News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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It’s in the hands of the city clerk. That’s the best Grand Coulee’s city council could come up with last night (Tuesday) in regard to a controversial application for a marijuana retail business license. About 30 people showed up to offer their view of the issue, and with a show of hands all but two were against it, the applicants. Clerk Carol Boyce when asked after the meeting if she was going to issue the license, said, “I haven’t made up my mind yet.” While members of the council repeatedly told the audience how important it was to come to...
The new laser light show came off with a 45-minute glitch Saturday night. A mechanical problem kept lookers aghast at the celebrated debut of the show. After the initial show Saturday night, the laser debut got an ovation, according to Bureau of Reclamation Public Affairs Officer Lynne Brougher. The show came off Sunday and Monday nights without any trouble. “I’ve received mixed reviews,” Brougher said. The show played without benefit of water spilling over the spillway of the dam because the level of Lake Roosevelt is still below the spill...
It could easily have been advertised as a "show" home. Some 19 new and recently "skilled" workers, along with tribal officials, showed up last Thursday to show off a tribal-owned home in east Coulee Dam that was remodeled using trainees - 17 men and two women. Actually, TERO (Tribal Employment Rights Office) showed off two houses - one on Camas Street and the other just a short walk away. The one on Camas qualified as the "before," and the one just across the back lawn on Central Drive was the...
Stroke victims will have a much better chance of recovery because of new Telestroke Network technology introduced at Coulee Medical Center Tuesday. Emergency Room nurses and a handful of other technical staff at CMC practiced using the new equipment this week in an all-day training session put on by Spokane-based Providence Telestroke Network. The networking involves some dozen other rural hospitals in Eastern Washington. Now stroke patients have 24-hour access to stroke specialists who are...
Those tomato seeds that went into space back in the 1990s are still working their wonders here in the coulee. Nancy Carlson, teacher, now retired, obtained seeds from NASA and used them as a science project for fourth and fifth graders. It was a perfect opportunity to not only watch the seeds grow, but a chance to plant science seeds of a different nature along the way. While Carlson didn’t note any difference between the tomato seeds that gone into space and ordinary tomato seeds and their u...