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The Harrington Library Board hosted a "Legos in the Library" after-school event last Thursday. Thirty Kindergarten through eighth-grade children brought bags and boxes of Legos to have a building extravaganza! Spaceships, helicopters, trucks, castles and police stations were just a few of the creations seen throughout the library. One lucky student was the winner of the Minecraft Lego set raffle. This event is the first of many the library plans to have to encourage local...
John L. Flemming family Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. a group of people began congregating at city hall seeking information on one John L. Flemming from Harrington's bygone days. Among the group were Carolyn Knapp-Nelson of Colorado, Rosemary Knapp of Leavenworth, Sen. Judy Warnick, (sisters), and their cousin Jim Dietz of Spokane, with locals Len and Karen Robertson, Marge Womach, and Billie and Gordon Herron. Following a brief get-acquainted session and the laying out of...
The Odessa High School Knowledge Bowl team headed to Arlington, Wash. this past weekend for the state competition and brought home fourth place. Final standings for the state's 1B schools were: 1. Pope John Paul II 2. West Sound Academy 3. Waitsburg 4. Odessa 5. Riverside Christian 6. Almira/Coulee-Hartline Members of the state varsity team for Odessa were Cole Kissler (the team captain), Molly Schafer, Elizabeth Larson, Kiegan Wehr, Rebecca Fortner and Thomas Parham. Kissler...
Quilt Til You Wilt took place Monday in the Odessa Community Center with many kinds of activities and presentations going on all day long. By noon approximately 80 of the expected 100 or so visitors to the event had arrived and set up their work stations on the community center's long wooden tables. Sewing machines hummed, conversation and laughter came from all parts of the room and those present appeared to be fully engrossed in the art of quilt-making. The potluck lunch at...
Marguerite Heimbigner was born January 21, 1934, to Martin and Elfrieda Bauer in the family home in Ritzville, the second of three children. She died March 15, 2017, in Odessa. She is survived by daughter Marla (Ernest) Mills of Odessa; son Wade (Holly) Heimbigner of Vista, Calif.; grandchildren Hollye (Todd) Keister of Tacoma; Joel (Jennifer) Heimbigner of Charlotte, N.C.; Bethany (Anthony) Vaughan of Escondido, Calif.; and Aron Mills of Odessa; and great-grandchild Emery...
OLYMPIA, March 10 –– President Donald Trump’s order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership was issued with the promise of saving American jobs, but it may also mean fewer opportunities for Washington farmers. The agricultural industry supported the Partnership. Washington wheat growers hoped it would help expand markets in countries like Vietnam and Malaysia where grain demand is growing. Wheat is a $600 million industry in Washington, which ranks fifth in the country for wheat production. Last...
Fairfield, Connecticut (13 March 2017) Of significance to those whose descendants settled in the Yellowstone Valley 130 years later, three colonies were founded in 1767: Kautz (May 20), Dietel (July 1), and Kratzke (August 7). To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the establishment of these colonies, the Volga German Institute at Fairfield University is hosting an all-day seminar series at Pilgrim Congregational Church in Billings, Mont., on Saturday, April 8, 2017. Early registration (before March 24) is $30 per person; regi...
Portland, Ore. (17 March 2017) – On the barren Russian Steppe along the Volga River, 106 German colonies were established between 1764 and 1772 in response to the 1763 invitation of Catherine the Great for Western Europeans to move to the Russian Empire. More than 30,000 immigrants (mostly ethnic Germans) did so. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the colonies of Frank, Hussenbach, Kautz, Kolb, Norka, Walter and Yagodnaya Polyana in Russia, the Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University i...
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 13: Wilbur school personnel requested an ambulance for someone with a possible broken ankle. A pothole turned into a large crack across the entire west lane on Hawk Creek Road near Gun...
The Odessa School District, in cooperation with Educational Service District #101, will be providing a Child Find Screening clinic on Thursday, April 13, 2017. The screening will be offered at no cost to children of concern aged three through five. By identifying children at an early age, we can better prepare for their future educational needs. The screening will take place at P.C. Jantz Elementary School and takes about an hour to complete. During this time, a screening test will be administered to assess the child’s l...
Kaylene James is a busy lady. Along with a husband (Brian), two children (Evan 15 and Merick 1), she also owns and operates a licensed daycare, Kinder Haus Family Home Childcare. One would think finding time for herself, let alone any additional projects, would be difficult, maybe even impossible. If you thought that, you thought wrong. James has found a new project involving something near and dear to her heart. Children. She has now started GO! Odessa Recreation, a...
At its monthly meeting last week, the Odessa Chamber of Commerce heard from float committee chairpersons Kevin and Amy Schaeffer that work will begin as soon as the community center becomes available. In the meantime, Amy has been busy organizing the pageant at which Miss Odessa 2017 will be selected. Two candidates will vie for Miss Odessa, Maleah Davison and Danielle Tebow, at Any Occasion Banquet Hall on April 9, a Sunday, at 2 p.m. Sandy Smith will be the emcee for the program, and judges from other communities are being...
The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame committee has resumed its meetings in Odessa under its chairman, current OHS athletic director Bruce Todd, and has selected the inductees for the 2017 induction year. Last year’s inaugural ceremony was held at the high reunion in June, and this year a similar ceremony will take place. This year, the committee has selected 10 individuals and two teams that will be honored at the reunion and have their names and short bios added to the display case in the Odessa High School gym. The a...
A closing date of March 28 for the sale of Odessa’s mothballed biodiesel processing facility will pass, like so many dates preceding it, with no action taken. The sale is however still pending following Monday evening’s meeting of the Public Development Authority in the hospital guild room. PDA president Kim Ramm, PDA manager Stacey Rasmussen and the group’s other members were once again disappointed at the time-consuming process leading to a possible sale that is no longer being measured in months but in years. With Richard...
Council members discussed a suggestion from town clerk Gail Kiesz that the parking along the side of the community center be changed to angle parking. The reason for the change was that large pickups in particular take up too much of the roadway when parked facing straight in toward the building. Since the roadway is also a designated truck route, future issues could arise. Deciding that the issue needed more study, the council opted to table it until the next meeting. Odessa Cemetery Cemetery issues were raised by public...
