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ODESSA - Head football coach Jeff Nelson has officially hung up his hat, as was announced at the regular school board meeting Wednesday, Jan. 25. His passion for football produced seven state championships in Odessa. "Football is not just a three or four-month thing for me," Nelson said. "It is something that is a year-round hobby. Someone else might call it an obsession." Nelson's first coaching experience was in 1989 as a volunteer assistant at Garfield-Palouse. The...
REARDAN - On Jan. 3, the Liberty Lancers traveled to Davenport and destroyed the Gorillas 60-38. Since that relatively surprising beatdown, Davenport has won six of its last eight games, with the only two losses being to two of the best teams in the state, Colfax and Okanogan. And no win in that stretch was more dominant than what Davenport did to rival Reardan Tuesday, Jan. 24. The Gorillas traveled for the Winterfest rivalry and won 67-14. The outcome was never in doubt, as...
HARRINGTON - One of Kris Moritz's main questions posed to the previously all-male city council during her interview for a vacant council seat Wednesday, Jan. 25 was: "would you all be comfortable working with a woman?" Council ultimately responded in the affirmative, voting 3-1 to appoint Moritz to the seat vacated by Peter Davenport in December. Davenport resigned from Position No. 4 for health reasons, he told council last month. Moritz, a retired local who moved here in...
DAVENPORT - Inventory and financial issues persist, but locally-owned Hardy Hardware still plans to make a transition to join the Ace Hardware franchise, executive assistant Kayla Meise said Wednesday, Jan. 25. However, the move may come a few months later than planned. Ownership previously said in October that there was a goal of an April grand opening, but August is now a more realistic timeline, Meise said. "We'll have to close for a couple months to clean out the store,"...
DAVENPORT- City council passed a resolution to grant $10,000 to the Senior Center under the American Rescue Plan Act at its meeting Wednesday, Jan 25. On Jan. 12, the local Senior Center temporarily closed their doors because of the economy, cost of fuel, cost of food and past COVID restrictions. Senior Center president Carl Clark submitted a grant request to the city, which received federal funds to distribute to non-profit organizations affected by Covid-19. These funds...
DAVENPORT - The local high school FFA team has come within one or two places of a first-place finish at state in Nursery Landscape the last two years, but hasn't been able to notch that first-place spot to qualify the school for the national competition. This year's team, which has handily won its first two contests, is hoping to change that. The team took first place at the Yelm Nursery Landscape Contest last weekend. The school was in first place in three of the five...
REARDAN - Five students from the high school's Family, Career and Community Leaders of America program qualified to compete in the state competition following their success at a regional meet at Mead High School Monday, Jan. 16. "FCCLA is an organization that promotes personal growth and leadership and helps its members to develop skills as productive members of society," advisor Barbara Hamilton said. "It focuses on family, which in our school means our community." To...
CHENEY – After twice breaking up with her fiance, 27-year-old Audrey (Quayle) Wagner needed change. She wanted to travel and get a new perspective on life. In 1953, she boarded a steamship in her native Australia, not realizing a new life awaited in Reardan. Wagner was born in Bellarat, a city of 40,000 people in southern Australia, near Melbourne. Her father, David Quayle, was awarded The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, one of the British orders of chivalry, f...
RITZVILLE - The wrestling regular season concluded with meets last weekend and a low-key meet in Reardan Wednesday, Jan. 25. Davenport and Reardan will now look ahead to league championships Saturday, Jan. 28. Below are the individual results for Davenport, which competed in Ritzville last weekend, and for Reardan, which was at the Mat Animal Invitational in Quincy. Results are listed in order of weight class. Davenport results at Ritzville • Noah Everett was pinned by W...
Reardan Wrestling Senior Night...
The basketball games may have not gone Reardan's way, but the Screaming Eagles took back the Golden Plunger from Davenport at the end of Winterfest activities Tuesday, Jan. 24. Turn to page A6 for more Winterfest photos and page B1 for coverage of the rivalry basketball games....
SPOKANE VALLEY - Historically, postseason basketball at the B level has taken place over four exciting weekends throughout the greater Spokane County area. Four weekends apparently wasn't enough for Districts 6 and 7, as the two added a new wrinkle to the postseason picture this year: Crossover games to qualify for the state tournament the weekend of Feb. 17-18. The WIAA has allotted three boys state berths to District 7, three girls state berths to District 7, two boys state...
ODESSA - The Tigers won their home game against the Mary Walker Chargers 78-66 Friday, Jan. 21. Odessa seemed to be in a much different headspace for this game, even with Mary Walker junior Teko Cates sinking the first three-point shot. Sophomore Corbyn Neilsen made four free throw shots within the first two minutes of the first quarter due to fouls. Odessa junior Dakota Steward and senior Gage Starkel scored multiple lay-ups and made a few two-point plays. Junior Jacob...
ODESSA — The Spokesman-Review’s Inland Northwest Trapshoot competition started this last Sunday, Jan. 8. Odessa and Marlin combine to make one team but compete from their respective locations. Both teams are listed combined. Below are the first three weeks of results. Week 3 results for Odessa weren’t available by presstime. Week 1 16 Yard 25: Nick Tebow, Ryan Lewis, Dan Asker 24: Ryan Behrens, Brady Gies, Juan Rocha, Mark Vandeweqhe, Mark Iksic 23: Rochelle Schuh, Tucker Walter, Jim Imbert, Mike Bise, Austin Nelson, Mike...
REARDAN - The Davenport Gorillas came to town on the heels of a loss to Okanogan Saturday that dropped them from the top 2B team in the state to the third slot. An enthusiastic Winterfest crowd watched as the Gorillas took out their frustrations on the Screaming Eagles, winning 67-43 Tuesday, Jan. 24. Davenport came out of the chute ready to play. The Gorillas jumped to an early lead behind Tennessee Rainwater's dominance at the offensive end of the court. He scored 10 of his...
Frances Anne Frazier Jan. 24, 1931 – Jan. 19, 2023 Frances Anne Frazier passed away on Jan. 19, 2023 in Colville, Wash., just shy of her 93rd birthday. She was born on Jan. 24, 1931 in Missoula, Mont. to Herbert and Anne Lasater. Frances was a 1948 graduate of Inchelium High School. She then moved to Spokane and attended Kinman Business University, where she met her future husband, Perry Frazier. Perry and Fran were married on Jun. 17, 1950. They briefly lived in Oaksdale, Was...
Davenport birthdays Jan. 27: Jacob Taylor, Ezri Lacy, Seyler Lacy, Curtis Guhlke Jan. 28: Jacob Harvey Jan. 29: Eliza Lynn Bailey, Jaymie Bennett, Tim Utley, Doug Reinbold Jan. 30: Tyanna Evers, Teresa Vesneske Jan. 31: Kalah Dehn, James Bellotti, Debbie Orvis, Danita Hammond Feb. 1: Ryker Plasencia, Anna Cash, Carson Tucker, Sherill Hansen, Brenda Guhlke, Otto VanBuren † Feb. 2: Michelle Honey, Greg Hein, Matthew Rosman, Ryan Stout Davenport anniversaries Feb. 1: Russ and Debbie Miller Reardan birthdays Jan. 27: Jenny K...
Davenport High School FBLA members and American Enterprise Project co-chairs Zackary Bruce, Ally Slahtasky and Josie Wynecoop hosted a number of local business professionals who were interviewed by Davenport Middle School sixth-graders about their careers and exposing students to the variety of career and business opportunities located in the Davenport community. Leading up to the interviews, DHS FBLA members taught about the basic principles of the American Enterprise System...
For the fifth straight year, I've introduced a bill that aims to help school districts in Washington address their building-maintenance needs. Senate Bill 5403 would allow school districts to create a "depreciation subfund" that can receive a transfer of up to 2% of a school district's general fund each fiscal year. This bill would provide another path for school districts to handle building- or facility-maintenance needs. Sometimes it can be better for a school district to pa...
Washington state has high tax rates — gas, property, you name it. Government agencies billions of tax dollars annually from residents and businesses here. So why then are government agencies taking Washington taxpayer dollars and buying goods and services out-of-state, goods and services that are readily abundant in Washington? Those agencies are penalizing state taxpayers (residents and businesses) for paying the high taxes the agencies collected under burdensome r...
ODESSA — Gordon “Gordy” Bentler introduced himself as the town’s new deputy to council and visitors at Town Council’s meeting Monday, Jan. 23. Bentler will start officially in the office Thursday, Jan. 25, but will not be conducting fieldwork. Updates will be given as available. Lynn Schmidt asked council if StumpJumper event goers could use the Golf Course’s RV waste disposal. Public Works Director Anthony Paszkeicz said they would have to know the volume to see if the sewage plant could handle it. Paszkeicz said the ba...
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. 16 Traffic stops: 27 An Odessa woman said she saw a car broken down near the King Ranch feed lot off Coyote Heights Road. A Davenport woman called about several dogs running loose and causing problems to her prop...
ODESSA - Superintendent John Bruce announced his resignation at the school board meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Bruce came to the school district in late July last year from Alaska. He will be returning to Alaska to fill a similar position. No reason was given for his resignation, but the board thanked Bruce for his service and wished him well. He declined to comment on his resignation to The Record-Times. Board Chair Ed Deife said the district and board would be utilizing...
EWAN - A Cheney area woman is being held on $500,000 bail in the slaying of her son. Christine Diane Catelli, 58, is charged with second-degree murder (intent to kill), Spokane County Jail records show. She was booked into the jail at 4:59 a.m. Jan. 15 after deputies found the remains of her son wrapped in garbage bags off Gene Webb Road, in rural Whitman County, east of Sprague. The location near Ewan - a small community between Lamont and Saint John - was close to Rock...
DAVENPORT - After the three finalists forced the current Lincoln County Commissioners to make what they called the toughest decision of their tenure, Jo Gilchrist was appointed to fill the recently-retired Mark Stedman's vacated District No. 1 county commissioner seat Monday, Jan. 23. Gilchrist is believed to be the first female county commissioner in Lincoln County history. "I'm honored to be the first woman to serve on Lincoln County's board of county commissioners,"...
