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Odessa Principal Ken Schutz has been named to the athletics Hall of Fame at Pierce College in Steilacoom, where he coached women’s basketball from 1989 - 1993. Schutz arrived at Pierce with no experience coaching at the college level, and in his first year improved the Raiders from the worst program in the NWAACC (Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges) into a team that placed third in the West, finishing at 21-7. He was selected as Western Division Coach of t...
Nine experienced babysitters attended a Beyond Babysitting Basics Day Camp on Saturday, April 21, to improve their skills and to become the BEST babysitter. These students received a refresher course in CPR and the use of an AED. They also created some fun crafts and learned some new recipes they can use to entertain and feed younger children. Laura Mathieson, health instructor from Community Health Education and Resources (CHER) taught the class sponsored by the Odessa...
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center (OMHC) has announced the addition of Brandon Lee, PA-C, to the staff at the Odessa Clinic. Lee replaces former PA-C, Mark King. Lee began seeing patients on April 12 and the staff at the clinic has already reported that positive comments are being received about his care. Lee will be providing free skin cancer screenings at the clinic throughout the month of May., and is also the facility’s new foot care expert. He just completed a seminar t...
The Odessa High School chapter of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) came home with 10 awards from the 2012 State Leadership Conference held in Seattle, April 11-14. After spending many long nights in the computer lab and hours of practicing, Odessa had one of its most successful conferences ever. Wednesday morning, April 11, 36 OHS students began the trip, arriving in Seattle in the pouring rain for a tour of the University of Washington campus. The tour showed off...
Craig Smith, formerly of Odessa, is the new general manager at Spokane County Raceway (SCR). He has said he plans to find the same winning combinations there, as he did on the track where he won multiple top-fuel championships and set world records behind the wheel of his race cars. Smith knows about success on the SCR track. Now he hopes he can translate what it took to win five American Hot Rod Association World Finals top-fuel dragster titles over the years at the Airway...
Spring Fling is over, and most residents of Odessa can heave a sigh of relief. Preliminary reports from various organizers indicate that the event was a success here in Odessa, and the first coordinated effort with the neighboring town of Harrington brought additional visitors to both communities. Quilt Show Quilt Show co-chair Laura Estes reported that the show drew 283 visitors this year, up 31 from 2011. She added that she personally spoke to people from Arlington, Yakima,...
Tennis Wilbur/Creston, April 24 In tennis, the Titans defeated Wilbur/Creston April 24 by a score of 5-0 in a match played at Wilbur. In first girls singles (1GS), Cydnee Kieffer defeated Fawn Nolt 6-0,6-0. Kaeli Shockley defeated Corrine Dalhaus 6-3,6-3 in #2 girls singles (2GS). The #3 girls singles match (3GS) saw Laura Kinny defeat Rebecca Gollehon 6-3,6-4. In #1 girls doubles (1GD), Mayumi Matsuzoe and Pilly Pap defeated Ashley Potts and Aubrey Houger 4-6, 7-6, 6-1, and in #3 girls doubles (3GD), Davy Minaker and Dada...
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. April 23: A Davenport woman told dispatchers she was missing her spare post office and house keys after a baseball practice. A caller expressed concern that a fork lift parked in an alley in the 400...
Early in the last century, Odessa had an opera house, and live opera occasionally played there. There are no known photographs of the interior of the opera house, and little is recorded about its decor, acoustics, stage and other amenities of the building. It was a frame structure which - like so many other buildings in downtown Odessa early in the century - was destroyed by fire in 1917. The opera house stood on the south side of the middle of the block on First Avenue between Division and Alder streets, about where the...
I’ve been reading again. I can imagine some of you thinking, “Oh, no!” But that won’t stop me. A little background on my reading may be in order. My mother was an elementary school teacher who believed that the ability to read was the key to everything. Success, happiness, everything. And her children learned to read. The books I favored as a child featured animals and heroic children. Sometimes children and heroic animals. I would lose myself in the stories, and frequen...
Always Aglow She lives in Irby, valley low Rustic cliffs, creek waters flow Where often deer, buck and doe Roam through yard, meander slow Sounds of geese, and rooster’s crow Smell of sage, old willows bow Summer sunsets, breezes blow Kiss so soft, a face a glow Farmer’s wife, status quo Pretty lady, she’s named Glo Planting corn, in garden’s row Washing clothes, weeds to hoe Changing diapers, lawn to mow She’s not lazy, Gene’s wife Glo Four girls, a boy, they slowly grow Works at school, in the big “O” Church and meet...
Kindergarten pre-registration for the 2012-2013 school year will begin Thursday, May 17. You are welcome to stop by the elementary office any time and pick up a registration packet. All registration forms need to be filled out and turned in by Tuesday, May 29. The student must be five (5) years of age as of midnight, August 31, 2012. All immunizations must be completed before the first day of school. Required immunizations for entry in to kindergarten: * five doses of DTaP or DT vaccine, with the last dose on or after the...
I’m not sure who to compliment this time. Should it be the hard-working teachers or the amazing group of seniors currently set on track to graduate in June? To begin, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to judge a senior project presentation last Thursday night. If you don’t know what the projects are, sadly, you’re not alone. It, like many things that go into our school, is a graduation requirement that some government department dreamt up between the state of sleeping and awake. But like the many things that come...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 4/24/12: Grain futures started well but couldn’t hold their gains in wheat and corn which both closed in the red in Chicago. Soybeans rallied and traded at the highest levels since 2008 on further production cuts in Argentina. Wheat and corn may have gotten caught in the downdraft coming from the cattle market, as futures in that market were limit down on news of a case of mad cow in California. The affected cow was a dairy cow and did not enter the food c...
I am alive today. It feels great, and everything looks far different to me than just a few weeks ago. Elisabeth and I attended the Medical Cannabis Cup in Denver, Colo. I had a great time, (met) nice people, (had a) nice visit. As much as I love Odessa, it was nice to get out of town for a short vacation. Our vacation, however, got extended suddenly. Sunday night following the event, I had a full cardiac arrest and a myocardial infarction. I am alive, happily, for one reason and one reason alone – CPR. My beautiful and wonder...
You have certainly done business on them, and you may well have lived within their boundaries. Whether you recognize it or not, and whether you are reading this in the desert West or the soggier regions of the country, floodplains are a part of the landscape around you – and they can be highly dangerous places to be. A floodplain is the flat part of the Earth beside and around a river. It’s also the place we like to build houses and schools and stores because it’s easie...
This opinion piece by President Obama appeared in the Arizona Daily Star on March 13, 2011, following the shooting of Arizona Congressional representative Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others at a political rally. It’s been more than two months since the tragedy in Tucson stunned the nation. It was a moment when we came together as one people to mourn and to pray for those we lost. And in the attack’s turbulent wake, Americans by and large rightly refrained from finger-pointing, assigning blame or playing politics with other peo...
At the April 25 meeting of the Odessa School Board, the Parent Pre-school Co-operative’s president Stephen Walter expressed his thanks and relief at the board’s decision to incorporate the preschool into the Odessa School District. Walter said the co-op board wanted the school to take over operation of the pre-school to provide greater stability and less teacher turnover. Superintendent Suellen White described the proposal in which the district will partner with NEWESD (Educational Services District) 101 to provide pre...
