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Hartline Landmark Turns NinetyHartline, WA. - Aug. 7—Whether it’s a full-blown bash with a crowd to honor an old friend, or a small family gathering for a little loved one, it’s clear that young and old alike love celebrating birthdays. For community volunteers working to rehabilitate and reuse the Hartline School, this local landmark is like an old friend - unique, irreplaceable, and still here after all these years. “What better way to honor this stately structure’s 90th year and celebrate its future in the community...
The Lincoln County Economic Development council has stepped up promotion of Lincoln county's hunting and fishing opportunities and nothing sells better than a good photo. If you have a favorite fish or game photo that was taken in Lincoln County and you are willing to let us use it, please send it to edcinfo@centurylink.net and we might just make you famous!...
If you are exporting or considering exporting a product you could qualify for a $5,000 voucher from the Dept. of Commerce and the Small Business Administration. Vouchers can be used for trade show costs, translation services, export training programs and more and do not have to be paid back. To see a full list of eligible expenses and to determine if your company qualifies, go to www.tinyurl.com/7r36uhk....
The Ritzville Art Gallery has begun featuring different artists on the first Friday of each month. On September 7, several local authors will be featured and will be signing their published works and discussing their upcoming books. Dr. Miles Athey Miles Athey, Ritzville resident, will discuss his most recent publications, a Western trilogy of historical fiction about Ritzville in 1882 called Crab Creek Chronicles. Dr. Athey spent most of his career as a technical researcher, consultant and college professor. Over the past...
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...
Northwest Farm Credit Services is proud to award the Hartline Betterment Organization a $3,000 Northwest FCS Rural Community Grant to be used to renovate the former Hartline School building. Northwest FCS customer Jerry Dormaier applied for the grant. “How wonderful it is to have been selected to receive the Northwest FCS Rural Grant to aid us in the needed repairs of the historic Hartline School! These funds will enable us to correct problems with the exterior of the red b...
The lengthy remodeling project at Odessa’s public works building is nearing completion, with the recent addition of cement board siding and shakes. The project, which has been done in stages over a period of approximately two years, was spearheaded by Mayor Doug Plinski, who also was the impetus behind the recent community center facelift. This project will be something of a facelift as well, as the siding has been applied only to the sides of the building that face the s...
As of press time, harvest in the Odessa area is nearly complete, with both Ritzville Warehouse/The Odessa Trading Company and Odessa Union Warehouse reporting that they are 70 - 80 percent complete. "It's been moving right along," said Mark Cronrath of The Odessa Trading Company. He added that although yields have been "all over the place," the grain has been of good quality, with good weight and protein levels. A dry winter, late spring frosts and a hot spell that hit prior...
The August 7, 2012 primary election was apparently fairly unappealing to most voters, as very few of them bothered to vote at all. Despite the very low turnout, the Lincoln County race for County Commissioner was one of the closest in the state, with only a few percentage points separating each of the three candidates. As The Record goes to press this week, Mark Stedman had a slight lead over Kim Ramm who had a slight lead over Alan Stromberger. This is one race, where...
The first STEM Summer Institutes at Big Bend Community College will be held in late August for both high school students and college students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). "This is an opportunity to learn from local engineers working at Takata, Katana Summit and Genie Industries." said Rafael Villalobos, Jr. BBCC STEM Support Specialist, Villalobos is developing partnerships between BBCC and local industries that students can use for future interships and employment. The Summer...
The cost of getting a GED will double starting in October, according to Big Bend Community College officials. The testing fees will increase from $75 to $150 for the certification, said Sandy Cheek, Director of Basic Skills at BBCC. If students start their GED testing before October 1, they will be charged only the current $75 fee regardless of whether they complete the tests by that date, Cheek said. There will be a fee increase at all GED test sites in the state. GED preparation classes are offered by the college in the...
Marissa Brown, a senior at Davenport High School, will be holding a talent show at this years Lincoln County Fair, Friday, August 24 , as part of her senior project. She is hoping to attract any and all who want to share their talent and is hoping to raise money for the Davenport High Choral program. This is not a competition, but rather a chance to show what talent you have. It should be a fun outing for everyone! Performers will receive entrance to the fair on Friday, so call as soon as possible for available time slots!...
I’ve often said the U.S. health care system is so complex that trying to understand it makes your hair hurt. Case in point: the Affordable Care Act runs more than 2,000 pages. I’ll grant you that it’s a massive piece of legislation — but lawmakers felt that’s what was needed to fix at least some of the problems that resulted from the helter-skelter way our health care system developed. This complexity also helps explain why it has been so difficult for the Obama administration to communicate how the numerous provision...
The Department of Ecology’s Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) is looking for applicants to fill nearly 300 AmeriCorps service positions in 16 counties across the state. The WCC was created in 1983 and has provided opportunities and training for more than 1,700 young adults. In 1994, WCC started received federal AmeriCorps funding, allowing crews to carry out on-the-ground projects across the state. Local communities rely on WCC to complete environmental projects by forming cost-share agreements with Ecology. Typical WCC a...
The area’s wheat harvest is now in full swing. A few farmers were ready to go a week ago, but the prior weekend’s thunderstorm postponed things for a few more days while everything dried out again. According to both Mark Cronrath of the Odessa Trading Company and Byron Behne of the Odessa Union Warehouse Company, frost damage from last winter is turning out to be the primary weather event affecting yields for most farmers this year. Both men also said that yields ranged all...
A pizza party will be served August 6, the last day of the Summer Feeding Program. Breakfast will be served at the Odessa School cafeteria at 9 a.m. After breakfast, participants will be shown how to make homemade applesauce and strawberry jam. The pizza party will follow. Throughout the summer everyone who came to breakfast placed their name in a container to win an Odessa Titan backpack. Two backpacks will be given out - one for a boy and one for a girl. The drawing will be held after breakfast on the last day. Gift...
With the support of local businesses and community members, Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center raised a total of $2,128.30 for the American Cancer Society Lincoln County Relay for Life 2012 campaign. These funds stay in Lincoln County to help local citizens who need assistance with expenses related to cancer care. The OMHC team is already planning events to raise funds for the 2013 Relay for Life that will be held in Davenport on June 13 and 14. The first fundraiser will be a lunch of chef salad and homemade rolls next Wednesd...
The hiring of a new science teacher for Odessa High School was approved at the July 25 meeting of the Odessa School Board. Seth Hodges comes to Odessa from St. Michael’s, a private Catholic high school on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. The school there is about the same size as Odessa’s school. Hodges is originally from Washington and his elderly mother still lives in the state, so he was looking for a way to move back “home.” The board also accepted the resignation of Darin Reppe as the athletic director for the Odessa-...
Odessa Foods has been under new ownership for one year, and that anniversary was celebrated by the store and its owners and managers last Saturday. A corner of the parking lot was used for the event, with a large barbecue set up for cooking and an awning set up to provide shade. Owners Bob and Bonnie Dewey made sure everyone who stopped by had either a hamburger, a hot dog or a sausage on a bun, plus a soft drink. Jeff and Debbie Norris ran the store and looked in on the...
Spokane’s whooping cough (pertussis) epidemic passed 100 cases this week, just as new numbers indicate that only 25 percent of the state’s local allocation of low-cost vaccine has been administered. Over the past two months, Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) received almost 2,000 doses of state-donated whooping cough vaccine. The health district distributed the majority of the vaccine to several local providers and pharmacies to administer, yet uptake has been relatively slow. To their credit, between the three loc...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce heard updatess on several projects at its July 24 meeting, but at the top of the list was Deutschesfest, which is a mere 7 weeks away as The Record goes to press. It was reported that the FFA chapter has declined to be in charge of the Youth Garten, so options for other possible operators were discussed. Publicity chairwoman Korianne Scheller reported that she has still been unable to contact anyone from the carnival that set up in the Odessa Foo...
A break in the Odessa Drug burglary case, which has been ongoing since last spring, has led to the arrest of two suspects and the search for at least one more. According to Kelly Watkins of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office, the department recently received information that, when taken together with the video from the store’s security camera as well as various interviews, creates a “pretty tight case.” Watkins confirmed that the two men arrested Saturday were Josh Granchi...
At Monday night’s meeting of the Odessa Town Council, Dave Edens was announced as the town’s new building inspector. Edens is a retired cabinet-maker and builder with a wealth of experience in the building trades. The council approved permits for a new exhaust fan at the hospital and a pole building adjacent to the Finney Field grandstand for bus storage. The council passed Resolution 2012-7, raising the debt limit on the town’s credit card from $5,000 to $10,000 to provide more purchasing flexibility. Monroe said he has cond...
Helen Coubra has been in law enforcement since 1986, mostly working west of the Cascades and most recently working for Wahkiakum County. That department was not very large, having only nine officers, including the sheriff and undersheriff. However, this will be her first job as head of a police force, as well as her first job in such a small department. She said she plans to be visiting the downtown businesses and getting acquainted with folks on the street just as soon as she...
