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Jessica and Brennan Valenzuela of Nespelem are proud to announce the birth of their son Erik Riley Valenzuela on Friday, June 1, 2012, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 9 lbs., 10 oz., and was 21-1/2 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Trent 8, Logan 5 and John 2. Maternal grandparents are Brenda and David Cirk of Nespelem. Paternal grandparents are Kathy Brann and Ron Valenzuela....
Tasheena Friedlander and James Ogle of Nespelem are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Larryssa Leslie Lynn Friedlander born on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 7 lbs., 9 oz., and was 20 inches in length at birth. Maternal grandparents are Suzette Aripa and Les Moses. Paternal grandparents are Erin Ogle and Larry Ogle....
All kids from preschool to middle school are invited to a great week of exciting wilderness thrills as they head out to beautiful “SonRise National Park” for a community vacation Bible School. This event is being held Monday – Friday, June 25-29, from 9 a.m. – noon. Brought on by the local churches, kids will have a fantastic time with music, crafts, games and stories as they learn the most important survival skill of all: that they can always depend on Jesus! Register by contacting Coulee Dam Community Church at 633-1790 or info@co...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District will enter a two-year “guaranteed education” pilot project beginning with the senior graduating class of 2014. Superintendent Dennis Carlson has been talking about the idea for some time and last Wednesday asked the board to embark on a two-year pilot project to which the board readily agreed. The program would guarantee graduating seniors, for one year, that if they had difficulty moving on in college, the military, or a work situation, the district would come to their aid. Carlson said the program would pa...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved several hires, one retirement, and a one-year leave of absence at its last meeting. Retiring is Linda Peterson as Center School librarian. Teresa Miley, para-educator, was granted a one-year leave of absence. Hired were Shannon Rounds, Title 7 para-professional at Center School; Raehanne Piturachsatit, assistant girls’ volleyball coach at Lake Roosevelt; Holly Weston, district assessment coordinator; Joe Tynan, assistant football coach; and Kyle Desautel, head boys’ basketball coach at Lak...
Cody Proctor, of Grand Coulee, has been awarded a $6,000 Montana Broadcasters Association/Joe Durso Jr. Memorial Scholarship from The University of Montana. Proctor is a UM senior majoring in broadcast journalism. She is a 2008 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School and the daughter of Gordon and Kathleen Proctor of Grand Coulee. The scholarship was established in 1999 by MBA board members in memory of Durso, who was a UM professor of radio-television....
Lake Roosevelt High School announced its students of the month for May. They were: Jared Holt, Keya Fasthorse, Charli Knight, Jazlyn Adrian, Kylie Leiss, Jazmine Sumner, Kendra George, Winona Ramos, Holly Carierre and Natasha French. May staff member of the month was Guillermo Guzman, spanish teacher. — submitted photos...
Nathan Piturachsatit is taking over as the head coach for Lake Roosevelt volleyball with a strength and fitness emphasis which he hopes will make for a better Lady Raider team. Coach Piturachsatit is a sixth-grade teacher at Grand Coulee Dam Middle School, where he has been the head track coach for the Pirates. His emphasis there on fitness has lead to league championships. This is the first time Nathan Piturachsatit has coached volleyball, but his assistant, and wife Raehanne has coached...
There is a man in Seaton's Grove that has wisdom beyond a lot of us. I can first remember meeting this Wizard of Wisdom when I was a small child. I would go to his shop and look at all the fish. Tank after tank of colors and swimmers, crabs and fish. His greenhouse was a warm, misty walk of blooms that matched the color of his fish. The outside was just as glorious as the inside, a garden walk that was capped off with a frog pond. As I grew up in the area, I wandered into Seaton's Grove Green...
Grand Coulee Police 6/8 - A man on Sunset in Electric City advised police of automatic gunfire from the Osborn Bay area. Police responded and found a person shooting with a “slide stock” creating near-automatic firing speed. - A Nespelem man was stopped because he and a passenger were not wearing seatbelts. The two were cited for this and the driver was cited for not having registration present and not having insurance. 6/11 - A dog named “Kujo” backed an Electric City worker up against his truck and made threatening motions on West Grand A...
EPHRATA, Wash. – Grant PUD Commissioners Tuesday placed utility General Manager Tim Culbertson on a two week administrative leave pending the review of personnel related issues. “The issues under review are personnel in nature and unrelated to the utility’s finances or operations,” said Commission President Tom Flint. ”We will not provide additional information until the review is complete.” Effective immediately, Grant PUD assistant general managers Chuck Berrie and Anthony Webb will co-manage utility operations....
The Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation recently awarded a $15,000 grant to the Hartline Betterment Organization, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The vital funds will help support the completion of capital improvements for the Historic Hartline School Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse Project. The timely grant award, combined with additional funding assistance, will allow the HBO to proceed with planned exterior masonry repairs on the Hartline School. The Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation, www.lauzier.org, was created pursuant to the Last...
