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A synopsis of the main events of 2012, as reported in The Odessa Record, follows below: January At the beginning of January 2012, police were following up and investigating the third break-in at Odessa Drug within the past several months. Narcotic drugs were the target and were the only items taken. This third break-in came early on December 26, 2011, even after proprietor Ted Bruya had installed surveillance cameras in the store. Unfortunately for law enforcement personnel,...
The Odessa-Harrington Titans took part in the winter break basketball tournament held December 27/28 in Rosalia. The girls varsity and the boys varsity both participated. To save on travel time and fuel expenses, the teams stayed overnight in nearby Cheney, along with their coaches and other chaperones. Besides Rosalia and O-H, Davenport and Wilbur-Creston also sent boys and girls teams to the tournament. Boys varsity O-H vs. Rosalia The O-H boys drew the host team Rosalia, a member of the Southeast 1B League, for their first...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor's note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Dec. 23: A deputy dealt with an injured deer that was involved in a collision with a vehicle on SR 231 at Little Falls Road overnight. Two flat screen TVs were taken during a residential burglary in...
Wow! It's a whole new year! Again. Well, it's not actually a whole new year as I'm writing this, since my deadline is Monday, but I'm projecting a bit here, trying to sound like the me I think I'll be on Thursday, when you might be reading this. That's right. I'll still be me. When I was a very young person, and even a not-so-young person, I still believed that if I tried hard enough, I could reinvent myself on an annual basis. I don't believe those things anymore. It's not...
Maxine Divito died December 29, 2012 in Odessa. She was born in 1919 in Tacoma to Joseph and Rebecca Zicha. She married Roy Divito in 1952 in Wilson Creek. She is preceded in death by her husband, parents, three sisters and one brother. She leaves behind a sister-in-law, Eunice Zicha of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. and nieces and nephews Dennis Ackerman of San Jose, Calif., Janis Ackerman Davisson (Alvin) of Ephrata, Judith (Divito) Ford of Odessa, Jeanne Divito Goetz (Tom) of Odessa, Joy Ann Divito Duzon (Jim) of Soap Lake, Dick...
Clarence Eugene Lobe died December 28, 2012 at his home in Odessa, surrounded by family. He was 83. Eugene leaves behind Lova, his wife of 43 years; his children, Bob Burns of Great Falls, Mont.; Marty (Terry) Burghard of Moses Lake, Becky (Skip) Regli of Odessa and Jim (Cindy) Lobe of Omak; six grandchildren, Kris, Steven, Kaylene, Bryce, Amber and Josie; seven great-grandchildren, Christina, Everett, Kiernan, Layla, James, Evan and Trevor and by his sister Barbara (Babs) of Spokane. He is also survived by his children of a...
Three months after the worst terrorist attack on an American diplomatic outpost since the 1998 Embassy bombing the state department is trying to clarify what happened in Benghazi this past September 11th. Congress was to be briefed by an advisory board on security in Libya. Two deputy secretaries were to testify in open hearings in the House and Senate. Fuller disclosure on Benghazi is supposed to set the record straight. However, the critical piece of the puzzle will still be missing. Hillary was scheduled to testify but...
Cook what you eat, and eat what you cook. Could this be your resolution for 2013? With rising food costs, meals take a bigger bite out of the family budget. Wasted food increases the cost, with no benefit to family or the budget. According to a CNN report, August 12, 2012, American families throw out 25% of purchased food, amounting to approximately 20 pounds per person a month, totaling from $1,350.00 to $2,275.00annually for a family of four. The article goes on to speak of...
BNSF trains carrying sleek new imported automobiles from Japan and Korea race through Odessa today virtually unnoticed. The vehicles, destined for Mid-western and Eastern markets are enclosed in container cars in trains which sometimes are nearly a mile long. A Great Northern train going through Odessa in the opposite direction 88 years ago was cause for quite a bit of excitement. It consisted of twenty-eight freight cars a each containing five new Buicks, and was enroute to Seattle, stopping at many of the stations along...
We know that the House of Representatives has been unable to reach a sensible deal to avoid unnecessary fiscal trouble at the first of the year because of right-wing Republicans’ aversion to tax increases. But there is another issue on which conservatives are creating needless difficulties for themselves and the country: It’s harder and harder for politicians on the right to think straight about health care. Conservatives once genuinely interested in finding market-based ways for the government to expand health insurance cov...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 12/26/12: I suppose I could make a stupid joke about Santa leaving the wheat market a lump of coal but I just don't have the energy. For now the path of least resistance is lower until export volumes improve or investment money decides that grains are once again the place to be. Going into the end of the year doesn't look like it will be any fun. 12/27/12: Blah blah fiscal cliff, blah blah investment money, blah blah export demand, blah blah labor...
Union members at four ports in the Pacific Northwest voted overwhelmingly December 24 to reject a contract offer from the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association, paving the way for a potential lockout. The labor dispute affects six grain terminals in Washington and Oregon on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers and Puget Sound. A statement issued in response to the vote by the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association expressed disappointment that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union “has chosen to reject th...
Inland Empire Oilseeds has once again laid off most of its workforce, including its office staff. As appears to be the norm among American companies, the layoffs came right before Christmas, with most employees being told that the plant hoped to rehire them sometime after the first of the year. The Record has thus far been unable to contact any of the management personnel for a statement on their future plans. Given that this is a family time and much is going on over the...
