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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...
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...
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...
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...
This past Saturday, the Big Red Barn Farmers Market in Davenport hosted a Farm-to-Table event. Local chefs, Adam Hegsted and Aaron Fish prepared a five-course meal in which all the food was provided by market vendors and travelled no more than 45 miles to the table. The event was hosted in the historic Big Red Barn two miles east of Davenport. The barn is listed on the National Historic Barn Registry and was restored by Davenport native, Crayton Guhlke. To say the dinner was...
Harrington alumni began arriving in the week prior to the Harrington Fall Festival, and the town had a flurry of activity preceding Saturday's festival events. With flags flying on Third Street, the parade route was being hand-swept on Friday. USBank was serving hotdogs, and the weather seemed ideal. The Lions Club members were in the city park at their barbeque pit. Water was being applied to the field east of the school bus garage in preparation for the early Saturday mud...
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Everyone involved in our agricultural industry has benefitted from individuals and groups who have made extraordinary contributions to the industry. It can be as far reaching as Dr. Norman Borlaug who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in wheat genetics. That research is credited with helping to feed a hungry world and starting the “Green Revolution.” Or it can be local with researchers who made discoveries in the use of Variable Rate Technology for fertilizer applications or one of our local producers who...
STCU has promoted Lance Kissler to Digital Marketing Manager. Kissler started work at STCU in 2010 as New Media and Marketing Officer, and most recently was eBusiness Development Officer. A 2014 graduate of Leadership Spokane, Kissler now serves on the board for that organization. Among other community activities, he is president of the Inland Northwest Business Alliance, volunteers at the Humane Society and is an adjunct instructor at both Eastern Washington University and Whitworth University. The valedictorian of Odessa...
By majority vote of the members present at Tuesday's meeting of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, the group opted to continue to use the term Deutschesfest as a single word, deciding that another change in spelling would be counter productive to the name recognition achieved over the past 20 years of using the single-term noun. The 44th Fest has come and gone, by most accounts another successful event for Odessa and its businesses, churches and other non-profit organizations....
