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REARDAN – The dog days have arrived at Reardan High School. Charlie, a therapy goldendoodle with a purebred poodle father and purebred golden retriever mother spends her days wandering the halls visiting students, assisting with one-on-one sessions with students who are struggling and greeting students as they arrive at school. Charlie's "home base" at school is the office of student assistant professional Desi Westphal, who conducts one-on-one meetings with students who have...
HARRINGTON – The March 10 regular council meeting was held at city hall with the full council present: Stephen Hardy, Justin Slack, Peter Davenport, David Buddrius and Levi Schenk. In addition, Mayor Nathan Luck led the meeting with City Clerk Janice Cepeda and engineer Andy Tom present. It was unclear from the YouTube video whether the identified visitors were present at city hall or if they were attending by Zoom: Cherie MacClellan, Chris Meats, Joe Armand, Denisa Holling, Scott McGowan and Jesse Silhan. Several items w...
Freshmen Hayden Schuh and Jacob Scrupps, sophomores Grace Nelson and Collin Martin, juniors Tori Schlomer and Landen Brooks and seniors Katreace Boss and Tim DeWulf (Homecoming queen and king)....
Five-year-old Brody Geissler found the first buttercup of the season in his family's pasture off Geissler Road last week. Geissler attends Growing Gorillas Cooperative Preschool....
ODESSA – Despite a pandemic, Odessa FBLA members competed virtually in the Winter Conference with the entire state. All competitions that involved presentations were recorded and submitted for judging. The Northeast Region held its own virtual awards ceremony, where hundreds of students from around the area gathered on Zoom. Odessa members gathered in the multipurpose room and tried to maintain some traditions with doughnuts and games before the awards program began. W...
HARRINGTON – President Ellen Evans, Linda Wagner, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Edwin and Bunny Haugan, Gordon Herron and Becky Moeller of the Harrington Opera House Society met March 1 at the opera house. The east-side hand railing for the main lobby staircase has been completed and is said to look great. Herron reported that Ray Harrington has agreed to build a staircase from behind the rummage room area to the basement. Work on the cushions for the pews can now proceed, as the plywood has been purchased for that project. Added...
Back row: Ryan Melgren, PJ Finch, Kathryn Finch, Alyssa Iverson, Kaedin Schorzman, Nathan Melcher. Front row: Lily Starkel, Bo Walter, Levi Hardung, Casen Watson, Mackenzie Lutz, Katreace Boss, Holden Iverson, Tucker Walter, Corbyn Neilsen, advisor HaLee Walter. Not pictured: Kaylee McKinney....
March and St. Patrick's Day brings corned beef to mind for many folks doing the meal planning. Corning, the old time method of preserving meat before refrigeration came along is done for us and the product is readily available in the markets. The method is not difficult but our modern standards require refrigeration and 10 days of curing time. Most of us don’t want to sacrifice the refrigerator space, but the end result is worth doing at least once in your lifetime. There a...
DAVENPORT – The number of COVID-19 cases is down to three in Lincoln County as of press time, but the death counts suffered in big cities like New York and Los Angeles has left many funeral homes overrun in the past year. Many needed assistance from small town funeral homes around the county. That's when Manager Mike Strite and Director Dan Verhuel of Strate Funeral Home stepped in. The two have traveled to New York, Miami and taken one trip to Orange County, California e...
HARRINGTON – Those acknowledged as present: Mayor Nathan Luck, Council members David Buddrius, Peter Davenport, Justin Slack, Stephen Hardy, Levi Schenk, Clerk Janice Cepeda, and visitor Cherie MacClellan. The agenda for this meeting which was slated as "Special Meeting: 2021 Budget Amendment" was limited to said amendment. Upon opening the meeting, Slack stated that this meeting was going to be a public hearing. Mayor Luck opened the council meeting at 7:07 and the public hearing at 7:09. Two drafts were available and discus...
OLYMPIA – Rep. Kirsten Harris-Talley, D-Seattle, often sees her grandmother’s features when she looks in the mirror. She thinks of how her grandmother, a woman of color, experienced systemic racism and fought for a better life despite societal barriers in rural Missouri only a few generations before Harris-Talley. Harris-Talley told the House of Representatives Feb. 25 she supported Juneteenth as a state holiday because of the existence of structural racism in the country today. She said what may seem like a simple acknowledg...
Well, this is embarrassing. A few short weeks after deciding to keep everyone apprised of local activities, I have decided to stop. Now that I am fully removed from the former quilt shop, I have no easy (emphasis on easy) access to the internet. It would cost way too much to get wireless Internet to my house. Dial-up is incredibly frustrating because of the antiquity of the phone system in Irby, and everybody I know tells me I would not like satellite. OK. I would probably...
1 years ago Mar. 4, 1921 Secretary C.E. Ivy, on his return to Davenport after attending a meeting of the Racing Association held at Walla Walla last week, announced that the dates set for the 29th annual picnic of the Lincoln and Adams counties pioneers at their picnic grounds on Crab Creek, would be held this year June 23-24-25. The warm weather that has prevailed during the past week has set the baseball bug buzzing and as a result a baseball meeting has been called at the Kunkel barber shop next Monday night....
Editor's Note: See the Feb. 18 issue of The Times for part 1 of this historical feature. As safecracker Edward Leroy Lucas laid dying in the Lincoln County Jail, he requested officials notify his wife of his pending death. Spokane investigators responded to Davenport with belief that Lucas and C.H. Lea had been involved in other burglaries and crimes across eastern Washington. Two identity and fingerprint experts were dispatched to Davenport and recognized Lea as an escaped...
HARRINGTON – Friday, Feb 12, the Harrington Library Board (Susan Larmer, Betty Warner, Katie Steward, Grace Moeller and Stacey Rasmussen) met with Librarian Marge Womach and Mayor Nathan Luck to discuss recent changes in the interior of the building and to consider options on minor remodeling projects to accommodate better use of space. With the alterations that occurred in the past weeks due to snow melting into the interior of the west end of the building, the mayor chose to personally inform the library crew of the p...
Recipes do fail. Recently I tried a recipe for orange cake with fresh orange syrup. It was circulating the Internet last December. Taking into consideration different tastes among folks, this recipe still falls in the flop category. You won’t find the recipe repeated here, and it will soon disappear from my Pinterest “To Try” board. It is very, very heavy, dense, overly sweet, yet lacking flavor. You can eat it, but it’s not worth wasting calories on, nor time figurin...
If there was ever a year in history that rivaled 2020's embrace for the rapture, it would have to be the year of 1918. It was a year that, like 2020, saw our country in the middle of a global pandemic, while also still in the midst of battling World War 1. Historians suggest crime in the United States decreased that year, just like it supposedly did in 2020, but if you lived in Davenport at that time you'd probably have a different opinion. In addition to the world events of t...
City Council [Editor’s note: A recording of the ZOOM meeting of the Harrington City Council is available on the YouTube page for the City of Harrington at http://youtube.harrington.city.] HARRINGTON – The Harrington City Council met via ZOOM Feb. 10, with the full council in attendance (Peter Davenport, David Buddrius, Stephen Hardy, Justin Slack, Levi Schenk), Mayor Nathan Luck, Clerk Janice Cepeda, Treasurer Mike Cronrath, Public Works Supervisor Scott McGowan, Code Enforcement Officer Jay Gossett and identified vis...
1 years ago Feb. 18, 1921 The masque ball given by Odessa members of the Elks fraternity at the Community Hall Friday night was unquestionably the social event of the season for the dancing public. From the standpoint of weather it came at a most unfavorable time for the roads in some places were almost impassible, and a number of people who started were unable to get to Odessa by their cars stalling in the mud. Nevertheless, the crowd that came filled the hall and there were many fine costumes. The Odessa Gun Club lost its...
DAVENPORT – Traditionally, married and committed men around the country anxiously check their bank accounts ahead of Feb. 14, while their wives and partners await and hope for a romantic surprise to celebrate Valentine's Day. This year, however, options for celebrating love with your special someone looks a little different, with many businesses still shut down due to Gov. Jay Inslee's COVID-19 mandates. Despite shutdowns, though, there are still opportunities for c...
Public Hearing HARRINGTON – The Harrington City Council held a public hearing on the 2020 Budget Amendment on Jan. 29 via Zoom. Peter Davenport, David Buddrius, Stephen Hardy and Justin Slack were in attendance, along with Janice Cepeda, clerk, and one acknowledged visitor. In a brief 16-minute meeting, including the opening and closing of the public hearing, voting on the amendment and voting to close the meeting, the Council made quick work of a long overdue task. Several mi...
Listening to young people talk about food, cooking and recipes can be informative and entertaining. With most families spending more time at home, children are taking an interest in meal and snack preparation. Some love baking cookies. Others like helping with meal prep. One even told me, they should never be allowed in a kitchen unsupervised, as there was danger they would set the kitchen on fire. The most interesting was a young brother and sister telling me all about...
1 years ago Feb. 11, 1921 The Odessa High School debate team climbed one round higher on the ladder that leads to the state debate championship for northeastern Washington, when it defeated the strong team from Oroville when they met at the English Congregational Church in Odessa. The team consists of Mary Glass, Florence Schoonover and Christoph Horn. The local debaters will go victorious to the final debate next month. Lewis and Clark HS of Spokane was defeated by Reardan, putting the big school out of the race. It now...
MOSES LAKE – The Grand Columbia Health Alliance is pleased to announce that Coulee Medical Center, located in Grand Coulee, has joined their healthcare partnership. As part of the Alliance, Coulee Medical Center will now be able to share medical resources such as physicians, staff and technology with the other six healthcare organizations. “We’re very excited for the opportunity to share resources with our neighboring healthcare facilities,” said Ramona Hicks, RN, CEO of Coulee Medical Center. “Our regional families...
There are more new books at the Odessa library as of this week. Most of them are pure escapism, which isn’t a bad thing during times like these. You can read that as meaning “pandemic” or just “winter in Eastern Washington” as you wish. One book, though, may just be one of the best books you’ll probably never read. Our recent (and seemingly endless) election cycle has illustrated the deep divisions running through our society. I am often uncomfortable to discover that people...
