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Only 18 students were selected by Washington state to be delegates at the Golden Anniversary 50th Washington Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS). This year, Odessa High School senior Kira Powell and freshman Thorsen Wehr were selected by Dr. Ray Myers and the Washington JSHS to be delegates at the symposium. Wehr earned third place overall and received a $1,000 scholarship. Powell earned fourth place overall. Earning two of the top five positions at the state level...
The Odessa Quilt Club’s annual ‘Quilt ‘til You Wilt’ event took place in the social hall of Heritage Chuch this past Monday, gathering together quilters from all over the area and beyong. According to organizer Laura Estes, approximately 100 people attended the event at some time during the day. Registered visitors numbered 91, but several of those brought along a friend or two. The church basement hummed with activity, sewing machines whirred, irons stood silently at the read...
Martha Marie Roth Wederspahn Humphries died March 1, 2012. She was born July 14, 1919 in Lind, the eldest of four children of George and Bertha (Roloff) Roth. She and her brother Emil, and sisters Venita and Louella, grew up on the family farm. When she was about 13, her father was killed in an automobile accident, and her mother moved to Odessa with her children, where Bertha met and married Conrad Schauerman.The family became much larger with seven stepbrothers and sisters....
The Odessa High School Knowledge Bowl Team, consisting of the five students pictured above along with their advisor Ellen Holman, took second place in the state 1B academic contest held March 17 at Spokane Falls Community College, right behind Bi-County rival Wilbur which took first place. West Sound Academy placed third, Clallam Bay was fourth, Almira/Coulee-Hartline fifth and Valley Christian sixth. The 12 schools competing in the 1B classification were A...
The Odessa Chamber’s “Business of the Year” award went this year to Odessa Foods. Managers Jeff and Debbie Norris were on hand to receive the plaque and the congratulations of the crowd for the many improvements and updates brought to the grocery store since new owners Bob and Bonnie Dewey hired the Norrises as managers. “Person of the Year” went to indefatiguable Kim King, who has labored on behalf of Odessa’s business community since her family moved to Odessa only a few...
Last Wednesday, March 14, a new electronic reader board was installed at the corner of Division Street and First Avenue. The sign was the brainchild of the Parent-Teacher Organization at the Odessa schools, which raised money for the project and organized its completion. Donations from businesses, individuals and other nonprofit organizations were also added to the funds generated by the PTO’s various fund-raising efforts. Mike Kuest took down the two metal artwork tigers that...
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. March 12: City of Davenport personnel reported receiving a check for insufficient funds. A dispute about dogs between neighbors in the Mohler area continued, with a caller advising dispatchers that...
This being National Agriculture Week and the publication date of The Record’s annual Agricultural Progress issue, it seems fitting that we reprint an article in The Record 75 years ago this week on Odessa as a farming center. The piece was authorized by Fred W. Graham, who was General Agricultural Development agent for the Great Northern Railway, and it originally ran in the railroad’s monthly magazine, then reprinted in The Record’s edition of March 25, 1927. Reflecting what life was like on the farm in the Odessa area...
Hi, here I am again. Continued from last time: The Kiesz Children. Farm life for Gordon and Virgil was hard. The Kiesz family usually did everything by themselves. Never used extra help except during harvest when one person was usually needed to help out. Of course there were years when the crop consisted of one - two bushels per acre, when extra help was not needed. It was the early 1930's, the depression was still on. Virgil and Gordon milked cows and cared for them, cleaned the barn, collected the manure inside, outside...
For the third consecutive year, Odessa’s Team “Got Pink?” is forming to participate in the Komen Eastern Washington Race for the Cure in Spokane on Sunday, April 22, 2012. In 2011, Team “Got Pink?” took 94 entrants to the event, which raises funds for breast cancer research and awareness. Many of the racers made a party of it, spending the night in Spokane and attending a dinner honoring local breast cancer survivors. Those who don’t feel able to participate in either the 1 mile or 3 mile run/walk can support the cause by pa...
Local high school students can get information on 15 colleges and universities during College Planning Day at Big Bend Community College on March 27. The event lasts from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Each student will have time to attend four 30-minute presentations, including one on how to apply for financial aid. The presentations are held in separate locations in ATEC and the Liberal Arts and Business Building (Building 1600). Schools participating in College Planning Day include: Big Bend Community College, Central Washington...
The Bureau of Reclamation is offering a reward for information concerning the illegal dumping of used vehicle tires into the Chandler Canal near the water intake structures at the Chandler Powerplant located about 10 miles east of Prosser. Authorities say that about 100 used vehicle tires were found floating outside the water intake structures at the Chandler Powerplant in the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Reclamation officials report that the tires were removed from the area before they caused any...
Alder St. Fitness & Tanning is the latest Odessa business to cease operations. Patrons arrived early one morning for their daily workout to find a sign on the door advising them that the business was closed. A phone number was left for them to call to collect any personal items they may have left in the facility. One of those patrons was Tom Clavel, who told The Record about it. He said he hoped some other organization or individual would take it over and not allow the assets to be sold piecemeal....
Kira Powell, a senior, and her younger brother Griffey, a sophomore at OHS, won the girls and boys medals, respectively, at the golf match held at the par-35 Odessa Golf Course on March 12. The following schools competed in cold, windy conditions: Odessa/Harrington, Wilber/Creston, Kettle Falls and Davenport. Boys team scores The O-H boys also took first place as a team with a combined score of 254, with Wilbur/Creston second (274), Kettle Falls third (291) and Davenport fourth (324). Boys medalist Griffey Powell finished...
Stefanie Colby-McQuaig and Jessica Heimbigner have been named to the Eastern Washington University fall quarter dean's list for the 2011-12 academic year. Both women graduated from Odessa High School in 2010, Heimbigner with high honors. Colby-McQuaig is the daughter of Kim and Jason Hardt, formerly of Odessa, and Heimbigner is the daughter of Scott and Sherie Heimbigner of Odessa....
The solid earth is riddled with faults. Each fault is a plane of weakness in the rocks that make up the outer rind of the Earth. Some of those faults have been mapped by geologists, but others are unknown to even the most advanced science we have today. And now, courtesy of officials in Ohio, at least one state of the union is going to have new regulations that could hold energy companies to account for some “side effects” caused by previously unknown faults. The tale hin...
Here I go again. I wasn’t able to go to the Chamber Banquet Saturday. I can pretty much guarantee that no one would have wanted me there. I was assured by my spouse that it was a wonderful event; that the food was excellent and the program was entertaining. I still feel guilty, because I was supposed to be there. Fortunately, my very good friends Clark and Charlene Kagele were willing to change their weekend plans at the last minute so that Clark could fill in for me as M...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 3/15/12: Wait, there was a grain market today? I really think that the first two days of the NCAA tournament should be national holidays. Apparently there was someone trading grain today because Chicago grain futures finished with strong gains on the day. Egypt bought some U.S. and Canadian wheat in a surprise overnight tender, and Iran showed up on the export sales report again this week with a couple million more bushels of HRW. White wheat sales were...
On March 15th 2012 Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center had an exit conference with the Washington State Department of Health’s State Survey Team. Our hospital did extremely well, and it is apparent that OMHC is providing the highest quality of primary care possible to our community. We might not have every service available that larger healthcare facilities have, but the primary care services we do have are performed extremely well. The citizens of Odessa should be very proud to have such a high-quality healthcare facility i...
Town council continued . . . Due to space constraints, last week’s report on the March 12 town council meeting was unfinished. The other items discussed (besides the proposal for policing services by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office) are reported below: The council also heard from Kennet Bertelsen, representing the town’s contracted engineering firm USKH, who had studied the barriers to mobility-impaired residents and visitors within the town of Odessa under a grant awarded by the four-county government entity Quadc...
