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The Odessa Lions Club happily announced completion of the repaired drinking fountain located outside the Old Town Hall....
EDWALL – Does it take a wheat grower to know how to represent wheat growers? It certainly doesn't hurt, which is good news for the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) as they welcome Mariah Wollweber, a fifth-generation Washington wheat grower, as their new director of communications and partnerships. Wollweber grew up on her family's farm in Edwall, Wash., where she began helping her grandfather bale hay at age 8 and stepped up to driving a harvest truck at 13. S...
DAVENPORT – With the recent opening of Lincoln Hospital's new medical clinic, area residents are once again reminded of how fortunate they are to have top notch medical care and providers in our own backyards. Medical providers and facilities have been a mainstay of Davenport since pioneer days, and behind every good facility are those who put in many years to serve others. People like Lincoln Hospital's "Honest Abe," who has been filling shifts at the hospital since it opened...
LAMONT - A local man was named in June as a board member for the Washington Association of Wheat Growers. Dave Swannack replaced Randy Suess as Whitman County president and on the board, the association reported last week. Swannack was one of two new appointees to the board - the other is Leif Claassen of Asotin County. "It's important farmers get involved (in industry organizations) because we are going to lose everything we farm for if we don't get involved," Swannack said....
LAKE ROOSEVELT – Two people were reportedly injured in an accident just outside the boat launch just outside Lincoln late Saturday night, Aug 14. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office's media report described the crash as a jet ski colliding with a boat. However, the official report was not available by press time. We will update more official details of this crash when they are confirmed, not just rumored....
Band Teacher Ron Harper was a star attraction at Davenport's "School Preview" event Tuesday, Aug. 17. Harper was one of the participants in the "Dunk Tank."...
Members of the Free Press Publishing family of newspaper writers, photographers and graphic artists have won one or more awards in the following divisions of the 2021 Better Newspapers Contest: advertising, special sections, news, photography and digital processing. Staff members placing first, second or third in the categories listed are Davenport editor Drew Lawson, Cheney Free Press contributor Paul Delaney, advertising manager DeeAnn Gibb, publisher/photographer Roger Harnack and graphic artists Walter Willand, Garth...
Thursday, July 29, the Summer Reading Program concluded with Kris Moritz, leader, with two assistants, Evie Mann and Erica Bailey. During their reading and learning session the children seemed intrigued by some of the creatures: blobfish, goblin shark, bird-eating tarantula, Japanese spider crab and the dugong (a cousin to the manatee). One of their crafts was making animals out of play dough, which allowed them to express their creativity. The final project had guidelines....
Summer 2021 has produced a very long string of hot, rainless days. I have said on a number of occasions, we skipped July and went straight to August in the weather department. Thankfully, most days have been blessed with cool nights. As an early riser, the cold mornings make me think comfort food, but by noon the idea of macaroni and cheese has turned into pasta salad. Tuck this recipe for Super Macaroni & Cheese away for the first true autumn day. Clarene Haynie shared this...
ODESSA – Elizabeth Hayashi, daughter of Pastor Jon and Michelle Hayashi is studying filmmaking at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, Calif. Now home in Odessa for the summer, she calls upon a number of Odessa residents to be extras in her short film project entitled Mirrors. Acting as pew-sitters and potluck-meal attendees for the film, those participating get a glimpse of the hard work, attention to detail and the many takes and retakes involved in each film scene. Lighting and background are as important as actions and d...
Front: Gavin Scrupps, Cannon Roberson, Rhett Watson, Cash Watson. Middle row: Chaelyn Clark, Hartlee Steward, Haddy Starkel, Harvin Ryan, Henry Starkel, Kjerstin Scrupps, Wylan Watson, Katherine Roberson, Harley Ryan, Grant Wagner, Alex McClure, Peter Campbell, Shaye Dirks, Lullen Dechand, Angela Douglas. Back row: Coaches Hayden Schuh and Travis Schuh. Not pictured: McCoy Smith, Jackson Smith and coach Chloe Winkler....
GRANT COUNTY, WA – The Grant County Health District has issued an air advisory as a result of wildfire smoke effecting the air quality in Grant County and across Washington State. The smoke is not expected to clear in the short-term, keeping the air quality between unhealthy for sensitive groups and unhealthy for all groups. Poor air quality and inhaling wildfire smoke is unhealthy for all people but can significantly impact people with asthma and other lung diseases, as well as infants, children, pregnant women, and older a...
HARRINGTON – A significant number of organizations and people are watching over the development of the city. The most prominent are the Harrington Public Development Authority (HPDA), the Harrington Historic Preservation Commission (HHPC) and the Harrington Area Chamber of Commerce. The HPDA was formed in 2003 "to undertake, assist with and otherwise facilitate the acquisition, construction, development, equipping, leasing, operation and maintenance of public benefit projects within or without the City of Harrington in L...
DAVENPORT – The Fishing Derby, Chalk Art Contest and Parade all had winners at this year's Pioneer Days festivities. Here are the winners of each contest and how each contestant won their respective competition. Fishing Derby 1st Place 2nd Place Under 4 Quincy Montgomery Rogun Reinbold 0.906 lbs 0.853 lbs Age 5-8 Lincoln Johnson Alexandria Kent 0.869 lbs 0.858 lbs Age 9-11 Rayland Barger Ryan Reetz 2.985 lbs 2.974 lbs Age 12-14 Jacob James Alyssa Breedlove 0.950 lbs 0.708 l...
HARRINGTON – The Harrington Opera House Society met July 12 in the lobby of the opera house. Mark Stedman and Karen Robertson offered to contact the Spokane Historical Preservation group for information regarding a structural engineer. An event has been approved for the Aug. 8, 2021, 4 p.m., which will feature Andres Jaramillo and will be coordinated with Stephen and Becky Hardy. Hardy volunteered to pay for the piano tuning prior to the event. Other upcoming events include th...
Seven-year-old Declan Burden was selling lemonade at 75 cents a cup outside his family's home on Morgan Street across from Hardy Hardware Wednesday, July 14. He said he would be selling lemonade until his pitcher ran out, which happened quickly given the day's heat. He also said he wants to sell lemonade "hopefully, every day." Burden is homeschooled and lives here in town....
Senior meals are back at Davenport Senior Center on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays beginning at noon. Seniors come to enjoy a meal, community and card games. Meals are also delivered to 12-14 seniors each day, and were delivered daily during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meals are free to anyone over 60 years old, and $6 for each guest of a senior younger than 60....
LINCOLN COUNTY – Residents from Davenport, Edwall, Harrington, Reardan and Sprague were all represented on the spring quarter honor rolls at Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College and Eastern Washington University. At SCC, honor roll is achieved by students with a grade-point-average 3.0 or higher. Susan Six, Quinten Christensen, Jerry Boot, Jon Knittel and Daniel Modrem of Davenport made the SCC honor roll, as did Christopher Wyatt of Harrington. They were joined by Alyssa Martin-Franks of Sprague and A...
Around 150 Model T cars representing the old Ford models from 1909-1927 passed through town Tuesday, July 13 as part of a five-day tour through the greater Spokane-Palouse area. Residents from all over the country parked at the Lincoln County Museum and down Park Street, fascinating a few locals. The tourists learned county history at the museum and enjoyed refreshments at City Park. Later in the morning, they motored north toward Fort Spokane for lunch. The Davenport stop...
ODESSA – Kolby Crossley, a 2012 graduate of Odessa High School, has returned to the state of Washington after several years living and working out of the state. He has accepted a position as the press liaison for the Auburn Police Dept. after having spent time in Montana and Colorado as a local TV news host and reporter. He becomes the first civilian to hold the position at the Auburn PD. Before, police officers were assigned to that duty. The unpopularity of that duty among o...
HARRINGTON – The Summer Reading Program for Harrington Public Library runs July 8-29 each Thursday from 3-5 p.m. at Harrington Memorial Hall under the direction of volunteer and local resident, Kris Moritz, who has conducted the program in 2019. Washington State Library provides the library with topics and manuals through their membership in the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP), to keep children reading during the summer months and prevent the "summer slide" that occurs when long periods of cessation of reading o...
Harvest is in full swing throughout much of the Inland Northwest. This means many folks are preparing harvest lunches. In light of this, we chose to make Chocolate Oatmeal No-Bake Cookies in one of the Go! Odessa Recreation's summer cooking classes. The class meets in the commercial kitchen of the Odessa Chamber of commerce in the community center. Thank you Odessa Chamber for making it possible to offer this activity for Odessa youth. The children were divided into two...
DAVENPORT – The Davenport Lions Club had its annual election of officers and board members on June 15 to be effective July 1, which is the start of the Lions Club International year. New Lion President Scott Hopkins received the gavel from past President Jeff Barkdull. Officers and board members including several new members joining the board were installed at the regular meeting. The members are treasurer Jared King, third vice president Keith Bailey, board member Bob M...
HARRINGTON – With temperatures seemingly surpassing all previous June records for heat and lack of moisture, the human brain slows down to use commonplace sayings, thus conserving energy for other essential tasks. We all know that is was "hotter than blazes," and we wonder at the origin of another of our one-liners, "It's so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk." We found a willing science-minded family to test the validity of the latter phrase in Katie Steward and her t...
[Continued from last week] Fourth, this Gospel teaches that the sign of a man from the dead, like Jesus, the virgin-born, eternal Son of God, will not bring to repentance those who do not listen to Moses and the Prophets. It reads, "And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house—for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.' But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear the...
