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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...
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....
Tuesday evening, September 16, in the city park, president Celeste Miller opened the meeting of the Harrington Historic Preservation Commission at 6:45 with Karen Allen, Aileen Sweet, Terry Howe, Anita Harman and Marge Womach present. Shortly thereafter Lindsay Harder arrived and the meeting continued. Discussion was held regarding the windows of the HHPC office and the desire of the group to have photos on display for the Fall Festival. Miller informed the group that Chaz Bates of Studio Cascade was on vacation and that she...
Can we ride ATVs on county roads in Lincoln County? This seems to be one of the most common questions lately, but the answer is, it depends. In 2013, the Washington State Legislature passed HB 1632 that allows ATV use on county roads that are posted 35 miles per hour or less. Of course, the ATVs must be licensed and meet certain regulations in order to be legally driven on these roads. It has taken some time for the Department of Licensing to develop the required license...
The latest cash grain market here shows Soft White Wheat is down at $5.94. Hard Red Winter Wheat is down at $6.48. DNS is up at $8.14. Barley is down at 143.00....
Children in grades Kindergarten through fifth are part of a school program in which classroom teachers reward them for good behavior by putting names in a container. At the end of each week, the teacher looks at the names, and whoever's name has appeared most often is declared a Titan Pride winner. The winners for each grade level then get their picture taken for the Odessa Record at the end of each month. From all of the winner, three names are drawn separately for those who...
Welcome to the 44th annual Odessa Deutsches Fest celebration! Odessa has been gearing up, preparing, cleaning and getting the word out for most of the summer, but the conversation about what to do for Fest really takes place all year. We have had several enquiries over The Record's use of "Deutshes Fest" as opposed to "Deutschesfest." A little history is in order. The Fest began in 1971, and up through 1990, it was spelled as two words in every issue of The Record. In the May...
The Keller Ferry vessel, Sanpoil, was back in service as of 6 a.m. Monday, September 15, after hull seepage repairs were made to a hairline crack that had developed. Additional work on the hull exterior was set to be scheduled within 30 days. A representative from the U.S. Coast Guard was on site, inspected the vessel, and approved it to return to passenger service....
In the Fest supplement published last week as part of The Odessa Record, Tianna Gies was misidentified due to a reporter error. She is the granddaughter of Ruth Gies. Due to incorrect informationi supplied by the Lincoln County Fair, Marcus King was listed as having the overall grand champion market steer. That honor went instead to Colby Sooy of Odessa, the son of Tom and Megan Walter of Odessa, and King had the overall reserve grand champion market steer. Sooy had the FFA grand champion and King the 4-H grand champion. The...
The Lincoln County Economic Development Council invites business owners from across the County to join them for a fun and enlightening opportunity to network with other business owners, hear what’s happening in the business community and catch up on the EDC’s projects. Businesses are encouraged to bring brochures, business cards or other business information to set out for others. We hope that you can join us. Food will be served, so please RSVP by Monday, September 22 to edcjoyce@centurylink.net or call 509-725-1170 so tha...
