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Christmas Fest is already upon us. Next Wednesday, December 6, the community center will open at 10 a.m. and remain open until 7 p.m., with vendors both local and from around the northwest providing items for sale that are suitable for giving as gifts for the holidays. Once again the Junior Livestock 4-H Club of Odessa is sponsoring the event and providing a burger stand at the window to the kitchen. Burgers, chips and beverages will be offered. Faye King has been...
Public Development Authority The Harrington Public Development Authority met November 21 with Paul Charlton, Jay Kane, Jay Gossett, Bunny Haugan, Heather Slack, Marge Womach, Tim Tipton and Jill Plaskon attending. The UFO event at the opera house, which was co-sponsored with the Opera House Society, netted the Authority about $230. Following the event, a nice group continued discussions at the Post and Office. Gossett presented the group with three designs for the potential Harrington community sign, which would involve a...
On November 15, a scientific crew of 30 headed to the Tri-Cities to visit the recently awarded Nobel Prize facility called LIGO. As you may or may not know, the local Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in Hanford recently helped earn the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in observing the universe's gravitational waves for the very first time since Einstein predicted them in 1916. Since we live so close to a Nobel Prize-winning research facility, we...
The Tiger football team lost to Sunnyside Christian Saturday at Edgar Brown Stadium, Pasco, in one of two semi-final games played this weekend. Almira-Coulee Hartline won its game against Lummi and will face Sunnyside Christian in the championship game December 1 in the Tacoma Dome. SC 12 22 14 14 62 Odessa 6 8 8 0 22 The Odessa team was simply not playing up to par on Saturday. Facing the number-one ranked team among 1B schools, it should have been at least a much closer scor...
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, Nov. 20: Responding to the 500 block of South B Street, Sprague ambulance personnel assisted a woman suffering a diabetic reaction. Odessa ambulance personnel assisted an elderly woman who...
To the Editor: A hundred or more Grant County voters in Zip Code 988 were disenfranchised because their ballots were postmarked after November 7. County and state election officials recognize this problem, as apparently some, if not many, ballots were mailed on November 7. Since these local ballots went to the Wenatchee postal processing center, they apparently were postmarked after the 7th. This unintentional disenfranchisement punishes many people throughout the state. People believe that if they mail their ballot on...
OLYMPIA – The holiday season is a time for giving, and scammers are trying to get in on the action. Research shows that fraud rates typically increase late in the year, which is why Secretary of State Kim Wyman and Attorney General Bob Ferguson are alerting Washington residents to the dangers of holiday charity scams and unscrupulous solicitors. “We’ve been encouraging people to ‘Give Smart’ this time of year by making informed choices when donating money to charity,” said Wyman, whose office oversees the state’s Cor...
Steve Nelson of Century West Engineering in Spokane attended Monday’s town council meeting in the public library to announce that the Transportation Improvement Board has agreed to pay the amount of matching funds that Odessa owes as its contribution to roadway improvements made with grant money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA will also fund replacement of three parking lots on the Odessa medical campus, he said. Nelson also proposed to the council that the town consider applying for a $400,000 loan, g...
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Jeffery Wehr, Odessa High School science teacher has been awarded a grant for $1,500 to purchase a shaker table for the science lab, which will assist with chemistry and biology experiments. Wehr teaches at a rural school, where access to research labs is extremely limited. Over a third of the students in his program are low income. The Society for Science & the Public is helping six STEM teachers purchase much-needed equipment and services through $20,000 in grants. In total, the Society has provided $...
The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in more than 180 countries. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event. One-hour tutorials are available in over 45 languages. No experience is needed. The program is aimed at anyone from age 4 to 104. This year, 103,226 events have been registered throughout the world for Hour of Code. The computer science students at Odessa High School will host an Hour of Code next Tuesday from 3:15 to 4:14 p.m. in the science room at the high school. The...
The Polar Express event Monday, December 4, at 6:30 p.m. Parents and children check in at the Train Station (the cafeteria). Enjoy reading and other activities with children....
OLYMPIA – The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) is seeking volunteers to help evaluate grant proposals. It is looking to fill vacancies on three advisory committees that will evaluate and rank grant proposals next fall and winter for recreation around the state. Volunteers should have recreational trail or shooting-range experience or expertise in project design or management, landscape architecture, planning, engineering or permitting. Volunteers serve four years. Applications are due December 31. The...
Do you live in Lincoln County, but leave the county for work? If so, the Lincoln County Economic Council would like you to take a brief survey in order to better understand the county’s workforce. The online survey has nine multiple-choice questions ranging from industry type to carpooling. It is easy and anonymous. The survey can be accessed from the EDC’s home page at http://lincolnedc.org/ or from the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lincolncountyedc/. Your participation is greatly appreciated!...
