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ODESSA – As the town council met in person Monday night for the first time since Covid restrictions were enacted, Mayor Bill Crossley reported that the date for Odessa’s community cleanup days has been moved to April 15-16. The move was necessary due to town staffing issues. Advertising of the dates and associated rules and restrictions will be published soon. Crossley also reported that several eastern Washington mayors have joined together in signing a letter to Governor Jay Inslee, requesting that their municipalities be...
ODESSA – Several Odessa businesses are having difficulty hiring employees due to the housing shortage in Odessa. Offering people jobs is one thing, helping them find a place to live is quite another. Commuting from Spokane or even from some closer communities loses its appeal over the long term, even when businesses are offering additional gas stipends or other more generous benefits. Currently, there are no Odessa homes listed with local realtors. Michelle Melgren with Katz Realty of Davenport told The Record that the few ho...
The Tiger volleyball team had a successful week, winning all three of their matches on the opponents’ courts. OHS vs Wilbur-Creston-Keller The Odessa Tigers defeated the Wilbur-Creston-Keller Wildcats in a hard-fought five sets last Thursday in Wilbur. OHS 25 16 23 25 15 3 WCK 18 25 25 18 6 2 Emily Scrupps led the Tiger team in kills with 12. Either the WCK defense handled many of the Tigers’ kill attempts or the girls were somewhat lacking in accuracy, as the team was successful in only 39 of its 135 kill attempts. Gra...
Odessa 46 14 8 6 74 Tekoa-Rosalia 0 0 0 0 0 Pilot Weishaar was the workhorse of this game, rushing for 239 yards on 16 carries and getting across the goal line four times for touchdowns, plus carrying the ball for another four two-point conversions. He also received a 10-yard pass for a TD and scored a total of 38 points. Daeton Deife had 97 yards rushing in four carries and scored two TDs, while adding two 2-point conversions, one rushing and one receiving, scoring 16...
ODESSA – Clinic manager Barb Schlimmer has announced that the Odessa Clinic will receive an additional 84 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine this week. Following last week’s mass vaccination at the community center, the original 180 doses were used to inoculate people who had previously signed up on a waiting list. Now she wants to get the word out that additional doses are here, and folks are being urged to call the clinic to put their names on the list for vaccination. Preference will still be given to those over the age...
ODESSA – The Odessa Tiger football team started off their new season, finally, with a huge win over Wellpinit, 98-0. The boys were itching to get on the field and prove their mettle as the reigning state champions in the 1B category. Senior Tim DeWulf was back in action after missing all of last season recovering from foot surgery. He proved his value with five pass receptions for 105 yards and four touchdowns. On defense, he racked up five solo tackles and two assists. Fellow...
ODESSA – The Tiger volleyball team opened its season Feb. 18, after the long Covid-induced wait, with a non-league win over Reardan in three straight games. OHS vs. Reardan Emily Scrupps was back in fine form after having missed last season due to shoulder surgery. She led the team with 12 kills. The match was broadcast via the NFHS Network and could be viewed online. There was no play-by-play announcer, and the camera was located way up in the bleachers. Therefore, f...
ODESSA – The Odessa Clinic sprang into action Monday, when the Lincoln County Health District called to announce that 180 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine would be delivered to Odessa. Clinic manager Barb Schlimmer and her team quickly began organizing a mass inoculation clinic for folks who had already signed up to be on a waiting list for the shots. On Tuesday afternoon, setup began taking place in the community center after town officials agreed to its use a...
ODESSA – The hammer is about to fall. After numerous requests via letter and in person, as well as citations issued by Odessa Police, nuisance properties within the Town of Odessa, that are not just unsightly but also health hazards affecting neighbors and/or anyone else needing to access those properties (delivery drivers, utility workers, etc.), the Odessa Town Council is taking action to clean up the properties and place liens against them in order to recoup the cost of remediation. At Monday evening’s meeting of the cou...
ODESSA – Following a public uproar when Gov. Jay Inslee declared that the Puget Sound area was the first portion of the state to move to Phase 2 of his Covid-related economic re-opening plan, Inslee initially tried defending his decision but soon switched gears and declared that all of eastern Washington was moving to Phase 2. This about-face means that the much-postponed fall sports season can finally get underway at Odessa High School (see additional sports coverage, p. 8) and that many other potential events can take p...
ODESSA – This week marks the start of the “fall sports” season for Odessa High School athletes playing football and volleyball. The football team faces Wellpinit this Friday evening at 7 p.m. at Finney Field. On Saturday, the volleyball team faces two different teams at home in the high school gym, with matches against Oakesdale at noon and Mary Walker High of Springdale at 4 p.m. Covid-related restrictions apply, even in Phase 2. Parents of team members from both teams, plus the team members themselves, officials, coach...
ODESSA – According to Wikipedia, “Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a minor Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world… Saint Valentine's Day is not a public holid...
ODESSA – The Feb. 9, 2021 special election results for Lincoln County show Odessa’s two school levies and one hospital levy easily passing by margins of over 70 percent in favor to 30 percent or less opposed. Voter turnout stood at 46.47 percent, with 1,284 votes counted thus far out of the 2,763 registered voters in the county. The Sprague and Readan-Edwall School Districts also had levies passing by approximately the same amounts as the Odessa School District. The election results are scheduled to be certified on Feb. 19....
ODESSA – A full complement of council members met Monday night either via Zoom or in the clerk’s office. Several members of the newly formed Metropolitan Park District board also attended via Zoom to discuss funding and various legal matters regarding the Odessa pool. One of the main issues of concern to the board was funding for 2021, since the taxes due the district will not be collected until 2022. Council members reassured the board that they were well aware of that fact and had already included pool maintenance and ope...
ODESSA – The Odessa Chamber of Commerce via Zoom met Feb. 9 to elect officers for the year and handle other relevant matters. Nominations were opened for all positions, although none were forthcoming. The slate of nominees from the prior Chamber meeting was then approved via a vote of acclimation by the participating members. The new officers are: President Jeff Huiras, Vice President Norm Ott, Secretary Terrie Schmidt-Crosby, Treasurer Larissa Zeiler, at-large board member Michelle Melgren, at-large board member Matt R...
ODESSA – Odessa High School Athletic Director Bruce Todd told The Record last week that high school volleyball and football teams were scheduled to begin a six-week season on February 1. Practice for both sports was underway, and schedules were being worked out by the athletic directors of the area schools. Junior-high football was set to begin February 8 and junior-high volleyball on February 16. Wilson Creek was to combine with Odessa for the football season, and Harrington will join Odessa for other selected sports. S...
ODESSA – The Odessa High School Athletic Hall of Fame committee (consisting of 11 members) has been hard at work preparing for its 2021 induction of athletes, coaches and contributors. The committee has been meeting in Odessa, where most of its members live, although the group’s vice president and Odessa graduate Jon Heimbigner comes all the way from his home in Spokane. The group’s president is Larry Weber. One member of the committee, Terrie Weishaar, asked to be relieved of duty due to health issues and the fact that she i...
ODESSA – Odessa Public Works Director Rod Webster reported that the town’s coffers might soon be bankrupted by the rising costs of the recycling program provided to Odessa residents at the town’s expense. A fee is charged to the town each time a full bin is removed and replaced with an empty bin. Webster said that the average rate of bin replacement was about once a month until fairly recently, when it began averaging about twice a month. What really worried Webster, howev...
ODESSA – As of Jan. 4, 2021, Odessa Golf and RV has new owners. D & H Rentals, LLC, a local Odessa company, has purchased the business. A second local business, Odessa Farm Links, LLC, has been established by Dillon Jahns and Hannah Schmidt to lease the golf course and RV park and manage all related operations. The two say they have plans to keep up with the current level of maintenance that has garnered much attention since Jahns began working at the course in 2013. His l...
ODESSA – The windstorm that tore through Odessa and the rest of eastern Washington on the night of January 12/13 uprooted trees and sent garbage cans and other items not battened down into the streets and other people’s yards. At the home of Annie Walter of Odessa, a large evergreen tree toppled onto the garage, damaging a wall and part of the roof. At the home of Tracy Walter, a similar scenario prevailed, although the tree that toppled did not hit any structures. Folks woke...
ODESSA – Les Jimerson, formerly the number-two man on Odessa's two-man police force, was sworn in as the newest Odessa Town Marshal by Mayor Bill Crossley at Monday night's town council meeting. Former chief Brent Dell resigned his post in December to take a job elsewhere. Jimerson joined the Odessa force in March of 2019. The first 2021 meeting of the council on January 11 was once again via Zoom, and a full complement of council members was present: Vickie Iverson, M...
ODESSA – Daniel Glaze has joined the staff of Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center as a nurse practitioner, bringing the current staff to four full-time providers. He joins family nurse practitioners Kyle Anderson and Ruby Ayers and licensed social worker James DeDeaux. His first day on the job was January 4. Glaze, 42, is a native of the Florida panhandle, from a town near Pensacola. He and his wife Kayla, also a Florida native, have two children, a daughter Sidalee, 13, and a s...
1 years ago Jan. 14, 1921 Claude M. Chilson and Paul T. Bockmier have received permission from the city council to flood the portion of the street between the Finney Lumber company and the Great Northern tracks to make an ice rink for the benefit of the Odessa public. Water Superintendent Schoonover will run water each evening until there is a good coat of ice. Odessa lumber dealers, the G.W. Finney Lumber company and the Standard people, have announced that they will swallow a loss and put down the price of lumber a drop...
ODESSA – It was not a white Christmas exactly, but snow did arrive in a big way as the New Year approached. Odessa and surrounding areas received up to six inches of the white stuff on Dec. 29-30, as temperatures hovered right around freezing. Town and rural residents faced an arduous task as they dug their way out. Rising daytime temperatures provided a drizzle of rain that made the snow extremely heavy (by weight). Town crews worked feverishly all day on Dec. 30 to clear the...
1 years ago Jan. 7, 1921 The opening dance at the New Community Hall given by the Odessa Concert Band New Year’s eve was one of the largest ever held in Odessa and also one of the most enjoyable. Dancing began at 8:30 and continued until nearly four in the morning. The prize waltz was held at 11 p.m. and Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Jenks were awarded first prize in the waltz contest. Con. H. Eckhardt’s crew of men began excavation for installation of the new five-ton Armstrong ice plant in the Odessa Meat Market. 75 years ago Jan...
