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Odessa firefighters have been busy since about mid-July, when any small spark from any source could ignite tinder-dry grass or wheat. The calls seem to come in every other day or so, pulling the volunteers from their regular jobs and sending them out to save someone’s cash crop or cattle pasture. This past spring’s frequent showers no doubt helped to produce plenty of fuel in the form of lush wheat, as well as lush growth of everything else that grows in the scablands. Sin...
Last week Thursday night, or perhaps in the wee hours of Friday morning (night of July 28-29), thieves once again (The Record reported on an earlier break-in at Odessa Drug in March of 2008) broke into Odessa Drug, making off with all of the narcotic painkillers they could find, as well as about $200 in cash, said owner Ted Bruya. Two whole shelves inside the pharmacy were emptied. “They took everything that started with “hydro” or “oxy,” said store employee Megan Clark, “e...
The waves of grain have begun to fall to the combine-harvester’s sickle. The wheat harvest began last Monday with the first load of wheat hauled to the Ruff elevator of the Odessa Trading Co./Ritzville Warehouse. Mark Cronrath, grain manager at OTC, says the wheat coming in has been nice and dry, with tests showing a range of 10 down to 8.2 for moisture content. Dryland wheat, he said, has been running from the high 50s to the low 70s in terms of bushels to the acre. No i...
Joel Edmonds has taken over as general manager of Inland Empire Oilseeds under a management agreement with AgVenturesNW (not as majority shareholders as we erroneously reported last week, although they may become majority shareholders at some time in the future). Edmonds and Wally Kempe are the two principals in 1138, LLC who have been negotiating with IEO since last November to work out a way to get the plant reopened and operating once again. Kempe was out of town, but...
Inland Empire Oilseeds, LLC (IEO), Odessa’s biodiesel plant that has been running with a skeleton crew of four to six employees since laying off about 20 members of its crew last June, has finally found an investor willing to put money into getting the plant back into full production mode. As is so often the case when a new owner or majority shareholder comes on board, personnel changes have already begun. Steve Starr, general manager of IEO since late 2008 and an avid and voc...
