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It was a magical Monday this week. It was 3 degrees in Irbydale when I got up. Brrr! The car didn’t want to start, and once it did, it complained. Ten minutes of warming up barely made it better. Going up the Irby hill, all I could think about was that the thermometer in the car said that it had made it all the way up to 8. Then I crested the hill and entered fairyland instead of the cold gray desert. Every sagebrush, grass and weed was wearing diamonds. Big ones. I don’t thi...
Cold dry weather did not deter local trapshooters from Sunday shooting in the annual Spokesman Review competition. The Odessa-Marlin combined results for week one have them in a 3-way tie with Colton and Garfield-St. John. Marlin The Marlin Gun Club had 48 shooters turn out for the second week of competition. Shooting 25 were Mark Iksic, Doug Starkel, Daryl Kimble and Bill James. Mike Christ, Kurt Moore, Ken Eckhart and Camden Eckhart shot 24. Dave Lang, Scott Mortimer, Dave Asker and Wade Lesser shot 23. Shooting 22 were...
Little kids are amenable to learning new habits - generally much more so than those of us who are set in our ways because this isn't our first rodeo. That's why it's sometimes more effective to teach children health science information rather than to do outreach aimed directly at their parents. That's part of the background to the Global Soap Project. It's a project that rests on some simple science long ago worked out by biologists and medical researchers. The basic fact is...
It was a very satisfying week for the Titan boys varsity basketball team as they put up three wins in a row, defeating LaCrosse-Washtucna 46-43, Wilbur-Creston 63-52 and St. Michael’s 76-57. O-H vs. LaCrosse-Washtucna The Titan boys traveled to Washtucna Tuesday (January 10) to take on the Tigercats. By all accounts, it was a wild and wooly game with many turnovers and fouls. The Titans maintained their lead, despite a high-scoring final quarter by the Tigercats. O-H 8 18 14 6...
The Titan basketball teams both had a very good week, with three games in the win column for each of the varsity teams, boys and girls. O-H vs. LaCrosse-Washtucna The Titan girls came out on top in Tuesday’s game in Washtucna against the Tigercats by a score of 33-25. O-H 8 5 6 14 -33 L-W 6 5 7 7 25 Jessie Whitaker led the scoring for the Titans with 12. Charli Moffet added 9, Jordyn Tanke 4, Chelsea Fisher 3, Kendall Todd 3 and Hannah Schmidt 2. Also playing but not s...
A month-by-month summary of the year’s activities as they appeared in The Odessa Record continues below for the months of July and August. July Odessa’s only grocery, which had been Denny’s Foods since the early 1990s, changed hands in July when Bob and Bonnie Dewey of Cowiche purchased the business from previous owner Denny McDaniel. The new owners, along with managers Jeff and Debbie Norris, presented the community with Odessa Foods. The Chamber of Commerce, but primarily Biergarten chairman Ted Bruya, wrestled with the d...
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. Jan. 9: Deputies responded to a reported assault at a Lakeview Terrace Mobile Home Park unit, from which yelling and screaming was heard. Coulee Community Hospital personnel treated a woman who...
How is your pantry? I recently spent a half hour sorting and straightening in mine. After sending a few items to the food bank for someone else to enjoy before they reach expiration dates, and stacking like items together, ingredients are in order and easy to locate. What I did find was the following list of items that need using up in the next month. 1 box turkey flavor stuffing mix 1 gallon home dried apples 1 bottle Thousand Island salad dressing 1 can whole berry...
Odessa School Board Chairman Ed Deife opened the meeting with a quorum of the co-op board present. Representing the Odessa board were Deife, Travis Wagner, Marcus Horak, Karma Henry and Joe Schlomer. Linda Mielke represented the Harrington board. Also present were Harrington administrators Mike Perry (superintendent) and Jacob Bang (principal), as well as Odessa administrators Suellen White (superintendent) and Ken Schutz (principal). Athletic director for the co-operative activities program, Darin Reppe, reported on the fall...
Last Wednesday after school, two Odessa fifth graders, Ilan Coberly, and Jesse Berry were walking by the so-called “frog pond,” just up the hill from Coberly’s home and saw a dog stuck in the ice but alive. Coberly went out onto the ice and fell through but bravely kept going in icy water up to his chest until he reached the dog and pulled it free. The dog, Coda, belongs to Elizabeth Camp. Berry ran to Coberly’s home and told Gina Schlomer, Ilan’s mother, what had happened...
We have a top-rate medical facility in the Odessa Clinic and Hospital. At 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 5, I had an appointment with Mark King, PA-C, at the clinic to evaluate my shortness of breath. With testing at the hospital and evaluation by Mark, I was diagnosed with a critical heart condition. Working as a team, Mark, the hospital ER and the Odessa Fire Department combined forces with the Heart Institute and Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane to get me to the Cardiac Critical Care unit by 2 p.m. In Spokane, I received...
According to the Seattle Times, "Next time the cashier says 'paper or plastic', think outside the bags. Think about ocean pollution, giant landfills and global warming," Seattle Mayor Greg Nichols says. Then think to the near future when you might have to either pull out a reusable tote or pay 20 cents a bag. Nickels and City Council President Richard Conlin proposed a 20-cent "green fee" on all disposable bags to encourage customers to carry their groceries home in their own...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 1/11/12: The USDA stocks report will be out in the morning and then it's all over but the crying. Actually there's really no way of knowing whether the report will be good or bad just that it will probably be a big market mover one way or the other. The trade is mostly expecting small cuts to corn and wheat stocks but we'll have to wait and see what the government thinks about that. Should the report be benign the focus will quickly return to the weather...
Last week’s front-page story on the Odessa Town Council meeting included information on a presentation given by Paul Stoker, executive director of the Ground Water Management Area (GWMA). A series of articles on area water issues begins this week.. What is GWMA? The GWMA is an area of about 8,300 square miles that includes all of Adams, Franklin, Grant and Lincoln Counties. Within this area is an aquifer system that supplies drinking water to 25 towns and cities, as well as i...
