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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...
My Sisters’ Closet, an antique and resale shop, will open for business this Saturday, August 13, in the VFW office space most recently occupied by Lyndsay’s Salon. Owner LoriLynn White has been working hard the past two weeks to prepare the space and to transfer an eclectic assortment of goods from her home to the retail space. A grand opening will be held the weekend of Deutschesfest, but White is anxious to get started on her new venture. She says that most of the items for...
Much of the Monday night town council meeting was taken up with discussion of a waiver request by Tom Schafer of Rocky Coulee Brewing Co., who is constructing a new building to be used for storage and to replace the rental tents used during special events at the brewery. Schafer submitted a letter to the council requesting that he be allowed to use the existing sewer hookup at the brewery. He stated that the building would have a bathroom plumbed in but that it would not be...
Midway Beverage of Moses Lake has been selected by Biergarten chair Ted Bruya and co-chair Justin Parr to be the distributor for supplying beer and other alcoholic beverages for this year’s Fest. Bruya and Parr solicited bids from both companies. Odom Corporation, which has been the distributor for the past several years, was the other bidder. Although Midway will be the main supplier, Bruya said, there are some products that Midway does not carry that will still be supplied by Odom, specifically Corona beer and a similar b...
Public health nurses, in cooperation with the healthcare community, continue to investigate additional cases of whooping cough (pertussis) in Grant County. Since the beginning of the outbreak in August 2010, the Grant County Health District has investigated 38 confirmed cases and nearly 500 people who have had contact with at least one of these cases. Between 2005-2009, Grant County averaged less than three cases of pertussis per year. Grant County reported cases are from Quincy, Ephrata and Moses Lake. None of the current...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today pledged his commitment to the nation’s farmers, ranchers and rural communities that the USDA would continue to work to deliver assistance to those affected by recent extreme weather, including floods, drought, fires and tornadoes. Vilsack said that the USDA would work to offer flexibility to producers, and encouraged producers to contact their local county or state USDA Service Center or Farm Service Agency office for assistance. Vilsack also announced additional flexibility in the C...
Farmers across eastern Washington could soon be fueling the plane you’re taking on your next vacation or business trip. Through a partnership between two biofuel companies and the Farm Service Agency (FSA), camelina crops could be established on up to 11,000 acres in Washington state as part of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). Camelina is an oilseed crop, and when processed is a drop-in replacement for jet fuels. BCAP project areas are intended to provide financial...
Larry Condon of the Barr-Tech regional waste-management facility on the eastern edge of Lincoln County gives much of the credit for the success of the startup business to the Odessa Public Development Authority (OPDA). “It was a great team effort – everybody worked together,” said Condon, referring to not only the OPDA but the Lincoln County Economic Development Council (EDC), Lincoln County in general and the communities of Sprague, Davenport, Reardan and Odessa. “Linc...
Last week Thursday night, or perhaps in the wee hours of Friday morning (night of July 28-29), thieves once again (The Record reported on an earlier break-in at Odessa Drug in March of 2008) broke into Odessa Drug, making off with all of the narcotic painkillers they could find, as well as about $200 in cash, said owner Ted Bruya. Two whole shelves inside the pharmacy were emptied. “They took everything that started with “hydro” or “oxy,” said store employee Megan Clark, “e...
The waves of grain have begun to fall to the combine-harvester’s sickle. The wheat harvest began last Monday with the first load of wheat hauled to the Ruff elevator of the Odessa Trading Co./Ritzville Warehouse. Mark Cronrath, grain manager at OTC, says the wheat coming in has been nice and dry, with tests showing a range of 10 down to 8.2 for moisture content. Dryland wheat, he said, has been running from the high 50s to the low 70s in terms of bushels to the acre. No i...
With completion of the GWMA groundwater model, identifying solutions begins with the launch of two new modeling projects to assess municipal groundwater supplies and identify sustainable wells along the east low canal. For the past two years, the Columbia Basin Ground Water Management Area (GWMA) has been developing a sophisticated computational groundwater model of the four Columbia Basin counties. This year the state appropriated $1.0 million for GWMA “to use the model to help answer critical questions about groundwater s...
A $1,000 grand prize is being offered to the last poet standing in a free contest sponsored by the Celestial Arts Society. There are 50 prizes in all totaling $5,000. Poems of 21 lines or fewer on any subject and in any style will be judged by the contest director Dr. James Cameron. “I encourage poets to send in the poem they’re most proud of” he says. “I know this contest will produce exciting discoveries!” Entries must be received by August 31, and may be submitted by mail to Free Poetry Contests, 221 N. Central Ave. #228...
IEO is back in business. That was the theme of the open house held at the plant last Thursday, July 21, with company employees serving sausages and hot dogs, potato salad and baked beans to anyone who cared to come. Joel Edmonds and Wally Kempe of the new management firm overseeing operations were both present and shared the duties of cooking and leading tours through the plant. Pearson Burke also led many of the tours, and as the employee with the longest tenure, was well...
Nick Campbell, a 2010 graduate of Odessa High School, has died in a tragic boating accident on Lake Roosevelt last Saturday, July 23. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), with help from the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, the National Park Service and the Colville Tribe, was able to recover Campbell’s body Tuesday afternoon from very deep water, said LCSO Undersheriff Kelly Watkins. Watkins was working Saturday and was on a Sheriff’s Office boat with other LCSO de...
The man suspected of kidnapping and raping a 19-year-old Moses Lake woman was captured this week Tuesday, thanks to tips from the public. On Monday, July 25, Grant County Major Crimes Detectives had asked the public for help identifying the man responsible for the kidnapping and rape of a Moses Lake woman. The 19-year-old victim, a student at Big Bend Community College, told authorities that at around 10 a.m. Monday she was walking to her car in a BBCC parking lot, when she was confronted by a man with a knife. That suspect...
Rural Odessa fire chief Roger Sebesta, Town of Odessa fire chief Don Strebeck and more than 20 other area firefighters responded to a blaze that started north of Marlin Monday and quickly spread to cover about 2,000 to 2,500 acres of mostly sagebrush-covered pasture, plus some wheat fields. One structure was also lost to the flames, a machine shed belonging to Marlin farmer Ron Lesser, along with all of the equipment stored in it. In all, 11 vehicles fought the wind-whipped...
The runway expansion project at Odessa’s airport continues to be a challenge, with “two steps forward and three back,” according to Odessa Mayor Doug Plinski. The FAA representative assigned to the project has requested another environmental assessment regarding the building of roads. This request forces the town to return to the planning stage at a point where the town was ready to begin the implementation phase. Public works Odessa fire chief Don Strebeck and rural fire chief and public works director Roger Sebesta were...
The Upper Crab Creek/Wilson Creek Water Resource Inventory Area, also known as WRIA 43, is taking a temporary break until questions of funding are resolved, said WRIA 43 Chairman Sue Lani Madsen. “We want to keep the planning unit viable,” said Madsen. “It would be a shame to discard all of the time contributed by local volunteers, not to mention the state funds spent. Think of it as an intermittent stream during a drought – the stream is still there, just waiting to be refilled at the right time.” The WRIA 43 watershed...
WRIA 43’s Watershed Resource Management Group (WRMG, the Phase 4 name for the Water Resource Inventory Area process) reached a general consensus to pursue the following goals as funding becomes available. Goals are listed in no particular order and represent areas to emphasize in educational efforts and information outreach to Lincoln County landowners and managers: WRMG Goals Group 1 – Livestock, Streams and Grazing • Provide assistance to riparian grazing training scheduled for 2012 by working on any preparatory wor...
USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds producers of important 2012 crop year Federal crop insurance sales closing dates and changes for 2012 crop year for fall planted crops. Expansion of multi-peril crop insurance Winter coverage for the Barley Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) program was added for Idaho (Ada, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Jerome, Minidoka and Twin Falls counties) and Washington (Asotin County). Barley and dry pea winter protection Winter coverage for Austrian Winter Dry Peas in Benewah County, Idaho is also a...
Registration for Odessa Parent Preschool Co-op is set for Monday, August 1, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Odessa Grade School. If you have a child who will be attending the Odessa preschool in the fall, please come to the registration meeting....
The new owners and managers of the Odessa grocery store have written the following message to the members of the Odessa community: “With over 100 years of combined grocery and customer-service experience, Bob and Bonnie Dewey, owners, and Jeff and Debbie Norris, managers, are excited to become a part of the Odessa community by presenting you with ‘Odessa Foods.’ We all come from small communities and know how important it is to be able to provide our customers with excellent c...
Orlando, Florida was the destination for 17 students from Odessa High School who competed in the 2011 National Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Conference. The support of the community and the school made it the trip of a lifetime and an experience they will not soon forget! With over 8,000 students from around the nation in attendance, competition was tough, but our little high school was one of the most successful. Odessa students competed in six different events,...
The Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution can trace their ancestors back to someone who lived in the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War period. Two of those descendants visited Odessa last week Wednesday to talk about U.S. history and the life and times of the colonists. One of the two was former Odessa resident Gale Palmer (a history teacher at Odessa High School who lost his wife and two of his three children in the...
Les and Carolyn Goetz of Marlin are very proud grandparents who are anxious to share some good news with the readers of The Record. Their two grandsons Kameron and Jared Goetz are performing in musical theater this summer. In March the boys auditioned for parts in The Sound of Music being performed by the Leavenworth Summer Theater. They were offered the roles of Friedrich and Kurt, the two Von Trapp boys. They are part of a split cast. They participate with a separate set of...
