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HHPC Saturday morning, Oct 18, at By By MARJORIE WOMACH October 18, at 10 a.m. a meeting sponsored by Harrington Historic Preservation Commission (HHPC) was held to discuss the Harrington 2000+ Plan Update, a construct to develop and cultivate business interest in the revitalization of Harrington. Welcoming remarks were made by Celeste Miller, president of the HHPC, and she turned the meeting over to William Grimes and Chaz Bates of Studio Cascade. Those present were: Terry...
The entire staff and student body of the Odessa School District wore their new Titan T-shirts, purchased for them by the Odessa Parent/ Teacher Organization. They formed a large "T" for Titans to have their picture taken for The Record and the annual year book....
Kristin McKernan is the newest member of the Odessa Record staff. She comes to Odessa by way of Spokane Valley. She has a varied background in customer service and advertising, so her skills suit The Record's needs very well. She graduated from Central Valley High School and has worked as a barista and on-air radio personality at the Live 104.5 Radio Cafe and the Whistle Stop Coffee Shop in Spokane Valley. She has also worked as a bartender, transportation center radio...
Staff of the Grant County Farm Service Agency will be conducting two informational meetings on the new federal farm programs being offered under the 2014 Farm Bill. Both meetings will be held on Wednesday, November 5. The first meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. at the St. Patrick's Hall located in Hartline. The second meeting will be held at approximately 1:30 p.m. at the Grant County Public Works facility in Ephrata. Both meetings will focus on providing attendees with updated information on crop base re-allocation and yield...
AAA Washington reminds motorists and pedestrians to slow down, be alert and travel with extra caution this Halloween. As pedestrians take to the streets to trick-or-treat, their risk of being injured by motorists increases greatly. In fact, October 31 is ranked as one of the most dangerous nights of the year for pedestrians, with an increase in the number of injuries and fatalities reported. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, a pedestrian is more than twice as likely to be killed if they are hit by a car...
The public is invited to participate in a telescope viewing of a partial solar eclipse at Big Bend Community College October 23 starting at 1:40 p.m. Dr. Jim Hamm’s Astronomy 101 class will set up telescopes with solar filters so people can safely view the eclipse. Hamm said 65 percent of the sun’s surface will be blocked at maximum eclipse. The viewing will end at 4:25 p.m. The telescopes will be set up on the lawn between the Math/Science Building and Wallenstien Theater. Hamm says other amateur astronomers with solar tel...
Odessa Cub Scout Pack #784 will be Scouting for Food, Saturday, November 8, picking up bags of groceries for the Odessa Food Bank. The Scouts will be delivering empty bags to the residents of the Town on Saturday, November 1, giving the community a week to shop and share from their bounty. The winter months are always the most difficult for those who are on fixed incomes. The Food Bank, under the auspices of the Odessa Community Ministerial Association, also helps with heating bills and with the unknown ups and downs that...
Parent/teacher conferences for children in preschool through fifth grade will be held Wednesday, November 5, and Thursday, November 6. There will be no school on these two days. All P-5 students have been scheduled for a specific conference time, and parents should have received a designated date and time slip from their child’s homeroom teacher. Parents/guardians who have not received a date and time slip are asked to call the elementary secretary Linnie Largent at 982-2603 to find out their scheduled conference time and d...
The Odessa School District (K-12) staff is continuing the behavior intervention system put in place three years ago called Positive Behavior Intervention Systems. Throughout the first year of implementation and beyond, the Odessa staff has focused on “catching students being good.” The idea is to catch students doing positive things as a way to eliminate negative and disruptive behavior. The staff came up with the idea of handing out tickets to students throughout the school (in the hallway, cafeteria, playground, cla...
Homecoming Week at Odessa High School was last week, culminating in crowning of the Odessa and Harrington royalty at halftime of the varsity football game between the Titans and Columbia High School of Hunters. Odessa's Homecoming Queen was Paige Alloway and King was Tyler Paris. Princess was Katie DeWulf and Prince was Hunter Bramer. Harrington's Homecoming Queen was Trinity Larsen and King was Chris Brown. Princess was Vanessa Larsh and Prince was Jacob Montgomery. At the...
The basement of Heritage Church was full nearly to bursting with women who came to hear advice on healthy living and to enjoy a meal catered by the Odessa High School chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America. Members of the health care community were out in force to provide information and hand out free literature and gifts to those who attended. As in the past, blood pressure checks were provided in a separate room. Door prizes included gift baskets, items donated by community members and gift cards worth up to...
Harrington City Council Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 5 p.m., Harrington City Council met for a special session. Present were Mayor Paul Gilliland, Bunny Haugan, clerk, the five councilmen, Peter Davenport, Terry Howe, Levi Schenk, Mike Cronrath, and Rick Becker, and visitor Marge Womach. The purpose of this meeting was a time-sensitive response necessary in order to qualify for a USDA grant for the identification of the waste water treatment facility and the mapping of the same. The city received a letter from Stantec reversing a pr...
On Sunday, October 12, a single-car rollover accident occurred on I-90 near Fishtrap Lake. An eyewitness account said the car rolled 15 to 20 times. A yellow husky-malamute cross named Lobo was ejected from the vehicle, and the driver was transported to the hospital. After a day and a half of searching by volunteers and family members and with the daughter in the family driving six hours from Canada to Washington, the Lincoln County Washington Lost & Found Pet Network was privileged to be a part of the happy reunion Monday...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs & Border Protection (CBP) unit this week will begin new layers of entry screening at five U.S. airports that receive over 94 percent of travelers from the Ebola-affected nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. New York’s JFK International Airport will begin the new screening on Saturday. In the 12 months ending July 2014, JFK received nearly half of travelers from the three West African nations. The enhanced entry scree...
More than 6 million young people across the country celebrate National 4-H Week, an annual celebration of 4-H during the first full week of October (Oct. 5-10 this year). The Lincoln County 4-H Leaders' Council takes this opportunity to announce the recipient of this year's Lincoln County 4-H Leader of the year: Joy Wilken of Sprague. Joy Wilken She has been a 4-H volunteer for 21 years. Many teens who were part of the countywide Teen Time 4-H club that Wilken led for several...
Inland Northwest Partners is a non-profit organization made up of more than 300 business, community and economic development professionals from eastern Washington and northern Idaho. The organization's focus is education and the sharing of ideas and experiences at quarterly meetings. The Lincoln County Economic Development Council is a member. The theme for the September 26 meeting was "Growing your economy through travel and tourism." The director invited the Odessa Chamber...
Tayla Lynn and Eric Tingstad were to perform at the Harrington Opera House this Friday. After the original booking in Harrington, Tayla was asked to appear at the taping of a PBS/BBC and SONY Music American Masters documentary on Loretta Lynn this week. In addition, she was asked to open for her "Memaw," Loretta Lynn October 11 in the Ryman Theatre and perform a two-hour show at Tootsies, a famous honky tonk located behind the Ryman in Nashville, Tenn. So now fans will have ex...
The Lincoln County EDC welcomed folks from across the county to a Social Media Marketing workshop followed by dinner and networking on September 25. “There was 10 minutes of pure chaos as we changed the room from a classroom to a dinner event, but other than that things went as planned and the EDC Connect event was a very entertaining couple of hours,” according to EDC Director Margie Hall. “The feedback on both events has been positive.” Between networking with other businesses and enjoying the buffet and refresh...
Signups for the Columbia Basin Development League Conference and Annual Meeting must be in by October 23 to get the early bird price for registration. The League’s Annual Conference is Thursday, November 6, at ATEC, Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake. Contact Naila Duffy: naila@cbdl.org or call 509-782-9442 for more information. Registration begins at 12:15 the day of the meeting. Following welcoming remarks at 1 p.m., the agenda deals with the following: 50 Years of Support for the Columbia Basin Project Intro: A V...
Harrington PDA President Josh Steward called the Tuesday evening meeting of the Public Development Authority to order at 7 p.m. with Jay Kane, Bunny Haugan, Dylan Haas and Marge Womach present. Members contributed what each knew of interest and activities surrounding the potential purchase of empty buildings, including recognition that several contractors from other cities had been to Harrington to examine buildings. Haas reported that he had been to the meeting of the Economic Development Council in Davenport with...
Proposals due by 5 p.m., PST, Monday, November 17, 2014. The Western Extension Risk Management Education Center (Western Center), in conjunction with the Northeast, North Central and Southern Centers, announces a funding opportunity for projects that help farm and ranch families succeed through targeted risk management strategies. The maximum amount of requested funding shall not exceed $50,000. To apply, go to the Western Center website and select “Competitive Grants Program.” The grant application process is fully exp...
The Friends of the Odessa Public Library are inviting the public for an evening of poetry written and presented by Elizabeth Austen, Washington state’s Poet Laureate for 2014-2016, on October 14 at 7 p.m. “My motivation for being poet laureate is, I think, that without even knowing it, people want what poetry offers. They want language for what feels large. Large in the sense of awe or large in the sense of grief or large in the sense of mystery,” says Austen. “One of the most amazing things about poetry in this state i...
David Michaelson of Harrington has been awarded two bronze medals for two recently published books: The Adventures of Gopher Piddington, a coming of age novel set in the 1880s and Congressional Integrity, a satirical look at our elected legislators. The national conference of the Military Writer’s Society of America was held September 25-28 in Phoenix, Ariz. All of Michaelson’s books are available at the office of the Davenport Times and in Ritzville at both Cow Creek Mercantile and the Uniquely Washington gift store. Ele...
