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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
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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...
Lemon pie of any sort disappears fast at buffet or potluck dinners, and lemon meringue tops the list for most lemon flavor lovers. Wet weather like we have lately is the worst for making the meringue topping, as well as things like divinity and other candies that rely on the vigorous beating of egg white to create volume by incorporating air and drying the mixture some with the aeration. Rainy weather means wet air, thus more moisture in the mixture causing the meringue to...
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...
Odessa Foursquare Church This summer I witnessed many random acts of kindness. We are living in a world that seems to be filled with hate and discontent, lying and cheating, wars of all sizes, fear of not having enough, and the list could go on. If we only looked at the negative side of the world, we could think that our world is falling apart, but I want to share with you the other side of the story or as Paul Harvey would have said “the rest of the story”. My wife and I waited in line to order coffee. Once we placed our...
“Eat right and exercise.” It’s good advice. But millions of us Americans struggle every day to live up to our hopes regarding diet and activity. Some of us are pretty good at one thing (for me, it’s exercise) but not good at the other (starch and sweets make up too much of my diet). It just ain’t easy to both eat right and exercise, and do so every day. But maybe we have been making some progress on our personal goals regarding diet and activity. It looks like our collectiv...
To the Editor: Cathy McMorris Rodgers is just another politician who has mastered the art of saying a lot, without actually saying anything. She cares more about getting re-elected than she cares about standing up for what is right. People claim that her critics lack specifics. When in reality it is Cathy who lacks both specifics and solutions. Ask her about the economy and she responds with, “well we need more jobs.” Ask her about climate change and she says, “well I’m not a scientist.” Heck, ask her about anything...
Years ago I purchased a headlamp , a small flashlight that straps around your head to light your way. It’s really useful because it leaves both your hands free as you work or walk. I used my headlamp during the dark half of the year to exercise my dog in dark pastures and an undeveloped No Man’s Land on a steep hill near my house. My headlamp used an old fashioned light bulb and a fairly heavy battery to run it. I used it for years but it finally stopped working, so I rec...
Zucchini squash have just about run their course for the season, so you may want to tuck this recipe for Zucchini Pineapple Bread in your file for next year. You may make it with fresh or frozen grated zucchini, so if you filled space in your freezer with grated zucchini, you are set to make this moist, but not sticky, quick bread. I found the recipe on the Taste of Home website www.tasteofhome.com. Zucchini Pineapple Bread 3 eggs 2 cups finely shredded zucchini 1 cup vegetabl...
To the Editor: For everyone! If you tell somebody what you know, they know what you know and what they know! So, they know twice what you know! Remember the three little monkeys! See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil! Kathryn Gregorich Odessa...
To the Editor: I love my right to vote! We can pick the people with the most toys, the most money, the most friends. Or we can pick the person who understands the issues and knows how to work through them. Dani is one of those. I will not preach her issues as you can find those online. What I will say is she cares about this country and wants to make sure everyone is held accountable for their actions, including herself. She has promised to never vote on a bill without reading it and listening to our concerns. Dani is not...
To the Editor: In the 12 years I have been active in politics, I have been blessed to work with a positive group of Lincoln County Republicans. Through two spirited presidential primaries, we’ve shared common values while making room for many opinions on how to advance those values. In the end, we support the shared goals of the Republican party and the candidates who will carry the battle forward. What we don’t have is a process for making endorsements in an all Republican general election, such as the one we face in the...
Wheat markets have enjoyed a little bit of a bounce over the last 10 days. Cash markets are about $.20 off their lows and future markets are about $.30 off their lows. Part of it has been a correction from oversold technical conditions, part of it has been a stabilization of world wheat prices, but most of this correction has been due to the weakening of the U.S. dollar. The dollar has had an impressive rally since July and that in turn pressured commodities in general and wheat in particular. Last week Chicago wheat futures...
From time to time I give public talks on climate change – those large-scale changes geologists have been studying since the 1830s. At those talks I’m often asked a basic question about climate that, until now, has stumped scientists. Here’s the background. In the 1830s, a Swiss naturalist named Louis Agassiz started promoting the idea that Europe had once been enveloped in a cold time in which large areas had been covered in glacial ice. He called that interval “the Ice Age...
My word processor is set up to deal with the errors I make when writing. The programmers who wrote the computer program knew I’d screw things up, so they built in corrective functions like spellcheck and the ability to simply backspace to delete typos. Those of us old enough to remember manual typewriters still sometimes marvel at the ease with which corrections in documents can now be made. Mother Nature also has a built-in corrective function, one at work in organisms as s...
To the Editor: Tom Dent has great knowledge of agriculture and a true friend to farmers, related industries and companies. After all, isn’t that almost all of us in Grant County and the 13th legislative district? We are blessed with natural resources to feed much of the world. Tom has proven leadership for many years. He’s proven himself successfully as the chair of the Grant County Republican Party. As a result he’s gained respect throughout our entire state. He is also involved in other leadership positions and sits on ma...
To the Editor: A letter printed in the 10-2-14 Columbia Basin Herald (Editor’s note: and The Odessa Record) by Rick Heiberg was given the title of “ Setting the Record Straight.” Not so fast! Heiberg, a previous one-term mayor of Coulee City, implies previous letters were “Opinions based upon hearsay, rumors , or gossip” and were written by people who were not even there. WRONG! The only recent letters on that topic were written by Kevin Moore and myself. Both of us were duly elected precinct committee officers of the Grant...
To the Editor: I am a resident and business owner in Moses Lake. I have had the privilege of knowing Tom Dent for about 15 years. I have had many discussions with him over the years, and I have been very educated on issues that are often the topic of great debate and interest. He is a very intelligent and well-versed man on most all topics I bring up. Tom has taught me that one needs to understand all sides in order to have an intelligent discussion. He is a natural leader and educator. Leaders need to be able to get...
