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Davenport celebrated its fall sports seniors last week, with soccer and volleyball athletes honored Thursday, Sept. 21 and football and cross country athletes recognized Friday, Oct. 22. Above, sixth-grader Alexis Ward starts Senior Night off right with her rendition of the National Anthem. At the right, soccer seniors Cady Zellmer and Hanna Orvis are recognized with their parents. Below, football seniors Cody Jenkins, Jarrett Jacobsen and Tate Foster, cross country senior...
Big brother is always watching I see you had a mostly maskless Deutsches Fest. I have a friend whose relative went home from the Fest infected with Covid. Real men or women don’t wear masks? More deaths from Covid are happening in Lincoln County. Death is apparently less scary than losing a sense of power (control). Looking from the outside in, I grudgingly acknowledge not one chink of doubt in your “suits of armor” has changed your white conservative beliefs. I remember a night in the 1980s when my partner Chuck and I entere...
REARDAN-Former Gonzaga men's basketball standout and current women's basketball strength and conditioning coach Mike Nilson visited the high school today to speak to student-athletes. Nilson, who played for Gonzaga from 1996-2000, spoke on the topic of leadership and commitment. He first talked through the three types of leaders he's seen and highlighted the leadership he saw from NBA Hall of Famer and Gonzaga alum John Stockton, noting athletes can lead by example through...
DAVENPORT-The Gorillas will be hosting a district crossover game with an opportunity to go to the state playoffs this year. That was ensured after Davenport eviscerated the Chewelah Cougars 42-18 on Senior Night Friday, Oct. 22 to clinch a top-two finish in the NE2B. Davenport improved to 6-1 with the win and 7-1 overall, remaining in second place in the league behind undefeated Lind-Ritzville/Sprague. The loss was damaging for Chewelah, which fell to 3-3 in the league and...
REARDAN-Mason Gilchrist ran for four touchdowns and the Colfax Bulldogs earned a 42-19 victory over a Reardan football team that outgained its visitors but couldn't string together enough scores to keep up Friday, Oct. 22. Reardan fell to 1-6 in NE2B play and 2-6 overall, while Colfax vaulted into fourth place in the league while improving to 4-3 in league and 5-3 overall. Senior running back Abe Nelson had a big day for the home team, opening the game with a 63-yard...
1. x-Lind-Ritzville/Sprague (6-0, 7-0) 2. x-Davenport (6-1, 7-1) 3. Northwest Christian (4-3, 5-3) 4. Colfax (4-3, 5-3) 5. Liberty (4-3, 4-3) 6. Chewelah (3-3, 3-5) 7. Asotin (2-5, 2-5) 8. Reardan (1-6, 2-6) 9. Kettle Falls (0-6, 0-6) x=clinched a spot in the District 6/7 crossover game for a state playoff berth...
Area scoreboard for games and matches Oct. 21-27 Football Friday, Oct. 22 Davenport 42, Chewelah 18 Colfax 42, Reardan 19 Soccer Thursday, Oct. 21 Northwest Christian (Colbert) 2, Davenport 1 (shootout) Tuesday, Oct. 26 Davenport 4, Reardan 0 Volleyball Thursday, Oct. 21 Davenport 3, Kettle Falls 2 (18-25, 25-19, 25-19, 17-25, 15-12) Reardan 3, St. George’s 0 (25-13, 25-20, 25-20) Wilbur-Creston 3, Harrington 0 (25-8, 25-8, 25-5) Saturday, Oct. 23 Mary Walker (Springdale) 3, Harrington 0 (25-3, 25-9, 25-11) Tuesday, Oct. 2...
REARDAN-The No. 1 ranked Colfax Bulldogs spoiled Reardan's Senior Night with a 3-0 (25-9, 25-20, 25-11) victory Tuesday, Oct. 26. Reardan fell to 4-6 in league play with the loss, but maintained its spot in the district playoffs next week. Colfax came out swinging, scoring the first six points of the first set and going on to win 25-9. Reardan battled much harder in the second set, taking a 7-6 lead. The home team held tough as Colfax went on a 6-1 road to take a 15-11 second...
REARDAN-Even though Reardan has only been in the NE2B for two seasons, a rivalry is beginning to bud between the youthful Davenport Gorillas and Tuesday's home team. Going into the match, each team had won on the other's home turf. In the rubber match, that trend continued, with Davenport earning a 4-0 win Oct. 26. Davenport clinched the NE2B regular season title and No. 1 seed in the league playoffs with the victory amidst cold, windy and rainy conditions. The game was...
Varsity games, meets and matches for Davenport, Reardan and Harrington this week Friday, Oct. 29 Harrington volleyball SENIOR NIGHT vs. Columbia (Hunters) @ 6 p.m. Davenport vs. Reardan football at Reardan @ 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30 Davenport vs. Reardan playoff soccer at Davenport @ 1 p.m. District 7/9 cross country regionals at Colfax @ 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2 Davenport OR Reardan vs. Northwest Christian (Colbert) OR St. George’s league championship game, time and location TBD Reardan volleyball district tournament game @ 6...
SPOKANE VALLEY-On the same day he started at cornerback for the Davenport football team, sophomore Jaeger Jacobsen earned his team's highest finish at the District 7/9 league championships at Plantes Ferry Friday, Oct. 22. Meanwhile, Reardan eighth-grader Colton Lonning, Davenport eighth-grader Josie Wynecoop and Davenport sixth-grader Charlotte Soliday earned top-five middle school finishes in the final meet of the middle school season. The Davenport middle school girls...
ODESSA – On Friday, Oct. 22, the many partners involved in the recent rejuvenation efforts at the Old Town Hall gathered together to celebrate the near completion of the downstairs area. Lowe's generously awarded $68,000 in the form of a Lowe's 100 Hometowns grant to renovate the Old Town Hall. The three Lowe's stores in the greater Spokane area donated additional items, including 10 light fixtures, a dishwasher, two new refrigerators, a microwave and a generator. Lowe's w...
HARRINGTON – The week's volleyball action was all in the win column for the Odessa Tigers. Odessa vs. Harrington The Tiger volleyball team traveled to Harrington on Tuesday, Oct. 19, to face the Panthers. It is a rebuilding year for Panther volleyball, so the Tigers dominated once again in this contest. Odessa 25 25 25 3 Harrington 0 0 6 0 Hayden Schuh led the offense with 9 kills and also got the team's only block. Ashlyn Neilsen had 2 digs, and Melloney Deife had 18 a...
REPUBLIC –Last Friday night’s catfight in Republic pitted the Odessa Tigers against the Republic Tigers with the Tigers coming out on top. Uh, that would be the Odessa Tigers. They carried the day despite racking up 11 penalties for 120 lost yards. Odessa 16 34 8 8 66 Republic 0 8 0 8 16 Quarterback Collin Martin completed nine of 11 passing attempts for a total of 287 yards. Five ball carriers pulled in those nine completed passes, Daeton Deife with five for a total of 164 yards and one touchdown, Anthony Elder for a 21-...
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. Oct. 18 Traffic stops: 7 A caller said his elderly neighbor, who has dementia and uses an oxygen tank, might be missing after they went hunting the day prior. A report came in of a man shooting a two-point buck nea...
The luncheon held Friday, Oct. 22, in the Old Town Hall treated Odessa's senior citizens, Lowe's employees and FBLA members, while providing an opportunity for all to see the progress being made in the renovation....
Two graduating seniors were honored on senior night, Emily Scrupps and Tori Schlomer. From left, Danielle, Emily and Jason Scrupps; Kevin and Amy Schaefer, Tori Schlomer, Gina and Joe Schlomer....
Richard "Dick" C. Sawyer (81), longtime resident of Spokane Valley, Wash. passed away on Oct. 24, 2021, at Sacred Heart Hospital from complications of pneumonia. He was born on Feb. 18, 1940, to Ellis and Eleanor Sawyer. He was born in Harrington, Wash., raised in Davenport graduating from Davenport High School in 1958. After high school he joined the Air National Guard and worked as a civilian as an aircraft mechanic until his retirement in 1994. He then went to work for...
Superior Court Judge Barkdull recuses self from auditor case DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Superior Court Judge Jeff Barkdull recused himself from presiding over a case against the Lincoln County Auditor’s Office and auditor Chandra Schumacher, according to court documents filed Oct. 22. The case, filed by the Washington Election Integrity Coalition United and Jerry Schulz asserting unproven claims of vote-flipping, additions and deletions, ballot box stuffing and party preference tracking by the auditor’s office during the 2...
1 years ago Oct. 28, 1921 Catholics buy cemetery site. The Odessa Catholic church has purchased from Joss. Reitner, two acres and a half of land just west of the Odessa cemetery, of which F.L. Kucera is now drafting a plat for a cemetery site. The present Catholic cemetery on the hill southwest of town was thought by members of the church too far from town to keep up in the way that they would like to have it, and offers have been made to those having relatives laid away at the old cemetery, a place to inter them in the...
Robin L. Weishaar passed away, surrounded by his family, on Oct. 17, 2021, in Spokane, Wash. Robin was born on Nov. 2, 1954, to Donald and Phyllis (Huff) Weishaar in Odessa, Wash. Robin was a 1973 graduate of Odessa High School and attended Big Bend Community College. He retired in 2019 after 34 years of farming. He was a member of Christ Lutheran Church, the Odessa Gun Club and the Odessa Volunteer Fire Department. Robin was an active member of his church, serving on the...
The Biden Administration’s massive welfare give away, “Build Back Better,” is currently being negotiated in Congress. One of the original funding mechanisms was raising taxes on the rich to the point where they pay their “fair share.” In spite of the political left obsessing over the issue, no one has clearly defined exactly what the term means. Let’s look at actual numbers and see who pays what in income taxes in the United States. Those organizations that follow taxation in the U.S. use an array of reporting methods to...
The head table and a large crowd of booster club supporters made the Oct. 23 prime rib dinner and auction a rousing success. At the head table are Tom Scrupps, Larry Weber, Teresa Scrupps, Kelly Weber, Heather Messer, Matt Messer, Terri King and Todd King....
ODESSA – The U.S. general election takes place next Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. For Odessa voters, there are three advisory votes on the ballot, all having to do with taxes imposed by the state legislature without a vote of the people and several offices to be filled by individuals mostly running unopposed. The only contested office on Odessa ballots is that for Town of Odessa Councilman No. 4, in which Alberto Reyes and Amanda Wallace are running against one another to fill the position that came open when current incumbent K...
ODESSA – Halloween is this coming Sunday, and the annual Halloween carnival put on by the Odessa High School chapter of FFA is scheduled to begin in the community center at 4 p.m. that day. FFA advisor HaLee Walter tells The Record that some Odessa businesses have agreed to open their premises on Sunday afternoon from 3 to 4 p.m. for “Boo a Business” to allow kids to visit them for candy or other treats and to participate in an FFA-sponsored scavenger hunt. Inside the community center, the carnival will provide various games...