News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The chamber of commerce is getting additional money from hotel/motel tax funds to promote the all-new Laser Light Show on Grand Coulee Dam, which will begin May 24. The chamber had asked the three cities that collect the tax, Electric City, Grand Coulee and Coulee Dam, to provide $6,000 each so it could make a media buy promoting the show in the Seattle area. Grand Coulee was the first to respond, the council voting $6,000 at its last meeting. Electric City, according to Mayor Jerry Sands, planned to vote the same amount at its Tuesday night...
The Keller Ferry is back in service as of 12:30 p.m. today (Friday, May 16). An elusive issue with the computerized steering system on the Keller Ferry vessel, M/V Sanpoil, disrupted regular service on the Columbia River route for the past seven days. Last Friday, May 9, at about 3:30 p.m., one of the ferry operators experienced an anomaly in the steering of the vessel. A supervisor was advised and the vessel was taken out of service. WSDOT advised the US Coast Guard of the steering issue and they officially removed the vessel from passenger...
Brooklyn Worsham, right, and Hannah Wiltse take the Pepper Jack's Bar and Grille miniature Model T through the Colorama Parade Saturday, where the entry won first place among the business entries. See more photos here: 5-14-14 Star - Images by Scott Hunter...
A new, longer day will provide more variety for students, cost just a bit more and extend contact time that teachers have with students by 80 hours over the course of the school year, beginning next September. The longer day will re-introduce a seven-period schedule in the grades 7-12 wing of the new school, allowing for more course offerings. It’s all part of a plan the Legislature put into place a year ago that increases student contact time and requires 24 credits to graduate. In the current school year, classes begin about 8:30 in the m...
Colville Tribal Business Council Chairman Michael O. Finley was defeated in the primary election, certified last Thursday. Finley represents Position 2 in the Inchelium District and that general election race will see Marvin Joseph Kheel (97 votes) go against Yvonne Swan (96 votes). Finley came in third with 74 votes. Others in that race were Martin R. Simpson (37 votes) and Pat Laramie-Brooks (28 votes). In Omak District’s Position 1 race, Edwin L. Marchand led with 169 votes to John E. Gorr’s 91. Shirley K. Charley came in third with 83 vot...
An Electric City man was sentenced in Grant County Superior Court to 67.5 months in prison for second-degree rape and other charges. Michael Timothy Berry, 30, was sentenced on charges originating July 8, 2013 in Electric City. He had been in county jail previous to sentencing. Berry pled guilty to rape in the second degree, attempted rape, (domestic violence), unlawful imprisonment (domestic violence), and obstructing a police officer. The sentence calls for 67.5 months in prison, and 180 days in jail with 150 days suspended, and that he have...
An incident of a woman refusing to pay her bar bill ended with her hitting the owner of Banks Lake Pub with a metal cane and a trip to jail, police said. Police were called by Charles Potts, owner of the Pub, May 3, when he reported that a woman refused to leave or to pay her bar bill in full. The woman, Connie J. Watt, 44, when asked to leave by police officer Sean Cook, swung her metal cane and hit Potts on the side of the head, dropping him to the floor unconscious, according to Cook’s report. Cook told the woman she was banned from the bar...
Science on Wheels, a traveling Pacific Science Center program, will be featured at Center Elementary School, Thursday, May 15. The Science Center program begins with a school-wide assembly and is followed by nearly two hours of classroom visits providing hands-on learning in such areas as physics, space and geology. The Science on Wheels program at Pacific Science Center in Seattle, began during the gas crisis of the 1970s, when groups of school children could no longer visit the museum on field trips during the gas shortage. A typical van...
Who’s got talent? The senior class at Lake Roosevelt High School is sponsoring an All Ages/Community-Wide Talent Show that kicks off at 7 p.m. tonight in the LRHS gym. Mr. LR will be crowned and dessert will be served. Cost for the show is $2. Rec softball forming The Grand Coulee Recreation Softball League will hold a coaches meeting at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 22, at Loepp Furniture. The team due date has been set for June 1, and softball play begins June 10. Additional information is available by calling Kevin Portch, 631-0139, or Amanda Button...
Biographies of five local women will be featured along with a "Rosie the Riveter" quilt at the Visitor Center soon. The five are: Ida Bartels, Toby Ann Levy, Lynda G. Nutt, Barbara Ann Meyer and Roberta "Birdie" Hensley. The five have all made a number of contributions to community life here. Ida married Sid Bartels in 1940, and the two purchased the Deppman Mill at Belvedere just a few days later, only to see it go up in smoke from a fire that someone had set. She served many years on the Grand...
Coulee Medical Center staff pulled together a recruitment booth for a medical conference in Spokane last month where Dr. Andrew Castrodale was a featured speaker. Chief Executive Officer Debbie Bigelow told hospital commissioners Monday night that staff members displayed beautiful photographs of the area and the hospital and wrote articles about “what a great place this is to live and work.” Recruiting physicians to rural areas is not easy, but CMC’s previous CEO was content to use traditional recruitment firms for the task. Castrodale has purs...
A man confronted by a Sunbanks Resort employee for driving too fast in the resort was finally charged with fourth-degree assault after an ensuing argument. Robert G. Capshaw, 34, was charged after he allegedly pushed groundskeeper Joe Sanders over some rocks and later hit him with his jacket, which had a tool in the pocket. Sanders was not injured. When Sanders asked Capshaw why he was driving so fast in the resort grounds, Capshaw, a police report stated, shoved Sanders with both hands and he fell over some rocks into a flower bed. When...
A man from London was questioned by police for taking pictures of the large bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt overlooking the lake that bears his name. Grand Coulee Dam’s Plant Protection office asked about 9 a.m. on May 4 that a Grand Coulee police officer question a “suspicious” man who was filming the dam and area. Facilities at the dam are under electronic video surveillance. The bust of Roosevelt is mounted just upstream of the dam on the west side of the lake near the Plant Protection office. Martin A. J. Curtis, 60, told the offic...
In 1964, the average annual salary in the United States was $5,880. It cost 5 cents to mail a letter. You could buy a fine house for $20,000 and a brand new Ford Mustang cost a whopping $2,400. And when Merv Schmidt came to run a gas station in Coulee Dam, the price of gas in Spokane was 34.9 cents a gallon. Locally, it was 39.9 cents. That nickel difference seemed like a lot to Merv, but people bought the gas, even though it was 14 percent more than in Spokane. When I got here in 1988, there were six local gas stations. All of them were much...
This is about the wild horse race. People may think this is fun and exciting, but it's at the expense of the state of fear and stress on an animal that has not been around humans. It is cruel. Those of us who know horses, do our best to take the fear out of horses, and this has to be traumatic on them. They probably feel like the Christians that were turned into the arena with the lions. Patricia Hayes This is a terrible idea! To terrorize wild horses like this for entertainment is nothing short of cruelty and inhumane. Rodeos will be rodeos...
Please shed some light on why you no longer have to be present at the Colorama drawing to claim your prize. Throughout the entire drawing, NO one was present to win any type of prize. Not even rodeo tickets for that night! What a waste! Doesn't the chamber want to attract people to come to the Colorama festival? Instead of staying home and not attending and just waiting to hear about it in the paper? How awful and what a waste of time for those who actually showed up. Aimee Kennedy Coulee Dam, WA...
There is a job out there that never gets the recognition and respect it deserves. You are all guessing right now, but let me help a bit. It’s not a firefighter, law enforcement or military. Although those are slighted at times, too. No, it is not a teacher, pastor or any other high profile position. OK, let me give you a hint. They work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, never get a pay check and are responsible for every person in the world today. Figure it out yet. Yep, they are mothers. In a r...
1 Years Ago For the second consecutive year, Nespelem Elementary will lay off staff to balance its budget. Monday the board of directors voted to lay off kindergarden teacher Linda Rise and 7th grade teacher Diane Tonasket. Raider Golf won it's third consecutive CTL Championship by defeating Okanogan 340-349 last Friday. George Davis turned in the low score for the day of 80 and winning first place. 20 Years Ago The Grand Coulee Chamber of Commerce will draft resolutions for the annexation of f...
Al Newkirk of Electric City, WA peacefully passed into the arms of his Savior the morning of Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington with family by his side. Al joined Verna "Marie" Newkirk his beloved spouse who predeceased him in 2011 following 66 years of marriage. Born into the Bridgeport, Nebraska home of Allen Martin and Betsy "Bessie" Brines- Newkirk on September 30, 1923, Al joined the US Navy following graduation from high school, serving during World War...
Donagene Williams 64, died surrounded by her loving family, Wednesday evening, May 7, 2014 in Wenatchee, Washington's Central Washington Hospital. Donagene was born December 28, 1949, into the Nespelem, Washington home of Elijah and Annie Weipah-Williams. A faithful member of the Catholic Church and Seven Drums, she was proud of her heritage as a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes. She loved participating in Pow-wows, attending local sporting events and especially spending time with her...
A Celebration of Life will be held for John Klobucher on Saturday, May 24, 2014, which would have been his 94th birthday. An informal celebration will be held at the home in Electric City from 2-4 p.m. All his friends and neighbors are invited to grab their lawn chairs and stop by to share some great stories about his life....
This five generation photo was taken recently of the Riley family. Seated is great-great grandmother Dorothy Litz with her great-great-granddaughter Sofia Dawn Maldonado. From left is Sofia's mother Tiffany Maldonado, her Grandmother Wynne Dennis and great-grandmother Donna Riley. Sofia was born May 2, 2014 to Tiffany and Gene Maldonado at Coulee Medical Center. She weighed 8 lbs., 10 oz., and was 21 inches in length at birth....
Chamber to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday, May 15, at Pepper Jack’s in Grand Coulee. General business is on the agenda. GCD Employee Association to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Employee Association will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 14 (tonight) at 5:30 p.m. at the Siam Palace in Grand Coulee. GCHS Alumni Association to Meet Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association will hold its spring meeting on Wednesday, May 21, at 1 p.m., at United Methodist Church, 405 Center Street, Grand Coulee. A...
Grange Insurance Association is pleased to announce that Madisyn Byam of Electric City, Wash., was awarded the Top Vocational Scholarship. Each year Grange Insurance Association awards scholarships to deserving applicants. The applicant or their parents must be a policyholder of Grange Insurance Association. In all, 27 scholarships were awarded this year among the 61 applications received. The quality of applicants was exceptionally high again this year and the company is extremely pleased with...
The following is the honor roll for Nespelem School for third quarter: 1st Grade Isaac Circle A, Skyler Covington A, Siriann Simonsen A, Lola Yazzie A, Hope Harris B, Ruby Simpson B, Taylor Thomas B 2nd Grade Janie Epperson A, mMixat Vargas-Thomas A, Edward Gonzalez B, Cylia St. Pierre B, Peyton Jake B, Virgil Bearcub B, Zoe Weed B 3rd Grade Enid Bearcub, Maurice Circle, Brandon Lowery, Anoki Somday 4th Grade Michelle Luevano A, GladEyes Williams B, Edward Cohen B 5th Grade Isaiah Adolph A, Moses Luevano A, Robert Thomas A, Edward Frank A,...