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Odessa Elementary School students are invited to a Flashlight Reading Night on Tuesday, June 7, at 6 p.m. in the school multi-purpose room. This will also be a kick-off event for the Summer Story Hour at the public library. Students are to bring parent(s) and siblings, a flashlight, books, a pillow or blanket, and they may even wear PJs and/or slippers if they wish. Prior to the reading time, a snack of hot dogs, potato chips and lemonade will be served. Then the lights will go off, and the flashlights will come on as student...
Odessa FBLA students held their annual doll race to help raise money for their trip to the National Leadership Conference in Orlando in June. After record-setting sales, Mavis Smith came in first place and received a $50 prize....
Last month the Odessa School District held student-led conferences for grades K-12. This was the first time student-led conferences have been done for all grade levels. In previous years conferences were held to talk about the students’ grades and how they were doing in their individual classes. Although the elementary has held student-led conferences in past years, this was a first for grades 6-12. Student-led conferences are part of the Navigation 101 program that the State of Washington has adopted to help students gain u...
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. May 23: Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad personnel worked on a malfunctioning crossing at Lamona. Deputies investigated telephone fraud involving an offer of a Mercedes and $1 million in cash...
Breed: Flame-Point Siamese Time: 2011 Place: Pueblo, Colo. and Odessa Name: Kirby Written by: Nicole Emerson Kirby is my kitten. He is nine months old. My grandma’s neighbor found him with his brothers and sisters in an alley. She went ahead and called the Humane Society in Pueblo, and they came and got all of them except for Kirby. She found him quite a while later. I had stayed the day at my nanny’s house, and my mom had come to pick me up. We found Nanny holding a sweet little white angel in her arms. I had to beg my mom...
Kramer Schutz, a 2010 graduate of Odessa High School, has made the Dean’s List at Carroll College in Helena, Mont. The college named 400 students to its 2011 spring semester Dean’s List. To be included, a student must receive a 3.5 grade point average or better for the semester and take at least 12 graded credits. Carroll College is committed to providing its 1,450 students with an academically rigorous, affordable education. Carroll is nationally ranked for academic quality as a regional liberal arts college that rea...
Council members Lois (Fisher) Hubbard and Lynn Schmidt, along with Mayor Doug Plinski and Public Works Director Roger Sebesta met recently with Avista representatives about replacing any natural-gas lines installed prior to 1987. Odessa reportedly will serve as a prototype community for the replacement, which will involve private contractors as well as Avista crews using different techniques to replace lines which may be deteriorating due to age. Hubbard noted that this...
Rod Webster, the newest member of the Odessa town public works crew, hails originally from Brewster, Wash., where he grew up and attended school. After graduating, he worked construction around Eastern Washington for a number of years. The past 18 years were spent as City Superintendent for Coulee City. Rod and his wife Jan have been married 29 years and have one daughter, Jennifer, who resides in Coulee City with her husband and three children. Rod and Jan plan to become...
The official filing period for the fall elections will be held June 6 through June 10, 2011. All offices are subject to both primary and general elections. If more than two candidates file for a position, the primary election would narrow the field to two candidates who would then appear on the general election ballot. The filing fee of 1% of the annual salary shall accompany the Declaration of Candidacy. There is no fee if the office sought is without a fixed salary. Anyone wishing to file may do so at the Lincoln County...
I read with great concern the letter from Karen Brooks on being ignored when wanting to volunteer. Yes, it is hard to volunteer when you don’t know the people in the community. However, do not give up. From what I am understanding, there are many volunteer jobs open for Deutschesfest. One that I have done for many years is the motorcycle poker run. I have decided to retire from that job and would be happy to explain how to do it. I will even help get you started! Some people are afraid their position will be taken by an u...
I was told years ago that there would be around 10,000 people coming for the Deutschesfest. In the six years I have been here I have never seen that. I asked Dale Ramm what was the problem with the Fest. He told me we needed a big draw (attraction). I stated, “It needs to be a family event, not a drunken bash.” Hey Odessa, open your eyes you already have a draw! It is called “The World Famous Desert 100,” where 8,000 family oriented, off-road, motorcyclists come to have fun. Candy Starr told me that if the Chamber and town pu...
Robert L. Gudgel passed away on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. He was 91 years old. He was born on January 19, 1920, in Farragut, Iowa and lived his early years in Boone, Iowa, where he excelled as a cabinet maker. He met Doris Redfield while in Boone, and they were married in Louisiana before he shipped of to training in the Air Corps. He served in WWII as a navigator on a B-17. The "Blind Date" was shot down over Bremen, Germany, and bob was the sole survivor. Suffering an...
Editor’s note: The Record last week erroneously ran the unrevised version of Vi Frederick’s obituary rather than the one specifically requested by the family. That version follows: Violet Mae (Skaggs) Frederick died May 15, 2011 in Odessa at the age of 72. She was born August 31, 1938 in Kettleman City, Calif. to Clifford and Edith (Hill) Skaggs and was raised in Lemoore, Calif. Vi met, then later married Louis Wayne Frederick in Carson City, Nev. on September 1, 1956. Whi...
Marketing and merchandising might be a lost art in Odessa and most other small towns today. There was a time when there was something other than a “you see what we have” attitude to selling. Merchants and service business aggressively sold to their customers. Even here in Odessa, they made shopping interesting, not a chore. The June 8, 1934, issue of The Odessa Record reported on a forthcoming trade day, to be held the following day, Saturday, June 9, which offered free gifts to shoppers, as well as bargain priced mer...
Spring seems to have crept in by the back door. Chives are about to bloom, mint is poking up bright stems of fresh green leaves and rhubarb is growing lush and tall. A few sunny afternoons have brought thoughts of picnics and barbecues. Rhonda Kuch was recently in charge of a snack buffet that needed to be available for several hours in the afternoon. She solved the keeping cold things cold dilemma by filling an infant size inflatable pool with ice and nestling the dip...
After a double lung transplant on September 1, 2010, Dave Iverson did what would have been impossible just nine short months ago. He completed the Windermere Marathon on a relay team with his daughters. The race began at the Post Falls Outlet Mall and followed the Centennial Trail to Riverfront Park in Spokane. Dave ran the final leg of the relay and after 6.2 miles crossed the finish line to cheering as the announcer provided background on the team's unusual name, “Livin' L...
Golf AFter the 1st round on Tuesday, May 24, defending champion Kira Powell was second place in the state 1B/2B tournament behind Brumfield of Rainier Christian by one stroke. Brumfield had 85, while Powell had 86. The tournament was played at the Meadow Park Golf Course in Tacoma. For the Titan boys, Alex Hatten finished in a tie for seventh place with a score of 83 after Round 1, and for 44th place with a score of 95. Tennis The state tennis tournament takes place at the...
Baseball On May 18, at old University High School in Spokane, the O-H Titans baseball team saw their season end with a disappointing loss to St. John-Endicott, 5-4, the same score by which the Titans lost a few days earlier to the team from Colton. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E O-H 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 4 5 5 St. J-E 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 5 8 2 Andy Schafer and Sam Schafer made up the Titan battery. Offensively for O-H, Justin Hunt had the hot bat, getting two singles and a double. Cade Weber, Jared King and Sam Schafer all added singles to help out t...
The District 1B/2B tournament was held at the Deer Park Golf Course May 18. The boys’ team finished fourth. Alex Hatten, Brett Larmer and Griffey Powell competed for Odessa-Harrington. Hatten finished tied with another competitor for third place. Larmer placed tenth. Both qualified for state. The girls team, consisting of Kira Powell, finished in a tie for first place with Wilbur-Creston. Powell took the individual title with a 31-stroke lead over her nearest competitor. S...
God's Precious Half Acre On a knoll west of town, the angels stand guard As a few rest in peace, in a lonely graveyard Two miles west of Odessa, and south a half mile Lies this desolate cemetary, by itself - in exile Cordoned off by a fence, wire darkened with rust Along an old gravel road, whirlwinds kick up the dust Abandoned, deserted, like a young orphan child Unwanted, neglected - vegetation grows wild But - this small humble plot, with natural disguise Has a very rare...
The Odessa Historical Museum will open Memorial Day weekend during the hours of 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday and 12 to 3 p.m. Monday. During the summer tourism season, it will be open 2 to 4 p.m. each Sunday afternoon. Newly on display this year will be the “Tigermobile” first owned by then music teacher Gordon Neale, subsequently purchased by the late Del Kirstein, and finally purchased and donated to museum by Odessa schoolteachers Bruce and Kim Todd. Another new addition to the barn display is an Allis-Chalmers iron-wheeled tra...
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. May 16: Deputies checked on an unsecured residence in the 5800 block of Bates Road East near Kagel Road. A deputy managed to turn off a distracting alarm on the school construction site at Fifth and...
During a routine inspection being performed by Avista representatives in Odessa this week, a major gas leak was detected in the alley just north of east Third Avenue. Several Avista trucks and vans, as well as a crew of six or seven were still at work at the site Tuesday afternoon. The leak had been discovered sometime Monday and had already been repaired by that afternoon, according to the Avista gas division manager Randy Chandler. It was unknown, he said, how long the leak...
Kira Elizabeth Powell, 16, a junior this year at Odessa High School, has won a Best of Category award of $5,000 and a first-place award of $3,000 for her project entitled “The Use of Sodium Polyacrylate to Increase Crop Production in Dry-Land Farming.” Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to her school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated Fair that the winners in each of the scientific categories represent. The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the wor...
As adults, most of us have childhood memories of those trips to the doctor’s office when we’d hear those words, "You'll hardly feel a thing", or "It won't taste that bad." For most of us it did hurt and yes, it did taste bad, but those vaccines that we were receiving through inoculations or tiny cups of not so tasty liquids, were just a part of life. They were what kept us from succumbing to innumerable diseases, some even contagious. And that lollipop from the doctor or a k...
