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Our trust in a lot of things has gotten shaken over the last year. Misinformation, disinformation, lies and half-truths seem to be the norm anymore. When what we thought was solid belief comes into doubt, it rocks us to the core and we start doubting…everything. This applies to our faith. If I can’t trust what my eyes are seeing and my ears are hearing, how can I trust what I can’t see and hear? Does God really exist? Is His Word really true? Have I believed a lie this whole...
DAVENPORT--A pleasant, sunny weekend may end with less than preferable conditions. The National Weather Service has warned of the potential for high winds and blowing dust between 7 p.m. and midnight tonight in areas of the Columbia Basin and Central Washington. A wind advisory warning is in place from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Winds blowing northeast may reach gusts as high as 45 miles per hour. The forecast for blowing dust and high winds includes most of Lincoln County. Blowing...
DAVENPORT—Janice Cepeda, former city clerk in Harrington, is the new director of the Lincoln County Economic Development Council. She began learning her new job Monday, April 12. Cepeda, who grew up in Odessa and moved to Harrington in 2019, spent six months in her probationary position as city clerk and 15 months solo in that position. She replaces Margie Hall, who resigned last month after accepting a position for the state Department of Commerce in the Local Government Division with an emphasis on Eastern Washington and c...
REARDAN – House Bill 1356, which would ban the use of Native American names, symbols or images as public school mascots, logos or team names, passed through the Senate April 6 with 40 "yea" votes and nine "nay" votes. The bill appears to be on its way to Gov. Jay Inslee, who would be expected to sign the bill into law. However, if the Spokane Tribe grants the district permission, the Reardan-Edwall School District would fall under several exceptions the bill allows. Even t...
DAVENPORT – The sun arrived here earlier this week. By the weekend, the rays should finally translate to warm temperatures... in fact, if forecasts are accurate, the warmest in 2021. Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18 are forecasted to have highs of 72 and 74 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively. Few, if any, clouds are expected to dot the skies, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures above 70 degrees would easily be the highest this year. The previous high recorded temperature in 2021 was a three-way tie on...
OLYMPIA – A controversial statewide cap on carbon emissions scraped through the Legislature in a 25-24 vote late April 8 after lawmakers passed a Climate Commitment Act that majority Democrats say will boost the state’s economy and address a looming climate problem. “It’s good for our grandchildren’s children,” Sen. Reuven Carlyle, the bill’s sponsor, told the Senate during a six-hour debate on the bill. The program is estimated to cost $27.3 million and will likely bring in $228.5 million for the state to partly fund t...
DAVENPORT – Any concerns Lincoln County residents may have had about the county regressing back to Phase 2 of Gov. Jay Inslee’s state re-opening plan can be quelled for at least another three weeks. Lincoln County was not on the list of three counties that the governor moved back to Phase 2 based on COVID-19 metrics April 12. Whitman, Pierce and Cowlitz counties didn’t make the Phase 3 cut according to Inslee’s new metrics and will move back to Phase 2 effective April 16. But here, residents can breathe a sigh of relief...
Evelyn Virginia Willms 1919 - 2021 Evelyn Virginia Willms, 101, passed away peacefully at her home on the Willms family farm near Espanola, Wash., on Wed., April 7, 2021. She was born October 24, 1919 in Reardan, Wash. On September 22, 1938, she married Albert Willms. She was a lifetime member of the St. John's Lutheran Church in Medical Lake, Wash., member of the Espanola Grange and Homemakers club. Evelyn and Albert farmed the Willms family farm with the majority of years...
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. April 4 Traffic stops: 15 A man reported an abandoned vehicle off the road near milepost 26 on Highway 174. A Davenport man said a deer was caught in the fence behind his house on the 32500 block of North Nye Roa...
DAVENPORT – For the first time since 2019, spring sports are under way in Davenport and Reardan. Practices at both schools started April 12. Spring sports, which were cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, include baseball, softball, golf, tennis and track & field. Competitions get under way in the next week, including the opening track meet Saturday, April 17 and the baseball/softball openers April 20. The season runs until mid-May, when traditional winter s...
COLVILLE – Black shirts with a bold No. 35 on the back were worn all around Yep Kanum Park Saturday, April 10. At exactly noon, the somber silence of the people gathered there was broken by a united prayer. That same moment, Dale Martin-an 18-year-old Colville High School senior-was scheduled to be taken off life support at Providence Mount Carmel Hospital. Martin, a running back and defensive end on the football team, suffered a brain injury late in the third quarter of an A...
DAVENPORT – The Hawk Creek Trail featured a peaceful ambience Sunday afternoon, April 11. Fishermen looked for their latest catch, families enjoyed a picnic and outdoors-inclined couples hiked the trail that leads to the beach. Located about 25 minutes north of Davenport off Hawk Creek Road, hikers can access the 1.2 mile out and back trail that leads to a Lake Roosevelt inlet beach where one can walk further along the sand by going past the Hawk Creek Campground down a s...
OLYMPIA – Per the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, rule burning (small debris disposal fires) is not allowed in the following Fire Danger Rating Areas: in the Foothills, Upper Basin in Spokane and portions of Lincoln County north of Highway 2 effective April 16. Warming temperatures have dried grasses, and grassy areas are now experiencing numerous wildfires started by outdoor debris burns. In the Northeast region, 100 wildfires have been started in 2021, i...
ODESSA – The Odessa Town Council met Monday night in the community center. Vickie Iverson, Landon Lobe, Kelly Watkins and Marlene Kramer were present; Amy Hunt was absent. Mayor Bill Crossley called for a motion regarding a request by local resident Don Smith to erect an upright monument at the cemetery in an area that already has several upright stones. After a short debate, the council approved the request. The council then moved on to approve permits for several reroof and fence installation requests. Police chief Les J...
HARRINGTON – The City of Harrington has recently received the resignations of both public works employees and the city clerk. Maintenance worker Charlie Kruger has submitted his notice, and so has Supervisor Scott McGowan, although McGowan has offered to work through April and then claim May for vacation time due him. Janice Cepeda has accepted a position elsewhere and has given April 9 as her final day as city clerk. Harrington School The Harrington Lions Club joined with t...
In a recent game, Tyesn Kuchenbuch takes a lead off third base as head coach Larry Weber provides guidance....
MOSES LAKE - Firearms enthusiasts will gather this weekend for the Moses Lake Gun Show. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Grant County Fairgrounds, 3953 Airway Drive N.E. Organizer Ron Warren said it is the first of two Northwest Gun Shows events coming to Moses Lake. The second is scheduled for Sept. 10-11. There is an admission cost....
1 years ago Apr. 15, 1921 G.W. Finney and attorney W.M. Nevins, the committee sent by the Odessa Commercial Club to Portland last week to interview the head officials of the Portland Flouring Mills Company regarding the report that the company’s plant at Odessa would be dismantled in the near future, returned from the Rose City Sunday night with the report that while they were courteously received, they had received nothing definite in the way of a promise that the mill would be left intact and started again this fall. T...
ODESSA – Odessa Healthcare Foundation board members are working on final details for the upcoming “Roaring Twenties” Virtual Auction. The auction website at omhf.maestroweb.com is a work in progress and changes often, so visitors should check back often. Bidding on silent auction items via the website begins on Saturday, May 1, 2021, at 10 a.m. and ends Friday, May 7, at 6:15 p.m. Bidding on live auction items begins Thursday, May 6, at 10 a.m. On Friday night, May 7, a pre-show begins at 6 p.m., followed by live cover...
Anger and hatred displayed in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6 resulted in death and injury to over a hundred police officers and came at the hands of Trump supporters. By extension, that means all Trump voters. They used bear spray and American flagpoles to injure police, killing one. They chanted “hang vice president Pence and kill Nancy.” They intended to stop the democratic process and the recording of votes of the 50 states confirming Mr. Biden’s win. The newly “conservative” Supreme Court confirmed this win. Hundreds of...
The world is beginning to unfreeze after more than a year of physical and economic lockdowns. Many states have ended mask mandates, citing increasing vaccinations and decreasing cases. Others are allowing normal activities to resume. By and large, it seems as though America is ready to turn a corner and return to normal life. That is unless you’re in Washington. As our state Legislature moves closer and closer towards the conclusion of its 2021 session, the Capitol in Olympia still sits in total lockdown, surrounded by a f...
As communities struggle to emerge from the ravages of COVID-19 and the consequent devastation wrought by widespread economic shut-downs, one structural policy continues to impede the desperately-needed innovation, investment and risk-taking that Washington state, and the country, need for long-term recovery. That major impediment is so-called “jackpot justice,” the insidious practice of aggrieved parties using the courts to secure, not fair and impartial rulings in a leg...
ODESSA – The Odessa Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday of this week at noon in the community center for its regular monthly meeting. Treasurer Larissa Zeiler reported a current bank balance of $73,856 after the board approved the purchase of the JonathINNs trailer from Don Korpinen for $10,000. The $4,175 federal Covid grant received through the Lincoln County EDC is being used to offset about half of that cost, so the net cost to the Chamber is $5,825. The trailer is fully outfitted for providing mobile outdoor food service, an...
ODESSA – Bill and Carol Knerr are raising goats on the Lincoln County property that lies to the south and to the west of their residence on Dobson Road. Their six nanny goats have produced 13 kids this year. The mother goats each produced between one and three babies, and most were born healthy and vigorous. Only a couple were lost due to difficult births or defects. The Knerrs have the best of both worlds with a residence that sits within the town limits and additional p...
