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The Odessa Fire Department will hold the sixth annual farm equipment auction on Saturday, February 27, near Fire Station #2 and Rocky Coulee Brewing Co., with Reinland Auctioneers/Liquidators once again running the auction with the assistance of the Odessa firefighters. The proceeds from this event will be used for purchasing gear and equipment for the fire department. The items are sold on consignment, with the larger percentage going to the equipment owners and a smaller...
Kathryn Susan Weber was the eighth of 11 children born to William and Catherine (DeHeck) McLaughlin on March 14, 1915 in Churchville, Iowa. She grew up on a farm near Belmond, Iowa where she had fond memories of tagging along with six older brothers while being allowed to enter into their adventures and accompanying them on buggy trips into town for groceries where the proprietor would give them a sack of candies for the trip home. Kathryn graduated from the Iowa State...
Stephen J. Ratkowski passed away February 4, 2016 in Ritzville. His home was in Odessa. Stephen was born December 26, 1931 in Lyndhurst, N.J. In September 1952, he joined the U.S. Army and served in the Korean Conflict before being honorably discharged as a corporal in August of 1954. Stephen married Kathy on August 12, 1989 in Everett, Wash. and moved to Odessa in 1993, where they made their home until his death. Stephen work many different jobs over the years and loved...
Karen Alice (Tenneson) Jessup (age 74) was born December 22, 1941, in Burlington, Wash. to William and Alice (Smith) Tenneson. Early on February 12, 2016, heaven gained another beautiful angel when she lost her long-standing battle with multiple myeloma cancer. She attended Bulington Edison High School and Western Washington College, graduating in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in teaching with an emphasis on home economics. She started a teaching career in Coulee City in...
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. Monday, Feb. 8: Fake calls from someone claiming an association with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the FBI continued to be received this week by several county residents. An equipment fir...
Executive Director Lincoln County Economic Development Council Goals developed for 2015 and steps taken to accomplish them are discussed in this article by Margie Hall. Key goal 1: Retain, expand and recruit businesses During 2015, the EDC provided assistance or training to 53 businesses, ranging from start-ups to established firms. We also hosted our second business-to-business networking dinner to help owners and managers from across the county get to know each other’s products and services. One of the training events we h...
City Council Mayor Dillon Haas opened the meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 10, with Councilmembers Rick Becker, Mike Cronrath, Justin Slack, Levi Schenk and Peter Davenport, plus City Clerk Bunny Haugan and Maintenance Director Scott McGowan. Visitors present were Dick Derr, Jacob Montgomery (student), Chris Hickman, Donita Simon, Marge Womach, Sharon Schultz and Doug Miller (of Kimble Mid-West). The mayor updated the council on various maintenance projects, stating that he had recently toured the wastewater...
Continued from last week This is the second and final installment of the results of the second annual all-school academic assembly held January 29 in the school multipurpose room. 8th: Outstanding Math Award, Mya Boss; Outstanding Effort in Algebra Award, Ireland Luiten. High school: Outstanding Effort in Geometry Award, Tori Weishaar; Outstanding Effort in Algebra II Award, Hannah Scheldon; Outstanding Effort in Pre-Calculus Award, Elizabeth Larson; Outstanding Effort in Calculus Award, Stacia Lesser. Alexis Schmierer...
The OH Titans had a rough end to a bumpy season, losing their last four games, two of which were playoff games against Selkirk and Cusick on February 9 and 13, respectively. At the half against Selkirk, the score was 23-33 with the Titans down by 10. The Rangers then held the Titans to a mere 12 points in the second half, while scoring an additional 28 of their own, making the final score 61-35. OH 10 13 4 8 35 Sel 13 20 16 12 61 Colton Hunt led the Titans with 12 points, six...
Odessa On February 14 at the Odessa Gun Club, Dan Williams and Traig Weishaar shot a perfect 25. Shooting 24 were William Mann, Jared Praetorius and Ryan Lewis. No one shot 23, but Aaron Gies, Landon Lobe, Lane Lobe, Brandon Larmer and Jon Fink all shot 22. Randy Gies and Rod Herron both shot 21. Those shooting 20 and under were Daniel Mann, Trevor Smith, Brian Wraspir, Deanna Lobe, Josh Houck, Pilot Weishaar, Rick Hedreen, Jenny Larmer, Cody Larmer, Deric Schmierer, Bill Weber, HaLee Walter, Colley Walter and Tucker Walter....
The Titan girls took home a win and a loss during district 1B playoffs February 10 and 13. Coming back from the half against visiting Cusick, the Titans found themselves down by one point (20-19), but they managed to hold the Panthers to 21 points in the third and fourth quarters while netting themselves an additional 33 points, giving them a 12-point win and a final score of 41-52. O-H 12 7 15 18 52 Cus 10 10 12 9 41 Lanessa Simon led the ladies to victory, racking up 24...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record February 16, 1918 Five bridges are swept out. Ice from Sylvan Lake carries everything with it: Six o’clock Friday evening found the waters of Crab Creek still raising and practically all of the workers who had been fighting the high water water worn out, so work was discontinued on the ice gorge east of the west city bridge. By this time the water was so high that councilman Reiman sent down a saddle horse to get out the men working there who were not equipped with hip waders. For a while,...
How are bones made? Asked by Oscar, 10. Dear Oscar, A couple months before you were born, your skeleton was soft and bendy. It was made out of cartilage, the same material that’s in your nose and ears now. But when certain cells in your body called osteoblasts and osteoclasts began to work together, new bone started to form. In fact, you were born with about 300 tiny bones in your body. As you began to grow, some of the bones fused together and became single bones. Now, you carry around a skeleton of 206 bones. Those bones ar...
The February 8 meeting of the Odessa Town Council was to have included a presentation on a proposed sales tax increase for Lincoln County by Sheriff Wade Magers and County Commissioner Mark Stedman. However, Magers was unavailable that evening, and Stedman was said to be working on a packet of information for county residents on the amount of the increase and on its use by law enforcerment agencies for drug enforcement. Town librarian Julie Jantz presented council members with a final version of a reciprocal agreement among...
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office has announced its 2016 Boating Education Class Schedule: February 20: Moses Lake, 1274 Lowry Street (Sheriff’s Substation) May 7: Ephrata, 124 Enterprise St. SE (Public Works building) June 11: Moses Lake, 1274 Lowry St. (Sheriff’s Substation) July 6, 7: Ephrata, 124 Enterprise St. (Public Works building) August 9, 10: Ephrata, 124 Enterprise St. SE (Public Works building) October 8: Ephrata, 124 Enterprise St. (Public Works building) December 3: Ephrata, 124 Enterprise St. SE (Public Works...
While the fishing season at the Bureau of Land Management’s Coffeepot Lake opens on March 1, the boat launch area will remain closed due to unusually low water levels to prevent boat trailers from getting stuck in the deep mud. Small boats not requiring trailers can still be launched from the shoreline, although users should beware of deep mud if hand launching. Access for larger boats remains closed via the ramp next to the dock or any other access points available prior to the receded shoreline. Recreation managers at t...
The February 9 special election held in Lincoln County saw the school and hospital levies in Odessa and Harrington pass by comfortable margins. Of the 5,823 registered voters in 40 precincts, 3,107 had returned ballots by February 12 when the last count was tabulated for a voter turnout of 53.36 percent. The election will be certified on February 19. Odessa School District 105’s Proposition 1 (Replacement Maintenance and Operation Levy) passed within Lincoln County by 323 to 114 votes or 73.91 to 20.09 percent. When the f...
