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The opening weekend of Aces Are Feverish at the Masquers Theater in Soap Lake was a success, and audiences loved the play, said director Joanne Bracht. Tickets are still available for the final six performances. This whodunnit comedy stars Holly Petersen, Adam Zaleski, Nick Mahaney, Jeffrey Ames and Andrew Covarrubias, along with an all-star supporting cast. Show times are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. June 17 through July 3....
Gazebo The Harrington City Park gazebo, built in the summer of 1955 by the Lions Club, was set to be demolished this week when a group consisting of Gordon Herron, Mike Herron and members of the 4 x 4 Club contacted the Lions Club and Mayor Haas to seek to preserve the structure and gain ownership. Since the city council had authorized the Lions Club to demolish it, the Lions Club had the authority to remove it in one piece or many. It has now been relocated on the corner of 3rd and Glover, an old gas station lot now owned...
The Early Learning Action Alliance has selected Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, to receive an Early Learning Emerging Leader Award. The Alliance presents awards to legislators every two years to highlight the importance of legislative leadership in the area of early learning. In a note to the representative, the group’s policy director Jennifer Jennings-Shaffer said Dent’s “commitment to advancing policies and funding early learning over the past two years has been crucial for Washington’s children and families.” Dent serves as...
Memorial Flags On Flag Day and Father's Day, the new Memorial Flags were waving in the Harrington cemeteries, Hillcrest and St Francis. The Memorial Flags project was completed prior to Memorial Day, a joint effort of the Harrington Homemakers and the Lions Club. More than 66 flags were purchased. Honor flags were purchased for Mike Wines, Ed and Jacque Sewall, Bill and Pearl Floyd, and Bill and Frieda Oestreich. Some individuals received more than one memorial flag, and some...
Kaylene James has opened a daycare business in her home in Odessa. Kinder Haus Family Home Child Care is fully licensed by the state and, in addition to private pay, can accept child-care allowances provided by the Department of Social and Health Services. Since this is her first year in business, she is currently licensed for six children, but at the end of the first year, she will be allowed to expand and hire more adult helpers to meet the required adult-to-child ratio. Jam...
(Davenport, WA, May 31, 2016.) All signs point to a successful tourism season this summer, according to the Lincoln County Economic Development Council. Starting this year, the marinas are being managed and marketed by Guest Services, Inc., a national corporation with extensive experience in the tourism industry. In addition, the National Park Service is celebrating its Centennial and doing some marketing of its own. The combination of the two should bring increased business to local merchants who are ready to take...
SPOKANE, Wash. (June 9, 2016) – Northwest Farm Credit Services has awarded the Harrington PTA in Harrington, Wash., a $1,500 Northwest FCS Rural Community Grant. "The Harrington PTA was ecstatic to hear the news about receiving the Northwest FCS grant," said Kelli Tanke, Harrington's school office manager. "Our school's aging playground equipment had to be torn down because it was infested with hornets and yellow jackets. The safety of students is of utmost concern, but we s...
Harrington Opera House Society The monthly meeting of Opera House Society met Monday evening in the Art Room with Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Karen Robertson, Carol, Gordon Herron, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner attending. As the completion of the elevator installation is nearing, the building committee has a short list of finishing touches that will be worked on, including the state inspection of the elevator on Tuesday, chandelier controls and an air...
OLYMPIA—On July 1, 2016, state fuel tax and several licensing-related fee increases will go into effect in Washington. The increases were approved by the Legislature in 2015 as part of Connecting Washington, a transportation package to fund many important, impactful transportation projects around our state. These projects include highway and local road construction and maintenance, bike path and walkway projects, rail and transit projects, ferry system improvements and fish barrier removal. The state fuel tax for both gas a...
Residents of the 13th Legislative District are invited to join Rep. Matt Manweller for an hour-long telephone town hall on Wednesday, June 22, at 6 p.m. The program works much like a call-in radio show, in which residents can listen in, ask questions and participate in surveys. To participate, citizens can call 509-895-5003 during the event. If listeners have questions during the call, they can press the star (*) key on their telephone keypads. “The Legislature is not in session, but I am hearing from people about possible sc...
KREM TV of Spokane will broadcast a special program at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, dealing with skin cancer and featuring personal efforts to inform the public about the disease by former Odessa teacher and coach Gerald Ray, now a resident of Spokane....
Odessa High School's 13 graduating seniors celebrated the beginning of their new futures June 4 in the school gymnasium (see page 4 for pictures and student speeches). Some will further their education and some will go straight into the workforce. AnnaRenée Bockman will attend Studio Beauty School. Directly entering the workforce will be Hunter Bramer, Johnathon Brightwell, Garrett Gross and Caleb McNeil.Heading to Spokane Falls Community College are Casey Schlomer and Paige...
Chamber meeting Wednesday noon, June 1, at city hall, the Harrington Chamber of Commerce met with Cassandra Paffle-Dick, Cindy Haase, Tim Tipton, Jenna Fries, Paula Pike, Bunny Haugan and Heather Slack present. It was reported that the money from vendors will be placed in the Downtown Revitalization Fund. Review of the clean-up day for Cruizin' Harrington, utilizing the students with various projects, worked well, and hopefully instilled the principle of working for and with...
(Davenport, WA, June 2, 2016) The Lincoln County Economic Development Council recently completed income surveys on behalf of two Lincoln County municipalities, helping those communities save hundreds of thousands of dollars in infrastructure costs. Income surveys have recently become a necessary evil – undesirable but unavoidable. They require that a predetermined, population-based percentage of residents report their annual household incomes to a neutral third party. Although income is a sensitive subject, the surveys w...
Lincoln County Auditor Shelly Johnston has announced that there will be a special three (3) day filing period held Tuesday, June 21, 2016, through Thursday, June 23, 2016, for the purpose of declaring candidacy for the following elective position(s) not previously filed for during the regular filing period: PUD COMMISSIONER, L. Jerald Sheffels, 6-year term, Third District. Declaration of Candidacy forms are to be filed with the Lincoln County Auditor’s Office at the Courthouse in Davenport between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on the a...
The Odessa School District announces the sponsorship of the Simplified Summer Food Program for Children. Meals will be made available at no charge to attending children 18 years of age and younger. In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its agencies, offices and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age o...
Odessa resident Kathy Ratkowski told The Record about the most memorable weekend she has ever experienced. She was picked up by her daughter, son-in-law and two of the couple’s children, a boy 12 and a girl 14, last week Thursday. They were taking a family trip to the high school graduation of another grandchild of Ratkowski in Colorado Springs. The family group headed east on I-90, reaching Missoula, Mont. by 3:30 a.m. Friday morning. They stopped for gas and snacks at a convenience store near a casino. On entering the c...
June 1, 2016. Due to the elevator installation, ADA access construction and other building rehabilitation projects, the Harrington Opera House Society is starting off their 2016 event season a little later than usual this year. The good news is that the elevator is in! Unfortunately, it won't be inspected for public use in time for the Bridges Home Concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 4. Those who want to come to the concert and see the progress of work on the 1904 building can...
Odessa High School graduates 13 students Saturday morning at 11 a.m. in the school gymnasium. In addition to the awarding of diplomas, the program will include a song dedicated to the graduates composed and performed by two of their teachers, Larry Moffet and Jeff Wehr. The students themselves have compiled a video retrospective of their own lives that will also be shown. As in years past, the students will give flowers to members of the audience who have guided them on their...
For the second year in a row, the Odessa High School Chapter of FBLA has been selected as one of the six top winners in the nationwide Lead2Feed program. The Odessa community is invited to join a celebration of the students' achievement this Friday, June 3, from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in the school multipurpose room. The student-led leadership projects resulted in awards of $275,000 in grant prizes for U.S. non-profits and $170,000 in technology packages for winning schools. Six s...
If you’ve lived in Odessa for any length of time, then you know who Paul Hopp is. I’ve never heard anyone utter as much as one cross word about Paul. To know him is to love him, and if you don’t love him, you don’t know him. With a passion for woodwork, Paul is normally covered in wood chips or blanketed in sawdust. He is also the kind of guy with a hand to lend, a grin on his face and a genuine smile for everybody. He will also readily hand out a good teasing and fully e...
The 2016 alumni banquet has already seen a number of folks submitting their dues and their intention to attend. Those who have signed on thus far are listed below: 1942: Alice (Stroh) Schmierer 1946: Wilma (Lenhart) Schmidt 1949: George Rodeck, Al Fink 1950: Ardyce (Kissler) Kahler 1951: Coleen (Luiten) Janke 1953: Melba (Mills) Evans, Dorothy (Kremsritter) Frederick, Edwin Jasman, Paula (Haug) Kramer, Barbara (Heimbigner) Van Zanten 1955: Gale Salo 1956 (60-year honorees): Joy (Klima) Erickson, Jerry Schafer, JP Luiten,...
The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame, approximately a year in the making, is about to induct its inaugural class of athletes, coaches, teams and contributors at the annual alumni banquet to be held June 18 in the Odessa Community Center. A committee headed by chairman Bruce Todd, athletic director at Odessa High School, has been meeting about once each month since March of 2015 to lay the groundwork for the hall of fame. Vice chairman Jon Heimbigner, an OHS alumnus, has contributed his expertise in establishing sports halls of...
