News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The chamber of commerce is getting additional money from hotel/motel tax funds to promote the all-new Laser Light Show on Grand Coulee Dam, which will begin May 24. The chamber had asked the three cities that collect the tax, Electric City, Grand Coulee and Coulee Dam, to provide $6,000 each so it could make a media buy promoting the show in the Seattle area. Grand Coulee was the first to respond, the council voting $6,000 at its last meeting. Electric City, according to Mayor Jerry Sands, planned to vote the same amount at its Tuesday night...
Biographies of five local women will be featured along with a "Rosie the Riveter" quilt at the Visitor Center soon. The five are: Ida Bartels, Toby Ann Levy, Lynda G. Nutt, Barbara Ann Meyer and Roberta "Birdie" Hensley. The five have all made a number of contributions to community life here. Ida married Sid Bartels in 1940, and the two purchased the Deppman Mill at Belvedere just a few days later, only to see it go up in smoke from a fire that someone had set. She served many years on the Grand...
Grand Coulee Police 5/2 - Police received a call that there was a kidnapping in progress on Hill Avenue. The officer learned that the call was in error, and that the suspect did not contact the child in question. - A caller at Electric Place in Electric City reported that the rear window of a vehicle had been shot out. The officer learned that a child had tossed a rock that broke the window. There was a child in a car seat at the time of the incident. 5/4 - A Grand Coulee Avenue driver was stopped for failing to signal and the officer found...
A video has been posted on Youtube of a man being arrested after fishing in a restricted area below Grand Coulee Dam and allegedly resisting arrest. The Wilbur man's arrest was the subject of a police reports brief in the April 30 Coulee Cops. Taken from a distance April 24, the video is nearly 20 minutes long and includes language many may find offensive from people in the background. It also includes audio early on of a man apparently warning the subject of the arrest, possibly by radio of cell phone, that the approaching officer was about...
A group of friends trying to scratch their own itch for faster Internet connections have been almost forced into opening a new business to answer the same growing need for the local community. Coulee Internet Services Company is adding connections every week with wireless-to-fiber technology that extends the reach of faster Internet speeds to places too remote for fast access wires to reach. And their plans include adding even areas now served by fiber optic and DSL connections. Living in Elmer...
1 Years Ago Officials from the US Dept. of Ecology presented Grand Coulee Mayor, Tammara Byers with a check for $3.1 million in a ceremony at North Dam Park. The money is to be used to help connect Grand Coulee's water lines to Electric City's. Nespelem School District announced this week that more budget and personnel cuts a probable for next year. Declining enrollment and overstaffing is said to be the reasoning. 20 Years Ago A former Ketch Pen bartender, accused of four counts of over...
The all-new laser light show on the face of Grand Coulee Dam, will debut May 24, Bureau of Reclamation officials stated. It replaces the original show developed in 1989 at a cost of $791,806. The new show, was created under a $1.6 million contract, by LumaLaser of Eugene, Oregon, and guided by a stakeholders group made up of interest groups that benefit from the dam and Columbia Basin Project. It has been a long time coming. The new show had been originally scheduled for sometime in 2013, but was held up by repeated changes. The original laser...
Grand Coulee Police 4/18 - A local man showed police a debt collection letter from a Nevada firm to the tune of $665. He contacted the state attorney general’s office and was advised to contact the Nevada attorney general’s office. 4/22 - Police checked on the report of a disturbance on Continental Heights. One man claimed that another had pushed him down. One claimed that he had paid the other for a ride. The reporting party stated he didn’t want to press charges, just wanted the other to leave him alone. 4/24 - A man on Burdin Boulevard told...
PUBLIC NOTICE United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, OWW-130 Seattle, Washington 98101 (206) 5530523 1-800-424-4372 (within Region 10 only) NOTICE OF PROPOSED REISSUANCE OF A NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT TO DISCHARGE TO WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES Public Notice No.: WA0024163 Technical Contact: Kai Shum 1-206-553-0060 1-800-424-4372 ext. 3-0060 within Region 10 Shum.Kai@epa.gov Public Notice Issuance Date: April 30, 2014 Public Notice Expiration Date: June 2, 2014...
The chamber of commerce is after more advertising money with which to fund an ad campaign to boost sagging tourism numbers. Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Peggy Nevsimal appeared before the Regional Board of Mayors at their last meeting and appealed for added help in drawing visitors to the area. Nevsimal told mayors that tourism was down at Grand Coulee Dam last year by about 48,000 visitors, or 10 percent. She reported that lodging establishments remain about 70 percent vacant in the winter and 20 percent empty...
Part of the fishing area below Grand Coulee Dam is now open for fishing after nearly 13 years of closure. The area had been closed for the past 13 years due to security issues connected to the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and officially re-opened April 15. To get to the fishing site, people must take the Lone Pine exit from highway 155 to the Downriver Trail Road and park in the designated parking area. Now open is about a quarter-mile of the pedestrian access trail that will eventually take...
by Roger S. Lucas Two people were recently charged in Grant County Superior Court with first-degree theft for taking copper wire from an area near Grand Coulee Dam last June 18. Charged were Victor W. Ford, a 44-year-old man from Lake Stevens and Michael R. Bruce, a 48-year-old Everett man. Two people out for a walk told police they saw the two pulling copper cable up from the hillside and dumping it on the sidewalk at Riley Point. Bureau of Reclamation Plant Protection personnel followed the incident by security camera in broad daylight,...
Grand Coulee Police 4/14 - A woman told police that she had been visiting with another person when the phone went dead. She said she was worried that the other party might have a medical problem. Police checked and found the party okay and so advised the caller, who was already in contact again by phone. - USBR Plant Protection asked police to check on a person wandering around on government property. The man advised the patrol officer that he was a contractor and produced an identification card. - A woman reported that someone took her bird...
Grand Coulee Police 4/7 - Plant Protection advised police that a boom truck was blocking the highway near Riley Point. The driver told police that he thought the truck was out of gas and someone was getting fuel for the truck. - A man living on Goodfellow in Electric City advised police that he thought someone had tried to get into his house by jimmying the door. The man fixed the door. - A man on Lewis Street reported that someone had smashed his Mercedes Benz with a log about 24 inches long. Several windows had also been smashed. He asked...
Changes that could affect the possibility of a daycare center in the central business district and a stand-alone garage to house two senior buses will be conisdered. The city of Grand Coulee will hold a public hearing on a zoning change at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 15, in the council chambers at city hall. A request by two women, Andrea Marconi and Angela Feeley, in March 2013, to place a licensed daycare center in a Main Street location was determined “not allowable” under central business district uses. Mayor Chris Christopherson ref...
The Colville Tribes, under a contract awarded March 10, began providing law enforcement coverage Tuesday on the east side of the Columbia River for Bureau of Reclamation lands and facilities. The law enforcement coverage on this portion of the Grand Coulee Dam Project and lands was formerly provided by the town of Coulee Dam. A Friday press release stated the award was for $697,000. Grand Coulee police provide security coverage on the west side of the river, and recently were awarded a three-year contract for about $1.4 million. The Grand...
The Bureau of Reclamation will open its pedestrian access trail from the bridge at SR-155 to near the Third Powerhouse on April 15, Public Affairs Officer Lynne Brougher said Monday. The quarter-mile section has been closed for the past 12 years because of security concerns. Brougher said this will be an interim opening, making it possible to go from the Downriver Trail’s north end to close to the Third Powerhouse. Brougher said that after some trail improvements are made, “probably by September,” pedestrians will be able to go to within 150 fe...
GRAND COULEE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $697,000 contract March 10 to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation to provide security and law enforcement services on Reclamation lands and at Reclamation facilities located on the east side of the Columbia River. The security and law enforcement services include the Third Powerplant, Downriver Trail and dam tour building. These services will be provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week beginning April 1. The contract also allows the Colville Tribe to assist the...
[Editor’s note: The National Park Service closed the entire Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area during last fall’s government shutdown. The following is a letter to NPS from Lincoln County commissioners (and submitted as an opinion to The Star) arguing for a different kind of solution if such a funding shortfall happens again.] Director Jarvis, We are writing to request a modification to the National Park Service Contingency Plan that becomes effective upon a lapse in appropriation from congress. In light of the recent government shu...
Clifford Wayne "Cliff" Avey, 86, passed away Monday, March 10, 2014, in Moses Lake, Wash.. Born February 28, 1928, into the Leavenworth, Wash., home of Clifford E. and Violet H. Avey. Cliff served with the United States Army during World War II, before being honorably discharged with the rank of Corporal. On November 22, 1959, Cliff married Phyllis Jean Degn in Coulee Dam's Little LDS Chapel at Walnut and Yucca. A former member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Eagles #5077, Elks and Electric City...
Grand Coulee Police 3/5 - An Electric City man living on Goodfellow Street reported to police that someone had stolen a TV set from his porch. He told police he had received the 32-inch set in the mail and it had been placed on his porch. He discovered it missing the same night as he received it. 3/10 - USBR Plant Protection told police that a conflict between two employees was brewing and when an officer told the man his statements would be recorded, he said, “Have a nice day,” and left the conference room. 3/11 - An officer checked on a cou...
An accident and resulting fire that put the John W. Keys III Pump Generating Plant at Grand Coulee Dam out of commission last fall has cost the Bureau of Reclamation $990,000 for cleanup, fire response and incident investigation alone, and will lead to a “corrective action plan” by April. An investigative team issued its report last week on the cause of the incident that left one worker severely burned in the Nov. 18, 2013 incident and facing a lengthy recovery. Actual repair costs for damaged are still unknown. But of 12 units that can pum...
Grand Coulee has a new police officer. Christopher McClanahan, 32, was sworn in during ceremonies at city hall last Wednesday morning. McClanahan, from Elmer City, for the past two years has been in the security department with the Bureau of Reclamation at Grand Coulee Dam. Prior to coming to this area, McClanahan worked in security at Bonneville Dam and has a total of 14 years in various security assignments. The new officer scored the highest of a number of applicants screened and tested by...
Grand Coulee’s zoning commission is trying to unlock some restrictions in an effort to work with groups that have come before the council asking for help. Last April, two women, Andrea Marconi and Angela Feeley, went before the council with an interest in putting in a daycare center on the city’s Main Street, only to run into zoning issues. Later last year a senior citizen representative, Larry Curtis, came before the council to ask if the seniors could put in a bus garage to house two transit buses. It was his third appearance before the cou...
Grand Coulee Police 3/4 - Police stopped a vehicle when the officer noticed that a female passenger wasn’t wearing her seatbelt. She was taken to Grant County Jail after the officer learned of a warrant for her arrest. - A woman living on Stevens Avenue in Electric City reported that someone had slashed her tire. The loss was estimated at $60. - A man living on Goodfellow Avenue in Electric City reported that someone had stolen his television set. 3/5 - A woman living on “E” Street was arrested on a domestic violence charge and taken to Grant...