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Odessa The Odessa High School FBLA chapter competed at the Northeast Region FBLA Conference on February 1 in Spokane. Odessa had a strong showing with 41 students attending the conference. After weeks of practicing and studying, the chapter came home with 18 awards. First-place awards went to Kim Nelson (FBLA Principles and Procedures), Kira Powell (Client Service and Future Business Leader) and Charli Moffet (Public Speaking II). Second-place awards were won by Jared King...
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7395 met January 26. Just prior to the meeting, a drawing was held as the culmination of a recent fundraising event. An ecru afghan made by Daisy Hardung was won by Angela Griffith of Moses Lake. A colorful afghan was won by Peg Patrick of Davenport. A toy tractor from Odessa Trading Company was won by Sally Siegel of Odessa, and a God Bless America eagle made by Mike Kuest was won by Mary Dewey. The Auxiliary would...
On September 22, 2011 Advanced Science Research (ASR) student Kira Powell and science teacher Jeffery Wehr traveled to the Museum of Flight in Seattle for the 4th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS). As honored guests, Kira was selected to receive the Washington State Academy of Sciences Award. Kira’s ASR project entitled, “The Use of Sodium Polyacrylate to Increase Crop Production in Dry-Land Farming” and the international recog...
Daniel Hopp, long-time Colville resident, died February 2, 2012 in Colville at the age of 91. He was born in Odessa, the son of Conrad and Anna Margaret (Bostrom) Hopp. Dan moved with his family to Lamona in 1925, where he attended school through the sixth grade and worked on the family farm. He then attended seventh and eighth grade in Odessa. Due to the needs of the farm, he was unable to continue his formal education. On February 17, 1946, Dan married Mary Lou Long in...
My Wonderful Teacher My third grade teacher, a gem so precious and rare She was regal, elegant, a jewel beyond compare Her name’s Mrs. Mangis, what a lovely lady she was And I loved her to pieces, well --- just because So beautiful, so graceful, so tall, and so thin There’s so much to say, I don’t know where to begin Her voice was so soothing, so soft to my ear like stringed violins, a pure symphony to hear The smile on her face, could make my sad eyes shine For life wasn’t so easy, for this boy about to turn nine Compass...
Following is a list of incident reports on file at the town marshal's office for January 30 through February 4. On January 30, Odessa police were contacted by a deputy from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, who reportedly had been informed that a MIP (minor in possession) party was in progress at an address in the 300 block of East First Avenue. When law enforcement personnel arrived, there was no evidence that minors were in possession at that address. On February 1, a report of a collision between a bicycle ridden by a j...
Marlin Fifty-nine shooters turned out at the Marlin Gun Club February 5, taking advantage of the clear, sunny conditions. Bill James, Doug Starkel and Camden Eckhart all shot 25. Mark Iksic, Harlan Thrall and Scott Heimbigner shot 24, and Dave Lang, Dave Asker and Ken Eckhart all shot 23. Shooting 22 were Carmen Eckhart, Justin Starkel, Mike Christ, Daryl Kimble, Ken Thompson, Kurt Moore, Dusty Kimble, Mackenzie Bemis and Josh Gray. Wade Lesser, Mark Edwins, Matt Mortimer, Jason Ellsworth and Lynette Nelson all shot 21....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is currently conducting a survey of Washington landowners. Known as the National Agricultural Classification Survey, this form is used to identify farms and ranches for the 2012 Census of Agriculture. For the Census, a farm is any place that produces, or normally produces, $1,000 of agricultural products annually. Over 275,000 landowners in Washington with at least half an acre of land will receive the form. Washington State Director...
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. 30: A caller reported that a boulder blocked the northbound lane of SR 231 north of Reardan at the canyon entrance. Water also was reported over the roadway in that area, with a depth of about a...
I am an American because I love my country. One group of people who definitely show they are Americans are the United States soldiers. They fight for our country. There is the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. They defend us. It doesn’t matter where they are or who they are fighting. All the soldiers would give their life for anyone in the U.S. The reason the soldiers go into the Army is to fight for our country, earn the respect of our country and serve our country. Another group of people who show they are Americans are o...
Last week we ended the first part of our story on the January 24 oilseed workshop held at the Odessa Community Center without telling our readers that the article was to continue. Forgive us that oversight. There was much more to the workshop, and we should have let you know that we weren’t finished. --The Editor. Dennis Roe spoke from the perspective of an ag lender. He spent five years on a dryland wheat farm near Goldendale, raising grain, hay and livestock. He received d...
As previously reported in The Odessa Record, Odessa’s town council was informed at their December 12 meeting of cutbacks to the senior meals program. Since 2008 meals have been provided three days per week at Old Town Hall. Beginning in January, these meals have been reduced to two days a week. The senior meals program is administered by Okanogan County Transportation and Nutrition (OCTN), which is a private non-profit company that provides nutritionally balanced meals t...
Hi, here I am again. Continued from last week “The Schibels.” I asked Jeff Schibel what he remembered about the Batum grain elevators and who the closest neighbors were? His answer for the Batum grain elevators was “the “boxcars” the Odessa Trading Co. would load with grain and then have them taken west toward Moody Ruff, Moses Lake, Washington and for neighbors, there were the Webers, Finks, Heimbigners, Melchers, Kageles. Jeff also mentioned the railroad tracks were not maintain very well and before they were finally r...
The wonders of the computer age! Without them, visitors to Odessa this week from Switzerland would likely never have known what happened to a long-lost relative who left his Swiss homeland before the turn of the last century to become a circuit-riding minister for several churches in the Pacific Northwest. Philipp and Marion Graedel are from Burgdorf, a city of more than 15,000 inhabitants not far from the capital of Switzerland, Bern. Burgdorf is located in the valley carved...
Valentine's Day Thinking about Valentines Day as I often do, as it is my favorite day of the year, I thought about Love. Many poems have been written about love (some from the deepest feelings from the heart, and some I am sure in an attempt to stay out of trouble with one’s partner). What is Love; how is it defined; what does it mean; and, most importantly for poets, what does it rhyme with? Dove rhymes with love, but so does glove. dove: noun 1. any bird of the family Columbidae, especially the smaller species with p...
The Odessa-Harrington boys basketball team traveled to Northport Tuesday, February 7, for the first-round 1B District playoffs. Going in they had high hopes of an easy victory. Up by 11 points at the half, they still had high hopes. But their opponents had high hopes, too. After a third quarter in which the two team matched each other point for point, the fourth quarter saw Northport draw the score ever closer. Northport’s Konkler beat the buzzer with a lay-in that sealed the Titans’ fate. The Titans now must make their way...
Admission prices for the District 7 1B Boys and Girls Basketball Tournament are provided below. Regular season passes are no longer valid. Deer Park (DP) Admission (Feb. 11, 15 & 18): Students with ASB $6 Seniors $6 Adults $8 WSCA & School Board Free Programs (sold only at DP) $2 At the Deer Park double-elimination tournament, all game times and gym assignments will be announced as play continues in an effort to schedule boys and girls teams from the same schools back to back when possible, as well as have larger crowds in...
The waiting is almost over! Girl Scouts in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho will soon be selling Girl Scout cookies throughout the council region. All eight varieties of cookies are $4 per box. Cookie preorders will begin February 10. Cookies from preorders will be delivered after March 23. Cookie sales outside of local businesses and stores will take place March 23 through April 15. Go to www.gscookiebiz.com to get the Cookie Locator app and find the nearest cookies. In Odessa, scout leader Danielle Scrupps told The...
Odessa’s excellent train service ended abruptly in early 1929, with the opening of the Great Northern Railway’s Cascade Tunnel. With shorter operating time, the railroad eliminated several stops for its express trains. From then on, Odessa was left with only local service, one west-bound train in the morning and the other east-bound in the afternoon. The Record reported the changes which were taking place in its issue of January 31, 1929: Odessa will be one of the towns that will have no reason to rejoice over the Great Nor...
President Obama recently said, “In January, American businesses added another 257,000 jobs,” and that the economy was on a roll. That is great news, but he forgot to tell you that in December and January alone there were more than 2.5 million fewer people working. This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own table published Feb. 2, 2012. Mr. Obama, if the economy is getting better, then why did new home sales in the United States hit a brand new all-time record low during 2011? If the economy is getting better, then...
After hearing the news Sunday of the Powell boys of western Washington who lost their lives through the actions of their father, not to mention their still-missing mother, I needed to express how grateful our family is to be on the receiving end of very caring, protecting local police. If not for the actions of Marshall Mike Wren and Officer Bryce Peterson, we could be a similar story. The day after harvest, July 2008, we received a frantic call from our daughter Korianne, at the time in Spokane, to come move her and her infa...
It does seem like there’s something magical about artesian wells. Digging down to a level in the Earth from which water then spurts unaided is like a dream come true for some. And, after all, why pay the electric company for power to run a pump if Mother Nature will do all the work herself? From times immemorial people have thought that water gushing from artesian wells must have different medicinal or even spiritual properties from plain ol’ water in a creek or a typical wel...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 2/3/12: Wheat futures fell Friday after Russia’s announcement that there would be no curbs on exports and raised their export projection to 27 million metric tons. That seemed like it should have done some pretty severe damage to wheat prices, however Chicago futures were only off 2 cents on the day. There’s another USDA supply and demand report out next Thursday to contend with. There should be some cuts to South American crop production; the question is,...
Saturday was my birthday. I’ve officially reached the point where I no longer wish to acknowledge birthdays, but am forced to by friends and family. Thank you very much. I’ve been trying to convince myself that I’m still middle-aged, but I’ll have to live to 116 for that to be true. And to be honest, I don’t want to go there. So now I’m just trying to convince myself that over the hill means I’m on the sunny side of the slope. Not the slippery side. Birthdays are not just...
Pacific Coast Canola, a subsidiary of Legumex Walker Inc., has announced the appointment of two members of its senior management team. R. Bruce McTavish has been named vice president of sales and marketing, and Stephen L. Starr has joined the company as vice president of seed procurement. McTavish will join the company on February 1, and Starr assumed his duties with the company at the end of 2011. Joel Horn, president and CEO of Pacific Coast Canola and of parent company Legumex Walker, said the hiring of McTavish and Starr...
