Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
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On Friday, November 4, 2016 at 2 p.m. at Riverview Care Center's multipurpose room, 1841 East Upriver Drive in Spokane, the family and friends of Ray A. Garrett, former resident of Odessa, will celebrate his 100th birthday. Ray Anderson Garrett was born November 4, 1916, 10 miles out of West Plains, Missouri. The doctor came to the house in a horse-driven buggy. His parents were Stillman and Katherine (McLelland) Garrett. He was the youngest of four boys, Paul (1905), Lee...
The Shriner's Hospital in Spokane welcomed six of Harrington's agriculture students with open arms. Complete with 40 bright orange pumpkins and cookies for patients, plus brownies for the staff, Mrs. Warner's students were a welcome sight. The agriculture class not only picked the pumpkins from a field but washed and shined the Halloween treasures and then delivered them to the Shriner's Hospital as an after-school project....
The Halloween Carnival held Monday, October 31, at the Odessa Community Center drew plenty of well-costumed children and adults. The FFA chapter at Odessa High sponsored the event. In addition to games of skill in which participants could win tickets that could be exchanged for prizes, the attendees could also grab dinner in the form of hamburgers, cheeseburgers and hot dogs, along with water, soda pop and chips. New police chief Tom Clark, whose daughter Jordan is a member...
On November 2, 2016, Earl and Ramona Meise will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary. While Earl served in the U.S. Navy, they lived at Whidbey Island Naval Base, then moved to Ritzville and eventually to Odessa. Earl worked for Suchland Chevrolet and the Odessa Grange Supply Company. After retirement he joined Ramona as a van driver for the People to People transport service. Ramona worked throughout the years at The Cookhouse and Pastime Tavern, performed chore services...
Ireland Luiten, a freshman at Odessa High School, has developed a passion for dance. The daughter of Greg and Kellie Luiten of Odessa, she has taken dance lessons locally as well as in Spokane since she was just three years old. She is currently a student at the Studio Inc. Dance Academy in Spokane, where she recently spent eight hours receiving one-on-one instruction with Hollywood choreographer Liz Imperio, learning the basics of matching movement to music. Imperio is a majo...
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. Monday, Oct. 24: Deputies responded to a report of a “suspicious male” walking around Edwall and determined he was out looking for a wallet. A deputy encountered two white cows running down the middle...
On October 27, six schools from nine different towns across the Bi-County joined Odessa for the 7th Annual Bi-County STEM Challenge. Odessa, Wilbur, Davenport, Lind, Sprague, Ritzville, Creston and Harrington showed up at the Odessa multipurpose room at 9 a.m. to compete in the annual science-based "Junkyard Wars." Each school brought a team of six students to vie against the other schools for the traveling trophy. Team Odessa consisted of Chance Messer, Colby Sooy, Cole...
Brian and Brylee Fink of Odessa announce the birth of their twin boys, Colin John and Conrad Neil, born September 20. Colin and Conrad were born at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. Colin weighed 5 pounds, 3 ounces and was 17.25 inches long, and Conrad weighed 4 pounds, 5 ounces and measured 17.32 inches long. Maternal grandparents are John and Danette Edwards of Hartline, and paternal grandparents are Neil and Lecia Fink of Odessa. Maternal great-grandparents are Dick...
Odessa High School senior Cole Kissler competed in the 1B/2B District 7/9 Regional Cross Country meet on Friday, October 28, in Colfax. He competed against a total of 93 other runners on a five-kilometer (3.1 mile) race at Colfax's golf course to determine which runners will move on to compete at the state cross country meet November 5 in Pasco. Cole placed 29th with a time of 17:58.72, beating his previous personal record by 27 seconds. By finishing within the top 35 in this...
Hanna Lenhart Heimbigner was born January 17, 1916, in Odessa and entered into rest on October 6, 2016, in Fremont, Calif. at the age of 100. Our beloved Mother Hanna leaves a family that loves her and will miss her forever. She is survived by her children: Leland Heimbigner of Reno, Nev. and Barbara Heimbigner of Newark, Calif., as well as 19 nieces and nephews. Hanna was a long-time resident of Ritzville, from 1946 to 1976. She was always all about helping others, loved music and the arts and enjoyed watching local...
Harrington Food Mart One hundred years ago a man by the name of J.O. Kerrick set forth with architectural drawings in hand and proceeded to build the Fallert Hotel, in which building there has been a grocery store of one form or another during the past century as Moore's Grocery, Banner Meat Co, Harrington Food Market and Leeming Bakery. Henry Fallert had been the owner of Dutch Henry's Place which sat in the path of a fierce fire that destroyed it and the OK Stables in the...
ACH On October 18, the Titan volleyball girls played Almira/Coulee-Hartline in Coulee City. O-H 16 17 23 0 ACH 25 25 25 3 The Warriors displayed continued dominance by winning three straight matches over the Titans. Sisters McKennah and Maleah Davison each had two service aces to lead the Titan team. Shelbey Watkins led in assists with 13, and Maleah Davison and Maddy Wagner paced the Titan offense with five kills each. Ty Evers had two blocks for the defense, Shelbey Watkins led in digs with six. Inchelium On October 29 in...
Friday night’s game against Almira/Coulee-Hartline was played for the league championship, with both teams undefeated to that point in the season. Senior Sage Elder led the team defensively with 10 tackles, one quarterback sack, 2.5 tackles for loss and one interception that was returned for a touchdown. Offensively, he had 20 carries for 194 yards, three rushing TDs and one pass reception for a TD! On special teams, Sage pinned the Warriors deep with his deep kicks. He never came off the field during the entire game. O-H 1...
Rhea Jean Strate was born on May 24, 1925 in Marlin to Gustav and Emma (Kallenberger) Zimbelman. She died in Spokane October 28, 2016, at the age of 91. She attended and graduated from the Marlin School District. She married LaMar Strate on January 19, 1947 in Odessa. They moved to Spokane in 1969. Rhea is survived by her four daughters Marla (Bob) Svoboda, Beverly (Ceddio) Barela, Shelly (Rich) Miller and Robyn (Geoff) Norwood; six grandchildren Katie, Mandie, Téa, Muriah, Tyler and Jordan, along with six great...
It is less than week to the election, there are some questions that need to be asked Mrs. Clinton that need to answered. Mrs. Clinton, when you left the White House after your husband’s last term as president in the year 2000, why did you steal $200,000 worth of furniture and China and artwork that you were forced to return? Mrs. Clinton, you said you were broke when you left the White House, but you purchased a $2 million home. You built an addition for the Secret Service. You charged taxpayers of the United States rent i...
Does it matter who becomes president? Look at your wallet. Do you want more money or less money? Since the 1940s, the middle class has seen their real income rise two times faster and the working poor have seen their real income rise 10 times faster under a Democrat president than they have under a Republican president. The reason we have economic inequality (the rich get richer and the rest get poorer) is due specifically to the policies and priorities of Republican presidents since the 1940s. Like it or not, this is our...
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington state regulators on Monday rejected a complaint filed by Teamsters Local 690 alleging Lincoln County’s commissioners violated the law this past summer when they pledged to make the community’s collective bargaining process more transparent. On September 7, the commissioners notified the union they had unanimously passed a resolution the night before stating that future contract negotiations between the county and the unions representing its workers would be open for public oversight. In respo...
The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 held a workshop in the district office Wednesday, October 26, to review the district’s highly capable plan and school performance report and to discuss the upcoming M & O and Capital Projects levies. Board members then met in the high school library with chairman Ed Deife, board members Janie Steward and Chris Crossley, superintendent Dan Read, principal Jamie Nelson and business manager Juli Weishaar attending. Also present were facilities director Justin Parr and athleti...
The Odessa church-based youth group will be conducting the annual food drive for the Odessa Food Bank this year. Their motto is “Give a can, feed a man. Fill a sack, give back.” On Sunday, November 6, they will be distributing grocery bags to homes around town. They will pick up the food donations from the homes on Sunday afternoon, November 13, giving the community a week to shop and share from their bounty. The winter months are always the most difficult for those who are on fixed incomes. The Food Bank, under the auspices...
