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Wilbur-Creston Last Tuesday, December 5, the high-school boys basketball team played a non-league contest at home against Wilbur-Creston, currently playing as a 2B school. With most of the team having just finished the football season, some basketball skills were a little rusty. Nevertheless, the teamwork of this group showed, as the boys overcame a slow first-quarter start to win by 20 points. Odessa 5 19 16 17 57 Wilbur-Creston 9 4 12 12 37 Ryan Moffet led the scoring with...
Wilbur-Creston On December 5, the Tiger high-school girls played W-C in Odessa, defeating the Wildcats by 10 points. Odessa 15 10 14 7 46 Wilbur-Creston 10 5 6 15 36 The Davison sisters, senior Maleah and sophomore McKennah, led the Tiger scoring with 11 points each. Maddy Wagner added 9 points and Brenna Carstensen 6. Wagner led in rebounding with 13, while Mc. Davison pulled down 8 more. Kettle Falls The next day, December 6, the girls played Kettle Falls, like W-C another...
Witten Jay Dirks was born to parents Adam and Sara Dirks of Ritzville on November 10 in Spokane. At birth, he was 19.5 inches long and weighed six pounds, eight ounces. His paternal grandparents are Don and Sheryl Dirks of Ritzville, and maternal grandparents are Neil and Lecia Fink of Odessa. His great-grandparents are Marilyn and the late Marvin Fink and Marge and the late Lloyd Tebow, both of Odessa....
Wheatland Theatre Company, under managing director Drew Kowalkowski and artistic director Karen Brewster, provided an Odessa audience with a version of the It's a Wonderful Life story in the form of a live radio play last Saturday evening in the Old Town Hall. The organization has had performances in Davenport, Reardan, Wilbur and Odessa over the first week of December. The radio play was directed by Jerry Sciarrio. A casting call was made earlier this fall in all of the...
Bob was born July 31, 1923 in New Castle, Pa. and passed away on December 5, 2017 in Spokane. His home was in Harrington for over 67 years until moving to Spokane's Fairwinds Northpointe retirement community in 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife of 49 years, Carol Uhrich Sewall, his parents, Edward and Mary, brother Harold, sisters Alice and Emma, and his long time companion, Shirley Swartz. He is survived by their three daughters: Ilona Wiley (Larry), Spokane, Heidi...
Betty Jo Bills, 82, of Pocatello, Idaho died November 6, 2017. Betty was born August 13, 1935 in Walla Walla to Joseph and Ethel Rose Wiebe Haberstok. She married Jay L. Bills, March 12, 1956 in Odessa. He preceded her in death on August 16, 2011. She is survived by her daughter Lori Jo Bills, two grandchildren Mallory Rose Bills of Pocatello and Katie Jo Bills of Chesapeak, Va. and three sisters Mary Lee King of Spokane, Marcia Jean Williams of Deer Park and JoKay Haberstok....
After receiving training, Lincoln County Deputies are now equipped with the opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone. The deputies have been equipped with single-dose spray dispensers to be used in the event they encounter a subject who is suffering from an opioid overdose. Opioids include heroin, Methadone, OxyContin, Dilaudid, morphine, Demerol, hydrocodone/Vicodin, Percocet, Fentanyl and Fentanyl analogs. An opioid overdose causes a person's breathing to slow or completely stop. Naloxone can help counteract those...
The two most recent basketball games for the juniork-high girls were played against Wilbur-Creston on December 7 and against Reardan on December 11. The varsity squad won both of its games, defeating W-C by a score of 34-6 and Reardan by a score of 37-28, while the junior varsity settled for a split, defeating W-C, 25-20 and losing to Reardan, 16-25. According to James Poe, who supplied the scores to The Record, the Reardan JV game was very close right up to the last couple of minutes of play. Odessa was forced to foul the...
Opera House Society The Harrington Opera House Society met December 4 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Art Room with Linda Wagner, Carol, Karen Robertson, Cade Clarke, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Sheryl and Mark Stedman and Gordon and Billie Herron present. New officers were voted upon with Wagner taking the helm as president. Bunny Haugan accepted the role of secretary. Carol remained vice president and building manager. Ed Haugan retained his position as treasurer, with Sheryl Stedman as co-treasurer. Chamber of Commerce The Harrington...
In its final meeting of 2017 and also the final meeting for outgoing mayor Lois Hubbard, the Odessa Town Council adopted its budget for 2018 at Monday night’s regularly scheduled meeting, which was also its final meeting of 2017. The budget total comes to just over $4 million. Two million of that total is earmarked for street repairs and involves mostly grant funds that are being provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Transportation Improvement Board, the Community Development Block Grants program and the U...
The 2018 Spokane Ag Expo and Pacific Northwest Farm Forum is scheduled for their three-day event for February 6-8, 2018 at the Spokane Convention Center. The largest farm machinery show in the Inland Northwest will host 300 exhibitors and conduct 36 educational seminars and forums relating to agri-business from large-scale operations to small acreage farms and ranches. Exhibitors will range from large farm equipment manufacturers and service providers to businesses catering to small acreage and part-time farmers who hold down...
Odessa music students from pre-school through sixth grade will present their Holiday Concert on Monday, December 18, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the school multi-purpose room. Sure highlights will be the pre-school and kindergarten groups, the fifth grade band taking part in their first public performance, plus first through fourth grades combined into a large choir singing songs of the season. There is also a rumor that Santa might arrive with goodies for all the younger children following the program. The public is...
Recently, I’ve had any number of people ask me, “Are you leaving?” Unfortunately, I can’t answer with a simple “yes” or “no,” because the answer has much less to do with me than with the denomination to which I belong. This month, I want to shed some light on what is, in fact, going on, and why it’s happening. Those of you active in congregations understand that there are times when, for one reason or another, a new pastor needs to be found. But, it can come as a surprise tha...
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, Dec. 4: An ambulance crew transported a rural Harrington man with a medical emergency to Lincoln Hospital in Davenport. Harrington ambulance personnel assisted a man who collapsed while wor...
In last week's issue, the front-page picture of senior citizens and high school freshmen in FBLA had an incomplete caption. The correct caption is: Carey Mae Jasman, Maddie Scrupps, Jett Nelson, Lowell Isom, Colton Messer, Frank Clark, Keith Strebeck, Elena Bechthold and Dennis Miller in the Old Town Hall, where senior citizens picked up free meals made and packaged by the school's FBLA freshmen....
