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Much of Monday night’s town council meeting was spent discussing the proposed cost increase of dispatch and jail services from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO). Currently, the town of Odessa pays $2,500 per year for the service. Sheriff Wade Magers is proposing an annual cost of $18,000, based on several contributing factors. Magers looked at alternate ways of calculating the billing; using number of calls, percent of usage, population, and other factors. According to his report, the $18,000 figure was the low...
Keller Ferry, located in Lincoln County on northbound SR 21 at milepost 107 on the Columbia River, will be out of service for repairs on Wednesday, October 26, from 6 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. During those hours drivers will need to find alternate routes....
Ballots for the Nov. 8 general election were mailed Oct. 19 to all Lincoln County registered voters. Those who do not receive a ballot by October 24 are asked to contact the Auditor’s office at 725-4971. First-class postage is required on the ballot, which must be postmarked by Nov. 8. Drop-off sites are also available through 8 p.m. on election night at: • Lincoln County Courthouse, 4550 Logan St., Davenport, drop box on east side of building (open 24 hours) or at elections desk in Auditor’s office, open Mon.-Fri., 9 a...
Titan student-athlete Jared King was selected as the WIAA/Seattle Times State Athlete of the Week for Class 1B boys. King, a junior, passed for 178 yards and two touchdowns, rushed eight times for 40 yards and a TD, returned a kickoff 85 yards for a score and made 15 tackles (five solo) and two sacks in a 42-28 homecoming victory over Wilbur-Creston....
A $4.4 million federal grant focusing on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) was awarded to Big Bend Community College September 20. The grant provides $900,000 per year for five years toward STEM curricula, facilities, equipment, career advising and professional development. “It will be exciting to see how the resulting collaboration with employers and baccalaureate institutions will impact our students and our communities,” said BBCC President Bill Bonaudi. Jobs in STEM fields are plentiful in the col...
Odessa parent Kim King sent a correction to the newspaper article on the school board meeting, regarding 6th graders playing up: the petition signed by 7th and 8th graders stated, “We the undersigned 7th and 8th graders feel 6th graders should not play junior high sports UNLESS there are not enough players for a team....
Effective October 4, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ended the regulated fire closure on public lands it manages in the state of Washington. The fire closure is no longer necessary due to recent precipitation and cooler temperatures. BLM asks the public to use caution when operating motorized vehicles on roads and trails that have areas of high grass and vegetation and to ensure campfires are out before leaving the area....
Governor Gregoire has proclaimed Oct. 17 – 22 as Careers in Energy Week to promote the need to build a smart-energy workforce. Washington joins 11 other states in supporting the national drive, coordinated by the Center for Energy Workforce Development. Washington’s events are coordinated by the Pacific Northwest Center of Excellence for Clean Energy, a Centralia College partnership. Four events throughout Washington will engage high school students and counselors in activities to support Careers in Energy Week. The eve...
The Christian Poets Academy is sponsoring a free poetry contest open to everyone. There are 50 prizes totaling $5,000, with a $1,000 grand prize for the winner. Poems of 21 lines or less on any subject in any style will be judged by the contest director Dr. Jeremy Cameron. “We love encouraging poets with cash prizes,” he says. “We trust this contest will produce exciting results!” Send poem by Nov. 15 deadline to: Free Poetry Contest, PO Box 761, Medford, OR 97501. Or enter at www.freecontest.com. Include your name and add...
We were the beneficiaries last week of contractor Peter Cooper’s interest in masonry. He is the gentleman working on The Odessa Record/Any Occasion Banquet Hall building, scraping away old paint, repairing broken brick and adding the proper type of mortar to stabilize the building. On Tuesday evening of this week, he told us he worked until midnight reparing the arch above the main doors to The Record’s offices. He told us he had to finish the work all in the same day bec...
The Odessa-Harrington Athletic Booster Club, with assistance from the Odessa Riders Club, put on a dinner and auction Saturday evening to raise money for warm-up jackets and other gear for all of the O-H sports teams. Grilled steaks, a baked potato bar, Caesar salad and white or chocolate cake for dessert made up the menu. As people made their way through the buffet-style serving line, they had plenty of opportunity to visit with old friends or meet new people. Businesses and...
Editor’s note: The Chamber notes below begin with the remainder of the September 27 Chamber meeting results, followed by the October 11 results. Margie Hall, Lincoln County Economic Development Council (EDC) director, urged all Lincoln County businesses to add any commercial properties available for sale or lease to the list being maintained by her Davenport office. The list is being used to target northwest entrepreneurs looking to get out of urban environments, letting them know that lower-cost facilities are available t...
On September 29, 2011, the Columbia River Policy Advisory Group (CRPAG) met in Ellensburg to discuss several major water supply issues relating to the Columbia River.A key issue discussed was the Odessa Aquifer Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which will start the process of getting surface water delivered to irrigators in the Odessa Subarea to replace their use of groundwater from the rapidly declining aquifer. In particular, Bill Gray of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and Derek Sandison of the Washington State...
When asked how he heard about Honor Flight, Lloyd Tebow replied, “Well, we were over at Barb’s ( Tebow’s daughter, Barb Greenwalt), and she asked if I’d like to go. I said ‘well, I can’t do that.’ Tyler (Tebow’s grandson) was over messing around with some game on the TV and he found the form on the website and filled it out for me.” When his application was received, he was 139th on the waiting list. After about 7 months, Tebow was notified that he would be a part of the Inl...
The minimum wage in Washington state goes up 37 cents January 1, 2012 to $9.04 an hour. Washington is one of only 10 states that ensure by law that their minimum wage keeps up with inflation, which was calculated at just over 4 percent this year. Whenever there’s a minimum wage hike, some employers claim the extra cost will put them out of business. But that has not happened, says John Schmitt, a senior economist with the Center for Economic Policy Research, who studies wage trends since the 1930s. “What the evidence see...
Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW) will hold their annual meeting Friday, October 21, at the Pillar Rock Grill in Moses Lake from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The cost of the all-day and evening event is $60. Two panel discussions will be offered. One focuses on the CPoW livestock processing facility planned for the Odessa Industrial Park, as well as on the marketing of meats. The second will concentrate on wolves in Washington state. There will be time for questions from the audience. A U.S. beef prime-rib dinner will be served from...
Several parents attended the regularly scheduled Odessa School District board meeting September 28 to express support for a change in athletic policy. According to the majority, Odessa is the only 1B school that does not allow sixth-graders to “play up” to junior-high level athletics. They contend that since Odessa is now participating in an athletic cooperative, both schools should follow the same guidelines. Support was not unanimous, however. One parent delivered a petition signed by 7th and 8th graders protesting the cha...
As a result of her first-place finishes at science fairs held earlier in the summer, Kira Powell was eligible to join 10 other high school students from all parts of the United States who attended the London International Youth Science Forum, which focussed this year on the Science of the Seas. It was held at the South Kensington campus of Imperial College in central London from July 27 to August 10. The group of American students arrived in London on July 28, accompanied by t...
Not all of the figures for Deutschesfest are in, but some information was available at Tuesday’s Chamber of Commerce meeting. Biergarten Chairman Ted Bruya and assistant chairman Justin Parr reported that the Biergarten gate receipts and kitchen sales were down somewhat from last year, meaning that fewer visitors likely came to Fest this year (something that most in Odessa had guessed based on their own observations). Due to an increase in prices instituted this year, h...
The Harrington Fall Festival took place last weekend, with a football game Friday afternoon, a folk-music concert that same evening (see Lise Ott’s article on the concert, page 4), a parade on Saturday morning and throughout the afternoon alumni reunions of former Harrington High graduates. Lunch in the park included deep-pit barbecued beef sandwiches (with sides of potato salad, baked beans and chips), burgers, hot dogs and soft drinks. Vendors were selling alumni shirts, pie...
A $4.4 million federal grant focusing on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) was awarded to Big Bend Community College September 20. The grant provides $900,000 per year for five years toward STEM curricula, facilities, equipment, career advising and professional development. “It will be exciting to see how the resulting collaboration with employers and baccalaureate institutions will impact our students and our communities,” said BBCC President Bill Bonaudi. Jobs in STEM fields are plentiful in the col...
Editor’s note: The following article includes information from both the September 12 and 16 meetings of the Odessa Town Council. September 12 A lawsuit brought against the Town of Odessa in 2004 has been resolved. Town Council members went into executive session at the end of the September 12 meeting to hear from Mayor Doug Plinski that the suit had been dropped. Following the executive session, members met again briefly in open session to announce the decision received in the form of a letter from the court. Plinski said t...
Reminder: The deadline for submitting applications for the Lincoln County Economic Development Fund grant program is this Friday, September 30. The program guidelines and the application are available online at www.lincolnedc.org. IACC Conference: Infrastructure Assistance Coordinating Council annual conference, October 19-21, at the Wenatchee Convention Center. Conference cost is $175, with $100 scholarships available – an excellent conference on funding for needed infrastructure. More info at www.infrafu...
The 41st Odessa Deutschesfest celebration is now behind us, and it’s time to regroup and think about what went right and what went wrong. Most vendors of food, crafts and souvenirs that we spoke to appeared to have done quite well. According to Nancy Kramer of the Friends of the Library, the used-book sale made more money than it did last year. Kelly Kissler Korpenin of JonathINN’s said that on Saturday she had to run out to the farm for some of the food that they had set asi...
Ephrata will hold its first annual Brewers' Harvest Expo Saturday, September 24, from noon to 6 p.m. on the Grant County Courthouse lawn. Visitors will be able to sample offerings from 11 northwest craft breweries. Admission is $25 and includes 12 two-ounce samples and a souvenir glass. Additional four-ounce samples can be purchased for $1 each. Organizer Denver Morford said the Expo will double as a fundraiser for college-bound high school athletes at Ephrata High. The Marty O'Brien Scholarship Fund was established in 2007...
