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The Desert 100 off-road motorcycle endurance race may have been the largest ever judging from the size of the campsite at the corner of Irby Road and SR 28. Configured like a giant "L" the site certainly covered more ground than we had seen before at prior races. The official results are still being tabulated and finalized and will be posted on the website of the Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club as soon as possible. As for how the Odessa vendors did, information is still being...
March 31 was the date of the Deer Park Invitational track and field meet, where both the girls’ and boys’ team competed against teams from Almira/Coulee-Hartline, Colfax, Deer Park, Kettle Falls, L.V. Rogers, Lake Roosevelt, Liberty (Spangle), Lind-Ritzville-Sprague, Mary Walker, Northport, NW Christian (Colbert), Oroville, Priest River Lamanna, Reardan, Selkirk, St. John-Endicott, Stillwater Christian (a Montana school), Valley Christian, Waitsburg and Wellpinit. The O-H boys tied for third place with Priest River Lam...
The issue of parking next to the community center was discussed by the council with input from police chief Tom Clark. The decision was made to utilize perpendicular parking with spaces marked by white stripes on the east side of the building, beginning just north of the door to the town clerk’s office. The area adjacent to the fire hydrant at the corner of First Avenue and First Street would become a no-parking zone. The question of whether perpendicular parking of large pickup trucks would allow enough space on the street f...
Odessa’s feral cat problem has grown to unmanageable proportions in various hot spots all over town. Citizen complaints and concern by the health care community have prompted the Town of Odessa to pass an ordinance requiring pet owners to license their cats as well as their dogs, so that efforts to trap the feral cats do not scoop up people’s pets along with the wild ones. Police chief Tom Clark has been working with Adams County Pet Rescue on ways to humanely deal with the feral cat problem, as well as with loose dogs who...
Quilt Til You Wilt took place Monday in the Odessa Community Center with many kinds of activities and presentations going on all day long. By noon approximately 80 of the expected 100 or so visitors to the event had arrived and set up their work stations on the community center's long wooden tables. Sewing machines hummed, conversation and laughter came from all parts of the room and those present appeared to be fully engrossed in the art of quilt-making. The potluck lunch at...
At its monthly meeting last week, the Odessa Chamber of Commerce heard from float committee chairpersons Kevin and Amy Schaeffer that work will begin as soon as the community center becomes available. In the meantime, Amy has been busy organizing the pageant at which Miss Odessa 2017 will be selected. Two candidates will vie for Miss Odessa, Maleah Davison and Danielle Tebow, at Any Occasion Banquet Hall on April 9, a Sunday, at 2 p.m. Sandy Smith will be the emcee for the program, and judges from other communities are being...
The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame committee has resumed its meetings in Odessa under its chairman, current OHS athletic director Bruce Todd, and has selected the inductees for the 2017 induction year. Last year’s inaugural ceremony was held at the high reunion in June, and this year a similar ceremony will take place. This year, the committee has selected 10 individuals and two teams that will be honored at the reunion and have their names and short bios added to the display case in the Odessa High School gym. The a...
A closing date of March 28 for the sale of Odessa’s mothballed biodiesel processing facility will pass, like so many dates preceding it, with no action taken. The sale is however still pending following Monday evening’s meeting of the Public Development Authority in the hospital guild room. PDA president Kim Ramm, PDA manager Stacey Rasmussen and the group’s other members were once again disappointed at the time-consuming process leading to a possible sale that is no longer being measured in months but in years. With Richard...
Council members discussed a suggestion from town clerk Gail Kiesz that the parking along the side of the community center be changed to angle parking. The reason for the change was that large pickups in particular take up too much of the roadway when parked facing straight in toward the building. Since the roadway is also a designated truck route, future issues could arise. Deciding that the issue needed more study, the council opted to table it until the next meeting. Odessa Cemetery Cemetery issues were raised by public...
The Odessa Volunteer Fire Department held its seventh annual equipment auction Saturday, March 4, and was able to draw a better crowd than had been expected thanks to some last-minute additions to the list of items for sale. Only one of the items in the auction failed to sell. After last year’s auction that included several estate sales and vehicles from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the firefighters were expecting that this year might look like a flop in comparison. They were therefore pleasantly surprised when sev...
A crowd filled the cafeteria of the Odessa schools March 8 for the special meeting called by the Harrington and Odessa School Boards for the purpose of discussing further the athletic cooperative between the two districts. The group was about evenly represented by people from Harrington and Odessa. Both communities have had open meetings in their respective towns this winter to discuss various aspects of the cooperative (see sidebar for the report by Mark Smith of the Davenport Times on the Harrington meeting). The meeting wa...
The O-H Titan boys ended their bid for hardware at the state 1B basketball tournament on Friday at the Spokane Arena. On the first day of the tournament, March 1, the Titans defeated Chief Kitsap Academy by a score of 53-47. The win put them up against ACH the next day. A loss to ACH Thursday and another loss to Muckelshoot Tribal Academy on Friday sent the boys home. All of the games were hotly contested and close. The Titans can look forward to the future with anticipation, since only one senior from this year’s team is g...
The January 29 community forum on the future of Deutschesfest resulted in lots of feedback and ideas for improvement. The comments received were compiled last week by the author and Lise Ott. Next week, we hope to offer clarification of some of the suggestions and provide a basic framework for volunteering to take on some of these tasks. Biergarten Quality of bands has not improved – has really declined. Whiskey D & the 8 Balls cleared the Biergarten out last year. Raise the gate $5, $10, $15 – people will pay it (Le...
Several members of the community requested that the school board discuss with them their concerns regarding the O-H athletic co-op. Board chairman Ed Deife began by asking those in attendance to share their thoughts and concerns. Prior to the discussion, superintendent Dan Read asked those present to provide feedback in writing by listing the pros and cons of the cooperative on handouts he provided. What appeared to concern those present the most was a perceived lack of...
Cedar Park Christian The O-H Titan boys defeated Cedar Park Christian Friday evening in a regional playoff game at Mountlake Terrace High School on the west side of the state. The Titans won, 70-65, as Jayd Jennings came off the bench in the second half and, along with teammates Jaden Hunt and Joshua Clark, was able “to light a spark, get us back in the game and take the lead,” said head coach Travis Schuh. “He [Jennings] made three crucial 3-point shots in the fourth quarter to help pull us away with the win.” O-H 17 15 1...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday, February 13, in the public library at the community center. Hal and Jan Patterson were introduced as new members of the community attending their first council meeting. A local citizen returned to appear before the council with a complaint about his water/sewer/garbage billing. He said he is being charged double for his service because he has a rental apartment in his garage. The sewer and water lines, however, extend directly from the main house sewer and water lines. There is no second...
Continued from last week To continue our story on events that put Odessa on the map for visitors, we provide here some additional information from the February 14 meeting of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce. A letter will be arriving soon from the Chamber treasurer reminding businesses and individuals to pay their dues for 2017. Quilt til you Wilt Laura Estes, representing the Odessa Quilt Club, advised members that the club’s annual Quilt til you Wilt event will be held March 20. This will be the 22nd year of the event. Expect...
ACH ACH handed the O-H Titans a loss in Saturday’s district championship game at Deer Park High School on February 18. The Warriors won, 58-44. O-H 6 16 13 9 44 ACH 16 24 12 6 58 Ryan Moffet led all scorers with 30 points but had too little scoring assistance from his teammates. By contrast, the ACH team had three players in double figures. They were led by Payton Nielsen who had 18 points and 25 rebounds on the night. Moffet leads the state’s 1B teams in scoring with an average of 29.7 points per game. In the category of...
John Hilty of Odessa got ready for work Monday morning and headed out of town to his job. Something made him turn around, he told The Record, and head back home because "something just didn't seem right." He found his home in flames. Odessa firefighters rushed to the home on Marjorie.When they arrived, flames were shooting out the front door and windows, and smoke also poured out through the vents in the ceiling/roof. Friends and neighbors gathered around Hilty giving what...
Long-time Odessa Trading Company employee Bud Largent thought it would be a good idea to introduce the company's three newest employees to the Odessa community, especially since all three are from out of the immediate area. OTC manager H.P. Carstensen agreed, so Largent invited The Record to come and talk to the three gentlemen and take their picture. All three are mechanics who work on the farm equipment that OTC sells and services. They made sure that one of the tractors...
Our story last week on the fire that destroyed the home of John Hilty was incorrect on a couple of minor points. Hilty had started out for Moses Lake that morning, but the roads were bad, and he said he just had a feeling he ought to go home. And he did. He settled down in his living room to decide what to do for the day when he heard a loud pop somewhere in the house. In a matter of minutes, flames were forcing him to scramble for a few photo albums and get out of the house. The fire burned very hot and very fast and gutted...
It is now mid-February. The Desert 100 is about six weeks away, and still no one has come forward to be the point person for the hospitality tent at the race site. Odessa Chamber of Commerce president Zach Schafer has enlisted help from various others and has been doing whatever he can to make sure that the tent is provided, but he needs one person to keep track of all the various parts of the whole. Former Chamber president Marlon Schafer is now busy full time providing WiFi access at the site but can be called upon for...
Republic On Tuesday, February 7, the Titan girls traveled to Republic for the first round of the district playoffs, facing a team that has had only one loss all season. The Titans lost by a final score of 18-80. O-H 3 2 4 9 18 Repub 28 31 12 9 80 Maleah Davison led the team in scoring with nine points and also got three rebounds. Everyone else was pretty well kept in check by the overpowering Republic offense and defense. Inchelium On Saturday, February 11, the girls played Inchelium at Deer Park High School, losing 26-61,...
Wellpinit Playing in Wellpinit Friday, February 3, the Titan boys won 76-69. O-H 11 19 24 22 76 Wellp 18 20 20 21 69 Ryan Moffet scored 36 points, and Camden Weber stepped up his game with 25 to pace the Titan offense. John DeWulf put on a defensive show by grabbing a season-high 17 rebounds. Weber and Colton Hunt added to DeWulf's boards with six rebounds each. Joshua Clark had four steals. The Titan boys thus finished their season with a win and took second place in the...
ACH The Titan varsity boys lost a close battle to Almira/Coulee-Hartline on January 19, 53-55, in a make-up game that had been canceled the previous Tuesday due to weather conditions. It was largely a defensive game, with both teams working tirelessly to stop their rivals from scoring. The Titans had a one-point lead going into half time. Although the Titans were down by nine points during part of the second half, they were able to even the score late in the game. O-H 17 14 7...
