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On a swing through eastern Washington, District 13 state representatives Matt Manweller, (R-Ellensberg) and Judy Warnick (R-Moses Lake) made three stops to visit the three newspapers in Lincoln County and to hold a public meeting with constituents in Davenport. After visiting The Wilbur Register, they went on to the Davenport Times, then to the public meeting and finally to The Odessa Record, where they and their assistants met with managing editor Terrie Schmidt-Crosby and...
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24: Barbecued chicken, stuffing, broccoli, pea & cheese salad, peaches, roll and pudding. THURSDAY, JULY 25: Lasagna, Caesar salad, Italian vegetables, mixed berries, garlic bread and ice cream. If you are not a regular attendee at senior meals and wish to participate, please call 982-2654 prior to 10 a.m. on the day of the meal. Suggested donation for a meal is $3.25 for those 60 and over. For those under age 60, lunch costs $7.50....
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, July 8: Two deputies initially responded to what turned out to be a false alarm at Wheatland Bank's Davenport branch. A man described a suspicious phone conversation during which the caller, claiming to be...
Ten tied for first prize in 1920 census contest The Odessa Record announced there were 10 winners in a contest sponsored by the Farmers & Merchants Bank to guess Odessa’s population as counted in the official U.S. census of that year. Ninety-three years ago, Odessa was about the same size it is today, with about 1,000 people. The bank announced the contest at the beginning of the year and there were many entries. The winning number was 1,050 and 10 citizens had submitted that figure. Official returns of the 1920 census r...
Jam and jelly season is in full swing with rhubarb, strawberries and blueberries already ripe and apricots, peaches and blackberries soon to follow. Jams and jellies are some of the easiest preserving tasks to accomplish, if, you have a good recipe. I have heard from several people who have purchased Sure-jell powdered pectin packages that are missing the instruction sheet. The omission seems to be random and not isolated to any one area or store. Accurate measuring of ingredients is the most important step in jam and jelly m...
Mitch Wraspir, son of Brian and Debbie Wraspir and grandson of Harley and Apryl Wraspir, accompanied 10 Japanese students from Eastern Washington University to Odessa. Mitch is a student at EWU with a minor in Japanese. He is an IPA, an International Peer Advisor. The students were: (by first names) Hayato, Moma, Yushi, Yoshitaka, Shota, Tatsuya, Ryota Ena, Chimatsu and Rhina, who are all from the Tokyo area of Japan. They visited the Odessa Schools where they enjoyed the...
A July 20 wedding in Valleyford, Wash., is planned by Megan Teade and Tyler Moos, both of Edwall. She is the daughter of Steve and Julie Teade of Colfax, and he is the son of Rich and Sandy Moos of Edwall. Megan graduated from Colfax High School in 2008 and from Saint Martin’s University in 2012 with a degree in biology. She is currently employed by Odessa Memorial Hospital. Tyler graduated from Reardan High School in 2008 and attended the University of Idaho. He is e...
The parishioners of St. Joseph Catholic Church are welcoming a new priest, Fr. Kenny St. Hilaire. He has transferred from St. Patrick parish in Spokane and will also be pastoring at Sacred Heart parish in Wilbur and St. Agnes parish in Ritzville. Fr. Kenny brings with him piano-playing talent which began at the age of seven. His parishioners look forward to hearing him play. He replaces Fr. Michael Ishida who was transfered to Walla Walla after having spent six years serving...
Makayla Nelson and Charleigh Cornett brought the object shown in the picture into The Record office on July 15. They said they found it tied to a bench in front of Odessa Foods and decided to investigate. The object turned out to be a note written on fabric, tied around an empty thread spool and decorated with a feather, a bead and a snowflake Christmas decoration. Attached and wound around the empty spool was a note written on yellow fabric which read, “Hi gorgeous, b...
Some of the interesting features of certain caves are stalactites and stalagmites, the column-like features that hang down from the ceiling and are built up from the floor. Humans have known of their existence since time immemorial, but it’s only in recent years we’ve realized they have a story about climate to tell us. As reported recently in Science Express, researchers led by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied four stalagmites from Borneo. The stalagmites are made of calcite, a relatively soft min...
To the Editor: I keep wondering how desperate the Obama people will get to try and get more people to believe that Obamacare will solve our nation’s health care problems. We have problems with health care, but a lot of them are caused by government problems that go back many years. We have expenses that are out of control because of a lack of control and poor monitoring of expenses. This latest proposal to try and get the professional N.F.L. teams to advertise and basically endorse Obamacare was rejected. I think he might t...
The President’s Honor Roll at Washington State University recognizes students who stand above the rest with excellent academic performance. To be eligible for the honor roll, undergraduate students must be enrolled in a minimum of nine graded hours in a single term at WSU and earn a grade point average of 3.75 or earn a 3.50 cumulative GPA based on 15 cumulative hours of graded work. Odessa students on the President’s Honor Roll for spring 2013 were Travis Michael King; Corinne Marie Kinney; Kayli Beth Ann Smith and Ste...
Wheatland Bank, a locally owned 5-Star bank, is proud to announce the addition of Wheatland Wealth Management, a full-service brokerage and financial planning division of Wheatland Bank offering services throughout Investment Centers of America (ICA), to the Bank’s array of comprehensive business and consumer banking services. Customers of Wheatland Bank, which currently operates 13 branches through eastern and central Washington, will now have access to a wide array of financial products and services, including n...
American Columnist We’ve seen religious fighting too often on television. From Egypt we’ve heard about the power of the Muslim brotherhood and from Afghanistan the fighting between the Sunnis and Shias. We have enough problems in our country and the average American is not interested in religious violence. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...” Article VI specifies “that no religious...
This past week wheat markets experienced a bit of a rally from their recent lows. Winter wheat harvest moved past the halfway mark and now stands at about 70% complete nationwide. More times than not that signals a rally in the wheat market. This year is no exception; the question is how high. Fundamentally, support also came from good recent export sales, particularly from China. I do not think it was a coincidence that China came when they did. They also know when the seasonal lows of a market typically occur. They might...
As we learn from home and research, the most important influence on a child is the parent. Next, we learn that daily support in reading from parents and other adults contributes greatly to the child’s success in reading. Then comes the inevitable question: What do I do when my child gets stuck reading? Well, there are several strategies that teachers use with K-3 children that parents can also use at home. In fact, these strategies also work on readers of any age. The parent can ask the child, “What would make sense her...
As noted last week, the backlash against Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has begun. A look back to two years ago may provide some insight into the current groundswell against the CCSS. In 2010-2011, Marianne Iksic and I examined the English portion of the national standards. We shared the same understanding – the state standards were as good as, if not better than, the CCSS. The only major differences in the national curriculum were the use of traditional grammar (labeling by parts of speech), an emphasis on a...
As part of Pioneer Days in Davenport this coming weekend, Davenport Theatrical’s performances of Arsenic & Old Lace will take place in the Davenport High School auditorium. Incorrect times were listed on the “Schedule” page of the Pioneer Days supplement that was inserted into last week’s issue of The Record. The correct times for the three performances of the play are Thursday, July 18, Friday, July 19, both at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 20, at 2 p.m. There will be no evening performance on Saturday! For additio...
So, I'm sitting around this morning, feeling all glum and gloomy, because I hate summer. That’s right, you read it right. Lise hates summer. Lise has ALWAYS hated summer. I’m pretty sure that if you went back to approximately a year ago, you’d find a very similar column. Because I hate summer. I hate summer so much that I pretty much can’t stop thinking that I hate summer ALL summer. There are a lot of people around here who have SAD, or “Seasonal Affective Disorder....
The County’s newly formed Local Technology Planning Team (LTPT) met July 1 to begin formal broadband planning under a grant from the Washington State Broadband Office (WSBO.) Will Saunders, Broadband Program and Policy Director for WSBO, joined the meeting from Olympia via Skype to congratulate them on their award and to talk to them about statewide broadband planning. The remainder of the meeting was facilitated by consultant Monica Babine of WSU’s Digital Initiatives Program and Margie Hall, Director of the Lincoln County E...
House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and her husband, Brian Rodgers have issued the following special announcement about their family: “Being a wife and mother have been the most wonderful and blessed experiences in my life. For some time, Brian and I have hoped we would be able to have another child, so it is with great joy we announce that we are expecting our third in December. “I look forward to continuing my duties as Conference Chair and running again for re-election next year to represent the...
Meat processing plant nears completion The Livestock Producers Cooperative Association (LPCA) is nearing the completion of its meat processing facility at the Odessa Industrial Park. At Monday night’s meeting of the Odessa Public Development Authority, it was reported that the electrical power had been turned on and that only two change requests remained to be approved, one for electrical relocates and the other for the addition of two windows in the abbatoir. The OPDA members...
