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Bridget Rohner, Lincoln County extension agent, helps out in Harrington with the summer reading program which recently concluded....
Miss Odessa Casey Schlomer has been busy all summer visiting community celebrations and inviting everyone she meets to come to Odessa for the 45th annual Deutschesfest on September 18, 19, 20. The Odessa community float garnered second place at the Omak Stampede last weekend....
Don Frick, currently a resident of Ephrata, turned 86 years old this Spring. During this year's harvest, he drove his John Deere 7720 combine for the 75th time. His first harvest was in 1941 when he was 12 years old and his job was to hang the sacks on a Harris pull combine. He remembered that his uncle, Jake Frick was on the combine, making sure that it ran smoothly. Henry Kallenberger was sewing the sacks, but he couldn't remember who ran the header puncher. He was working...
Summer reading ends Emma Aldrich organized the youngsters into the reading circle and began a story about Super-Hero Firemen. Bridget Rohner brought ample supplies for the 17 young super heroes to create costumes during their craft period. Masks for their eyes were colored and worn for most of the session. Rolls of foil were dispensed freely and the children used it to make protective helmets, capes for swift flight, claws for the ends of their fingers and weapons. One young l...
The Odessa Public Library's Summer Reading Program – with its theme, "Who's Your Hero?" – had local kids exploring heroes both in nonfiction stories and with live visits from hometown heroes such as Jonathan Cloud, a member of the National Guard; Trisha Nelson, a registered nurse at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center; Officer Bryce Peterson of the Odessa Town Police; and volunteer firefighter Alberto Reyes with the Odessa Fire Department. All heroes were warmly welcomed by the...
Odessa's rural and town-based firefighters had their hands full again this past week, as a wildfire northwest of town raged through wheat stubble, CRP and sagebrush, threatening several ranch and farm homes in its path. No homes were lost or damaged but haystacks went up in flames, and a small herd of goats was also caught by the rapidly spreading conflagration and perished at the Finney farmstead, according to a member of the fire department. All other livestock and...
The Armstrong surname is familiar in the Harrington area. There were probably three W.B. Armstrongs in their family charts, but there was only one "Sleepy," whose given name was Edgar Alan Armstrong. Sleepy was a son of George Albert 'Doc' Armstrong (1857-1945) and his wife Mary Eliza Goodwin (1860-1941). George's father was a large farm owner in Texas where he also owned a store and hotel. At the end of the Civil War, G.A. was just seven years of age. In later years he could...
Junior-high football team members will begin having practices on August 24 at 3:30 p.m. in Odessa, reports head coach Larry Weber. Players are advised to be at the field in running gear and to make sure that all paperwork has been completed and turned into the Odessa High School office by that time and date....
Harrington US Bank Building With the renewed interest in the Harrington Revitalization Plan, community members were pleased to see the work being done on the US Bank Building, originally built in 1909 for the First National Bank. The First National Bank was organized in 1908 and located in the Faulding building, directly east across the street with Pres. Harry Ochs, VP Thos H Brewer, Cashier W W Downie and four directors: J J Cameron, Grant McCann, Chas Hegele and T A Hansard. The excavation of their new building was...
HHPC The Harrington Historic Preservation group met August 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the cool of the beautiful Harrington City Park with Karen Allen, Celeste Miller, Lindsey Harder, Anita Harmon, Aileen Sweet and Margie Hall present. The sole purpose of the meeting was to review the draft from the community planning and design consultants at Studio Cascade, make corrections and return it to them with the expectation of a final draft to be received on August 10. The final draft will then be placed in a packet for the city council to...
County Executive Director Melissa Michael of the Farm Service Agency has announced that a livestock watering assistance program is now available due to the severe drought designation for Lincoln County. “Ranchers suffering from drought and in need of water for their livestock operation may receive financial assistance from the Farm Service Agency,” said Michael. The agency is implementing its Emergency Conservation Program for drought in Lincoln County. The program helps farmers and ranchers to repair damage to farmlands cau...
The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission wants the public to know that Tuesday, August 25, is a state parks ‘free day.’ Day-use visitors will not need a Discover Pass to visit state parks. The ‘free day’ is in honor of the 99th birthday of the National Park Service, which was established on August 25, 1916. State Parks’ ‘free days’ are in keeping with legislation that created the Discover Pass, a $30 annual or $10 one-day permit required on lands managed by Washington State Parks, the Washington departments o...
Big Bend Community College students will benefit from a reduction in tuition costs when they pay for fall classes in 2015. Widely discussed as a 5-percent decrease in tuition, the actual reduction will be slightly less, according to college officials. The new tuition rate will allow a full-time in-state student at BBCC to save approximately $300 in tuition in the next academic year. Tuition is comprised of three parts: operating fees, building fees, and student and activities fees. The state Legislature cut tuition for...
The Washington State Patrol (WSP) Headquarter’ s telephone was compromised . The WSP received 30 complaints from citizens stating they were called by someone who falsely identified themselves as a WSP trooper. According to the citizens, the caller impersonating a trooper accused the citizens of various violations including outstanding warrants, unpaid tickets, and unpaid school taxes. The WSP does not call citizens to advise of violations, warrants, or collect fines. If citizens receive phone calls from someone stating t...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday to hear from Kirstin Wilson of the Department of Enterprise Services Energy Program. The department is a cabinet-level agency reporting directly to the governor of Washington state and offers a statewide program of assistance to municipalities, schools, hospitals, etc. The program offers a free draft energy audit of all of the facilities of the entity requesting its services. The department has overseen projects at the Odessa Memorial Hospital and at the Odessa School District within the...
The groundwork is laid and construction plans are in progress for pump stations and pipelines to carry irrigation water from the Columbia Basin Project to those farmers (who are eligible) pumping ground water from the Odessa subarea. The work is being done by the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District as part of the Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program. Along with landowners, the program is a partnership with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Ecology’s Office of Columbia and the irrigation district, to r...
Local and county law enforcement personnel, medical emergency services personnel and town and rural firefighters in the Odessa area gathered to join more than 37.8 million others in 16,124 American communities in celebrating National Night Out, America’s Night Out Against Crime on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, sponsored in part by the National Association of Town Watch. According to the organization’s website, “National Night Out is a cohesive effort to promote involvement in crime prevention activities, police/community partn...
The Board of County Commissioners has given the Lincoln County Economic Development Council the go ahead to administer a 2015 round of Rural Development Fund grants. Commissioners approved updated program guidelines at their regular meeting August 3, setting the process in motion. The Rural Development Fund comes from a portion of sales and use tax that the state allows rural counties to spend on public facilities serving economic development purposes. Lincoln County chooses to disburse much of their tax through a grant progr...
Summer Reading In spite of summer vacations, Bridget Rohner has managed to keep the statistics high with the attendance this fourth week at 15 children. The group began with the reading of a story, for which the children were very attentive. The major theme this week was the five senses and the children thoroughly enjoyed the hands-on approach. Each was given a piece of paper to record their answers regarding the bottled aromas that they were sniffing. Victoria Rice helped the children with the hearing test, where the...
Grant County Health District has been notified of multiple West Nile virus positive mosquito samples collected by Grant County Mosquito Control District #1. To date, there have been 42 positive mosquito samples collected this season in Grant County compared to 34 positive samples during the 2014 mosquito season. Preventing West Nile Virus The virus is spread to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito. It is important that all people living, working and playing in Grant County protect themselves from being bitten by...
The foot bridge across Crab Creek has become more than rickety these days. Many boards are cracked and loose. Others exhibit screws that have backed out of the wood by an inch in some cases. It seems that the looser everything gets, the more the bridge also becomes a target for kids and even some adults who do their best to make the bridge sway as much as possible while other people are trying to cross it. The swaying is likely one reason why the screws are becoming so loose. Some boards have even lost all of the screws at...
Several new alcohol- and marijuana-related laws became effective today. Among the new laws is a section of Senate Bill 5052, the Cannabis Patient Protection Act, which changes the name of the former Liquor Control Board. Effective immediately, the new name is the Liquor and Cannabis Board which reflects the regulatory responsibilities the agency has had since 2012. The name change is the first for the agency since it was established by the Steele Act on January 23, 1934.* “Having just passed the first anniversary of m...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday evening in the public library. Council member Lois Harp had submitted a letter of resignation from the council due to illness. It was accepted with regret by the other council members. Since it is too late for the position to appear on the ballot for the general election, the council will have to appoint someone to fill the position. Mayor Doug Plinski said that citizens are encouraged to send letters of interest (in the position) to the town clerk’s office. Cass Gebbers and Will Wolfe a...
The wheat harvest in the Odessa area is about 90 percent complete, and as most people suspected when harvest began, the outcome has been rather dismal. Overall dryland yields were down by about 40 to 50 percent overall, according to Mark Cronrath at the Odessa Trading Company, even lower than the initial reports at the beginning of harvest. For the second year running, yields have been below average. On top of that, the dollar has been strong lately, which tends to depress wheat prices. At the Odessa Union Warehouse, Pearson...
The board approved the hiring of Kate Wenzl (Harrington’s new special education teacher) for head junior-high girls basketball coach and assistant junior-high volleyball coach and Danielle Vesneske (Odessa’s new special education teacher) as the junior-high assistant basketball coach. Both have previous experience. Football camp was held July 6-8 with 17 participants in grades 7-8 and 19 participants in grades 9-12. Boys basketball team members attended the Soap Lake basketball camp at the end of June with 15 par...
