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A public ceremony will be held in observance of National POW/MIA Recognition Day on Friday, September 16, at the POW/MIA Memorial on the Capitol Campus in Olympia, beginning at 10 a.m. Other POW/MIA recognition ceremonies happening statewide include Moses Lake and Port Angeles. See contact information at http://www.dva.wa.gov/public_events.html. The event is held to honor the commitment and the sacrifices made by this nation’s prisoners of war and those who are still missing in action, as well as their families. In a...
Grange At the Lincoln County Fair, the Canniwai Grange booth prepared by Lise Ott of Irby took first place, and the Pomona Grange booth prepared by Gordon Peterson of Marlin took second place. Round Robin In the Round Robin event, in which youngsters in FFA and 4-H compete with animals other than those they normally exhibit (to show their expertise with an unfamiliar animal), Lexi Hirst of Harrington received the FFA large animal trophy in freshman/sophomore category. David El...
Visitors to the school’s open house held last Thursday, September 1, The Odessa School District is now fully compliant with the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) after installing a wheelchair ramp leading from the lower elementary school level to the upper hallway that eventually joins with the high school wing. Handicapped-accessible bathrooms have also been installed inside the Kindergarten and first-grade bathrooms, replacing the ...
Last Thursday, September 1, members of the press, Washington governor Chris Gregoire and other dignitaries were invited to the grand opening of the SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers (SGL ACF) plant, a joint venture of the SGL Group and the BMW Group. The new, state-of-the-art carbon-fiber manufacturing plant in Moses Lake manufactures ultra light-weight carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) for use in the new BMW i-series of vehicles. The two parent companies will invest...
USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced approved harvest prices for 2011 crop year for revenue protection plans of insurance within the Common Crop Insurance Policy for wheat, barley and fall canola and rapeseed in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington as applicable. Harvest prices for spring canola and Alaska barley will be announced in early October. CROP TYPE HARVEST PRICE PROJECTED PRICE Barley (Alaska) Spring TBD approx. 10/1/11 $5.65/bu. Barley Winter $6.09/bu. $3.91/bu. Barley Spring $6.55/bu. $5.93/bu. Canola F...
Shutterbugs of all ages – it’s not too early to get those cameras out and take those photos to enter in the 2012 Spokane Ag Expo photography contest! Spokane Ag Expo, celebrating its 35th year, will again feature the popular photography contest celebrating agriculture at their 2012 show. Photographers are asked to submit entries depicting "Agriculture in the Inland Northwest" by November 30, 2011. Photographs will be displayed at Spokane Ag Expo 2012, which is held in the Spokane Convention Center Complex in the exhibit hal...
Pedestrians may want to avoid the southwest corner at the intersection of First Avenue and Division Street for the next week or two, as phase one of a restoration project is underway. The corner building, owned by John and Michelle Melgren, is home to Any Occasion Banquet Hall and The Odessa Record offices. The Melgrens have contracted with Peter Cooper of Coeur d’Alene, a specialist in brick walls and masonry, to remove layers of paint, replace decayed bricks, tuckpoint a...
The Knoell family will be celebrating Jakob Knoell’s 100th birthday on September 3 and 4. He was born September 4, 1911, in the Black Sea area called Bessarabia. He immigrated to the United States and Odessa in 1952, with his wife of 71 years, Lydia. His children, Marianne Saltz (Soldotna, Alaska), and Vern and Joni Knoell (Colbert/Lamona, Wash.), as well as his grandchildren Jeannette Ducker (Kasilof, Alaska), DiAnna Leaders (Soldotna), Tami Knoell (Spokane), Kristi and M...
The Odessa School Board met Wednesday, August 24, to hear about the final preparations for the start of school on August 31. After the meeting board members toured the school buildings to see what had been accomplished over the summer in terms of repairs, new installations and repainting. Handicapped-accessible bathrooms have been installed in both the kindergarten and first-grade rooms, and a wheel-chair ramp leading from the elementary wing to the upper hallway was nearing completion and expected to be finished by the...
Big Bend Community College was on the verge of reducing the enrollment of its registered nursing program this summer due to ongoing budget cuts. Not wanting to see the local supply of RNs decrease, the two largest health care providers in BBCC’s service district stepped up to commit $120,000 ($60,000 each) to help pay a nursing faculty salary for the next two years. The move by Samaritan Healthcare and Wenatchee Valley Medical Center (on behalf of Moses Lake Clinic) means BBCC’s RN program won’t be reduced from 24 students to...
The Bureau of Land Management is requesting public nominations to fill three positions – which are set to expire on January 8, 2012 – on the national Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Nominations are for a term of three years and are needed to represent the following categories of interest: wild horse and burro advocacy, veterinary medicine (equine science), and general public interest (with special knowledge of wild horses and burros, wildlife, animal husbandry, or natural resource management). The Board advises the BLM...
Lincoln County Commissioners confirmed at their last regular meeting that they will offer economic development grants this fall. The grant program, known as the Lincoln County Economic Development Fund, targets economic development projects that create or retain family wage jobs and increase the vitality of the local economy. The grant funding comes from the County’s .09 sales tax fund. Projects should be well planned, sustainable and ready to be implemented. Our eight municipalities, Lincoln County, Hospital Districts, F...
Big Bend Community College Trustees approved a 2011-12 operating budget on August 9 that reduces state funding by $1.2 million. Community colleges are funded on a two-year cycle, so Trustees already knew BBCC is scheduled for another $800,000 budget cut next year. But Trustees could only shake their heads when College officials announced that the Governor that same day asked state agencies to plan for another 10 percent budget cut during the current two-year cycle—another $800,000 reduction for BBCC. “If we don’t find a way...
At the regional and state science fairs held earlier this year, Odessa middle-school student (now incoming high-school freshman) Thorsen Wehr, by taking first place at both events, earned the right to enter the Broadcom MASTERS™ science research competition. The competition is a program of the Society for Science & the Public (SSP) and is the premier competition for sixth, seventh and eighth graders, where they demonstrate their mastery of math, applied science, technology and...
Deutschesfest food chair Lindsy Starkel presented a preliminary proposal for an upgrade to the community center kitchen. Starkel emphasized that the upgrade would be a “reorganization” of the space, not a remodel. She reported that the Chamber of Commerce has given her preliminary approval for up to $25,000, and that if the council agreed, she would begin working with a designer to complete the plan. In addition to funding from the Chamber, Starkel plans to ask for contributions from organizations who would use the kit...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced grants for more than 900 agricultural producers and rural small businesses across the country to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in their operations. “These investments enable farmers, ranchers and rural small business owners to develop renewable energy and make efficiency improvements that will save them thousands of dollars in energy costs each year,” Vilsack said. The grants are being provided through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), a 2...
In a letter sent Friday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, R-CALF USA President George Chambers wrote that the drought that encompasses most of the south and much of the southwest and southeast likely will culminate into the perfect storm. “With our diminished U.S. cattle herd-size, our reduced number of cattle farms and ranches, and our ongoing inability to produce enough beef from domestic cattle to satisfy domestic demand, this widespread drought bears the potential to severely worsen our industry’s long-term cri...
As part of the administration’s efforts to support the creation and production of biobased products to help create jobs, add value to agricultural commodities and reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry toured MBI International, a Michigan bio-manufacturing research facility in Lansing. “Biobased products are not only good for the environment, they’re creating jobs in Michiga...
Washington State University has been awarded a grant in the amount of $410,491 to demonstrate the effectiveness of conservation practices for mitigating air emissions from dairy operations. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the winning proposals for the 2011 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG). Through CIG, the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is investing nearly $22.5 million in innovative conservation technologies and approaches that address a broad array of existing and emerging natural r...
The Washington Coalition for Open Government (WCOG) hosted a forum in Omak July 27 to discuss the ins and outs of policies that address state and local government transparency issues and public records requests. Rep. Joel Kretz, R-Wauconda, who served on the attorney general’s Open Government Task Force, participated as a panelist. Other panelists were Toby Nixon, former state legislator and president of WCOG; Greg Overstreet, Allied Law Group and Russell Wood, State Records manager. Roger Harnack, the Omak Chronicle’s edi...
Odessa firefighters have been busy since about mid-July, when any small spark from any source could ignite tinder-dry grass or wheat. The calls seem to come in every other day or so, pulling the volunteers from their regular jobs and sending them out to save someone’s cash crop or cattle pasture. This past spring’s frequent showers no doubt helped to produce plenty of fuel in the form of lush wheat, as well as lush growth of everything else that grows in the scablands. Sin...
Classes are so full for fall quarter 2011 that Big Bend Community College has cancelled the Sept. 7 new student registration session. "There are so few classes with openings that we need to advise remaining new students individually," said Bob Mohrbacher, vice president of instruction and student services. Students who are just now applying for admission will be alerted to the fact that they may be able to get only one class fall quarter. It might be winter quarter before they can become full-time students, Mohrbacher said....
President Obama has announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million during the next three years in partnership with the private sector to produce advanced drop-in aviation and marine biofuels to power military and commercial transportation. The initiative responds to a directive from President Obama issued in March as part of his Blueprint for A Secure Energy Future, the Administration’s framework for reducing dependence on foreign oil. The biofuels initiative is being steere...
The theme of this year’s bed races, to be held on Deutschesfest Thursday, is “Superheroes: past, present and future.” The entry fee is $50 per team. Any business or group that would like to enter is asked to call Leffel Otis & Warwick at 982-2922 or send an email to kscheller@leffelotiswarwick.com to request a registration form (or pick one up at the office in person). Information on approximately how many people are participating and their T-shirt sizes is needed, preferably before August 23. “It is important that the T-s...
Rural hospitals in communities across Washington state are striving to ensure that patients receive the right care at the right time. In recognition of these efforts, the Rural Healthcare Quality Network (RHQN) distributed awards in nine categories for hospitals meeting or exceeding the organization’s 2011 Quality Initiatives. The awards were presented during the network’s annual meeting in June. The complete list of the nine awarded categories, as well as a brief description of the three that Odessa Memorial Healthcare Cente...
