch (Patti) Jarschke of Odessa and Diana (Tommy) Montgomery of Soledad, Calif., are proud to congratulate Justin on successfully completing and graduating from U.S. Air Force basic training on July 15, 2011 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. From there, Justin travelled to Port Hueneme Naval Base in Ventura, Calif., where he will spend the next four to six months training in Special Vehicle Mechanics, primarily fire...
The Odessa Food Bank has partnered with 2nd Harvest of Spokane to provide fresh produce and other goods to the Odessa community on a monthly basis. Tuesday, July 26, was the first delivery, which 2nd Harvest brought to Ritzville. Odessa picks up the delivery and brings it to Odessa for distribution on the last Thursday of each month, from 1:30 - 3 p.m. The Odessa High School FBLA and Julie Jantz, Odessa Food Bank director, have worked with 2nd Harvest for several months to...
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. July 18: A woman reported the July 13 theft of a Canon Rebel camera and accessories valued at $850 that could have occurred in Spokane or at the Sprague I-90 rest area, where the rental van she and...
Odessa’s premier Deutschesfest attraction, the Oom Pas and Mas German band, was invited to perform for the Germans from Russia Heritage Society’s annual convention at Spokane’s Davenport Hotel Saturday, July 24. Nearly all of the band’s members turned out for the event in the Grand Pennington Ballroom of the hotel. Band member Lise Ott reported that “as the band was setting up, the guests looked like they’d been sitting long enough and didn’t really want more entertainment...
Registration for Odessa Parent Preschool Co-op is set for Monday, August 1, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Odessa Grade School. If you have a child who will be attending the Odessa preschool in the fall, please come to the registration meeting....
The new owners and managers of the Odessa grocery store have written the following message to the members of the Odessa community: “With over 100 years of combined grocery and customer-service experience, Bob and Bonnie Dewey, owners, and Jeff and Debbie Norris, managers, are excited to become a part of the Odessa community by presenting you with ‘Odessa Foods.’ We all come from small communities and know how important it is to be able to provide our customers with excellent c...
Orlando, Florida was the destination for 17 students from Odessa High School who competed in the 2011 National Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Conference. The support of the community and the school made it the trip of a lifetime and an experience they will not soon forget! With over 8,000 students from around the nation in attendance, competition was tough, but our little high school was one of the most successful. Odessa students competed in six different events,...
