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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;...
Northwest Farm Credit Services is proud to award the Harrington Opera House Society in Harrington a $2,000 Northwest FCS Rural Community Grant to install plumbing to make the facility ADA compliant. "Since 1992, the Society has worked to restore and rehabilitate the historic 1904 Opera House in Harrington with the mission to provide and promote cultural, art and educational opportunities to Lincoln County and surrounding areas," said Billie Herron. "Currently volunteers must...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday night for the first time in 2016. The first order of business was to swear in Lois Hubbard, re-elected to position #1, and Bill Crossley, newly elected to position #2. The council then had a quorum and could proceed with its business. The first order of business was to appoint a mayor. No candidate had filed for the position and former mayor Doug Plinski declined to run for a third term. With no candidates running and no volunteers coming...
Opera House Society The Society held their first meeting of the new year January 4, with new president Billie Herron at the helm. Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Gordon Herron, Carol, Linda Wagner, Karen Robertson and Marge Womach also were present. The final payment for the grand piano for the opera house was made December 16, although donations continue to come in for that project. Wagner said she is working on the newsletter and Robertson will provide photos. Gordon Herron, head of the building committee,...
Significant challenges are on the horizon for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in 2016 with the reduction of two road deputies due to budget cuts, says Sheriff Wade Magers. The Sheriff’s Office was busy in 2015 investigating and arresting suspects involved in property crime, felony cases and crimes against persons. In 2015, there were 5,417 calls for service throughout Lincoln County. Sheriff’s Deputies handled 4,663 of those calls, with the balance occurring within town jurisdictions. The month of January had the fewes...
The Chamber of Commerce community celebration on New Year's Eve featured awards for the following: Business of the Year, Odessa Auto Parts; Volunteer of the Year, Marcus Horak; First Responder of the Year, Joe Schlomer; Educator of the Year, Ellen Holman and Student of the Year, Casey Schlomer. After the awards, the band played, the crowd danced and visited and played games. Raffle prizes were awarded. At midnight, Chiefs Bar & Grill personnel distributed champagne for all...
Early entrants could win iPad mini-4 There are four months until the 40th annual Lilac Bloomsday Run, and to help fortify New Year’s resolutions to get in shape, early bird registration for Bloomsday is now open at www.bloomsdayrun.org. Those who sign up by February 7 will have a chance to win one of three Apple iPad mini-4 tablets, courtesy of Strong Solutions, an Apple authorized reseller and service provider at 1718 E Sprague Ave. “Someone once said that life begins at 40,” says Lilac Bloomsday Association President Steve...
Janet Heimbigner died January 4, 2016, at the age of 91 at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center. Services will be held at Christ Lutheran Church in Odessa January 23 at 1 p.m. Full obituary will follow next week....
January January of 2015 began with community members being asked to meet with professional survey takers representing the Odessa health care facilities. Informal meetings were held with different groups of citizens each time to discuss health care needs and ways to meet those needs. The Odessa Chamber of Commerce held its New Year’s Eve celebration in the community center. Awards voted by members of the community at large went to Lise Ott’s quilt store ‘Experience Quilts!’ for Business of the Year, to Abby Reyes for First R...
Since at least 1879, with Adam Ludy and other Harrington pioneers, three simple words, Happy New Year, have echoed through the locale. Some winters, the greeting was delayed when heavy winter snows prevented people from circulating. In 1889, a Harrington news item bemoaned the new year with “Christmas is now over and the New Year is here with its many adversities and prosperities.” Once the town of Harrington was established, well before its incorporation in 1902, people would meet and greet on the earthen streets or boa...
Washington State University Extension and the WSU Oilseed Cropping Systems (WOCS) project are hosting workshops about canola and other oilseed production, marketing and end-use at three locations in late January: Colfax, Odessa and Dayton. Topics that are specific to each region were selected based on input from regional growers, industry and university faculty. Depending on the workshop location, crops covered will include winter and spring canola, winter and spring rapeseed, mustard and flax, and how those oilseeds will fit...
After several years of no or very little snow for Christmas, Odessa has finally had a white one. Much welcome snow began coming down in mid-December. Right before the holiday, there was snow, then warm enough temperatures to melt some of the snow, then some very wet snow or a mix of rain and snow (those who shoveled any of it know how heavy it was), followed by a cold snap and more snow. So now folks are having to drive on streets that did not all get cleared and have deep rut...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has finalized a rule to ensure that farm safety-net payments are issued only to active managers of farms that operate as joint ventures or general partnerships, consistent with the direction and authority provide by Congress in the 2014 Farm Bill. The action, which exempts family farm operations, closes a loophole where individuals who were not actively part of farm management still received payments. “The federal farm safety-net programs are designed to protect against unanticipated c...
Center for Rural Affairs On December 17, 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued their final rule defining what it means to be actively engaged in farming and thereby eligible to receive federal farm payments. The final rule serves only to ensure access to unlimited farm program payments for the vast majority of the nation’s largest and wealthiest farms and writes loopholes directly into regulation. USDA is more interested in allowing the nation’s largest farms to avoid meaningful payment limits than in making far...
An Odessa resident asked The Record last week, after several inches of snow had fallen, why his early morning trip to a Spokane hospital, where his wife was to have minor surgery, was so treacherous and slow. In Odessa itself, he said, the major streets had been plowed and sanded. As he made his way on SR 28, he noticed that most county roads off to the side had also been tended to. The state road he was traveling, however, was a different story. Did the state not have enough employees to get the major roadways cleared, he...
