News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Town officials will have another opportunity tonight (Wednesday) to offer input on the Bonneville Power Administration’s Third Powerhouse powerline project. BPA’s senior project manager, Mark A. Korsness, said he planned to be at tonight’s meeting, set for 6 p.m. at town hall, to again review plans to string the high power lines from the Third Powerhouse, across the river and up the hill to the switch yards. BPA officials were in Coulee Dam in mid-December to review plans to get the proje... Full story
School district and federal officials met last week to talk about federal impacts on local schools. Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Dennis Carlson met with Bureau of Reclamation Project Manager Mark Jenson and others last Thursday so the two parties could exchange views on the school position that work being done on the Third Powerhouse generators and on the John W. Keys III Pump-Generator Station impacts the school district. While doing the Environmental Assessment for its Third Powerhouse upgrade, the Bureau of Reclamation... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation has raised the possibility of conflict of interest with its Grand Coulee Project budget director, Chris Christopherson, also being mayor of Grand Coulee. The city council moved quickly last Tuesday night to correct the potential problem by passing a motion that Mayor Pro-Tempore Paul Townsend sign on any particular agreements made between the city and the federal agency. The council learned that City Attorney Charles Zimmerman had looked into the conflict issue and had told the city that he didn’t think there was a c... Full story
Clearwater Construction of Spokane has won the bid to build Electric City’s arsenic treatment plant. That company’s bid of $1,310,985, was about $15,000 under the second-place bid placed by Halme Construction of Davenport. The city’s engineering firm, Gray & Osborne, sifted through 14 bids and recommended to the city council that Clearwater’s bid be accepted. The council Tuesday night readily agreed. All 14 bids were within about $200,000 of each other. The Clearwater bid was over half a million dollars under the engineer’s estimate of $1.87... Full story
Eagle fest slated for February The Balde Eagle Festival will be held here Feb. 23, according to Janice Elvidge of the National Park Service. The need is for volunteers and housing, Elvidge said Tuesday. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center officials will take part this year and the Avian Mystery program will be presented by Elvidge or another person. Other organizations taking part include the Spokane Audubon Society and the Idaho Fish and Game’s Beth Paragamian, who will do a program on raptors. Volunteers are needed to assist presenters and ho... Full story
A missing woman’s mother still hasn’t turned up anything helpful in finding Jamie Marie Breckenridge, 42, who has been unaccounted for since Jan. 8. Carol Ann Estrada, of Elmer City, said she is working on getting a court order to get her daughter’s personal phone records to access calls made from her cell phone. “The last phone call she made, that we know about, is a call she placed to a person who was helping her through some personal things,” Estrada stated last week. The last anyone knew of Breckenridge was on Jan. 8, when she was seen... Full story
Grand Coulee has amended its contract to supply potable water to the Bureau of Reclamation. The council voted Tuesday night last week to alter the contract to reflect the cost of a new water meter and work the city crew did to install and calibrate the equipment. The amount of the contract, which goes through 2022, has been raised by $3,625 to $2,231,750 for the life of the agreement. The water comes from Grand Coulee’s own water right and is pumped and delivered by Electric City through a special agreement between the two municipalities. G... Full story
Lake Roosevelt High School Principal Brad Wilson gets his ear pierced Friday after students met a fund-raising challenge. The ASB raised $1222.19 through donations during Winterfest Week last week to help fund a rewards day field trip. English teachers Brandon Byers and Steve Files also had their ears pierced by Tera McGuire of River’s Edge at last Friday’s Spirit Assembly. Any additional donations can be made at Lake Roosevelt High School. — submitted photo... Full story
The coming year will determine whether — or in what form — health reform survives. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on reform’s constitutionality before it adjourns in June. If it survives the court challenge, it will at least face a political gauntlet — if not its demise — if the Republicans capture the White House, Congress or both in the 2012 presidential election. If health reform survives, the U.S. health-care landscape will change more in the next decade than it has in the last 5... Full story
It is too bad, that public funded projects are so expensive! Unfortunately, most projects like this are designed by large engineering firms whose pay is based on the cost of the project. Why would they have any incentive at all to save the customer money? They dont! Public funded projects are built bullet proof, with the most expensive and over-the-top designs, equipment and materials. The engineers don’t worry about how to save, it’s faster to go overboard with everything, which ensures it will work. They collect their money and everyone is... Full story
After a blissful and tranquil four years in the Grand Coulee area, I have retired from Coulee Medical Center, will be released as bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, plan to move closer to our family near Vancouver, Wash., and submit our papers for a church mission. These are major changes for the Tanners, but we know life is filled with changes. We have seen changes here starting with the rebuilding of the bus barn after a fire and ending with the building of Coulee Medical Center! In between we have a lot of great... Full story
I have seen businesses in this area come and go. For the few years that I have been here it seems like there isn't a lot of local support for the newcomer, especially if you are not from this area. I know times are tough but we occasionally eat out and sometimes we get in a rut and go to the same places all the time. We try to go to all the different eateries from Electric City to Coulee Dam. “John Dough’s” is a new restaurant at the old Sage. If you have not tried it, do so, you will not be sorry you did. Their food is made to order, nothi... Full story
The man who served as NBC-TV’s legal counsel for 25 years warns the FCC is poised to resurrect broad censorship rules that were revoked in 1987 because of their chilling effect on both free speech and the television press. Corydon B. Dunham says the proposed new Localism, Balance and Diversity Doctrine could eventually also affect news on the Internet. The FCC is reportedly planning to transfer the broadcast spectrum used by local television to the Internet to make it the nation’s primary communications platform,and the agency has started to...
Ten Years Ago Last night a project to connect the water in Electric City’s aquifer to Grand Coulee’s water supply might have taken one step closer to reality. The Electric City town council voted unanimously last night to allow Mayor Ray Halsey to sign a documental agreement. If Grand Coulee also approves, representatives will decide on how the two towns can best share, or inter-tie, their water systems. Twenty Years Ago Electric City will now pay extra for a door included in the contractor’s original bid for its new fire station, but Mayor... Full story
Chamber to Meet The GCD Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular meeting this Thursday, Jan. 26 at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar and Grille in Grand Coulee. Order of Eastern Star to Meet The regular meeting of the Order of Eastern Star will be held Thursday, Jan. 26. It will be short form and sweatshirt night. Refreshments will be provided by Bonnie Farr. Those attending should bring paper products for the food bank. Worthy Matron Carole Fisher will preside. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet Grant County Fire District 14 will hold its regular m... Full story
Frank and Elaine Sanford will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary with their family next month. The couple were united in marriage January 22, 1942. They both were born and raised in the GCD/Nespelem area. They have two sons Del (Linda) and George (Jean), nine grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.... Full story
Victor R. Pickett, 91, born August 27, 1920 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Howard Le Roy and Emma Pickett, passed away at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee on January 21, 2012. Victor graduated from high school in 1938 and during World War II served as a combat infantryman with the U.S. Army participating in the Italian campaign through the North Apennines and into Italy’s Po Valley. Following the end of hostilities, Sgt. Pickett left the U.S. Army, having earned European, African and Middle E... Full story