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Jim Kershner, whose recent article in the Spokesman Review featured the Harrington Opera House and BankBlock, will be presenting a Humanities Washington program entitled, “Two Extraordinary Lives in the Inland Northwest: Carl Maxey and Chief Moses.” This free event will be held on Friday, July 13 at 7 p.m. in the Opera House auditorium. Kershner is a well-known author, historian and journalist in Spokane and is a staff historian for HistoryLink.org, an online Encyclopedia of...
The Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundaiton recently awarded a $15,000 grant to the Hartline Betterment Organization, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The vital funds will help support the completion of capital improvements for the Historic Hartline School Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse Project. The timely grant award, combined with additional funding assistance, will allow the HBO to proceed with planned exterior masonry repairs on the Hartline School. The charitable...
The Odessa High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America sent 16 students to the national FBLA conference in San Antonio, Texas this summer, and the Chapter, as a whole, won first place for its Partnership with Business presentation. The group worked on a program with the 2nd Harvest Food Bank to provide backpacks filled with weekend take-home food for needy youngsters in area communities. Also competing very well and coming in second in the category of Business...
High-school-age youths will return to Eastern Washington roadsides this week to clean up litter tossed by motorists. Teens aged 14 to 17 will work this summer along roadsides near Chewelah, Clarkston, Colville, Ephrata, Inchelium, Moses Lake, Othello, Pasco, Pullman, Republic, Ritzville, Spokane, Walla Walla and Wilbur. The last time crews cleaned up litter in the Walla Walla vicinity was in 1998 because of the active local participation in the Department of Transportation’s “Adopt a Highway” program. But that parti...
Several parents of spring 2012 college graduates from Odessa and its nearest neighboring towns submitted photos and information on their children’s progress. The official results have now also been released by Washington State University and are included below, regardless of whether prior articles have appeared in The Record about any given student. Honors earned by students are listed as follows: summa cum laude for a cumulative grade point average of 3.90 or better, magna cum laude for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.70 b...
The Washington State Association of Head Start and ECEAP (WSA) has been awarded a two-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to provide financial literacy training and asset building for parents who have children enrolled in Head Start and ECEAP. By partnering with the Washington Asset Building Coalition and the Washington State Department of Commerce, this innovative approach will be integrated into WSA’s Parent Ambassadors Program which provides high quality peer-to-peer leadership and advocacy training to 25 low-incom...
I was inside the Supreme Court yesterday when Chief Justice Roberts announced the Court’s historic ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act. As a mom of two young children, a wife who helps balance the family budget, and someone who helped run a family-owned small business, I am disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision – especially on the individual mandate, which is a dangerous expansion of government power. The health care law that passed Congress over the will of th...
Much of Monday night’s town council meeting dealt with the June 19 vandalism of Odessa’s public pool, which was originally scheduled to open Thursday, June 21. Sometime early the previous Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, someone threw a container of red dye into the pool that was later identified as the dye that is added to diesel fuel before it is sold. Because the additive can irritate the skin, the pool had to be drained and cleaned, delaying its opening from June 21 to...
Christ Lutheran Church youth have scheduled a Family Night with the Spokane Indians, Friday, July 13. They will leave the church at 4:00 p.m. Game time is 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be in Airway Heights for a quick burger. The tickets are $9 each with a $5 per person gas donation if you are riding the church bus. Tickets are limited as is seating on the bus. Youth entering 6th grade may attend without a parent. Please contact the church office, at 982-2411, if you are interested in attending as soon as possible. The church youth...
The Ephrata Rotary Club is taking over sponsorship of the annual Basin Summer Sounds 3-on-3 basketball tournament this year. The name has been changed to “Rim 2 Rim.” The tournament will be held on July 20 and 21, with games starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday. The cost is $100 per 4-person team for those who register before July 8. Thereafter the cost increases to $125. Those registering late will NOT get a T-shirt. Registration forms are available online at www.ephratarotary.com....
The Bureau of Reclamation is advising people camping along the Lake Roosevelt shoreline over the July 4 weekend to be aware of potential dangers that could exist due to rapidly rising lake levels. The lake is impounded by Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River about 90 miles west of Spokane, Wash. “When camping along the shoreline, it is recommended that tents and other belongings be kept well away from the water’s edge,” said Lynne Brougher, public affairs officer. “Although the lake is a popular vacation spot, it is also...
Due to rehabilitation work on the fuel system, on-water fuel service will not be available at Daisy Station on Lake Roosevelt until further notice. These pumps will remain closed until the system upgrades have been completed. All other services at Daisy will be open for business including the roadside fuel pumps and the store. Five gallon portable cans will be available to move gas from the roadside pump to the boat dock to allow for fueling of boats. Please call 509-738-2995 for updated information. All services will be...
The Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) Spokane Regional Office would like to remind Pacific Northwest livestock producers of the livestock risk management programs available in all counties in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) program for fed cattle, feeder cattle, lamb and swine and the Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) program for swine will begin sales for the 2013 crop year on July 2, 2012, and will continue through June 30, 2013 or until the maximum underwriting capacity is reached. LRP coverage p...
In order to facilitate greater input from the public and key stakeholders, including industry and public health groups, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced that it is extending the public comment period for a proposed rule to require companies to publicly disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations on federal and Indian lands. Notice of the 60-day extension, which resets the comment deadline for Sept. 10, 2012, is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Tuesday, June 26....
As a result of our most recent Washington State Department of Health Survey, Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center must be protected throughout the facility by an approved, supervised, automatic sprinkler system. Because it is an older facility, OMHC has been grandfathered in over the years. Now, however, it has become a requirement for us to ensure that the automatic sprinkler system is installed throughout the facility. Currently, most of the facility has adequate automatic sprinkler systems installed. The north wing of the hos...
The Odessa School Board met June 19 to consider an offer to purchase the old bus barn. The Odessa Trading Company’s offer of the district’s minimum asking price of $57,000 was accepted by unanimous vote of the board. The board discussed three bids it had received for the construction of two different sizes of a new storage facility for the district’s vehicles. The bid from Johnson Brothers Construction was accepted for erection of a 50' x 72' free-standing pole structure attached to the grandstand. The board asked for chang...
The 76th Odessa High School alumni banquet held last Saturday evening boasted one person celebrating her 80th high school reunion, while the class of 2012 also had one representative attending his first reunion. OHS graduate Austin Schmierer (2012) was on hand to accept his Alumni Association scholarship and Helen (Hopp) Wolf (class of 1932) was also present, bringing her 1932 high school yearbook with her. Therefore, for the first time in many years, someone other than Ed...
Odessa had foreign visitors last week, German citizens traveling through the U.S. and Canada, visiting relatives in Cincinnati and then venturing west. They were on their way to Vancouver (Washington or Canada? – we forgot to ask which) and ultimately Seattle, from which they would fly home to Germany. The two married couples had noticed the town of Odessa on their travel map, and since both gentlemen had been born in the vicinity of Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine), they were i...
Alan Stromberger of Sprague is a Lincoln County rancher heavily involved in several civic, business and governmental organizations. He raises hay and grain on his property along Crab Creek and rents out his cow pasture to the Farm Burea. Due to his civic activism and the many personal contacts he has established, both locally and in Olympia, Stromberger said, his phone starting ringing as soon as retiring commissioner Dennis Bly announced that he would not be seeking...
The rendering of Military Funeral Honors is one way this Nation shows its deep gratitude to those who, in times of war and peace, have faithfully defended our country. It wasn’t until the year 2000 that Congress made this ceremonial paying of respects a statutory benefit for a veteran’s family. Prior to that time – even in recent years – men and women who have served honorably have died without ever receiving a formal demonstration of gratitude for their service and sacrifice. The Veterans Memorial Tribute Program is dedicat...
As the country awaits the United States Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, there has been significant interest in how hospitals are preparing. The Affordable Care Act is a landmark piece of legislation, and the Washington State Hospital Association supports it as a way to ensure all our residents have needed health care coverage and access to care. There are now more than a million people in Washington State without health insurance. As the people on the front lines who care for the uninsured in times of crisi...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 6/14/12: It was a mixed day in the grain markets on Thursday as corn and wheat both traded higher while soybeans tanked. Export sales for soy and wheat were strong while corn exports were a marketing year low. The markets are edgy ahead of Greek elections this weekend that could further roil European financial markets. China bought 3.7 million bushels of U.S. soft red winter wheat overnight in an unusual move. The main crop news seems to be focusing on...
The Rolling Thunder Saloon closed its doors last week, due to the pressures of a poor economy, said proprietors Nate Lathrop and Elisabeth Springer. The business has given up its liquor license, but it is nevertheless not for sale. The owners plan to keep the building, and, if things should improve economically over the next couple of years, there is a chance that the Saloon could re-open. Lathrop told The Record that he could no longer justify putting his own money into the...
At the June 12 meeting of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, President Marlon Schafer and community kitchen project chairperson Lindsy Starkel brought to the membership’s attention a potentially costly problem with the current roof design of the Odessa Community Center. Expansion of the current kitchen to provide room enough for the commercial kitchen approved by the Chamber for use by startup businesses as well as for cooking and serving food at Deutschesfest and other community events will require raising the roof to ensure a...
Due to space limitations last week, the Odessa Town Council report continues here: Odessa Deputy Town Marshal Bryce Peterson reported that after a couple of quiet weeks, things had gotten very busy again, with 15 to 20 calls coming in since the prior week. Some were relatively routine (barking dogs, scrap metal theft) and some were definitely out of the ordinary. He said he was called in the middle of the night recently to provide assistance to another agency by removing a dead deer from a county roadway. Expecting a pretty...
