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Registrations are now being accepted from employers who plan to exhibit at the 23rd annual Job and Career Fair at Big Bend Community College on April 21, 2016. More than 60 companies are expected to exhibit at the event in the Grant County Advanced Technologies Education Center (ATEC). Booth space is limited, and early registration is encouraged. Employers historically attending the event include companies involved in manufacturing, food processing, retail sales, health care, aerospace, education, service industries and...
“As the new 4-H and FFA year is starting again it is time to consider the Farm Service Agency to financially assist in 4-H and FFA youth loan projects,” says Libby Anderson, Farm Loan Manager. “Every year we are grooming a great group of potential farmers for the future and exposing them to their first dealings with credit, financial management and financial responsibility.” FSA has established a great network with local 4-H and FFA leaders, schools, local fairs, auctioneers and other to make this a successful program...
Comedy comes multiplied by three as Them Three opens at the Masquers Theater this Friday, February 12, 2016. Jeff Ames, Adam Zaleski, and Justin Rowland, three of Masquers’ experts in the art of funny, each direct one of three one-act plays starring Mistya Beyer, Joanne Bracht, Andrew Covarrubias, Christaphor Longstreet and Nick Mahaney; with Cynthia Beyer, Randy Brooks, Rosalee Chamberlain, Theresa Freeman, and Joey Hernandez. A Window Ajar, is an original play written and directed by Jeff Ames. Burglars, bank robbers, b...
USDA Rural Development provides owner-occupied, single family housing loans to eligible low income applicants unable to obtain credit elsewhere. Applicants may obtain 100% Direct financing to: * Purchase and/or repair new or existing housing (including new manufactured housing) * Purchase a building site and construct a dwelling * Build a home with the self-help method. Under this program, applicants provide sweat-equity labor to build their own homes. * Purchase a government-owned home or assume an existing 502 Direct loan....
The Davenport High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America has announced their partnership with Lincoln Hospital and the Lincoln County Health Department to put on the 2016 Health Fair. The fair will be held February 16 in the Davenport High School gym starting at 5 p.m. and ending at 8 p.m. With the help of Lincoln Hospital and the Lincoln County Health Department, the Davenport students will host this year’s Community Health Fair entitled “Lincoln County Activate: A community health and activity event.” The f...
Fronen Steppdecker, The Odessa Quilt Club, will hold their annual Quilters Tea/Chinese Auction, Monday, February 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Any Occasion Banquet Hall, located at 3 W. First Ave. The auction is open to the public. This is a great way to increase your fabric and crafting supply stash at minimal cost. Proceeds from the auction will be put toward bringing a nationally know quilting instructor to Odessa for classes and lectures, thereby drawing more folks to Odessa for quilting events and increasing local...
District 13 State Representative Tom Dent of Moses Lake has been appointed assistant ranking member of House Early Learning and Human Services Committee. The 11-member committee considers issues relating to early learning from birth to kindergarten, as well as a broad array of issues affecting children and families, including parent education, foster care, dependency, child protective services, children’s mental health, child welfare services and family reconciliation services. “This is a special committee to me, and I am...
Harrington United Methodist Church Sunday, January 31, 2016, marked the close of 12.5 years of faithful service of Pastor Cyndi Wutz to the Harrington United Methodist Church and the Zion Rocklyn United Methodist Church. At 9:30 a.m., Pastor Cyndi preached her final sermon, “God Be With You,” to a full church, complemented by the Community Church congregation joining for the occasion of her retirement. By request, Terry Battermann performed on his guitar “A Prayer Like Any Other.” Linda Wagner played “Hallelujah” by Leonard...
The Odessa School Board held a workshop in the school district office prior to the regular board meeting January 27 for the purpose of discussing facilities issues. Present were superintendent Dan Read, principal Nelson, board chairman Ed Deife, board members Heather Valverde, Roland Singer, Chris Crossley and Janie Steward and facilities director Justin Parr. When the board held its regular meeting in the school library, school district business manager Juli Weishaar and Odessa Record reporter Terrie Schmidt-Crosby were...
Harrington Public Development Authority met January 19 at 7 p.m. at city hall with President Josh Steward, Jay Kane, Allen Barth, Bunny Haugan, Paul Charlton and Heather Slack present. The PDA has received a grant from Lincoln County Rural Development for $9,615.18. The project will supply broadband service (NoaNet) in the business district on Third Street between Sherlock and Glover streets. The anticipated cost is projected to be $12,820.24, and 25 percent of the cost in...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday evening in the public library with all council members present. Marlene Kramer, re-elected in last fall's election, was sworn in to serve her four-year term by town clerk Gail Kiesz. Mayor Lois Hubbard addressed the agenda item of a residential income survey that will be conducted by the town under the supervision of the state's Department of Commerce [see also Mayor Hubbard's letter to editor on page 2]. The results of the survey will...
September Odessa’s newest business, Odessa Glass, and its Internet-based counterpart, “Etched Dreams,” opened for business in the building that formerly housed the NAPA store and Empire Electric. It was a welcome addition to the downtown business corridor and filled an empty storefront. Ryan Carpenter, son of Lori (Zeiler) Carpenter formerly of Odessa, was hired by the physical therapy department at the hospital. The Odessa community float sported a theme of “Fun in the Sun” and was ready for its run in the Deutsches...
Grant and Adams county sheriff’s deputies have arrested the suspect in a south Grant County burglary which led to the getaway car being driven into a rural lake. On Thursday, January 21, a deputy acting on a tip spotted John James Monday of Othello, age 29, at a home in the 21000 block of Road W NE near the small town of Marlin in easternmost Grant County. The deputy called for back-up, summoning the Moses Lake Regional Tactical Response Team and a K-9 unit from Adams County. Deputies tried to talk Monday out of the house, b...
The Odessa Lions Club's annual crab feed was another well-attended success last Saturday night at the community center. Club members Jeff Schibel and Steve Powell made the trip to the coast to pick up the 300 freshly caught Dungeness crabs which were cleaned and cooked and put on ice right before being picked up and brought to Odessa. According to the club's kitchen chairman Clark Kagele, the Lions and their spouses used tried and true family recipes to prepare potato salad,...
City Council An energetic but focused 26-year-old Mayor Dillon Haas opened his first city council meeting, the first city council meeting ever to have such a youthful man at the helm in Harrington. Preparations for the meeting included rearranging the seating, with the council members lined up on the far side of the table facing the audience and the new mayor sitting at the west end. The city clerk swore in Justin Slack at City Council Position #3, followed by the swearing in...
Greetings from the courthouse! As I'm sure most of you have heard, we had a very difficult time balancing the 2016 budget. I feel that it is extremely important to share with you, the taxpayers, the struggles that your local governments are facing. I will speak to Lincoln County's situation (current expense, not public works) but these same issues affect your towns, fire districts, hospital districts, schools and any junior taxing district in the state of Washington. There...
When Christian college students set out to help build a hospital for women and children in Syria, they didn’t need a miracle to raise beyond enough money in a single day. The students were attending an annual conference called Passion, a global gathering of college-age students that attracted 40,000 attendees over the past weekend in Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas. The passionate youth at the arena events, and others online watching the live-stream, donated $785,000 on the first day of the campaign alone. The $811,813 r...
The 2016 Cannabis Collaborative Conference, a two-day convention and networking event focused on the business side of the fast-growing cannabis industry, will take place February 3 and 4 at the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center. Featuring more than 80 cannabis industry speakers, including a keynote address from former NBA All-Star/former Portland Trail Blazer and cannabis advocate Cliff Robinson, the conference is expected to draw more than 2,500 attendees seeking to network and visit interactive workshops and hands-on...
Editor’s note: The Record neglected to publish the trapshooting results in last week’s paper, so this week’s article on the results is longer than normal with both weeks’ results included. Odessa On January 10 at the Odessa Gun Club, no one shot a perfect 25. Shooting 24 were Tom Schuh and Brady Gies. Traig Weishaar, Jared Praetorius and Colley Walter all shot 23, while Landon Lobe, Aaron Gies, Ryan Lewis, William Mann and Jon Fink shot 22. Hitting 21 were Lane Lobe and Mike Nichols, Sr. Those with 20 and under were Dalles De...
The Distinguished Young Women program committee at Almira/Coulee-Hartline High School has graciously decided to reach out to girls who are high school juniors in neighboring communities (within approximately a one-hour radius of ACH), which do not have a Distinguished Young Women Scholarship Program. If you know of ambitious, civic-minded young women who are high school juniors and interested in representing their community, in scholarship opportunities and in expanding their resumes, have them check out distinguishedyw.org...
Washington Governor Jay Inslee thanked President Obama for quickly approving his request for a major disaster declaration in connection with a November wind and rain storm. “I thank the Obama Administration for its quick response and appreciate this significant support,” Inslee said. “This was a record-setting storm that resulted in more than $21 million in damages. Our budgets are already stretched, if not entirely tapped. This assistance will help our communities get back on their feet and resume important services that...
Big Bend Community College Foundation scholarship applications for 2016-17 are available now on the college’s website at http://www.bigbend.edu/information-center/foundation/scholarships. Students must apply online. They can apply for the Foundation’s many scholarships using a single online application form. The deadline for receiving completed applications by the Financial Aid Office is February 19, 2016. Only completed applications submitted by that date will be considered. The BBCC Foundation awards approximately $130,000...
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is now accepting applications from agricultural producers statewide who were impacted by wildfires in 2014 or 2015. Financial assistance is offered through the Wildfire Initiative of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to help address resource concerns on private and tribal land. The deadline for applications is Friday, February 19, 2016. NRCS will offer five financial assistance options: Option one offers assistance with prescribed and deferred grazing on privately opera...
The Odessa Public Library, in a partnership with Big Bend Community College, is sponsoring a series of six workshops to teach basic computer skills. Beginning Wednesday, January 20, the first class will be an introduction class to the parts of the computer and how they are used; Wednesday, January 27, will be a class on keyboarding; Wednesday, February 3, will be an introduction to the Internet; Wednesday, February 10, will be an introduction to email; Wednesday, February 17, will be a workshop on Microsoft Word programs;...
June Odessa High School graduated 17 students on June 6, an ambitious group of young people who collectively were offered a total of $354,336 in scholarships and grants. Carol Green retired and closed the beauty shop behind her home that she had operated for many years. She and her husband, retired high school history teacher Dick Green, were planning a move to Spokane. The Odessa-Harrington Titan track and field team sent several members to the state meet in Cheney, where Sam Schafer had first-place finishes in the 100 m,...
