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Letter to the Editor: There are two candidates running for 13th District State Representative. I ahve met them both, as I was an active member of the GOP and even an elected Precinct Officer. I no longer belong to the Republican party. It was under the GOP Chairmanship of Tom Dent that I, and many others, left the GOP. The final straw was his holding meetings on his private property and then calling the sheriff and threatening unwanted GOP members with Trespass, if they did not leave his property I found candidate Dani...
Zucchini are still at peak production and several great recipes have come in over the past week. Kendall Fisher shared his recipe for Stuffed Zucchini, bursting with savory taco and cheese flavor. Stuffed Zucchini 6 large (7-8 inches each) zucchini, sliced lengthwise and the middle scooped out with a melon ball tool (save the middle) 1 pound ground turkey or beef 1/2 cup chopped red/yellow/green peppers in any combination 1/2 cup diced onion 1/3 cup water 1 packet taco...
A friend of mine recently shared this story: When asked if he would be willing to volunteer for a shift in the Deutsches Fest Biergarten, a local resident reportedly asked where the money made at the Biergarten would go. He was told that it went to the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, followed by some information about that organization and what it does (or attempts to do) for the community. At that point, he replied, “I don’t see what’s in it for me,” and declined to volunte...
Alex Waroff had a fantastic summer job this year. The veterinary student at Washington State University worked with faculty members as they tested just how clever grizzly bears are. What’s at issue is the use of tools. “Besides primates, scientists know that certain birds, dolphins, elephants and some other animals use tools,” Waroff told me. “Tool use might seem to be more common in social creatures. Bears are a little hard to categorize in that regard, because they live with...
I was hospitalized for ten days in late July. In August, to rebuild my strength, I took my dog on increasingly long walks around town. We went virtually every day; the exercise was good for both Buster Brown and me. Buster is such a mongrel it’s hard to be sure what breeds have contributed to his makeup. He retrieves sticks thrown into the water and he looks like he has some Labrador in him, but he has the tail of a German Shepherd. His wide head makes me think of a pit bull....
There is just a hint of fall nip in the air, children are back in school and life begins to return to routine. Deutschesfest preparations and shuttling kids to and from after school activities fill the schedules. What to fix for dinner? Christy Jordan of Southern Plate Magazine, has been sharing a novel idea in her e-newsletters, called “Bags to Dishes”. The premise is, put all the items you need in a 2 gallon zip closure bag and keep an assortment of the bags in a sto...
To the Editor: The (Washington) Post has reported that according to a recent PDK/Gallup poll, the Common Core educational standards are losing support nationwide (August 19). The poll asked those opposed to the Common Core why they were opposed, giving them several possible reasons. The options did not include the reasons many educators oppose the Common Core: There is no need for a radical change in curriculum or testing. Substantial improvement will come only when we deal with the real problem: Poverty. When researchers con...
To the Editor: I knew a lady who got into a home business in 1995. She was very successful in Texas. Then her marriage ended, and she had to put her toy aside and go to work for real. After two years, she became very sick and had to stop that job. While being at home full time, she got her toy out and started making things. While recovering, for two years she worked on and off. But she did good work and had at least two customers a month who were very happy with her skills. Because her boyfriend of two years was getting...
To the Editor: The article about the Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ott Golden Anniversary was written by my mother Margaret (Snider) Wood. She was so happy that The Record printed her story, and I have a copy in my scrapbook. She loved coming back to visit along with her mother and seeing the hotel where she was born. Chuck Wood Gig Harbor...
On our 25th wedding anniversary, Tom and I had decided to be brave and fly to Hawaii, though neither of us like flying, especially over the ocean. Our plans began to grow. We saved our money. When was the best time to go? When was the weather good there? What to take? But then something happened with our plans. We received a telephone call that changed our lives. Would we be interested in adopting again? Yes, was my answer. Tom was a little more cautious, saying things like, “We’re too old.” I never thought our family was c...
By PEARSON BURKE Wheat markets continue to consolidate. On the charts, Chicago wheat has formed a double bottom; we will see if that holds. If so, then the downtrend has been broken and at least a sideways pattern can be expected. From a seasonal standpoint, the wheat market is due for a break from the selling that we have seen for the last 3 months. Fundamentally, last Tuesday's USDA Crop Production Report changed U.S. wheat carryovers for next year only slightly. But world wheat carryovers were raised 3.5 million metric...
What a difference 50 years can make in the life of a former president. Harry Truman went from being the most powerful man in the world to basically being a pauper who had to borrow money to pay his bills. He received no support from the federal government. He received no protection from the secret service, no free office space and he even had to raise money for the Truman Library. His family was not financially secure until he was forced to sell the family farm five years after leaving office. Mr. Truman could have had a...
Despite a deer infestation in Odessa, some local gardeners have an abundant produce harvest. With two fresh produce venders coming to town weekly, this summer, and the nice selection at our local grocery store, most of us have access to summer’s bounty. Lora Zimprich shared her recipe for One Pot Pasta. This quick to fix, one dish meatless meal uses the abundance from your cherry tomato plants along with fresh herbs. One Pot Pasta 4 1/2 cups water 12 ounces linguine pasta 1...
To the Editor: The third full week in September will be here before you know it! Our little town celebrates its German heritage during The Fest. Thousands of people come to help with that celebration; they leave thousands of dollars before they go home. All of the preparations are done by volunteers. The shifts to sell the food, the Biergarten tenders, the setup and cleanup, the breakfast makers, the bench painters… all done by VOLUNTEERS. School sports, school clubs, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Lions Club, the local churches a...
To the Editor: We tell our young people that alcohol and marijuana are bad for them and then we voted to make alcohol more available than it had been previously. Then 56 percent of the registered voters (who voted) passed a law to make weed available in many different forms so that non-smokers could escape reality. The laws about alcohol and marijuana were written so that most people didn’t understand them. Alcohol is more expensive and weed will be more expensive until supply matches demand! The sad facts about both situatio...
Wheat markets have been trying to find a bottom the last week. Recent support has come from concerns about the quality of the European wheat crop due to excessive rains. As much as a third of the French crop may wind up becoming feed wheat. They are having the same falling number issues that many of us experienced last year. During the downtrend in wheat futures over the last three months, speculative commodity funds have accumulated a net short position of over 400 million bu. If the concerns over the quality of wheat in Eur...
To the Editor: My name is Diane Upky. I am writing this letter to the editor to endorse and support Garth Dano for Prosecutor. Mr. Dano was our family’s attorney about three years ago when my son and his friend nearly died as the result of a car accident caused by a drunk driver. Both young men have sustained life altering injuries and had medical expenses exceeding $1 million. I was astonished by the poor treatment we received from Mr. Lee and the Grant County Prosecutor’s office, during the case against the driver. Mr. Dan...
Humanitarianism is a wonderful endeavor and has the potential to save the world. But can Americans afford to create a “welfare state” for the world? With the national debt so far out of whack that no administration now or in the near future can possibly meet budgetary restraints, how is it possible to endorse, comfort, house, feed and heal the hordes of humanity crossing our borders to obtain the freedoms our forefathers shed blood to obtain for us? In our personal lives, just as in government, there is a finite amount of...
To the Editor: Please ask your readers to contact Governor Inslee about the current child refugee problem in the United States. The Governor can be reached at P.O. Box 40002, Olympia, WA 98504-0002 or by phone at 360-902-4111 or by fax at 360-753-4110. Governors O’Malley and Patrick have opened their respective states to housing refugee children. Certainly, the state of Washington can also do that. It is the humane thing to do, the Christian thing to do, the moral thing to do. DC is in gridlock once again, so nothing gets d...
As this nation continues the struggle to recover from the Great Recession, entrepreneurs will play a vital role in creating jobs and expanding the economy as they currently create 60 to 70% of the new jobs in this country. But many businesses fall victim to one major barrier – access to capital. Since the 1970s, there has been a steady decline in accessing capital by small businesses alongside, per capita, a steady decline in the creation of jobs. A recent study by Pepperdine University asked small business owners their t...
By DR. E. KIRSTEN PETERS It certainly sounded like a fad to me. A while ago I caught a program on public television about a medical doctor in Great Britain. Dr. Michael Mosley, like millions in both that country and in the U.S., found that in middle age he needed to lose weight and lower his blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Mosley works as a journalist for the BBC and has decades of experience talking with scientific researchers on a whole range of topics. In connection with one of his programs, he had a MRI of his body. T...
Barb Walter of Grannie Barbar’s Cookies and Breads is always testing new recipes to add to her baked goods selection, and often the Sunday Morning Coffee Hour partakers benefit from her experiments. Kyle Tebow suggested I get the recipe and include it here. Barb says this one won’t appear on her baked goods table, as it does not present well as a wrapped cookie, but it is a very tasty, little bit chewy, cookie. Though I have cut the recipe in half, this still makes a huge batch of cookies. Chocolate Chip Cookies 1 cup but...
To the Editor: Not too often do we feel compelled to write a “Letter to the Editor” but we felt the need to respond to the recent full page ad placed by Mr. Angus Lee in the Columbia Basin Herald. We have known Garth Dana, both personally and professionally, for approximately 7 years. I am glad that Mr. Dana has maintained his dignity as this campaign approaches the primary and general elections. I believe that this is due, in part, because of the integrity of the man and the respect he holds for the office he seeks. If you...
To the Editor: Art fest at Deutsches Fest? Art gallery? Where is the bar? Are you ever going to open again? Car wash? Let me try to address some of these questions. For sure, information is best shared in person, so I do encourage anyone to talk to me in the Gallery in the Old Rolling Thunder building in downtown Odessa, Washington USA. Odessa for sure is a unique town, with its own desirable attributes as well as its drawbacks, some unchangeable and some self-imposed. Seventeen miles off of Interstate 90, Odessa is almost...
To the Editor: Though I hate to write this letter, I feel that I must. I am writing as a direct communication to one of my opponents in the election for the office of county assessor. In the two weeks since I have set up my campaign signs in various locations within Grant County, none have blown down or been removed except to take them down for mowing and then they are promptly set back up. This past weekend, as I have noticed signs of my opponents go up, my signs are broken, taken down and placed on the ground or discarded....
