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The hunt is still on for $14 million for the proposed new school complex. The announcement last week that the Grand Coulee Dam School District is getting $17 million from the the state Legislature to build new schools isn’t the end of the effort, but another beginning. When the K-12 school complex was planned, the estimated cost was $46 million. The $17 million approved in the state’s capital budget last week, added to $14 million the district already had is “enough to build the educational portion of the project,” district Superintendent Denni...
Banks Lake Golf Course’s membership drive has been highly successful, Port District 7 Chairman Orville Scharbach said Monday. Current memberships stand at 52, and the course operations are moving forward, Scharbach stated. The golf course came under control of the port commission April 1 after operators of the course walked away from it. Port district officials moved quickly to encourage golfers to return and take out memberships by reducing fees by half. An individual memberships is now $400 compared to $750 a year ago. Some 39 golfers were tr...
A project to improve the pump-generator plant at Grand Coulee Dam will have no significant impact on the environment — or on the local school district, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation states in a formal paper. The Bureau released its Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment for the proposed John W. Keys, III Pump Generating Plant Modernization Project on April 12. The Grand Coulee Dam School District had objected to not being notified and asked for input on the project, contending it could significantly impact d...
A request for nearly $17,000 for police software was put on hold by Grand Coulee’s city council last Tuesday night. The police department is seeking the funds to pay licensing fees for new software for patrol car laptop computers. The request was for 10 licenses at $1,675 each, prompting Councilmember David Tylor to ask if “police could write more tickets to pay for the licenses.” The new software will allow officers to gain information about vehicles and their owners or drivers before confronting a possible felon or someone wanted by autho...
Oasis Lawn Care was awarded the contract to keep up North Dam Park and the softball fields, Coulee Area Parks and Recreation District Chairman Phil Hansen said last Thursday. Two bidders submitted proposals, Oasis and Mr. E’s. Hansen said the Oasis bid was under $22,500 and details of the bid were more complete. Hansen said the two bids were close. North Dam Park came under the park district’s control last year after Grand Coulee gave up maintenance and the Bureau of Reclamation, owners of the park land, stated that it didn’t have money budge...
Longtime resident of Electric City, Herbert W. “Herb” Horton passed away Friday, Apr. 6, 2012, at his home, with family members present. Herb was born October 13, 1924, in Adrian, Wash. He was the son of Elmer L. Horton and Florence (Humphrey) Horton. On June 13, 1940, he married Clara Harper (Drewer) and had been married for 72 years at the time of his passing. Herb enlisted in the Navy Feb 6, 1943, and served on board the carrier Manila Bay, fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific. At the...
Tree cutting along the walking trail south of Pole Park is primarily for safety reasons, a Bureau of Reclamation spokesperson stated Monday. Lynn Brougher, public affairs officer, said the tree cutting will allow Bureau workers to mow along the pathway making it more possible for walkers to see any rattlesnakes that might be in the area. The Bureau is also cutting down and trimming trees on the upper side of SR-155, near Pole Park, because they are encroaching on the roadway. “Some are d...
Ten Years Ago The 10 members of Grand Coulee High School’s State B champions and their coach came together for the first time in 42 years last Saturday. Ken Hoke, Bill Trefry, Wayne Snyder, Bob Pachosa, Don Kurth, Coach Jim Savitz, Ray Rice, Mark Rauch, Ben Flowers, Jim Green and Terry Mort met at Pachosa’s Gold House Inn in Grand Coulee for his birthday party. Seventh-grader Ali Finch, and Craig Nissen, eighth grade, participated in the Regional Spelling Bee held at Bridgeport High School on Thursday, March 14th. Both students placed fou...
Grand Coulee Police 3/19 - A man reported a suspicious vehicle at Grand Coulee RV Park. When police arrived the vehicle was gone, but found at a nearby apartment. No one was near the vehicle. - A woman asked police to dispose of her late husband’s prescription drugs. Police took the prescriptions to do away with them. - A burglary was reported at a house on Miller Street in Electric City but no one was home when the officer went to the house. - Police responded to a domestic violence call at a house on Electric Boulevard in Electric City. A man...
TV program on dam set for April Amercian Experience will air a new documentary on Grand Coulee Dam April 3. It will be carried on Spokane’s KSPS-TV public television station at 7 p.m. A repeat broadcast is scheduled for April 7 at 2 p.m. “Grand Coulee was more than a dam; it was a proclamation,” begins the literature describing the program. “In the wake of the Great Depression, America turned from private enterprise to public works — not simply to provide jobs, but to restore faith.” KSPS will also air its Northwest Profiles on Marcus, Was...
Ten Years Ago The goal of flying lots of American flags in all four of the towns in the Grand Coulee Dam area might not occur after all. Members of the Elmer City Town Council voiced their concerns about the project last Thursday. OMAK - the largest business in north central Washington took a huge step Friday, as CTEC, the Colville Tribes’ business arm, reopened an Omak mill shuttered for the last 20 months. During the month of March first and second semester art students are displaying their work at the Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union, the s...
Ten Years Ago The Laser Light Festival began to rise from the ashes Monday at Coulee Dam’s Town Hall with the naming of a festival chairman. The board of directors of the chamber of commerce had made this decision last month to suspend the festival for a year, an idea that met with opposition. A committee recently decided the winner in the contest to name the flags that will drape the community in a show of patriotism this spring and summer. Grand Coulee resident Wiyaka Wagner’s suggestion, “Fla...
Grand Coulee Police 2/27 - Safeway asked that a man be banned from the store for a year. - An Electric City man told police that he wanted to add to a list of things missing from a residence there. He said missing were VCR tapes, some antique bottles, two vases, a glass globe with a dancing girl, three pictures from Germany, a bamboo picture, a vibrating recliner rocker, and a Play Station with several games. He said more items were piled up by the door. - Police caught a woman in a small, black sports car from Pateros inside the fence at the 2...
Grand Coulee Police 2/21 - Police got a call from a Coulee Dam reserve officer that he was following a car near Jones Bay whose driver appeared to be under the influence. An officer arrived at the scene where the vehicle was stopped, but the driver didn’t show any signs of impairment. - A woman called and told police that a certain woman was driving around “high as a kite” and “driving all over.” Police went to where the driver was, and she appeared fine. 2/22 - Police were advised that a subject was locked inside the fence at Grand Coulee Recy...
The Bureau of Reclamation is advising motorists and visitors to Grand Coulee Dam to anticipate traffic delays on highway 155 and closures of adjacent facilities while the Bonneville Power Administration prepares to remove overhead transmission lines. The overhead lines cross Highway 155, the Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center, and the Lower Visitor Center Park. To ensure public safety, traffic delays and the closure of the visitor center and park will be required. Starting Feb. 23, helicopter crews will take part in classroom and possible flight...
Chamber of commerce members and “Over the Dam” run officials got good news Thursday when they learned that despite work at the dam, the race can likely go on as scheduled. Public Affairs Officer Lynne Brougher told chamber members that there would be a free lane over the top of the dam and that the run could likely be held. A year ago, there had been some discussion the race might not be held across the dam because of construction. She told the 26 that turned out for the meeting that there would be heavy equipment on the top of the dam but tha...
The Bureau of Reclamation will spend $50 million on six rural water projects throughout the western United States, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced recently. Mostly dedicated to providing potable water to communities, the funding also includes $500,000 for the Odessa Subarea Special Study (Columbia Basin Project) to be used to complete the Environmental Impact Statement and associated analyses, such as hydrologic modeling, engineering and economic assessments, to complete the study on schedule. It will also provide $750,000 for...
Ten Years Ago Months of hard work and dedication from the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce culminated last Saturday when it kicked off its first “Balde” Eagle Festival. “I felt it went off well,” Chamber President Tim Alling said. “ I would have liked a few more people, but it was a decent crowd. Students at Nespelem School saw and heard a demonstration by the Lake Roosevelt boys’ basketball team on how to succeed in varsity athletics and life. Seven wrestlers went, and four return...
A grant-funded study will determine the feasibility of each aspect of a community/wellness center for the region following the award of a contract to Gary Leva, director of the Benewah Wellness Center in Plummer, Idaho and principal at the Gary Consulting Group in Spokane. Leva was instrumental in the formation of the community center serving the Plummer, Idaho area and several others. Last summer, a steering committee rekindled a three-year-old effort to establish a community/wellness center in the area. Self-named the Coulee Region Community...
Bonneville Power Administration, Bureau of Reclamation and contractor representatives from Wilson Construction company will hold a public meeting, Thursday, Feb. 16, from 4-7 p.m. to inform the public on construction details for the new powerlines from Grand Coulee Dam’s Third Power Plant. Replacing lines that take an underground route now, the 500-kilovolt power line project will take power through overhead lines, past the Visitor Center and up to the switch yards and on to the regional power grid. Construction activities began last week, BPA...
The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1.5 million contract to modernize two existing passenger/freight elevators in the Third Power Plant at Grand Coulee Dam. Thyssenkrupp Elevator Corporation, Spokane Valley, Wash., was awarded the contract on Feb. 1. The contract was announced Tuesday. Work involves modernizing the two existing elevators. “This upgrade will ensure the safety of our employees while also keeping vital equipment in premium working order during the Third Powerplant Overhaul Project,” said Mark Jenson, Grand Coulee Project man...
William (Bud) Lee Hertenstein Sr., entered into rest unexpectedly Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. He was born March 1, 1930, in Rush City, Minn., the youngest child of 16 born to John and Agnes Hertenstein. His father passed away suddenly after suffering a stroke when Bill was two years old. Bill spent his early years in Minnesota on the family farm and fishing from the banks of Rush Lake and Rush Creek. When he was a young man he moved to Othello, Wash., to work on the Columbia Basin Irrigation...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District is getting help for its efforts to fund a new school construction from Eastern Washington’s congressional delegation. In separate actions, both Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Rep “Doc” Hastings have taken up the school district’s interest. McMorris Rodgers represents Eastern Washington’s 5th District, which includes the east side of Coulee Dam. Hastings represents the 4th District, which covers Central Washington and abuts the 5th at Coulee Dam. Both are Rep...
Grand Coulee Police 1/30 - Police are asking the Grant County Prosecutor’s office to file possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), possession of drug paraphernalia, and making false statements against a Grand Coulee man officers say dropped a smoking pipe at the counter of a local business as he was leaving. The man denied that the pipe was his. It is being sent to the crime lab to see if fingerprints can be lifted from it. He was released pending the results of tests. - Two juveniles, one a 16-year-old from Electric City and t...
Proposals accepted Electric City’s council accepted Coulee Playland’s proposal of rates at its meeting Jan. 24. Electric City leases the park area from the Bureau of Reclamation and then sublets to Hal Rauch who manages the of resort. Increases of $2 were made in camping charges and $3 in boat launching. Councilmember Birdie Hensley asked if Rauch would still going to allow Electric City residents half price for boat launching, and he said he will. Earth Day to be celebrated Electric City will celebrate Earth Day on April 28. Its council vot...