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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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I have had discussions with Richard Black, athletic director at Lake Roosevelt High School, about recognizing our area veterans. While attending a district playoff game at Mt. Spokane High School, we noticed a huge banner honoring all veterans. We kind of discussed ways we could do the same in our new school. In the near future, also, there are plans for a new gymnasium. We could sponsor a new scoreboard for the new gym. These are two goals that I would like to propose to the local veterans organizations to seriously consider. I would be willin... Full story
Two Raiders qualified last week to compete at the upcoming state track and field tournament in both of their events. At the District 5-6 track meet at Ephrata Friday, Octavio Alejandre took first in the shot put and second in discus, and Katelynn Schilling took third in the shot and fourth in the discus. The meet was postponed due to lighting after both the Raiders completed their events. Okanogan won both the boys’ and girls’ district titles at Ephrata. Alejandre made his mark on the meet, becoming the district shot put champion while thr... Full story
Six Raiders were named to the Central Washington 2B North All League Baseball team for the 2015 season. Devan Black was the only Raider named to the first team. This is Black’s second time on the first team, to which he was named in 2014 as a sophomore. Black was one of the Raiders’ best pitchers. Chance Garvin appears on the league second team for 2015. He was also named to the second team in 2014. Garvin uses his great deal of athleticism to great effect on the field. Senior Trey Nicholson also was named to the second team. Last year Nicholso... Full story
Two Lady Raiders have been named to the Central Washington North All-League Softball squad. One is appearing on the list for the second straight year. The other was a newcomer to the squad who has the potential to become a perennial on the all-league team. Head Coach Jamie Lezard had this to say about the All-Leaguers, “They both played great all season.” The returner from the 2014 All-League squad was Senior Savannah Marin. Marin became a big time player for LR both in the field at third base and at the plate. There were games where the Lad... Full story
Four Lake Roosevelt golfers competed for a state berth at last week’s District 5-6 B tournament at Alta Lake, where Quincy Williams, Darin Whiteman, Lucas Bird, and Jonell Denschel learned the meaning of the term “gallery pressure.” “It was a new experience for all four of our golfers that participated.” Head Coach Steve Files said. “Districts is the only match we play all year in which all teams from our league are represented and the players must deal with real gallery pressure.” District champs for both boys and girls came from Oroville... Full story
Jory Markiss was a happy cowboy Saturday afternoon when he won more than $4,000 as the lone bull rider to make the crucial eight-second mark atop a big bull. Markiss, of Stephenville, Texas, scored an 88-point ride to take home a $4,370 purse from the Ridge Riders' Pro-West Cletis Lacy Memorial Bull Ride. The event also featured another crazy wild horse race, when seven wild horses were let loose against three-man teams whose task was to saddle and ride their horse. A team from Warm Springs,... Full story
The doors of the middle school in Grand Coulee will be opened for a special meeting of the minds tonight (Wednesday) from 5-7 p.m., a time arranged for the community to tour it and talk about the building’s future and more. “Grand Coulee Dam Area 2020 Vision” will be a modest affair, offering a tour of the building that was until last fall the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School, and encouraging conversation about its possible uses and the direction of the community. The tag line on the event is “Let’s start envisioning our future – creating ou... Full story
About a dozen local firefighters this Friday night are attacking a wildfire across Banks Lake from the Grand Coulee Dam Airport. The fire is suspected to have started from a lightning strike in the storm that passed through the area about 4 pm. Eight firefighters, who were taken to the site by boat, are on foot at the fire, which is not large at this time. No flame is visible from Grant County Fire District 14's incident command at the airport. White and grey smoke is visible, hugging the...
Our best guess is that last night’s non-decision by the less-than-courageous (being kind) Grand Coulee City Council was a dishonest move predesigned before the meeting to allow elected leaders not to make a decision. If that’s true, it’s disgusting. If it’s not true, it’s still at least disheartening. The city council foisted its responsibility as elected representatives of the people onto an unelected city clerk. She was told it’s now her responsibility to decide whether to issue a business license to a would-be marijuana retailer. A... Full story
Governance, like life, is full of trade-offs. One of them is efficiency versus efficacy, and you strive for one at the risk of losing the other. Such was the case at last week’s Electric City Council meeting, where the mayor and a council member slapped a mutually congratulatory high five for keeping the meeting under an hour long. The problem is that perhaps it would have been a better, more productive meeting if they hadn’t. As one who has spent innumerable hours at such meetings, I sympathize with the need to keep them moving. People can... Full story
Kudos to Jean Comstock and Jim Pachosa, the Grand Coulee business couple that have asked the city council to grant them a business license for a marijuana retail store near Coulee Medical Center, and to Grand Coulee Police Department Chief John Tufts, who, when asked recently about enforcement problems, said that the department isn’t pursuing recreational cannabis (marijuana) users. It has taken years for this clarification to come; however, it is obviously not a crime for adults, including tenants of the Grand Coulee Manor apartment b... Full story
No American should fear that their government has made a false choice between prioritizing either national security or civil rights. Our nation needs a continuing, robust debate on the proper balance the federal government should strike in defending American lives and freedoms. As that debate continues, Americans deserve more transparency and accountability—the federal government must address legitimate civil rights concerns and reform intelligence agencies’ approach to surveillance in a manner that maintains security of the homeland. Last yea... Full story
Lake Roosevelt’s senior throwers Katelynn Schilling and Octavio Alejandre qualified last week to move on from sub-districts at Tonasket Wednesday to the District 5-6 meet in Ephrata on Friday. “Our senior throwers excelled in this meet and will be moving on to District competition.” Head Coach Lori Adkins on Schilling and Alejandre’s performance. Alejandre threw a career personal record in the shot put while taking first place in the sub-district meet. Alejandre came up two places short in the discus to advance, placing seventh with the thr... Full story
Raider baseball competed for a state berth until the very last moment possible Saturday, finishing sixth in the district tournament. The Raiders had defeated Kittitas on the May 11 to stay alive in the tournament. In the first game Saturday, the Raiders faced the Warden Cougars. Lake Roosevelt and Warden played a tight game. The final score favored Warden 5-4. LR was not yet done as they still had one more shot at the state tournament. District 5-6 was allotted five spots to state this year.... Full story
Four Raider golfers will be competing today at the district tournament, which is being held at Alta Lake Golf Course. To make it there, the Raiders played in the last match of the season May 11 at home against Okanogan and Moses Lake Christian. Moses Lake Christian won the match with a total score of 379. The first place for the boys was a tie between Billy Norwell of Okanogan and Sam Roeber of MLCA with 86 strokes. Raider Darin Whiteman was not far behind the leaders with an 88. “Darin Whiteman (LR) finished third with a season best 88, w... Full story
Lake Roosevelt’s tennis players had their 2015 season come to a close Saturday at the first round of the district tournament. Only one team made it out of the single elimination round. That was the doubles team of Tanya Ang and Riley Pitner. Ang and Pitner came back from a 4-7 deficit against the Butler sisters of Liberty Bell to win 9-7. They then lost the next two matches to the number-one overall from Okanogan (6-1, 6-2) then to the White Swan team of Spoonhunter and Gutierrez ( 6-2, 6-3). “We had a great year of overall improvement,” Head... Full story
Lady Raider softball ended its season at Pateros May 15 with two losses. The final overall win-loss record for LR was 2-18 with a 2-14 Central Washington North record. “We have a very young team returning to next year’s roster, only losing two seniors,” Head Coach Jamie Lezard on the season and what he hopes to see in 2016. “We hope that we have a great turnout next season, and we are excited (for) the newcomers and looking forward to the next season.” On May 12 at home the Lady Raiders had hosted to the Tonasket Tigers for Senior Night. In... Full story
The doors of the middle school in Grand Coulee will be opened for a special meeting of the minds next Wednesday from 5-7 p.m., a time arranged for the community to tour it and talk about the building's future and more. "Grand Coulee Dam Area 2020 Vision" will be a modest affair, offering a tour of the building that was until last fall the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School, and encouraging conversation about its possible uses and the direction of the community. The tag line on the event is "Let's... Full story
Kids at Lake Roosevelt Schools will have more direct access to health care if a plan to that end pans out between Coulee Medical Center and Lake Roosevelt Schools. The project was taken on by a University of Washington third-year medical student studying at CMC. "Across the nation there's this new trend of school-based health centers," explained Jonathan Patberg, speaking at a Rotary Club luncheon last week. In some places, that means building a clinic inside a school, but not here, Patberg... Full story
A spaghetti dinner set for Saturday will help fund a project that brings together sixth graders from Coulee Dam and Nespelem schools to pave their way as eventual classmates in high school. The Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club chose to work with the sixth graders for the annual fund raiser, possibly instilling an early lesson in community service. The annual trip to a Leavenworth challenge course is designed to build relationships and get the kids to work together. The first one took place 2012. Nate Piturachsatit, a teacher on special assignment a... Full story
Raider baseball finished the regular season May 5 with a doubleheader win over the Tonasket Tigers. The wins put the overall win-loss record for the Raiders for 2015 at 14-6, with a league record of 11-5. The wins over the Tigers in Coulee Dam put the Raiders in the number-three spot for the North, and on Monday they took on the Kittitas Coyotes for the first round of District 5-6 play at the Paul Lauzier Athletic Complex in Moses Lake. Against Tonasket, the Raiders had to hold off the Tigers who made the games close. In game one the Raiders... Full story
With the regular season over, the Raiders are now preparing for district, which starts Saturday at 9a.m. in Omak. District B Tennis will be split between the Olympic Racket Club and City Park in Omak. The Raiders are allowed two singles players and two doubles teams at Districts. The top four finishers in both singles and doubles play will move on to Cashmere May 23 when they will face the Caribou Trail League competitors for entry to the state tournament. From Cashmere, the top four boys and top three girls move on to state. Last week was the... Full story
The Lady Raiders travelled to Hartline on May 5, where they lost both games of a softball doubleheader to the Warriors. In the first game, the Warriors jumped ahead 7-0 before the Raiders scored two runs in the top of the third inning. ACH added five more runs in the bottom of the third to complete the victory 12-2. ACH held the Lady Raiders to just one run in the second game. That run came after the Warriors built a nine-run lead. The final in the second game was ACH 11- LR 1. Last night, was scheduled to be Senior Night for the Lady Raiders... Full story
Raider Golf finished the season on Monday at home against Okanogan and Moses Lake Christian. Now they are preparing for the district tournament, which will take place at Banks Lake Golf Course next Tuesday. Those who qualify will move on to the state B golf tournament, which this year is at Sun Willows Golf Club in Pasco. Sun Willows is where state cross country tourneys have been held for over 20 years. The Raiders travelled to Alta Lake to take on Okanogan and Moses Lake Christian last Thursday. Sam Roeber, of Moses Lake Christian, took... Full story
Raider track and field athletes completed the regular season Friday at the Ron Vanderholm Invitational tournament in Royal City. Today, they are heading to Tonasket where the District 6 portion of the Central Washington League Sub-District Tournament is being held. The top five move on from sub-districts to districts in Ephrata on May 22. At the Ron Vanderholm Invite, Katelynn Schilling set a new personal record and came home with another blue ribbon. In the shot put, Schilling took first, throwing 36 feet, 7.5 inches, a new PR. Octavio... Full story