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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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A lot of kids enjoyed the fun and games of Koulee Kids Fest over the weekend. "Koulee Kids Fest was so much fun," Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachelle Baughman said. "The weather was beautiful and there were so many happy faces." She said that 132 "passports" had been turned in from children, with 7-year-old Myles Salverson winning the random drawing from those for a hoverboard. Kids were required to complete six out of 15 stations at Kids Fest in order to turn...
Final results are in for seven races for spots on the Colville Business Council with five of the seven incumbents keeping their positions, and two losing their positions. Absentee votes were certified today, June 23, and added to the poll vote results which had been certified on Tuesday. In the race for Nespelem District Position #1 on the Colville Business Council, incumbent and current chairman Andy Joseph Jr won 370 to 232 votes against Corby Turner. In the race for Nespelem District Position #2, incumbent Shar Zacherle won 357-244 against f...
Grand Coulee Dam School District Budget Hearing Canceled Cancellation notice is hereby given that the Grand Coulee Dam School District No. 301J will not be holding a public budget hearing on June 27, 2022. The budget hearing will take place July 25, 2022 at 5:00 p.m....
Joe Harris wants to be the sheriff of Grant County, having served for over 20 years in law enforcement following eight years in the marines. Harris started his career in law enforcement as an officer with the city of Quincy in 2001, then working for the Grant County Sheriff's Office in 2006, working for a year for the state attorney general in 2015, then as the chief of police in Mattawa until 2021. He finished his doctorate in Public Administration earlier this year, earning the degree...
Motorheads were able to share their love of cars at the Diversity Divine Auto Show over the weekend. "The show went great!" Sam Hsieh, who hosted the event on Saturday on his Main Street property called Coulee Plaza. "I am so glad that people were willing to come out and participate despite the unknown weather. It was a gathering of car lovers and enthusiasts, family and friends. We all enjoyed the company of each other and chatted up anything and everything about cars. The thing I love most...
The Coulee Area Parks and Recreation District, which manages North Dam Park, is meeting tonight, June 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the former middle school in Grand Coulee in the former teachers’ lounge. The group is in a tough position as they haven’t secured funding from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which owns the land at North Dam, for 2022, which means they can’t fund maintenance at the park such as watering the grass, garbage service, powering the lights, and general yard work. Commissioner Kevin Portch told The Star last week that the group...
Children on the Colville Indian Reservation have been dispersing "seed bombs" in areas affected by wildfires in recent years to help restore native species to the areas. The "Healing the Earth" program is conducted by the Washington State University Colville Reservation Extension 4-H program, which partners and collaborates with the Colville Confederated Tribes and Bureau of Indian Affairs natural resource programs, including Environmental Trust, Range, Fish & Wildlife, and Mt. Tolman Fire...
Girls and boys who will be in 3rd-8th grade in the 2022-2023 school year can sign up tomorrow, June 23, for a basketball camp that takes place in July. Signups will take place June 23 at the Lake Roosevelt gym from 6-7 p.m. for a $75 signup fee. All proceeds will benefit local basketball teams, according to organizers. The camp itself will take place July 11-13, with 3rd-5th grade participating from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and 6th-8th grade from 3-6 p.m. Local coaches will be joined by Jeff Niemi of Grays Harbor College. The fundamental games and...
When an area suddenly becomes popular, it ruins it for people who already lived there. There’s a lot of examples of this. I don’t think it could happen here, but you never know if we will be discovered someday. While living in Boise, we often drove up to Silver City, an old mining town about 75 miles into the higher country. The roads were carved out of clay, so it wasn’t a good idea to drive there after a rain. There were a few old buildings still standing, a few in good repair. It wasn’t long before the area became popular with the Boise crow...
In my last thoughts shared in The Star, I mentioned that I had hoped that the upper brass in the GCDSD would start to be accountable for the downward spiral of dysfunction created by their superintendent. I love our local school district and I’m proud that all of my kids were Raiders, but this organization is at the lowest point I’ve seen in forty years. We need genuine leadership where people are valued and heard, and progressive change is made on necessary prioritized challenges. Instead, we have a pattern of selfish, reactive management whe...
"Miss Coulee", the first big passenger boat to go into service on the lake behind Grand Coulee Dam. - July 8, 1940...
Regenerating millions of western forested acres scorched by large wildfires is a herculean task costing hundreds of billions. However, healthy growing woodlands are essential to reducing atmospheric CO2 and providing abundant clean air and fresh water for people, crops, fish, and wildlife. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, nearly 3 million acres have already burned this year in the U.S., mostly in Arizona, New Mexico, and Alaska. By year’s end, that total may exceed 2019, w...
The Biden Administration must be held accountable for failing to serve Central Washington’s veterans. This weekend, details on a draft report from the VA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) broke news headlines, outlining that not only did the new Electronic Health Record (EHR) system rolled out at Spokane (and now Walla Walla’s) VA hospitals cause harm to at least 148 veterans, but that Cerner Corporation, which owns the contract for this system, knew their system was flawed and withheld that information from the Department of Veter...
Richard "Dick" C. Rutledge passed away March 16, 2022, at his home in Elmer City, Washington. He was born in 1952 in Moscow, Idaho, to Donald Rutledge and Marjorie Epperson. He spent his childhood in Everett, Washington. He moved to Wilbur Washington, where he owned and operated Dick's Automotive. He then moved to Elmer City in 1998, and owned and operated Eagle Automotive. He retired in 2004. Dick is survived by his mother, Marjorie Drolet of Elmer city; his son, Tyrell of Hoquiam, Washington;...
Grand Coulee Police 6/13 - Security footage at Coulee Gas didn’t show anything helpful for a man trying to find his wallet, with the gas station being the last place he remembered having it. 6/14 - A woman on School Avenue reported a white man in a black hoodie captured on security footage walking through her yard with a flashlight. Nothing was missing from her property, but she wanted to warn police about the man prowling the area. - Police spoke to a man who admitted to urinating in the open near Continental Heights. The man said he really h...
Correction In last week's issue of the Star, Co-Salutatorian Almeta Desautel's speech was accidentally not printed in its entirety. Here is her full speech. Co-Salutatorian Almeta Desautel Hello Everyone, for those of you who may not know me, my name is Almeta Desautel (yes, Nate Desautel's daughter) and I am the co-salutatorian for Lake Roosevelt's graduating class of 2022. While I sat writing this speech, wondering what I could possibly say on a day as important as this, I reflected back to...
GCD School District No. 301J Budget Hearing Notice Notice is hereby given that the Grand Coulee Dam School District No. 301J will hold a public budget hearing to review the 2022-2023 budget at 5:00 p.m. June 27, 2022. Regular board meeting to follow. This meeting will be available via ZOOM. B. Paul Turner Superintendent Grand Coulee Dam School District No. 301J (Publish June 15 and 22, 2022) Nespelem School District #014 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received by Nespelem School District #014 for the Nespelem Elementary School Site...