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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. February 21 Traffic stops: 13 A caller said his wife was high on marijuana, left home in a 2019 black Ram pickup and was driving around on Morgan Street. He asked if it was illegal for her to be driving in those con...
DAVENPORT – Margie Hall will resign her position as director of the Lincoln County Economic Development Council effective March 31. She’s taken a job for the state Department of Commerce in the Local Government Division with an emphasis on Eastern Washington and community development block grants. “Community Development Block Grants provide rural communities with valuable assistance for high cost projects like water and sewer system updates,” Hall said. “I hope to continue to serve Lincoln County, just through a different...
DAVENPORT – Residents driving through downtown may have noticed several yellow flags inside holders with a Lions Club logo attached to the wooden poles at the intersection of Morgan and 6th Streets. Those flags were the inspiration of club member John Coley, who noticed a high potential for vehicle vs. pedestrian risks at that intersection, one of the busiest in the city. The city agreed to the measure. "We don't have to wait for someone to get hit," Coley noted. P...
REARDAN – The school board didn’t discuss or approve many groundbreaking or town-altering items at its Feb. 24 meeting, but the docket was full nonetheless. The meeting included a presentation from mayor Gail Daniels, who highlighted the developing partnership between the town and school district. A part of that is the pathway that’s being developed from the school that will connect with the path heading to the baseball fields and the readerboard project that’s still in progress. She also mentioned her hopes to partner with a...
LAKE ROOSEVELT – Staff at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area are hoping and planning for more camping availability this summer, superintendent Dan Foster shared with Lincoln County commissioners at the commissioners’ March 1 meeting. “Hopefully we will be able to offer a lot more than we did last summer,” Foster said. “The big crunch was the requirements from the CDC and health service on cleaning. We’re hoping with strides made against the coronavirus and also additional knowledge about the potential for coronavirus...
DAVENPORT – The number of COVID-19 cases is down to three in Lincoln County as of press time, but the death counts suffered in big cities like New York and Los Angeles has left many funeral homes overrun in the past year. Many needed assistance from small town funeral homes around the county. That's when Manager Mike Strite and Director Dan Verhuel of Strate Funeral Home stepped in. The two have traveled to New York, Miami and taken one trip to Orange County, California e...
February 25 Soccer St. George’s 3, Davenport 2. Volleyball Davenport 3, Chewelah 0 ((25-17, 25-7, 25-12). February 26 Football Asotin 14, Davenport 6. February 27 Football Reardan 30, Kettle Falls 6. Soccer Davenport 2, Northwest Christian (Colbert) 2. St. George’s 9, Reardan 0. Volleyball Valley Christian 3, Harrington 0 (25-20, 25-21, 25-22). March 1 J.V. football Davenport 22, Reardan 12. March 2 Soccer Davenport 7, Kettle Falls 1. Northwest Christian 5, Reardan 1. Volleyball Lind-Ritzville/Sprague 3, Davenport 0 (25...
ASOTIN – Davenport finished in fourth place behind powerhouses Asotin and Kettle Falls, as well as Northwest Christian, at the first 2B cross country meet Feb. 27. The Gorillas finished with 69 team points, while Asotin, Kettle Falls and NWC finished with 46, 48 and 49 points respectively. Davenport’s top high school finisher was junior Jake Coffman, who finished seventh with a time of 18:00 in the 5,000 meters. Freshman Jaeger Jacobsen finished in eighth place with a time of 18:07. The high school boys race was won by Ket...
*All games subject to postponement or cancellation due to inclement weather or COVID-19 concerns. Thursday, March 4 Davenport middle school volleyball at Lind-Ritzville/Sprague @ 4 or 5 p.m. Reardan middle school volleyball at Wilbur-Creston @ 4 p.m. Davenport volleyball vs. St. George’s @ 5 p.m. (J.V.) and 6:30 p.m. (Varsity) (UPDATE: This match has been cancelled due to a lack of available players on St. George's side.) Davenport middle school football at Wilbur-Creston @ 5 p.m. Friday, March 5 Reardan volleyball vs. Cheste...
DAVENPORT – The defending 2B state soccer champions have notched a loss, tie and win so far this season in a strange, shortened 2020-21 "fall sports" season. Some late-game heroics from Davenport's Darby Soliday were overshadowed by even later heroics from St. George's Margreit Galow. Galow scored a high-arching goal from about 25 yards out in the last minute and the Dragons topped the Gorillas 3-2 in the season opener Feb. 25. Soliday tied the game with her second goal w...
ASOTIN – The first game of this truncated fall season didn’t go Davenport’s way last Friday. The Gorillas fell to Asotin 14-6 in a sloppy, defensive-minded road fest to open the 2021 “fall sports” docket. Davenport’s lone score, a three-yard touchdown run by sophomore quarterback Evan Gunning, was set up on a 35-yard runback by senior Skyler Henry off a mishandled snap from Asotin punter Gavin Wood. Brenick Soliday’s extra point attempt was blocked. Asotin held a slim lead at halftime 7-6, and added a second-half t...
REARDAN – Kettle Falls had its chances to snap its three-season long losing streak against Reardan Saturday, but ultimately fell 30-6, after the Indians scored three touchdowns in the third quarter. Reardan (1-0) and Kettle Falls (0-1) opened both their seasons and battled in a defense struggle through two quarters. The Bulldogs burst out of the gate with a 35-yard run from senior Boomer Prouty and had the ball within the Indian's 25 yard line on their first two p...
ODESSA – Several Odessa businesses are having difficulty hiring employees due to the housing shortage in Odessa. Offering people jobs is one thing, helping them find a place to live is quite another. Commuting from Spokane or even from some closer communities loses its appeal over the long term, even when businesses are offering additional gas stipends or other more generous benefits. Currently, there are no Odessa homes listed with local realtors. Michelle Melgren with Katz Realty of Davenport told The Record that the few ho...
ODESSA – The Odessa FFA fundraising effort for the Warden Food Bank, following a fire that destroyed a potato shed with connections to the food bank, has concluded with donations of more than 2,000 items weighing approximately 1,760 pounds. Families with children enrolled in preschool collected 27 items, Kindergarten 91, first grade 128, second grade 35, third grade 135, fourth grade 246, fifth grade 89, sixth grade 379, seventh grade 29, eighth grade 253, freshmen 106, sophomores 29, juniors 19 and seniors 473. Three w...
The Tiger volleyball team had a successful week, winning all three of their matches on the opponents’ courts. OHS vs Wilbur-Creston-Keller The Odessa Tigers defeated the Wilbur-Creston-Keller Wildcats in a hard-fought five sets last Thursday in Wilbur. OHS 25 16 23 25 15 3 WCK 18 25 25 18 6 2 Emily Scrupps led the Tiger team in kills with 12. Either the WCK defense handled many of the Tigers’ kill attempts or the girls were somewhat lacking in accuracy, as the team was successful in only 39 of its 135 kill attempts. Gra...
ODESSA – Over the last few weeks before the winter break, students at Odessa High School and Junior High School were busy conducting independent science research entitled the Second Quarter Research Project. This project is designed to encapsulate the knowledge and the ability to formulate a testable research question, design and execute an experiment with quantifiable results, scientifically compare the experimental results with a control method and discuss their findings with the rest of the class via a formal p...
Odessa 46 14 8 6 74 Tekoa-Rosalia 0 0 0 0 0 Pilot Weishaar was the workhorse of this game, rushing for 239 yards on 16 carries and getting across the goal line four times for touchdowns, plus carrying the ball for another four two-point conversions. He also received a 10-yard pass for a TD and scored a total of 38 points. Daeton Deife had 97 yards rushing in four carries and scored two TDs, while adding two 2-point conversions, one rushing and one receiving, scoring 16...
HARRINGTON – Those acknowledged as present: Mayor Nathan Luck, Council members David Buddrius, Peter Davenport, Justin Slack, Stephen Hardy, Levi Schenk, Clerk Janice Cepeda, and visitor Cherie MacClellan. The agenda for this meeting which was slated as "Special Meeting: 2021 Budget Amendment" was limited to said amendment. Upon opening the meeting, Slack stated that this meeting was going to be a public hearing. Mayor Luck opened the council meeting at 7:07 and the public hearing at 7:09. Two drafts were available and discus...
OLYMPIA – Rep. Kirsten Harris-Talley, D-Seattle, often sees her grandmother’s features when she looks in the mirror. She thinks of how her grandmother, a woman of color, experienced systemic racism and fought for a better life despite societal barriers in rural Missouri only a few generations before Harris-Talley. Harris-Talley told the House of Representatives Feb. 25 she supported Juneteenth as a state holiday because of the existence of structural racism in the country today. She said what may seem like a simple acknowledg...
Well, this is embarrassing. A few short weeks after deciding to keep everyone apprised of local activities, I have decided to stop. Now that I am fully removed from the former quilt shop, I have no easy (emphasis on easy) access to the internet. It would cost way too much to get wireless Internet to my house. Dial-up is incredibly frustrating because of the antiquity of the phone system in Irby, and everybody I know tells me I would not like satellite. OK. I would probably...
1 years ago Mar. 4, 1921 Secretary C.E. Ivy, on his return to Davenport after attending a meeting of the Racing Association held at Walla Walla last week, announced that the dates set for the 29th annual picnic of the Lincoln and Adams counties pioneers at their picnic grounds on Crab Creek, would be held this year June 23-24-25. The warm weather that has prevailed during the past week has set the baseball bug buzzing and as a result a baseball meeting has been called at the Kunkel barber shop next Monday night....
Some moments lend themselves to hyperbole. That amazing fishing trip from seven years ago; the winning free throw at a high school basketball game; the marriage proposal when time stood still. Or 2020, when Washington agriculture was fighting for its life after a court ruling forced the dairy sector to begin paying time-and-a-half and left the specter of retroactive pay lingering in the background like an unwanted flu just before vacation. In our state, we are waging a war...
It’s a solution in search of a problem. Lawmakers in Olympia appear to be fast-tracking House Bill 1356, which would ban the use of “racially derogatory or discriminatory” American Indian mascots, logos and team names in public schools in the state. Simply put, the bill is political theater, nonsense that kowtows to the politically correct crowd that’s bent on cancelling our culture, heritage and history. The bill is quickly moving through the Legislature even though I think...
ODESSA – Some coaching positions filled, some newly opened The school board has approved Jon Hayashi as the head coach of the junior-high girls basketball team. The board also approved Dalles Deife as a volunteer assistant volleyball coach, helping out head coach Suzie Deife who is coaching both the varsity and junior varsity teams. The golf program is also likely to be offered later this spring if the number of students interested remains steady. Advertising for a golf coach has been posted. The Board of Directors of O...
ODESSA – Clinic manager Barb Schlimmer has announced that the Odessa Clinic will receive an additional 84 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine this week. Following last week’s mass vaccination at the community center, the original 180 doses were used to inoculate people who had previously signed up on a waiting list. Now she wants to get the word out that additional doses are here, and folks are being urged to call the clinic to put their names on the list for vaccination. Preference will still be given to those over the age...
