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Several requests for sugar free recipes have come in over the past two weeks. The holiday baking season is fast approaching, and folks who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes are struggling to find suitable recipes to replace traditional sweets. I have found that it is best to use recipes developed by the sugar free sweetener companies, as each product is a bit different, and none of them cook up the same as granulated beet or cane sugar. Splenda.com...
Moving to Odessa for our retirement has not been what we expected. The people here have been wonderful. It is great to be with family again. 'But' when Dr. Powell had Tom flown out in "lifebird" on a warm and moonlit August night, I had no idea what was in store for us as a family. Stroke had not been a part of the retirement plan. The stroke was bad. As I drove back and forth every day to Spokane for 2 and a half months, I saw my husband deteriorate before my eyes. The neurologist took me to the side and said, "I don't know...
Retired, but not forgotten! It’s a secret, but we can be sneaky and post this invitation while Lowell Jay, the faithful Schwan man, is traveling out of state. Folks in Almira have banded together to throw a retirement party for Jay on Saturday, December 8, at the Almira Community Center, at 1 p.m. There will be a potluck luncheon, so everyone is asked to bring a dish to share. Dessert will be provided. A VISA gift card basket will be set up at the party, and anyone who w...
Ireland Luiten has been dancing since the age of three, with big dreams of becoming a professional dancer. That dream is coming true this December, when she will perform with the State Street Ballet Company (out of California) and the Spokane Symphony in this year’s performance of the Nutcracker Suite. Open auditions were held in Spokane in late September. Ireland auditioned with hundreds of kids vying for only a few roles. After a two-hour audition, she was cast as one of t...
Lillian Lubold died November 1, 2012, at Valley Good Samaritan Day Spring Unit in Greenacres, Wash. A memorial service at 11 a.m. at Christ Lutheran Church in Odessa, with Pastor Tim Hauge officiating. Memorials may be made to Christ Lutheran Church of Odessa or the Alzheimer's Association-Inland NW Chapter, 910 W 5th Ave STE 256, Spokane, WA, 99204. Strate Funeral Home, Davenport, is caring for the family. Full obituary will follow next week....
The Cub Scouts of Pack 784 will be distributing bags to Odessa households this Sunday as a part of the annual "Scouting for Food" program. Each year, the Cub Scouts deliver empty grocery bags to every household in Odessa. Residents are asked to place non-perishable food items in the bags and have them ready to be picked up the weekend of November 10-11, after which they will be delivered to the Odessa Food Bank in time for Thanksgiving. Food items that are especially needed, according to Food Bank director Julie Jantz, are...
Hi, here I am again. Last week it was about the Finks, this week we continue on. In 1930, Reuben married Elizabeth Homberg. Four children were born during their married life –Alvin D. in 1931, Marvin in 1932 and the twins Marciel & Maurice in 1933. The Frederick school was closed prior to 1931, therefore from 1931 to 1951, the children of Reuben & Elizabeth – Alvin D., Marvin, Marciel and Maurice attended the schools in Odessa while living with their parents on the Lin...
Boy Scout Troop #275 of the Blue Mountain Council has announced that Spencer Ballo, 18, of Kennewick has been awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. Spencer is a Senior at Kamiakin High School in Kennewick, has been on the honor roll all four years and is active in Tech Club, cross-country and varsity track, as well as coaching this year for Upward Bound soccer. Ballo joins an elite group of young men who have earned the Eagle rank. The first Eagle was awarded in 1912 and less than 4% of Boy Scouts achieve this highest honor in...
Winter apples are at their prime and these tart, crisp varieties are perfect for cakes, crisps and pies. Joyce McClanahan brought an Upside Down Apple Cake to a recent potluck meal and it garnered several requests for the recipe. Joyce found the recipe on www.relish.com, a great site for seasonal recipes. Recipe directions call for preparing in a cast iron skillet to caramelize the apple layer. I used a heavy non-stick skillet with oven safe handle instead and it worked fine....
Two Odessa High School graduates (1976) and longtime friends recently returned from an adventure-filled trip to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, Alaska. Denise Kittilson Masiello won a trip as a “Greenhorn for a Day” on th fishing vessel the Wizard of the Discovery Channel’s show called Deadliest Catch. Masiello won an annual contest sponsored by the Henry Weinhard company and took Barb Reister Frederick along as her guest. Masiello had been trying for three years to win the conte...
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)....
David Michaelson, currently of Harrington and formerly a resident and business owner in Odessa, has received word that two additional writing awards have come his way. Michaelson’s science fiction trilogy has received an Honorable Mention for the first book, “The Centauri Intervention.” The sequel, “Bittersweet Colony,” has been awarded First Runner Up by the Military Writer’s Society of America at a recent convention held in Dayton, Ohio. These are Michaelson’s second and third awards. He also won a Silver Medal in 2010...
The Odessa Horseshoe Club hosted the state-sanctioned Odessa Open tournament September 29. Eighteen mixed players turned out for the competition, 7 each in classes A and B, and 4 in Class C. Tournament winners in Class A were Lee Zalesny 1st, Les Myers 2nd and Monty McLaughlin 3rd. In Class B, they were John McCarthy, Sr. 1st, Kaiti Reeves 2nd and Harold Boyer 3rd. Class C was won by Loren Totusek 1st and Sharon McLaughlin 2nd. "Everyone had a good time," reported Kathy Ratkowski of the club, adding that the beautiful...
The picture from the Harrington Opera House Society in last week’s paper carried an incorrect caption. The picture was taken at the Grande Interlude Concert on September 9. Seated at the piano are Rebecca Hardy on the right and Dr. Jody Graves from EWU on the left. Standing are Stephen Hardy on the left and Dr. Randal Wagner from EWU on the right. The Record regrets the error....
With the goal of rehabilitating the historic 1904 Harrington Opera House, the Harrington Opera House Society has been host to several events and has welcomed the news of awarded grants that will aid in that goal. Most recently, the Opera House received funds from a Building for the Arts Grant, which allowed for the installation of air conditioning in the upstairs auditorium, and from US Bank that will help improve The Art Room which is used for music lessons, art classes and...
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). Hi, here I am again. After my time in hibernation, I told you about one of my dreams I had during hibernation. In it, Joyce and I rode our mules "gettyup" and "slowpoke" from Odessa out to Batum to visit her future mother, Bertha Raugust Kiesz. They were not our mules, we rented them from C.C. Doering who was running the Doering Livery Barn in Odessa,...
Odessa 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). Hi, here I am again. When comparing L-B-D lifestyle for children of those early years vs today’s children, it is like comparing apples to oranges. Today most children have HDTVs, cell-phones, i-pods, computers, ATVs, ORVs, cars, pickups, motorbikes, motorcycles, automatic weapons, toys, many changes of clothes, a million choices of food types, AM-FM radios, p...
Deutschesfest is over for another year, and it seemed to be a good one, thanks to a lot of small town heroes. Our little four-day extravaganza does not just happen spontaneously, as everyone who has ever been involved already knows. I try to make sure to remember just how much work goes into making Fest happen, both on the scene and behind it. Because I (try to) play in the Oom Pas and Mas, I am frequently on the scene. I wear my dirndls and have a smile on my face, and am...
I learned a lot about Medicare in the last year. A knee replacement (that went south) and an infection I picked up at the hospital enabled me to extend my hospital stay. I was then taken to a recovery center for a total of 52 days before I was able to go home. I am thankful that my teacher’s retirement insurance covered basically everything that Medicare didn’t. Our country and its Medicare and Medicaid systems are broke and they can’t afford to keep paying such a large percentage of the medical costs! Medicare paid out $...
Odessa has another new off-main-street business just beginning to take off. The Gathering House Retreats LLC is designed for "small group retreats, quilt show weekends, quilters, scrap bookers, beaders, crafters, knitters and others to gather and spend time with friends while working on projects or just a good visit," according to flyers produced by owner Jan Hinton of Odessa. Hinton, who is originally from Garfield, Wash. and her husband Dan, raised in Southern Idaho, have...
Britney Lynn Praetorius of Odessa and Lance Carlyn Wagner of Harrington will be united in marriage November 10, 2012, at the Heritage Church in Odessa with Pastor Jon Hayashi officiating. Britney is the daughter of Lee and Debbie Praetorius of Odessa and the granddaughter of Louella and the late Robert Praetorius, and Wayne and the late Vi Frederick. Lance is the son of Ken Wagner of Harrington and Colleen Wagner of Spokane and the grandson of the late Ervin and Janet Wagner...
Festplatz, the center of Deutschesfest activities, boasts a vast array of German and American food selections. Many of the items offered for sale are made from recipes that have been used since the beginning of Deutschesfest, adapted from recipes used by Germans from Russia for over a century. A number of these recipes originated in everyday cooking in our ancestors kitchens and adapt well to current food tastes. Kraut Ranza predates today's pizza pockets by at least one hundred years. Golden brown yeast bread wraps the meat...
The Odessa Public Library and Historisches Museum have recently added new material to its digital collection celebrating the history of Odessa and neighboring communities. The collection was made possible by a Washington Rural Heritage grant from the Washington State Library, funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) through the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The Odessa Heritage Collection has added over 232 new items, including a digitized 40-minute narrated slide presentation...
“The Bible is central to our faith,” said Pastor Jon Hayashi of Heritage Church but many people are intimidated by its scope and size. The Story gives us a way to journey from Genesis to Revelation together in 31 weeks so everyone understands God's story and how their story intersects with it.” The Bible is the best-selling book in history, but how many people in Odessa are actually reading it? A Gallup survey reports the average American household has four Bibles. However, research by Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life...
The official results are now in for the swine classification at the Lincoln County Fair. Justin Hunt of Odessa/Ritzville had the grand champion 4-H hog in the senior division of Fitting & Showing, and Carsen Weber of Odessa had the reserve champion in the same categories. Nick Nelson of Odessa had the grand champion hog in junior/senior division of FFA Fitting & Showing, and Ashley Baarstad of Davenport had the reserve champion Marlee Eldridge of Odessa had the grand champion 4-H market hog, as well as the reserve champion...
