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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...
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...
LaCrosse/Washtucna returned to Odessa Saturday evening of Fest weekend to play the game that was aborted Friday by the failure of a transformer that shut off the field lights. The game had just gotten under way, when the lights went out. Not to be deterred, both teams agreed to meet again the next day, same time, same place, to complete the Sausage Bowl. Saturday night, the Tigercats struck first, with Harder scoring on a four-yard pass from Aune. Holdren was the receiver for the two-point conversion. L/W kept its 8-0 lead th...
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. 12: Deputies responded to a report that a vehicle with small children in the back seat (but not in car seats) was being operated recklessly on SR 25 and McInnis Road. Three toilets and two bags...
Following up on last week’s report on the Lincoln County Fair, Audrey Beck took a second-place prize in quilting, in addition to the two Best of Show awards for sewing. Readers are encouraged to submit any other results not provided to The Record by the fair administration. Jacob DeWulf of the Odessa FFA had his Grand Champion hog purchased by the law firm of Carpenter, McGuire & Dewulf. Dakota Largent of the Odessa Jr. Livestock 4H Club also had a Grand Champion hog. It w...
Calling all volunteers! Volunteers are still needed to fill shifts in the Biergarten Friday and Saturday night. Call Ted Bruya at 988-3037 if you're interested in helping out. The latest Fest updates are provided below: Fest Weizen 2011. This special limited-edition Deutschesfest beer is available only on tap in the Biergarten, and when it’s gone, it’s gone! Carnival back in town Located beside and behind the Odessa Foods grocery store is the Paradise Amusements carnival out of Couer d’Alene, Idaho. Go Karts Go Karts are b...
Advanced Science Research student Kira Powell has been selected to receive the Washington State Academy of Sciences Award to participate in the American Junior Academy of Sciences (AJAS) Convention in Vancouver, Canada, that will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), February 16-20, 2012. AJAS is America’s only honor research society for high school scientists and membership is by invitation only. Each state academy of science chooses premier high s...
Merlin K. Jantz died September 10, 2011, at his home near Odessa. He was 83 years old. He was born September 7, 1928 in Odessa to Abraham and Lydia Jantz. While he was a young child, his family moved to the Harrington area, where he attended school until returning to Odessa. He graduated from Odessa High School in 1946. After graduating, he continued to farm with his brother until he joined the U.S. Air Force in 1950. While in the Air Force, he married Norma Carlson of Lamona...
Odessa has been aeronautically minded since the earliest days of flight, but it wasn’t until 82 years ago that serious consideration was given to building an airport. And it wasn’t until 1949 that a permanent airstrip was built That has developed into the first-rate municipal airport Odessa boasts today, now better than ever with its new asphalt-surfaced runway. Some early airport plans were reported in The Odessa Record in its issue of September 13,1929: Three aviators with two commercial planes for Wenatchee did a fair bus...
Deutschesfest is always a bustling week in Odessa. Though local residents have been planning for a year and busily making preparations over the summer months, many things can’t be done until the last minute. Vegetable gardens burst at the seams with produce that needs attention and peaches, pears and apples tend to ripen at the same time. This weeks recipes will help take care of some of the bounty as well as providing interesting fare for your festival-going company. G...
Head coach Ken Scherr said he was very pleased with the cohesiveness and ability of this year’s team. He also said he was impressed with their level of play against the larger schools they have faced during the early-season tournaments that precede league play. Odessa-Harrington Jamboree The Odessa-Harrington Titan varsity and junior varsity both split games with Lind-Ritzville-Sprague at the Jamboree held September 6 in Odessa. Varsity scores were 11-21 and 21-18, and JV s...
After winning its opener September 2, the Odessa-Harrington Titans football team lost last week at Cusick by a score of 58 to 48. This Friday, the Titans will play Lacrosse/Washtucna at home in the Odessa Deutschesfest “Sausage Bowl” in a non-league contest. The northeast 1B leagues are rather lop-sided again this year, with only four teams in the south division. Besides O-H, the other teams are Almira-Coulee/Hartline, Wilbur-Creston and Mansfield. The northern division has seven teams, including Republic, which is a 2B sch...
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. 5: Loud noises heard from the roof of a downtown Davenport business prompted occupants below to call dispatchers with a report that people may have been running on it again. Reardan...
Jaime Lamar Kissler died September 6, 2011, at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane. He was born August 3, 1971, in Spokane to Terry and Denise (Beckner) Kissler. Jaime graduated from Odessa High School in 1989. He was a skilled carpenter and worked several years for Mandere Construction. Jaime had a passion for music and writing, publishing several poems. He is survived by the daughter he raised, Sophia Anderson of Spokane; his grandparents, Marlys Kissler of Odessa and Jack...
Grange At the Lincoln County Fair, the Canniwai Grange booth prepared by Lise Ott of Irby took first place, and the Pomona Grange booth prepared by Gordon Peterson of Marlin took second place. Round Robin In the Round Robin event, in which youngsters in FFA and 4-H compete with animals other than those they normally exhibit (to show their expertise with an unfamiliar animal), Lexi Hirst of Harrington received the FFA large animal trophy in freshman/sophomore category. David El...
