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HOHS The Harrington Opera House Society met February 5 with Linda Wagner, Sheryl Stedman, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark Stedman, Cherie MacClellan, Marge Womach, Susan Larmer, Gordon Herron and Karen Robertson present. At the close of the meeting Billie Herron and Carol returned from Reardan and visited briefly. Ed Haugan gave the treasurer's report, noting that the average monthly bills for the building is $900, a figure arrived at by dividing last year's expenditures by twelve....
LACEY, Wash. - The Washington Farm Bureau named Sen. Judy Warnick (R-Moses Lake) and Rep. David Taylor (R-Moxee) 2017 legislators of the year at Farm Bureau's annual Legislative Banquet Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. "We are very appreciative of the work these two legislators did on behalf of agriculture, the state's second largest industry," said Mike LaPlant, Farm Bureau's state president. While a number of legislators helped to support issues critical to the state's farmers and...
Ephrata, WA – Grant County resident Sylvia Hammond is pleased to announce her campaign for the Washington State House of Representatives, 13th Legislative District, Position 2. She is a Democrat running against incumbent, Matt Manweller. Over the last 40 years living in Grant County, Hammond has worked on a family farm, taught, volunteered, and raised a family of five. Her campaign will focus on the needs and issues of the 13th District, which includes most of Grant County a...
Monday night’s meeting of the Odessa Town Council included a discussion of the recycling bins in town in which citizens are encouraged to deposit used cardboard, plastic bottles, aluminum cans and newspapers. The service was instituted several years ago when Odessa was still collecting and hauling its own waste. The tipping fees were based on the tonnage of waste delivered. To decrease the level of waste tonnage, the town opted to contract with the Lincoln County Transfer Station near Davenport to provide dumpsters for i...
The Odessa Town Council did not have a quorum Monday night, and therefore was unable to approve any motions or take any official action. The council members present therefore decided to discuss issues and hear input from citizens who had requested to be put on the meeting agenda. Steve Nelson of Century West Engineering in Spokane was hoping to have motion of support from the council for submitting a USDA grant application and also to have council approval to begin advertising for bids for the Federal Emergency Management...
Sen. Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake, and Reps. Matt Manweller, R-Ellensburg, and Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, are holding an hour-long telephone town hall on Monday, Feb. 19, at 6 p.m. The program is similar to a call-in radio show in which people may call and ask questions over the telephone. To participate, residents can call (509) 404-3047 during the event. If listeners have questions during the call, they can press the star (*) key on their telephone keypads. For more information about the telephone town hall, residents can...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday at noon for its monthly meeting. The newly elected secretary had asked to withdraw from the position, so nominations were reopened. As members present pondered who might fit the bill, Michelle Melgren volunteered to take the job once again and she was approved unanimously for the post. Chamber president Zach Schafer expressed his worry that the Desert 100, now only weeks away, will not be the success that it has been up to now for lack of a person or even a committee of two or three...
Hinrichs Trading Company opened its doors to the Odessa community and to potential growers of garbanzo beans (also known as chickpeas) on January 31 at the Odessa Industrial Park. The Hinrichs family has been involved in agriculture in the Palouse for five generations. Their company headquarters is in Pullman. The company was established in the early 1900s by Max Hinrichs, Sr. for processing grass seed. His son Max, Jr. switched to processing wheat seed in 1925, and his sons...
PDA January 23, a group from the Harrington Public Development Authority met at the Post & Office to participate in a presentation via Zoom to the Wash. State Senate Economic Development & International Trade Committee in Olympia. Harrington’s PDA had been requested to participate by Senator Maralyn Chase (32nd District, Edmonds) via contact with Margie Hall. Those presenting locally were Margie Hall (Lincoln County EDC), Heather Slack (current president of PDA), Josh Steward (prior president of PDA) and Harrington Mayor D...
An advisory put out by the Grant County Sheriff’s Office has reported that the IRS phone scam is popping up again locally. It (and other similar scams) will likely continue to plague citizens. More often than not, there isn’t much law enforcement can do because the scams often originate overseas or are extremely difficult to trace. The IRS scam is simply that someone calls saying they’re from the IRS, that back taxes are owed and if you don’t pay up now, the cops are coming to your house to arrest you. It’s a scam, and it’s...
The Columbia Basin Development League has requested that U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke include the current phase of Columbia Basin Project development in any future infrastructure package considered by the Administration. In a letter sent last week, the League’s executive director Vicky Scharlau said, “Access to Columbia Basin Project water is a fundamental necessity for the economic vitality and sustainability of Eastern Washington, but over 300,000 of the original 1,029,000 authorized acres of pro...
Software error prevented transmission of some licensing information to election officials OLYMPIA — Approximately 14 county voters will receive late ballots via first class mail this week for the February 13 special election, due to a software error in the Department of Licensing’s driver licensing database system that caused information to not be transmitted to the Office of the Secretary of State’s Voter Registration Database under Washington’s Motor Voter law. The Dept. of Licensing and Office of the Secretary of State w...
A student must have a grade point average of 3.50-4.00 to be on the honor roll, and honorable mention requires a grade point average of 3.25-3.49. Grade values are based on the state transcript requirements and are as follows: A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-= 2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=1.3, D=1.0, F=0.0. High School Senior Class – Maleah Davison, Danielle Tebow (4.0), Kiegan Wehr, Noah Anderson, Jayd Jennings, Gaven Elder, Colton Hunt, Hannah Sheldon, Thomas Parham. J...
Chamber of Commerce Newsletter This past week the Harrington Area Chamber of Commerce released its first 2018 newsletter collection from the Chamber and other community groups, from which this news has been taken. The 2018 Chamber officers are: President, Tim Tipton, of Hideaway RV Park; Vice President, Cade Clarke, of Church of the Nazarene; Secretary, Paula Pike, of Paula’s Remote Office; and Treasurer, Cindy Haase, of Ott Insurance. They remind the community of things to do in Harrington during the winter months: Senior Me...
The Columbia Basin Development League has requested that U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke include the current phase of Columbia Basin Project development in any future infrastructure package considered by the Administration. In a letter sent last week, the League’s executive director Vicky Scharlau said, “Access to Columbia Basin Project water is a fundamental necessity for the economic vitality and sustainability of Eastern Washington, but over 300,000 of the original 1,029,000 authorized acres of pro...
(Davenport, WA, Jan. 30, 2018) – Harrington’s Mayor and members of the Harrington Public Development Authority recently participated in a presentation to the State Senate Committee for Economic Development and International Trade in Olympia. Senator Maralyn Chase of Edmonds, the committee chair, had come across a 2016 press release that publicized Harrington’s downtown broadband project. The senator invited the stakeholders to share their story with the committee via the Internet from The Post & Office, a coffee shop in Ha...
November OMHC announced the arrival in Odessa of the newest medical provider. Deborah Fogg, FNP-C, will be offering appointments at the Odessa Clinic and tending to patients in the entire medical complex. She joins Richard Ervin, also a certified Family Nurse Practioner, in providing coverage for Odessa’s medical needs. The Odessa Athletic Booster Club celebrated the return of the Tigers, following dissolution of the Titan co-operative with Harrington, with a dinner and auction crowd that exceeded expectations. Donors were a...
Spokane Ag Expo and Pacific Northwest Farm Forum are getting ready to open their doors for their 2018 show scheduled for February 6-8, 2018 at the Spokane Convention Center. The largest farm machinery show in the Inland Northwest will host almost 300 exhibitors and conduct 35 educational seminars and forums relating to agri-business from large-scale operations to small acreage farms and ranches. Every foot of the 120,000 square foot exhibit hall will be ready to welcome over 5,000 visitors. This year’s Pacific Northwest F...
Over the past few weeks before winter break, Odessa High School and Junior High School students have been busy conducting independent science research entitled the Second Quarter Research Project. This project is designed to encapsulate the knowledge and the ability to formulate a testable research question, design and execute an experiment with quantifiable results, scientifically compare the experimental results with a control method and discuss their findings with the rest...
Strate Funeral Home is pleased to announce the addition of Dan Verheul to their staff. Dan is a licensed funeral director/embalmer who has worked in the funeral industry for over 30 yrs. Dan will also be the pre-planning funeral counselor for Strate Funeral Home. Dan previously worked in Spokane but is very familiar with working in smaller communities. Dan is very active with the Spokane Lilac Festival Association where he has served as a director for the last four years. Dan...
Public Development Authority Harrington's Public Development Authority met at city hall January 16, with President Heather Slack, Paul Charlton, Jay Kane, Jay Gossett, Tim Tipton, Jill Plaskon, Bunny Haugan, Cherie MacClellan and Marge Womach attending. Discussion continued from previous meetings on the "post and panel" display sign designed by Baldwin Signs of Spokane, and it was compared with alternative bids. By unanimous vote, the Authority opted to stay with Baldwin...
August The Odessa school district reported that its purchase of the property of the late Viola Els located diagonally across the street from the gymnasium is proceeding and is scheduled for closing soon. Northwest Farm Credit Services presented a check for $2,000 to the Odessa High School chapter of FFA for its community garden project. The country home of Jeff and Amber Zagelow caught fire while the family was away on vacation. There was serious damage to the home, and the Zagelows and their four children will rent a house...
One of the year’s most important legislative battles in Washington state came to a surprisingly quick conclusion last week when a water-use bill passed both chambers and was sent to the desk of Gov. Jay Inslee. In 2016, the state Supreme Court’s Hirst decision essentially halted development across the state when it determined that counties were not adequately examining impacts on stream and river flow levels. The decision weighed heavily on last year’s legislative session when Republicans refused to reach an agreement on a...
Keith Bailey, general manager of Ag Ventures NW, LLC, has announced the business unification of all five partners in HighLine Grain: Odessa Union Warehouse Cooperative, Reardan Grain Growers, Inc., Central Washington Grain Growers, Inc., Davenport Union Warehouse Co. and Almira Farmers Warehouse, Inc. The membership within each company voted its approval for unification. The five companies will combine into HighLine Grain Growers, Inc., while continuing the tradition of independent, locally-owned cooperatives in the area. By...
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center has released new visitor restrictions in an effort to prevent the spread of illnesses during the 2017-2018 flu season. The Center for Disease and Control Prevention has predicted this flu season could reach near epidemic levels. An uptick in flu and flu-related illnesses has been observed in the region since the beginning of the year. The CDC reports that Region 10 (Washington, Oregon and Idaho) has widespread activity with a 30.4 percent increase in positive flu specimens through clinical...
