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LINCOLN COUNTY-Mandates, pandemics and new curriculum all appear to be influences on enrollment rates, trends and retention numbers across eastern Lincoln County. Each of the four main school districts/schools in the area have seen different enrollment trends over the past five years and have seen numbers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in different ways. In Davenport, numbers dropped before 2020 but are back to 2017 rates this year. The Reardan-Edwall School District has...
Supply List Preschool 1 reg. backpack, labeled with student’s name 1 box 24 Crayola crayons 2 boxes washable markers 4 large glue sticks 2 large boxes facial tissues Kindergarten 1 regular backpack, labeled with student’s name 2 small glue sticks 1 pink pearl eraser 1 box 24 Crayola crayons 1 box 12-24 colored pencils 1 box washable markers 1 pair headphones 1 pair metal safety scissors 2 large boxes facial tissues (do not label) Grade 1 1 reg. backpack, labeled with student’s name 1 box 24 Crayola crayons 2 pink pearl erase...
REARDAN – Nick Landt submitted his resignation from the Reardan-Edwall School District Board of Directors after almost 12 years on the board. The remaining and present board members accepted his resignation at the board's June 28 meeting. Landt said he resigned to avoid a conflict of interest as his wife, Shannon Landt, a longtime substitute teacher in the district, looked to apply for the position being vacated by Larae Peterson. He said his proudest accomplishment he h...
MALSTROM AFB, Mont.– Casey Schlomer, a graduate of Odessa High School in 2016, now has tangible proof from the U.S. Air Force of her promotion to the rank of senior airman. She recently received the certificate shown above from her superiors. Casey is stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, home of the 341st Missile Wing of the Air Force Global Strike Command, where she works in security enforcement. Casey is the daughter of Amy and Kevin Schaefer and J...
ODESSA – The 2021 downtown Odessa Christian Music Freedom Festival, sponsored by Rolling Thunder Pizza and benefiting the local Odessa Guitar Ministry for Kids, was held July 24 in downtown Odessa. The festival began in 2019 and has grown exponentially despite the pandemic year of 2020, which led to the event being broadcast via Facebook live and drawing a larger regional audience. By January of 2021, a full lineup of visiting bands from Idaho and Spokane and plenty of local talent was in place for this year’s event. The gues...
ODESSA – The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the high school library (also available via ZOOM) on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, preceded by a workshop in the district office at 5:30 p.m. to discuss staffing considerations. The meeting was publicized by posted notice and notices presented to the administration, union presidents, board members and the newspaper. Board chair Ed Deife opened the scheduled budget hearing at 6 p.m., during which school Superintendent Dan Read gave a brief overview of the 2...
DAVENPORT – After a survey of students indicated a majority preferred the idea, the high and middle school are leaning toward a new schedule style for the 2021-22 school year. A return to five days in person is on the horizon, with parents holding the option to have their children participate in online school instead. While still in draft mode with details needing to be ironed out in August, the schedule would feature eight 35-minute periods on Mondays with students attending all their allotted classes, while T...
DAVENPORT – The school board approved the hire of a new full-time custodian at its regular meeting July 26. Aaron Kelp has been the custodial lead for the Mead School District since 2010 and is moving to Lincoln County, where he’ll take the custodial position here. He was a custodial substitute here during the 2020-21 school year while keeping his job in Mead. Kelp graduated from Rogers High School in 1991 and was an alignment manager at Les Schwab and a shop manager at Midas and R & R Oil, all in Spokane, during the 199...
DAVENPORT – The school board approved two finance-related resolutions at its July 26 meeting. One was petitioning OSPI for a 2020-21 budget extension due to increased expenditures caused by the pandemic, and the other was approving the 2021-22 budget. The budget extension will raise general fund expenditures from $8,608,710 to $9,062,976, a rise of $454,266. The district must petition OSPI as a state requirement. “We’re required by the state to ask to spend more money than we originally thought,” business manager Leslie...
Ashley Roper of Harrington has earned a place on the Spokane Falls Community College honor roll for spring quarter 2021. Students must earn a grade point average of 3.0 or higher to be on the honor roll. Christopher Wyatt of Harrington and Sara Kramer of Odessa have made the honor roll at Spokane Community College. The honor roll lists those students who achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or above in spring quarter. Kaitlin Estep, Colton Hunt and Camden Weber, all of Odessa, have been placed on the Dean’s List at E...
ODESSA – Although the Odessa High School Alumni Association canceled its annual banquet for the second consecutive year in 2021, the members of the class of 1971 were unwilling to let the occasion pass by without the opportunity to gather and catch up with one another. Paul and Kerry Scheller of Odessa hosted their classmates at their home in late June. At 51 members, the class of 1971 is said to be the largest class to graduate from Odessa High: Carol Null, Nancy Finck, V...
DAVENPORT —Several Lincoln County residents have been named named to an honor roll, and deans‘ list and presidents’ List at Gonzaga University, Whitworth University and Washington State University for spring term. Kaysa Panke of Davenport made the President’s List at Gonzaga, which requires a grade-point average between 3.85-4.0. Grace Lilje of Davenport made the Dean’s List for a GPA between 3.5-3.84. Lilje graduated with a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering and Riley Utley of Davenport graduated Magna Cum Laude wit...
DAVENPORT—The school board approved administrative and non-union represented employee contracts for nine district employees at its June 21 regular meeting. Superintendent Jim Kowalkowski, middle/high school principal and assistant superintendent Chad Prewitt, elementary and assistant middle school principal Noelle Carstens, business manager Leslie Oliver, district secretary Stephanie Linstrum, behavior intervention specialist Trenton Briney, occupational therapist assistant Nina Olson, plant operations director Joe Coppersmit...
The Davenport graduating class of 2021 recently shared a cap and gown moment with their younger Gorilla counterparts, this year's graduating kindergarten class. Davenport's high school graduation took place Saturday, June 5....
DAVENPORT – Philanthropic Educational Organization Chapter N recently announced their 2021 scholarship recipients, Eleanor Telford and Amber Hamilton. Each of these graduating high school seniors from Lincoln County will receive a $500 scholarship while attending their chosen institution of higher education. The goal of these scholarships is to recognize young women graduating from Davenport and Reardan high schools who have a desire to seek growth in knowledge through education, a willingness to contribute to their c...
ODESSA – At Odessa Jr.-Sr. High School, a student must have a grade-point average of 3.50-4.00 to be on the honor roll, and honorable mention requires a grade-point average of 3.25-3.49. Grade values are based on the state transcript requirements and are as follows: A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-= 2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=1.3, D=1.0, F=0.0. High school Six OHS seniors achieved a 4.0 grade-point average: Kaya Curo, Tim DeWulf, Nicholas Larson, Jett Nelson, Maddie Scrupps and Pilot Weishaar. Joining them on the honor r...
Macklin Strode and Olivia Gies, both third-graders at P.C. Jantz Elementary School, were the winners of new bicycles donated by the local Masonic Lodge. Students who met their reading goals put their names into a drawing for the bikes....
Freshman members of the Odessa High School chapter of FBLA competed in the Lead4Change Student Leadership Program challenge in February. The team won second place and received a $500 charitable grant for its charity with their Frontline Flatbread Frenzy project....
Bremerton, WA – Once again the Odessa High School students in the Advanced Science Research program presented their independent science and engineering research on March 26 - 27, 2021 at the 64th annual but virtual Washington State Science and Engineering Fair from their own high school science laboratory. Among more than 120 students attending, these local scientists earned the following places in their respective categories, along with other top Washington state awards: Chloe Winkler – “TiO2/UV Based Photocatalytic Pretr...
DAVENPORT – The school board accepted six more resignations at its March 29 regular meeting, bringing the number of accepted resignations in 2021 to nine. Altogether, the district is losing over 100 years of experience to retirement. While district leadership doesn’t yet know exactly how it will fill all the vacant positions without breaking the bank, the board did give approval to at least begin advertising the positions so leadership can get a feel for who might be int...
ODESSA – The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the library and the meeting was also available via ZOOM March 24, preceded by a workshop held in the district office to discuss the budget, ESSER fund planning and the school calendar/schedule. Present were board chair Ed Deife; board members Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Carmen Weishaar; Superintendent Dan Read; Principal Jamie Nelson; Assistant Business Manager Staci Claassen; Operations Supervisor Justin Parr and Athletic Director Bruce Todd. Boar...
ODESSA – The Odessa School District, in cooperation with Educational Service District #101, will be providing a Child Find Screening clinic on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. The screening will be offered at no cost to children of concern ages three through five. By identifying children at an early age, we can better prepare for their future educational needs. The screening will take at P.C. Jantz Elementary School. The screening itself takes about an hour to complete. During this time, a screening test will be administered to a...
By Natalee Hayes and DHS students Contributed to The Times HARRINGTON – Navia Bowdish, Kylee Buchanan and Allison Jorden, co-chairs of the chapter's Partnership with Business project have partnered with Roam Roasters, a coffee roastery out of Harrington, Washington. On January 22, they had the opportunity to participate in a tour led by Roam Roasters owner Shelley Quigley. As part of their partnership with Roam Roasters, the co-chairs learned first-hand about how the b...
ODESSA – Five inspiring students from the Odessa High School science department presented their independent science and engineering research at the Annual Eastern Washington Regional Science and Engineering Fair, held online March 10-11, 2021. Each completed the paperwork required, uploaded their video presentations and waited for the judges decisions. Although many of the special awards have not yet been released, these five scientists earned the following main regional a...
ODESSA – Over the last few weeks before the winter break, students at Odessa High School and Junior High School were busy conducting independent science research entitled the Second Quarter Research Project. This project is designed to encapsulate the knowledge and the ability to formulate a testable research question, design and execute an experiment with quantifiable results, scientifically compare the experimental results with a control method and discuss their findings with the rest of the class via a formal p...
