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Our readers, and Wayne Frederick in particular, who brought in the unidentified mechanical part, will be pleased to know that someone has recognized the item featured on the front page of The Odessa Record last week. Mark Allen, a scrap-metal dealer, identified the item, and his wife Glenda brought the description in to us. It is the “inner axle for an old hay bind strap,” according to Allen. So now we know, and so do you. We thank the Allens for helping with the ide...
Fest is fast approaching, and volunteers are desperately needed. This call seems to go out every year about this time. The office staff at the firm of Leffel, Otis & Warwick has organized the bed races at Deutschesfest for the past several years. This year will be their last, and some other business or organization needs to take it over. More importantly, the new volunteers need to get on board now, so that they can learn the ropes from the gals who have done such a great job...
When I approached Dee Deife to ask her for an interview, without missing a beat she told me she needed to check her calendar to make certain she didn’t have any other interviews on Thursday. She has a razor sharp wit and a calming presence that draws people in. In some respects, she is a private woman, a keeper of secrets. I learned so much that I had never known about her -- her joys, her triumphs and some of her darkest hours. Dee was born in Tonasket, June 11, 1942. She w...
New restaurant manager at Harrington Golf Club As of mid-June, the Harrington Golf and Country Club restaurant has come under new management. Harrington’s golf course has long been noted as one of the highest rated 9-hole courses in Washington. Their board members are Norm Brock, Rick Becker, Chris Janess, Chris Hickman and Scott Hutsell. Christine Derry Harding has taken the helm of the restaurant with energy and enthusiasm. She has been so busy since becoming manager that s...
The Odessa Friends of the Library completed seven weeks of the summer reading program "Dig into Reading" at the Odessa Public Library. Each week featured a different subject, such as: big equipment that digs. Jim Williams, from the town maintenance crew, brought a front loader to show the group. Each child was encouraged to climb into the cab and have their picture taken, which they then took home with them. Burrowing animals was another theme. A story about a groundhog was re...
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 29: Personnel at Lincoln Hospital in Davenport voiced concerns that a prescription pad may have been stolen from the emergency room, but subsequent investigation revealed the suspicion to be without...
Area's car wrecks were numerous in early 1930's Pick up almost any issue of The Odessa Record from 1928 to 1933 and one of the headlines might well be “More Autos Wrecked here.” That was the headline on August 22, 1930, over a report of another accident at the Nemo crossing four miles east of Odessa and another right in town, at the notorious “Odell Corner” where State Highway 7 made a right angle at the intersection of what we presently know as Division Street and sixth Avenue. But 1935, the underpass a mile east of town at...
To the Editor: I certainly empathize with the people who have been hazed by the Obama I.R.S. I discovered the hard way that they do keep lists of people they don’t like. I sued the I.R.S. in 1974. I won and have been a target ever since. My sibling, who was my father’s executor, died in 1979 and he and his lawyer hadn’t been completely honest. I reluctantly agreed to close dad’s estate and 21 years later it was closed. Even though there was only a very small amount of money involved, the I.R.S. sent a lawyer from Washing...
There are lots of events taking place in Lincoln County for August. Check out their website for further details: www.visitlincolncountywashington.com Aug. 9 Solar Observation - NPS Spring Canyon Day Use Area: Ever wondered what the sun looks like: Come find out: We’ll have solar filtered telescopes and solar glasses for you to view our nearest star-- the Sun! Aug. 9 BBQ at the Whitestone Winery 1 - 5 pm BBQ and experience the new tasting room on the lake - tour of the vineyard. Limited spots. Michael@whitestonewinery.com (509...
National standards are nothing new; they have been in place at least since the 1950s. However, what the Common Core standards are doing to curriculum can best be explained by Nancy Carlsson-Paige of New York in an email to Susan Ohanion: “What is so fundamentally wrong with this Engage New York approach . . . is the focus on content and having facts and correct answers, a focus that requires a fact-based, didactic pedagogy for success. One where kids passively sit while teachers direct-teach content that is irrelevant to t...
This week’s edition includes our back-to-school page, coming out somewhat earlier this year due to the way the calendar dates fall. Registration will take place next week, August 14 and 15, at school, and the first day of school for students will be August 28, a Wednesday. The week following school registration is the week of the Lincoln County Fair, so many Odessa members of FFA and 4-H will be busy grooming, showing and selling their livestock, as well as putting final touches on craft, cooking, sewing items or many o...
Recently, someone asked me to address (in this column) the issue of bringing more visitors to Odessa to shop in our retail establishments. Believe me, it’s not a topic foreign to me. Or to anyone else who belongs to the Chamber of Commerce. Or to anyone who owns or works in any of those aforementioned retail establishments. And I'’m including our restaurants in that category. The Chamber of Commerce, love ‘em or hate ‘em, has done a pretty good job of bringing people to town...
The Odessa School Board met Tuesday, July 30, in the high school library to approve a three percent cost-of-living raise provided by the legislature for the superintendent, principal, business manager, human resources director, facilities director and school secretaries. Also approved were salary riders for teachers’ contracts, adding 1.9 percent provided by the legislature. The board had the first reading of the Community Service Policy recently passed by the legislature and approved both the school nurse contract with t...
It is that time of year again when the lazy days of summer (who has those anyway; we certainly don't) give way to the hectic late summer time of county fairs, back-to-school activities, preparation for Odessa's number-one money-making community festival Deutsches Fest, not to mention all of the other local festivals in towns all around us. This week is our back-to-school issue. We haven't even had time to cover the local harvest yet. That will come next week, as will the sched...
U.S. 5th Congressional District Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and fellow Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO), authors of H.R. 267, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act, applauded the unanimous approval of their bill in the U.S. Senate August 1. Their legislation will facilitate the development of small hydropower and conduit projects and direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to study the feasibility of a streamlined two-year permitting process. “In Eastern Washington, hydropower plays a pivotal r...
The House of Representatives and House Republican leadership recently took a bold step to separate the Farm Bill into farm policy and feeding programs (aka food stamps). When asked for a reaction, the most common answer in my farm community is “it’s about time.” We have allowed Congress to fall into a pattern of mega-bills too large for anyone but full time lobbyists to read and understand. Focusing on issues separately allows for more transparency, better debate, and less opportunity for brokered back scratching. The Suppl...
Phillip Klein and Servi Dei Farms of Columbia County have been fined $10,000 by the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) for burning wheat stubble without an approved agricultural burning permit. Klein, owner and operator of Servi Dei Farms, burned a field of about 300 acres of wheat stubble before the required agricultural field burn permit had been issued in 2012. Klein applied for the permit, citing agricultural burning as the only reasonable means to reduce crop residue in his fields before fall planting. Inspectors...
(StatePoint) An epidemic is sweeping the nation. Girls are at a disadvantage when it comes to success in math and science, and the future does not look bright if parents don’t act now. In the next ten years, 80 percent of all jobs will require technical skills, according to Labor Department statistics. And jobs in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields are expected to grow twice as fast as all jobs. But currently, the ratio of boys to girls enrolled in STEM courses is a staggering six to one, putting g...
I recently pulled some weeds in my yard. Sometimes I’m glad to have a little simple work where I can see progress, even if the effects of my labor are only temporary. I can only do a little bit at a time, having to take it slow due to arthritic knees. But one thing about pulling weeds in August stands out even when taken in small doses; it’s hot work. With the sun beating down on us, warming the whole nation, it’s easy to wonder if solar power will some day replace fossil fuels as our mainstay energy resource. That could...
