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Romeo and Juliet Tuesday morning, March 27, the Seattle Shakespeare Company arrived at the Harrington school and gave three or four workshops including the topics of Elizabethan dance and style of clothing. The school obtained a director's grant which paid for this event. At 1 p.m., students in grades K-12 came from the school to the Harrington Opera House to view an actual production by the same people who had given the workshops. Parents and local residents joined the...
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center hosted four University of Washington job-shadow students on March 19-23. This is the first time that two boys and two girls came to Odessa. These students are interested in going into a variety of healthcare fields, and we have the opportunity to show them what rural medicine and rural life are like. Huy Nguyen (Patrick) currently volunteers at UW Medical Center as both an escort and pharmacy assistant. Patrick knows that he would like to go...
KELLER – Drivers planning to use the Keller Ferry to cross the Columbia River via State Route 21, from April 12 until the morning of April 16, will need to use alternate routes for their travels. The Keller Ferry vessel, Sanpoil, will be out of service for hull repairs starting at 6 a.m. Thursday, April 12. Service is anticipated to resume at 6 a.m. Monday, April 16, barring any unforeseen circumstances. During this period, vessel builder Foss Maritime of Seattle will repair a hairline crack located where the keel meets t...
Last week's performance of the Wizard of Oz musical by Odessa students was a very successful event. Wednesday's performances, one during the school day and one in the evening, were well attended. Although the musical was scheduled for an additional Thursday performance, it was not to be, as the power failed around 1 p.m. and remained off all afternoon. Fortunately for The Record, we were able to attend the Wednesday performance, where we saw a delightful production. From the...
Harrington Public Development Authority Heather Slack, president, opened the 7 p.m. March 20 meeting of the Harrington Public Development Authority with Bunny Haugan, Paul Charlton, Jay Kane and Tim Tipton present. The announcement of the completion of the Harrington Community display sign by Baldwin Signs of Spokane was made accompanied with the news that Don Timm and Jim Knapp volunteered to go to Spokane to pick it up saving the Authority several hundred dollars on...
Last weekend's motocross racing took place south of town on sagebrush-covered land in weather more winter-like than it had been just a few weeks before. It was also windy, which brings with it the wind chill factor. But the Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club members are a hardy bunch, and they turned out in even larger numbers than they had last year, as reported by Odessa police chief Tom Clark at last night's town council meeting. He also said there were no reported serious...
Spring runoff is in evidence with the awakening of Delzer Falls just a few miles northwest of Odessa between Pacific Lake and Bob’s Lakes, which also remained filled with water. Despite the cool and windy weather last weekend, several intrepid local photographers were out in the countryside recording the beginnings of new spring growth of both flora and fauna. Calls and messages to The Record told us that photos of Delzer Falls were available, and so they were. We also h...
Casey Schlomer is the daughter of Joe (and Gina) Schlomer and Amy (and Kevin) Schaefer. She is a 2016 graduate of Odessa High School and has now decided to join the U.S. Air Force. This past Sunday, her friends, family and former classmates held a going-away party for her at Any Occasion Banquet Hall. During the festivities, Casey's father Joe Schlomer read a tribute to his daughter that The Record would like to share with our readers. "In 1997, Amy and I cut this diamond and...
Officer Garrett Marvin, from the Spokane enforcement office of the State Liquor and Cannabis Board, will be in Odessa April 3 at 11 a.m. to give an in-service session on safe practices by alcohol servers. As we neglected to state in last week’s announcement of this event, the session will be held in the Guild Room in the basement level of the hospital. All who are interested are invited to attend....
The Chamber banquet held last Saturday evening drew a good crowd of folks who managed to panic the organizers by waiting until the last minute to buy their tickets. On Wednesday of last week, very few tickets had been sold. At the banquet itself, however, more than 100 people bowed their head as the invocation was led by Pastor Jon Hayashi prior to being served a meal of pork tenderloin, wild rice and carrots cooked up by the Odessa chapter of the Future Business Leaders of...
Chamber president Zach Schafer breathed a sigh of relief at the March 13 meeting of the organization, reporting that a committee of four individuals has stepped forward to take on the task of providing leadership at the hospitality tent provided by the Chamber at the site of the Desert 100 motorcycle endurance race and ancillary events the weekend of April 6-8. Marcus Horak, Mo Sheldon, Jeff Huiras and Miranda Taylor will be the on-site people with the responsibility for answering questions, resupplying the tent, overseeing t...
Harrington City Council The Harrington City Council met March 14 with the full council present (Peter Davenport, Michael Cronrath, Levi Schenk, Jeremy Sewall and Justin Slack), as well as Mayor Dillon Haas, clerk Bunny Haugan, maintenance supervisor Scott McGowan and visitors David Michaelsen, Nathan Luck, Cherie MacClellan, Marge Womach and Ted Axelson. Michaelsen, Senior Meals cook, took the floor to address security issues at the Memorial Hall, stating that six times he has found the building not secured. Other issues...
Student-led conferences for grades PreK-12 have been set for Wednesday, March 28 through Friday March 30. School will be dismissed at 12:15 p.m. on these days. All PreK-12 students have been scheduled for a specific conference time. Parents should have received a designated date and time slip from their child’s homeroom teacher or the office. Those who have not received a date and time slip are asked to call Linnie Largent at 982-2603 or Chris Luiten at 982-2111....
The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame committee has resumed meeting in Odessa this spring to select inductees for the 2018 third annual induction ceremony to be held at the Odessa High School alumni reunion on June 16. This year, the committee has selected nine individuals and four teams to be honored at the reunion and to have their names and brief bios added to the display case in the foyer of the Odessa High School gym. The names of the newest inductees will be announced in The Odessa Record a few weeks prior to the reunion....
Officer Garrett Marvin, from the Spokane enforcement office of the WA State Liquor and Cannabis Board will be in Odessa on April 3 at 11 a.m. to give an in-service session regarding safe practices for those serving alcohol. All who are interested are invited to attend. Volunteers who will be serving in the hospitality tent at the Stumpjumpers’ Desert 100 event this spring and also next September at Deutschfest are encouraged to attend. Please join us April 3 at 11 a.m. in the Guild Room in the hospital bas...
Harrington Opera House Society Monday, March 5, the Harrington Opera House Society met at 7 p.m. with Sheryl and Mark Stedman, Billie and Gordon Herron, Carol, Karen Robertson, Bunny Haugan, Linda Wagner, Marge Womach and Stephen Hardy present. Members were reminded to give “in-kind forms” to Billie Herron. Minutes of the previous meeting and the financial reports were approved. Following a year’s hiatus, the building committee is again working on small restorative projects and preparing for the refurbishing of the rumma...
DAVENPORT (March 12, 2018) – Lincoln County has launched a project to update the Hazard Mitigation Plan. The next planning meeting is open to the public and will take place on March 27, 2018, at 10 a.m. at the chambers of the Lincoln County Commissioners. This update will include integration of the existing Lincoln County Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Local agencies and organizations in Lincoln County have created a committee to complete the required five-year update of the document as part of the FEMA Pre-Disaster M...
Pam MacEwan, CEO of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, has issued the following statement on the signing of House Bill 2516: “The Washington Health Benefit Exchange applauds today’s signing of House Bill 2516 by Gov. Jay Inslee. “This state-level legislation protects important progress made in Washington state under the Affordable Care Act. Our position as the state’s health insurance gateway is now stronger than ever, and despite continued uncertainty we may see at the federal level, this bill enables us to continue imp...
OLYMPIA — A three-judge state court of appeals panel today ruled that local jurisdictions have the authority to ban marijuana sales, agreeing with Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s arguments and a 2014 Attorney General Opinion. This is the first appellate court to rule on the issue. Judges in five trial-court cases have also agreed with the attorney general’s interpretation. The Attorney General’s Office intervened in the case to uphold the will of the voters and ensure proper interpretation of Washington’s marijuana law. “My...
Hey Odessa! I thought it was time to give you another update on LuLu, the brindle puppy found shortly after Christmas frozen to the ground, starving, so emaciated that even the word emaciated didn't seem to fit. The sight of her was so tragic that my heart broke every time I looked at her. I would sit and sob for what seemed like hours. She'd been shot, not once but twice, was badly wounded, smelled of infection and, to be completely honest, wasn't far from death. Thankfully,...
At the beginning of this school year, Michael Jeske, a member of the Odessa High School Class of 2000, experienced a relapse of the cancer (lymphoma) he was diagnosed with in 2011. At that time, he received an autologous stem cell transplant. Since the cancer came back, Michael has undergone chemotherapy treatments for three months and now lives in Seattle, near Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, where he'll further his treatment. Recently, Michael received an allogeneic stem cell...
Monday evening's meeting of the Odessa Town Council was preceded by a public hearing on the variance request by Randell and Willma Manley for building a new garage within the 10-foot setback line of their property. Their neighbors had already signed paperwork indicating that they had no objections to the garage location. Two members of the planning commission also attended the meeting and indicated that they, too, had no objections to the planned garage. Later in the meeting,...
The Odessa High School boys basketball team took fourth place at the state 1B tournament in Spokane last week after a grueling post-season of play. Some losses along the way meant that the boys had to claw their way through the losers' bracket, just as they did during the district tournament, but nevertheless earned their way into the trophy round. Two Odessa boys earned medals for sportsmanship along the way, Jayd Jennings and Marcus King. A full account of the games leading...
Fifth-grader Holden Iverson, son of Brenik and Kamie Iverson of Odessa, found the first buttercup of 2018 in the Odessa area. Father and son were on top of the south hill near the large, lit "O" when Holden spotted the single yellow blossom against all of the dried vegetation around it. Congratulations, Holden, on finding the first harbinger of spring and sharing your find with the readers of The Odessa Record....
RDO Equipment Co. announced the acquisition of equipment dealership Evergreen Implement at the end of February. This adds stores in Coulee City, Moses Lake, Othello, Pasco and Ritzville to RDO Equipment Co.’s existing network, which includes Pasco and Sunnyside in the state of Washington. Rich history RDO Equipment Co. began with one man and a single equipment store in a small farming town, and throughout several years of strategic moves and capitalizing on opportunities, grew into the company it is today, serving c...
