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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
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We love cookies in Odessa. I have quite a backlog of cookie recipes waiting to be printed. Quick bars, rolled or frosted drop cookies, there is something here for just about any cookie occasion. Joyce McClanahan shared the recipe for the delicious Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars she brought to a January quilters meeting. She found the recipe in the January, 2006 issue of Pillsbury Quick Comfort Food. The recipe calls for refrigerated cookie dough and ready to spread frosting,...
When my husband, Tom, gave his retirement sermon in our church in Buckley, his topic was “A man with no regrets.” Not many people can say that of their lives, but he could. Tom and I have many, many great memories in our 55 years together (50 married). The greatest was serving the Lord for 42 years. Another was how each of our children came to us through adoption. Over the years, Tom traveled to many states to teach pastors; he loved doing that. He also had no regrets writing his book “The Grace Based Life”, which wasn’t...
The rally in grains has continued over the last two weeks. Dry conditions in the Southern Plains and decent export demand have finally forced the speculative commodity funds to cover about half of their record short position in the wheat futures. Corn and soybeans have also moved higher as investment funds have lightened their positions in equities and shifted some of their funds back into the commodity markets. Technically the market is now overbought and possibly due for a technical correction at some point. On the...
“Without labor, neither knowledge nor wisdom can accomplish much.” -FFA opening ceremonies, Advisor In my pursuit of happiness I have found that, in great part, the aspect of that pursuit which has brought the most toil, yet by far the most satisfaction, is the collection of knowledge. Within every category of knowledge, there is so much to be known that there never will be a single being alive who can acquire every bit of fact about it. Thus, knowledge is never-ending. We can know nothing, yet we can never know everything. W...
The last time The Record ran this column was November 1, 2012. This week the column continues with more about the Finks. In 1991, an article written by Linda Gustafson, published in The Odessa Record (TOR), mentioned the following: (1) That Reuben went to the Frederick school southwest of Odessa which was east three and a half miles from the Fink farm. That he, Reuben, walked or rode a horse to school because there wasn't any school bus service. Alvin Fink told me that during...
To the Editor: I’d like to say thank you to the Odessa Record for the good information you provide. I am one of those who live elsewhere, but subscribe to keep up with Odessa happenings. A number of my relatives live in the area. It sounds like you have a lot of changes going on - always a challenge – and those deadlines to meet. I do want to thank you for continuing “This Week in Odessa History” where I learn a lot about the area and what life was like when my grandparents, Jacob and Eva Kallenberger, farmed north of Odes...
America has a new insidious disease that is choking the life out of our population! It’s called apathy. We are rapidly developing indifference to what is going on around us. Korea and Vietnam should have awakened us! Or when we passed one trillion dollars for our national debt during Reagan’s time in office. Then we have Clinton who was brash enough to tax social security and lied about Monica. The fiasco of Iraq during the Bush years as our debt is climbing at a faster rate. Then we have Obamacare, Afghanistn, the debt cli...
Dr. Haifang Wen grew up in a rural area of Shandong province, in eastern China. In his youth there were not many paved highways in the Chinese countryside. "Lots of the roads were gravel," he told me recently. "They were muddy when it rained. I remember riding a cow on them, or going along in a wagon pulled by a donkey." Living in those conditions, Wen could see quite a bit of room for improvement in road materials. "I thought, we can do better," he said with a smile. Thus...
I enjoy writing. I especially enjoy when others enjoy my writing. It takes hours to write a few full pages; it may take years to write a novel that will be enjoyed for only a few days. But in those few days, you will manipulate the emotions of a stranger. You will move them to feel, to think. You will make someone cry, laugh, wonder; you will stir emotion in the heart of a person you have never even seen. You can propose a thought, sparking a chain of reasoning that may lead to a life-changing revelation, or a simple...
Valentine’s Day is February 14th, the day after most readers will receive their copy of The Odessa Record. I’ve included some recipes easy to prepare, that will help you make the day special for your family and friends. Blueberry Cream Muffins, suggested by Vicki Strang, make a warm and tasty start to the day. The recipe makes 24 muffins so you will have plenty to share with friends or co-workers. Bake the muffins in paper lined muffin cups for easy cleanup and ease of transpo...
Those of us living in the northern half of the country can be forgiven for being tired -- at this stage of winter -- of shoveling snow. I enjoy the brightness snow can bring to dark winter days, but I'm getting old enough that shoveling the walk in front of my house has very little appeal even though it's good for me to do some honest work before I head into my desk job. I've now hired a man to plow my driveway and I feel fortunate to have that service - even though it means I pay a fee each time we have significant snow....
Wheat markets finally reacted positively after a USDA Crop Report. Monday's report showed a 50 million bu decrease in carryovers from the January report due to a long anticipated increase in wheat exports of 50 million bu as well as a 10 million bu increase in feed usage. That more than offset the 10 million bu increase in wheat imports coming from Canada. Wheat markets had rallied over the last week going into this report as wheat sales have remained strong and concerns continue about the condition of the winter wheat crop...
To the Editor: It has come to my attention that, in regards to students watching a replay of the Seahawks game in class, my child was less than truthful with me...the viewing of the game in class did not, in fact, occur. He thought it would be “fun to see what happens.” My sincerest apologies to all those affected by my letter to The Record. While the class parties did occur, no games were replayed during classtime. I regret not going straight to the source, and I hope we can now consider this matter close...
No one is eternally grateful every day of the year. Usually these feelings of overwhelming thankfulness are only experienced after watching the news, or a close call with the neighbor’s trash can while backing out of the driveway. But, every once in a while, I like to count my blessings fully. I was born in wedlock with 10 fingers and 10 toes, one head and two mostly functional eyes. My parents never separated, and so far I’ve evaded serious injury for 18 years and counting. I live in a town where it isn’t necessary to screen...
Last week's letter to the editor from a parent unhappy about what they perceived as Seahawk fever at school stirred up a hornet's nest. Children are not always reliable reporters of what happens in any given situation, as this weeks retraction by the same letter writer makes abundantly clear. At times, we have all been guilty of throwing out allegations that are not backed up by facts. That's when we have to eat crow, as the saying goes. But The Record wants to thank the letter writer for using the newspaper as a venue for...
Wait. What? God Doesn’t want me to be happy?!?! Okay, perhaps that was a bit of an overstatement. Allow me to explain. Three ideas dwell at the forefront of our cultural psyche. What are they? Life. Liberty. The Pursuit of Happiness. They are enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, said to be "self-evident" rights "endowed by the Creator." Not only are these ideas foundational to the American way of thinking, but they are oftentimes assumed in popular American C...
One of the things my mutt from the pound and I like to do together is go on long walks. Sometimes on weekends Buster Brown and I stroll at the bottom of the Snake River Canyon where dogs can be off-leash (as Mother Nature intended). There’s a six-mile walk in the canyon we like to do: me limping along in a straight line, Buster ranging over a wider area of ground sniffing for wildlife. Closer to home, there is a six-mile loop around town we enjoy. I think I can speak for both...
To the Editor: Our President has been reading the polls and they are causing him to make mistakes. Unfortunately he chose to bemoan his predicament on MLK Day which was really in questionable taste. He tried to play the Rodney Dangerfield and the race card when nationwide people of most races were marching together. History should have told him that the second term has been tougher for many presidents. He needs to recognize that positive results are what America needs to see for their support to be earned. He had two years...
To the Editor: We are writing with the hope that we can shed some light on what we feel is a disservice to the children of Odessa Elementary School. Some classes had “Seahawks Parties” last week, in preparation for the Super Bowl. We have a child in school who is not a Seahawks fan and is being forced to partake in the creation of Seahawks pictures and attend class “Hawk rallies.” This child has been segregated by the other children due to not being a Seahawks fan, and the teacher has allowed this to take place. Student...
“Eleven new laws took effect in Washington state on New Year’s Day, including a measure to create special license plates for fans of the Seattle Sounders FC and the Seattle Seahawks,” reads the first line of a recent AP story out of Seattle. While I fully support the Seahawks by cheering them on to the Super Bowl, I would much rather purchase another type of special license plate! A bill I sponsored that passed in 2012 went into effect last year that allows more than 90,000 4-H members in Washington state to also have a speci...
To the Editor: I was sorry to see that Lise Ott was stepping down as writer of “Advice from a small-town girl”, as Joanne and I have always enjoyed her thoughts and humor in your paper. I still have my history to enjoy reading along with the sheriff's report. I also like the new articles about locals from Odessa. So many interesting people live here. Keep up the good work. Hope to see you this summer. Chuck Wood Gig Harbor, WA....
To the Editor: Jan. 1 started the first of a series of incidents both good and bad that are a result of Obamacare. I know a few loyal Obama supporters who are hisitant to admit that this might not serve to be Obama’s finest accomplishment. I believe that Congress needs to step up and pass a “No Bailout for Insurance Companies Act of 2014.” It needs to say “sections 1341 and 1342 of the Affordable Care Act are hereby repealed.” We need to have them do this because of adverse selection (enrolling too few young and healthy p...
To the Editor: An Odessa friend sent me a January 9 copy of a letter to your paper. The letter was signed Duane Pitts of Moses Lake. Since I have a dear relative that teaches in that district and since Odessa and Moses Lake are on the same side of the state, I might question the values imparted to those students. If Mr. Pitts is a product of that education system, low information voter comes to mind. His dismissive judgment on GOP efforts lacks a bit of balance. He blames the GOP for shutting down the government. I know...
I've written here before about the problem of unwanted fires burning in coal deposits. Above and below ground, coal fires are a problem in both developed and developing nations. If we are serious about reducing our carbon dioxide emissions, we should address the unwanted fires burning around the world. Unwanted coal fires are not a huge slice of the carbon dioxide pie, but putting them out is one way we could decrease the emission of greenhouse gases without putting a damper...
Wheat markets continue to wander in their winter doldrums. The futures are trying to find a bottom but the commodity funds continue to press the short side with speculative funds now holding close to a 500 million bu net short. On the bear side, the last USDA Crop Report showed 60 million bu decrease in wheat feed use compared to the December report. This more than made up for the 25 million bu increase in wheat exports resulting in a 33 million bu increase in U.S. ending stocks for wheat. World wheat carryovers were also...
