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As temperatures begin to dip Monday night, firefighters douse a fire along the Elmer City Access Road Monday night that burned what was beleived to be a mobile home unoccupied for years. Okanogan County Fire District 2 Chief Dave Finch said he didn't want to speculate on a cause of the fire. "I do appreciate my neighbors in the fire-fighting community," Finch said. "Turnout was really great." Units and firefighters also responded from Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation,...
Gloria L. Atkins passed away Friday, November 29, 2019, as a result of a car accident. Gloria was born March 28, 1949, in Nespelem, Washington, to Joseph and Lorraine (Sam) Atkins. She attended Nespelem Grade School and Coulee Dam High School, graduating in June 1967. She attended Eastern Washington State College (Eastern Washington University), graduating in 1970, after attending Eastern for 16 straight quarters. She met Albert Andrews and they were married in August 1970. She started her career, working as a kindergarten teacher in the...
A 70-year-old Nespelem woman died Friday night when the car she was driving rolled on the highway just north of Coulee Dam. Gloria Atkins, 70, was headed north on SR-155 when the wheels of the Chevy Equinox she was driving left the roadway on the right. She corrected, turning left, then once again to the right before the vehicle rolled, a Washington State Patrol investigation found. It came to rest on its top on the northbound shoulder. Atkins was wearing a seatbelt. The wreck happened about...
Authorities have closed SR-155 just north of Coulee Dam for a fatal collision tonight. Anyone traveling between Coulee Dam and points north should take the Lower River Road. The Washington State Department of Transportation issued a notice of the road closure, which started at 7:48 p.m. No other details are available now. Three Colville Tribal Police units were at the scene. The Washington State Patrol was reportedly en route to investigate and should issue a report in a few...
With an ever-growing presence of smartphones and tablets in our lives, how do they fit into the school system? The topic of smartphones, and therefore social media, came up multiple times at the Grand Coulee Dam School District's Nov. 25 board meeting. Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School Principal Kirk Marshlain, in his report to the school board, spoke about a new practice on his side of the K-12 school complex: assigning unique passwords to students to access the internet, passwords...
$5K offered for arsonist info The Grant County Sheriff’s Office is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for arsons of several haystacks around Grant County this year. To be eligible, the information must sent to crimetips@grantcountywa.gov, OR if the fire is in-progress, the information may be given to 9-1-1 dispatchers. The information must lead to both the arrest and conviction of the person or persons involved. The sheriff’s office is also strongly encouraging all own...
The Grand Coulee City Council voted last week to extend their contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to keep a portion of B Street closed for up to another year during construction of the bureau’s new fire station. The council discussed some of the frustration of closing the street for another year at their Nov. 19 council meeting. Councilmember Tom Poplawski said he’d like to add a penalty clause that says the bureau has to pay a penalty if the project isn’t done before the end of 2020. Councilmember Mike Horne agreed that would be a...
The local port district set a formal deadline of Dec. 31 for the sale of Banks Lake Golf Course to Rattlesnake Ridge to be completed. Grant County Port District 7, which manages the local airport and Banks Lake Golf Course, signed a purchase and sale agreement earlier this year to sell the golf course and some surrounding land to Rattlesnake Ridge for $1.8 million. The company gave the district $10,000 in earnest money toward the sale. District Commissioner and President Jim Keene said that he recently had told Scott Gerrits, the president of...
An Idaho man will spend 40 months in prison for an assault that took place on the Colville Indian Reservation, a federal judge decided Monday. Roberto Lewis Doran, 40, an enrolled member of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty in August to “Crime on Indian Reservation - Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury,” a statement from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, said Monday. According to court documents, Doran and his girlfriend had been drinking at a neigh...
A local museum focused on honoring the people who make the community's history now has a collection of tools from a worker on display. Antique hammers and wrenches were donated by Robert McClure this month to the Coulee Pioneer Museum in Electric City. The hammers belonged to Delbert McClure, Robert's father, and a former mayor of Electric City in the late 1960s who also owned Del's Texaco there. Amanda Covey, who volunteers at the museum, which is open from 1-5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday,...
The Grand Coulee City Council voted Nov. 19 to partially fund several requests from other organizations. From the city’s “stadium tax fund,” also known as lodging or hotel/motel tax fund, the city agreed to donate $8,000 to the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce for tourism promotion, $7,000 to The Ridge Riders for tourism promotion, and $4,000 to the Coulee Area Park & Recreation District. CAPRD manages North Dam Park, where several local events are held in addition to the recreation offered by the park. Additionally, the council appro...
EPHRATA — Grant PUD commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved a $291 million budget for 2020 with no electric-rate increase for any customer group except the approximately 25 cryptocurrency mining operations classified as “evolving industries,” the utility said in a press release Tuesday. A solid revenue outlook through 2024 and years of careful budgeting and planning have Grant PUD well-positioned to continue upgrades at Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams, ready the electric system for future growth, continue to invest in technology and exten...
At this time of Thanksgiving, we pause to give thanks to those who enrich our lives. At the University of Washington School of Medicine in partnership with Gonzaga University, we are especially grateful for the growing community of friends, professionals and partners in Grand Coulee who help us deliver top-ranked medical education every day. Thank you to the community and physicians in Grand Coulee for warmly welcoming our medical students and enriching their education experience. You are instrumental in training the high quality physicians...
Representative democracy is based on a simple premise. It’s that ordinary citizens can judge complex public policy and political issues — or at least grasp them well enough to decide who should be dealing with them. But the significance of that premise isn’t simple at all. It means that our country’s future depends on the quality of democratic participation by its citizens. So, in an era when our democracy appears to be under great stress, what must we do to keep it healthy? Here are some steps I think we need to take. First, we have to protect...
Each Thanksgiving, I am reminded that in Central Washington, we have a lot to be thankful for. We are blessed with gorgeous national forests and public lands, powerful rivers and dams, and bountiful farm land. As we gather with our families and friends to reflect on our gratitude, let us not forget to thank the farmers and ranchers who produce food to feed the United States and the world. We are fortunate to be surrounded by a diverse agriculture industry, with over 300 unique commodities being grown in Washington state. Many of our state’s p...
This week I am profiling another outstanding senior at Lake Roosevelt High School. I have watched her grow up right before our eyes. She has had many ups and downs in her educational career here within the walls of the Coulee, but she is putting the pieces together and is ready to take on whatever is next. Here is a little bit of my talk with Rosa Carter. “It’s going alright,” is how Rosa answered my first question about her senior year, and then the normally quiet young lady opened up the f...
One of my favorite family photographs shows Billy Curlew, then close to 63, holding the team. My uncle Clair is sitting on the rail, my aunt Eleanor standing right foreground, and my grandfather Sam Seaton standing behind. It was taken about 1925 (based on the apparent ages of Clair, born in September 1915, and Eleanor, about two years older). Billy Curlew was born in 1862 while his band was on a root-digging trip to the present Ephrata - Soap Lake area, at a summer village site called En Tach...
Cecelia Broncheau Myrick, 92, Elder of the Colville Confederated Tribes, passed away Friday, November 22, 2019, surrounded by her family at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. Cecelia was born Thursday, December 1, 1927, in Culdesac, Idaho to Thomas & Nancy Waters-Broncheau. Cecelia’s Wake was held Monday evening, November 25, 2019 at the Community Center in Nespelem, Washington. Her funeral Mass was conducted at Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 10:00am on Tuesday, November 26, 2019, followed by graveside committal at The Nez P...
• Now thru December 8: Trees decorated with ornament tags with children’s wishes available at North Cascades Bank, Safeway Pharmacy, Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union, and Harvest Foods. Please pick up a tag & fill the wish. • Monday, December 9: All gifts, wrapped and with tags attached to the outside of the package, must be returned to a ‘Tree’ location so they can be organized for delivery. • Saturday, December 14, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m: Trees of Sharing home delivery of gifts Please call Linda Black, 633-3611, to volunteer with Trees of Shar...
Coulee Dam town crew members Troy Sanford, left, John Combs and Nathan Massey pose with a scarlet Hawthorne tree they had just planted Nov. 21 in the town-owned planting strip on Stevens Avenue, replacing one that blew down in a windstorm in front of the photographer's house. - Scott Hunter photo...
Taylor Burn's and Isaiah Michel of Elmer City, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son Cassius James Burn's-Michel on Monday, November 4, 2019, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. He weighed 7 lbs., 8 oz., and was 19.5 inches in length. Maternal grandparents are Brandie Burn's and Anthony Moulton. Great-grandparents are Donna Deckman and Larry Shephard....
No Chamber Meetings for the Next Two Weeks Chamber will not meet this Thursday due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The December 5 meeting has also been cancelled so chamber members can meet out at the Vet Center in Electric City to set up for the Vintners and Brewers event set for Saturday, December 7. Come out on the 5th to help. Voltage Coffee House will be catering a lunch for the volunteers. Friday Bank Closed this Friday The food bank will be closed Nov. 29. Normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders' football season ended in Kalama in the second round of the state playoff tournament Saturday. In Kalama, the Raiders played against the Kalama Chinooks, losing 43-0. "Obviously Saturday didn't turn out how we'd have liked, but we lost to really good football team," Head Coach Tim Rasmussen said. "It was a fantastic opportunity to travel and play on turf and experience what the elite football programs at our level look like. We can use it as a tool to be able to help...
Cameron St. Pierre was named “Offensive Player of the Year” in football for the Central Washington 2B league for his role at running back for The Raiders, and Trevon Johnson was named Defensive Player of the Year as a defensive lineman. In soccer, goalkeeper Kyona Edmo earned second-team “All League” honors for the Central Washington 2B league, and Madisyn Toulou was named as first-team forward. Also, this was the first year the Lady Raiders soccer team won a playoff game, although they had made it to the playoffs in two previous seasons...
Selected at Lake Roosevelt Elementary School as October students of the month were: from left - bottom row: Tayonna Timentwa, Estela Rodrigues Treu Fowler, Aiden Burton, Daxton Lenard, Shaylee Arcasa, Brooklyn Tillman; second row: Shai Miller, Milliana Palmanteer, Jackson Tufts, Avery Wahpat, Kinzley Dennis, RJ Young; third row: Xander Johnson, Shyne Redstar, Eleanor Kontos, Jayla Boyd, Paisley Chaney, Mia Miller, Cambry Brown; fourth row: Sthil Miller, Tanner Lauseng, Hoss Lauseng, Kadin...