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Instructor Tara Johnson, left, talks students through a lesson during a Monday session of her riding clinic put on by the Ridge Riders at the Colorama Rodeo Grounds in Delano. — Scott Hunter photo...
Baseball fund raiser tonight Raider baseball and softball will hold a joint fund raiser tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. The “Hit-A-Thon” will take pledges based on longest hits, introduce a “Fungoman Challenge” and let community members step up to batting practice. “We’ll have the music going, concessions, radar guns, batting cages, etc.,” said baseball coach Brandon Byers. All ages are invited. Empowering the mayor The Electric City Council voted to allow Mayor Jerry Sands to OK change orders on the new arsenic treatment plant for up to $10,000. S...
Electric City’s council will retreat, May 4. That is, they will go on a retreat. The council members, at the urging of Councilmember Birdie Hensley, agreed to set aside a day to go to Moses Lake for discussions. The council, at their regular meeting last Tuesday night, wasn’t specific on what members wanted to talk about. City Clerk Jackie Perman was working with Big Bend Community College for a meeting room. Members of the council, Mayor Jerry Sands, and any city employees the council wanted in attendance will go to Moses Lake in the mor...
Rick King stepped down from his longtime post as hospital district commissioner Wednesday, ending a 14-year volunteer career capped by the building of a new hospital. “This has been one of the hardest things to decide,” King said, announcing his resignation at the regular monthly meeting of the Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan Hospital District 6 board of commissioners. “It’s been one of the funnest things I’ve done, being on this board. And it’s been one of the worst things I’ve done,” he sai...
Golf play is open at Banks Lake Golf Course, and the port district has slashed membership rates significantly. Individual memberships have dropped from $750 a year to $400 and membership for couples or families has been trimmed fom $950 to $450, less than half. Port District 7 commissioners said last Thursday that this was an effort to soften the blow to some 39 golf members who pre-paid for the season, and whose money and memberships got caught up in the closing of the course a month ago when officials of the Banks Lake Golf and Country Club...
Brad Wilson’s resignation as boys’ varsity basketball coach at Lake Roosevelt High School was accepted by the school board at its last meeting. Athletic Director Rich Black said the district will start advertising for a replacement within the district in the next few days and then, if he doesn’t receive any viable candidates, outside the district. He said he would like to get the position filled by the time school begins in the fall, if not sooner. “It is going to be difficult to replace...
All seven Colville Tribal Business Council members up for election this year are being challenged for their two-year terms. A total of 29 have filed for the seven seats with the primary election barely four weeks away on May 5. Both positions in the Nespelem District received four challengers. In Position 1, incumbent Harvey Moses, Jr., will have four challengers: Jonnie L. Bray; Milton “Jewie” Davis, Jr.; William “Billy” Nicholson II; and Tum-chis-Lii-wit Mylan Williams, Sr. Incumbent Ricky Gabriel, in Nespelem Position 2, faces off against La...
Electric City’s city council approved agreements with three entities last week. • An agreement with the Grand Coulee Veterinary Clinic details rates for euthanasia and disposal fees for animals brought into the clinic and also for boarding them. Killing animals and disposing of their carcasses will range from $83.50 to $151, based on weight. The city and clinic also agreed on a $13.50 daily fee to hold animals. • Electric City will help provide fire protection coverage within Fire District 14 for a fee of $4,000 a year. • And council reverse...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District has received an energy grant from the state of $580,268, district officials said Monday. Coupled with energy incentives in the amount of $174,243, and net costs to the school district of $406,025, the energy saving upgrade is $1.16 million venture. Superintendent Dennis Carlson said Monday that the district learned of the grant being awarded late last week. The grant was submitted only a few days before. The monies will enable the district to replace outdated and obsolete lighting, and pay for modernized...
Community leaders gather in a Coulee Medical Center meeting room Thursday to get and give a sense of support for the idea of pursuing a community/wellness center that would likely feature a year-round pool and more amenities. Consultant Gary Leva wanted to ask about support from local cities and others for the idea before taking it further. — Scott Hunter photo...
A Coulee Dam man was found dead Monday about noon in Fiddle Creek, near 402 Columbia, an apparent suicide victim. Lyle Allstot, 30, was a graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School in 2000 and a longtime employee of Harvest Foods. Coulee Dam Police Chief Pat Collins said two children saw the body and told an adult who reported to police. Collins said Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Curtis Flatray is the lead investigator in the case. No autopsy was planned, according to the sheriff’s office. Collins said strangulation was the apparent cause of dea...
A number of fire departments will be in training April 11 and 12, at Electric City, for “red card” wildfire certification. Firefighters who go out on range fires need eight hours of training each year in order to keep their “red cards” up to date. Fire official Mark Payne said the group will receive four hours training, from 6-10 p.m., each of the two nights. Firefighters from Electric City, Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam, Elmer City, and Douglas County will take part. About 70 firefighters will be involved. In a separate training program, new vol...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved an E-Rate project totaling some $232,000, at its meeting March 26. Of the project total, the district will put in just over $57,000. E-Rate funds come from both state and federal governments and are based on rates the district pays for its various services. The project will update the district's phone system, provide new network wiring, and provide some $99,000 worth of network hardware. Board members asked if the district had the $57,000, for its share of the project, and were told by...
The concept is fairly mundane, nothing to get excited about. Executive and leadership boards quite often go on “retreats” to places other than their usual haunts to hash out ideas and plans in a fresh setting, supposedly to add a creative boost to stale neural patterns, a fresh perspective from a different place. But when publicly elected officials decide to move their public meeting to a venue far away from their constituents, the retreat concept can take on a different twist altogether. Electric City’s City Council is planning one in Moses...
I would expand that statement. Our entire city needs to be cleaned up. Drive or walk about anywhere … our town is an eyesore. Besides the unlicensed cars, boats, trailers and motor homes on our streets, we also have burned and boarded up houses and yards filled with trash. The house next to ours was abandoned last year. Along with the trash in the yard, two cars were left behind. When approached, the police said we had to file a formal complaint with City Hall before they could do anything. If our city does not have an ordinance to keep our s...
We are writing this as concerned citizens of Electric City. We feel that what the city has been doing with the annexations, zoning and ordinance changes, is a little extreme. On the annexations, they went about this against us. Several of us went into city hall because we did not want our land annexed into the city; they would not listen to us and under our protest they went ahead and annexed it in anyway. On the zoning, they went about this without the property owners even knowing about it, and because of this we cannot use our land in the...
Crime is the number one problem affecting the quality of life in Grant County. We are seeing an epidemic of thefts, as metal and hay thieves prey on our hardworking farmers. We’re seeing property crimes, including burglaries, vandalism and graffiti. We’re seeing the growing issue of gangs and the violence they bring. We’re seeing assaults, rapes and homicides. And there is a growing feeling by county residents that we are powerless to prevent crime. We are not powerless. The good people of Grant County can do something to help fight crime...
Over the last few weeks, trees and shrubs have been disappearing between Pole Park and The Star newspaper. The culprit? USBR. This made me think of the joggers and walkers that use that path every morning, afternoon and evening. Shade will be gone, protection from the rain and wind gone. It made me think of the bicyclists in the triathlon and the new view that awaits them as they exit Grand Coulee and head for the dam. I also thought of the birds (birding is a new hobby of mine, even though my...
Ten Years Ago An effort has been launched to encourage Electric City to adopt a cleanup law similar to Grand Coulee’s. Grand Coulee resident Gerald Sands attended the Electric City council meeting March 26 to tell the council that Electric City has junk all over town that needs to be cleaned up. He said a recent legal victory for Grand Coulee shows that a nuisance ordinance requiring property owners to clean up their property can be upheld. Big patches of sagebrush and mounds of dirt are b...
Memorial services for Marion Braun will be held at St. Henry’s Catholic Church in Grand Coulee on Saturday, April 14, 2012, at 11 a.m. A luncheon will follow. Braun passed away January 9, 2012....
Marcella McCraigie, 84, passed away, Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Grand Coulee. A recitation of the Rosary will be held for her in the Strate Funeral Home Chapel of Grand Coulee, at 3 p.m., on Thursday, April 5, with graveside services to be held at St. Mary’s Mission Cemetery in Omak, at 11 a.m., on Friday April 6. A complete obituary of Marcella’s life will be in next week’s paper. Strate Funeral Home of Grand Coulee is honored to be serving Marcella’s family....
Grand Coulee Police 3/25 - A Lewiston driver was stopped when an officer noticed that occupants of the vehicle were not wearing seat belts. There were four in the front seat and four in the back. Two minors, the driver and a front seat adult were not wearing seat belts. Citations were issued for that and for not having insurance. - A woman from Rathdrum, Idaho, was cited for talking on her cell phone while driving. 3/27 - A caller reported loud noise coming from a nearby apartment on Grand Coulee’s Main Street. When police arrived, the o...
Easter Sunrise Service set The Coulee Area Pastors’ Association would like to invite everyone to the Community Easter Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. on Easter Sunday, April 8, at Crown Point. Easter happenings at Community Church The Coulee Dam Community Church Presbyterian will hold an Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m. Sunday, April 4. There will be crafts for kids and an Easter Brunch. Easter Worship will be held at 11 a.m. Zion Lutheran Church events The Zion Lutheran Church will be holding a Zion Sonrise and Breakfast at 7 a.m. with Easter worship a...
Grand Coulee native son and world champion bull rider Shane Proctor and his sister Cody Proctor address a room full of Ridge Rider supporters at what could be the group’s first annual banquet Monday night. The sold out crowd enjoyed the meal and a silent auction, then bid in a live auction. — Scott Hunter photos...
Catrien and Dusten Slater of Electric City are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Sophie Sue Slater on Monday, March 12, 2012, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz., and was 21 inches in length at birth....
