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The Odessa Lions Club will hold its 74th annual Turkey Carnival Saturday, November 21, at the Odessa Community Center. Food service will begin at 2 p.m., with club members cooking and serving burgers with all the fixings, soft drinks, coffee, chips and even pie for dessert. Bingo games will commence at 3 p.m. and will continue until all of the turkeys have been awarded as prizes. As in recent years, club members will sell disposable bingo cards and different colored daubers to mark them with. The prizes donated by Odessa...
Harrington Opera House Society The Harrington Opera House Society met for its monthly and annual meetings Monday, November 2, with Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Gordon and Billie Herron, Carol, Ed Haugan, Linda Wagner, Bonnie and Mike Hardy, Dillon Haas, Stephen and Becky Hardy, Shelly Quigley, Karen Robertson and Marge Womach present. They reviewed the highlights of the Community Organizations Meeting, Harrington Happenings, with many positive comments about how well the sharing of project information is working. It was reported...
Marlon Schafer, owner of Odessa Office Equipment, the Internet service provider with its headquarters in Odessa, told The Record that he has now expanded his reach into Davenport....
The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the high school library Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 7 p.m. The board held a workshop in the district office at 6:30 p.m. to review board policies and procedures, attended by superintendent Dan Read, principal Jamie Nelson, board chairman Ed Deife and board members Heather Valverde and Joe Schlomer. Board members Marcus Horak and Roland Singer were absent. In personnel matters, the board approved contracts for Elle...
The fourth annual Harrington PTA Halloween Carnival was held Thursday, October 29, in the Harrington School multipurpose room from 5:30-7 p.m. The event brought in approximately 150 people, with children and adults alike dressed in Halloween costumes, ready to enjoy the festivities. With free admission, activities for the evening included games and prizes, arts and crafts, family photos, a “Pie in the Face” and door-prize raffle, and more! “Pizza by the slice” was sold by the PTA, while other school groups offered cotton...
Peter Davenport at Opera House Friday evening, October 30, Margie Hall of the Lincoln County EDC introduced Peter Davenport, the Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, a Harrington City Councilman and the owner of a nearby missile site. Davenport’s presentation was a benefit for the Harrington Public Development Authority, and Hall explained that the mission of the PDA is to bring economic development to Harrington. This was Davenport’s fourth presentation in the Harrington Opera House since 2009. He questioned him...
With 46 precincts reporting, 6,806 registered voters cast only 2,971 ballots, with an estimated 233 ballots left to count. Voter turnout was 43.65%. In Odessa, local contests for town council were won unopposed by incumbents Lois Hubbard and Marlene Kramer. Bill Crossley also won unopposed to fill the seat being vacated by a retiring Frank White. In Harrington, the heated race for mayor showed challenger Dillon Haas leading long-time incumbent Paul Gilliland by 16 votes, with very low voter turnout. For Harrington city...
The Odessa and Harrington School Districts will each have special Veterans Day assemblies at their respective schools on Tuesday, November 10. There will be no school for either district on Wednesday, November 11. The Odessa School District will hold its assembly honoring veterans at 12:30 p.m. in the school multipurpose room. Local veterans will be honored guests, and the general public is also invited to attend. The Harrington School District will hold a Veterans Day assembly at 10:15 a.m. in the high school gymnasium. The...
The Odessa-Harrington Booster Club dinner and auction fundraiser is coming November 7 at the Odessa Community Center. This will be the sixth annual event sponsored by the Booster Club since the two schools opted to participate in a sports cooperative. Last year's event raised $20,000 which allowed the club to purchase new equipment, uniforms, entry fees for camps and tournaments and two annual scholarships for student athletes as they begin their college years. Tickets for...
Harrington musician Harrington resident Rebecca Hardy is a young, talented musician who was home-schooled in K-12, primarily by her mother, and participated in the Running Start program at Skagit Valley College, receiving two AA degrees before transferring to Eastern Washington University at Cheney in 2007. Rebecca's mother played the violin and loved classical music, which accustomed her ears to the classical repertoire. Her grandmother also played the piano. One day when...
Save the date!! On November 11 at 6 p.m. in the basement of Heritage Church, a Community Veterans Day Dinner will be held, sponsored by American Legion Post #105 and VFW Post #7395. The turkey, gravy, stuffing and potatoes will be provided by the posts. Additional items such as salads, side dishes and desserts will be provided potluck-style, i.e., brought by people attending the dinner....
Last Thursday evening, October 15, Odessa residents living on or near First Avenue or driving through town were startled by the sudden appearance of numerous law enforcement vehicles with lights flashing converging on the parking lot of Washington Federal Bank at the corner of First Avenue and Alder Street. A man was taken into custody as he approached the ATM machine at that bank. Odessa police chief Helen Coubra told The Record that officers arrested Thomas A. Harris of Odessa on charges of violating the Uniform Controlled...
October 14 was the date of Women's Health Night, an annual event paid for by grants awarded to the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center and Clinic. Members of the medical community and volunteer residents of the town put on an informative and enjoyable evening for Odessa's women. Again this year, members of the Odessa High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America, their parents and their advisor Terri King prepared the dinner. On the menu this year were...
The musical production “Sweeney Todd” opens this Friday, October 23, at the Masquers Theatre in Soap Lake. Directed by Randy Brooks, this extraordinary musical stars Daren Vernon and Cheri Barbre and includes the musical directing genius of Merie Walker and Stephanie Moore. Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond. Set...
Auditions for Davenport Theatrical’s on-stage reading of the play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder. The production will consist of one performance on November 21, 2015 at the Harrington Opera House. Those auditioning will read selections from the script as groups in a fun, low-pressure environment. No preparation is needed. The selections are available to read online at DavenportTheatrical.org. Auditions will be held Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 6:30 p.m., or Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. at the Davenport High Schoo...
Harrington City Council Mayor Paul Gilliland opened the October 14 meeting of the Council. All council members were present: Peter Davenport, Terri Howe, Levi Schenk, Mike Cronrath and Rick Becker, as well as Bunny Haugan, city clerk, and Scott McGowan, public works director. Visitors included Mike, Jacob and Kristi Poteet; Allen Barth; Paul Charlton; Sharon Schultz; Derek Montgomery and William Mann (two high school students); Justin Slack; Tim Tipton and Marge Womach. Kristi Poteet addressed the council desiring a variance...
A new light will be shining in Avista’s Washington and Idaho service area as the company replaces nearly 30,000 company-owned streetlights with energy efficient LED lights over five years. Updating to LED streetlights provides advantages to the public, customers and the environment as they use about 50 percent less energy than traditional high-pressure sodium lights, while lasting 2-3 times longer and providing better light quality for motorists and pedestrians. Avista is on track to upgrade 3,000 of its streetlights in W...
At the October 12 meeting of the Odessa Town Council, members approved the final version of the airport lease agreement with Odessa Air Service. Public works director Rod Webster reported he had been in contact with the permitting agencies with regard to cleaning trees, non-native grasses and debris out of the bed and banks of Crab Creek within the town limits. He said he hoped the cleanup could begin the following week. He was told that no motorized vehicles whatsoever were allowed to operate within the creek bed....
Spokane, Wash. – The Bureau of Land Management Spokane District has lifted the regulated fire closure on public lands that it administers in eastern Washington. The termination of the regulated fire closure was effective October 14, 2015 in the following counties: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima. Caution is advised at all times when operating motor vehicles on roads or t...
Aside from an awareness of the personal safety and well-being of others, all hunters should possess one more thing. Respect for others and their personal property. A local gentleman (who wishes to remain nameless) has had this problem. He says he has had no respect from some area hunters. Even with “No Trespassing, Beware of Dog and No Hunting” signs posted all around his yard, he found his dog Jackson (a dark chocolate lab) dead from two gun shot wounds at around 5 p.m. Satur...
Linda Goodman is the newest member of The Odessa Record's staff, fulfilling general office duties as well as writing, proofing and any other jobs that need doing. She moved here from Ephrata seven years ago and has called Odessa home since day one. Goodman has plenty of customer-service experience from former jobs as a medical receptionist in a busy clinic, secretary for an insurance company, loan specialist for a payday loan company, waitress and (as most of you know) a...
I recently had the opportunity to travel around the 13th District with Sen. Judy Warnick and Rep. Matt Manweller to visit our local newspapers. Meeting with editors and reporters, we discussed the successes and challenges of the 2015 legislative session, and also provided a preview of our goals for the upcoming 2016 session. I was proud to pass several bills this year that will help folks in our district and state. If you have some thoughts on legislation that would make a...
Don’t believe in UFOs? You haven’t met Peter Davenport. Peter Davenport is the Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, the nation’s most popular and widely accepted UFO reporting facility. The center receives, records and attempts to corroborate reports from individuals who have been witness to unusual, possibly UFO-related events. Now in his 21st year as the center’s Director, Davenport is as an expert in his field and has been featured in media including Business Week and Wired Magazine; appears on weekly radio;...
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center has been awarded a grant for the implementation of a new patient monitoring system focused on enhancing the safety of long-term geriatric patients. Coverys, a leading provider of medical professional liability insurance and related services, announced that the Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation awarded more than $140,000 in grants to 17 separate hospitals and health facilities in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The grants will be used for staff training programs, resources and other...
OLYMPIA - As a public safety precaution, Washington State Department of Natural Resources campgrounds at Leader Lake and Rock Creek will remain closed because of damage caused by the Okanogan Complex fire. The Rock Creek picnic area will also remain closed. Burned-out stumps, fire-weakened trees and concealed pits are dangers that can put recreationists at risk if they venture into these closed campgrounds or other recently burned areas. Distressed and snagged tree areas are especially prone to falling in high winds....
