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New Year's Eve in Odessa saw folks drawn downtown to ring in 2014. Both Chiefs Bar & Grill and Any Occasion Banquet Hall were open for revelers wanting to celebrate the holiday. The Odessa Chamber of Commerce sponsored a community event envisioned as a thank you to all of the volunteers who make Odessa such a great place to live, work and play by supporting the many activities that take place all year long. The theme of the event was "A Night at the Casino." Following a...
The Odessa Record was delayed Wednesday morning when electrical power was knocked out at about 8:15 a.m. A truck was said to have backed into a power pole located on the property of the Grange Supply Company of Odessa-Harrington. The impact shattered the wooden pole, leaving a pile of kindling on the ground and the cross bars dangling from the wires. The oil-filled transformers also hit the ground, where a pool of oil spread out and mixed with the snow and gravel. Local...
Flu season has arrived in Lincoln County. The area has seen an increase in flu cases and hospitalization in recent weeks. There’s still time to get vaccinated to protect yourself from this serious illness. “Our emergency departments and clinics are seeing an increase in cases of Influenza since mid-December,” states Ed Dzedzy, Public Health Administrator. “H1N1 is the type of flu we’re seeing the most of right now. The good news is, it’s one of the strains this year’s vaccine provides protection against.” Flu symptoms includ...
The Washington Cattlemen’s Association (WCA) is partnering with regional county affiliates to host a rancher meeting in Ritzville on January 6, 2014 to discuss stream protection and water quality standards. The meeting is in response to ranchers’ concerns about a spate of notices recently sent by Washington Department of Ecology (DOE) to eastern Washington ranchers warning of their operations’ potential to pollute streams. The purpose of the meeting is to help ranchers in the area better understand Washington’s water quality...
Harrington Nazarene program With about 25 people attending, the Nazarene Church sanctuary was lit only with tree lights and a few holiday lights. Kristian Beattie and Bella Mattozi lit candles and the congregation sang Christmas songs led by Sonia Beattie with Billie Herron at the piano. Pastor Jim Beattie left during the singing and returned with a Santa suit on, but with the Grinch’s face. The audience listened as he acted out the song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” The Grinch went about stealing Christmas symbols and fin...
Greetings from the Lincoln County Courthouse! Below is an open letter from the Lincoln County Commissioners as well as the Eastern Washington Council of Governments that will be sent to the Director of the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. I thought it might be of interest in light of the recent federal government shutdown in October and the economic impact that it had on our counties and communities.Have a safe and prosperous 2014! Director Jarvis, We are writing to...
Milton Johnston of Ellensburg was re-elected chairman of the Columbia Basin Development League (CBDL) at their December trustee’s meeting in Moses Lake with Orman Johnson of Othello re-elected vice chair, Jake Wollman, Jr. of Warden treasurer and Jeff Schibel of Odessa secretary. Ron Fode of Moses Lake, continues on the board as past chairman. Alice Parker of Royal City, Dale Pomeroy of Warden, and Heath Gimmestad of Moses Lake will remain on the Executive Committee along with newly appointed at-large executive committee m...
Michael Cronrath, the social studies teacher at the Harrington School District, reports that the Eastern Seaboard Trip of 2015 is only about 18 months away. Students (and adult chaperones) from Harrington, Davenport, Sprague, Odessa and other surrounding communities have gone on this trip in the past and have deemed it a worthwhile educational experience. The trips are organized through Smithsonian Student Travel, which has informed Cronrath that that the price for the trip will go up after the first of the year. However, if...
The Harrington Chamber of Commerce canceled their January meeting, making their next meeting February 5. Members were reminded that it is time for dues to be turned in. Election of officers was postponed until the February meeting. Chamber president Cassandra Pfaffle-Dick wished the community at large a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year on behalf of the Chamber. School class learns about UFO Reporting Center Monday, December 16, Peter Davenport, Ufologist, spoke to the Harrington High School astronomy class taught by Justin...
Former Odessa residents Clay and Jewel Floch attended the Floch Memorial Games held at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake December 7. They returned to the U.S. in September after having spent 4.5 years in China working as foster parents at an orphanage for disabled children. The Flochs lost their two sons, Ryan and Drew, in a fishing accident in the Pacific Ocean that also took the lives of Jewel's father and a nephew. Ryan and Drew were both graduates of Odessa High...
Scores of businesses are contacting the Department of Labor & Industries to report they have received an official-looking letter that implies they must buy required workplace posters or face fines. L&I did not send the letters, but wants to remind companies that the workplace posters are available for free. The mass mailing has confused many business owners, who assume it’s from L&I. The letters say “final notice,” are addressed to individual businesses, and include a payment stub to purchase the posters for $295. It’s...
Mayor Paul Gilliland opened the city council meeting at 7 p.m. Dec 11th with all members present: Levi Schenk, Terri Howe, Michael Cronrath, Rick Becker and Peter Davenport. Sharon Schultz and Paul Charlton on the dog issue committee were present, as was Scott McGowan and Marge Womach. The proposed new ordinance is continued in review with the city attorney, the insurance agent and AWC. The law enforcement contract with Lincoln County Sheriff's office and the Town of Harrington was discussed, and the council voted to approve...
Each of the seven rural libraries in Adams and Lincoln counties has received extra materials on their shelves due to a grant administered by the Washington State Library, and the efforts of Carolyn Peterson, Assistant Program Manager at the State Library (carolyn.petersen@sos.wa.gov). The Washington State Library is a division of the Office of Secretary of State. "We at the State Library are very pleased to give the CLRS grants to help these libraries grow their collections...
Odessa High School science teacher Jeff Wehr has informed The Record that his former science student, Kira Powell (now attending the Colorado School of Mines), has officially had a minor planetoid named after her, 28537 Kirapowell, discovered Feb. 29, 2000, by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Team at Socorro, New Mexico. Kira Elizabeth Powell (b. 1994) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her plant sciences project. She...
According to Damon Pistulka, Transmessis Columbia Plateau (Odessa’s biodiesel facility, formerly IEO) started crushing canola and making biodiesel December 4. The first load of canola meal was shipped December 5, and the first load of biodiesel has been made and is now awaiting shipment....
Washington Federal Bank has replaced Bank of America in Odessa. New signs replaced the old on Monday of this week as the purchase of several smaller branch offices of BoA was completed by Washington Federal....
USDA’s Risk Management Agency reminds producers of the fast approaching winter and spring sales closing dates for multiple-peril crop insurance programs, whole-farm insurance programs, the Adjusted Gross Revenue Pilot, and Adjusted Gross Revenue-Lite. AGR and AGR-Lite cover most farm-raised crops, animals, and animal products. Current policyholders and uninsured growers must make all of their decisions on crop insurance coverage before the sales closing date. If there is no coverage in a county for a specific crop under t...
The federal shutdown in October generated one dubiously positive result: it helped to lift the state’s unemployment rate enough to reactivate nine weeks of long-term unemployment benefits that were shut off in August. Currently in Washington, jobless workers can claim up to 54 weeks of unemployment benefits, including 26 weeks of regular, state-paid benefits and 28 weeks of federally funded emergency unemployment compensation (EUC). Nationwide, EUC is paid in a series of four tiers. All states qualify for tier 1, but tiers 2...
Premiums for workers’ compensation insurance next year will increase for the first time in three years, the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has announced. The average 2.7 percent rate increase for 2014 premiums is an increase of less than two cents per hour worked. This modest increase in rates is part of a long-term plan to ensure steady and predictable rates by benchmarking against wage inflation,” said L&I Director Joel Sacks. “It will also help to gradually rebuild the workers’ comp reserves.” Noting that the...
The December Agricultural Survey and County Agricultural Production Survey (CAPS) conducted by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) are designed to obtain crucial year-end production information that is important for producers, suppliers, bankers, and grain elevator operators. These surveys ask producers to provide information on their planted acres, harvested acres, yields, total levels of production for specific commodities, and the quantities of grains and oilseeds stored on-farm. The results of t...
Thirty-six people attended the third annual community Thanksgiving dinner last week at the Old Town Hall in Odessa. The dinner is sponsored by the Odessa Masonic lodge members who provide the turkey for the feast. Organizer and turkey cook Lise Ott reported that the "pot-luck" meal was delicious as always, but that a couple of people were taken aback when no potatoes arrived. Diners included a number of single individuals, but also families and groups of friends. Games of...
State Senator Mark Schoesler (9th District) and Representative Judy Warnick (13th District) were awarded Honorary Life Memberships by the Columbia Basin Development League during their conference and annual meeting held in Moses Lake last month. Clark Kagele, a League board member said that, “Legislators from the 9th and 13th Districts provided the leadership to get the job done and worked to secure the largest state investment ever in Project infrastructure. Schoesler, the Senate Republican Leader, and Warnick, the then r...
The Odessa Lions Club Turkey Carnival, held last Saturday in the community center, was another successful venture for the service club that has been a fixture in Odessa for decades. This was, in fact, the 72nd Turkey Carnival in Odessa’s history. Businesses and individuals donated prizes for a raffle that, in addition to the bingo games played for turkeys, raised money for the club’s various civic and national projects. A “spin the wheel” game also allowed participants to win...
TransMessis Colombia Plateau, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TransMessis Renewable Energy, Inc., has announced that it had closed on an approximately $6 million restructuring of the integrated canola crushing and biodiesel production operation in Odessa. This restructuring includes an operating agreement on the physical plant with the Odessa Public Development Authority, investment in working capital to allow an immediate restart of production, and additional investment to allow an approximately three-fold increase in the...
TransMessis Columbia Plateau LLC, the new tenant of the biodiesel production facility in Odessa, Wash., has lined up seed supply for the facility’s planned start-up in December, but the firm continues to scout for additional supply. “We’re always looking for seed,” Joel Edmonds, president of TransMessis Columbia Plateau, or TCP, told the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) last week. As reported by OPIS, the Odessa Public Development Authority (OPDA), which is responsible for leasing the facility, announced last week th...
