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City Council The Harrington City Council met August 9 at city hall with Mayor Dillon Haas, Peter Davenport, Levi Schenk, Justin Slack, Rick Becker, Mike Cronrath, Scott McGowan, Bunny Haugan, Ashley Schenk, Brent Wilday, David Michaelson and Marge Womach present. A public hearing was held to allow comment on the Six-Year Transportation Improvement Plan. David Michaelson addressed the council regarding his new position with the Senior Meals Program and reported how he had...
Fundraiser and memorial benefit at Studebaker Garage The Studebaker Garage was full of activity prior to the Saturday event of July 15. Cars were being hustled, cleaned, polished and positioned. The building was cleaned and set up for the BBQ, PDA fundraiser and Memorial Benefit Lunch for the founding father of The Studebaker Garage in Harrington, Allen Barth. The crew included Heather Slack, Tim Tipton, Loren and Terry Howe, Gabe Garcia and Jerilyn Key, Jay Gossett and Paul...
Shirley Johnson of Odessa was awarded a "Quilt of Valor" by the Quilts of Valor Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is "to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor." Johnnie Rogers of the Quilts of Valor Foundation organization in Moses Lake brought the quilt to Odessa and made the award to Johnson at Reiman Park. Johnson spent 22 years as a member of the U.S. Navy during the period that encompassed Desert Storm and...
Due to incorrect information supplied to The Record, our article on the Odessa Food Bank stated an incorrect address. The correct address is 111 E. First Avenue. Also incorrect was the reference to being approved to access the Food Bank. Clients of the Food Bank need not be approved....
SPOKANE, Wash., July 31, 2017 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds producers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington states to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2018 crop year before the sales closing dates. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing coverage also have until the sales closing dates to do so. Crop insurance is a key component of the farm safety net, as it provides protection against crop production losses due to natural perils such as dro...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday at noon at Any Occasion Banquet Hall. Amy and Kevin Schaefer of the float committee reported that Miss Odessa Danielle Tebow and Princess Maleah Davison would be attending the Omak Stampede this coming weekend. They also got the okay to sell soft pretzels with cheese in the “Bretzeln” booth. It was agreed by consensus that they could set up the booth anywhere they liked as long as they had access to electrical power and plenty of foot traffic to make their fund-raising suc...
Making kraut ranzas: July 29 (Saturday), St. Joseph Catholic Church members and friends made their kraut ranzas all in one day. They are in the freezer and ready for Fest. Making apple strudel: September 5, 6 and 7 (Tuesday through Thursday) from 8:30 a.m. to about 5 p.m. every day. Call Charlene Kagele at 982-2825 or Laura Estes at 982-2908 to help. Making cabbage rolls: Heritage church will make cabbage rolls Tuesday, August 22, all in one day, starting at 9 a.m. at the community center’s commercial kitchen. Call Carmen a...
The Odessa Community Ministerial Association is planning a gathering in remembrance of Pastor Tim Hauge on Tuesday, August 15. The gathering will be in Reiman Park from 6 to 8 p.m. and will include a time for prayer, contemplation and sharing. Those who would like to attend are encouraged to “come and go as they please,” as it is not a set program. Odessa’s pastors will also be sharing some words. Pastor Tim died in a harvest accident last year at about this same time. He became pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in 2002 and q...
Near WILSON CREEK, Wash. (06AUGUST2017) – A 47-year-old Wilson Creek man has died in a one-vehicle collision north of Wilson Creek. Thomas Veenstra was driving a 2016 Dodge Challenger which crashed sometime Saturday late afternoon or evening on Road Q-Northeast south of Road 25-Northeast. He died at the scene. Veenstra’s family notified sheriff’s deputies around 8 p.m. Saturday that Veenstra had taken the Challenger out for a brief drive but had not returned after several hours. Deputies searched the Wilson Creek area and l...
Summer Reading Program With eight eager children attending Thursday's Summer Reading Program, the group was much quieter than the previous session with 18. Interestingly enough, more books and DVDs were checked out by the eight. Two sisters brought a stack of books to the counter, and it was refreshing to hear the older one help the younger to check out her books. The topic for this session was entitled "Wild With Water." Children were taught a multitude of facts about water...
Navy SEALS were in the Odessa area recently, using the property of Tony and Pam Williams for training purposes. The group spent four days in the classroom prior to heading into the field to practice sharpshooting accuracy and the use of modified M-16s. Through a friend of a friend, Tony Williams was put into contact with the people in charge of the SEALS, who were looking for relatively remote areas in which to offer the training to instructors who will then go on to train others. The SEALS are certainly not known as...
Last Wednesday was an event in Odessa at Reiman Park that, admittedly, came together at the last minute. That might explain the low turnout, even with the free food offered. Flyers were put up around town, and word went out through Facebook posts, but no one thought to put an ad in the local newspaper. Would that have resulted in a bigger crowd? We cannnot say so for sure, but plenty of people were said not to have known a thing about it despite the flyers and Facebook...
The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the high school library Wednesday, July 26, at 6 p.m. Prior to the regular meeting, the board held a budget workshop in the district office, with superintendent Dan Read giving a brief overview of revenues and expenditures budgeted for each of the funds in the budget. Chairman Ed Deife opened the budget hearing right before the regular meeting, and Read gave a brief overview of the proposed 2017-18 budget. He gave...
Needed at this time by the Odessa Food Bank are the following items: Peanut butter, jelly, jams, soups, spaghetti sauce, spaghetti noodles, Hamburger Helper-style boxed meals, healthy breakfast cereals, canned chicken, pork and beans, tuna, laundry soap and shampoo. Items may be left at any local Odessa churches in labeled food bank containers. The Food Bank is open to its approved clients the last Thursday of each month from 1:30 to 3 p.m. and is located at Foursquare Church, 411 E. First Ave., at the alley...
Bellevue, Wash. (July 31, 2017) - This week’s triple digit weather will make it extra dangerous and deadly for children or pets if left in a vehicle, even for a short amount of time. AAA Washington recommends parents, caregivers and pet owners to never leave a child or pet unattended in a vehicle, even if the vehicle is parked in the shade or has a window open. On a mild or overcast day with an outside temperature of 70 degrees the internal temperature of a vehicle will increase to 104 degrees in just 30 minutes, causing a c...
Fires in crop fields and pasture lands kept Odessa firefighters busy over the past few weeks. The weather has been very dry since the beginning of summer, and any small spark can turn into a conflagration. Paul and Kerry Scheller have had their share of fire troubles. The winter snows and spring rains have made for an abundant crop, but at the same time, there is much thick stubble just waiting for a spark to ignite it. Over this past weekend, the Schellers experienced their third field fire this season. Although combine...
The caption to one of the photos accompanying our story on an ag class attended at WSU by HaLee Walter was intended for a photo we are running this week. The photo in the July 27, 2017 issue should have the following caption: Odessa ag teacher HaLee Walter, fourth from left in the middle row, and her classmates learned about a new ag curriculum, surveying methods and more at WSU in Pullman this summer that they will take back to their classrooms....
Billings, Mont. - In the wake of the discovery of a cow in Alabama infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) that did not enter the U.S. food supply, R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement regarding his organization’s involvement in strengthening the nation’s BSE safeguards. “Bovine spongiform encephalopathy was first detected in Europe in 1986 and then spread to 25 countries. Worldwide, more than 180,000 cattle contracted the disease and 205 human deaths in 11 countries were attributed to BS...
Summer Reading Program Eighteen energetic and vivacious children modified the normally quiet atmosphere of the Harrington Public Library on Thursday afternoon about 2 p.m., when they descended from the Summer Camp Program at the school for their last two hours of the day. Emma Aldrich led their lesson with an inquiry as to what the students already knew about space. The children looked through "The Science of Everything" from National Geographic and "Science Encyclopedia" by...
In a normal year, the canola harvest would be finished by now and even the subsequent wheat harvest would be winding down. This year, the long winter has led to concurrent harvesting of canola and wheat. Farmers and their families are extremely busy. By all accounts, the northwest wheat harvest is turning out very well in terms of quality and quantity. The only caveat – low prices. The large harvest worldwide has left no shortage of this commodity. Better weather, with rain f...
OLYMPIA – Washington’s average annual wage grew by 4.8 percent in 2016 to $58,957, representing the largest percentage increase year over year since 2007. The average weekly wage rose from $1,082 in 2014 to $1,133 in 2016, according to the state Employment Security Department These figures include only those wages covered by unemployment insurance. Much of the increase was driven by a 7.3 percent increase in total earnings, which grew by nearly $12.5 billion in 2016. Overall, the average number of workers in Washington cov...
OLYMPIA - July 25, 2017 - The Washington Department of Revenue is warning businesses to be aware of an email phishing scam targeting Washington state businesses. The scammers are sending emails that appear to come from Revenue and provide them with instructions to renew their business license using alternate links to the “My DOR” business licensing system. Businesses are encouraged to be on the lookout for this, and other similar scams, and never click on an unusual link in an email. To avoid falling victim to this scam, bus...
Preparations for Fest have begun in earnest over the past couple of weeks. The Chamber’s marketing committee has printed posters and smaller heavy-paper cards to hand out to interested visitors and to send with Miss Odessa and her princess as they ride the Odessa community float in various celebrations throughout the area. Several groups and organizations which have chalets in the Fest Platz have been seen downtown sprucing up their facilities with new paint and added decorations. The members of Christ Lutheran Church, w...
SEATTLE - Today is the final day for the public to comment on an updated assessment of four pesticides that environmental and food-safety groups worry are killing off bees. Hundreds of thousands of public comments are being delivered to EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., today by Friends of the Earth, the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice and others. They’re urging the agency to ban pesticides known as neonicotinoids. Attorney Janette Brimmer with Earthjustice says there isn’t enough scrutiny from the EPA of...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday evening with two members of the town’s engineering firm providing reports. Steven Nelson reported that the downtown street project is finished except for the intersection of Division and First Avenue area where a water pipe with no shutoff had been found. Public works director Rod Webster plans to have the town crew work on sealing off the pipe and finishing whatever work remains. Repeated attempts to find the source of the water coming through the pipe have been unsuccessful, said W...
