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Several members of the community requested that the school board discuss with them their concerns regarding the O-H athletic co-op. Board chairman Ed Deife began by asking those in attendance to share their thoughts and concerns. Prior to the discussion, superintendent Dan Read asked those present to provide feedback in writing by listing the pros and cons of the cooperative on handouts he provided. What appeared to concern those present the most was a perceived lack of...
Early history As early as 1886, there is evidence of "Literaries" being held in area communities as they were being formed. These groups consisted of programs containing debates, musical performances, dramatic performances, solos, orchestras, oratorical contests, recitations, songs and/or dialogues. Most of the literary groups were eventually involved in competitive debates with other small communities. During the busy farming seasons the literaries were halted and resumed...
With spring approaching, the Farm Service Agency Youth Loan Program is a valuable tool in the lending toolbox. The Youth Loan Program assists youth in 4-H and FFA who are interested in agriculture. FSA can provide financing to income-producing projects in connection with 4-H Clubs, FFA and other agricultural groups. FSA can be the first exposure to credit and lending for youth. Our youth loan program shifts the responsibility and financial burden from the parents to the youth. FSA youth loan participants must remember to be r...
As the sun is making its reappearance, and the snow is slowly but surely melting, all of us parents are breathing a sigh of relief: We can send our kids back outside! At last, liberation from our cabin fever. With warmer weather coming, our dreams of summer will soon be a reality. The kids will be home, as school is out for the summer, and it will be pure bliss for the first week, and then you think to yourself, “These kids are driving me crazy! When does the pool open??” Do not fear, the Odessa Friends of the Pool is her...
Grants from the Washington State Library and Inland Northwest Community Foundation mean that kids in Lincoln and Adams counties can take advantage of a fun summer day camp beginning this July. The day camp program, called Stimulating Summers, will be available in Reardan, Harrington and Lind. The day camp will run for six weeks beginning July 3 and ending August 11. Registration will begin in early April and will cost $50 a week. Morning activities are being planned around themes such as pirates, astronomy (partial solar...
(Spokane, WA) – Community Financial Group, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Wheatland Bank, reported consolidated net income of $2.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, up 38 percent over the prior year’s net income. In 2016, earnings per share increased by 37 percent over the 2015 level to $1.78, and the consolidated return on average equity was 8.4 percent for 2016, up 28 percent from 6.6 percent. These positive results generated a 22 percent annual appreciation of the market value of the company’s stock...
A new organization has been formed within Lincoln County. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Posse (LCSP) is a mounted search and rescue team of volunteers, appointed by the Lincoln County Sheriff, to assist in search and rescue operations when called upon by providing first-class horsemanship, first aid and any additional support to the Lincoln County Sheriff. The Posse is self-financed through membership dues, fundraisers and donations. The group is currently in the beginning phases of development and is in need of more d...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday, February 13, in the public library at the community center. Hal and Jan Patterson were introduced as new members of the community attending their first council meeting. A local citizen returned to appear before the council with a complaint about his water/sewer/garbage billing. He said he is being charged double for his service because he has a rental apartment in his garage. The sewer and water lines, however, extend directly from the main house sewer and water lines. There is no second...
Continued from last week To continue our story on events that put Odessa on the map for visitors, we provide here some additional information from the February 14 meeting of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce. A letter will be arriving soon from the Chamber treasurer reminding businesses and individuals to pay their dues for 2017. Quilt til you Wilt Laura Estes, representing the Odessa Quilt Club, advised members that the club’s annual Quilt til you Wilt event will be held March 20. This will be the 22nd year of the event. Expect...
Library board meeting Staci Rasmussen, Susan Larmer, Grace Moeller, Marge Womach and Mayor Dillon Haas met Thursday, February 16, to assess the KOHA bar-code software program. The Harrington Public Library has a contract with the Washington State Library to use the program at no charge. Haas said he worked with the system over the last weekend and, with a telephone assist from Gary Bortel of the Washington State Library, received adequate instruction to process books for about three hours to become familiar with the system....
National FFA Week is celebrated by FFA chapters all over the U.S. In 1947, the National FFA Board of Directors designated National FFA Week as the week that includes George Washington’s birthday, in order to recognize his legacy of being an agriculturist and farmer. The first National FFA Week was held in 1948 and today always runs from Saturday to Saturday, encompassing Washington’s birthday on February 22. In the beginning, the celebration was actually National FFA Day rather than a week-long event. According to the Nationa...
John Hilty of Odessa got ready for work Monday morning and headed out of town to his job. Something made him turn around, he told The Record, and head back home because "something just didn't seem right." He found his home in flames. Odessa firefighters rushed to the home on Marjorie.When they arrived, flames were shooting out the front door and windows, and smoke also poured out through the vents in the ceiling/roof. Friends and neighbors gathered around Hilty giving what...
Odessa local Stan Dammel has recently received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. This award, named after the Wright Brothers of early aviation fame, is to recognize individuals who have exhibited skill, professionalism and aviation expertise for at least 50 years piloting an aircraft. The Master Pilot Award is the most prestigious award the FAA issues to pilots certified under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, part 61. To be eligible for this award, nominees...
Long-time Odessa Trading Company employee Bud Largent thought it would be a good idea to introduce the company's three newest employees to the Odessa community, especially since all three are from out of the immediate area. OTC manager H.P. Carstensen agreed, so Largent invited The Record to come and talk to the three gentlemen and take their picture. All three are mechanics who work on the farm equipment that OTC sells and services. They made sure that one of the tractors...
Our story last week on the fire that destroyed the home of John Hilty was incorrect on a couple of minor points. Hilty had started out for Moses Lake that morning, but the roads were bad, and he said he just had a feeling he ought to go home. And he did. He settled down in his living room to decide what to do for the day when he heard a loud pop somewhere in the house. In a matter of minutes, flames were forcing him to scramble for a few photo albums and get out of the house. The fire burned very hot and very fast and gutted...
The East Columbia Basin Irrigation District has announced that it will begin filling the East Low Canal for the 2017 irrigation season on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. The East Low Canal serves the Moses Lake, Warden and Othello areas of the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District and the Connell (Block 18) area of the South Columbia Basin Irrigation District. Deliveries from the East Low Canal will begin on March 28. Deliveries to the East District’s Block 49, from the Potholes East Canal, will begin to be available March 15. I...
It is now mid-February. The Desert 100 is about six weeks away, and still no one has come forward to be the point person for the hospitality tent at the race site. Odessa Chamber of Commerce president Zach Schafer has enlisted help from various others and has been doing whatever he can to make sure that the tent is provided, but he needs one person to keep track of all the various parts of the whole. Former Chamber president Marlon Schafer is now busy full time providing WiFi access at the site but can be called upon for...
Harrington Opera House Society The Harrington Opera House Society met Monday, February 6, in the Art Room with Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Gordon and Billie Herron, Linda Wagner, Carol Giles, Marge Womach, Cade Clarke, Karen Robertson, Cherie MacClellan and Dillon Haas present. The revision of the rental agreement for the facility was presented and accepted. Discussion was held on grants in general. The building committee has accepted the work of architect Sue Lani Madsen and the completion of the as-built d...
The Board of Directors of the Grange Supply Company of Odessa will be holding the annual meeting February 16, 2017 at 11:30 a.m. at the Odessa Community Center. The agenda will include, but is not limited to, the election of two directors to the board, as well as any other business. By order of the Board of Directors....
The Amtrak passenger train that normally flies through Odessa in the middle of the night was forced to sit on the tracks in our fair town from very early Sunday morning (around 5 a.m. according to some Odessa early birds) until about mid-afternoon. Several unfamiliar faces were seen at the local grocery store, and enquiries to the cashier about them were answered with reports that a freight train elsewhere on the track had broken down and was being repaired. The Record's...
The Lincoln County Economic Development Council distributed its annual progress report to the organization’s membership in January. Here are some of the reported activities from 2016: The EDC contracted with Odessa and Sprague to perform income surveys of their communities after inaccurate federal data left them ineligible for grants, an error that only an income survey can reverse. The outcome was positive, with the two communities receiving a combined $1.34 million in infrastructure grants, plus the possibility of more. L...
The semi-annual joint board meeting of the Odessa-Harrington Athletic Cooperative was held in Harrington on February 1. Odessa school superintendent Dan Read brought up financial and logistical issues and prompted a discussion of the future of the cooperative. In a report to his staff, he said that he brought up these subjects intentionally because he knew that conversations were taking place in both communities that needed to come out in a public forum. He also said he expected tension at the meeting, as numerous people in...
A fairly good-sized crowd gathered in the Odessa Community Center Sunday to discuss the increasingly precarious financial situation of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce. Declining attendance at the Deutschesfest over the past several years has turned the community's once-largest money-maker into an also-ran now being outperformed by the hospitality tent sent up at the site of the Stumpjumper Motorcycle Club's Desert 100 endurance race in the spring. Odessa Chamber of Commerce...
The board workshop held in the Odessa School District office at 6:30 p.m. January 25 to discuss facilities issues was attended were superintendent Dan Read, principal Jamie Nelson, board chair Ed Deife, board members Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Janie Steward and facilities supervisor Justin Parr. At 7 p.m., the group moved to the high school library for the general meeting and was joined by business manager Juli Weishaar, athletic director Bruce Todd and second-grade teacher Kim Todd. Read called for nominations for...
The Odessa Town Council met January 9 and 23 for its regularly scheduled Monday evening sessions in the Odessa Public Library. A synopsis of both meetings follows. Annexation of the Odessa Industrial Park and of residential areas on the south hill of Odessa has been tabled at the last two meetings, due primarily to other pressing business on the council’s agenda. Councilman Terry Goetz was elected by his fellow members to serve as mayor pro tem for the next six months. Building inspector for the town, Abby Reyes, has r...
