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The first snowfall of the winter of 2016/2017 came Monday evening and overnight to the Odessa area. Forecasts now predict a bit more snow over the weekend and temperatures expected to drop below zero at night. Six inches of snow blanketed the town and countryside, making for a very pretty scene, but also causing treacherous driving and walking conditions. The Odessa schools started two hours late but did not have to be canceled. Town, county and state public works crews were out early Tuesday in bright sunshine (but cold temp...
SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane Regional Health District is reporting that a Spokane County child, a male under the age of 10, has acute flaccid myelitis. The diagnosis was confirmed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the only organization equipped to rule in or rule out the disorder. It is a rare syndrome with no specific cause, as is the case with the report in Spokane County. It is not contagious. The condition affects the nervous system, specifically the spinal cord. Symptoms typically include sudden w...
Santa listened to children Hark! But there are no angels singing. What is that alarming sound reaching throughout the town of Harrington at 10 a.m., December 3? Not a minute late for the children that awaited the arrival of Santa on his one-horse sleigh? No, not a sleigh, Santa came in modern fashion, grasping ahold of one of Harrington’s finest fire trucks. Santa has been watching his diet the past year or so, and he is not as rotund as one might expect. In he came with a ...
Five girl scouts from Odessa, Hannah Sheldon, Alyssa Iverson, Chloe Winkler, Jocelyn Zigan and Mackenzie Lutz, are planning a trip to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2017. They will be accompanied by Michele Dowlen of Wilbur and Lyndsay Reyes and Sherri Frederick, both of Odessa. The girls and their leaders have been busy for several months already raising money for the trip with cheesecake sales, community dinners, bake sales and car washes. The trip will be educational and is meant to broaden the girls’ knowledge of t...
Last week's issue incorrectly identified the photographer who supplied photos of the Titan vs. Sunnyside Christian football game. Molly Schafer, a senior at Odessa High School, should have been given credit for the photos....
Public Library Tues., Thurs. and books Harrington Public Library opened its doors early Tuesday afternoon on November 15 to allow the pre-K, Kindergarten, first-graders and second-graders to browse the library, make inquiries and select a book to check out. Applications for library cards had been filled out and signed by parents, but the check-out process involved a flurry of activity with 29 youngsters needing to sign their names individually and get the date to return their...
As I contemplate writing this "Meet Your Neighbors" column, my thoughts go back six months to when my husband James and I first moved to Odessa and how we felt, and still feel, the warmth and love of the way all you Odessa people welcomed us with open arms. We are all still in awe of this marvelous place and all the people who make it what it is. Thank you, Odessa! And now I would like to introduce you to Kathy Ashe, a recent transplant from Salisbury, Mo. She was born in...
The 75th annual Turkey Carnival put on by the Odessa Lions Club drew a smaller than normal crowd last Saturday, as quite a large number of townspeople opted to attend the quarterfinal football game in Spokane between Odessa-Harrington and Almira/Coulee-Hartline (won by the Titans, see article on sports page). The Odessa Community Center opened at 2 p.m. to begin serving hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, soft drinks, water and pie by the slice. The coffee was free. The club had...
SPOKANE, Wash. (November 22, 2016) – USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington state has announced that it will make financial assistance available for animal feeding operations and confined animal feeding operations (AFO/CAFOs) through their popular Environmental Quality Incentives Program. EQIP is a voluntary Farm Bill program that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to plan and implement conservation practices that improve soil, water, plant, animal, air and related nat...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce met November 8 at Any Occasion Banquet Hall, called to order at noon by President Zach Schafer. Treasurer Larissa Zeiler was not present but left a report with Schafer who reported that as of November 4 the Chamber has a total in the bank of $62,608.39. Year-to-date income is $94,944.91, and expenses are $101,216.95, for a net loss of $6,272.04 to date this year. Fest income was $63,049 and Fest expenses were $56,266 for a Fest net income of $7,583. A question about how the donated tips, which...
The 46 precincts in Lincoln County contain 7,090 registered voters. A total of 5,930 ballots were counted for a voter turnout of 83.64 percent. The final ballot count will take place November 29 at 3:30 p.m., and the election will also be certified on that date. As of the most recent vote count on Tuesday, November 15, the 2016 general election offered no additional surprises. Eastern Washington lived up to its staunch Republican reputation. In the Odessa rural precinct, Trump led Clinton by 108-11 votes, and the Town of...
Jeff Wehr, a science teacher at the Advanced STEM Research Laboratory at Odessa High School was awarded a $500 Classroom Grant from Northwest Professional Educators, the state's only non-union professional teacher association. The organization's regional director Brenda Miller presented the award at a staff and student reception on November 9. Wehr's grant will help fund equipment with Vernier computer-based interfaces which can sample, record, graph and create statistical...
The Veterans Day dinner served up by a group of volunteers was enjoyed by a good crowd in the social hall of Heritage Church last Friday evening. The cooks prepared roasted turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, while the guests provided potluck salads, side dishes and desserts. American Legion Post #105 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #7395 sponsored the dinner and carried out the program. Legion member Bob Kissler was the master of ceremonies. Veterans were awarded...
Monday evening, Nov 7, The Harrington Opera House Society met in the Art Room of the Opera House at 7 p.m. on November 7. Present were Gordon and Billie Herron, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Bunny Haugan, Linda Wagner, Carol, Marge Womach and Karen Robertson. Recent correspondence regarding a potential agreement for access to the opera house was addressed. The request was for four hours of access per week and the use of the opera house for one performance per year. The group’s consensus was to reject the request, as the Society a...
The P.C. Jantz Elementary School will again be hosting a family holiday reading and math event for students in Pre-K through fifth grade. Students and parents are invited to enjoy the many festive activities. The event will take place in the school cafeteria on Monday, December 5 starting at 6:30 p.m. New and popular activities will be offered in the game and craft centers. Upon signing in, each families will receive a ticket that tells them the order in which to go to different centers. In the craft center children can make...
Thank you to the voters for helping us to better serve the public safety needs of Lincoln County! The modest public safety sales tax increase was approved by 58 percent of the voters and will greatly help us to serve you better. We are very appreciative of your vote of confidence in us and will continue to do our best to manage the money that we have. Speaking of voters, Lincoln County had the second highest percentage of voter turnout of all 39 counties in the state at 83.64 percent. Great job Lincoln County. That is just...
In the wee hours of last Thursday morning, roughly between 4:10 and 4:16 a.m., a male prowler was seen on surveillance video tape walking west on Second Avenue before turning south onto Division Street. The owners of two cars on Division Street have reported that persons unknown had rummaged through the contents of their cars during that same night, with items reported missing from one of the cars. Surveillance video has provided police with a description of the prowler. If anyone on south Division Street or in the general...
The Halloween Carnival held Monday, October 31, at the Odessa Community Center drew plenty of well-costumed children and adults. The FFA chapter at Odessa High sponsored the event. In addition to games of skill in which participants could win tickets that could be exchanged for prizes, the attendees could also grab dinner in the form of hamburgers, cheeseburgers and hot dogs, along with water, soda pop and chips. New police chief Tom Clark, whose daughter Jordan is a member...
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington state regulators on Monday rejected a complaint filed by Teamsters Local 690 alleging Lincoln County’s commissioners violated the law this past summer when they pledged to make the community’s collective bargaining process more transparent. On September 7, the commissioners notified the union they had unanimously passed a resolution the night before stating that future contract negotiations between the county and the unions representing its workers would be open for public oversight. In respo...
The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 held a workshop in the district office Wednesday, October 26, to review the district’s highly capable plan and school performance report and to discuss the upcoming M & O and Capital Projects levies. Board members then met in the high school library with chairman Ed Deife, board members Janie Steward and Chris Crossley, superintendent Dan Read, principal Jamie Nelson and business manager Juli Weishaar attending. Also present were facilities director Justin Parr and athleti...
The Odessa church-based youth group will be conducting the annual food drive for the Odessa Food Bank this year. Their motto is “Give a can, feed a man. Fill a sack, give back.” On Sunday, November 6, they will be distributing grocery bags to homes around town. They will pick up the food donations from the homes on Sunday afternoon, November 13, giving the community a week to shop and share from their bounty. The winter months are always the most difficult for those who are on fixed incomes. The Food Bank, under the auspices...
The Titan defenders line up as the Inchelium offense prepares for the snap in last Friday's playoff game at Finney Field in Odessa. Gaven Elder (3), Marcus King (32), Joshua Clark (44), Caleb Behrens (11), Sage Elder (5), Brad Johnston (22), John DeWulf (17) and Lukas Marshall (33) are ready for the play. The Titans play Entiat this Friday (Nov. 11) at 7 p.m. in Odessa. The girls volleyball team also begins play Friday at 11:30 a.m. in the state 1B tournament being held at...
Harrington Historic Preservation Commission Tuesday evening, November 1, the Harrington Historic Preservation Commission met from 6:30 to 8 p.m. with members Celeste Miller, Aileen Sweet and Anita Harman present, along with visitors Marge Womach and Cherie MacClellan. Minutes were read and approved. The group was sad to learn that Lindsey Hutsell had resigned her position on the board. Three projects had been taken on by Hutsell which included the Time-Line, the Brochure and the Poster. She had previously turned over her...
The largest Reclamation project in the nation, still expanding after 70 years, must meet the needs of those who live, work, farm and recreate in the Columbia Basin. Reinvesting in Reclamation’s infrastructure was a common theme at a conference in Moses Lake held last week by the Columbia Basin Development League. Jennifer Adam, PhD, is WSU’s Water Research Center assistant director for the state of Washington. She led a lineup of water and irrigation experts by forecasting Columbia River Basin supply and demand. She pin...
The general election of 2016 stunned most of the world as Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States. The seemingly endless campaign concluded with Trump gaining the 270 electoral college votes to seal his win over Hillary Clinton. Although the state of Washington’s electoral votes went to Clinton, the Lincoln County vote was overwhelmingly for Trump, with more than 72 percent of voters casting ballots in his favor. In state contests, there were few surprises. Jay Inslee was re-elected governor, while Cy...
