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The classroom of Kindergarten/first grade pupils taught by Taunya Sanford spent the month of March learning about how life begins. With the help of Linda Colbert, students put fertilized eggs into an incubator in the classroom and began the 21-day count to hatching. While waiting for the eggs to hatch, the children read books on chickens and completed journal activities documenting what was learned. The class took a field trip to visit four different chicken coops at four Harrington area farms. Becky Schenk, Virginia Fries,...
Last Thursday, March 24, Odessa's newest business offering, Rolling Thunder Pizza, passed its final inspection with the Lincoln County Health Department and began serving pizza that same evening. With such short notice and only social media to spread the word, the first night was slow, as was to be expected. Only one pizza was sold. Word spread rapidly after that, and the next evening 15 pizzas went out the door. On Saturday, they sold out. Brothers Nate and James Lathrop boug...
New pastor Harrington United Methodist Church and the Zion United Methodist Church have recently been blessed with a new pastor, Michelle Mitchell, commuting from her home north of Davenport. She comes with a diverse work history and commitment to service in a wide range of ministries. She spent 25 years as a university professor with a PhD in computer science. “My most recent full time appointment was at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, although I taught as an adjunct at Whitworth for a couple of semesters after moving to S...
Continued from last week. The walk down memory lane continues in part three of the history of the Odessa Healthcare Foundation’s wine tasting and auctions. After the “rough winter” of 2008-09, the Odessa Healthcare Foundation chose to focus on raising money for a new 4-wheel drive ambulance. The board knew this would be a multi-year project since new ambulances cost in the $150,000-$200,000 range. The 18th (2009) and 19th (2010) annual wine tasting and auctions raised over $55,000 toward the ambulance. That, combined with...
The eight-week season for the trapshooting teams participating in the Spokesman-Review Inland Northwest Trapshoot contest concluded on March 6. The Marlin-Odessa Gun Club combined men’s team captured third place in the Division I standings, with a final score of 792 (out of 800). In first place was the Yakima Valley Sportsmen team with 797 and in second place was the Colton Gun Club with 796. The Marlin-Odessa women’s team was in sixth place with a score of 639 behind Hauser Lake Gun Club (724), Garfield-St. John (704), Mal...
The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the school library at 7 p.m. on March 23, 2016, with Ed Deife, Heather Valverde, Roland Singer, Chris Crossley, Janie Steward, superintendent Dan Read, principal Jamie Nelson and business manager Juli Weishaar attending. Also present were athletic director Bruce Todd, operations supervisor Justin Parr, parent Jackie Johnston and press representative Terrie Schmidt-Crosby. Just prior to the regular meeting, the board held a workshop in the District Office at 6:30 p.m...
Odessa Golf and RV will open for the 2016 season this Friday, March 25. The clubhouse will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. This weekend is also Easter weekend, and the golf course and clubhouse will remain open Sunday for those wanting to golf or enjoy a lunch or dinner out. During the season, the clubhouse and restaurant are open seven days per week from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The clubhouse menu is much the same as it was last year during the season, but some new items have been...
Four students from the University of Washington's Healthcare Alternative Spring Break program came to Odessa to job-shadow members of the local medical community and learn about rural healthcare and its unique challenges. The students shadowed working professionals in either nursing, pharmacy or physical therapy or followed Dr. Linda Powell or Nanette Brokaw, ARNP during their work at the clinic and/or hospital for four days this week. On the fifth day, the students give back...
Grand piano arrival Tuesday, March 15, two men from Big Al’s Moving arrived at the Harrington Opera House with the new Boston 7’1” grand piano by Steinway which they disassembled, wrapped and carried up the wide, old staircase (about 30 steps total) to the opera house auditorium. Should anyone really want to know what that process looked like, one observer commented that “these two men were like a well-oiled and high-powered machine, with a ‘whoof’ at each and every stair which seemingly set the cadence to the motion with...
Odessa students in preschool through 11th grade will participate in student-led conferences on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. There will be no school on this day. All preschool through 11th-grade students have been scheduled for specific conference times, and parents should receive a designated date and time slip from their child’s homeroom teacher or the office. Those who have not received notification of the date and time by the end of this week, March 25, are asked to please call Linnie Largent at 982-2603 (elementary o...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce would like to introduce the “Best Bench” competition. Many of the benches that line our downtown streets are in dire need of repair and maintenance. The “Best Bench” competition is designed not only to improve the appearance and comfort of the benches, but to allow individuals, non-profit groups and businesses the opportunity to establish and maintain a presence in the downtown area. In addition, the Chamber plans to use the bench competi...
Josh Steward, president of Steward Farms, Inc. in Harrington, is among visionaries being recognized nationally through a program called Farm Credit 100 Fresh Perspectives, a search to identify and honor 100 leaders who are changing rural communities and agriculture for the better. The honorees were announced at a National Ag Day event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Farm Credit launched the Farm Credit 100 Fresh Perspectives program as part of its 100th...
It makes me sad when I hear teenagers say things like, “I can’t wait to move out of this town” or “It’s so boring here. I hate Odessa. There’s never anything to do.” It’s not the first time I’ve heard those words. They are likely spoken by every teenager in every small community around the world. Trust me on this, I know because I spoke the same words living in Ephrata just 45 minutes down the road. The only difference was that I thought I knew exactly what I was talking about...
Washington STEM, in partnership with Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, has announced the first round of $4 million in grants to statewide schools, school districts, educational service districts, higher education institutions, nonprofits and community based organizations to support computer science education. The competitive grants will make it possible for these recipients to provide professional development for teachers, obtain technology, and expand access to girls and students from groups u...
Missionaries Sunday, March 6, the Harrington Church of the Nazarene hosted missionaries, Larry and Susan Weil, who have been on furlough from Mozambique nearly a year. They presented a slide show of their mission work and both spoke during the presentation. They have been in the mission field for about 18 years, since One Mission Society began work there in 1996, and have been instrumental in building a school complex there. They will return to the same mission field in about five weeks and will be there another four years...
About 87 percent of drivers engaged in at least one risky behavior while behind the wheel within the past month, according to latest research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. These unsafe behaviors include driving while distracted, impaired, drowsy, speeding, running red lights or not wearing a seat belt. These disturbing results come as nearly 33,000 Americans died in car crashes in 2014, and preliminary estimates project a nine percent increase in deaths for 2015. “There is a culture of indifference for far too m...
More than 100 quilters from all across the state have pre-registered for the 21st annual Quilt Til You Wilt event put on by the Odessa Quilt Club. The event takes place Monday, March 21, at the Odessa Community Center. Quilting demonstrations will be presented throughout the day by Lise Ott, Shelly Sieverkropp, Rhonda Luiten, Laura Estes, Kathie Donahue and P.J. Jacobsen. The participants bring potluck dishes to the event for their noon and evening meals. It is a day that is both educational and social, and participants are...
The Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society, at its March 1 meeting, agreed to reschedule the annual indoor yard sale to coincide with Spring Fling this April 29/30. Donations of items for sale will be accepted effective immediately, and a storage unit has been graciously donated by the owners of Sky High Mini Storage until the sale is over. To schedule pickup (or delivery) of a donation, please call 509-988-0085. The Society has also decided to refocus their improvement efforts to the interior of the building, specifically the...
In anticipation of the silver anniversary of the Odessa Healthcare Foundation’s annual wine tasting, microbrew sampling and auctions, I began reading past minutes and treasurer’s reports of the Odessa Healthcare Foundation’s meetings, as well as past issues of The Odessa Record in search of information about previous “wine tasting parties.” I hope you will enjoy this walk down memory lane. In June of 1988, the Odessa Memorial Hospital Board of Commissioners had a desire to set up a foundation structured in such a way as to...
Steve Siegel of Odessa has established a Democratic caucus site in Odessa for the March 26 statewide Democratic caucuses. Even without a local county Democratic party organization, Democrats in Lincoln County can have their voices heard by the state. Anyone who would like to attend but will be unable to do so may qualify to submit a proxy/surrogate affidavit which can be obtained by visiting the website at http://www.wa-democrats.org. The two-page proxy must be received by the state party before March 18. The address is on...
At its most recent meeting, the Odessa Town Council ratified the composition of the standing committees recommended by Mayor Lois Hubbard. The committees are used to enhance communication and coordination of issues before they are presented to the council as a whole, and they meet and report as necessary. The finance/administration committee consists of Terry Goetz and Kelly Watkins. Goetz and Watkins also comprise the personnel committee. On the police committee are Landon Lobe and Bill Crossley, while the fire department...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce is seeking community help in setting up and manning the hospitality tent at the site of the Desert 100 which will soon be upon us. This year the race will be held the first weekend in April, with poker runs and youth races on Saturday, April 2, and the huge endurance race, the Desert 100, on Sunday, April 3. There has been concern among some Chamber members because participation in this event by Odessa food vendors has declined in the past couple of years. The weather can often be chilly and...
The Odessa Friends of the Library are sponsoring a workshop on “Autism: Transitioning into Adulthood” by Dr. Steve Becker on Saturday, March 19, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Odessa Public Library, 21 E First Ave. Some of the subtopics covered are: • How should a parent prepare a teenager for living on his/her own? • What changes happen to parents as their children grow up into adulthood? • How can parents create a safety net to prevent young adults from “crashing and burning” (getting overwhelmed, failing...
On Friday, March 11, the Odessa Friends of the Pool will hold their ninth annual Ladies Night Out at the community center from 6 to 9 p.m. The event features primarily home-based businesses and independent contractors selling products. Vendors present include Thirty One, Pampered Chef, Scentsy, Velata, Miche, Plexus, Tupperware, Mary Kay, Premier Designs Jewelry, Girl Scouts, Doterra, Dove Chocolate Discoveries, Perfectly Posh, Norwex, Jamberry, LuLaRoe, Pink Zebra and Usborn Books. The event not only provides vendors with...
