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The Odessa Quilt Club’s annual ‘Quilt ‘til You Wilt’ event took place in the social hall of Heritage Chuch this past Monday, gathering together quilters from all over the area and beyong. According to organizer Laura Estes, approximately 100 people attended the event at some time during the day. Registered visitors numbered 91, but several of those brought along a friend or two. The church basement hummed with activity, sewing machines whirred, irons stood silently at the read...
For the third consecutive year, Odessa’s Team “Got Pink?” is forming to participate in the Komen Eastern Washington Race for the Cure in Spokane on Sunday, April 22, 2012. In 2011, Team “Got Pink?” took 94 entrants to the event, which raises funds for breast cancer research and awareness. Many of the racers made a party of it, spending the night in Spokane and attending a dinner honoring local breast cancer survivors. Those who don’t feel able to participate in either the 1 mile or 3 mile run/walk can support the cause by pa...
Local high school students can get information on 15 colleges and universities during College Planning Day at Big Bend Community College on March 27. The event lasts from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Each student will have time to attend four 30-minute presentations, including one on how to apply for financial aid. The presentations are held in separate locations in ATEC and the Liberal Arts and Business Building (Building 1600). Schools participating in College Planning Day include: Big Bend Community College, Central Washington...
The Bureau of Reclamation is offering a reward for information concerning the illegal dumping of used vehicle tires into the Chandler Canal near the water intake structures at the Chandler Powerplant located about 10 miles east of Prosser. Authorities say that about 100 used vehicle tires were found floating outside the water intake structures at the Chandler Powerplant in the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Reclamation officials report that the tires were removed from the area before they caused any...
Town council continued . . . Due to space constraints, last week’s report on the March 12 town council meeting was unfinished. The other items discussed (besides the proposal for policing services by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office) are reported below: The council also heard from Kennet Bertelsen, representing the town’s contracted engineering firm USKH, who had studied the barriers to mobility-impaired residents and visitors within the town of Odessa under a grant awarded by the four-county government entity Quadc...
The lease has been signed, the money continues to be raised and the hard work really begins now for those involved with the meat processing facility to be built on property adjacent to the Odessa Industrial Park. The Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW), represented by Sue Lani Madsen of Edwall and Ed Gross of the Spokane Hutterian Brethren, signed the lease agreement Tuesday morning at the office of Mark DeWulf of the law firm Carpenter, McGuire & DeWulf. CPoW currently has...
Well, it is getting to be springlike around Odessa. At the same time, it also means that the time leading up to Deutschesfest is growing ever shorter. Maybe its time to start working on our German, too. Ron Sowinski, who visited Odessa a few months ago, was stationed in Germany during the Vietnam era and is happy to share this anecdote with our readers. I was with a small group of Army guys who had just flown from the USA into Frankfurt, Germany on a commercial flight. We were met and taken to the Frankfurt Bahnhof (railroad...
MBA (Master of Business Administration) students from Gonzaga University will be at the Lincoln County Courthouse Monday morning at 9 a.m. to share a second set of economic analyses with County Commissioners and the Economic Development Council (EDC). This analysis supplements the SWOT survey analysis conducted by EWU planning students this past winter. Both studies are being incorporated into the County’s comprehensive Economic Development Plan. The Gonzaga MBA students, Ben Wyborney, Mike Shaffer, and Napo Piani will c...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce welcomed newly hired administrative assistant Jennifer Martin at the March 13 meeting. Martin, already a part-time employee at the Odessa Healthcare Foundation and Odessa Drug, will take on the tasks of keeping Chamber volunteers organized, as well as ensuring that the Chamber website is kept up to date. The remainder of the meeting was spent prioritizing expenditures for the year and reviewing needs for upcoming events. President Marlon Schafer presented a request for funding to replace aging...
Town council members and several members of the public were on hand Monday evening in the Odessa Public Library to hear a proposal by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office regarding having the LCSO take over as the law enforcement body for the Town of Odessa. Under the proposal presented by Sheriff Wade Magers and Undersheriff Kelly Watkins, the Odessa Town Marshal’s Office would be disbanded, although the current Odessa office location would remain and could serve as a LCSO substation for deputies to use for writing rep...
As of this week Tuesday, Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center and the Odessa Clinic have converted their record-keeping to an electronic format. The move to computer-based records was prompted in part by incentives offered by the government programs of Medicare and Medicaid, which offered incentives to medical facilities making the transition, said hospital administrator Gary DelForge. The software package alone comes at a cost of $600,000. Necessary hardware and equipment,...
Odessa’s Old Town Hall was the designated site for Republicans of Lincoln County Commissioner District 1 to caucus on March 3. A total of 18 precents were represented at the event. This was the first time Lincoln County had held pooled caucuses by commissioner district. Norman Ott, Area Chairman for District 1, reported that 76 people participated at Old Town Hall, with 27 going for Ron Paul, 22 for Mitt Romney, 17 for Rick Santorum, 8 for Newt Gingrich and 2 undecided. R...
The Harrington Opera House Society (HOHS) is getting ready to start a new season of events with the return of the Grammy Award winners Tingstad & Rumbel on March 17. A presentation by missionaries Larry and Susan Weil is set for Sunday, March 18, the Ritzville Community Theatre will perform their original audience interactive play “Three in a Row – a Game Show” on April 21, and there will be a quilt show and performance by the Coulee Community Choir the weekend of April 28-29...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service agency has a portion of its farm loan program funds specifically allocated for minority and women producers announced Judy Olson, State Executive director. "While FSA farm loans are available to all qualified applicants, by setting aside funds specifically for minorities and women, it ensures that they will receive a portion of available funds," said Olson. Loan funds can be used to purchase farms, livestock and equipment. They may also be used to operate the farm, build or...
Everyone has a moral responsibility to report cases of sexual molestation or other severe abuse of children to authorities. Washington State Representative Mary Lou Dickerson (D-Seattle) wants to make it a legal responsibility as well. Dickerson is proposing legislation that would require every adult in Washington to contact a law enforcement agency when they have reasonable grounds to suspect that a child is being severely abused or neglected. “Children are suffering behind curtains of silence as we try to combat serial s...
The Hartline Betterment Organization recently received a $5,000 National Trust Preservation Funds grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The vital funds, allocated from the Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Fund and the Eldridge Campbell Stockton Memorial Fund for Washington, will help support architectural services needed for the next phase of the Historic Hartline School Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse Project. The National Trust Preservation Fund grant, together with local matching funds, will support the...
Kramer Schutz, son of Ken and Lea Ann Schutz of Odessa, has been named to the Dean’s List at Carroll College, Helena, Mont., for the fall 2011 semester. Appointment to the Dean’s List at Carroll College requires an average of 3.5 or higher for all courses taken in a semester. Schutz was a 2010 graduate of Odessa High School....
Stan Wills was one of the two gentlemen who came to Reiman Park in Odessa to demonstrate Colonial era clothing and other items, including muskets and coins. Stan Wills, age 60, recently took on a summer project. Half way between Sprague and Harrington on Hwy 23 there stood an old log cabin. The roof had fallen in, and it was about to be torn down and burned. Stan approached the current land owner and asked if he could have it. The land owner agreed, and the project began....
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center employee Karen Carlson had just finished an all-day CPR training session when she had the opportunity to put what she had learned into practice. While eating at a restaurant in Moses Lake, Carlson heard someone choking behind her. The man’s wife was attempting to perform the Heimlich maneuver, but the man collapsed to the floor. Carlson was able to give him chest compressions, and perform a finger sweep of his mouth, after which, she said, h...
Last Wednesday’s severe windstorm raised havoc from one end of town to another. Those of us watching from the safety of our downtown businesses saw hordes of tumbleweeds blowing along First Avenue, with some then swirling down intersecting streets as suction created small whirlwinds off to the side. Garbage cans, their lids and all manner of other debris were swept into other people’s yards, Crab Creek and the surrounding countryside. Two homes on Fourth Avenue lost pine trees...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 2/23/12: White wheat prices held steady even as Chicago futures prices closed lower on Thursday. The value of the dollar was down on the day but that didn’t help grain prices today. Export sales are delayed until tomorrow due to the holiday on Monday but are expected to show good totals for both corn and wheat last week. Spain reportedly bought some more U.S. SRW for feed and there were sales of 4 million bushels to unknown destinations as well recently. L...
Farmers and ranchers interested in the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) can sign up March 12 through April 6. CRP has a 25-year legacy of successfully protecting the nation’s natural resources through voluntary participation, while providing significant economic and environmental benefits to rural communities across Washington state, explained FSA County Executive Director. CRP allows agricultural producers to enroll land in 10- to 15-year contracts that help preserve environmentally sensitive la...
The final discussion at Tuesday’s Chamber of Commerce meeting was about the current condition s of the float and the representatives needed to ride it. “I would pay to have my kid not ride on that float!” was reported as the reaction from many parents. This is not the first time this topic has arisen at Chamber meetings, which has been responsible for funding the float for the past few years. In previous years, young women of the junior class were encouraged to visit downtown businesses to help offset not only the cost of th...
At the February 23, 2012, meeting of the Odessa School Board, board members and administrators heard the concerns of several parents of 5th-grade students. Odessa 5th-graders this year do not have just one 5th-grade teacher in a single classroom. Instead, they have lockers and go to different classrooms for different subjects taught under different teachers, just as junior-high students do. After second-grade teacher Bev Scherr retired a year ago, the administration opted not to hire a replacement and shifted the other...
Town Marshal Mike Wren, who has worked for the Town of Odessa for the past five years, resigned Monday morning, a move that left town officials as well as the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office scrambling to cover the town’s law enforcement needs. In a letter of resignation read to the councilmembers by Mayor Doug Plinski, Wren stated that after 23 years in law enforcement, the last 5 of them in Odessa, he felt it was “time to move on,” and gave February 27 as the effective date for his resignation. Police report Deputy Marshal...
