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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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People who felt the loss of convenience when The Variety Store in Grand Coulee closed down will welcome the news that a new proprietor will open a new store by the same name in the same building. Launi Ritter, who had attempted to come to rental terms with former owners of the building between Safeway and Coulee Hardware over a year ago. She and her parents, Doug and Mary Lou Lockard, had researched the business and were ready to start it up, but could not find a location with the right terms. That changed Feb. 27, Ritter said, when A. J. Gerar...
Darnell Sam has been appointed to the Nespelem District Position #2 on the Colville Business Council, following the expulsion of Andrea George, who had filled that position. The CBC named Sam to the council seat following a 94-53 vote by tribal members held at a March 5 Nespelem District meeting, according to a March 6 press release from the Colville Tribes. The council had expelled George Feb. 21 on ethics charges including improper influence, gross misconduct and malfeasance. George’s supporters insisted she was being expelled for calling int...
Discipline issues at Lake Roosevelt Elementary School are going down, and students are performing better in English Language Arts and math, according to the principal. Principal Lisa Lakin spoke to the Grand Coulee Dam Area School District board of directors March 11 about the elementary school, and presented a draft of an “Elementary School Improvement Plan.” Lakin discussed the need to improve students scores in English Language Arts and math, but said that scores are going up. “We have students that have already made, this year, two or th...
Out of five candidates, Kirk Marshlain has been chosen as the new Lake Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School principal. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved giving Superintendent Paul Turner the go-ahead to hire Marshlain at their March 11 meeting. “I think he’ll be a great addition to our team,” Turner said about Marshlain. Marshlain currently works as a special education teacher in the Wenatchee School District and has worked at a home for troubled youth, Turner said. He’s currently finishing an administrative internship in Wena...
The walls of the Grand Coulee were populated with ice climbers Saturday, that breed of outdoor enthusiast who enjoys scaling giant icicles hundreds of feet high. The pair in this photo, one at the top and one midway up, scaled the ice just north of the Million Dollar Mile on SR-155. Here's a video - Climbing Ice from The Star on Vimeo....
3th District reps to hold town hall meeting Reps. Mike Steele, R-Chelan, and Keith Goehner, R-Dryden, will hold a “town hall” meeting on Saturday, March 23, at Wenatchee Valley College’s Grove Recital Hall, 1300 Fifth Street from 10 a.m. to noon. The lawmakers will provide an update on the 2019 legislative session. Community members in the 12th District, which includes much of the Grand Coulee Dam area, are invited to attend, ask questions and share their comments about state government-related issues. Local kids to star The Missoula Children...
After a delivery last week had added to the meager stores at the Care and Share Food Bank a couple weeks ago, volunteers came once again to unload another truck on Thursday, this time stuffing shelves with the proceeds made possible by local donations last fall. If you wondered exactly when that donation you made at Safeway to the local food bank last November or December would actually arrive, the answer is last week. "This is the time of year we really need that," said Carol Nordine, the...
Not only did dozens of gigantic floods shape the local landscape thousands of years ago, they raced across the solid-rock remains of hundreds of layers of lava flows that built the local bedrock millions of years earlier. So said Geologist Nick Zentner to roughly 130 people at the Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center on Saturday, brought to town by the Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club. Zentner, who hosts the video series "Nick on the Rocks," spoke for over an hour in the upstairs theater in the Visitor...
We would like to thank all the volunteers who have helped with all our projects over the past 32 years; you are the ones that made the projects a success. Thank you. Due to the lack of someone to manage the fish pens, the board of directors has decided to disband POWER. February 28 was the last day to apply for an ALEA (Aquatic Land Enhancement Account) grant to fund the fish pens. The fish pens will be removed from Banks Lake this spring, along with the log boom and the docks. WDFW (Washington State Dept. of Fish & Wildlife) will remove the...
Term limits, change, whatever you want! Now is the time. Every day, I hear people want term limits. If you read last week’s Star, you see many, many open volunteer vacancies in local organizations, cities, boards, etc. Now is the time for you, or your friends, or your family to step up and volunteer for one of these positions; now is the time to help enforce time limits by voting. Only you can make a change. If no one is willing to step into one of these volunteer roles, then please don’t ask for something you are not willing to help with. It...
The fight goes on… the debate is vitiated by empty minds and thoughtless reason(s). Elmer City argues that Coulee has taken advantage by over-charges/invoicing by violating the 1975 agreement. On the other hand, Coulee Dam has lost some of the design and operational paradigms. Both agencies have lost their compasses. “IF” Coulee Dam has taken invoicing advantages, so too is that Elmer City’s ignorance of the quarterly reviews! Both agencies have made errors. As to Coulee Dam, by its own volition in 2014, they self-audited the “agreement,” the p...
I recently sat down with Senior Terry Yazzie and we talked about a variety of topics. The outcome of our talk was this: This is a young man I wish I could have gotten to know better. He has a great sense of humor, but is so grounded and sees the value in what others around him are trying to do and say to him. So here is a small snapshot of our conversation. “Hard, but fine.” That is how Terry described his senior year to this point. He added, “The work is hard; it’s not a lot of work, it’s just...
Twenty Years Ago Hospital Park is a park no more – Grand Coulee’s city council approved the sale of the park Tuesday night to Grant County. Grand Coulee Dam is the first dam chosen in a worldwide study of the environmental effects caused by established older dams. Four months after work began on the expansion of the Safeway store in Grand Coulee, it is complete. As a very conspicuous balloon on top of the store attested to, they held a grand opening last Wednesday to celebrate. Selected as the Employee of the Year at the Colville Con...
There will be a memorial service for Lena Mae at Coulee Dam Community Church in Coulee Dam, Washington, on Saturday, March 16, 2019, at 1 p.m. Lena Mae passed away Sunday, February 24, 2019.... Full story
Dale Lee Green, 74, of Grand Coulee, Washington passed away Sunday morning, January 27, 2019, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. Born Saturday, December 30, 1944, in Boise, Idaho, Dale was a loving, kind and giving man and will be truly be missed by all who knew him. A member of "Plumbers and Pipefitters U.A. Local 26," Dale began his career in 1964, proudly working alongside his Union Brothers and Sisters as a Worker and Supervisor. Upon his retirement, Dale left behind many coworkers... Full story
Marie Kateri Grant, 95, beloved and respected Elder, left us Wednesday morning, February 27, 2019, from Nespelem, Washington. Marie was born Wednesday, January 16, 1924, to Moses and Alice Francis Sherwood-Paine, into one of three Native families living in the Chewelah Valley of Washington state at that time. As a child, Marie remembered her mother made buckskin gloves for Doc Carson, who served the medical needs of the valley families from his horse and buggy. Doc Carson was Marie's... Full story
Wendy Bolger stands ready for another case of peanut butter from Dean Paculba as the two help help load shelves at the Care and Share Food Bank. The shelves are converted computer server racks, donated by Microsoft and re-engineered for the food bank by John Nordine, whose wife, Carol, manages the operation. They were on hand Thursday to unload four tons of community-donated food. That story is on the front page. - Scott Hunter photo...
Chad and Emily Hertenstein of Grand Coulee, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Kinsley Faye Hertenstein born Saturday, March 2, 2019, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Maternal grandparents are Ronnie and Chris Williams. Paternal grandparents are Gena and Bill Hertenstein. Great-grandparents are Kay Hagerman, Margaret Wilde, Alice Jimeson and Dave Ralston.... Full story
Bailey and Scott Rosco of Nespelem, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son Bearyn D. Rosco, born Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. He weighed 7 lbs., 8.5 oz., and was 19.5 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Colten Doran, 4, and Leo Douglas, 2. Maternal grandparents are Stephanie “Pete” Palmer and Doran “Tony” Ankney. Paternal grandparents are Gary Rosco and Candi Rosco. Great-grandmothers are Colleen Leskinen and Joy Bise.... Full story
Chamber This Week There will be no Chamber meeting this week due to the Installation Banquet being held on Thursday, March 13, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille beginning at 6 p.m. The public is welcome. Lincoln County Fire Dist. 9 to Meet Lincoln County Fire District 9 will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m., Thursday, March 14, at the Nazarene Church. Grant County Mosquito District #2 to Meet The Grant County Mosquito District #2 will hold its month meeting Thursday, March 14, at 5 p.m., at 210 W. Coulee Blvd., in Electric Cit...
Here are Lake Roosevelt Elementary's students of the month for February....
THURSDAY MIXUPS TEAM W L San Poil Valley 59.5 36.5 Only Nine! 52.5 39.5 The Star 43 53 High Game: Chance Epperson 226; Mae Stensgar 176 High Series: Chance Epperson 606; Mae Stensgar 432 Splits: Frank Quinto 6-9-10 FRIDAY DAM KEGLERS TEAM W L #5 108 72 Native Spirit 105 75 #3 94 86 Flying W 93.5 86.5 #1 68 112 High Game: Amos Staggs 221; Mae Stensgar 184 High Series: Amos Staggs 528; Mae Stensgar 499 SENIOR BOWLING Men's High Game/series - Jeff 221/487 Women's High Game/Series - Sandy 128/345...
An era of Raider wrestling is ending with the coming retirement of Coach Steve Hood, whose professional and personal life was shaped by the sport he viewed as a means to help shape young lives. "It's been a great ride, a great experience," Hood told The Star recently. "A lot of really good experiences. Athletics gives you an ability to work with kids on a different level than in the classroom. It's an opportunity to help them learn so many life lessons about hard work, and dealing with adversity...
Mansfield School District PUBLIC NOTICE In compliance with RCW 39.04.155, applications are being accepted from contractors who wish to be placed on the Mansfield School District Small Works Roster for projects estimated to cost less than $300,000. Qualified contractors must meet the following requirements: be a registered contractor and business in the State of Washington; be able to provide a certificate of insurance; pay prevailing wage rates; and comply with federal, state, and local laws requiring non-discrimination, labor and job safety,...
Grand Coulee 3/4 - A man said he had been kicked out of his grandmother’s Dill Avenue house, and that his girlfriend was still there, felt unsafe, and wasn’t allowed to leave. The man also said he was told his uncles would kill him on the grandmother’s order if he returned to the place. An officer spoke to the girlfriend, who said she did feel unsafe and wanted to leave. The grandmother told the officer that the man had threatened to burn the house down, and that the girlfriend was under her foster care, for which she had no paperwork. The g...
