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ODESSA – The Odessa High School girl's volleyball team ended their season on March 13 with a record of 8 wins and 1 loss, putting them in a first-place tie with Selkirk HS of Ione, Wash. in the 1B NE District League. Their overall record of 10-3 landed them in 11th place in the state rankings. Wilbur/Creston/Keller Last Thursday, March 11, the Tigers met the Wildcats for the second time this season in a match played in Odessa. As in their first meeting, the match went to a f...
ODESSA – Joycelynn Hottell was new to Odessa High School last year. Her abilities in volleyball quickly became apparent. As a senior this year, she has continued to up her game and contribute to the team's success. She has even set a new school record, one that has been broken twice in the past year. McKennah Davison, a 2020 Odessa High graduate, set a school record of 14 consecutive successful serves in her final season. Earlier this year, current OHS sophomore Ashlyn N...
ODESSA – The Odessa High School girl's volleyball team has put up an impressive record in its abbreviated season of play in 2021. The girls lead the 1B NE District League with a 7-0 record and a 9-1 overall record, having lost only to a powerful Oakesdale team. On March 2, the Tigers defeated the Harrington Panthers in three sets at home. Odessa 25 25 25 3 Harrington 13 13 3 0 Aces: Joycelynn Hottell 12 Assists: Melloney Deife 14 Kills: Ashlyn Neilsen 11 Digs: Melloney D...
ODESSA – The Odessa FFA fundraising effort for the Warden Food Bank, following a fire that destroyed a potato shed with connections to the food bank, has concluded with donations of more than 2,000 items weighing approximately 1,760 pounds. Families with children enrolled in preschool collected 27 items, Kindergarten 91, first grade 128, second grade 35, third grade 135, fourth grade 246, fifth grade 89, sixth grade 379, seventh grade 29, eighth grade 253, freshmen 106, sophomores 29, juniors 19 and seniors 473. Three w...
ODESSA – Some coaching positions filled, some newly opened The school board has approved Jon Hayashi as the head coach of the junior-high girls basketball team. The board also approved Dalles Deife as a volunteer assistant volleyball coach, helping out head coach Suzie Deife who is coaching both the varsity and junior varsity teams. The golf program is also likely to be offered later this spring if the number of students interested remains steady. Advertising for a golf coach has been posted. The Board of Directors of O...
HARRINGTON – Friday, Feb 12, the Harrington Library Board (Susan Larmer, Betty Warner, Katie Steward, Grace Moeller and Stacey Rasmussen) met with Librarian Marge Womach and Mayor Nathan Luck to discuss recent changes in the interior of the building and to consider options on minor remodeling projects to accommodate better use of space. With the alterations that occurred in the past weeks due to snow melting into the interior of the west end of the building, the mayor chose to personally inform the library crew of the p...
The first buttercup of 2021 was submitted to The Record this week by Stan Mustard of Odessa. The bright yellow flowers were sighted just beyond the town limits....
ODESSA – Lincoln County Treasurer Jody Howard has completed the 2021 Tax & Assessment roll for collection, providing notification that the treasurer shall now accept payment and issue receipts for the 2021 taxes and assessments per RCW 84.56.020. 2021 tax statements are scheduled to be mailed within the next two weeks. Taxpayers, whose mortgage companies request their tax statement, will not receive a statement. For further information or questions, contact the Treasurer’s office, 450 Logan, Davenport, WA, (509) 725...
ODESSA – The Odessa High School FFA chapter is among more than 8,739 chapters of the National FFA Organization located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. It is a school-based, national youth-leadership development organization comprising more than 760,000 student members ranging in age from 12 to 21. FFA encourages students to explore careers in the food, fiber and natural-resource industries. National FFA Week is Feb. 20-27. It provides an opportunity for FFA members to share agricultural education with their fellow s...
SPOKANE – The Spokane Ag Show is ready to launch their virtual show February 23-25 via its website, agshow.org. The show is where industry professionals go to meet, learn and grow. It is one of the largest farm shows in North America and while it is virtual this year, it will continue to host industry exhibitors and conduct over 45 professional seminars relating to agribusiness from large-scale operations and small acreage farms and ranches. The show will be free to attend and along with access to exhibitors, some of the c...
ODESSA – A little over one year ago, Odessa High School’s Chloe Winkler, now a junior, began coursework in computer science and programming in science teacher Jeff Wehr’s science department. Curious about the computer sciences, she showed interest in becoming a computer programmer and pursued coding-related projects. She has now learned more than five computer-science languages, including Q-Basic, R-Basic, JAVA, CSS, HTML and Python. Wehr says she is one of the top five coder...
ODESSA – Alyssa Iverson of the Odessa High School FFA Chapter reports that the local chapter is hosting a food drive for the Warden Food Bank. The food bank there is currently struggling following the potato-shed fires that took place a couple of weeks ago. They are in dire need of non-perishable food items and ready-to-eat meals (things easy for a child to heat up and eat), i.e. soups, mac-n-cheese, rice, canned goods, etc. Those who would like to make a monetary donation are asked to make checks payable to Warden Food B...
ODESSA – At the Jan. 27 meeting of the school board, Odessa School District Superintendent Dan Read reviewed the latest Lincoln County COVID case counts, followed by discussion of specific cases and the few quarantines initiated during the week of Jan. 18. A three-day break from in-person instruction occurred Jan. 20-22 for all students as a precautionary measure to monitor for any potential spread. School was back in session with in-person learning on Jan. 25. Read reminded board members that the new “Healthy Washington” reo...
ODESSA – “They Saved our Life, So Have a Slice” was the slogan developed by Odessa High School freshmen for their Lead4Change service project. They set a big goal: Show our appreciation to all of Odessa’s frontline workers who have kept our community safe this year by cooking and delivering 400 flatbread pizzas. Their project was called “Frontline Flatbread Frenzy.” The freshmen carefully planned and organized the event, which allowed the entire chapter, with careful social distancing and safety protocols, to make and de...
Zack Jay Judge of Spokane Valley was arrested in the early morning of Feb. 3 on charges of second degree burglary, theft of a motor vehicle and malicious mischief in the third degree. Judge remained in Lincoln County Jail as of press time. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint from the Wilbur Auto body reporting a theft of a vehicle from the impound lot on Jan. 10, according to the sheriff’s department. The stolen passenger car had been impounded by Lincoln County Deputy Kurt Cuzzetto Dec. 16 and sea...
On Feb. 1, the office of state Senator Judy Warnick of District 13 released the following article on the reaction of herself and her fellow Republican Representatives at the statehouse, Tom Dent and Alex Ybarra. Olympia – Beginning Feb. 1, large parts of the Central Puget Sound region enter “Phase 2” of Governor Inslee’s latest reopening plan, the “Roadmap to Recovery.” State Sen. Judy Warnick, District 13’s Rep. Tom Dent and Rep. Alex Ybarra have spent the past year pushing...
DAVENPORT – January 12, 2021 – The Washington Anytime Library surpassed 1.7 million digital book checkouts in 2020—an all-time record. This milestone affirms that more people are choosing eBooks, audiobooks and the convenience of online lending, particularly at a time when numerous libraries had to close due to the pandemic. The Washington Anytime Library, which comprises 46 smaller and mid-sized libraries around the state, has been providing readers 24/7 access to eBooks and audiobooks for a decade, through OverDrive and i...
ODESSA – The first-semester honor roll and list of students receiving honorable mention are given below. A student must have a grade-point average of 3.50-4.00 to be on the Honor Roll, and Honorable Mention requires a grade-point average of 3.25-3.49. Grade values are based on the state transcript requirements and are as follows: A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-= 2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=1.3, D=1.0, F=0.0. High School Odessa High School seniors achieving a 4.0 GPA are Nicholas Larson, Jett Nelson, Maddie Scrupps and P...
MOSES LAKE – The Grand Columbia Health Alliance is pleased to announce that Coulee Medical Center, located in Grand Coulee, has joined their healthcare partnership. As part of the Alliance, Coulee Medical Center will now be able to share medical resources such as physicians, staff and technology with the other six healthcare organizations. “We’re very excited for the opportunity to share resources with our neighboring healthcare facilities,” said Ramona Hicks, RN, CEO of Coulee Medical Center. “Our regional families...
The Record supports the passage of all three levies, two proposed by the Odessa School District and one by Lincoln County Hospital District #1 (which is the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center). Voters in the Odessa area have received their ballots requesting approval of three different levies supporting the local school and the local hospital district. Odessa’s school and medical facilities are important to those living here or thinking about living here. The Educational Programs and Operations levy requested by the Odessa S...
ODESSA – Vineta L. Weber celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends on a very cold Saturday, January 23, outside of Odessa Memorial Hospital’s Long-Term Care unit. Attending were her son Anthony Weber and his wife Loretta of Kent, Wash., daughter Susan Boyce from Hillsboro, Ore., granddaughter Toni Lynn Weber of Everett, Wash, granddaughter Robin and Charles King and great-grandsons C.J., Zack and Noah of Stanwood and family friend Rick Haase of Odessa, sharing cak...
ODESSA – Odessa High School junior Nathan Carstensen is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship from Next Generation Personal Finance (NGPF). He received an honorable mention for the essay he wrote on paying for college after completing NGPF’s Payback Challenge. Nathan was one of 47 scholarship recipients from across the U.S. The two grand-prize winners each received a scholarship worth $2,500. The 45 entrants who were awarded honorable mention received $1,000 each to be use...
SPOKANE – Spokane Community College lists 2,277 students on its honor roll for the 2020 fall quarter, which ended in December. The honor roll lists those students who achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or above in fall quarter. SCC is one of two community colleges within the Community Colleges of Spokane district. It is known for its programs in career and technical training as well as its apprenticeship programs, but it also offers associate degrees that are transfer-ready for those going into universities. SCC serves a...
ODESSA – Ballots have been mailed to registered voters in the Odessa area, requesting approval from the people for levies to help support the local school and the local hospital district. Odessa is fortunate to have both a school and a medical campus, and both are very important to anyone contemplating a move to the community. Support for these levies over the years has been overwhelmingly positive. Election day is Feb. 9, 2021, and voters are reminded to mail their ballots on or before that date....
ODESSA – The Odessa Chamber of Commerce met via Zoom on January 12 to nominate officers for the coming year and discuss other business. Present via the Zoom feed were President Zach Schafer, Larissa Zeiler, Jeff Huiras, Norm Ott, Laura Estes, Terrie Schmidt-Crosby and Matt Roberson (briefly, until he got busy at his store). The nominations from those attending were: President: Jeff Huiras Vice Pres.: Norm Ott Secretary: Terrie Schmidt-Crosby Treasurer: Larissa Zeiler At-large board members (2): Matt Roberson, Michelle M...
