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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The Coulee Dam Town Hall was filled to capacity last Wednesday as EMTs, firefighters and townspeople pushed back at city officials for taking on the EMTs a week earlier. Those speaking cited numerous times that EMTs had assisted family members and friends when they needed ambulance service. That support was appreciated, but fell a little off the mark. It had all started when a state inspection of the town’s ambulance service turned up a dozen or so issues that Mayor Greg Wilder stated had been 80 percent fixed by council time. Wilder said he a...
Coulee Medical Center's hospital district commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. tonight (Monday, 6/9/14) for their regular monthly meeting. They will meet in the CMC Medical Arts Building (old clinic building lobby). The agenda is below, including an executive (closed) session dealing with the evaluation of applicants for public employment. The closed session is allowed under the state's Open Public Meetings Act with this clause: "(g) To evaluate the qualifications of an applicant for public employm...
Water spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam as the level of Lake Roosevelt rises with the rushing in of spring runoff waters to the Columbia River. The lake had reached 1,269 feet above sea level at noon Tuesday. - Scott Hunter photo...
A terse email from Elmer City Mayor Gail Morin to Coulee Dam Mayor Greg Wilder on wastewater treatment billings is raising a stink between the two towns. She wrote, “Thank you for demonstrating Coulee Dam’s imbedded lack of interest in a good faith agreement,” Morin wrote. “We need to look at invoices/receipts after learning that 108 tubes of grease were charged to the plant. It isn’t unreasonable to verify what we are buying. No one pays bills without knowing what they are purchasing. Our requests are honest and reasonable.” Elmer City is 40...
Coulee Dam has selected a Spokane firm to do its alternative analysis for the proposed wastewater treatment plant project. Varela & Associates was selected out of nine firms that initially showed interest in the project. That number was narrowed down to six firms and then to three and later to two when one of the finalists opted out. Officials from Coulee Dam, Elmer City and the Colville Confederated Tribes were on the selection committee. Currently Varela officials are determining the scope of work so they can come up with a cost of doing the...
After several years of collaboration, two local school districts will go their own way next year as they seek to augment students’ education with after-school programs. Nespelem’s school board last week voted to follow a different path, leaving the Grand Coulee Dam School District to apply for the next five years of funding for its SHARP Kids program on its own. The SHARP acronym stands for Safe, Honest, Aware, Respectful, Present. The program is the local implementation of the use of federal funds through the 21st Century Community Learning Ce...
The 10th Annual Koulee Kids Fest and the Saturday Market will each take off Saturday, June 14. Both are sponsored by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce. The Saturday Market, featuring fruits and vegetables, local produce and arts and crafts, opens at Midway Avenue and Morrison Street at 8:30 a.m. and goes until 12:30 p.m. weekly through Sept.13. Market manager Cheryl Hoffman (509.431.1027) can provide information on securing a booth for the market. Or for information interested parties can call the chamber office (509.633.3074). The...
If you are wondering if the school board will decide to re-roof and re-side the old Lake Roosevelt High School gym, you will have to wait a little longer. Superintendent Dennis Carlson revealed to the board last Wednesday night that it will take about $883,000 to do just that. Carlson told the board that dressing up the old gym so it will look like the new facility will have to wait until the district knows if it has enough in its contingency fund to do the job. Carlson had been asked by the board to price the job out so it could make a...
Beautiful cars coming to town The Coulee Cruizers Car Club will host their annual Best Rod Run by a Dam Site on Father’s Day weekend, June 13-15. Look for fancy cars with unbelievable paint jobs cruising the area Friday night on a boulevard cruise and poker run, after pizza at Hometown Pizza. This is the club’s 30th annual event, and each year it brings to town dozens of car enthusiasts and the objects of their pride, hard work, and considerable investment. Their “show and shine” event on Saturday at Banks Lake Park will culminate in a 2 p.m....
The town council at Coulee Dam approved a budget amendment ordinance last Wednesday night that will provide the chamber of commerce $6,000 for a media campaign to promote the new Laser Light Show on Grand Coulee Dam. The chamber had asked for the added funds from the town’s hotel/motel tax monies at the town’s last meeting and it was tabled to be brought up again Wednesday. The chamber had asked for $6,000 from each of the three towns that collect the hotel/motel tax. The chamber received $6,000 from Grand Coulee and $9,000 from Electric Cit...
A handful of students in Lee Largent's welding class are making their mark on Lake Roosevelt High School. The six have created a "Raider Gate" that will close off the hallway at the high school gym so people won't wander through the building. It came about when janitors complained about kids who wandered down the hall at games spilling Gatorade and popcorn along the way. That prompted Principal Brandon Byers to go to Largent to see if he had any ideas. That's where the students, Falcon...
A few years ago, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) received a complaint about the Coulee Dam ambulance service. They took note of dirty and unsanitary conditions, expired medications and supplies, non-functioning or defective critical-care equipment, inaccessibility to the supplies needed to stock the ambulance, and more. The town was put on notice and required to file a compliance plan in May, 2011. The DOH closed the case the following month without taking disciplinary action because the town had corrected the deficiencies and...
The 2nd Harvest Thrivent Food Truck was at Zion Lutheran Church May 30th handing out 7,584 pounds of food to 215 families. It took 26 helpers to keep up with handing out products. The Washington Beef Council furnished three-pound roasts and a person to pass them out. The $400 to bring the truck here was paid for by the Grant County Thrivent Board with helping hands project (our helpers). It took a lot of people working together, as all volunteer projects do. A big pat on the back and many thanks to all volunteers; without them these different...
In our school history we have retired and put to pasture some of our mascots. Soon a Pirate will join them. Please, a moment of silence for our fallen identities of the past. Grand Coulee Tigers, Coulee Dam Beavers, Center School Dolphins, Grand Coulee Dam Junior High Panthers and now joining them are the Center School Eagles and the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School Pirates. If you have not heard yet, next year in the new school it will be Lake Roosevelt Raiders from K to 12. A giant ship load of Raiders. Arrrr (in my Jack Sparrow voice). United...
1 Years Ago Kristen Shields, 2000 graduate of Lake Roosevelt, took the national championship in the 100 meter dash Saturday. Shields just graduated with a 4.0 from Whitworth College and a math degree. Kristen is the daughter of Bruce and Cathy Shields of Grand Coulee. Members of Boy Scout Troop 107 took part in a flag folding demonstration Monday, folding the American Flag in the traditional and proper way. This took place at the Isle of Flags celebration, on Memorial Day, where 16 new flags...
A subcontractor employee does some fancy brickwork at the entrance to the new K-12 school in Coulee Dam. Workers race to get the complex finished by the time students show up Sept. 15, to begin the next school year. Many of the rooms on the elementary side are near completion. - Roger S. Lucas photo...
Donald N. (Don) Hope passed away quietly at an assisted living facility in Moses Lake on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at the age of 93. Don was born in Spokane, Wash.,on January 21, 1921 to Charles and Helen Hope. Don was inducted into the Army on July 9, 1942, and honorably discharged on November 7, 1945. Don was a member of the US Army Air Corps and served in Italy and North Africa. A portion of this service he had the privilege of acting as Major General Jimmy Doolittle's driver. Upon Don's...
Sylvia Ann Wiese of Vader, was called home by the Lord, Monday, April 21, 2014. She was born to the late Bill and Lucy Raynor, June 10, 1940, in Tarboro, N.C. Sylvia was preceded in death by her son Timothy Wiese. She is survived by her husband Fred Wiese, of 55 years, daughters Tami and Teresa, son-in-law David and daughter-in-law Susan; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and three siblings. Sylvia returned to school and worked in the medical field when their children were grown. She enjoyed traveling the states with her husband in...
Robert Kistler Rowe passed away Thursday, May 29, 2014. He was born in Glen Alpine, North Carolina on February 8, 1922. He attended the Glen Alpine School District and served in the United States Army from October 1942 through September 1945. Robert married Betty Bigham in October 1946. Moving to Ephrata, then to Quincy in 1946, and finally making their home in Electric City in 1964. Robert worked for the USBR, retiring in 1977. He also worked for L and M Dumping and Mt. Tolman. Robert was a...
Frank Ward, of Stevens Avenue in Coulee Dam, died suddenly on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. An obituary will appear in next week’s issue. If service arrangements are made in the interim, they will be published in The Star Online at grandcoulee.com....
Brenda Covington and James Andrews of Electric City are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Lily Litan Andrews born Thursday, May 22, 2014, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 8 lbs., 2 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Sibling includes Aaron James Andrews. Maternal grandparents are Janet Covington and Alan Covington. Paternal grandparents are Gloria Atkins and Albert Andrews-Redstar. Great-grandparents are Betty Norris and Pauline Pascal-Flett....
Melissa and Sorrell Katich of Keller are proud to announce the birth of their son Buck E. Katich on Friday, May 23, 2014, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 9 lbs., 3 oz., and was 21 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Eli, age 7 and Conner, age 5. Maternal grandparents are Kellie Groth-Strait and Tom Groth. Paternal grandparents are Steve and Karlene Katich. Great-grandmother is Edith Whitelaw....
Chamber to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday, June 5, at Pepper Jack’s in Grand Coulee at noon. Relay for Life in Moses Lake Moses Lake’s 26th annual Relay for Life will be held Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14 at the Grant County Fairgrounds. “Coloring A Path To A Cure” is the theme this year and survivor registration starts at 4:30 p.m. on Friday with opening ceremonies at 6, luminary ceremony at 10:30 and the closing ceremony at 10 a.m. on the 14. For more information contact Josie Ritter, event c...
Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association has awarded three scholarships in the amount of $500 each to graduating seniors from the Lake Roosevelt High School Class of 2014. Recipient Nicole Baker, daughter of Corey and Shelley Baker of Grand Coulee, plans to attend Spokane Falls Commnity College to earn an Associate of Arts transfer degree. She plans to attend Eastern Washington University to study for a Bachelor of Arts in Education Degree. Kassidi Joy Boutain, Grand Coulee, is the daughter of Rodney and Sherri Boutain. Kassadi will attend...
Madisyn Byam is the 2014 recipient of the $500 scholarship awarded by local Chapter DG of P.E.O. International. The scholarship application process includes a review of the applicants’ academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities, and educational goals. Madisyn, a graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School, plans to attend Spokane Community College to study automotive repair and welding. P.E.O. is a Philanthropic Educational Organization that was founded in 1869 for the purpose of promoting educational opportunities for w...