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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
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Your online history of The Odessa Record states that Ted Anderson converted the paper from letterpress to offset printing. This is incorrect, since Walt Larson owned and operated the paper using the old printing press and linotype equipment. It was under his ownership that the paper was converted to offset and printed in Moses Lake, Davenport and Ephrata. I personally ran the Linotype and the folder of the old Letterpress cylinder press. It was scrapped in Moses Lake. The Linotype and Job printing platen press were donated...
My life changed drastically 10 years ago. Never forget 9/11. I was at work flying as a medivac nurse out of the Seattle area when my pilot woke me in the morning and told me I was going to war. I had no idea how much it would change my life. I had no idea how it would change all of our lives. As we approach the 10-year anniversary of this horrific attack, I must reflect. At the time I had a fairly normal life, working my job, raising my children, cutting fire wood, doing normal stuff. That day my life changed. I was...
People don’t appreciate what they have until they lose it. For example, if your water line breaks and you go without showers for a couple of days, you have a whole new appreciation for the water company. Too often, Americans focus on what we don’t have, and we take the simple things in life for granted. But the freedoms and standard of living we’ve always known are not guaranteed. Just look at what has happened in other places around the world. For example, today Gdansk and G...
When I was a kid I was “born again,” a process that involved being fully and totally immersed in water. Much more recently I was on the home stretch of an 8-mile walk in the hot sun when the minister I was walking with kindly poured her drinking water on my hot little head. Seldom does water feel so good as when splashed on an overheating noggin in the summertime. As soon as my hair was sopping wet, I certainly felt born anew, able to complete the walk with at least a tiny smidgen of spring in my step. Just a cup or two of...
Destiny Skidmore, how can you compare Bob and Bonnie Dewey to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is being sued left and right for their labor practices. You know nothing about these people or about labor law. “Help your neighbor!” has nothing to do with business. Bob and Bonnie Dewey come from a small town also; they do have the same family values. But they are in business to make money. Go to the food bank if you can’t afford food or get an EBT card. Newcomers continue to come to Odessa for the cheap housing. You have a drug store, a healt...
Subject: A good interpretation of the Federal Budget If anyone is puzzled by the effort to "substantially" reduce federal spending and is confused by the absolutely huge numbers involved, the following is a primer to understand why this issue is so critical to our country's economic health. It also portends to the mountain of federal debt faced by our children and our grandchildren. Federal Budget 101 The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we c...
I have way more ideas than I have energy or know-how to bring to fruition. I have ideas for quilts. I have ideas for redecorating the house. I have ideas for how to gain control of the garden. And I have lots of ideas for the “betterment” of Odessa. Not that Odessa needs “betterment” – it’s a lovely community. Odessa has held up to the decline of rural America much better than many other communities. But I don’t think we can afford to rest on our laurels, and I think about i...
You may have missed it, but amidst the global economic turmoil, riots in London and our volatile stock market, there is some good news. Boeing has completed flight tests on its long-delayed 787 Dreamliner and has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to certify the plane for production. The company is hoping to earn FAA approval in time to start delivering planes in September. Despite the delays, the 787 remains a major source of future income for Boeing. Boeing...
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...
