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There is a new major event for Colorama this year, because another major feature won't be appearing. Jump N2 Fun, a firm that features a host of inflatable slides and bounce houses, will replace the carnival this year and will be located at Banks Lake Park, just south of North Dam Park. "In recent years the Colorama carnival provided by Paradise Amusements has delivered increasingly disappointing showings," the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce said in a statement Tuesday. "Last Friday,...
There will be free health screenings available for the general public here April 28. The Grand Coulee Lions Club, in cooperation with Coulee Medical Center, will have the Northwest Lions Foundation mobile screening unit on hospital grounds from 12 to 6 p.m. Screenings for blood pressure, glaucoma, diabetes, sight and hearing will be available, free for all local residents interested. The Lions Health Screening Unit is a professionally-equipped, state-licensed mobile unit staffed by healthcare professionals, Lions Club members and volunteers....
A festive Earth Day celebration, the seventh organized by a local Earth Day Committee, took place at the Nespelem powwow grounds Friday as an estimated 800-1,200 children and adults enjoyed the sunshine, free hot dogs, raffle prizes, drums, and educational and interactive booths run by volunteers. Tribal member Joe Pakootas, who is running for Congress in Washington's fifth district, was the guest speaker at the event and performed the opening prayer. Kris Ray of the Colville Tribes'...
A Coulee Dam man arrested in February on charges related to his alleged relationship with a 14-year-old girl in Wisconsin found himself in federal court Monday in Spokane, not a state court in Okanogan. Nate Piturachsatit, 37, pleaded not guilty to one count of producing child pornography. The girl’s mother contacted Wisconsin police when she found a package containing a T-shirt mailed to her from Piturachsatit from a Spokane address. He is suspected of sending and receiving sexually-explicit pictures with the girl via an Instagram account. A...
State Sen. Linda Evans Parlette visited the community last week to fill in schools Superintendent Dennis Carlson on changes in the capital budget staff in Olympia, which could affect the Grand Coulee Dam School District. Parlette spoke at the Rotary Club on Wednesday. Parlette, who has served on the Senate Ways and Means Committee for 20 years, managed to get the state to fund the district's new school complex, which it could not do on its own because of the high amount of non-taxable federal...
Electric City is hosting a community workshop, led by Washington State University’s Rural Communities Design Initiative. The meeting, one of two being planned, will run from 1-4 p.m., Saturday, May 14, in the Veterans Center in Electric City. The second such meeting date hasn’t yet been set. The focus of the workshop will be parks, recreation and revitalization. The meeting is prompted by Electric City’s trail and pathways project, and needs in other park-like areas. Guiding the WSU team, made up of professors Kathleen Ryan and Bob Krika...
Kirk Adams has earned the reputation as a visionary leader who gets things done for people with disabilities. Those qualities, coupled with hard work and determination, rewarded him with the nation’s top job advocating for the blind. In May, Adams, who grew up in Snohomish, becomes only the sixth American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) president since the non-profit was formed in 1921. It is the organization where the legendary Helen Keller’s archives reside. Carl R. Augusto, retiring AFB pre...
Raider baseball rebounded from losses to Okanogan by sweeping the Oroville Hornets last week, then splitting a doubleheader with Liberty Bell. The lowly Hornets were easily defeated by the Raiders in Oroville April 19. Lake Roosevelt won both games, 19-2 and 25-0. Liberty Bell came down to Greene Field on Friday for a double-header when both squads exchanged big games. In the first game, the Mountain Lions had a big offensive day, beating the Raiders 9-2. But in the second game, the Raiders...
Raider Golf last week had the good fortune of playing in warm, sunny weather after having some cool wet matches early on. Head Coach Steve Files said, "The weather has been fantastic and our young team has been making steady improvement." At Moses Pointe, the Raiders faced Moses Lake Christian, Riverside Christian, and Sunnyside April 18. In tough competition on the 18-hole round, Darin Whiteman continued to lead the Raider boys, finishing the round in 106 strokes. Jazmine Reed led the Raider...
The Raider girls won their two team tennis matches last week, while the boys lost both. The boys won their doubles matches against the Davenport Gorillas April 18 but lost the singles, while the LR girls won the singles matches but lost the doubles. At Oroville on Thursday, the Raider girls scored another team win while the boys came close to winning by just one match. The Raiders won four of their five matches against the Hornets. “Tanya Ang’s match was a hot-and-cold affair,” Raider Head Coach Steve Archer said. “Each girl won a set at a lo...
Lady Raider softball had a tough week, winning only one of four games last week. “We had too many defensive errors this week,” Head Coach Cassie Wendt said. In a doubleheader against Oroville, the Lady Raiders committed 13 errors against the Hornets, then six against the Mountain Lions. Though the team did improve by reducing the number of errors, Wendt said, “We cannot expect to win games when we give the other team that many opportunities.” In the first matchup, April 19 in Oroville, the Hornets just held off the Lady Raiders in the first g...
Raider Track completed another two-meet week, traveling to Lakeside High School in Nine Mile Falls April 20 and to Quincy on the 23rd. The meet at Lakeside was a Northeast B-Leagues meet, with schools from both the Panorama and Bi-County League in attendance. Quincy was the annual invite, with schools from all across Central and Eastern Washington competing. At Lakeside, Matthew Tillman ran a personal record time in the 100-meter dash, placing fifth with a time of 12.24 seconds. Tillman also placed third in the pole vault, clearing the 8-foot...
by Roger S. Lucas & Scott Hunter It took three officers to finally subdue a man originally pulled over on a traffic stop who now faces a handful of charges, including third-degree assault of the officers and resisting arrest. Floyd denies the charges. Arrested and taken to Grant County Jail Saturday was Lyle A. Floyd, 46, who owns the Body by Dam gym in Grand Coulee. In addition to giving an Electric City address, Floyd also lives in Nine Mile Falls, near Spokane. At 9:40 p.m., an officer got a call from a concerned motorist who had seen a...
A pit bull that attacked and bit an Electric City woman who was walking her dog has been declared “dangerous” by the Grand Coulee City Council. The dog, named Rocky, described as “huge” by the victim, was finally subdued by police and quarantined for 10 days on a rabies check. The victim, Angie M. Nomee, 49, told police she was walking her dog on Center Street when Rocky came out and attacked her dog, an Australian shepherd, and then attacked her when she tried to help her dog. She was bitten on both arms and hands. Nomee’s dog, Ginger, needed...
Justin Arnold, a chef behind many of the recipes at the Fusion Café in Electric City, was pursuing his passion in New York at the Culinary Institute of America when he was hit by a car in February. Arnold suffered traumatic brain injury, and his family now needs help to get him flown to a rehabilitation center in Spokane from New York. “Please come and show your support to bring Justin and his mom, Gina, back home,” reads a poster about a fundraising dinner planned for this Saturday, April 23, at the Fusion Café and Espresso, from 4 to 8 p.m....
Engineers and officials from government agencies gathered at Coulee Dam's town hall Tuesday to announce the financing package for the town's new wastewater treatment plant. Mayor Greg Wilder said the package through the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Rural Development agency includes a $4.7 million loan, a $1.53 million grant and $200,000 from the town's coffers. "I'd like to believe what we have right now is the best of all alternatives that we've analyzed over time," Wilder said. The $6.4...
Elmer City residents will soon be able to walk to the post office on new sidewalks. They will also be able to cross SR-155 on a new lighted crosswalk. It’s all part of a Washington State Transportation Improvement Board grant that the town got. The project is well underway, with DWK Fowler Construction doing the work. Public works director Jimmer Tillman has worked on the grant for the past two years. It is the second major grant that Elmer City has received through the TIB grant system. The earlier one was for 3rd Street. It connected the E...
They will be churning up the water on Banks Lake this weekend, looking for big rainbow trout, smallmouth bass and walleye. It's all part of the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Triple Fish Challenge, kicking off from Coulee Playland on Saturday, and continuing Sunday. The grand prize for this year's fourth annual Triple Fish Challenge, fittingly, is something that will make fishing easier for the winner. The Triple Fish Challenge is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, April 23...
by Roger S. Lucas Students at a number of area schools will see this Friday, Earth Day, how well they did in a recycling contest as results of a Colville Tribes challenge are unveiled during Earth Day celebrations at the powwow grounds Friday, April 22. Tribal Recycling threw out the challenge to schools in Keller, Inchelium, Nespelem, Paschal Sherman and Lake Roosevelt. The challenge was to see which of the schools could collect the highest weight of Number-1 and Number-2 plastic bottles. Tribal Recycling provided bins for the various elementa...
Even though President Barack Obama has less than a year remaining in office, his administration is cranking out new government regulations at a record pace. The rush reflects the President’s plan to use his final months to cement his domestic-policy legacy. Unfortunately, that process circumvents Congress, which is constitutionally charged with writing our laws. The new rules are sweeping and cut across labor, health, finance and the environment. They range from setting overtime pay for white-collar workers to more obscure matters, such as r...
We live in an astounding time of technological progress, during the “Information Age.” Since the 1990s, the Internet has flourished and created a digital marketplace, revolutionizing the world economy and the way commerce is conducted. Private enterprise has developed an incredible number of innovative services for millions of consumers. Keeping the Internet free from government micromanagement and open to innovation for years to come must be a top priority. Turn back the clock for a moment to 1934, which is the year the Federal Com...
Raider Track competed in two meets last week. They traveled to Bridgeport April 12 for the Brewster Co-Ed Relays. Then on Saturday, the Raiders went to Cheney High School for the Big Red Invite. “The Brewster Relay meet was a team-bonding event where girls and boys competed together in various sprint and distance medleys,” Head Coach Lori Adkins explained. “It was a fun meet and a great workout day.” No results have been posted for the Raiders at the Brewster Relays. At the Big Red Invite, where the Raiders faced competition from all classif...
The Raiders traveled north to Okanogan Saturday to take on the number-one Bulldogs. In the first game the Raiders kept it close until the fifth inning when the Bulldogs scored 8 runs to put the game out of reach. The final in the first game was Okanogan 10, LR 1. At the start of the second game the Raiders scored 2 runs at the top of the first. Then, in the bottom of the first inning, the Bulldogs exploded with 11 runs. The Raiders could not come back. The final score in the second game was Okan...
Lady Raider Softball took on the Okanogan Bulldogs in Grand Coulee on the 16th. The Lady Raiders struggled in the first game. The Bulldogs jumped out and stayed ahead. The final score in the first game was Okanogan 13, LR 2. In the second game the Okanogan Bulldogs jumped ahead quick on two three-run innings and a Paxton Wood home run. Olivia Ludwig scored the first run for the Raiders in the second inning to make the score 4-1, foreshadowing innings to come. "Our bats finally caught fire in aro...
Darin Whiteman led the Raiders Thursday when they took on the Okanogan Bulldogs at Okanogan Valley Golf Course, medaling for the boys with an 83 on the 18-hole round on a par 72. “It was a great round of golf by Darin,” Head Coach Steve Files said. “He drove the green on number 10, which is a short par 4, and nearly made eagle.” Finishing second for the Raider boys was Lucas Bird at 120 strokes. Third was Dylan Steinert at 126. Jazmine Reed led the Raider girls’ squad, finishing with 129 strokes. Reed was four strokes behind medalist Karina Ba...