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  • Bowling Scores

    Jul 9, 2014

    BOWLING Summer 2014 TEAM W L Fighting Chipmunks 22 14 Chewy’s Const. 21.5 14.5 Flyin W 19.5 16.5 L.B.B. 18 18 The Force 18 18 Grandma’s Gang 15.5 20.5 Dixie Chicks 15 21 Bad News Bears 14.5 21.5 High Game: Fighting Chipmunks 497; Jesse Vieira 216; Mae Stensgar 176 High Series: Chewy’s Const. 1375; Jesse Vieira 547; Mae Stensgar 465 Splits: Mae 3-10 Previous: High Game: LLB 485; Bob McGill 219; Mae Stensgar 185 High Series: Fighting Chipmunks 1316; Bob McGill 557; Mae Stensgar 452 Splits: Robin 7-8 Summer Youth TEAM W L Seahawks 6 2 Team 3 4 4...

  • GCD School District signs with meal manager

    Roger S Lucas|Jul 9, 2014

    The Grand Coulee Dam School District approved a five-year contract Monday night with Chartwell Food Service of Wenatchee, but has its eye on doing the food program within the district sometime in the future. The five-year contract will allow the district to opt out after any given year with a 30-day advance notice. Chartwell has been providing food service management to the district for the past five years. The board appointed Susan Chaffee and Carla Marconi to do a study on the benefits, if any, of the district managing its own food service....

  • Plant Problem Diagnostic Clinics available through October 9

    Jul 9, 2014

    Plant Problem Diagnostic Clinics have started at the WSU Extension Office located in the Okanogan County Courthouse, room 101. These clinics are a part of the public service that the Okanogan Master Gardener volunteers contribute to the community and are designed to help the backyard and non-commercial gardener identify, diagnose and provide solutions to various problems they may be having in their own gardens. Gardeners are encouraged to bring in a specimen of a plant or insect problem for the Master Gardeners to identify. Plant Problem...

  • Join the Arbor Day Foundation and help America's forests

    Jul 9, 2014

    America’s forestland is a prized natural resource, and anyone can help plant trees in these vital areas by joining the Arbor Day Foundation this month. Through the Replanting Our National Forests campaign, the Arbor Day Foundation will honor each new member who joins in July by planting 10 trees in forests that have been devastated by wildfires, insects and disease. The cost for joining the Arbor Day Foundation is a $10 donation. America’s national forests face enormous challenges, including unprecedented wildfires that have left a backlog of...

  • Spring Canyon fun

    Jul 9, 2014

    This week at Spring Canyon, the following ranger conducted activities include – Sat., July 12 and Sun., July 13, 4:30 p.m. Guided Bird Walk. Join Ranger Deborah on a walk through the campground area and Bunchgrass Nature Trail of Spring Canyon to discover and experience the area’s birds. The walking is about mile. The group meets at the Bunchgras Nature Trailhead. Bring a bottle of water and apply sunscreen. This is a very active bee and wasp area. No bare feet and have epinephrine if highy allergic....

  • Legals for July 9, 2014

    Jul 9, 2014

    IN THE TRIBAL COURT OF THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERVATION Colville Tribal Credit Corporation, ) Case No.: CV-CD-2013-36206 a lending institution wholly-owned by ) the Confederated Tribes of the Colville ) Indian Reservation ) ) CHIEF OF POLICE PUBLIC ) NOTICE ) OF SALE OF Plaintiff, ) REAL PROPERTY ) vs. ) Bernardene Charley, ) A single individual, ) ) Defendant ) The Colville Tribal Court has directed the undersigned Chief of Police, Colville Tribe, to sell the property described below to satisfy a judgment in the...

  • Coulee Cops

    Jul 9, 2014

    Grand Coulee Police 6/30 - While cleaning out a vehicle at Jack’s Four Corners, a worker found what he thought was a controlled substance and called the police. Since the vehicle had been involved in a weapons offense, the material was held for a Grant County Sheriff officer. - A man and a woman were arrested after an incident on Kelso Avenue in Electric City. A Nespelem man, still at large, is also being sought. The Nespelem man allegedly pointed a gun at the other man, demanding a backpack containing a laptop computer and a cell phone. The N...

  • June ushered in our summer dryness

    Bob Valen|Jul 9, 2014

    Reviewing the past five June’s, June 2014 comes in as the driest. Here at the home weather station we only measured 0.59 inches, while the mean for June is 1.04 inches. Here’s how that ranks going back to 2009: 2013- 1.51 inches, 2012- 3.35 inches, 2011- 0.60 inches, 2010- 2.33 inches, and 2009- 0.93 inches. Temperatures were comparable, though, to these past years. We had a high of 88.1°F (June 23) and a low of 43.7°F (June 16). Only once in the past five years did we break into a high tempe...