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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Do you enjoy fishing in Banks Lake? Do you know people who do? Do you recognize fishing as a part of culture in the coulee? Then maybe you’d like to volunteer to help keep that viable. POWER, which stands for Promoters of Wildlife and Environmental Resources, is in need of volunteers, without whom they will shut down their fish-raising pens. The organization releases 150,000 trout twice a year into Banks Lake from their feeding nets located in Electric City. That’s 300,000 fish annually released into the reservoir by the group. Some of tho...
Boy Scouts of Troop 24 display the flag they are about to fold at the annual Isle of Flags ceremony at Spring Canyon on Memorial Day. Eleven new flags were dedicated Monday, adding to more than 500 displayed annually. - Scott Hunter photo...
The body of a 17-year-old Lynnwood, Washington boy was recovered Saturday evening from the waters of Banks Lake after he went missing late Friday evening near Steamboat Rock State Park, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office reported Sunday morning. Friends had reported David V. Fesko missing around 8:30 p.m. Friday after watching him try to swim to shore after falling off a personal flotation device. Fesko went under water and didn’t resurface. Deputies, state park rangers and boaters searched the waters and shoreline until nightfall suspended the...
Privatizing BPA nixed Washington state members of the U.S. House of Representatives applauded the Trump Administration’s decision last week to abandon a plan to sell the Bonneville Power Administration’s assets. The Department of Energy’s announcement came after the Washington congressional delegation urged the administration not to privatize BPA. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) and Dave Reichert (WA-08) issued a joint statement following Energy’s announcement. “On behalf of...
They've been wanting to develop an art scene locally, and last Saturday officials of the Northwest Native Development Fund took a big step: opening an art gallery. Board member Molly Morris cut the ribbon on the three-room Titwáatit Native American Art Gallery at 312 Spokane Way, close enough to Flo's Cafe next door for attendees to smell bacon cooking. NNDF has organized three local "Plateau Native Art" shows in the last three years, each bigger than the last, and attracted grant funding for...
Karrie Utz accepted an award as "Public School Employee of the Year" for the state of Washington in the Lake Roosevelt gymnasium May 29, chosen out of over 30,000 PSE members in the state. Utz appeared completely surprised when her name was announced at the mystery assembly as the gym roared with applause. Utz thanked her family, students, and fellow staff members in an emotional thank-you in front of the student body and staff for Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School. "This is so...
An Idaho man died Saturday afternoon between Wilbur and the Keller Ferry when his motorcycle crossed the centerline on a sharp curve and struck a guardrail, the Washington State Patrol reported. Larry Everett Merriman, 75, was headed north on a 2002 Yamaha XVS11AP near milepost 99 and entering a sharp, left-to-right curve when he crossed the southbound lane, striking the guardrail just after noon May 26. Merriman was wearing an approved helmet, and neither drugs nor alcohol were a factor in the crash, the State Patrol reported. His family was...
Grant County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday morning, May 23, recovered the body of a man from the waters of Banks Lake south of Electric City. Deputies were called around 7:30 a.m. after a boater discovered the body, later identified as 72-year-old Garlan W. Crosswhite of Olalla, Kitsap County. Crosswhite’s boat was found beached along the east shoreline about two miles away. Campers at a campground just north of the Million Dollar Mile, about milepost 9 on SR-155, told a Grand Coulee police officer assisting that a camper and boat tra...
Erin Gruwell, the teacher who inspired the movie "Freedom Writers," visited Keller Elementary last week at the invitation of the students. The movie highlights Gruwell's efforts to teach underprivileged students in Southern California to reach their full academic potential. Her methods have been adopted around the world, and include having students write honestly about who they really are. A book called "The Freedom Writers Diary" was published, including her early students' works, and was...
After attending the opening of the wine bar on Main Street Friday night, the ribbon cutting at the new art gallery on Spokane Way on Saturday, and getting a bite and a cup afterward at the new coffee house a block away, a niggling, suppressed hope fought its way to the surface. Its seed has always been present, but lately held at bay. Statements from some who return to the coulee after long absences that “this place never changes,” and our own feeling that we’ve been using the word “potential” about the economics of the area for too long for...
There are biblical references to false statements and rumors. It is not a new issue, but currently the problem is amplified by an electronic twist. The printed word on paper has been a mainstay of the American experience since well before the American Revolution. Ben Franklin was in the printing business in the 1720s. The print medium, including newspaper, has survived the advent of radio, television, and computers. The news content of all of those media was generally subjected to editorial review to ensure accuracy. But a new development,...
I had the privilege of going to Keller last week to see one of my heroes. Yes, one of my heroes was in Keller; her name is Erin Gruwell and she is the teacher the movie “Freedom Writers” is based upon. As I sat there in Keller school and listened to how she got there and her story, I quickly realized that this all was not about her. It was about the students of Mrs. Clark, a teacher in the Keller School District. In a very cool turn of events and much like in the movie this little class in Keller, Washington wrote a letter to Mrs. Gruwell and...
The battle in Seattle over the city council’s imposition of a head tax on large companies is generating disparaging labels which local elected leaders likely will come to regret. As a mayor, the last things you want are “anti-business” or “job killer” red letters stamped on your city’s investment opportunity portfolio. A head tax is a “job killer” because it discourages companies from hiring full-time employees and encourages employers to replace people with computers and machines. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, businesses in Se...
Martin Leroy Blum passed away after a battle with cancer, May 19, 2018, in his home in Coulee Dam, Washington. Martin was born in Spokane, Washington, August 8, 1935. Marty spent some time as a young boy in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness, Moose Creek, Idaho, where his passion for hunting, fishing and camping began. Marty graduated from Creston High School in 1953, and soon after began his career in the sawmill and lumber industry, working for the Valsetz Lumber Company in Lincoln, Washington,...
Christine L. Fisher, formerly of Electric City, Washington, passed away Tuesday morning, May 22, 2018, in Everett, Washington. Christine was born June 18, 1953, in Dallas, Oregon. Christine married Donald S. Fisher in Dallas, Oregon, in November of 1997. They were brought together by their love of the outdoors and enjoyed spending time fishing, hunting and foraging. When not exploring nature with Donald, Christine enjoyed a good cup of coffee, crossword puzzles and collecting porcelain dolls....
A worker loads pieces of concrete from a sidewalk being torn up at Civic and Spruce in Coulee Dam Tuesday, across from the high school gym. Several sidewalks and some road work will take place this summer on the east side of town. Serious road work won't start until after school is out in mid-June, Mayor Larry Price said Wednesday. - Jacob Wagner photo...
Jeff and Rindi Green, of Grand Coulee, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Lexi Rose Green, on Thursday, May 24, 2018, at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Washington. She weighed 8 lb., 2 oz., and was 21-1/2 inches in length at birth. Sibling is big sister, Maci. Grandparents are Kerri Lauseng, Grand Coulee, Washington; Lori Serrano of Montana; and Ron Green, Grand Coulee. Great-grandparents are Richard and Lucy Carpenter, Elmer City; Marie Estes, Spokane; and Donna...
Chamber This Week The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, May 31, at noon at La Presa Mexican Restaurant in Grand Coulee. The guest speaker is Paul Ashbrook, who will be talking about the ducks that he raises and shows at national duck competitions. The public is welcome. Lions Club Meets First and Third Tuesdays The GCD Lions Club will be meeting at 6 p.m., on Tuesday, June 5, at the Melody Restaurant in Coulee Dam. Coulee Creators Meet on Tuesdays Coulee Creators meet at 412 Federal Ave. Room 207, Grand Coulee....
Raider athletes were honored for excellence in athletics as well as academics at a state and nationals send-off assembly on May 24. Going to the national Future Business Leaders of America competition is Alan Nordine, who will travel to Baltimore, Maryland, at the end of June. Nordine had placed fourth in the "Help Desk" category at a state competition in Bellevue in April. Nordine encouraged younger students at the assembly to join FBLA. Going to state for track were Elijah Harris (high jump...
This is the second year the Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association has considered scholarship applicants from other high schools as well as Lake Roosevelt. Scholarships in the amount of $500 each were awarded to two graduating seniors: Paige Dice, Newport (Washington) High School and Baylee Easterday, Chiawana High School, Pasco, Washington. Paige is the daughter of Dan and Nicole Dice and is eligible for the award through her grandmother, Ida Faye Flowers Dice, a member of GCHS Class of 1959. Paige plans to attend the U of Idaho and study...
Four Raiders competed at the state track and field meet on Friday in Cheney at Eastern Washington University. Steven Flowers placed second in state in the shot put event, throwing for 47 feet, eight inches. “Steven was certainly the highlight of the meet for Lake Roosevelt,” remarked Head Coach Lori Adkins. “He was edged out by mere inches by North Beach on the final throw.” Ben Poplin from North Beach took first in the event, throwing for 48 feet even. “Steven earned eight team points at state, which scored LRHS ahead of most schools i...
Darin Whiteman competed in the first round of the 1B/2B Boys State Tournament on Tuesday, May 22, at Hangman Creek Golf Course in Spokane, finishing with 87 strokes, only two shy of the 85-stroke cutoff point to advance to the second round. Whiteman placed 24th out of 40 golfers total. "He was right there, but then struggled a bit on the last few holes," said Raider Head Coach Steve Files. "Darin fell short of his goal of placing at state this year, but still bested his first-round score by...
The Raider softball player attempting to tag out a Tonasket runner in a May 16 photo was misidentified. She was Emma Warnecke....
Town of Elmer City Chip Seal Project INVITATION TO BID The Town of Elmer City is requesting bids for the construction of a chip seal project. Bids will be received at the Town of Elmer City, 505 Seaton Ave., Elmer City, WA 99124, until June 6, 2018 at 1:00 pm. Bids will be opened and read publicly immediately following the close of bid receipt. No late or faxed bids will be accepted. There will be no pre-bid conference for this project; however, bidders may visit the site to view the existing conditions. The project includes chip seal of...
Is it better to allow folks to pave that narrow, city-owned stip of grass between the sidewalk and street, or to keep it green? That’s a question at the heart of a discussion in Coulee Dam’s town council, spurred by a request by a resident who wants to pave it. At the last two council meetings May 9 and 23, the council has considered a request to remove the grass and pave that strip at 806 Tulip. Councilmember Bob Poch recalled voting to allow it in another case many years ago, a permission he sees in hindsight as a mistake, resulting in poo...