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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...
Stacey Bresee, a director at the Masquers Theater, has announced that a production meeting will be held Monday, January 11, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. at the theater lobby for anyone interested in being part of the production team for the fall 2016 musical, Disney’s The Little Mermaid. “We need folks to help with sets, costumes, props, choreography and lights! Anyone interested in participating behind the scenes to help get this production started, please come,” said Bresee. “If you are not able to attend this meeting, please...
The state of Washington has begun accepting applications for the No Child Left Inside program, which is aimed at giving at-risk children outdoor experiences. The No Child Left Inside grant program is funded by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and administered by the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO). The grants are intended to fund programs that provide outdoor environmental, agricultural or other natural resource-based education and recreation programs serving youth in Washington s...
On the fall 2015 president’s list at Big Bend Community College, two area students were listed as having completed 12 or more graded credits with a grade-point average of 3.75 or higher: Odessa’s Jennifer Martin and Wilson Creek’s Stacy Sims....
Recently this writer viewed a photo of the Grand Social Brass Band that The Odessa Record published in its 1951 edition as the Golden Anniversary and reprinted in 8-18-1977. The photo, taken in 1901 or 1902 showed Art Kunkel, Garrett Bruchsen, Henry Reese, Joe Barto, Vincent Totusek (the band leader), Reinhold Weber, Louis Wraspir, Doc Kelley, Jake Wolsborn, Frank Quade and John H. Luiten. The Odessa Historische Museum has a great collection of early photographs. The museum also has memorabilia from Al Wagner’s band, i...
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...
Odessa High School FBLA partnerned with the Lincoln County Econcomic Development Council to address one of Lincoln County's greatest problems, "Youth Out-migration." Students are graduating from our schools and attending college but are not returning for employment. This leaves many positions unfilled or filled by commuters, which is a detriment to our economy. A career fair was hosted last year, and the feedback from students was that they liked the fair but wanted to see...
For 14 years, coach Mark Poth has draped a basketball jersey over a chair, and his Vikings players have tapped the #40 jersey as they were introduced for the Ryan Floch Memorial Games. The chair and jersey stay next to Poth until the handshakes at the end of the game. The 15th and final Ryan Floch Memorial Basketball Games will be played January 2, 2016 at Big Bend Community College. The women play the BBCC Alumni team at 2 p.m., and the men play against the Alumni team at 4...
This following story is not about some young school boys, but rather several businessmen in their 40s, family men. William Pugh worked at various service stations while living in Harrington and Fred Urton was the local butcher with Banner Meats, upon whom many a holiday dinner was dependent. Urton was well-known locally for his wild humorous schemes, some less practical than others. The next year he was calmer with his holiday spirit and had a life-size Santa Claus in the window of Banner Meat Co. “X-mas Rooster Led Urton Cha...
When Santa appeared earlier this month, some were disappointed that he was not accompanied with a white layer of snow, but there is now hope for a traditional white covering of the fields, where children can enjoy sledding and other outdoor activities that depend on snow. Many are excited with the Season’s activities and eyes glisten in the presence of a well-decorated tree. The Harrington Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, focused on blessings, and worked with Harrington High School Honor Society students to bring l...
Washington state nonprofits named Washington STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and Washington MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) have received a grant of $400,000 from the national science, technology, engineering and math education group 100Kin10 to develop and launch an Engineering Fellows progam. The program will pair engineers with 200 Washington fifth-grade teachers to equip the teachers with the engineering skills needed to research, develop and deliver an engaging engineering program...
Terri King, business teacher at Odessa High School, was recently awarded a $500 scholarship by Northwest Professional Educators, the state's only non-union professional teacher association. Its regional director Brenda Miller presented the award at an all-school staff meeting. King will use the funds to attend the 2016 Northwest Council of Computer Education Conference with special interest in learning how to integrate technology into the curriculum and digital literacy. "Ms....
Harrington Opera House Society Linda Wagner, Sheryl and Mark Stedman, Ed Haugan, Carol, Paul Charlton, Billie and Gordon Herron, Karen Robertson, Sue Lani Madsen and Marge Womach were present as Mark Stedman opened his last meeting as president of the Harrington Opera House Society. In reviewing the minutes from the previous meeting, mention was made of the $9,000 grant that the Harrington Public Development Authority received to help connect the business district with NoaNet...
