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The Western Extension Risk Management Education Center at Washington State University, as known as the Western Center, provides risk management education to help farm and ranch families succeed through targeted risk management strategies. Proposals are due by 5 p.m. PST, Monday, November 17, 2014. The Western Center, in conjunction with the Northeast, North Central and Southern Center, announce a funding opportunity for projects that help farm and ranch families succeed. The maximum amount of requested funding shall not...
Shutterbugs of all ages… get those cameras out and snap those winning photos to enter in the 2015 Spokane Ag Expo photography contest! Spokane Ag Expo, celebrating its 38th year, will again feature the popular photography contest celebrating agriculture at their 2015 show. Photographers are asked to submit photos depicting “Agriculture in the Inland Northwest” by November 21, 2014 to the Spokane Ag Expo office at 801 W. Riverside, Ste. 100, Spokane, WA 99201. All of the photographs entered will be displayed at Spokane Ag Ex...
Voise Sausage, Odessa’s venerable supplier of the Biergarten during Deutsches Fest and of other loyal customers throughout the rest of the year, now has new owners. Darren and Kendrain Summers have purchased the business from Jason and Chandra Schumacher. Last Friday was the day it became official with the signing of all the paperwork. With the purchase of the business, Darren Summers said, the meat processing plant of the Livestock Producers Cooperative Association, where he is the manager, will have a retail outlet for p...
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan obviously knew what he was doing when he timed the USDOE revocation of Oklahoma’s NCLB Waiver on the proverbial “take out the trash day,” just before the long Labor Day weekend. One Duncan soundbite is that Common Core is not a top down corporate and/or federal mandate, but he doesn’t want to call national attention to his own repudiation of that claim. It is now impossible for anyone to believe Duncan’s spin after he punished Oklahoma for repealing its standards and tests. Neither c...
A Pierce County woman in her 30s who recently spent time in Grant County has been confirmed as having West Nile virus. Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has investigated the case and determined that the individual was likely exposed to the infected mosquitoes during her stay in Grant County. So far this year, there have been four other human cases in Washington; two of those cases were exposed in-state in Walla Walla and Benton counties, the two other cases were exposed while traveling out of the state. The virus...
One small step in the rejuvenation of Old Town Hall has been completed in plenty of time for Deutsches Fest. Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society members waited impatiently for the weather to cool before Midnight Finishing of Davenport could make repairs to the front steps. Passersby will notice a beautiful finish on the steps, the removal of a trip hazard between the steps and the sidewalk, and the repair of some very unsightly cracks in both the sides of the steps and the...
The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1.85 million contract on September 2 to ABB, Inc. in Cary, North Carolina, to perform transformer oil cooler replacements at Grand Coulee Dam. Over the past several years the existing transformer oil coolers have shown the need for replacement. This contract will require furnishing and installing the new transformer oil coolers, as well as disposal of the existing ones. The work is scheduled to be complete by April 30, 2015. “This project is just one way Reclamation is continuing to e...
Residents who participate in or are eligible for certain public-assistance programs, such as Food Assistance or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families from the state Department of Social and Health Services, are entitled to receive local telephone service for about $8 per month plus taxes and fees. The Washington Telephone Assistance Program also provides a reduced or no-cost service installation for qualifying households that do not currently have telephone service. To apply for benefits, contact the local landline...
Also missing from last week’s group picture were Caleb Singer, Morgan Lewis and Porter Whitmore. Max Greenwalt and Colby Sooy are FFA members and are not in 4-H. Jakob Starkel is a member of neither 4-H nor FFA and was merely an observer at the fair. The unidentified little girl in the picture is Laren Nelson, a great niece of Steve and Sally Siegel and a cousin to Caleb, Bradly and Macey Singer....
The Harrington Chamber of Commerce met Wednesday, September 3, under President Cassandra Paffle-Dick. Chamber members present were Bunny Haugan, Margie Hall of the Lincoln County Economic Development Council, Kathy Hoob, Cindy Haase, Allen Barth, Summer Clark (of US Bank), Sharon Nighswonger and Marge Womach. Margie Hall informed the Chamber that the broadband grant application had been submitted and may be viewed on the EDC website. She also announced two events by the EDC...
Colton Messer of Marlin won a blue ribbon for his booth containing a bee exhibit. Melloney Deife of Odessa won a special award for her Cutos of Pink poster In Herdsmanship, the Beef Barn won in the Large Animal category and the Poultry Barn won in the Small Animal category. In the Round Robin competition, Bradly Singer of Odessa won the 4-H Jr. Large Animal trophy, David Eldridge the 4-H Int. Small Animal trophy and David Hayashi the Open, Small Animal trophy. Beef Showing...
The Keller Ferry across the Columbia River on State Route 21 is out of service until further notice. Water is seeping into one of the Sanpoil’s internal compartments through a hairline crack below the waterline. The Washington State Department of Transportation advised the U.S. Coast Guard of the issue Tuesday, September 9, and the vessel was taken out of passenger service. The one-inch-long hairline crack is located on the port side of the vessel about 14 feet back from the front propeller. The seepage site is in the hull p...
The latest cash grain market here shows Soft White Wheat down at $6.20. Hard Red Winter is down at $6.75. DNS is up at $8.03. Barley remains at 148.00....
High Low Prec. S Aug. 28 92 54 .00 Aug. 29 86 49 .00 Aug. 30 82 50 .00 Aug. 31 75 52 .00 Sept. 01 74 40 .00 Sept. 02 76 41 .00 Sept. 03 78 43 .00 Yearly total to date 5.72 inches. Snow accumulation: 8.5 inches to date. Seasonal rain: September to February is 4.02 inches....
Two books written by Harrington author David Michaelson have been nominated for awards. One of them, "The Adventures of Gopher Piddington" has also been placed at the top of the summer recommended reading list of the Military Writer's Society of America. The other book nominated for an award is "Congressional Integrity," a satirical spoof of the U.S. Congress. Medals will be awarded to the winning books during the 2014 national convention to be held in Phoenix, Ariz. at the...
Mirgul Omurzakova spent the 1994-1995 academic year in Odessa attending Odessa High School and living with Ken and Bev Scherr. After spending her final year of secondary school in Odessa, she moved on to Colorado for college, then to Brown University in Rhode Island where she finished her degree. After that she returned to her native land. Although Omuzakova is an ethnic Kirghiz, she lives and works in Kazakhstan, where she is the managing director of Capital Partners, a real...
This is the final installment in the history of the railroad in Harrington and compiled by Marge Womach of Mohler. Now more than 30 years following Ed Haugan’s cessation of employment from the railroad. In a recent interview he shared many of his recollections of the years he worked for the Great Northern Railroad, which became the Burlington Northern and is now the Burlington Northern Sante Fe. For about 10 months Ed attended the telegraph school located at the corner of Main and Post in downtown Spokane, learning Morse c...
At its regular monthly meeting on August 27, 2014, the Odessa School Board accepted the resignation of Erica Whitmore as Ag Education Teacher. It also approved contracts with Merleen Smith for summer Chef Camp and with Ben Burbank as the new Ag Education Teacher. Extra-curricular contracts were also approved for Amy Hunt as Pep Club Advisor, Justin Parr as Concessions Director and Julie Wehr as Camp Wooten Advisor. Co-curricular contracts were approved for Craig Holman, Music; Jeanie Read, National Honor Society; Terri King,...
Results won't be available until next week. Back row: Jaden Hunt, Camden Weber, Colton Hunt, Bradly Singer Laela Hardung, Colton Messer, Colby Sooy. Third row: Brady Walter, Jakob Starkel, Marcus King, Max Greenwalt. Second row: Dakota Largent, Drew Hardung, Lexie Alloway, Troy Hardung, Daeton Deife, David Eldridge, Marlee Eldridge. Front row: Levi Hardung, (unidentified), Macey Singer, Melloney Deife. Not pictured: Austin and Alyssa Iverson....
The Harrington High School chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America will hold its annual Huff ‘N’ Puff Fun Run during the Harrington Fall Festival on Saturday, September 27. This fundraiser helps pay for expenses for FBLA members to attend the state FBLA conference in Spokane. The deadline for signing up is September 11. Participants who sign up by that date pay a $15 entry fee and are guaranteed a shirt in their size. Late registration participants (those who sign up after September 11) must pay a $20 entry fee and...
Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon has announced additional tools to help schools serve healthier meals and snacks as students return for the new school year. The announcement includes $5.7 million in Team Nutrition grants to state agencies administering the National School Lunch and Child and Adult Care Food Programs. The grants will help states expand and enhance training programs that help schools encourage kids to make healthy choices. Several states will use the...
Many Odessa youngsters spent their last weekend prior to the start of the new school year at the pool, which remained open a week longer than usual this year thanks to a grant from the Odessa School District. Now it's back to school for local kids, as they say good-bye to summer....
Lincoln County Fair results will not be released until next week when The Record will provide a full report. Anyone with photos to submit is asked to do so as soon as possible for inclusion with next week’s story. Audrey Beck of Odessa, a perennial participant at the fair, competed with several exhibits again this year in the sewing department. She won first place for all three of the sets of doll clothes she made. Five of the other six items that she either sewed or hand embroidered won first place and the other won a s...
Nearly every school in Washington is failing, at least according to the No Child Left Behind federal proficiency standards. Soon, parents will be receiving letters from those school districts explaining the failing marks. With it they’ll also get a letter signed by 28 state superintendents who insist the standards and failure label are antiquated, punitive and wrong. Superintendents and some parents insist the testing standards don’t account for other student and school achievement. “We have kids that are succeeding and b...
The Economic Development Council (EDC) invites Lincoln County businesses to attend two back-to-back events scheduled for Thursday, September 25. A social media marketing workshop entitled Winning and Building Business will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. at Davenport Memorial Hall (511 Park St.). Business owners and marketing staff will learn how to build business using websites, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+ and more. The workshop is free but requires preregistration at edcjoyce@centurylink.net or (509)725-1170....
