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Justin Hunt, Jared King, Cade Weber and Markus Smith were invited to speak at 2nd Harvest Food Bank’s Agency conference in Spokane, Washington. The FBLA members shared how a group of students, Odessa’s FBLA chapter, successfully implemented the backpack program in the Odessa School system, providing 35 students with food to eat over the weekends throughout the school year. Riley Allen has volunteered to pick up deliveries for the food bank and for the backpack program fro...
The Lincoln County Conservation District Conservation Day was held on May 10, 2012 at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds. A total of 156 students from Davenport, Reardan, Harrington, Odessa, Christian Heritage, and Wilbur attended the event. Classes held were Fire Prevention, presented by Doug Bonstrom, Nancy Harada, and Stephanie Regan of the Airway Heights Fire Department; Weather, presented by John Livingston, of the National Weather Service; Electricity, presented by Eddie...
District Champions The Titan baseball team won the district championship Monday, May 14, over Northport by a score of 8 to 2. They now advance to regional play Saturday, May 19, at Central Valley High School in Spokne Valley (821 S. Sullivan Rd, Spokane Valley). Saturday schedule: 10 a.m. Northport (Dist. 7 #2) vs. Colton (Dist. 9 #1), winner to 4 p.m. game, loser out. 1 p.m. Touchet (Dist. 9 #2) vs. Odessa-Harrington (Dist. 7 #1), winner to 4 p.m. game, loser out. 4 p.m....
Odessa Record subscriber Larry Fisher of Spokane continues his series of articles on the history of the Batum/Lauer area (where his wife, the former Joyce Kiesz, grew up). Hi, here I am again. Continued from last week - the Kiesz children... Joyce remembers the following about living in the L-B-D: (14) Using wood stoves to cook/bake, to heat water for washing clothes, taking baths, washing hands and face, etc. (15) Using the back door to the main house to go outside to the underground cellar where the vegetables, the food tha...
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. May 7: Burlington Northern Santa Fe officials requested the Sheriff's Office to remove trespassers and not permit camping on railroad property. A CenturyLink sub-contractor advised of vandalism at a...
The Odessa School District, in cooperation with Educational Service District #101, will be providing a Childfind Screening clinic on Thursday, May 24, 2012. The screening will be offered at no cost to children of concern, ages three through five. By identifying children at an early age, we can better prepare for their future educational needs. The screening will take place in the preschool classroom at P.C. Jantz Elementary School. The screening itself takes about an hour to complete. During this time, a screening test will...
John Bannan, Marisol Bannan and Greg and Debbie Binder are proud to announce the engagement of Erin Marie Bannan and Matthew Louis Binder. Erin is a graduate of Ilwaco High School and University of Nevada Las Vegas. She is currently employed at Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital as a registered nurse working in labor and delivery. Matt is a graduate of Mt. Spokane High School and the University of Montana. He is currently employed by the Washington State Department of Natural...
Spring Fling wrapped up with the seventh annual Friends of the Pool Walk-a-thon held Sunday, April, 29, raising over $4,500 for the organization’s projects. According to Suzie Deife, FOP President, a total of 65 walkers collected pledges. Most of them were school-aged children, but participants ranged in age from one year old to adults who joined in and took advantage of the fresh air and exercise. The pledge walkers walked or ran a total of 1,246 laps around the track at F...
Odessa Lions Club members broke ground Wednesday May 4 to begin the next phase of Festplatz improvements, installation of a permanent outdoor stage which will provide more space and flexibility for performers as well as general improvement in the appearance of the Festplatz. According to project chairman Dale Ramm, concrete forms are being installed this week, after which the site would need to be back-filled and compacted and concrete poured. Observers will probably not see...
Tuesday, May 8, Harrington Principal Jacob Bang, the student-body officers and several other students put on an assembly for the teachers and school. Bang (accompanied by school board member Linda Mielke) sang a song as his ‘do wop’ group of students joined in. The group then put on a skit about what would you be if you weren’t a teacher. At the end of the assembly, each staff member was presented with a plant from the students. During the week the teachers also recei...
The fourth-grade class at P.C. Jantz Elementery traveled to Spokane Wednesday, May 9, to visit Tomato Street Restaurant where they learned "behind the scenes” activities of a business. Then they went to the Campbell Mansion and the Museum of Arts and Culture in Browne's Addition where they were introduced to the Amasa Campbell family history and living quarters. The students then enjoyed a tour through the museum where they explored Native American Culture and also soils f...
The Blackwood Legacy Quartet comprises Rick Price, Luke Yates, Daniel Rivera and Daniel Childs and is one of the most successful and hardest working gospel music groups today, touring more than 250 dates per year. The award-winning group will present a special concert Tuesday, June 5, at 7 p.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church (602 E Amende Drive) in Odessa. Admission is free and a love offering will be received. Built on the legendary music of the Grammy and Dove award-winning Blackwood Brothers Quartet, Rick Price and Chris...
The Odessa Community Vacation Bible School is scheduled for the week of June 11-14 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Odessa Foursquare Church at 111 E First Avenue. Fresh fruits, vegetables, cheese/crackers can be delivered to the Foursquare Church that week during VBS. Also, any non perishable food donations can be brought to Christ Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall by Saturday, June 9. Expenses are always incurred for this event and those wishing to make a monetary donation may send it to Christ Lutheran Church, PO Box 400, or...
The Odessa float will be making its debut appearance Thursday, May 17. Justin Parr reported that the float will follow "the usual route" which follows First Avenue east, loops up to the hospital, west to the school and then back down Alder Street to return to First Avenue and the community center. Parr said that the float should be on the route beginning at approximately 7 p.m....
A report in the May 3, 1907, edition of The Odessa Record on the volume of wheat received at Odessa warehouses during the preceding season emphasized that the town was the world’s largest primary wheat shipping station. Odessa area wheat field had been in production less than 10 years but more wheat was being shipped out of Odessa than at any other point along the Great Northern railroad, and that included Montana, North and South Dakota and Nebraska. A large sign painted on the side of the Odessa Flouring Mill proclaimed t...
5/11/12: Not much need for grain news today. All one really needs to know is that commodities have fallen out of favor with investors and other speculative traders over the past few weeks, and money is fleeing the trading pits/servers. JP Morgan reported yesterday that they were facing a $2 billion dollar trading loss on credit default swaps, and there are rumors now that the loss could be as high as $5 billion. Another large commodity fund closed out their positions yesterday, as the fund had lost 13% of its value to date...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday night to deal with routine matters affecting the community. Fire Department Town fire chief Don Strebeck told the Council that, after expenses, the consignment equipment auction held during Spring Fling made about $8,500 for his department. The auction drew 83 bidders present, vying for 100 lots of varying types of equipment. Strebeck also said that the department has purchased 14 sets of self-contained breathing appatus and 26 air tanks. He said he was able to get a reduced price on the...
The Washington State Patrol's recent round of cadet testing caught many people unprepared to take the required cadet fitness and written tests. To address these concerns, WSP will conduct additional cadet testing at locations in Eastern and Western Washington. The biggest stumbling block for people continues to be the fitness test. WSP loses about half the people wanting to join the State Patrol during the fitness test. “A number of good candidates missed the standard by very small margins,” said Sergeant Troy Tomaras of the...
Last month, Secretary of Health Mary C. Selecky declared a whooping cough (pertussis) epidemic in Washington and 1,132 cases have been confirmed throughout the state. The epidemic has not yet reached Lincoln County, but surrounding counties have reported a total of 10 confirmed cases. Half of those were reported in Spokane county. "In my 13 years as secretary this is the first time I've had to use the word 'epidemic' about disease in our state," said Selecky. "Pertussis is very serious, especially for babies. We've got to kee...
The sixth annual Historic Ritzville Days Western Art Show and Cowboy Gathering promises to showcase a wide variety of artists and media, complemented by a lineup of western and bluegrass entertainment in historic downtown Ritzville on May 25-27. The art show is held in conjunction with the 107th Ritzville High School Alumni Banquet and 10th annual Historic Ritzville Days, intended to complement the banquet while focusing on celebrating the history of the city and its people. This year’s show will feature the finest western a...
We humans go to some trouble so that we can choose which among our domestic animals gets to breed the next generation, thereby over time shaping various lines of animals ranging from types of sheep to varieties of chickens. Perhaps nowhere is the impact of selective breeding more clear to many of us than with the domestic dog. From ancient breeds like the greyhound and the Dalmatian to more recently derived types like the cocker spaniel, the diversity of dog breeds is a...
Even though we already ran a story on this event based on information supplied by science teacher Jeff Wehr, we are including this article because it provides additional information Kira E. Powell, a student at Odessa High School finished in first place in the environmental sciences category at the 50th National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) held May 5-6 in Bethesda, Md. The award comes with a $12,000 scholarship. Powell presented her original research project, “The Development of a Novel Sodium Polyacryl-ate...
I have SO MANY QUESTIONS! Here are just a few: 1) What happens to the “data” when it is broken out simply by school buildings, especially those whole buildings that happen to be located in high-poverty areas? In other words, what is the gain in identifying the “subgroups,” when it is highly likely that those whole schools full of children did poorly on these tests? 2) Of the students who did not show high achievement, did they not only not have something to eat on the day of the test – what about their nutrition for the p...
I was listening to a radio piece about bird watching the other day. The reporter was talking about how all the newest gadgetry had changed what used to be a fairly humble pastime into a competitive high-tech sport. I’ve always imagined real bird watchers as bespectacled, mild-mannered people with extremely powerful binoculars slung around their necks and field guides in their hands. Or pockets. But, apparently, the species has evolved. Cell phones, GPS positioning, h...
