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SPOKANE, Wash. (June 9, 2016) – Northwest Farm Credit Services has awarded the Harrington PTA in Harrington, Wash., a $1,500 Northwest FCS Rural Community Grant. "The Harrington PTA was ecstatic to hear the news about receiving the Northwest FCS grant," said Kelli Tanke, Harrington's school office manager. "Our school's aging playground equipment had to be torn down because it was infested with hornets and yellow jackets. The safety of students is of utmost concern, but we s...
Harrington Opera House Society The monthly meeting of Opera House Society met Monday evening in the Art Room with Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Karen Robertson, Carol, Gordon Herron, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner attending. As the completion of the elevator installation is nearing, the building committee has a short list of finishing touches that will be worked on, including the state inspection of the elevator on Tuesday, chandelier controls and an air...
OLYMPIA—On July 1, 2016, state fuel tax and several licensing-related fee increases will go into effect in Washington. The increases were approved by the Legislature in 2015 as part of Connecting Washington, a transportation package to fund many important, impactful transportation projects around our state. These projects include highway and local road construction and maintenance, bike path and walkway projects, rail and transit projects, ferry system improvements and fish barrier removal. The state fuel tax for both gas a...
Residents of the 13th Legislative District are invited to join Rep. Matt Manweller for an hour-long telephone town hall on Wednesday, June 22, at 6 p.m. The program works much like a call-in radio show, in which residents can listen in, ask questions and participate in surveys. To participate, citizens can call 509-895-5003 during the event. If listeners have questions during the call, they can press the star (*) key on their telephone keypads. “The Legislature is not in session, but I am hearing from people about possible sc...
KREM TV of Spokane will broadcast a special program at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, dealing with skin cancer and featuring personal efforts to inform the public about the disease by former Odessa teacher and coach Gerald Ray, now a resident of Spokane....
Odessa High School's 13 graduating seniors celebrated the beginning of their new futures June 4 in the school gymnasium (see page 4 for pictures and student speeches). Some will further their education and some will go straight into the workforce. AnnaRenée Bockman will attend Studio Beauty School. Directly entering the workforce will be Hunter Bramer, Johnathon Brightwell, Garrett Gross and Caleb McNeil.Heading to Spokane Falls Community College are Casey Schlomer and Paige...
Chamber meeting Wednesday noon, June 1, at city hall, the Harrington Chamber of Commerce met with Cassandra Paffle-Dick, Cindy Haase, Tim Tipton, Jenna Fries, Paula Pike, Bunny Haugan and Heather Slack present. It was reported that the money from vendors will be placed in the Downtown Revitalization Fund. Review of the clean-up day for Cruizin' Harrington, utilizing the students with various projects, worked well, and hopefully instilled the principle of working for and with...
(Davenport, WA, June 2, 2016) The Lincoln County Economic Development Council recently completed income surveys on behalf of two Lincoln County municipalities, helping those communities save hundreds of thousands of dollars in infrastructure costs. Income surveys have recently become a necessary evil – undesirable but unavoidable. They require that a predetermined, population-based percentage of residents report their annual household incomes to a neutral third party. Although income is a sensitive subject, the surveys w...
Lincoln County Auditor Shelly Johnston has announced that there will be a special three (3) day filing period held Tuesday, June 21, 2016, through Thursday, June 23, 2016, for the purpose of declaring candidacy for the following elective position(s) not previously filed for during the regular filing period: PUD COMMISSIONER, L. Jerald Sheffels, 6-year term, Third District. Declaration of Candidacy forms are to be filed with the Lincoln County Auditor’s Office at the Courthouse in Davenport between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on the a...
The Odessa School District announces the sponsorship of the Simplified Summer Food Program for Children. Meals will be made available at no charge to attending children 18 years of age and younger. In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its agencies, offices and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age o...
Odessa resident Kathy Ratkowski told The Record about the most memorable weekend she has ever experienced. She was picked up by her daughter, son-in-law and two of the couple’s children, a boy 12 and a girl 14, last week Thursday. They were taking a family trip to the high school graduation of another grandchild of Ratkowski in Colorado Springs. The family group headed east on I-90, reaching Missoula, Mont. by 3:30 a.m. Friday morning. They stopped for gas and snacks at a convenience store near a casino. On entering the c...
June 1, 2016. Due to the elevator installation, ADA access construction and other building rehabilitation projects, the Harrington Opera House Society is starting off their 2016 event season a little later than usual this year. The good news is that the elevator is in! Unfortunately, it won't be inspected for public use in time for the Bridges Home Concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 4. Those who want to come to the concert and see the progress of work on the 1904 building can...
Odessa High School graduates 13 students Saturday morning at 11 a.m. in the school gymnasium. In addition to the awarding of diplomas, the program will include a song dedicated to the graduates composed and performed by two of their teachers, Larry Moffet and Jeff Wehr. The students themselves have compiled a video retrospective of their own lives that will also be shown. As in years past, the students will give flowers to members of the audience who have guided them on their...
For the second year in a row, the Odessa High School Chapter of FBLA has been selected as one of the six top winners in the nationwide Lead2Feed program. The Odessa community is invited to join a celebration of the students' achievement this Friday, June 3, from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in the school multipurpose room. The student-led leadership projects resulted in awards of $275,000 in grant prizes for U.S. non-profits and $170,000 in technology packages for winning schools. Six s...
If you’ve lived in Odessa for any length of time, then you know who Paul Hopp is. I’ve never heard anyone utter as much as one cross word about Paul. To know him is to love him, and if you don’t love him, you don’t know him. With a passion for woodwork, Paul is normally covered in wood chips or blanketed in sawdust. He is also the kind of guy with a hand to lend, a grin on his face and a genuine smile for everybody. He will also readily hand out a good teasing and fully e...
The 2016 alumni banquet has already seen a number of folks submitting their dues and their intention to attend. Those who have signed on thus far are listed below: 1942: Alice (Stroh) Schmierer 1946: Wilma (Lenhart) Schmidt 1949: George Rodeck, Al Fink 1950: Ardyce (Kissler) Kahler 1951: Coleen (Luiten) Janke 1953: Melba (Mills) Evans, Dorothy (Kremsritter) Frederick, Edwin Jasman, Paula (Haug) Kramer, Barbara (Heimbigner) Van Zanten 1955: Gale Salo 1956 (60-year honorees): Joy (Klima) Erickson, Jerry Schafer, JP Luiten,...
May 15-21, 2016 is the 42nd annual National EMS Week. In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized EMS Week to celebrate Emergency Medical Services practitioners and the important work they do in our nation's communities. Back then, EMS was a new profession, and EMS practitioners had only just started to be recognized as a critical component of emergency medicine and the public health safety net. A lot has changed since then. EMS is now firmly established as an essential public...
Reporting to the Odessa Town Council on May 9, Lise Ott, chair of the Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society said that after struggling for a year or so to keep the group together, a group of knowledgeable and energetic people has come together to assist with the project. Faye King serves as the secretary/treasurer, and the other members are Marlene Kramer, Nancy Smith, Paul Scheller, Kathy Ratkowski, Terria Smith and Lynn Allen. Ott says the group is still hoping to find a member who has grant-writing experience. The project...
Here chick, chick, chick. Monday, May 9, a group of 13 persons interested in having the city council change its ordinance prohibiting chickens in the residential and business districts held a meeting. Some were under the impression that the council had no ordinance regarding chickens, which one of the council members present was able to clarify. Much of the discussion was about actual care of the chickens, were they to be allowed in town. Levi Schenk of the chicken committee has not yet written a proposal for a new...
Kindergarten registration for new students and preschool pre-registration for the 2016-17 school year begins Wednesday, May 18. Packets are available in the elementary office between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. All registration forms must be filled out and turned in by June 3. Pre-kindergarten students must be five years of age as of midnight, August 31, 2016. All immunizations must be completed before the first day of school. Required immunizations for entry into Kindergarten: * 5 doses of DTaP or DT vaccine, with the last dose on or...
It is that time of the year again. The 80th annual alumni banquet is approaching fast and will be held Saturday, June 18. Invitation letters to alumni for whom we have addresses have been mailed. If you are an Odessa High School graduate and would like to be included in the alumni database, please get your information to Leffel, Otis & Warwick as soon as possible. If you have moved, had a name change or know of someone who has passed away, please contact us with any changes. You can contact the office by phone at...
Odessa’s Travis Schuh turned in the fastest time among Odessa and Lincoln County runners in Spokane’s Bloomsday race May 1. He finished his race in 48:55, narrowly outpacing Davenport’s 18-year-old Nathan Hopkins who had a time of 50:07. Almira’s Darren McCall finished in 1:05:34, Creston’s Alicia Rosman in 1:21:21, Edwall’s Mariah Wollweber in 1:31:42, Harrington’s Jaeger Jacobson in 1:09:45, Reardan’s Carson Torkelson in 1:17:40, Sprague’s Tracey Korthuis in 1:12:36 and Wilbur’s Eric Wyborney in 1:00:12. Schuh plac...
The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame, approximately a year in the making, is about to induct its inaugural class of athletes, coaches, teams and contributors at the annual alumni banquet to be held June 18 in the Odessa Community Center. A committee headed by chairman Bruce Todd, athletic director at Odessa High School, has been meeting about once each month since March of 2015 to lay the groundwork for the hall of fame. Vice chairman Jon Heimbigner, an OHS alumnus, has contributed his expertise in establishing sports halls of...
The silver anniversary of the wine tasting, microbrew tasting and auction put on by the Odessa Healthcare Foundation to benefit the local medical campus was a well-attended event again this year. After 25 years, the event has not gotten stale or dated. The brews and wine flowed, as did the conversation. Clark Kagele did his usual stellar job of emceeing the event, and Jacob Barth of Yarbro Auctioneers returned again this year to serve as auctioneer, a profession he learned at his grandfather’s knee. Some of the funds r...
Each year in May, our nation sets aside a moment to celebrate National Hospital Week. The national theme this year is “Health Care from the Heart” – which is something that the employees at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center do very well every day of the year. Please join in thanking the dedicated professionals who stand ready to care for friends, neighbors and visitors at all hours of every day. “I am proud to say that our staff provides care from the heart all the time,” said Mo Sheldon, CEO of OMHC. A hospital is more than...
