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SPOKANE VALLEY – A Davenport wrestler finished in fifth place at the Tri-County Classic wrestling tournament Dec. 23 at Central Valley high School. Brock Gustaveson led the Gorillas with 13.0 team points. Gustaveson opened with a bye and then faced Cole Schumacher (Mead), winning by pin in 26 seconds. Gustaveson then pinned Keemani Benavides of Mead in 4:22 taking him to the semifinal round. But he lost his next two matches to Pullman grapplers Samuel Sears by pin in 3:37 a...
DAVENPORT--Power has been restored city-wide as of 6:40 p.m. The power went out here and along Highway 2 east toward Mondovi this morning after a substation regulator caught fire around 8 a.m. A crew from Avista was sent from Spokane to address the outage, which affected over 1,200 users and lasted over 10 hours during a cold Sunday in the city. The fire required a response from Fire District No. 5 and Avista crews. Local district crews were sent home by 9:30 a.m. The outages were restored throughout the city intermittently...
DAVENPORT--A substation regulator at the transforming station on Third Street here caught fire this morning, causing power to go out in the city. Crews from Fire District No. 5 and Avista Utilities were dispatched around 8 a.m. and were on scene for about 90 minutes. A crew from Avista in Spokane is on its way to work on repairs, which is expected to take the rest of the day. "We tried to put it out with a couple fire extinguishers, but it kept re-igniting," District No. 5...
SPOKANE--Local basketball teams in Davenport and Reardan were mostly successful in their quests for victories at local holiday tournaments. The Davenport boys and girls participated in the Eagle Holiday Classic at West Valley High School in Spokane, while the Reardan boys and girls hosted 1B schools in the annual Reardan Lions Club Classic. Davenport boys beat Riverside, Colville The Davenport boys continued their stellar start to the season with two victories over 1A Riverside and Colville at West Valley. The Gorillas...
DAVENPORT—The city’s newest restaurant is closing its doors after just six months in business. 6th Street Café and Pizza announced it would be closing its doors “for the time being” in a Facebook post Monday, Dec. 27. The restaurant, owned by Ian Riley and Jessica Friedland of Davenport, made its grand opening June 25 after buying the building on Sixth and Morgan Streets in early 2020. 6th Street Café initially served pizza, coffee, breakfast items and drinks, but consisten...
The following people were bid farewell for the final time in 2021 from January to June and had obituaries appear in The Times. July through December will be covered in next week’s issue. January Carl Makepeace Canfield, Rosalie C. Williamson, Robert M. Luiten, Mabel Julia Gunning. February Susan Gerene Reinbold, Sylvia Irene (Slater) Anderson, Marilyn Hendry, Tonia Carruth, Gerald “Tony” Dennis Lutes, M. James Kintschi. March Joyce Irene (Fisher) Shepard, Claude Herman Ross. April Marian Coriell-Stewart, Robert E. Kissl...
DAVENPORT—A busy end to 2021 for city council included the reinstitution of water late fees, approval of the 2022 city budget and swearing in of four councilmembers Dec. 22. The first resolution passed by council reinstated the late fee for customers overdue on water payments and allows water shut offs effective immediately, with a catch. The resolution, which took effect immediately after passage, also created a new city program that allows customers to make payment arrangements for past due balances, city clerk Dave L...
DAVENPORT-The high school's FBLA Partnership with Business team, made up of sophomore Emma Cormier, junior Lexi Cormier and junior Jesse Raugust, are partnering with the Davenport Care and Share. Their goal is to financially assist Care and Share's move to a new Davenport building/location. These three FBLA members thought of an idea to start a "Kiss the Pig" fundraiser. Anyone can purchase a $1 vote towards a Davenport School District employee who has agreed to participate...
It’s been an eventful year in east Lincoln County. Here’s a look back at the news that dominated the headlines in the first half of 2021. A recap of the news from the second half of 2021 will be in next week’s issue. January The first batch of COVID-19 vaccinations arrived at the Lincoln County Health Department. 200 doses of the Moderna vaccine were slowly distributed to healthcare workers and the elderly. Drew Lawson, now of Medical Lake and formerly of Vancouver, took the reins as editor of The Davenport Times. Lawso...
Government and community meetings in Davenport, Reardan, Harrington, Edwall and Sprague for the week of Dec. 31-Jan. 6. If you’d like your group or organization included in this tab, email dteditor@centurytel.net. Monday, Jan. 3 Lincoln County Commissioners meeting @ 8 a.m. in the county courthouse Wednesday, Jan. 5 Harrington chamber of commerce meeting @ 4 p.m. at Post and Office Thursday, Jan. 6 Reardan town council meeting @ 6 p.m. at the Reardan United Methodist Church...
Varsity games, meets and matches for Davenport, Reardan and Harrington from Dec. 31-Jan. 6 Tuesday, Jan. 4 Davenport basketball vs. St. George’s @ 6 p.m. Reardan basketball vs. Chewelah @ 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6 Davenport and Reardan wrestling at Liberty (Spangle) @ 5 p.m....
SPOKANE VALLEY – Reardan wrestlers brought home three silver medals from the Tri-County Classic on Dec. 23 at Central Valley. Vaea LaMoureaux took silver in the girls 120-pound class as teammates Preston Neufeld at 106 and J.C. Merriott at 113 both took second in the boys division. LaMoureaux opened the tournament by pinning Sydney Sisk of Colfax in 2:17 and then Alyxandra Daniel of Rogers (Spokane) in 34 seconds. In the finals, she lost by a 7-2 decision to Kelsey Louen of M...
DAVENPORT – Frigid temperatures, biting winds and some snowfall arrived in the area this week and are expected to last through New Year’s Day Saturday, Jan. 1. Temperatures reached into the negatives and were even colder with wind chill by Tuesday, Dec. 28 and were expected to remain in the teens, single digits and temperatures through New Year’s Eve. The cold started Monday, Dec. 27 when high temperatures of 20 degrees and a low of 6 degrees Fahrenheit were measured by the National Weather Service in the Davenport area....
ODESSA – Schoonover Farms, LLC of Odessa is voluntarily recalling retail raw whole milk and cream after routine testing by the Washington State Department of Agriculture revealed the presence of toxin-producing E. coli in a raw cream sample on Dec. 23. Out of an abundance of caution, raw whole milk and cream displaying “best by” dates of Dec. 23, 2021 through Jan. 2, 2022 have been recalled. The recalled product was bottled in 8-ounce, quart, half-gallon and one-gallon containers and was sold to local consumers in the Odessa...
ODESSA – The Odessa girls suffered their first loss this season to 2B school Reardan on Dec. 21. Fortunately for the Tigers it was a non-conference matchup. The Tigers are still undefeated in league play. Ashlyn Neilsen scored 20 points, and Hayden Schuh scored 8 for the team's entire scoring effort. Neilsen scored more than half of her points from the free-throw line, where she was 12 out of 13 for a 92 percent success rate. Reardan 14 7 15 12 48 Odessa 4 2 13 9 28 Neilsen a...
ODESSA – Jacob Scrupps returned to the varsity lineup Tuesday and gave a much-needed boost to the team. Playing in Reardan against the Indians, the team lost the game but made a much better showing than in the other games played thus far. In fact, Scrupps led the scoring for Odessa with 16 points, supported also by Nathan Carstensen's 11 points and Dakota Steward's 10. The Tigers took a beating in the first half and trailed 50-19 at the mid-point of the game. Reardan 19 31 1...
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. Dec. 20 Traffic Stops: 6 A caller reported her child’s car was backed into by an unknown car while parked on a Davenport city street. ADT Tyco Alarms reported a commercial motion alarm was going off in the basement of...
Norma Joy (Hopp) Kuch left this world peacefully on Oct. 15, 2021. Always full of life, Norma’s strong-willed spirit remained well intact even in her final moments. She was a powerhouse of a personality. With endless amounts of energy, Norma was a force to be reckoned with. She showed up fully every place she went, which was seemingly everywhere. Unabashedly honest, with a knack for telling you how she really felt, there was never a question as to whether Norma was in the r...
Widespread and irresponsible claims you may have heard that Critical Race Theory (CRT) and race discrimination are not taught in public schools are false. Last month voters elected many new members to local school boards based, at least in part, on those candidates’ announced opposition to teaching CRT in local schools. On what basis then do CRT-deniers say the race-based ideology is not being taught in schools? They argue CRT is an academic theory only taught in college a...
Cooking for a crowd can lead to leftovers. Hosts want to make sure there is plenty for everyone, and if the number attending is in flux, estimating amounts is difficult. At family gatherings, the host usually wants plenty to send home with the kids. “Planned-overs” is the term I prefer to use. Over the years I have collected a few recipes for make-ahead dishes using turkey and ham dinner planned-overs. If you happened to have planned-over prime rib, the solution is easy, pri...
1 years ago Dec. 30, 1921 One hundred years ago, Odessa residents were gearing up for the New Year’s Eve dance sponsored by the American Legion. World War I was in the past, and life had returned to normal. Businesses were doing well, and their proprietors took out ads to thank people for their patronage, including Farmers & Merchants Bank, W.H. Luher & Co., the German-American Mutual Farmers Fire Insurance Association, the Odessa Meat Market, the Odessa Hardware & Implement Co., Michaelson & Koth, the Rieker Motor Co., t...
Public school student enrollment has nosedived as parental disgust with school COVID-19 policies, student learning losses and controversial curricula has gone through the roof. In the wake of this enrollment implosion, homeschooling has boomed across the country. At the beginning of the current school year, the U.S. Department of Education estimated that 1.5 million students had left the public schools since the COVID-19 pandemic began. If students are not enrolling in public schools, where are they going? The numbers show...
