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HARRINGTON – The City Council held a special teleconference meeting at 6 p.m. Oct. 28, led by Mayor Nathan Luck. Present were council members Peter Davenport, Stephen Hardy, David Buddrius, Justin Slack and Levi Schenk, along with Clerk Janice Cepeda, and one acknowledged visitor Denisa Holling. On the agenda for the special meeting were discussions of Covid Relief funding and of obtaining a credit card. Each member had the opportunity to share their preferences regarding e...
ODESSA – The high school class of Christ Lutheran Church is conducting a coat drive. People may come to Christ Lutheran Church, 602 East Amende Drive, just east of the Odessa Clinic, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily to look through the selection just inside the fellowship hall door across from the secretary’s office. You do not have to make an appointment or check in, just come. Please use the provided plastic gloves to search through the coats. Donations of winter outerwear may be left in the same area. If you don’t have time...
ODESSA – The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the library and via ZOOM on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 6 p.m., preceded by a workshop at 5:30 p.m. in the district office to review and discuss school board goals for the school year. Present were board members Ed Deife, Janie Steward, Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Carmen Weishaar; Superintendent Dan Read, Principal Jamie Nelson; Assistant Business Manager Staci Claassen, Operations Supervisor Jus...
Current times have drastically changed how we honor the passing of family members and friends. Teresa Stone, daughter of the late Mildred Deife included me in a recipe memorial to her friend Marie Hein of Riverside, Wash. Marie was a committed, from scratch, cook. Teresa asks all in her email address book to share a recipe. Teresa, led off sharing a recipe she received from Marie for Potatoes Romanoff. The nice feature of this recipe is the baked potatoes called for, can be...
ODESSA – The latest cash grain market in Odessa shows Soft White Wheat, bushel is at $5.41. White Club, bushel at 5.76. Hard Red Winter, bushel at $6.32. Dark Northern Spring, bushel is at $6.22. Barley at $128 per ton as well as Triticale at $128 per ton....
Date H L October 28 50 28 0 0 October 29 62 35 0 0 October 30 60 34 0 0 October 31 54 27 0 0 November 1 56 32 0 0 November 2 61 31 0 0 November 3 52 30 0 0 October precipitation: 1.13...
Odessa town crew members received a safety award from the AWC Risk Management Service Agency. Town Clerk Meri Jane Bohn, Mayor Bill Crossley, Deputy Clerk Kellie Reyes, public works employees Gerald Greenwalt and Jim Williams and Public Works Director Rod Webster display the award....
ODESSA – Odessa Food Bank Director Merleen Smith reminds Odessa residents that it is that time of year when the Odessa Youth Group, which consists of youth from various Odessa churches making up the Odessa Community Ministerial Association under the direction of Brent Finkbeiner, will be canvassing the community during a food drive to support the food bank. Plastic grocery bags containing a list of needed items will be delivered to each home on Sunday afternoon, November 8. The bags filled with non-perishable food items a...
ODESSA – Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center will be making the transition to using a new Cerner electronic health record (EHR) system on November 9, 2020. This will be the culmination of a year-long implementation project involving a significant investment of time and resources for our small facility. OMHC staff and our new Cerner partners have done a commendable job of adapting and overcoming the challenges that 2020 has thrown our way. Most project events were conducted virtually instead of hosting the Cerner team onsite, b...
Birthdays for Nov. 6: Matthew Evavold, Maria Manley, Brooke Pitts. Nov. 7: Harold Carper, Don Schuh(†), Sam Braun(†). Nov. 8: Jessica Winston, Danny Williams, Danika Wraspir, Tyler Smith. Nov. 9: Kaleb Walter, Margie Schell, Nick Sebesta, Jacob Collins. Nov. 10: Daniel Nelson, Sr., Curtis Weber, Brayden Finkbeiner. Nov. 11: Richard Voise(†), Larry Moffet, Paul Scheller. Nov. 12: Lois Harp, Witten Dirks, Paige Smith, Bradly Singer, Herb Zimbelman(†). Anniversaries for Nov. 7: Randall & Sandra Heimbigner. Nov. 9: Donald...
ODESSA – School District voters are overwhelmingly supporting an effort to establish the proposed Metropolitan Park District to help fund the city swimming pool. The initial general election tally Tuesday night, Nov. 3, showed 76.76% of local voters are in favor of creating the taxing district for the Odessa Aquatic Recreation Center. Only 23.24% of voters were opposed. Commissioner-elect Raye Galloway-Scrupps says, “I am so very excited the park district got the needed votes. Now we will see what we can do to make rep...
If we can provide it, maybe we should return to polling place voting Over the last few months, all eyes have been on Washington’s 16-year-old vote-by-mail system. National media has been holding it up as an example of what should become the norm nationwide. But should it? Yes, we have fastidious local election employees resolving problems. And yes, we have years of experience making vote-by-mail work. But the nation isn’t ready for all-mail elections, whether it’s our system or another state’s. Simply put, voting by mail ap...
OLYMPIA — Calling the current status of the coronavirus outbreak the "third wave," Gov. Jay Inslee ordered more shutdowns this morning, Nov. 15. Indoor service at restaurants and bars is prohibited from midnight Monday through Dec. 14. In addition, church services are being limited to 25% capacity or 200 people, whichever is less, the governor said, calling today the "most dangerous public health day" in state history. Choirs, singing and ensembles are banned, but a solo performance will be allowed. "In-action here is not a...
DAVENPORT — The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory as heavy snow is expected to move into Northern Idaho and Northeast Washington. The advisory runs from 11 p.m. until noon tomorrow. "A wet storm system will move in tonight and spread snow across much of North-Central andNortheast Washington and into the Idaho Panhandle, the advisory said. "Snow will be heavy at times over the mountain passes and mountain valleys with winter travel likely by Friday m...
OLYMPIA — A day after Gov. Inslee told residents to have virtual Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations this year, he issued a travel advisory calling on travelers to quarantine 14 days. The governor’s advisory also suggests only “essential” travel outside of the home. All residents or visitors who travel out of the state should quarantine 14 days, he said, following the lead of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. “COVID-19 cases have doubled in Washington over the past two weeks,” he said. “This puts...
