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The youth group from Odessa churches has collected just under 2,000 pounds of food and toiletries to help fill the shelves of the local Food Bank, generously donated by the Odessa community. A group from the high school agriculture class will help sort food, and members of the National Honor Society chapter will help with bagging and delivery for the holidays this month and next....
On November 6, five schools from eight different towns across the Bi-County joined Odessa for the eighth Annual Bi-County STEM Challenge. Odessa, Wilbur, Lind, Sprague, Ritzville, Creston and Harrington showed up at Harrington High School at 9 a.m. to compete in the annual science-like "Junkyard Wars." Each school brought a team of six students to vie against the other schools for the traveling trophy. Team Odessa consisted of Kiegan Wehr, Colton Hunt, Tori Weishaar, Natosha...
The Tiger football team was to play Selkirk last Friday in Odessa, but the game was forfeited by Selkirk due to injuries and illness. The win thus goes to Odessa, which moves on face Garfield-Palouse in Royal City this Friday, November 17, in a quarter final leading up to the championship game December 1 in Tacoma. The winner of the Odessa vs. Gar-Pal game will face the quarter-final game winner of Friday’s contest between Cusick and Sunnyside Christian. The other two quarter-final games, being played Saturday, are A...
The P.C. Jantz Elementary School will again be hosting a Family Holiday Reading and Math event for students in elementary grades. The theme is Polar Express. The event will begin on December 4 at 6:30 p.m. Parents and children are to check in at the Train Station…or cafeteria. Upon signing in, families will receive a Boarding Pass and Train Schedule that tells them the order to go to the different centers. Students and parents are invited to enjoy the many festive activities. An ever-popular story teller, Dee Deife, will s...
Operation LEAN On Us is underway. The goal of this FBLA community service project is to support Odessa senior citizens. The first phase of the project "N" is to cook for Odessa senior citizens who are in need of home-cooked meals. Last year FBLA members delivered 500 meals to Odessa seniors who were very grateful for the assistance. To raise money to fund this project, FBLA members have made over 150 carameled apples and are selling them by donation at local events. Carameled...
In the crossover game between the north and south portions of the 1B Northeast league, Odessa traveled to Cusick and defeated the Panthers by a score of 60-16. Odessa 8 14 16 22 60 Cusick 0 0 16 0 16 Quarterback Camden Weber had a big night, rushing for 197 yards on 14 carries and passing for 154 for a total of 351 yards and three touchdowns. Joshua Clark also had a very good game, rushing for five yards and pulling in five passes for 107 yards and three TDs receiving. Gaven Elder and Colton Hunt carried nine and six times,...
At Selkirk November 2, the Tiger volleyball team played two district playoff games opposite the Northport Mustangs and the Selkirk Rangers. Odessa defeated Northport, 3-0 to take the match handily. Game 1: 25-11 Odessa Game 2: 25-14 Odessa Game 3: 25-20 Odessa Maleah Davison led the team with four aces, four blocks and seven kills, while Brenna Carstensen led in assists with 10 and digs with seven. Against Selkirk, a team with only one loss all season, the going was tough. The Tigers won only one out of four matches. Game 1:...
Football The Tiger football team defeated the Almira-Coulee-Hartline team, so often their nemesis, to take the league championship crown. The Tigers took a pounding in the first half but must have had some kind of pep talk in the locker room at half time. They came out in the third quarter and were on fire. Odessa 6 6 36 16 64 ACH 22 14 12 6 54 Now back at full strength after being out with an injury, starting quarterback Camden Weber completed 13 of 17 pass attempts for a...
Football The Tigers got another lop-sided win last Friday in Yakima against the Yakama Tribal team. Quarterback Camden Weber, out of action last week due to an injury, was partially back in action, along with Jett Nelson. Weber completed three of six pass attempts for 36 yards and also rushed for a touchdown. Nelson had an even better game, completing 11 of 12 pass attempts for 212 yards and four TDs, while adding another five yards rushing. Odessa 24 28 14 6 72 Yakama 0 0 8 8 16 Gaven Elder led the team in receiving,...
Football The Odessa Tiger football team played an away game in Entiat last Friday, October 13, and came away with another win in their undefeated season thus far. Odessa 8 28 8 22 66 Entiat 0 8 6 6 20 Freshman quarterback Jett Nelson guided the team to this victory, completing seven of 13 pass attempts for a total of 122 passing yards and keeping the ball seven times for a total of 10 yards rushing and one touchdown. Senior running backs Gaven Elder and Colton Hunt carried most of the load and led the team in rushing,...
Football The Tigers shut out the visiting Pateros Billy Goats by a score of 77-0 Friday night, October 6, at Finney Field. Starting quarterback Camden Weber opened up the scoring on a 49-yard QB keeper to put six points on the board. Gaven Elder made the two-point conversion on a pass play from Weber. Backup QB Jett Nelson scored next, also keeping the ball and going 44 yards for the TD. Colton Hunt made the two-point conversion on a pass from Nelson. Hunt then scored six on a 47-yard pass play from Nelson, and Nelson also...
Football The Tiger football team was scheduled to play Wellpinit Friday, September 29, but not enough officials could be found to handle the Friday night game. The three gentlemen officiating Thursday’s junior-high football game were willing to add on the high school game after the junior-high game. Quarterback Camden Weber completed all three of his attempted passes for 103 yards and two touchdowns. Marcus King caught one TD pass for 42 yards, and Colton Hunt caught two passes for a total of 61 yards and one TD. Brady W...
Football Playing in Odessa last Friday evening, the OHS Tiger football team had senior quarterback Colton Hunt back in action, leading the Tigers to their second lop-sided victory of the season over Touchet by a score of 64-14. Hunt completed five of six pass attempts for 101 yards. Touchet 6 0 0 8 14 Odessa 44 14 0 6 64 Touchet 6 0 0 8 14 Odessa 44 14 0 6 64 The ground game was even better for the Tigers with 418 yards rushing. Senior running back Gaven Elder carried 10 times for a total of 152 yards, Camden Weber five...
Football In its first game of the season on September 1, the Odessa Tigers football team traveled to Inchelium where they defeated the home team by a score of 80-6. No stats were available for this game. The game against Garfield-Palouse, scheduled for September 8 was cancelled due to the smokey conditions from the many wildfires in the Northwest. The game will not be rescheduled. Tigers vs. Tekoa-Rosalia The Sausage Bowl, played in Odessa during the Deutschesfest was another lopsided victory for the Tigers over...
The girls volleyball team won their away conference match against the Columbia Lions of Hunters September 6 by a final score of 3-0. Early on in the match the Tigers dominated the Lions, never giving the slightest inch that may have enabled them to make a comeback. The scores are as follows: Game 1: 25-10 Odessa Game 2: 25-6 Odessa Game 3: 25-8 Odessa Caitlyn Schuh led with 10 aces, McKennah Davison had five kills and three blocks, while Brenna Carstensen had seven assists...
The girls volleyball team traveled to Davenport Saturday to compete in the Gorilla Classic Volleyball Tournament, a neutral tournament with Almira-Coulee/Hartline, Davenport, Yakama Nation Tribal School and Medical Lake participating. In the first match, the Tigers stole the win from the Davenport Gorillas by winning two out of three games to take the match. The scores were: Game one: 25-21 Odessa Game two: 15-25 D-port Game three: 15-11 Odessa The second match was a Tiger...
On August 10, 2017, Odessa High School researcher Elizabeth Larson and mentor Jeffery Wehr from the Advanced STEM Research Laboratory had their medicine and health research published online in The Journal of Emerging Investigators, an online journal organized by Harvard University graduate students in Arts and Sciences. Larson's research, entitled "The Effect of Sunglasses on Ocular Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation," was submitted for peer-review in October 2015 and after...
HaLee Walter, agriscience educator at Odessa High School recently attended an eight-day professional development institute at Washington State University to teach the Introduction to Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; Principles of Agricultural Science Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE) course in Walter's program. CASE is an instructional system that is changing the culture of agriculture programs in the United States through intense teacher...
Odessa High School FBLA members observed first hand how winning the Lead2Feed Challenge for the third year in a row impacts the Odessa Community. Members celebrated their second-place award for the 2017 school year at a special assembly where they presented a check for $10,000 to Lindsy Starkel, president of the Odessa Friends of the Pool. This money, along with the $2,500 won by FBLA for their Toasty Tots project from STCU last December, will be used for two new heat pumps,...
To be named to the second-semester honor roll for Odessa junior-senior high school, a student must have a grade point average of 3.50-4.00. To receive 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 Seniors: Elizabeth Larson, Molly Schafer, Chance Messer, Colby Sooy (4.0), Cole Kissler, Kiesha McNeil, Brad Johnston, John DeWulf, Lukas...
Good morning students, families, staff, alumni and community members. Welcome to the Odessa High School 2017 graduation ceremony. Well guys, we did it! Class of 2017, we’ve made it to graduation day. Years of CSTs, math timings, standardized testing and AR tests have finally paid off. We have survived the impossible. Memorizing the FFA creed, the 13-mile long walks, online classes, essay and PowerPoint procrastination, flying across the country for National FBLA, driving three hours for a basketball game, the surprisingly vio...
Good Morning! Welcome to the graduation ceremony for the class of 2017! We are so grateful that you all took the time to celebrate this milestone with us. Without all of you sitting here today, we would not be here. Our parents formed who we are from the beginning and then passed us as children, not yet individuals, to our teachers. From there, they taught us not just about math and reading, but about ourselves and kindness and compassion. Once we got older, we became individuals that our coaches, advisors and the rest of...
Preschool and Kindergarten pre-registration for students new to the Odessa School District for the 2017-2018 school year has begun. Parents/guardians are welcome to stop by the elementary school office anytime between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to pick up a registration packet. All registration forms need to be filled out and turned in by Friday, June 16. Kindergarten students must be five years of age as of midnight, August 31, 2017. Preschool students must be three and four years of age by midnight, August 31, 2017. All...
The state 1B/2B/1A track and field meet was held last Friday and Saturday, May 26/27 at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, with the Odessa-Harrington boys placing third as a team and gathering several individual medals at the same time. The girls' team, smaller and younger than the boys' team, did not place as high but two individuals did come home with medals. Boys, top team scores 1. Mt Vernon Christian 118 2. Lummi 67 3. Odessa-Harrington 58 Girls, top team scores 1....
The Odessa National Honor Society Chapter said goodbye to 10 graduating seniors at a ceremony held at the school on Friday, April 28, 2017. No new members were selected this year. The graduating seniors were Elizabeth Larson, John DeWulf, Rebecca Fortner, Colby Sooy, Molly Schafer, Zoe Clark, Cole Kissler Chance Messer, Wyatt Haase and Bradley Johnston. "We are very proud to recognize these outstanding members of our student body," said Lindsy Starkel, school librarian who...
