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Kira Powell did it for the third year in a row, capturing first place in 1B girls golf in the rain at Lakeside in western Washington. Koralynne Kuch, Hannah Schmidt, Chelsea Fisher and Jordyn Tanke, the four girls running the 4x200-meter relay event at the 1A/1B/2B track and field meet in Cheney also brought home a first place. The Odessa-Harrington Titan girls track team was in a three-way tie for seventh place at the state meet held last weekend on the campus of Eastern Wash...
Kira Powell brought home her third consecutive State B golf championship last week, finishing just one stroke ahead of Emily Baumgart of DeSales HS and four ahead of Michal Schuster of St. John-Endicott. According to coach Sam Read, “Kira came through in some tough playing conditions and under a lot of pressure of being the two time returning champion, and terrible weather.” State B golf was held at Oakbrook Golf and Country Club in Lakewood May 22 and 23. Five Ode...
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. May 21: Dispatchers learned of a verbal dispute between a man and his baby's mother in the Creston area. A Circle Road resident reported people were shooting from the roadway and noticed after a...
Hi, here I am again. Continued from last week – the Kiesz Children….. Joyce remembers the following about living in the L-B-D: (30.) There was usually no room in the kitchen’s “cool box” for pies and other bakery goods so goods were kept on the kitchen counter. I’m sure today a person would keep them in the refrigerator. In the old days, no one got sick …. after all, when the items came out of the oven it didn’t take long for them to be eaten, like within two seconds. (31.)...
The Distinguished Windmill They were seen in the valleys, and on every hill, Standing tall and proud---ridged and still. Like a sentry on duty, the legedary---windmill. They were found in the pasture, and in fields of sage. They dotted the praries, where the wind would rage. The pioneer’s lifeblood---at the dawn of this age. When the west was yet young, they played a key roll, Straddling the top, of every well diggers hole, From the Dakotas to Oregon, to the Oklahoma dust bowl. Sprouting up overnight, in every homesteader’s y...
The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites the public to attend Discover Outer Space – a Centennial 2013 event to view the transit of Venus across the sun at Goldendale Observatory State Park in Klickitat County. The event runs from 3 p.m. to sunset June 5 at Goldendale Observatory State Park, 1602 Observatory Drive in Goldendale. In a rare celestial event, the orbit of Venus is traveling past the face of the sun. Visitors have the opportunity to watch this transit live from the observatory’s solar tel...
The Memorial Day program at the Odessa Cemetery was well-attended again this year. As during most years in the recent past, the wind was a constant companion, making the scores of dedicated flags snap briskly throughout the ceremony. American Legion member Bob Kissler introduced the program presenters, Mike Hardung, who urged two volunteer veterans to help him place the wreath at the World War II tank memorial, and Pastor Jon Hayashi of Heritage Church in Odessa, who...
Activists waging a national war on coal have turned their sights on the Pacific Northwest, targeting proposed shipping terminals in Washington and Oregon that would export coal to China. They’re aggressively lobbying federal officials to change how these projects are evaluated. If they succeed, our economy could become a casualty of the war on coal. Currently, such projects undergo a rigorous environmental review known as an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) involving m...
A rock festival planned for June 18, 19 and 20, 1971, in a barren sagebrush area just south of Marlin, which was expected to draw visitors from throughout the Pacific Northwest, caused anxiety in the Odessa area for nearly three weeks. First announced by Spokane news media on May 25, the Seattle promoters of the affair billed it as a major spectacle, featuring nationally famous rock stars. In Odessa and Marlin, however, there were visions of another Woodstock, but with even worse consequences, for it was feared that law...
The Odessa High School Knowledge Bowl team has reported in from New Orleans that they ended the competition with a record of two wins and four losses. All the schools Odessa competed against had a high school enrollment of more than 500 and included both public and private schools. Their first match on Saturday was against Bayside, Tenn., where Odessa won by a score of 260-210. The next match was against North Babylon High of Long Island, New York, where the Odessa squad came...
Travis Todd, OHS class of 2008, graduated May 13 from Whitworth University with a BAE in elementary education. His major was elementary education and his minor was reading. He did his student teaching in Deer Park at Arcadia Elementary School. He was honored by the Whitworth Crimson Club for playing football for the Pirates as an offensive lineman for four years. He was given a class ring to commemorate his involvement. Travis will be teaching fifth grade at Brewster...
A shade tree has been donated by the friends and family of the late Rex Gibson of Odessa. The flowering cherry tree was planted at the Twin Lakes campground by local Girl Scouts Mya and Natosha Boss (representing the Junior Girl Scouts) and Katreace Boss (representing the Brownie Scouts). All three will earn a badge for planting the tree. Anyone using the campground over the summer, fishermen in particular, are asked to water the tree each time they visit. Once the tree is...
The Odessa Community Float had some “stand-in” passengers at the annual Last Stand Rodeo Parade in Coulee City on Saturday, May 27. Christa Clouter (queen in training) and Elizabeth Schwartz (princess in training) are the granddaughters of Odessa’s Jan Webster, who was in charge of revamping the float this year. Two of Odessa’s royalty were at the state track meet in Cheney this weekend and one was in New Orleans with the Knowledge Bowl team, so Webster went on the hunt fo...
Diane Whitman started working in the physical therapy department at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center in May of 1987 as a physical therapy aide. She took additional classes and became a licensed massage therapist not long after that. She has worked at OMHC for 25 years and in that time she has been a very important part of providing caring, quality healthcare to our patient population. She has built a large and dedicated massage clientele, while continuing to assist in the...
The Odessa Trading Company (OTC), with assistance from Ag Tech Services of Moses Lake, held its annual customer appreciation day last Thursday, May 24, with events beginning as early as 2 p.m. Representatives of Case IH and several other companies that supply equipment such as guidance systems and other specialized farming applications were on hand to show farmers and other interested citizens what their products could do. A special educational session on lube/filters was...
Thanks to the George and Dorothy Gies Foundation, 19 young women from Odessa High School had the opportunity to attend the Women Helping Women Luncheon in Spokane. The keynote speaker, Elizabeth Smart, inspired everyone to overcome adversity and live life to its fullest even after tragedy strikes. Elizabeth spoke of her abduction in 2002 at 14 years old. Her captors controlled her by threatening to kill her and her family if she tried to escape. The police safely retuned her to her family nine months later after she was...
Austin Schmierer, an Odessa High School senior who plans on studying biology, has been named a Washington Scholar for 2012/2013. The other two scholars are Elise Loggers of Colville and Lucy Hill of Wilbur. The alternate is Cory Sago of Colbert. The Washington Scholars program recognizes the accomplishments of four high school students in each of the state’s 49 legislative districts, three Washington Scholars and one alternate. A total of 196 Washington high school seniors have been honored as Washington Scholars or W...
5/25/12: Grain prices rallied on Friday at the end of a very volatile week of trading. Chicago wheat futures gained 17 cents on the day, and white wheat prices rose three cents, finishing a dime lower than a week ago. Weather stories will percolate over the weekend. How much rain falls and where will determine what things look like on Tuesday. Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend everyone!...
We really enjoyed Lise Ott’s story about the birds, as we can relate to the story. We even have a book, and when we see a bird that we normally don’t see around our place, we try to find it in the book. Every time we come to Irby we love sitting on the porch and observing the wildlife that flies and walks around the bluffs. We have to say we would have loved being down by the barn and seeing the wild turkeys. Lise, keep up the great job that you do in your stories that we read every week. Chuck Wood and Joanne Kingsbury Gig...
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings. Every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the dead in the 1860s tapped into the general need to honor our dead. Each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in the first o...
Over 20 years ago, in 1989 to be exact, a movie titled “Do the Right Thing” was released. There was quite a bit of controversy surrounding it at the time. Directed by Spike Lee, it was a social statement about racial tension. That’s really all I remember about the movie itself. What has stuck with me for all these years is the title. It’s a phrase I use a lot to try to improve my decision-making. Doing the right thing is often not readily discernible. In fact, sometim...
The next time you eat a baked spud you might want to think of the agricultural scientists who are hard at work trying to help the humble potato deal successfully with some significant diseases. Students of history will remember the Irish potato famine of 1845-1852. The denizens of Ireland had come to depend on potatoes as their main staple crop. The plant did well in the wet Irish climate, and the potato produced a lot of food for each acre that was planted. But a crisis...
The Odessa School Board met May 23 in the high school library to the disappointing news that a new science teacher, to whom a job offer had been made to fill the position being vacated by Jeff Wehr, had decided not to accept the Odessa job. The search thus continues for another candidate. In other personnel-related matters, the board approved paying bonuses to Duane Pitts and Marianne Iksic based on their National Board Certifications. They also accepted the resignation of Amy Hunt as the Pep Club Advisor. Coaching contracts...
