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Eldora Viola Lesser Ball died January 10, 2013. She was born in Irby on September 29, 1918, the second child of Henry Lesser, Jr. and Mollie Walter Lesser. She graduated from Odessa High School in 1937. She married Charles Ball on May 15, 1943. The couple raised their family in Seattle. Eldora was a homemaker and Charles drove truck for Safeway. They owned and operated “Ball’s Barn,” a second-hand store and auction for 10 years. Eldora had many hobbies, including oil paint...
The new ferry meant to replace the Martha S. at Keller on the Columbia River traveled through Odessa Monday on its way along State Route 21 toward Grand Coulee. State transportation employees helped ensure that the oversized vehicle being towed on a tractor-trailer rig would clear the overhead power and telephone lines within the town of Odessa. The new ferry has been named Sanpoil, an anglicized version of the name of the original native inhabitants of the Keller area along...
Lincoln County jailer/dispatcher Anna Bocook graduated from the corrections academy in Burien Wash., Friday, March 15. Deputy Bocook graduated with 29 other recruits who represent agencies all over the state. The hour-and-a-half ceremony was well attended by many representatives from throughout the state. Sergeant Mike Stauffer, Jail Superintendent Lyle Hendrickson, Undersheriff Kelly Watkins and Sheriff Magers joined Deputy Bocook for the ceremonies, along with several...
The Lincoln County Conservation District held its awards banquet Thursday, March 14, to honor area residents for their dedication to conservation efforts in 2012. District manager David Lundgren emceed the program and presented the awards. Two “Farmer of the Year” awards were handed out, one to the Jay & Kathy Scrupps Joint Venture and the other to Jeff Schibel. Receiving awards for community service were Jerry Schafer and Clark Kagele. The organization’s public service award...
The Odessa Chamber of Commerce held its annual banquet March 16 in the community center in recognition of all the volunteers who make events happen in Odessa throughout the year. The award for Business of the Year went to Leffel, Otis & Warwick, the CPA firm that allows its employees the latitude to help the community in many different ways. Manager Todd King was on hand, as were two of his employees, Larissa Zeiler and Melissa Schafer. The Person of the Year award was...
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, March 11: Deputies and emergency personnel from Harrington and Odessa were among the first responders to a report of the crash of a U.S. Navy Prowler jet in a stubble field near Coffee Pot...
Perhaps the most colorful and at the same time poignant events throughout history of Odessa was the coming and going of “Odessa University,” largely a product of the imagination of Henry Clough. Clough and “Odessa University” made news not only in The Odessa Record but throughout the Pacific Northwest in 1909. The following article in The Odessa Record of April 2, 1910, tells of his travails: Henry Clough, the aged gentleman who looks after the destinies of the “Odessa University,” which at present consists of a rocky butte...
The Odessa/Harrington Titans golf team traveled to Colfax Tuesday, March 12, for a nine-hole match against Colfax and Northwest Christian, reported golf coach Sam Read of Odessa. It was 51 degrees and very windy, but the rain held off until the match was over. “Once again this year the Colfax boys team is quite strong,” Read said of the team that won the match handily with a team score of 215. Northwest Christian did not have enough players to make a full team, so they did not score. The Titan team scored 260. There was a t...
The Bi-County Honor Choirs and Bands performed Monday, March 18, at the INB Performing Arts Center in Spokane. Students from both Odessa and Harrington were involved, as were students from Reardan, Davenport, Lind/Ritzville, Liberty, Wilbur, Lamont, Sprague, Creston and Almira/Coulee/Hartline. Participating in junior-high choir were soprano Shaelyn Nuner, alto Evie Mann and baritone George Butrick, all of Harrington (H). Junior-high band members were Rebecca Fortner (Odessa), Elizabeth Larson (O), Mickey Moore (H), Molly Scha...
Odessa students from third through eighth grades represented School District #105 in Reardan at the 2013 Bi-County Academic Competition last week, along with students from eight other Bi-County schools. The contest was chaperoned by Odessa teacher Jackie Allington. The topics covered were spelling, math, speech and geography. Of the 26 Odessa students who went on the trip, eight placed in the top six of their category. Each category had anywhere from eight to 20 participants. The eight students who placed at the competition...
For shame, President Obama! The Veteran’s Administration has been serving veterans for many decades. There have been problems, as there are with any large department. They had a budget of $140 billion for 2012, even though you and the Senate haven’t produced a budget (required by law) for almost four years. Oh well, by now many of us know how you feel about laws and rules. You and your staff can’t possibly be proud of the more than $100 million that was spent by VA staff learning how to be better union members. It must have b...
There’s a new debate in paleontology, one that took me by surprise but that shows nicely how some science works. There’s a particular type of ancient fossil called the “Ediacara fauna” found in rocks about 550 million years old. The term Ediacara is reference to a place in Australia where the fossils were located and well-described. In a complex tale that unfolded over decades both before and a bit after the Australian discovery, similar fossils were found around the world at...
I’ve been thinking about labels lately. Not the ones we should all be reading at the grocery store. Not the ones that tell us where our clothing is made. Not even the ones that warn us of danger, like a skull and crossbones. Those labels all are designed to help us make informed decisions. No, I’ve been thinking about the labels we apply to ourselves (and often to others.) Some of this labeling is obvious from our appearance. I think we would all agree that I’m fat. Oddly...
