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High Low Prec. Sept 11 77 43 .00 Sept 12 69 40 .00 Sept 13 76 38 .00 Sept 14 78 37 .00 Sept 15 83 37 .00 Sept 16 87 42 .00 Sept 17 88 51 .00...
The latest cash grain market here shows Soft White Wheat is down at $5.94. Hard Red Winter Wheat is down at $6.48. DNS is up at $8.14. Barley is down at 143.00....
On Monday, October 6, missionaries Michael and Beth Ritzman will be visiting Odessa. Both are originally from western Washington. The Ritzmans will soon be serving as missionaries in Papua New Guinea. Currently, they reside in Fort Wayne, Indiana with their five children. As they make their way from Fort Wayne to Seattle and back, they will be stopping in various places to meet with people and to present their upcoming missionary work. Their presentation in Odessa will be at...
Harrington football team played their first game September 5 against St. John-Endicott, winning handily. Below: The second non-league game was at Waterville on September 11....
August's Titan Pride winners. Above, back row: Emily Scrupps, Kaytlyn Shafer, Kaedin Schorzman. Center, bottom to top: Leah Beth Claassen, Troy Hardung, Reegan Carstensen, Destiny Wiles. Below: Kaytlyn Shafer, Troy Hardung and Destiny Wiles won lunch with the principal....
Children in grades Kindergarten through fifth are part of a school program in which classroom teachers reward them for good behavior by putting names in a container. At the end of each week, the teacher looks at the names, and whoever's name has appeared most often is declared a Titan Pride winner. The winners for each grade level then get their picture taken for the Odessa Record at the end of each month. From all of the winner, three names are drawn separately for those who...
Welcome to the 44th annual Odessa Deutsches Fest celebration! Odessa has been gearing up, preparing, cleaning and getting the word out for most of the summer, but the conversation about what to do for Fest really takes place all year. We have had several enquiries over The Record's use of "Deutshes Fest" as opposed to "Deutschesfest." A little history is in order. The Fest began in 1971, and up through 1990, it was spelled as two words in every issue of The Record. In the May...
Letter to the Editor: There are two candidates running for 13th District State Representative. I ahve met them both, as I was an active member of the GOP and even an elected Precinct Officer. I no longer belong to the Republican party. It was under the GOP Chairmanship of Tom Dent that I, and many others, left the GOP. The final straw was his holding meetings on his private property and then calling the sheriff and threatening unwanted GOP members with Trespass, if they did not leave his property I found candidate Dani...
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, Sept. 8: Three or four sports cars were observed speeding and making bad passes on U.S. 2 just outside Davenport. A motor home became stuck about 30 feet off the U.S. 2 roadway near the Lincoln County...
This quilt will be raffled off at Experience Quilts! on Sunday of Fest....
The Western Extension Risk Management Education Center at Washington State University, as known as the Western Center, provides risk management education to help farm and ranch families succeed through targeted risk management strategies. Proposals are due by 5 p.m. PST, Monday, November 17, 2014. The Western Center, in conjunction with the Northeast, North Central and Southern Center, announce a funding opportunity for projects that help farm and ranch families succeed. The maximum amount of requested funding shall not...
The Keller Ferry vessel, Sanpoil, was back in service as of 6 a.m. Monday, September 15, after hull seepage repairs were made to a hairline crack that had developed. Additional work on the hull exterior was set to be scheduled within 30 days. A representative from the U.S. Coast Guard was on site, inspected the vessel, and approved it to return to passenger service....
In the Fest supplement published last week as part of The Odessa Record, Tianna Gies was misidentified due to a reporter error. She is the granddaughter of Ruth Gies. Due to incorrect informationi supplied by the Lincoln County Fair, Marcus King was listed as having the overall grand champion market steer. That honor went instead to Colby Sooy of Odessa, the son of Tom and Megan Walter of Odessa, and King had the overall reserve grand champion market steer. Sooy had the FFA grand champion and King the 4-H grand champion. The...
A good friend of mine checks each morning on the web for the final “Jeopardy” question. It’s the last question on the taped “Jeopardy” program to be broadcast later that day. I don’t go to movies or follow sports, so I’m often at a loss when it comes to many quiz show questions. But recently I was in a position to answer the “Jeopardy” question because of my early training in geology. The category of the question I got right was “to ‘dum’ it up.” That means, in Jeopardy-s...
The Lincoln County Economic Development Council invites business owners from across the County to join them for a fun and enlightening opportunity to network with other business owners, hear what’s happening in the business community and catch up on the EDC’s projects. Businesses are encouraged to bring brochures, business cards or other business information to set out for others. We hope that you can join us. Food will be served, so please RSVP by Monday, September 22 to edcjoyce@centurylink.net or call 509-725-1170 so tha...
Harrington Opera House Society The Society’s board meeting was held September 9 with 12 people present. The meeting was preceded by several members of the community and many Society members working to clean the opera house for upcoming events. Plaster work on the upper walls in the opera room which may be completed before the Harrington Fall Festival. The track system was not installed for the stage curtains. Future potential work projects include refinishing the new stairs, refinishing the stage floor, installing the k...
Shutterbugs of all ages… get those cameras out and snap those winning photos to enter in the 2015 Spokane Ag Expo photography contest! Spokane Ag Expo, celebrating its 38th year, will again feature the popular photography contest celebrating agriculture at their 2015 show. Photographers are asked to submit photos depicting “Agriculture in the Inland Northwest” by November 21, 2014 to the Spokane Ag Expo office at 801 W. Riverside, Ste. 100, Spokane, WA 99201. All of the photographs entered will be displayed at Spokane Ag Ex...
On September 11, the Titan volleyball team travelled to Wellpinit, winning three straight games to take the match. The scores were 25-21, 25-18 and 25-15. Lanessa Simon led the team in service aces with 3. Casey Schlomer led the offense with 9 kills and Shelbey Watkins put up 20 assists. Casey Schlomer and Jordyn Tanke led the defense with 2 blocks each. Katie DeWulf had 12 digs. At the Ritzville Tournament played on September 13, no stats keeper was present and the coaches forgot to get the scores written down. However, O-H...
