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It’s official: be kind You may think that Valentine’s Day is the big day for celebrating love this month, but Grant County commissioners last week added a twist, declaring Feb 16-23 to be “Random Acts of Kindness” week, with Feb. 17 the single day so named. “The purpose of a Day of Kindness is to remember the simple day-to-day acts of kindness that enable our community to be a kinder, safer, and more secure environment to live, work, and play,” their official proclamation states in part. And fair — to the Post Office The National Newspaper Ass...
Brad Oliver proposed to Patty Davis tonight at the conclusion of Patty's (PK's Culinary's) valentines day dinner. "She makes me want to be a better human," he said before bending his knee. Watch the video. Brad proposes to Patty from The Star on Vimeo.... Full story
The Raiders won their district game against the Oroville Hornets Friday night in a game that was closer than some expected, tied at 40 in the third quarter....
Lincoln County sheriff deputies booked two people into jail last night (Feb. 11) after a very precise caller alerted them to what appeared to be ongoing theft from rural mailboxes. Three deputies responded to the area north of Davenport about 7 p.m., taking different roads to prevent the suspect from getting away, Sheriff Wade Magers reported in a press release Wednesday. Deputies Kurt Cuzzetto, Gabe Gants, and Jerad McLagan responded to the area. Cuzzetto found the vehicle, accurately...
It looks like the Colville Tribes will soon have their first substance abuse treatment center. The tribes announced Feb. 3 that a $20 million, 32-bed treatment center will be located in Keller, facilitated by tax credits to two companies investing in the project. Craft3 is a "non-bank community lender" that "lends to established nonprofits and growing and start-up businesses," and in April 2019, was one of 73 organizations awarded New Markets Tax Credits by the U.S. Department of the Treasury....
The Electric City council voted in a new city clerk/administrator, as well as a new council member, at their meeting Tuesday night. Peggy Nevsimal was chosen out of four candidates as the new city clerk/administrator following an executive session at the meeting. Nevsimal, who is currently the executive director at the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, was absent from the meeting. "At this time we feel that Peggy would be a great asset to the city of Electric City," Mayor Diane Kohout...
Fewer businesses will be asked to foot the bill for higher education programs after Gov. Jay Inslee signed Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6492 on Monday. The bill will restructure the business and occupation tax and surcharges put in place by legislation passed last year to fund investments in public colleges as well as to provide grants that increase access for low and medium-income students. "We are going to make massive investments in public higher ed," said Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle....
Octavio Alejandre was a state wrestling champion for the Lake Roosevelt Raiders in 2015, and is now wrestling at Grays Harbor College, where he has been conference champion twice and became an All-American. While wrestling for LR, Alejandre placed fourth at state as a sophomore, third as a junior, and was state champ in the 285-pound heavyweight division his senior year. "What inspired me to succeed in wrestling was my high school coach, Steve Hood," Alejandre told The Star in an email....
Christian Kennedy grew up in the Coulee, went to the big city of Las Vegas, and returned last year with his wife Sara to settle down and help take over the family business. Having graduated in 2002, Kennedy met his wife at Eastern Washington University, and from there they migrated to Las Vegas, Nevada where they found work within Clark County School District, the fifth largest school district in the nation, where Christian worked in information technology as a programmer. Sara taught English...
Vehicles line up behind a crash on SR-174 just northwest of Grand Coulee Wednesday where a driver of a westbound 2010 Ford Fusion failed to make the curve and collided with a semi headed the other direction, about a mile from where this photo was taken, just before 1 p.m. The USBR fire department helped extract her from the seriously damage car and she was taken to Coulee Medical Center with what the Washington State Patrol said were minor injuries. She was cited for driving too fast for...
Fourth-graders from Lake Roosevelt Elementary, as well as students from other area schools, will get to learn about our feathered friends, the birds, on Feb. 19 and 20. Bird Fest, which is put on by the National Park Service, will include presentations for the students at three locations in the area. Those presentations include learning about the raptor family of birds from the West Valley Outdoor Learning Center’s HOOT Program, hosted at the Ridge Riders rodeo grounds where students will learn about raptors’ nocturnal habits and their vis...
Deny! Deny! Deny! When it comes to climate change, that seems to be our current national policy. This administration has systematically turned aside most climate policy tasks set by president Obama. The climate change problem will never be solved from the top down. It is going to take a movement from the bottom up. A 17-year-old girl from Sweden, Greta Thunberg, has been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace prize for her work in trying to get world leaders to focus more on climate change problems. The U.S. has pulled out of the international...
I notice we have at least one yahoo living amongst our four communities that loves to tear up church parking lots, federal roads and federal parking lots, along with the river trail and Washington Flats. This is his favorite time of year because the roads are thawing and we can leave deep, deep ruts for other drivers to follow in and we don’t even have to steer. He is starting his conquest this time of year. If you see him, maybe you can congratulate him on a yearly job well done. He does his off-roading at Washington Flats. Maybe he should b...
The last decade has seen a drastic shift in the way the U.S. generates electricity. We have shifted from relying primarily on fossil fuel burning power plants to a thriving clean energy industry that supplies renewable, low-cost electricity to consumers. A combination of demand from customers and diminishing technology costs have helped wind and solar projects sprout up across the country, and with them has come a range of economic benefits. Renewable energy systems have created new jobs and...
While wind farms generate “greenhouse gas free” electricity, there is increasing concern over the rapidly growing number of worn out blades ending up in landfills. Those blades, housed on giant towers reaching over 200 feet in the sky, are starting to reach the end of their useful life (15 to 20 years) and are being taken down, cut up and hauled to dumps in Iowa, South Dakota and Wyoming. Adding to the spent blade disposal problem, utilities are retrofitting existing wind farms with longer bla...
A proposal to build a 31-mile water tunnel under the Grand Coulee was made by Frank Harris, a civil engineer from Renton. His plan, publicly announced in December 1935, was to expedite the irrigation of approximately 500,000 acres of land in the Columbia Basin by a gravity system, without waiting for Grand Coulee power. He figured that the amount of water required to lift and fill what is now Banks Lake would be 20,320,000,000 cubic feet before any could flow out into the main distributing canal...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors took new assignments at their Jan. 27 meeting. Director George LaPlace was appointed board chair. Director Carla Marconi was appointed vice chair, and Ken "Butch" Stanger was appointed legislative representative. LaPlace, who has served on the board since 2015, replaces Rich Black as board chair. Black, still a director, has chaired the board since 2016. Marconi has served on the board since 2007. Newly elected Director Alex Tufts, who...
Glenda "Lynn" Higgins, daughter of the late Neal and Francis Turner of Coulee Dam, passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her loving family on Friday, February 7. Lynn was born January 4, 1946, in Mason City Hospital, Coulee Dam, Washington. The Turner family moved from Coulee Dam to Hungry Horse, Montana in 1951. Lynn joined the local rifle club in Hungry Horse and enjoyed sharp shooting with her marksman father. In 1955, the Turner family moved back to Coulee Dam. Having enjoyed Mont... Full story
Chamber to Meet at La Presa Chamber will meet this Thursday, February 13, at the Siam Palace Restaurant, Main Street, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon with general business on the agenda. Grant County Mosquito District 2 to Meet The Grant County Mosquito District #2 will hold its monthly meeting at 5 p.m., Thursday, February 13, at 210 W. Coulee Blvd., in Electric City. Okanogan County School Retirees’ Assoc. to Meet Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will meet 11 a.m., Friday, February 28, for a general meeting and no-...
Income tax time is here!! Free tax preparation is once again being offiered at the senior center in Grand Coulee every Wednesday through April 14, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers trained in cooperation with the IRS will offer free help to taxpayers with low to middle incomes in preparing their federal income taxes. Special attention is given to those 60 and older. Free e-filing is also available. Taxpayers should bring with them: a copy of last year’s tax return; Social Security cards or other official documentation showing social s...
The winter meeting of the Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association will take place at 1 p.m., Wednesday, February 19, 2020, at the Senior Center, 203 Main Street in Grand Coulee. The main item of business will be the All-Class Reunion coming up August 7-9, 2020. Scholarship applications will be available at the meeting, with May 1, 2020, being the deadline for mailing applications for consideration for this year’s awards. All LRHS Seniors are eligible to apply, as are other high school seniors and continuing education college students who a...
Auditions for Masquers Theater presentation of “Present Laughter” will be held at 6 p.m., on February 18 and 19 at the Theater in Soap Lake. “Present Laughter” is Noel Coward’s 3rd best known play written in 1939. It was recently revived on Broadway. Director Justin Rowland will bring to our stage this comic story of an actor who is having a mid-life crisis, trying to cope with the young girls who want to seduce him, his secretary and an ex-wife who keep telling him to grow up, a crazed young playwright shows up to read and read his play to h...
Kristen Smith and Keith Copley, of Grand Coulee, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their twin sons born Thursday, January 30, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. Keneth Richard Copley weighed 8 lbs., 3 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Gavin Celestino Copley weighed 6 lbs., and was 19 inches in length. Siblings include Liam and Scarlet Stanford. Maternal grandparents are Lynne and Dale Rinker of Mansfield, Washington, and Ron Smith of Tacoma, Washington. Paternal grandparents are Marilu and Clyde Copley of... Full story
Kristi and Russell Schoof of Electric City, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Kennedy Kathryn Schoof born Friday, January 31, 2020. She weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz., and was 20-1/2 inches in length at birth. Maternal grandparents are Christina Poste of Lisbon, New York and George Hunter of Sherburne, New York. Paternal grandparents are Cindy and Ron Schoof of Midland, Michigan.... Full story
The Raiders finished the regular season with two wins and a loss in boys' basketball. The Raiders got snowed on in Brewster, where the Bears handed LR their first league loss of the season, with LR losing 73-50. LR led 28-25 at the half but were outscored 23-10 in the third quarter and 25-12 in the fourth. On Friday the Raiders played an away game against the Liberty Bell Mountain Lions, pulling off a narrow, 59-57 victory. Then on Saturday, LR hosted the Waterville-Mansfield Shockers in the...
