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CenturyLink, Inc. is spreading the word about low-income assistance programs that help qualifying consumers obtain voice and high-speed Internet services. Lifeline Affordable Telephone Service Low-income consumers in Washington may qualify for assistance that will reduce the cost of basic monthly telephone service. The assistance program, known as Lifeline Affordable Telephone Service, is available to qualifying consumers in every U.S. state (territory and commonwealth). Lifeline provides discounts each month on telephone...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released a report showing that Washington banks receiving capital through the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) continue to increase their small business lending. The SBLF, established as part of the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama signed into law in 2010, encourages community banks to increase their lending to small businesses, helping those companies expand their operations and create new jobs. Treasury invested more than $4.0 billion in 332 institutions through the...
A trophy has been awarded to the Odessa School District in recognition of the advanced scientific work of Kira Powel, her mentor/teacher Jeff Wehr and the school itself for its support for her science research. The accompanying letter reads as follows: “Enclosed is a trophy to honor and recognize the achievements of Kira Powell. Kira competed in research paper competition at the 50th National Junior Science & Humanities Symposium, May 2012, and won top honors for research on ...
The annual Odessa-Harrington Titans Booster Club auction will be held at the Odessa Community Center this Saturday, Oct. 6. The event kicks off with happy hour at 5:30 p.m., steak dinner at 6:00, and the auction will begin at 7:30. According to Larry Weber, one of the event organizers, the club has collected 75 - 100 silent auction items and about 15 live auction items. Included in the offerings are a Titan football helmet autographed by team members, a Titan T-shirt quilt, an...
A new job for Mike Henry and a move to Idaho for him and his family has led to the resignation of Karma Henry from the school board. At their regularly scheduled meeting on September 26, 2012, board members sadly accepted her letter of resignation after it was read aloud by Superintendent Suellen White. On a much happier note, the board approved the appointment and swearing in of Heather Valverde as a new board member to fill out Henry’s term. Preschool Now that the p...
Washington's minimum wage will increase to $9.19 per hour beginning Jan. 1, 2013, the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) announced today. L&I calculates the state's minimum wage each year as required by Initiative 688, approved by Washington voters in 1998. The 15-cent-per-hour increase, from $9.04 to $9.19 an hour, reflects a 1.67 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index (for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, CPI-W) announced earlier this month by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The CPI-W...
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is seeking input on four potential visitor use improvement projects to address concerns related to access to the reservoir during times of low water. As part of the 2010 Shoreline Management Plan, a number of conceptual ideas were presented to address overcrowding and lower reservoir levels during the high visitation summer months. These included: expanding access and parking at key entry points in order to reduce congestion; rehabilitating or moving the Kettle Falls swim beach; and...
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Sergeant Chris Snowden retired September 25, 2012, after 32 years of service. Sheriff Wade Magers reported that Sergeant Snowden began his career as a dispatcher/jailer in August of 1980. After a few years as a jailer he took the road deputy test and was put on the road as a patrol deputy in October of 1985. Magers said Snowden was promoted to Sergeant in 1990, where he remained until his retirement this past week. “Sergeant Snowden has been a fixture in our office and in our communities over the pas...
Twenty-three employers are confirmed exhibitors for the Fall Hiring Event at Big Bend Community College on Oct. 17 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the ATEC Building. New companies to the area like ChinaSoft and Aviation Technical Services (ATS) are sending representatives. (ATS recently leased a large hanger from the Port of Moses Lake.) “Last year we called it a holiday hiring event because many exhibitors were retailers looking to hire for the holiday season,” said Ken Russell of the Career Placement Center at BBCC. “This year...
Walter R. Larson, 88, died Sunday, September 23, 2012, at Dry Creek Retirement and Assisted Living Community in Ellensburg. Walter owned and operated The Odessa Record with his wife Mary Lou from 1964 to 1978. A memorial service and luncheon will be held Friday, October 5, at 11 a.m. at First Lutheran Church, 512 N. Ruby St. in Ellensburg. A complete obituary will be published in The Record next week. Among Mr. Larson's survivors are his children: Gwen Larson of Ellensburg; Steve (Rosa) Larson of Cle Elum; Jone (Jeff) Stout...
What came to be called the Apache Pass fire started the weekend before Fest at around 3:30 p.m. on September 9 as a fast-moving storm system moved through the area. Several lightning strikes were reported, but there was little or no rain and the dry grass and brush in the scablands went up like a torch. By the following Monday at 6 a.m., the Spokane County Incident Management Team took over the management role from the local volunteer fire departments. Personnel and equipment...
Odessa Record staff reports We don’t yet have the full story on Fest, but from what we have heard so far, it appears to have been successful once again. Some local business people were nervous Friday, which to many seemed much quieter and smaller compared to the usual crowd. The Thursday night activities had been well-attended, but then most folks seemed to hole up in their travel trailers for most of Friday. Saturday, however, was extremely busy, and people filled the s...
Once again, the Washington Small Business Fair Committee is offering its free Bizfair. The Bizfair offers information to the general public about many topics of interest to small businesses including starting a business, expanding a business, and tips on how to succeed in business. It will focus on programs offered by federal, state, and local government agencies, local chambers of commerce, and business and trade associations. Bizfair will take place Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Renton Technical...
9/17/12: Monday just goes to show you how crazy things can get in today’s grain markets. Soybeans finished the day limit down, at 70 cents in Chicago futures, even though there were 7.7 million bushels of soybeans sold to an unknown destination over the weekend. The dollar was up and all the commodity markets suffered. Crude oil dropped $3/gallon in under a minute late in the trading day. Wheat prices dropped 45 cents from Friday morning’s recent high. Corn and soybean harvest yields were talked about as being better than exp...
The Lincoln County Fair Advisory Board is looking for a 2013 fair theme and would like the citizens of the Lincoln County communities to add their creative ideas to the effort. County residents are asked to submit their fair theme ideas to Kim Groh of Almira via email at kimgroh@centurytel.net. Anyone without computer access may bring their suggestions to The Odessa Record office, and we will submit them to Groh. Entries are due by October 14, and the Lincoln Country Fair Advisory Board will pick one lucky entry at the next f...
Sustained winds of 22 - 25 miles per hour Monday took what is now called the Apache Pass fire from about 200 acres Sunday evening to more than 18,000 as of Tuesday morning. Extremely dry conditions in the scablands contributed to the blaze. All available firefighters from the Odessa area responded to the blaze, which at its closest point to Odessa was burning Monday afternoon about 12 miles north of Odessa, just north of Eagle Springs Road. Crews from Wilbur, Creston,...
The carnival will be at Fest after all – too late to get into the flyer printed by the employees of the local branch of Bank of America but a welcome addition nevertheless. Fortunately for The Record, the carnival information was inadvertantly left in the copy of the schedule that ran in last week’s supplement to the newspaper. Last-minute preparations and a flurry of activity all over town mean that Fest is about to begin. Despite the volunteer firefighters being pulled awa...
Menno Mennonite Church sits atop a grassy knoll surrounded by miles and miles of wheat fields. But on Saturday, October 6, this isolated country church between Moses Lake and Ritzville will become one of the busiest places in two counties as it hosts the 35th Annual Mennonite Country Auction and Relief Sale. You will find homemade Mennonite and Amish quilts, a copper kettle bubbling with homemade apple butter, a hand-cranked cider press, food booths, craft booths, crowds of people enjoying the blue skies and crisp autumn...
Tuesday morning, Frank and Marcus Horak opened for business as usual. Just not in the usual place. In just a little over two months, the brothers have purchased the old VFW building, remodeled it and moved their entire Odessa Auto Parts inventory from their former location on West First Ave. According to the brothers, the whole idea began around July 1, when they made an offer on the VFW building. The purchase was finalized at the beginning of August, and the real work began....
The results of the Lincoln County Fair have been released and only the swine results have somehow gone missing and will be provided later. Display booths representing the theme of this year’s fair were entered by Canniwai Grange of Odessa, which took first place and the Lincoln County Pomona Grange of Marlin which took second place. The Odessa/Harrington FFA chapters worked together on a display entitled “Is There Yellow in Your Green?”, which won Best of Show. In the FFA P...
Only one week left to Deutschesfest, and there is still much work to do. And plans to get it done, if you know who to ask. Dale Ramm, project coordinator for the outdoor stage, reported that all Lions are encouraged to come to the Festplatz all day Saturday and after church Sunday to finish up. There are trim boards to be painted and installed, and the bricks which were sold to finance the project to be laid. Ramm said that having the bricks finished is the highest priority. “We’ll get it all done,” he said. Marlon Schaf...
Preparations for Deutschesfest 2012 are well underway. Odessa’s royalty, Miss Odessa Kendall Todd and Princesses Koralynne Kuch and Melani Fehrer, have been visiting parades and events around the area, promoting the Fest and making sure that people wherever they go are well versed in the “Chicken Dance.” Chamber members have been busy repairing, painting and constructing tables and benches for use in the Biergarten, as well as upgrading the outdoor sound system for playi...
A group of Odessa residents, including Chamber of Commerce president Marlon Schafer and Paul Hopp, are hoping to raise interest for the refurbishment and reinstallation of the historic town clock, which has graced at least two buildings in town until its retirement. The clock, which is over six feet tall from base to cap, was originally, according to Hopp, hung on the front of the Thiel Block, outside what is now Iverson Law Office. The filled-in holes from that installation...
Legumex Walker, Inc. has announced that its 85%-owned subsidiary, Pacific Coast Canola (PCC), has expanded its previously existing agreement with CHS, Inc., for the procurement of canola oilseed and off-take of canola meal to include the sales of canola oil products produced at the PCC canola processing facility in Warden, Wash. The facility, which is the first commercial-scale canola processing operation west of the Rocky Mountains and the largest expeller-pressed canola processing facility in North America, is scheduled to...
Former Odessa Town Council member Kim C. Ramm narrowly lost her bid to become a Lincoln County Commissioner. In the final vote count taken on Monday, August 20, she trailed Alan Stromberger by only six votes. She had a total of 346 votes for 32.46% of the total. Stromberger had 352 votes or 33.02% of the total, and Mark Stedman had 368 or 34.52% of the total 1,066 votes. Stromberger and Stedman will face off in the general election in November. In a separate electoral race, Ramm retained her seat as the Republican Precinct Co...
