Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Sorted by date Results 1052 - 1076 of 1862
The new year is here and it’s a good day to sort out the kitchen pantry. Specialty items get pushed to the back, unused holiday recipe items crowd around staples, making it hard to find what you need for everyday meals. An hour spent now will sped up meal preparations and save a few dollars by locating items where you can find them thus preventing duplicate purchases. The Plan 1. Clear counter or table space to work on. 2. Work on one shelf at a time 3. Sort out any past d...
Editor’s note: Continuing a series of stories and articles written by the late Pastor Tom Goetz, with the support of his wife Jeanne Goetz of Odessa. Jeanne Goetz is working to get the items published in book form, but for right now, interested readers can read his work in the series of articles that continue in this issue of The Record I’ll never forget my first Pentecostal hug. It holds a special place in my memory Hall of Fame, right next to my first visit to the dentist, my broken arm in the second grade and the time our...
To the Editor: Your readers can thank Congress for the expensive Christmas gift it gave to Wall Street corporations and banksters in the new federal spending bill passed earlier this month. Wall Street can go back to business as usual now and invest the regular FDIC-insured deposits that you, and I and others like us have for even riskier bets. Does the 2008 bailout ring a bell for you? Total cost to the taxpayers to bail out Wall Street on those risky bets amounted to at least $1.2 TRILLION, the latest estimate by Bloomberg...
In this series, “Q&A with Cathy,” I hope you’ll submit any questions you may have – whether about the government, jobs, health care, or anything else – and I’ll answer them here. You can email your questions to QandAwithCathy@mail.house.gov. I look forward to hearing from you! --Cathy How does reauthorizing TRIA help small businesses – like those in the non-residential construction industry – succeed? Local businesses in eastern Washington need certainty to expand and grow...
To the Editor: I am sure we all can appreciate the services and businesses that we have available to us in such a small town as Odessa. And I know we all know the importance of shopping local. I have always been a firm believer in the old saying “use it or lose it.” Our clinic and hospital, our golf course, our downtown businesses and restaurants. When the weather turned cold, I resolved to drag my tired and out-of-shape self into the newly opened business, The Fitness Place. After a couple of months of using the club, and...
To the Editor: Our problem with the radical lone wolf killers who live by an immoral ideology is something I am afraid is going to be with us for a long time. My reasoning is based on several factors that include the internet, which gives them too much information. Our porous borders have allowed thousands to cross and quickly be dispsrsed throughout the country. Many of these were teenagers who are known for having pliable minds and looking for something to give them notoriety. Radical Muslim’s beliefs that encourage d...
To the Editor: In the U.S.A. automobile fatalities take 30,00 plus lives annually. Amtrak trains are much safer than cars. I am a very grateful subscriber to your paper and I strongly believe Odessa needs an Amtrak train stop. Three points to consider when thinking about having a train stop in Odessa are: 1) potential tourist revenue 2) potential new diversity 3) promotion of green energy I’m a gigantic train fan. Using the Amtrak train would greatly reduce fossil fuel usage. I can read, sleep and use the internet on the t...
By DR. E. KIRSTEN PETERS I own a couple of small gold nuggets. They came from the Round Mountain gold mine in Nevada, which I visited a few years ago. A tour of the open-pit mine was crowned by a visit to their foundry where the molten metal was poured into gold bars. Those bars are what’s called doré gold; that is, it’s the metal as it comes out of the ground with minor impurities in it like silver. The doré bars are then transported to a refinery where pure gold can be se...
Christmas and New Years Day are almost here. Last minute gift giving and parties can challenge even the most experienced and competent cooks. Quick and easy or make ahead recipes are in demand. Rocky Road Squares, is a quick, yummy recipe I got from Dolores Dills, Lake Stevens, WA. She learned how to make this recipe when she was in grade school, from a savvy teach using cooking to teach math skills. Rocky Road Squares 12 ounces real chocolate chips 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened...
To the Editor: A blindfold and scales represent the American judicial system, signifying equality and balance. Recent events bring our laws into question. While laws are made based on common sense, many choose to ignore them. Can America operate under two or more sets of laws? And will this great country be forever divided by ideology or skin color? Can we bend to the pressures of malcontents to adopt more lenient laws; laws that enable criminal acts to go unpunished? Or should we enforce existing laws without regard to...
To the Editor, Last week I had the pleasure of participating in an event that included 300 high school students from seven area schools. The event was a “Local Career” Fair, hosted by the Odessa High School Future Business Leaders of America, that introduced students to the numerous career opportunities available in rural counties. I was one of 31 presenters who talked about our careers in agriculture, business, construction, counseling, education, engineering, environment and conservation, finance, government, hea...
What if there were a two–for–one sale on kilowatts? Your power bill would be cut in half, – not a bad result for your monthly budget. Energy drives everything we produce and consume, and global energy consumption continues to grow year after year. The two-for-one image came to mind as I talked with Professor Jeanne McHale of Washington State University. McHale is a chemist who researches an alternative approach to making solar cells that produce electricity. “Ther...
Know the difference between a Holstein and a Hereford? You’re in rare company. According to a new survey, nearly three in four Americans admit that they know “very little or nothing” about farming. It’s a solid bet they know even less about different breeds of cattle – or the difference between the sweet corn we eat and the field corn grown on most farms. That’s a shame. The impact of America’s farmers on the economy and the environment has never been greater – or more positive. Americans’ lack of awareness about farming is...
Like millions of Americans, my day starts by plugging in the coffeepot. In my case, it’s an old fashion percolator. It clears its throat and brews my coffee while I rub sleep out of my eyes and brush my teeth. My habit of starting my day with coffee -- and following that initial cup with doses of java in the mid-morning, the late morning and the early-afternoon -- may be at least partially grounded in my genes. Researchers have long believed that genetics influences a p...
Visions of sugar plums dancing in your head? Probably not, but a list of Christmas baking may be formulating in your mind. Most present day cookie and candy makers would not want to spend the time involved in making the many layered confections known as sugarplums. Easy to prepare, bake and store cookies are what most cooks are looking for in recipes. A Spokane reader called requesting a drop sugar cookie recipe printed in this column a few years back. I believe Sour Cream...
Thanksgiving is just a few days away and many local kitchens are already bustling with meal preparations. Food allergies and health concerns dictate special menus that leave some searching culinary books for suitable recipes to accommodate all tastes. Cereal party mix is a favorite in many families and this Hawaiian Party Mix version shared by Coleen Janke, comes from her niece Kaci Bleau. Select gluten free cereals and pretzels and you will have a tasty traditional holiday...
To the Editor: Should we fear Ebola, Enterovirus, R-68 or the yearly influenza that kills many tens of thousands each year? I am concerned about all of the above! However, I will not waste time worrying as we have had epidemics in several countries over several centuries that have killed millions. Here in America we had a flu epidemic that killed millions as the First World War was being fought. I agree with Winston Churchill who said “all we have to fear is fear itself.” We are getting conflicting informaion from var...
Do you have a good gut feeling about apples? Your body may , and that could be important to your overall health. Some of the components of apples survive their trip through the upper part of the human digestive tract. Non-digestible compounds, including fiber and substances called polyphenols, stand up to chewing and the effects of enzymes in spit. They even remain intact after a bath in stomach acid. These compounds move all the way to the colon, where they undergo a...
I appreciate America’s veterans, because they protected our country while they were in the service. I also appreciate America’s veterans, because they are role models to most people like me. The reason they are role models is because they go to war without saying a word. They are not afraid of dying. They will be there when you need help. They can also fly planes like nobody’s business. I can show my appreciation for America’s veterans by making sure to say thank you to every veteran I see. I want to make them feel appreci...
His teeth had no cavities, but they were heavily worn. He was about my height -- some 5 feet, 7 inches tall. He wasn’t petite, likely weighing around 160 pounds. Well before his death, he broke six of his ribs. Five of them never healed, but he kept going nevertheless. A recent article in “The Smithsonian Magazine” details all this and more about Kennewick Man, an ancient skeleton found on the banks of the Columbia River in south-central Washington State in 1996. The occas...
Earlier this year I went to a fundraiser where I bought a bag of Glee flour. Glee is a variety of hard red spring wheat that was developed at Washington State University. I used the flour in my favorite bread recipe, one I have modified a bit from a Mennonite cookbook I treasure. There’s a bit of soy flour and powdered milk in my bread, which ups the protein content. The recipe calls for 50 percent white flour, 40 percent whole wheat, and 10 percent rye. I used the Glee flour...
Wheat markets have continued their recent rally which started at the end of September. Wheat futures have rallied more than $.70 from their lows. Corn futures have risen $.50 off their lows. The cash markets have also moved higher with Soft White back to their August prices. The rally in the futures has been the main driver of the rise in the cash markets and one of the main factors has been the weakness in the U.S. dollar. As mentioned in the last Market Perspective article, the weakness in the U.S. dollar and the pullback...
As Veterans’ Day approaches, I begin reminiscing. When I was about eight or nine years old, my father introduced me to Sgt. Wilburn Ross at Fort Lewis. All the non-coms and officers looked up to Sgt. Ross in total awe and reverence. We were in the presence of greatness. I thought then, and do so now think, that this man, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, walked on water! Years later I would understand what he did as Private Ross on October 30, 1944, near St. Jacques, France. Single-handedly, he killed or wounde...
