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ODESSA — The town has been awarded a $1.3 million grant to make critical water infrastructure improvements. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the agency’s Economic Development Administration grant last week. The funds will be used in an “opportunity zone” with a $326,401 local match. “The Trump Administration is committed to helping American communities obtain the modern infrastructure they need to encourage business growth in Opportunity Zones,” Ross said. “This project will provide Odessa with the water inf...
ODESSA - An Ellensburg man has won the 2020 Odessa Quilt Club show raffle. Jeremy Lewis winning ticket was drawn at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25. He is the son of Dana and Steve Matthews and the grandson of Dave Edens, all of Odessa. The drawing took place despite the cancellation of Spring Fling activities, including the Odessa Quilt Club show. Kyle Tebow, "all-around man Friday to many town organizations," has drawn the winning raffle ticket at most of the recent quilt...
ODESSA — The Town Council is studying creation of a Park District as a means to cover swimming pool costs. The council met digitally Monday, April 27, to discuss the pool and other issues. The cost of maintaining the pool, paying for lifeguards and covering all the other costs related to the pool has reached the $70,000 annually, according to Town Clerk Denise Snead. Pool-use fees generate $3,000 per year, and the Friends of the Pool non-profit group donates about $10,000 each year. The remainder is paid by the town. The L...
1 years ago April 30, 1920 The past week while a little cold nights has been fine growing weather for wheat and its progress has brought smiles to the faces of the farmers. There has not been enough wind to do any damage and another week or ten days will do away with any further danger from that source. Monday and Tuesday temperatures rose into the mid-70s. Since then the weather has been a little cooler and present conditions are favorable for showers or a general rain. F.J. Guth, senior partner in the Odessa Hardware and...
ODESSA — The School Board met digitally Wednesday, April 22, in two sessions. It conducted a 5:30 p.m. workshop and a 6 p.m. regular meeting. At 5:30 p.m., the board discussed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the district, began discussions of the 2020-21 budget and began exploring the option of transitional kindergarten. Chairman Ed Deife and members Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley, Janie Steward and Carmen Weishaar were present. Superintendent Dan Read, Principal Jamie Nelson and Business Manager Juli Weishaar a...
ODESSA - Rick and Marilyn Smith and their extended family gathered last weekend for their annual day of branding, tagging and inoculating new calves. Earlier this year, 65 calves were born on their rangeland north of town. Three generations worked together to round up, corral and process the newest members of the herd. Marilyn, suffering a broken wrist this year, had to sit out the activities and served instead as the photographer. Rick put "fly tags" into the calves' ears to...
1 years ago April 23, 1920 A special meeting of the Odessa town council met to approve the drilling of a second well to ensure the town’s water supply. Three dry seasons and a lack of snow failed to fill underground streams that some had once thought were inexhaustible. Adequate fire protection was also cited as a factor in the decision. Mr. Streiter at the Odessa schools is the track coach for a group of enthusiastic boys with talent. Herbert Luher may be an Olympian in the discus one day if he continues to improve. He h...
ODESSA — Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center Administrator Emmett Schuster on Monday, April 20, provided an update on steps being taken on the medical campus. To date, he said, there have been no confirmed cases of the coronavirus in here. Schuster complimented area residents for continuing to stay somewhat isolated, adding that the hospital and Quail Court Assisted Living still have a no-visitors policy in effect. The hospital emergency room remains open, and ambulance crews continue to respond to emergencies throughout the t...
ODESSA — The Odessa High School Alumni Association has canceled this year’s June 20 alumni reunion dinner due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. Letters to alumni will be sent out early in May informing them of the cancelation and explaining that the 2021 reunion will double up on the honored classes so that both the 2020 and 2021 honorees will receive their due recognition, officials said. The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame committee, however, has opted to go ahead with plans to honor this year’s inductees. As it has for...
DAVENPORT-There's a new sheriff in town. Well, a new deputy anyway. New Lincoln County Sheriff's Deputy Carsen Weber graduated from the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Center on Feb. 20 (a photo of Weber being congratulated by Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers ran in the February 27 edition of The Odessa Record). Weber also recently graduated from Central Washington University in Ellensburg with a B.A. in criminal justice. He is currently training on the job in...
DAVENPORT -- While Lincoln Hospital and Clinics have not had any confirmed COVID-19 cases in their facilities, they have been working tirelessly over the past few weeks to protect patients and employees from the virus and prevent a community outbreak of the disease. In the event that an outbreak should occur here, Lincoln Hospital would be the frontlines of medical care for our communities. "Like many hospitals and healthcare providers are doing right now, we had to consider h...
KIRKLAND -- Life Care Center, north of Seattle, has been the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak on the U.S. west coast. The company, with headquarters in Cleveland, Tenn., operates or manages more than 200 skilled nursing, rehabilitation, Alzheimer's and senior-living campuses in 28 states. Chelsey (Walter) Earnest, the daughter of Bruce and Debbie Walter of Odessa, is a registered nurse who lives and works in Puyallup for Life Care Centers of America. When a call for help...
ODESSA - The coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak has left shelves and schools empty here and across the country. On March 16, President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency in response to the continuing spread of cases of the coronavirus, COVID-19. By executive order of Gov. Jay Inslee, schools throughout the state are closed at least through April 24. Children last attended school March 16 to receive instruction on completing assignments at home using electronic media....
Steve Nelson of CenturyWest Engineering of Spokane was in Odessa March 10 to present an overview of projects his firm has been working on since becoming the town’s engineering firm. A small crowd of citizens attended the informational meeting. Story-boards were displayed showing work accomplished, planned or under contemplation. Projects that have been completed to date include the construction of First Street sidewalks (repairing sidewalks and filling in sidewalks on pathways that school children use to go to and from s...
Moses Lake – Jesyka Melcher Morrison, DVM, is a graduate of Odessa High School and the daughter of Wes and Vickey Melcher, originally from Odessa but currently residing in Moses Lake. Dr. Morrison practices at Pioneer Veterinary Clinic in Moses Lake, where she has been involved in assisting the police K-9 unit since its beginning. On Feb. 28 of this year, she was enjoying an evening at home with her family when she received an emergency call about one of her patients. K-9 o...
For the first time in the history of Odessa High School sports, the Tiger basketball team has won the state championship. That win came at the end of a perfect season of 27 wins and no losses. It also came in the same academic year that the Odessa High football team won its own state championship game, also with a perfect season behind it. Many of the same athletes played on both teams. In fact, basketball season was delayed because the football season went all the way into...
Ryan Moffet, an Odessa native, finished his four years of high school basketball with not only a state championship in the 1B classification but also the state scoring record with 3,216 points in which he was up against players from the 1B to the 4A classifications. He and his teammates formed a cohesive unit that had matured over the high school careers of its members. By the time Moffet and his five fellow seniors qualified for the state tournament, they had proven...
Odessa vs. ACH At the Spokane Arena March 5, the Odessa Tigers began their march toward the state championship by playing arch-rival ACH, which had won its first-round game against Rainier Christian the previous day. Throughout the regular season and district play, the Tigers defeated the Warriors by quite lopsided scores. During this state matchup, however, the Tigers looked flat from the get-go. The fire that had sustained them up to this point in the season appeared to...
The results of the Washington state presidential primary election demonstrate clearly that the mountains bisecting the Evergreen state are not just a geographical divide. Political persuasions on either side of the geographical divide are also mirror images of one another based on the latest published results of voting in the March 10 primary. Ballots counted to date reflect the differences in political viewpoints that tend to support Democratic candidates west of the...
Odessa vs. Oakesdale The regional playoff game against Oakesdale took place at West Valley High School in Spokane this past Saturday, Feb. 29. The Tigers had some trepidation about this matchup, said one Odessa fan. Early in the season, the two teams had met for a non-conference game, and although the Tigers won, it was quite a close contest all the way through three quarters. There was concern that the Nighthawks would be even better prepared for their second matchup. As it...
The Knowledge Bowl team that placed fourth in the regional competition is headed to the state tournament. Jett Nelson, Pilot Weishaar, Eric Johnston, Colton Messer, Ryan Moffet and Camden Weber make up the team. The state tournament will be held March 21, 2020 at West Valley High School, located at 9800 Zier Road in Yakima. The entire Knowledge Bowl Team (JV and varsity for 2019-2020 consists of Eric Johnston, Ryan Moffet, Makayla Nelson, Camden Weber, Kaya Kuchenbuch, Chase...
The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the high school library February 26, preceded by a workshop in the district office at which Superintendent Dan Read presented several school calendar options for next year for board discussion and input. Present were board members Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley, Janie Steward and Carmen Weishaar; Read; Principal Jamie Nelson and Business Manager Juli Weishaar. Also present were Facilities Director Justin Parr, Athletic Director Bruce Todd, senior class advisor Meg...
The Marlin/Odessa Gun Club, competing in Division I of the Spokesman-Review Inland Northwest Trapshoot, placed second overall after the eight-week session's final shoot on Feb. 23. Marlin/Odessa was only four targets off the pace set by first-place Yakima Valley Sportsmen. In the women's division, M/O finished week 8 with a flourish, getting their best score of the season and moving up from sixth place to fourth in the final standings. The top individual scorers for the team...
The 10th annual Firemen's Consignment Auction organized by Odessa's volunteer fire department was a success again this year, with not one leftover item remaining to be sold at the end of the day. The 282 registered bidders who attended last Saturday's sale in Odessa cleaned out the whole area that had been filled with vehicles, farm equipment, office equipment, brand new hardware items in their original packaging, fruit trees and shrubs, and just about everything imaginable....
ODESSA - High school junior Maddie Scrupps. was crowned Miss Odessa during a program Sunday, Feb. 23. Princesses Kaya Kuchenbuch and Alyssa Iverson, also both juniors, make up the royal court. who will represent Odessa at area parades this spring, summer and fall. Each candidate was judged on several factors, including academic record, involvement in school and community activities, interviews with the judges, their responses to impromptu questions during the program and an...
