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  • Correction

    Updated Sep 10, 2014

    Also missing from last week’s group picture were Caleb Singer, Morgan Lewis and Porter Whitmore. Max Greenwalt and Colby Sooy are FFA members and are not in 4-H. Jakob Starkel is a member of neither 4-H nor FFA and was merely an observer at the fair. The unidentified little girl in the picture is Laren Nelson, a great niece of Steve and Sally Siegel and a cousin to Caleb, Bradly and Macey Singer....

  • Harrington News

    KAREN ROBERTSON AND MARJORIE WOMACH|Updated Sep 10, 2014

    The Harrington Chamber of Commerce met Wednesday, September 3, under President Cassandra Paffle-Dick. Chamber members present were Bunny Haugan, Margie Hall of the Lincoln County Economic Development Council, Kathy Hoob, Cindy Haase, Allen Barth, Summer Clark (of US Bank), Sharon Nighswonger and Marge Womach. Margie Hall informed the Chamber that the broadband grant application had been submitted and may be viewed on the EDC website. She also announced two events by the EDC...

  • Odessa Grain

    Updated Sep 3, 2014

    The latest cash grain market here shows Soft White Wheat down at $6.20. Hard Red Winter is down at $6.75. DNS is up at $8.03. Barley remains at 148.00....

  • The Weather

    Updated Sep 3, 2014

    High Low Prec. S Aug. 28 92 54 .00 Aug. 29 86 49 .00 Aug. 30 82 50 .00 Aug. 31 75 52 .00 Sept. 01 74 40 .00 Sept. 02 76 41 .00 Sept. 03 78 43 .00 Yearly total to date 5.72 inches. Snow accumulation: 8.5 inches to date. Seasonal rain: September to February is 4.02 inches....

  • Books by Harrington author nominated for more awards

    Updated Sep 3, 2014

    Two books written by Harrington author David Michaelson have been nominated for awards. One of them, "The Adventures of Gopher Piddington" has also been placed at the top of the summer recommended reading list of the Military Writer's Society of America. The other book nominated for an award is "Congressional Integrity," a satirical spoof of the U.S. Congress. Medals will be awarded to the winning books during the 2014 national convention to be held in Phoenix, Ariz. at the...

  • Former foreign exchange student returns

    Updated Sep 3, 2014

    Mirgul Omurzakova spent the 1994-1995 academic year in Odessa attending Odessa High School and living with Ken and Bev Scherr. After spending her final year of secondary school in Odessa, she moved on to Colorado for college, then to Brown University in Rhode Island where she finished her degree. After that she returned to her native land. Although Omuzakova is an ethnic Kirghiz, she lives and works in Kazakhstan, where she is the managing director of Capital Partners, a real...

  • Harrington News

    Updated Sep 3, 2014

    This is the final installment in the history of the railroad in Harrington and compiled by Marge Womach of Mohler. Now more than 30 years following Ed Haugan’s cessation of employment from the railroad. In a recent interview he shared many of his recollections of the years he worked for the Great Northern Railroad, which became the Burlington Northern and is now the Burlington Northern Sante Fe. For about 10 months Ed attended the telegraph school located at the corner of Main and Post in downtown Spokane, learning Morse c...

  • School hires ag teacher

    Updated Sep 3, 2014

    At its regular monthly meeting on August 27, 2014, the Odessa School Board accepted the resignation of Erica Whitmore as Ag Education Teacher. It also approved contracts with Merleen Smith for summer Chef Camp and with Ben Burbank as the new Ag Education Teacher. Extra-curricular contracts were also approved for Amy Hunt as Pep Club Advisor, Justin Parr as Concessions Director and Julie Wehr as Camp Wooten Advisor. Co-curricular contracts were approved for Craig Holman, Music; Jeanie Read, National Honor Society; Terri King,...

  • Odessa 4-H members at Lincoln County Fair

    Updated Sep 3, 2014

    Results won't be available until next week. Back row: Jaden Hunt, Camden Weber, Colton Hunt, Bradly Singer Laela Hardung, Colton Messer, Colby Sooy. Third row: Brady Walter, Jakob Starkel, Marcus King, Max Greenwalt. Second row: Dakota Largent, Drew Hardung, Lexie Alloway, Troy Hardung, Daeton Deife, David Eldridge, Marlee Eldridge. Front row: Levi Hardung, (unidentified), Macey Singer, Melloney Deife. Not pictured: Austin and Alyssa Iverson....

  • Harrington FBLA seeks sponsors for its Fun Run

    Updated Sep 3, 2014

    The Harrington High School chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America will hold its annual Huff ‘N’ Puff Fun Run during the Harrington Fall Festival on Saturday, September 27. This fundraiser helps pay for expenses for FBLA members to attend the state FBLA conference in Spokane. The deadline for signing up is September 11. Participants who sign up by that date pay a $15 entry fee and are guaranteed a shirt in their size. Late registration participants (those who sign up after September 11) must pay a $20 entry fee and...

  • USDA has 5.7 million for healthier school meals/ snacks

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon has announced additional tools to help schools serve healthier meals and snacks as students return for the new school year. The announcement includes $5.7 million in Team Nutrition grants to state agencies administering the National School Lunch and Child and Adult Care Food Programs. The grants will help states expand and enhance training programs that help schools encourage kids to make healthy choices. Several states will use the...

  • Harrington News

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    Children prepare for school The Summer Reading Program on Thursday, August 21, was focused on the approaching return to the school season. Meka Eaton led the eight children in coloring sheets with school bus, backpacks, and other school related images. Each seemed to have a postivie attitude about school beginning, and the children were able to compare home schooling to the public school room. They enjoyed a movie and snack time. Some were successful at creating paper bag pupp...

  • Aquatic center's last swim day was Sunday

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    Many Odessa youngsters spent their last weekend prior to the start of the new school year at the pool, which remained open a week longer than usual this year thanks to a grant from the Odessa School District. Now it's back to school for local kids, as they say good-bye to summer....

  • Odessa Grain

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    The latest cash grain market here showed Soft White Wheat up at $6.28. Hard Red Winter is up at $6.78. DNS is up at $7.58. Barley remains at $148/ton....

  • Fair results coming next week

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    Lincoln County Fair results will not be released until next week when The Record will provide a full report. Anyone with photos to submit is asked to do so as soon as possible for inclusion with next week’s story. Audrey Beck of Odessa, a perennial participant at the fair, competed with several exhibits again this year in the sewing department. She won first place for all three of the sets of doll clothes she made. Five of the other six items that she either sewed or hand embroidered won first place and the other won a s...

  • Correction

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    The variety of wheat being loaded into rail cars by Garrett Jensen and Brady Haase as reported last week was incorrect. It was club wheat....

  • Are our schools failing?

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    Nearly every school in Washington is failing, at least according to the No Child Left Behind federal proficiency standards. Soon, parents will be receiving letters from those school districts explaining the failing marks. With it they’ll also get a letter signed by 28 state superintendents who insist the standards and failure label are antiquated, punitive and wrong. Superintendents and some parents insist the testing standards don’t account for other student and school achievement. “We have kids that are succeeding and b...

  • Save date of September 25

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    The Economic Development Council (EDC) invites Lincoln County businesses to attend two back-to-back events scheduled for Thursday, September 25. A social media marketing workshop entitled Winning and Building Business will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. at Davenport Memorial Hall (511 Park St.). Business owners and marketing staff will learn how to build business using websites, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+ and more. The workshop is free but requires preregistration at edcjoyce@centurylink.net or (509)725-1170....

  • Youth essay programs are there for all the young people

    Updated Aug 29, 2014

    The Odessa VFW Auxiliary is proud to announce that their youth essay programs will be available with the beginning of a new school year. These programs are open to all students in grades 3-12. The programs are open to public-school, home-schooled and parochial-school students. Any home-schooled students who would like to participate may call Leora Nixon at 982-2847 for the entry forms. This year the Auxiliary is proud to announce that the Harrington school students will be participating as well. Grades 3-5 participate in the...

  • Odessa baseball players back home after second-place win

    Updated Aug 20, 2014

    As reported in our August 7 edition, two Odessa High School sophomores played in an international baseball tournament in Italy. Brad Johnston and Chance Messer have now returned home, their team having won second place, losing only in the championship game to the other American team in the tournament. The USSA Nationals team won the tournament; the Odessa boys played for the USSA NW Elite team. According to family members, both boys had a great time and enjoyed the experience...

  • Cabbage rolls ready for fest

    Updated Aug 20, 2014

    Odessa's preparations for the upcoming Deutsches Fest, September 19, 20 and 21, are moving forward, as the groups providing homemade German food get together to assemble the dishes for which they have become famous. Tuesday, members of Heritage Church, along with other volunteers, spent the morning rolling a mixture of hamburger, rice and tomato sauce into freshly harvested cabbage leaves. They began their task at 8 a.m. and by 10:30 a.m. had assembled 2,100 cabbage rolls. Thi...

  • Harvest down by a third

    Updated Aug 20, 2014

    Harvest is over in the Odessa region, and according to market experts at both the Odessa Trading Company and the Odessa Union Warehouse, the crop this year is said to have been reduced by about one third compared to what farmers have been receiving for the past several good years. The reasons vary and include winter kill, late frosts in the spring and drought. The lack of moisture, at least prior to the bit of rain that accompanied some of the recent thunderstorms to strike the area, has farmers worried now about their fall...

  • Avista board okays dividend

    Updated Aug 20, 2014

    On August 8, 2014, Avista Corp.’s (NYSE: AVA) board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.3175 per share on the company’s common stock. The common stock dividend is payable September 15, 2014, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 21, 2014. The declaration of dividends is at the sole discretion of the board of directors. The board considers the level of dividends on a regular basis, taking into account numerous factors, including financial results, business strategies, and economic and com...

  • Electric and gas rates to rise

    Updated Aug 20, 2014

    Avista has announced that a full settlement agreement has been reached in its Washington electric and natural gas rate case. The company filed a general rate request February 4, 2014 to increase electric and natural gas base rates in Washington that would support the ongoing need to expand and replace the facilities and equipment used every day to serve customers. This settlement agreement would conclude the rate case and support these efforts. It is the result of all parties working together to agree on a settlement that is...

  • Oom Pas & Mas to play at Ritz Theatre

    Updated Aug 20, 2014

    The Ritzville Downtown Development Association is proud to present the Oom Pas & Mas in concert on Saturday, August 23, at the Ritz Theatre. Doors will open at 7 p.m.; Oom Pas & Mas will step on stage at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 (pre-sale) and $12 (at the door). Tickets are available at the Ritz Theatre, www.ritzvilletheater.com, Flying Arts Ranch, The Ritzville Chamber Office, Remember When, and online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/. The Oom Pas & Mas started as a small polka group for Odessa’s Deutsches Fest over 40 y...

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