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The Electric City Council has agreed in principle to a proposal by Grand Coulee to provide police services to the city. The particulars were scratched out over an earlier agreement between the two parties and the council asked that it be finished up and prepared for adoption at its Dec. 8 meeting. The agreement for 2016 and 2017 would have Electric City pay $125,000 for Grand Coulee’s police services the first year. For 2017, the amount would increase according to the Consumer Price Index, not to be less than 2 percent or more than 5 p...
The Bureau of Reclamation is going green. You will soon see the all new electric-powered vehicles the bureau has added to its vehicle fleet. They are so quiet you could almost hear a pin drop. That is a fair description of the Bureau of Reclamation's new electric utility vehicle (EUV) fleet of 27 passenger and maintenance vehicles. The vehicles will be seen throughout the Grand Coulee Dam Project area soon and will save the government an estimated 10 to 15 percent a year in just gasoline...
Elmer City hopes to establish a Transportation Benefit District (TBD) which will allow the town to collect $20 on most new licenses issued for vehicles. The town will have a public hearing on the issue at 6:45, Thursday, Dec. 10, and will have an ordinance on the agenda that night for passage. The town council has indicated that any funds generated through a Transportation Benefit District would go into the town’s street fund for the improvement of town streets. After the TBD has been in effect for 24 months, the town may collect $40 per v...
A dog owned by a city employee in Electric City was declared a "dangerous dog" at the council meeting last Tuesday night. The owner of the dog, Jared L. Armstrong, of 32 Hillcrest Place, who is an employee of the city's public works department, appeared to defend his dog. The gray, tan and white dog with spots, named Felicia, about 40 pounds, was described by Armstrong as nothing more than a 10-month-old puppy. "I would have brought him tonight and he would have probably licked all of you and...
Ken Miles mixes pancake batter for the Veterans Day breakfast, which constantly served breakfasts from 6:30 a.m. on and brought in more than $900 in donations for American Legion Post 157 during the Veterans Day Nov. 11 event. The group also held their winter coat giveaway on Saturday, providing 44 coats to local area residents. The legion gleaned hundreds of good-quality hats, coats, scarves and gloves during the post's summer-long weekly yard sale, when people aren't interested in warm...
No pay for council Electric City councilmembers voted not to pay themselves $20 a meeting and to not give Mayor John Nordine II a $50-a-month raise last Tuesday night. Councilmember Lonna Bussert was adamant that she saw serving on the council as a public service. The other councilmembers agreed. The council twice before had voted down paying its members by the meeting. The council also voted not to increase the mayor’s salary from $250 a month to $300 a month. Wages of full-time staff members went up 1 percent for 2016, and this also passed t...
Electric City council agreed to the allotment of hotel/motel tax money for 2016 at its meeting last Tuesday and will consider keeping more than a quarter million dollars in tourism-promotion funds toward funding a pathway. The council tourism committee, made up of councilmembers Brad Parrish and Richard McGuire, recommended allotting the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce $25,000 for tourism promotion, with the stipulation that $3,200 be taken from that amount to make up for overpayments the city made during 2015. That created a debate...
The town of Coulee Dam is set to gain a new sewer plant but lose an ambulance service. The town expects to spend nearly $7 million of its wastewater fund in 2016, when a long-awaited revamp of its wastewater treatment plant is anticipated to begin in late summer. A preliminary budget shows the town ending next year with nearly $857,000 in reserves, even after spending some $10,053,652, most of that on the sewer plant. At the town council’s Nov. 12, meeting there was no discussion on the budget or on Mayor Greg Wilder’s 2016 “budget messa...
Once upon a time, in a land … well, right here … we didn’t have to depend on fairy tales to fund basic necessities. But we did live under the spell of a powerful and hated potion that cast a pall across the land. By helping to pay for our other bad habits, the potion kept us hooked and gained power every year, until one day, a charlatan came with bright, shining lies and said that all would be well if we would only turn away from the potion. And for a while it seemed all was well, until the world started to crumble and the people reali...
Sometimes in life we are given gifts, sometimes extraordinary gifts in the relationships we are fortuitous enough to wander into. One of those extraordinary gifts came to me, by happenstance or God’s way of remaining anonymous, in the form of my friendship with Ed Allan. I was a neophyte lawyer in the early l980s, moving to Grant County to begin a practice with my father, when I first met Ed. His kindness and warmth was immediate. I vividly recall the first time I was introduced to him at the Grant County Courthouse. He welcomed me like a l...
A few months ago I inducted the first two unofficial Raider Hall of Famers: Shawn and Nick Ford. Today I am inducting a few more former Raiders and coaches into the hallowed halls of Raider Nation. Now, you can’t have a Raider Hall of Fame and not put in a world champion. Shane Proctor, champion bull rider and rodeo star is now placed in the hall. A graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School, he went on to big things following his love of rodeo. He comes back every summer, too, and puts on a first class, all-star rodeo camp for future champions. N...
You can understand why President Obama and congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle sought to cast their end-of-October budget deal in the best possible light. They avoided a potentially catastrophic national default. They reduced the possibility of a government shutdown. And they raised the debt ceiling until March 2017, taking that bargaining chip off the table until the next president is in the White House. For a last-minute, secret, backroom deal, that’s not too shabby. It was bipartisan and took modest steps in the direction of p...
A rigger rides the concrete bucket and funnel used in pouring operations at the Pump-Generating Plant. In the background, the anchor blocks for pipes from the plant to the headworks can be seen. Source: Contractor MWPK. - May 19, 1950...
The Grand Coulee Nazarene Church and Coulee Dam Community Church invites the community to the annual Thanksgiving Dinner at the Senior Center on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2-4 p.m. There is no charge....
Thurs., Nov. 19 - Dinner Pulled Pork Sandwich, Potato Chips, Corn, on the Cob, Apple Slices with Dip, Parfait Fri., Nov. 20 - Breakfast German Sausage and Eggs, Hashbrowns, Toast, Fruit Bowl, Orange Juice Mon., Nov. 23 - Breakfast Country Omelette, Banana Bread/Muffins, Fruit Bowl, Orange Juice Tues., Nov. 24 - Dinner Turkey Noodle Soup, Grilled Cheese Casserole, Green Salad, Fruit Cup, Cake/Cupcakes Wed., Nov. 25 - Dinner Hearty Sunday Boil (Ham and Root Vegetables), Dinner Rolls, Chay’s Applesauce,Bread Pudding....
Martin Douglas Bullion, 46, who was born July 21, 1969, in Puyallup, Washington, to Daniel Lee and Bonnie Eloise Bullion, died Tuesday evening, November 10, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. A member of Banks Lake Bible Church in Electric City, Washington, Martin had recently worked for the Siam Palace as a Food Prep Cook and enjoyed making deliveries for the Grand Coulee Food Bank. Previously an employee of Puget Sound Rope in Anacortes, Washington, Martin was a...
Joan D. Jensen, 76, of Elmer City, Washington, passed away at home Friday, October 30, 2015. Joan was born January 19, 1939, in Hinckley, Minnesota, to Mr. and Mrs. Vern Loken. On Friday, August 13, 1965, Joan married the love of her life, Loren R. Jensen, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In addition to working as a waitress, Joan had attended "Way of The Cross Baptist Church" in Nespelem, Washington, with Loren. Joan and Loren enjoyed many hours of fishing together for walleye in the Columbia...
Edith Short peacefully passed away Saturday, October 31, 2015. She was in many ways a miracle child, as she was born without thyroid function. This condition often had severe lasting effects on children of that time. Born in 1931, Edith was one of the first to be treated by Children’s Hospital in Seattle for this disorder. Although she struggled with this complication her whole life, she was able to overcome it and complete college with a teaching degree from Central Washington University. Edith was a teacher at Nespelem, Omak, Mansfield and M...
Helen Louise Elkins, 97, beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, peacefully passed away Wednesday morning, November 4, 2015, at McKay Health and Rehab in Soap Lake, Washington. Born October 27, 1918, into the Rogersville, Missouri, home of Noel Ernest and Elsie M. Glaubitz Bench, Helen grew up with her two brothers: Cecil and Arnold. A light breeze gently swayed the leaves on the warm summer day, August 8, 1949, when Helen was united in marriage to U.S. Navy Veteran John Clifford...
Clyde Gordon Pugh, 88, of Elmer City, Washington, passed away at Spokane, Washington's Providence Holy Family Hospital, Friday afternoon, October 23, 2015. Born February 23, 1927, in Wilbur, Washington, the son of Guy and Grace Pugh, Clyde graduated from North Kitsap High School. On January 28, 1946 Clyde enlisted at the US Army recruitment station in Poulsbo, Washington and served as a military policeman in New Mexico. Following his discharge at Fort Bliss, Texas, PFC Pugh married JoAnn...
Chamber Meets at the Senior Center The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will be meeting this Thursday, Nov. 19, at noon, at the senior center in Grand Coulee. Maggie Stewart will be talking about drums and drum making. Okanogan County Democrats to Meet The Okanogan County Demo-crats will be preparing for March 2016 caucuses at their Saturday, Nov. 21, meeting starting at noon at the Caribou Inn Restaurant in downtown Okanogan. Care and Share Food Bank The food bank at the Church of the Nazarene has normal operating hours every Friday...
Janelle Bearcub and Desmond Yazzie, of Coulee Dam, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Warren Jodi Yazzie, born Saturday, October 31, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 5 lbs., 12 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Dillan Yazzie and Bradyn Yazzie. Maternal grandparents are Roberta (BJ) Bearcub and Adam Bearcub Jr.; Paternal grandparents are Jennifer Joseph and Frank Yazzie Sr....
Marlaenna Ankney and Johnny Craig are proud to announce the birth of their son, Bravyn Connor Craig, born Monday, November 9, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 8 lbs., 11 oz., and was 20 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Theo George, Desirae Craig and Zariah Craig. Maternal grandparents are Pattie Ankney and Vinny Jack. Paternal grandparents are Anita Frank and John Craig....
LR Football finished the season with its best winning percentage since 2004 and its closest to state playoffs since 2003. With these improvements came the greatest number of Raiders at the end of the season named to all-league squads in many years. “Our football team started the year in June with one goal and two expectations,” Head Coach Geary Oliver said. “Our goal was to compete to the final buzzer in every game, and our expectations were to have fun and self-respect.” Oliver attributes the high number of all-league selections to the players...
Sean Garvin, Jocelyn Moore, and Kayley Duclos were all named to the Central Washington 2B North All League Volleyball Squads last week. Garvin was named to the first team by the league’s coaches, while Moore and Duclos earned an honorable mention. “All three girls that were nominated for all-league were consistently my stat leaders throughout the season,” Head Coach Kasey Garvin said. “I’m proud that (Sean) received a first-team honor again this year,” Coach Garvin said. “She puts in a lot of time in the off-season, and the league coache...
