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The family of Marilyn Marie Minter Aumick invites friends and family to join them as they celebrate Marilyn’s life on Friday, May 11, 2012 from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., at the Coulee Dam Community Church, 509 Central Drive in Coulee Dam, Wash. Memorial contributions may be made in Marilyn’s name to the Friends of the Grand Coulee Library, P.O. Box 62, Grand Coulee, WA 99133....
Anyone in the community experiencing the loss of a loved one is invited to come and share support! The group meets on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m., at Coulee Dam Community Church and will meet every week after. Call 633-1790 for more information....
Chamber to Meet The Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon on Thursday, May 3, at the Siam Palace in Grand Coulee. On the agenda is Colorama updates. For those fund raising or doing an event during Colorama, come and share. Cancer Support Group to Meet A cancer support group will meet Thursday, May 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Sacred Heart Church in Nespelem. This support group is open to anyone that is a cancer survivor, cancer patient and/family friend of a cancer patient that didn’t win the battle or fighting the battle. For more information c...
The 2012 Coulee Dam Washington State International Girl Preliminary Pageant was held at Lake Roosevelt High School last Sunday. The winners included IG Baby Miss-Kaydence Burda;Jaylyn Kensler IG Young Teen, Alexia Ryan IG Little Miss, Melissa Merriman IG Little Miss Beauty, Allison Rice IG Petite Miss Beauty, Rosie Downs IG Petite Miss, Cassandra Rice-Treuba IG Jr. Teen Miss, Meagan Bellamy IG Teen Miss, Desiree’ Rice IG International Girl and visiting Royalty from Spokane. State IG Young T...
A workshop series on learning how to grow your own groceries will be held Thursday, May 3 and Tuesday, May 8. The Thursday workshop will be held at the CFS conference room, 37 Lakes St. (agency campus) in Nespelem and the Tuesday workshop will be held at the Okanogan Armory, 71 Rodeo Trail Rd., Okanogan. Both will be held from 1-4 p.m. There will be hands-on activity – plant food in a tub, potting soil will be provided, but bring own containers. Pre-registration is requested to insure enough supplies are available. For more information c...
Summer Swimmers- So sorry to tell our loyal lesson participants that we are unable to continue organizing this program. The lifeguard and program coordinators are unavailable. If a community member would be interested in taking over this project, contact Tammy at 633-3207 or Dodie at 633-2195 for more information....
Grant County residents may dispose of household hazardous waste for free on Friday, May 11, from 12 pm to 4 pm at the Delano Regional Transfer Station. Only hazardous waste generated by households will be accepted. Hazardous products have labels with words such as warning, danger, caustic, flammable, and poison. These chemicals should be disposed of through hazardous waste collection opportunities; not in the garbage, down the drain, or on the ground. Examples include: oil-based paint, contaminated used motor oil, thinners, household...
Jennika Hill has turned a page in her book and is anxious to get on to the next. Hill placed fourth in Women’s Physique bodybuilding competition last Saturday at the Northern Quest theater in Airway Heights. “Boy was I nervous,” Hill stated Tuesday. But, as she says, “as soon as I started to perform everything was okay.” Hill continued, “When I walked out on the stage for my one-minute routine, a big roar went up and that helped settle me down.” The roar, in part, was from a handful of Credit Un...
Electric City had its second annual Earth Day last Saturday. Popular among the activities was the Brashears Belgian Horse cart rides that traveled up and down Sunny Drive for about three hours. Electric City’s Volunteer Fire Department took kids on rides and provided them with bags of goodies. Grant County Health District gave 25 free bike helmets to kids during a bike safety program. Promised Land Hobby and Gift Shop brought a “bummer” lamb for children to pet and bottle feed. A demonstration of how wool from sheep can be spun into yarn was h...
April school enrollment figures show that 618.6 full time students attended the district’s schools for the month; the first time this school year that the number fell below the budgeted figure of 620....
The Grand Coulee Dam Middle School recently selected students of the month for March and April....
Presentations on bullying and substance abuse will be made by Gene Tagaban at area schools next week. Tagaban is being sponsored by the Colville Indian Housing Authority’s T.E.A.M. program (Together Everyone Achieves More). Tagaban has 20 years experience as a performing artist, speaker, trainer and motivator. He educates and entertains through a skillful blend of knowledge, humor, examples, stories, discussions and activities drawn from his Cherokee, Tlingit and Filipino heritage. He will be at Lake Roosevelt High School, May 8, from 8:45 t...
The school board, Monday night, finally agreed to next year’s calendar after nearly an hour-long discussion that ended only when Superintendent Dennis Carlson recommended one of two options before the board. The agreed-to option was the closest calendar to one adopted a couple of months ago by Nespelem School and was in concert with the district’s effort to build a calendar that was as close as possible to the one from Nespelem. Board member Ted Piccolo wanted school to begin after Labor Day and objected to the 3-day 4-day 5-day start of the...
The following is the Lake Roosevelt High School honor roll for third quarter. HIGH HONORS 3.5 – 4.0 * denotes 4.0 SENIORS Dalton Boutain*, Drew Desautel, Keelee Wilder-Boozer, Jesse Adkins, Kramer Carlson, Trina Hofman, Victoria Heilman, Caleb Stout-Watt, Briana Leith-Monaghan, Nicholas Rice, Keith Rosenbaum, Nicholas Jim, Chanell Jim, Dominique Pleasants JUNIORS Brady Black*, Johnny Mc Craigie*, Rickyna Sam*, Shaine Thomas, Kendall Piccolo, Hillary Carriere, Amanda Palmer, Elizabeth Williams, Abigail Williams, Ashley Lezard SOPHOMORES C...
Lake Roosevelt High School announced its 10th Gates Millennium Scholar this week. Winning a free ride to a university of choice was Matt Timentwa, a Nespelem resident, who has attended school here since kindergarten. Timentwa’s specialty is math and science. The Lake Roosevelt senior received news that he had won the Gates scholarship last Friday. The scholarships are given to minority students who come from lower income families and who qualify under an extensive process. Students selected m...
Raider baseball rebounded from a disappointing doubleheader in Liberty Bell to sweep Waterville in a convincing fashion last week. Led by the pitching of Justus DeWinkler, who gave up only one hit while striking out eight batters, the Raiders won April 24 at Greene Field 11-0. DeWinkler received offensive support from Lee Williams, Tyler Garvin and with his own bat. Williams went 2 for 3 with a double and three runs batted in. Garvin also hit a double along with a RBI. DeWinkler went 3 for 4 with a double and 2 RBIs. The Shockers continued to...
The Raider girls’ squad won their first meet of the season last Tuesday at Mansfield, outscoring Entiat by 16 points the final team score of 144. The Raider boys finished fifth with 35 points. Leading the girls’ squad was Kim Barry with three first-place finishes. Two came in her long-distance races: the 800-meter run (2:47.7) and the 3200 (12:50.5). The third first-place finish for Barry came in the 400 in 65.8 seconds, beating second-place Heather Segle of Entiat by 5 seconds. Katelynn Schilling racked up her first meet win in the shot put...
The Lady Raiders came off a week where they were outscored by the Pateros Nannies 83-4 in three games. The bats were more active last week but the Liberty Bell Mountain Lions still racked up 67 runs to the ladies’ 13. In the first game on Tuesday, the Lady Raiders were plagued with errors that lead to several easy runs for the Mountain Lions. The final score was LB 28, LR 6. In the doubleheader at Liberty Bell ,the Lady Raiders could not put together a solid defense as the Mountain Lions put up 22 runs in the first game and 17 in the second. A...
Raider tennis lost to Entiat last Friday at Entiat by just one match on the boys’ side. Nick Rice continues to beat Juan Vasquez 8-3. Rice was joined by Daniel Campobasso in the victor's circle after he defeated Colter Peterson 6-1. The Raider boys dropped both of their doubles matches played by the same team of Phoenix Shephard and Hayden Rodriques, which means that the Raiders would have to forfeit one match anyway. Head Coach Steve Archer explains why he played the Shephard/ Rodrigues team: “We have been wanting to test Phoenix and Hayden in...
Grand Coulee 4/24 - Two residents living on Kelso in Electric City asked police to ban two brothers from crossing their properties. One woman told police that her children had found several drug needles in and around the property and then gave the items to the police. The two boys were banned from being on the properties. - Police found the door to a vacant office space in a Burdin Boulevard building open, The officer contacted the owner and the door was closed and locked. - A Coulee City woman was cited for driving while her license was suspen...