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I have officially arrived at that part of the summer when I question my ability to make good decisions. Actually, I question it more than once every day, but August is special. Sunday morning, after picking two sinks full of gorgeous, delicious beans, I realized that getting them into the freezer this week was just not going to happen. Sunday afternoon was my book group discussion meeting. Then I needed to collect items and organize a plan for the Canniwai Grange booth at the...
Normally, I don’t let other people’s opinions bother me. Everyone has them, and I don’t always agree with them. That’s life. That being said, I have to admit that I was personally offended by Ms. Skidmore’s opinion on newcomers to Odessa. I have only lived in Odessa for a year now. I don’t have family that was (always) here, but family here nonetheless. I needed a place to start over, get back on my feet and get my son away from overcrowded classrooms. I found all of that here in Odessa and NEVER have I once stolen from...
Every year when my subscription to The Record is due I think I should let it drop. However, I know I would miss reading of events there. It is hard to believe that I have been gone from Odessa over five years but I still miss my life there and all the friends and acquaintances I know. I enjoy reading Lise's article each week. Best wishes to all. Shirley Hoefel Ainsworth, Neb....
Have you ever heard those stories about the person who starts to resemble their pet? It appears that human couples are similar in that they begin to take on one another’s personality traits over time. Alex Crees, writer for AskDrManny.com, reported on the results of a study released earlier this week, funded by The National Institute on Aging, which indicates that couples not only “adopt similar music tastes, or turns of phrase, couples also tend to pick up each other’s unhea...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture America’s farmers are among our nation’s first and finest conservationists. And at USDA, we support their work to protect natural landscapes by improving water and air quality, and preserving wildlife habitat, forests and soil. This work is also helps drive economic growth and creates jobs – particularly in rural communities. Farmers taking steps to help the environment can improve their bottom line. And maintaining the health of American landscapes supports an outdoor recreation industry worth $...
My friend Sharon Rogers lives in suburban Virginia. On Tuesday she and her husband were leaving their house to go to a late lunch when she felt something like thunder sweeping over the neighborhood. “I thought it was a military jet going over too low,” she told me on the telephone. “I said to myself ‘It’s another damn general being buried in Arlington.’” It was no jet, but a Richter 5.9 earthquake that struck near Mineral, Virginia. Why, you may ask, should there have be...
It is always around this time of year when the toy companies begin introducing their latest toys at conventions and trade fairs, gauging reaction and putting together their big marketing push for the holidays. This year, there will be a toy that is already quite successful across Europe, but new to the U.S., and it is creating quite a stir. It is a baby doll. That in itself is nothing new; it is what this doll does that has some parents and child development specialists up in...
At the same time President Obama and Congress were locked in combat over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, leaders of state manufacturing associations from across America were meeting right here in Washington. Despite the 3,000-mile distance, our futures — and their problems — are intertwined. As the debt ceiling debate raged, our nation’s debt climbed to $14.3 trillion, the U.S. Treasury’s cash on hand dwindled to $74 billion and America teetered on the brink of insolvency....
This summer has been filled with acrimony about the federal budget, with red versus blue politicians squaring off to hurl criticisms at each other. For a lot of us, turning on the news has felt like an exercise in masochism. Imagine my pleasure, then, at going to a recent meeting where Americans from quite different walks of life were gathered to learn together about something we all need – a nutritious food supply. On a recent and beautiful summer morn’ without even a bre...
Our little town is a wonderful place to live. That said, it could be better. Last week we listened in astonishment to the scanner in our office as a domestic assault grew into an assault on a police officer. We’ve all read about the recent rash of burglaries. We’ve seen and heard about drug use among our young residents, and a couple of weeks ago a pregnant young woman was so drunk she was face down in the street. What to do? Yesterday in a casual conversation, a friend and I...
Doesn’t it seem that all you hear from the President and the Democrats is “tax increase, tax increase,” and “tax the rich, tax the rich.” Well, according to the IRS there are 8,274 people who make over $10 million a year. That is a total of $240 billion dollars. Another 227,000 people earn a million or more a year. If you take all their money, it wouldn’t be enough to run the current government for a period of 20 days. Any tax increase passed by this administration will do nothing for the deficit. Doubling federal inc...
Since I am a newcomer I am now publicly resigning from the Chairmanship for the Arts and Crafts at Old Town Hall. You need to get a local person born in Odessa, WA. I don’t want to help you all. Mrs. Skidmore do you want to take over this leadership and find locals born in Odessa willing to help? Karen Brooks Odessa...
Americans live in an idealistic world where, no matter what happens, we’ll still be able to go home at night and switch on the lights or pull into a filling station and gas up the family SUV. Most folks — including many elected officials — don’t connect the dots. They somehow believe there are no consequences to killing a small biomass project in Vancouver, stopping a wind farm development because it spoils their view, taking a coal-fired plant off line, or opposing a natural...
My older sister read some of my columns on The Record’s website yesterday. We were at my father’s house celebrating his 87th birthday, along with my brother-in-law’s 61st and my niece’s 19th. It was a nice gathering, with few of the little family fissures that seem to be part of our lives these days. Well, forever, if you must know. I have noticed that we’re a much less contentious lot than we were when my mother was alive, but that observation requires more study. At any ra...
For ages, this community has been founded on and raised around a few simple principles: Help your neighbor! If your neighbor has a hard time with something, lend them a hand. It doesn’t matter if they’re overwhelmed because of household chores, money troubles, or a death in their family, we help out however we can. This is a principle that the local grocery store used to believe in, too. Now, many families will be hit harder this winter because the “local” store (if it can still be called that) is not going to be deliver...
I have really enjoyed Lise Ott's articles in The Odessa Record - she has been a great addition to your staff - good job Lise! Also have enjoyed Arley Bischoff's poems. Want him to know that what he has done to fix up the old cemetery's was much appreciated. Thanks, Arley, for all your hard work. Helen Pierce Odessa...
It is nothing new. For most of our history, it has been common to say and practice that children are to be seen and not heard, to speak only when spoken to. Then we went through a period when it was popular to not stifle our children with so many rules and boundaries, instead, letting them blossom and be creative, expressing themselves in their own way. It appears that the no-boundaries type of parenting may have resulted in a generation of children who have pushed those who...
Lost in the news over the economic crisis in Europe and the debt ceiling debate in the United States was the unceremonious end of NASA’s space shuttle program. When Atlantis touched down in Florida just before dawn on July 21, there were no marching bands or boastful speeches, and the small crowds at the Kennedy and Johnson space centers were composed mainly of NASA workers and their families. In fact, the ending of the shuttle program barely merited a mention on the n...
Out of sight, out of mind. (At my age, alas, I no longer live within the confines of that dictum. I can forget, misplace and overlook things that are smack in front of my face. But I digress.) What many folks can’t see they can indeed overlook. And all too many Americans have never seen what happens to the water that flows down the kitchen sink and out of the house. But with each load of laundry or flush of the toilet, we create wastewater that gets mingled together and h...
I have an unhealthy relationship with cheese. It all began years ago when my mother handed me a slice of Velveeta (probably to get me to shut up.) It was love at first taste, even though the thought makes me feel a little ill today. Since then, my attraction to cheese has narrowed itself to one and one alone: The Tillamook Cheddar Baby Loaf. I can hear it calling me as soon as I walk in the door of the grocery. A magnetic force seems to pull me toward the dairy section. Skim...
I read with interest your article on water diversion to Crab Creek proposed in 1931, and felt the need to offer a correction and expansion on the Big Bend Water Resource group’s efforts. The plan to reuse polished water from Spokane’s waste treatment did not die because Lake Creek filled up (and dried out again.) It died because, in my opinion, the City of Spokane had no interest in the project. The City of Spokane has no interest in the project because the Department of Ecology permits them to release their waste water int...
Desperate times too often result in bad choices. Translated, that means when taxes don’t match state spending, governors and lawmakers rob dedicated accounts. Dedicated accounts were established to tax people or employers for a specific purpose and only use that money to fund that program. In essence, they promise not to siphon it off to balance the general fund budget. However, robbing Peter to pay Paul has become common practice in Olympia. For example, in 2009, W...
I’ve been thinking about my “bucket list” lately. Of course, I don’t actually have a written list, just a sort of idea in my head of the things I’d like to do before I kick it. The bucket, that is. The first item on the list is to go to the Grand Canyon. Don’t know exactly what I’ll do when I get there, but I need to GET THERE. I tried to get there years and years ago, when my older brother and sister and I decided we’d all like to go. We piled our camping gear into my br...
The federal government recently announced it wants to spy on your doctor. The government planned to pay “mystery patients” to call doctors and find out whether they are willing to accept the prices set by Medicaid and Medicare. The public was outraged, naturally, and within 72 hours government officials temporarily suspended the calls. Federal officials sending fake patients to spy on doctors is not only unethical, it is one more disturbing indicator of why government price controls on health-care services don’t work. Medic...
Imagine coming home from work, tossing your keys on the hall table and flipping on the light switch. Nothing happens. You sigh, remembering that this is the night your neighborhood is scheduled for a rolling brownout. Even with electricity at 25 cents a kilowatt hour, there’s not enough power on the grid to supply the homes, hospitals, factories and office buildings in your state. New laws limit the amount of electricity you can use, and homes are equipped with utility s...
