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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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If you've ever found yourself wondering if it might be more efficient to have one city instead of four to govern the local area, you're not alone. The local chamber of commerce offered Monday to head up efforts to look at the question of consolidating at least two local cities. Their overture met with encouraging words from the mayors of both cities - Chris Christopherson, of Grand Coulee and Jerry Sands, of Electric City. "I'm encouraged by this," Christopherson said. "I think it would work,"... Full story
Chamber at Pepper Jack’s The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, Jan. 15, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. The program will be an update on the Senior Center by senior center president Birdie Hensley. Demos to Meet Okanogan County Democrats are meeting on Saturday, Jan. 17, at El Paraiso Restaurant next to Okanogan Inn off of Highway 97. The meeting will begin at noon. Consortium to Meet Coulee Corridor Consortium will meet Friday Jan. 16, at noon, at Corral Restaurant, 120 S. Main St. , War... Full story
Chamber at Pepper Jack’s The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, Jan. 8, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. On the agenda is planning for the upcoming year. Fire Dist. 9 Meeting Cancelled Lincoln County Fire District 9 regularly scheduled meeting has been cancelled. The next meeting is scheduled for March 2015. Care and Share Food Bank The food bank at the Church of the Nazarene normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, hwy 174, Grand Cou... Full story
Electric City will spend thousands less on boosting tourism efforts and related job growth after the city council reversed itself in a 3-2 vote last week. The council last Tuesday night backed off its previous decision in November to spend 75 percent of its annual hotel/motel taxes each year, choosing instead to stay with its present ordinance that fixes spending at 50 percent of what comes in during a given year. John Nordine, one of two council members on the tourism committee, told the council that he would still like to see the city do a... Full story
Chamber After Hours This Week The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Chamber After Hours meeting on Thursday, Dec. 18, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Starkey Professional building. See our ad page 3. Care and Share Food Bank The food bank at the Church of the Nazarene normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, hwy 174, Grand Coulee. The bank still can use clean plastic grocery bags. The food bank will be closed on Friday, Dec. 26 and reopen on January 2. Merry... Full story
Chamber Meeting at Pepper Jacks The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its noon meeting Thursday, Dec. 11, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. A recap will be held on the Vintners and Brewers event held last Saturday. GCD Ski Club to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Ski Club will be meeting Monday, Dec. 15. They will meet at 4:30 p.m. at the Nespelem School and 6 p.m., at Lake Roosevelt Jr./Sr. High School. For more information call Steve Hansen 509.633.3807. Care and Share Food Bank The food bank at the Church of the N... Full story
Chamber Meeting at Town Hall The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its noon meeting Thursday, Dec. 4, at the Coulee Dam Town Hall, where the group will be setting up for the Vintners and Brewers event. Lunch will be available. Demos to Meet The Okanogan County Democrats will hold its monthly meeting on Saturday, Dec. 6, beginning at noon, at the Breadline Café in Omak. Weight Loss Discussion Group in the Mix Anyone interested in starting a weight loss discussion support group after the TOPS meeting should call Vivian... Full story
No Chamber Meeting The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will not meet this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Meetings will resume next Thursday at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille. Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter to Meet Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet at 7:00 P.M., Tuesday, December 9 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum, 127 South Mission, Wenatchee. Central Washington University Geology lecturer and TV host Nick Zentner will discuss “Smart People Studying Washington Earthquakes.” Since... Full story
More of money collected to boost tourism and related jobs will be allowed to to do so following a move by councils in Electric City and Coulee Dam last week. Electric City annually has put half its hotel/motel tax revenue into a reserve fund. The council voted to cut that to 25 percent, making more available for promoting the area. The money is generated by local motels and campgrounds is supposed to be targeted to promote the area so tourism as a local industry can grow. Still left in Electric City’s coffers is some $300,000 of the funds colle... Full story
Faced with various groups annually vying for tourism tax dollars, most Coulee Dam Town Council members verbally endorsed an approach suggested by Mayor Greg Wilder last week: outsource it — with provisos. Wilder advocated an approach similar to what the chamber of commerce was trying to organize last year, a separate tourism advisory board that each of the three towns collecting the tax from tourists would empower to use funds for marketing the whole area. But even if such an entity does not yet exist, Wilder was in favor of taking that approac... Full story
Construction site employment numbers revised Lydig Construction Assistant Superintendent Bohman Swanson at the Colville Tribal headquarters job site, provided better statistics on workers after a story in last week’s Star highlighted the jobs the project is offering. Swanson said that while about 50 workers are on site each day, about 30 of those, or 58 percent, are Native American. The company will need about 120 workers in coming months. The 155,000-square-foot project is scheduled for completion by October 31, 2015. Star accepting n... Full story
As local towns decide on how much money they’ll spend next year, the season always brings out what for councils is a bothersome and needlessly complicated question: How much money should we spend to promote tourism, and how should we spend it? Three local municipalities collect a tax on motel rooms and campground spaces that is supposed to be spent to promote tourism. That brings groups that qualify, and some that don’t, to the town government asking for those tax funds collected from tourists. The process is cumbersome at best and depends on t... Full story
Chamber Meeting The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, Nov. 20, at noon at La Presa in Grand Coulee. A representative from Columbia Hearing will be the featured program. Grant County Fire Dist. #14 to Meet Grant County Fire District 14 will hold its regular monthly meeting on Monday, Nov. 24, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City Fire Department. TOPS Meetings TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter 1524 meets on Tuesdays at 9:15 a.m. at Grand Coulee Senior Center prior to the exercise group gathering at 10 a.m. Due... Full story
Chamber Meeting The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, Nov. 13, at noon at La Presa in Grand Coulee. John Moody from the Ice Age Flood Institute will be giving the program. Blood Drive Coming Inland Northwest Blood Center along with the Grand Coulee Community Blood Drive volunteers led by Rebecca Derrick will be coordinating a blood drive at the CMC Professional Building B on Monday, Nov. 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. INBC needs an average of 200 blood donors every day to meet the needs of more than 35... Full story
Chamber Meeting The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, Nov. 6, at noon at La Presa. Debbie Starkey will be presenting a work session on the upcoming Vintners & Brewers auction set for Dec. 6. Mosquito District Meets Grant County Mosquito District 2 will hold its regular monthly meeting along with the budget meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City City Hall. Blood Drive Coming Inland Northwest Blood Center along with the Grand Coulee Community Blood Drive volunteers led by Rebecca Derrick... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board authorized the purchase of Center School and land adjacent to it at its meeting Monday night. The title to the site used by local school districts for decades stipulated that ownership would revert to a private holding company if it was no longer to be used for a school. The price to see that that doesn’t happen, said district Superintendent Dennis Carlson, is $155,000. The sale will give the district clear title for the Center School building and surrounding land for a total of 8.465 acres. Carlson s... Full story
You have our permission sleep in Daylight Savings time ends this Sunday morning. Move clocks back one hour. Boat launch permits available online Seasonal boat launch permits for Lake Roosevelt are now availabe online and at Coulee Hardware. They are no longer available at the National Park Service Office in Coulee Dam. The Annual Boat Launch Permit for Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area will now be available online through pay.gov at https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/64970644 or look for the link in this story at grandcoulee.com... Full story
Chamber Meeting The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, Oct. 23, at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. Debbie Bigelow and a team from Coulee Medical Center will be speaking on PPE (personal protection equipment) and being prepared for infectious diseases. OES to Meet The Order of Eastern Star will hold its regular meting on Thursday, Nov. 13 at the Masonic Lodge. Thanksgiving will be oberserved with a Friendship Potluck. It will be Chapter Dress and Short Form. Refreshments and birthday cake w... Full story
The Grand Coulee Planning Commission turned back visitor input last Wednesday night so that members could discuss among themselves the merits of accommodating a request for a zoning change so that an auto repair business could move to a new location. MPH Automotive is located on Midway Avenue at Spokane Way where it is “grandfathered” in because it was already there when new zoning laws were created. Chair and Councilmember Tammara Byers said the planning commission wasn’t taking public comments that night, but would at its next meeting, Nov.... Full story
Chamber Meeting The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, Oct. 23, at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. General business is on the agenda. TOPS 1554 Meeting Date and Time Change TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter 1524 meets on Tuesdays at 9:15 a.m. at Grand Coulee Senior Center prior to the exercise group gathering at 10 a.m. Come and join for the health of it. Chapter TOPS #WA1554 will be meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Mondays beginning August 4. They meet at the Coulee Dam Community C... Full story
Alumni Association to Meet Tonight Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association will hold its fall meeting on Wednesday, October 15, 2014, at 1:00 P.M., at United Methodist Church, 406 Center Street in Grand Coulee. Anyone who attended any of the Grand Coulee schools is invited to attend. The main objective of the Association is the awarding of scholarships each year to graduates of the local high school. There will be a report regarding this year’s recipients’ enrollment in their respective schools. We’ll also hear responses to the last newsl... Full story
Mandi and Richard Button cut the ribbon for the official opening of Junkers last Wednesday at noon in a ceremony arranged by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce. Their new store on Main Street offers clothing items, curios, souvenirs, espresso and more. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
Mark Igo explains the ups and downs of his passion - radio controlled airplanes - to the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce last Thursday at The Siam Palace.... Full story
Chamber Meeting at Siam Palace The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, Sept. 25, at the Siam Palace in Grand Coulee. General business will be discussed. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet Grant County Fire District #14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City Fire Station. SAIL Exercise Classes For Age 65+ SAIL (Stay Active and Independent for Life) exercise classes meet at the Coulee Dam Community Church, 509 Central Drive, Coulee Dam on Mondays, Wednesdays and... Full story
Chamber Meeting at Siam Palace The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Siam Palace in Grand Coulee. Mark Igo will talk about RC airplanes. Okanogan County Demos to Meet Okanogan County Democrats will be meeting on Saturday, Sept. 20, starting at 1 p.m. at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. TOPS 1554 Meeting Date and Time Change TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter 1524 meets on Tuesdays at 9:15 a.m. at Grand Coulee Senior Center prior to the exercise group gathering at 10 a.m. Come a... Full story
