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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Twice last weekend people wanting to fish through the ice of Banks Lake found out it was thinner than they'd figured. On Saturday afternoon and amphibious motor vehicle designed for ice fishing headed out on the ice from Coulee Playland with three men inside. When they tried to drive the four-wheeled vehicle over the off-shore log boom, the vehicle, a Wilcraft amphibious ice fishing vehicle, high centered on the logs and it broke through the ice at both ends, leaving it unmovable. But it was bui...
Update: SR-155 is now open, as of 7:30 pm, Jan. 18th. State Route 155 is blocked at Mile Post 59, just west of Disautel Summit due to a semi across both lanes, according to Okanogan County Emergency Management. To detour, use Columbia River Road or highways 97, 17 and 174 if traveling between Omak and Coulee Dam area. Unknown ETA to open. Wednesday, January 18, 2023 2:45 PM...
Coulee Dam officials had hoped they’d get some of the funding in the form of free grants for work to replace an aging sewage lift station on the west side of the Columbia River, but learned last week the funding agency intended to only offer a loan for the near million-dollar project. Clerk Stefani Bowden said she’d gotten a call right before Wednesday’s city council meeting. “I was a little disappointed to see this news today,” she told the council about 20 minutes later. The lift station has been on the back burner for years while the city...
Elmer City utility customers will pay about $13 a month more for water and sewer service beginning in March, but garbage rates will remain the same. The town council passed a new utility rate ordinance last Thursday to set the increase in motion. The increases include a $5 jump for water and $8 for sewer, plus some increases for fees such as for being late paying the bill, or ordering a start or end to a service. Mayor Jesse Tilman said the bump puts the town more on par with other area towns. “Years ago, when I first came on council, we w...
Sporting officials and umpires are in short supply locally, and the association that schedules those workers is looking for interested people to fill the roles that keep sports going. "The shortage of umpires for high school baseball and softball in the Central Columbia Basin may cause disruptions in local games this season," stated Bruce Shields, the assigning secretary for the Central Columbia Basin Umpires Association (CCBUA). The group assigns umpires for seven high schools and five middle...
Four dogs sat in a House hearing room and two more watched the room over Zoom as a legislative committee discussed rules dog handlers must follow in courthouses for dogs to assist people who are providing testimony, including youth with disabilities. "I can't say how amazing these dogs are when something bad has happened to your kids, my kids. Really, they're our kids. All these kids belong to us," said Ellen O'Neill-Stephens, founder of the Courthouse Dogs Foundation. "To be able to provide...
I know the subject of childcare has been brought up before, and we do have a daycare center and several in home sitters available. They all seem busy showing the need is there. I believe that there is an area of great need not being met, and that is evening and weekend care. Think about how many area businesses pay minimum wage, part-time, with a lot of nights and weekends. The need is there, BUT will anyone fill it? Carol Schoning...
When I was in college I struggled to get through two graduate programs. Working on research and lab projects I’d get marked down for being too robotic and not curious enough. As a youngster I enjoyed Dorothy, Groucho, Curly Joe, Elmer Fudd, Big Bird, Bert & Ernie, Winnie the Pooh, Barney Rubble, Yogi Bear, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Alice in Wonderland, Br’er Fox, Peter Cottontail, Goldie Locks, Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Goofy, Wilbur, Horton, Thing 1 & 2, Sylvester, Bullwinkle, George Jetson, Alvin, Casper, and others. They were optimisti...
While at the Statesman in Boise, I often covered Idaho Vandal football games. My boss, Jim Brown, was a large contributor to Idaho’s football program. Vandal coach Skip Stahley came by the newspaper on a number of occasions, probably to keep the support going. I was scheduled to fly to Logan, Utah to cover the Vandal-Utah State game at Logan, Utah, a flight of about an hour. Also scheduled the same day, but later in the day, a pro exhibition football game in Salt Lake City. I had a close friend at the Salt Lake Tribune, Dick Martin. I had w...
How about some encouraging news for our state? It even made the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Although Boeing didn’t outsell or make more airplane deliveries than its rival, Airbus, in 2022, it made substantial gains after three years of costly setbacks. Some may exaggeratingly compare the company’s problems since the onset of the coronavirus to the “Boeing Bust” (1968-72) when Congress ended funding for the SST (Supersonic Transport). That cancellation hit Seattle hard. It trigger...
According to the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the answer is very simple: our relationships. “The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying and overall healthier lives,” according to the book “The Good Life,” which recounts lessons from the Harvard study. “Relationships in all their forms — friendships, romantic partnerships, families, coworkers, tennis partners, book club members, Bible study groups — all contribute to...
NCW Libraries is offering two upcoming virtual opportunities for adults. A Humanities Washington presentation about Mt. St. Helens and a NCW Virtual Reads program featuring popular author Yasmin Ramirez. In the first program, NCW is partnering with Humanities Washington to offer the live, virtual program After the Blast: Mount St. Helens 40 Years Later. This program will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 and held on the Zoom platform. Writer and biologist Eric Wagner will take participants on a journey through the Mt. St. Helens blast zone. Explore the...
OLYMPIA – Jan. 17, 2023 – Washington State Parks is recruiting seasonal park aides to work in its beautiful outdoor places this spring, summer and fall! Parks is looking for 305 park aides and senior park aides to work from April through September in diverse environments like old-growth forests, channeled scabland and shrub steppe, as well as on Pacific Ocean beaches and the high desert and around Puget Sound and its islands. Park aides enjoy a variety of duties. They may register campers, maintain trails, clean campgrounds and maintain fac...
Marriah New and Desmond Adamson of Elmer City, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Madalynn Adamson born Tuesday, January 3, 2023, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. She weighed 5 lbs., 8 oz., and was 18-1/2 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Kyndra, Jystin and Carol. Maternal grandparents are Angel and Walter New of Elmer City. Paternal grandmother is Nicole Simmons. Great-grandmother is Elaine Adamson....
Care and Share Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held Monday through Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and non-smoking. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at...
Grand Coulee Police 1/10 - Two women were reported as appearing to try to break into a red car near Midway Avenue and Spokane Way. Police saw the vehicle but didn’t find anyone around it after searching the area. 1/11 - Police arrested a man at a motel on Spokane Way and took him to Reardan where he was transferred to a Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy who took him to jail in Spokane County. The man had been charged there with assault, harassment, and malicious mischief against his girlfriend earlier in the month at a hotel. Because he was in...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders currently top their league, facing two top competitors and five other schools in the Central Washington 2B League. After their Friday night home-court win against the Oroville Hornets, the Raiders' win-loss record in the league stands at 5-0, and overall at 13-2. The Hornets lost 88-37 Friday, putting them at the other end of the league list at 0-5. The Raiders fed the Tigers (1-4) a similar meal in Tonasket Jan. 10, winning 84-44. "We're getting better every single...
The Lady Raiders breezed past Oroville Friday in a decisive home-court victory, 66-20. Aaliyah Marchand did the most damage to the visitors, adding 21 points for Lake Roosevelt, 15 of those coming from outside the three-point line. And Marchand's last-second near-half-court shot to hit 66 on the scoreboard might have been the biggest excitement of the game. Carly Neddo put in 16 points for LR, followed closely by Cylia St. Pierre's 14. The girls were third in the Central Washington 2B League as...
Thursday Mixups TEAM W L Living' on a Spare 51 21 Hemmer Ranch 38.5 33.5 San Poil Valley 37 35 Old Bag & Balls 34.5 37.5 Team #2 29 43 The Incredibowls! 21 51 High Game: Tommy Turner 247; Sam turner 199 High Series: Mike Lackner 583; Sam Turner 509 Splits: Frank Quinto 5-10; Cory Bennett 8-10; Karen Lacker 2-7; Mike Lackner 2-7 Previous: High Game: Mike Lackner 205; Sam Turner 192 High Series: Tommy Turner 544; Gwen Hilson 479; Splits: Karen Lackner 3-10 FRIDAY DAM KEGLERS TEAM W L #2 29 13.5 #4 22.5 21 #3 18 17.5 #1 18 25 #6 18 24 #5 vacant 0...
Spokane Falls Community College listed several local students last week among its 1,451 on its honor roll for fall quarter 2022, which ended in December. Students must have a grade point average of 3.0 or above to be listed on the honor roll. Local students making the grade at SFCC included: Taylor Bartholomew, of Grand Coulee; William Friedlander, of Coulee Dam; Emily Nichols, of Keller; and Logan McElyea, of Wilbur. Also, Shawn Traxler, of Coulee Dam, has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Fall 2022 President’s List by ear...
Public Notice City of Coulee Dam ORDINANCE ADOPTED BY THE TOWN OF COULEE DAM Ordinance 807 – an ordinance amending the Coulee Dam Unified Development Code. The Unified Development Code for the Town of Coulee Dam is being updated as part of the Washington State Growth Management Act, Periodic Update. The code provisions for electrical vehicles and their associated charging stations are being incorporated into the code. The following Articles are being amended: Article II Definitions Article V, Table 13.1 Table of Land Uses Article V, Section 2...