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Children prepare for school The Summer Reading Program on Thursday, August 21, was focused on the approaching return to the school season. Meka Eaton led the eight children in coloring sheets with school bus, backpacks, and other school related images. Each seemed to have a postivie attitude about school beginning, and the children were able to compare home schooling to the public school room. They enjoyed a movie and snack time. Some were successful at creating paper bag pupp...
The latest cash grain market here showed Soft White Wheat up at $6.28. Hard Red Winter is up at $6.78. DNS is up at $7.58. Barley remains at $148/ton....
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...
The variety of wheat being loaded into rail cars by Garrett Jensen and Brady Haase as reported last week was incorrect. It was club wheat....
The Odessa VFW Auxiliary is proud to announce that their youth essay programs will be available with the beginning of a new school year. These programs are open to all students in grades 3-12. The programs are open to public-school, home-schooled and parochial-school students. Any home-schooled students who would like to participate may call Leora Nixon at 982-2847 for the entry forms. This year the Auxiliary is proud to announce that the Harrington school students will be participating as well. Grades 3-5 participate in the...
Aug. 13, Mayor Paul Gilliland called to order the meeting of the city council with members Terry Howe, Rick Becker, Peter Davenport, Levi Schenk and Mike Cronrath present and Bunny Haugan, Scott McGowan, Margie Hall, Ashley Schenk, Charles Marsh, Sharon Schultz and Marge Womach in attendance. Margie Hall of the Economic Development Council gave an update of activities and meetings and provided the council with handouts. She noted that the mayors would be meeting on Sept. 12,...
The Fourth Avenue street renewal project is proceeding according to plan. As stated in the call for bids published in The Odessa Record on July 3, 2014, the project is to reconstruct 750 linear feet of residential road, including new pavement, gravel parking lanes, a rolled concrete curb and gutter, concrete sidewalk, concrete driveways, curb ramps and other associated work. It also includes drainage improvements that include the installation of catch basins, culverts and...
As reported in our August 7 edition, two Odessa High School sophomores played in an international baseball tournament in Italy. Brad Johnston and Chance Messer have now returned home, their team having won second place, losing only in the championship game to the other American team in the tournament. The USSA Nationals team won the tournament; the Odessa boys played for the USSA NW Elite team. According to family members, both boys had a great time and enjoyed the experience...
Odessa's preparations for the upcoming Deutsches Fest, September 19, 20 and 21, are moving forward, as the groups providing homemade German food get together to assemble the dishes for which they have become famous. Tuesday, members of Heritage Church, along with other volunteers, spent the morning rolling a mixture of hamburger, rice and tomato sauce into freshly harvested cabbage leaves. They began their task at 8 a.m. and by 10:30 a.m. had assembled 2,100 cabbage rolls. Thi...
Harvest is over in the Odessa region, and according to market experts at both the Odessa Trading Company and the Odessa Union Warehouse, the crop this year is said to have been reduced by about one third compared to what farmers have been receiving for the past several good years. The reasons vary and include winter kill, late frosts in the spring and drought. The lack of moisture, at least prior to the bit of rain that accompanied some of the recent thunderstorms to strike the area, has farmers worried now about their fall...
On August 8, 2014, Avista Corp.’s (NYSE: AVA) board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.3175 per share on the company’s common stock. The common stock dividend is payable September 15, 2014, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 21, 2014. The declaration of dividends is at the sole discretion of the board of directors. The board considers the level of dividends on a regular basis, taking into account numerous factors, including financial results, business strategies, and economic and com...
Avista has announced that a full settlement agreement has been reached in its Washington electric and natural gas rate case. The company filed a general rate request February 4, 2014 to increase electric and natural gas base rates in Washington that would support the ongoing need to expand and replace the facilities and equipment used every day to serve customers. This settlement agreement would conclude the rate case and support these efforts. It is the result of all parties working together to agree on a settlement that is...
The Ritzville Downtown Development Association is proud to present the Oom Pas & Mas in concert on Saturday, August 23, at the Ritz Theatre. Doors will open at 7 p.m.; Oom Pas & Mas will step on stage at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 (pre-sale) and $12 (at the door). Tickets are available at the Ritz Theatre, www.ritzvilletheater.com, Flying Arts Ranch, The Ritzville Chamber Office, Remember When, and online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/. The Oom Pas & Mas started as a small polka group for Odessa’s Deutsches Fest over 40 y...
In light of the recent devastating fires and other challenges facing northwest ranchers, the Pacific Northwest Center for Holistic Management (PNCHM) presents a complimentary three-hour seminar on September 6, 2014 for ranchers and land managers. This introductory session will provide some tools and insights on how to: • Deal with and recover from crisis including fire, floods, and other disasters • Manage the replacement of fencing • Pre-plan for drought or other crises • Use holistic planned grazing to improve forage...
The Harrington Opera House Society met for their monthly meeting, opened by President Mark Stedman and attended by Sheryl Stedman, Becky and Stephen Hardy, Carol, Edwin and Bunny Haugan, Billie and Gordon Herron, D. P. Charlton, Bonnie Hardy, Karen Robertson, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner. Progress might appear slow in regard to the opera house building projects, however the progress is steady in consistent increments following a master list of pieces of the structure that need work; each is thoroughly investigated and...
High Low Prec. S Aug 6 96 58 .00 .00 Aug 7 91 58 .00 .00 Aug 8 91 55 .00 .00 Aug 9 84 49 .00 .00 Aug 10 89 49 .00 .00 Aug 11 98 49 .00 .00 Aug 12 100 58 .00 .00 Aug 13 97 58 .00 .00 Yearly total to date 5.31 inches. Snow accumulation: 8.5 inches to date. Seasonal rain: September to February is 4.02 inches. Continued thunderstorms through Friday....
Last week’s article about the Christ Lutheran Church charity bake sale and car wash mistakenly said the baked items were donated by Grannie BarBar, but actually donations were made by many people. The Record regrets the error....
Grant County Mosquito Control District #1 was notified Thursday that nine mosquito samples submitted for testing were positive for West Nile Virus, making this the first detection of the virus in Grant County this year. The positive samples were found in the north Potholes area, south of Moses Lake. Statewide in 2014 there have been 28 positive mosquito samples. To date, there have been no human, bird or horse cases in Washington state. The positive samples indicate the virus is present in Grant County. The health district...
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center is the first Critical Access Hospital to successfully attest to Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use electronic health record incentive program using MEDITECH Information Technology, Inc. administered by Engage, a division of Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS). “This has been a journey for our staff and patients as Engage has helped us achieve goals to improve care and patient satisfaction,” said Megan Shepard, registered nurse and clinical services director for Odessa Memorial Healthcare Cen...
Tuesday evening, a dust storm came rolling in from the east-southeast....
Chef Camp attracted about 36 Odessa youngsters in first through eighth grades this summer. The two-week session concludes this week. The class came about as a result of the nutrition and physical education grant obtained by the Odessa School District. Instructor Merleen Smith taught the group about nutrition and cooking from scratch, assisted by recent Odessa High graduate Kimberly Nelson and by volunteer Kerry Scheller. Bev Scherr also spent time with the group working on...
With a hardy crew of volunteers, the kraut ranza committee of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Odessa last week assembled and baked more than 3,000 of the meat-, sauerkraut- and onion-filled pockets of yeast dough. Some eager citizens, who either smelled the good aromas coming from the community center or knew that Friday was baking day, stopped in to buy a few of the tasty rolls. Not to worry, however. There will be plenty left to sell during Fest. Other groups preparing food...
Lincoln County Commissioners now know a lot more about their telecommunication infrastructure, thanks to the County’s Local Technology Planning Team grant. The grant’s one-year timeframe came to an end on June 30, and in July Commissioners were presented with a draft final report. Monica Babine, WSU Extension Program for Digital Initiatives, and Margie Hall, director of Lincoln County Economic Development Council, presented the draft grant summary and provided Commissioners with suggestions for next steps. Now that the rep...
Summer league with the Moses Lake SunDevils wrapped up for Odessa High School sophomores, Brad Johnston and Chance Messer on July 17. The duo played a pick-up tournament with a team from the Puget Sound area the weekend of July 25, as they prepared to take their game international by traveling with the Northwest Elite baseball organization. Brad first became involved with Northwest Elite in 2012 when he participated in a camp held in Wenatchee. "Rhett Parker, an associate...
Bright and early Friday morning (8 a.m.), members of the St. Joseph Catholic Church parish and their friends and relatives will gather at the commercial kitchen in the community center to assemble and bake the hundreds of kraut ranzas to be sold from a chalet on the Festplatz during this year’s Deutsches Fest. For those unfamiliar with the term, kraut ranzas are a yeast-dough pocket filled with a mixture of sauerkraut, cabbage, hamburger and onion. Once baked, the aroma of the golden brown rolls wafts through the downtown a...
