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A number of readers have requested information about the upgrade in progress at the Odessa community center kitchen. The drawing below illustrates the final plan for a commercial kitchen which will expand the existing 20’ x 46’ space to 20’ x 66’. A project of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, spearheaded by Deutschesfest food chair Lindsy Starkel, the upgrade will result in a large, commercial-grade kitchen which can be rented by community groups for Fest food preparation, used...
The Odessa-Harrington Titans football team played its final home game of the season last Friday, October 26. It was also Senior Night, so all of the senior-class members of the team and their parents were recognized, as was the sole senior member of the cheerleading squad. The Titans defeated Soap Lake by a score of 62-20. Although the game was lopsided, there was never enough of a spread to invoke the mercy rule, and the game went on for all four quarters on a damp and cold...
The children in Harrington Elementary grades K-3 were given backpacks with coloring pages, crayons, a pencil and football all pertaining to calling 911, supplied by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO). Lyle Hendrickson, a jail superintendent with the LCSO, visited grades K-3 in Harrington to talk about calling 911 in Taunya Sanford’s classroom for Kindergarten/first grade and in Rachel Roberts’ classroom for grades 3/4. According to Hendrickson, the state’s 911 Commiss...
The Cub Scouts of Pack 784 will be distributing bags to Odessa households this Sunday as a part of the annual "Scouting for Food" program. Each year, the Cub Scouts deliver empty grocery bags to every household in Odessa. Residents are asked to place non-perishable food items in the bags and have them ready to be picked up the weekend of November 10-11, after which they will be delivered to the Odessa Food Bank in time for Thanksgiving. Food items that are especially needed, according to Food Bank director Julie Jantz, are...
Hi, here I am again. Last week it was about the Finks, this week we continue on. In 1930, Reuben married Elizabeth Homberg. Four children were born during their married life –Alvin D. in 1931, Marvin in 1932 and the twins Marciel & Maurice in 1933. The Frederick school was closed prior to 1931, therefore from 1931 to 1951, the children of Reuben & Elizabeth – Alvin D., Marvin, Marciel and Maurice attended the schools in Odessa while living with their parents on the Lin...
As reported in an earlier edition of The Odessa Record, there is a new face to be seen at the Town Clerk’s office these days. Gail Kiesz, who resides southwest of Odessa, has been hired to replace current Town Clerk Linda Burghard upon her retirement at the end of the year. Kiesz will be spending the next two months learning the ropes, and will be sworn in as clerk after Burghard’s retirement is official. Kiesz was born in Walla Walla and raised in North Idaho. She has bee...
On October 2, 2012 The Grant County Health District (GCHD) received confirmation from the Washington State Department of Health Public Health Laboratory (DOH) that the death of a Grant County woman was likely caused by the hantavirus. The woman was most likely exposed to the virus in her RV located south of Moses Lake. This is the second hantavirus-related death in Grant County this year. The two cases are not linked and do not indicate an increased risk to the public. "The Health District staff and I are saddened by her...
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. Oct. 22: A large portion of the Deer Meadows area was without phone service after a fiber optic line serving it broke. A bit of snow was reportedly falling in the Seven Bays area. Cattle were...
Democrats swept to victory in usually heavily Republican Odessa in 1932, with Franklin D. Roosevelt running for his first term, being the overwhelming choice in the residential race and the governorship going to Clarence D. Martin, a Cheney flour mill operator. The Great Depression was at its peak, and Odessa voters had sought a change in leadership as a means of getting the economy back in order. Roosevelt had promised this with his New Deal. Here is the report of the 1932 election in Odessa from the November 11 issue of...
Keith A. Smith, LtGEN USMC (Ret.), age 83, of Vienna, Vir. died Friday, September 7, 2012, surrounded by his family. Beloved husband of Shirley L. Smith; father of Kelly Smith, Timothy Smith, Holly Smith, Cynthia Smith, Lynn Derbyshire, Thad Smith, Tadgh Smith, Tara Rose and the late Captain Vincent Smith, USMC; brother of Mildred Deife and Robert Smith. He is also survived by 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at US Marine Memorial Chapel, Quantico, Vir. on October 5....
I know this will come as a huge surprise to most of you. I have a character flaw. “Only one?” (I can hear you, you know.) Only one that I’m willing to talk about today. We’ll save the others for another time. Or other times, as it will probably take several. This particular character flaw became apparent (again) Sunday night, as we were participating in our annual pumpkin-carving party at a friend’s house. (We started this tradition years ago and have maintained it through s...
Fourth-grade teacher Ellen Holman signed her class up for a live classroom webcast with singing star Taylor Swift under a free program sponsored by the Scholastic Book Club. During the 30-minute online event, Swift talked about the importance of books and reading, “where reading can take you” and how great literature has inspired her writing. She answered questions from students around the world and performed a song from her new album entitled Red....
The Odessa-Harrington Titans ended their regular volleyball season Saturday with a win over Almira/Coulee-Hartline, 3 games to 1. They also took the second-place spot in the league with that win and the previous week’s win over league leader Wilbur-Creston (providing W-C with their only league loss). O-H (9-2, 6-1) 25 16 25 25 3 ACH (6-8, 6-4) 16 25 13 14 1 Chelsea Fisher had 15 kills to lead both teams. ACH’s Fox had 11. In assists, Koralynne Kuch had 24 to lead the Titans. Tipps of ACH had 27. Kendall Todd delivered 2 ace...
The Odessa-Harrington junior-high football team shut out the Wilbur/Creston team, 34-0. Cole Kissler scored three touchdowns to lead the offensive effort by the Titans. Another highlight was a 60-yard touchdown run by Colt Sanford. Caleb Behrens scored a touchdown on a one-yard quarterback sneak. Jayd Jennings had an interception to end the game. Head coach Larry Weber said, “The defense rallied to the ball and tackled well, not allowing WC to score.” The O-H Booster Club purchased 160 hamburgers and served them to pla...
The District 7 NE 1B volleyball playoffs will begin at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, Nov. 1, in Odessa when Cusick will face off against ACH. The second match, at 4 p.m., will pit Odessa-Harrington against Selkirk. Two additional matches will take place at the same time. The losers’ bracket matches will then be played at 6 p.m., and the winners’ bracket matches will take place at 8 p.m. The top two winners and the winner of the losers’ bracket will then move on to the District finals to be played Saturday, November 3 in Spoka...
The Titan football team has finished in the #2 slot in the NE southern division and will travel to Wellpinit to play the #2 team in the NE northern division, the Wellpinit Redskins. That game is scheduled for Friday, November 2, at 1:30 p.m in Wellpinit. The winner of that game will earn the #3 spot in the playoffs, and the losing team will have the #4 spot. If the Titans win they will likely play the Touchet Indians, and if they lose to the Redskins, they will likely play the Liberty Christian Patriots from Richland next...
Boy Scout Troop #275 of the Blue Mountain Council has announced that Spencer Ballo, 18, of Kennewick has been awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. Spencer is a Senior at Kamiakin High School in Kennewick, has been on the honor roll all four years and is active in Tech Club, cross-country and varsity track, as well as coaching this year for Upward Bound soccer. Ballo joins an elite group of young men who have earned the Eagle rank. The first Eagle was awarded in 1912 and less than 4% of Boy Scouts achieve this highest honor in...
Byron Behne watches the international grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 10/25/12: Wheat prices fell Thursday as traders took profits off the previous day’s rally on confirmation of the Ukraine banning exports in mid-November. Export sales of wheat for last week totaled 21 million bushels, which was decent and most likely due to that business to the unknown destination done at the end of the week. New crop white wheat prices are at the strongest basis levels that I've ever seen for this time of year, with P...
To the Editor: Living on the west coast the voters have a problem of feeling rejected or unimportant as the electoral process doesn’t count the individual votes and so far too many of us stay at home and don’t vote. I can remember driving home from work and hearing the radio telling me that the national press has determined by exit polls that we have a new president. We need to try harder to break our old habits and vote, because there are other races that are important. Many of these races are important and I believe tha...
Last week an independent voter shared with me a concern that some people fear that socialism (business run by government) will ruin America. So let us first examine two definitions – one for capitalism, and one for socialism – as these seem to be the foundation for the concerns being voiced today. In very broad strokes, capitalism is based on private business dominating the economy for the purpose of generating wealth for the owners or stockholders by extracting it from working people who are paid only a small fraction of...
Vacation was a word rarely used in my house growing up. Like most parents in Eastern Washington during the 1900s, my mom and dad instilled the values of hard work from sunup to sundown. And when I co-wrote the script for the film “The Basket,” I showed the hardships endured by those generations before us to keep the family farm alive. Back then, as it is now, it often took the whole community to come together through back-breaking work, cooperation and even some help from the local banker to keep the business going and foo...
Parent/teacher conferences for children in Kindergarten through fifth grades will be held Friday, November 9. There will be no school on this day. All K-5 students have been scheduled for a specific conference time and parents should have received a designated date and time slip this week from their child’s homeroom teacher. Parents/guardians who have not received a date and time slip are asked to call elementary secretary Linnie Largent at 982-2603. Arena-style conferences for students in grades 6-12 will be held Thursday e...
The regular meeting of the Odessa School Board on October 24 once again drew several parents and at least one grandparent of preschool-age children. At the previous month’s meeting, they had requested an additional day of preschool for their three-year-olds. The schedule originally set up by the ECEAP (Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program) had Odessa’s four-year-olds having three days of preschool and a group of older three-year-olds having two days of preschool. The youngest three-year-olds had only one day of...
