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Barb Walter's Grannie BarBar baked goods business has graced these pages before, and since she was the first to respond, we are featuring her in this week's column. The day we stopped in to see Barb, she was baking apricot-filled rolls and cinamon rolls to sell to make money for the people displaced by the Carlton Complex fire. This fits in with the generosity we see from her. She brings cookies in to The Record pretty much any time she has some left over from an event. Barb...
With extremely hot temperatures in the preceding days, the Odessa area should probably be considered lucky to have had only one fire which was contained after about five hours. With all the news about the Carlton Complex fire in the north Cascades and the Buzzard Complex in eastern Oregon, apparently both started by lightning in many places and now being treated as fire complexes, people are a bit on edge and are following the news closely. The weather has been hot and windy,...
Another report (with facts) will be coming about the annual Odessa Healthcare Foundation Wine Tasting and Auction. The wine-tasting, the main event of Odessa's social calendar I've been told, was held in the Community Center. As a first-time attendee, I didn't have much idea what to expect walking in the door. It was obvious from the beginning that the volunteer force was a well-oiled machine and the generosity of the comminity was very impressive. The wine did not start...
By MONICA DEIFE The very lucky winner of the pink and black quilt named "The Point is Hope" and raffled off to benefit Team Got Pink? was Barbara Greenwalt. The blocks were made by Experience Quilts! October Block Lotto participants. For the block lotto, participants buy a kit to make one block for 50 cents, make the block and when they turn it in, their name is entered in a drawing. The winner receives all the blocks made. For this quilt, blocks made were numerous, so two...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce bought a new trailer for hauling the community float to parades and gave it to the Town of Odessa. They then requested that the town give back the old trailer, so the Chamber can sell it and recoup some of the money spent on the new one. These measures were approved by the Town Council on Monday, March 24. An offer has already been made and accepted to buy the old trailer from the Chamber for $1,500. At the Chamber’s regular meeting on March 25, Marlon Schafer asked whether the trailer might b...
By MONICA DEIFE Odessa has hired a new eighth through twelfth grade English teacher. Her name is Laura Caler. Caler got her B.A. in secondary English from Eastern Washington University and her M.A. in education from Leslie University in Cambridge, Mass. which she earned through a correspondence course. Caler took four years off from the time her daughters were born and then substituted in District 81 (Spokane) for five years. She had some long-term substituting jobs at Shadle...
At the regular lunch-time meeting of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce on October 8, after much discussion and general agreement, Marcus Horak moved to change the chamber by-laws to hold election of officers at the first meeting in December. This would allow the budget year to run from January 1 to December 31 and new officers would take over their positions on January 1. In order for new officers to take over on January 1, nomination of officers would take place at the last meeting in November (this year on November 26). The...
City councilwoman Lois Harp gave a report about a committee meeting on how to implement Initiative 502, legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. She said that Lincoln County will be allocated two stores which can sell marijuana. The number is based on population. Which towns will have a store will be decided by the state liquor control board. Only two possible locations in Odessa are far enough away from the school, library, ball field, etc., to be possible locations, near the old Water West property and near Walter...
A wedding at the brewery is among the special festivities planned for fest this year. Krystel Pearce, daughter of Jack and Jolie Pearce, and Kolby Schafer, son of Tom and Lynette Schafer, who met at the Rocky Coulee Brewery three years ago during the Deutches Fest are planning their wedding at the brewery and again, during fest. Fest was chosen as the time for the wedding because its the anniversary of their first meeting and a good time for family and friends to gather. It wi...
Zach Schafer came into The Record office on Monday to report on a storm which had touched down at their place in the country on Sunday night. He and his family were watching a Seahawks game on TV at his parent’s (Tom and Lynette Schafer) house in Odessa on Sunday when a weather warning came across the screen about a possible tornado between Ruff and Marlin, which is right where their place in the country is located. They decided to head home out of concern for their dogs. The...
Three Odessa men, Chris Costlow, Mark Worley and Johnny Walter were going fishing last Sunday morning. They were about four miles west of Othello on Route 24 at 5:30 a.m. when they came upon a head-on collision and were the first ones to arrive on the scene. According to Costlow, a Cadillac and a white van were involved. The Cadillac was on fire with one occupant. The driver, Andres Alvarado Alamilla, 24, was trapped in the vehicle and the engine compartment was burning. The...
JoAnn Hardt retired from the Marlin office of Central Washington Grain Growers after 17 years. She was essential to the running of the warehouse and maybe the town of Marlin, too. She officially worked as a bookkeeper and office manager, and unofficially as a historian, tour guide and information agent. Hardt said she ran the scales during harvest and sold the wheat and wrote checks to the farmers. During the last couple of years, CWGG was putting in a new computer system,...
Shari Wilson was spotted at the Quilt 'Til You Wilt Event at Heritage Church on Monday, March 18. She said she was working on a seventy-year old UFO (unfinished object). She said she had found a set of beautiful flowers appliqued on oval pieces of muslin in a cigar box in her mother's house. Wilson's mother lived in Colorado during the Dust Bowl years and when pressing the applique pieces, Sheri said she could smell the dust still in the fabric. She said her mother quit...
