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The Ephrata Rotary Club will offer a 3-on-3 tournament July 20 and 21, with games starting that Friday at 6:30 p.m. The club took over the event formerly associated with the Basin Summer Sounds concert and renamed the tournament “Rim 2 Rim”. Team categories start at third grade and run through adult. Register a team before July 8 for $100. After that it goes up to $125. Register with a form downloaded from www.ephratarotary.com. Check the download column on the right....
Lake Roosevelt graduates honored their past and looked to the future Saturday as they accepted awards, accolades and diplomas, words of wisdom and hope. The 53 graduates garnered more than $570,000 in scholarship offers and, during what was likely one of the last graduation ceremonies to be held in the current Lake Roosevelt High School gym, received acknowledgement for contributing more than 6,400 hours of volunteer work in the community. “There is so much potential sitting behind me,” not...
Ten Years Ago Firefighters saved a dog from flames and smoke Monday night after Electric City residents spotted their neighbor’s home on fire. Jason Olsen’s rented single-wide home at 217 Lincoln Street was burning about 6:45. The fire appeared to have started in a computer room. A man who spent more than half his life in the area will soon celebrate a special birthday. W.O. Kurth, a former Grand Coulee Dam area resident who worked at the Grand Coulee post office for 32 years, turns 100 years old on May 28. Students of the month 5th Grade, Kas...
It’s no longer permitted … most of the time. But this Saturday, residents, tourists and their families can walk across Grand Coulee Dam. Once upon a time, back before 9/11 brought stricter security measures at the dam, people could walk across Grand Coulee Dam just about any day they wanted. They could gaze over the 300-foot spillway, feel the spray in the wind if water was flowing over the top, or just marvel at the mighty river and the edifice that tames it. Now that opportunity is rel...
Rotary members help a patron at the club’s shredding and recycling event held Saturday with United Data Security, a Spokane firm that brought two $250,000 shredder trucks and a semi to the event. The firm also bought recyclables. — Scott Hunter photo...
As Colorama approaches, the race company that wants to keep alive the Over the Dam Run is still in need of volunteers. Volunteers help with race registration, hand out water to passing runners, staff the finish line and more. Trifreaks, the same company that puts on the Grand Columbian Triathlon in September, took up the cause of the longtime local tradition that lets runners cross one of the most spectacular structures in North America, Grand Coulee Dam. At the same time, they wanted to make the race a part of the community’s l...
Paul Gauron owns a document shredding business, United Data Security, out of Spokane. His firm will be set up Saturday, April 28, at Strate Funeral Home, from 9-1 p.m., to shred your documents, courtesy of the Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club and as part of Electric City’s Earth Day celebration. Gauron, a former mortgage banker, will have two large shredder trucks here to shred business and private-party documents and papers, free of charge. The firm was here last year, and Gauron told chamber of commerce members last Thursday that he would be here...
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...
Bradley dies in wreck Fomer Okanogan County Clerk Jackie Bradley died Monday when the car she was driving rolled over about 11 miles east of Twisp on SR 20. The 73-year-old, who remained active in the county Democratic Party, was headed east in her 1997 Lincoln Continental when it left the roadway to the right and rolled upside down, a Washington State Patrol report states. Spring cleanup Spring cleanup is next week. Be sure to contact your respective city hall to see how the spring cleanup is scheduled in your town. The cleanup dates, April 21...
Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club is planning to tear up even more stuff than it did last year in an upcoming free community shred day. The club's first free community shred day last year had been scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m, but community response was so great that by 11, the United Data Securities 10,000-pound capacity shred truck was filled to the point its massive steel doors were bulging. Shredding was shut down after only two hours and Rotary Club members had to turn many away. Wes, from Spokane's United Data Security, said that he...
As we approach what would have been Dad’s 85th birthday, we are reminded what a wonderful sendoff the community gave to our dad, Rod Hartman. The tears still come as we think of the fire trucks, ambulances, police cars sitting patiently by, waiting to escort Dad to his final resting place at Spring Canyon Cemetery. Maybe you were able to attend. Maybe that day you were there in spirit or thought. To all of you who shared with us that day, thank you! What an escort Dad had! Thank you for honoring him in such an amazing manner; not just on the da...
The chamber’s own president, Scott Hunter, was named “Achiever of the Year” during a special luncheon last Thursday. Annually, the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce names both a “Business of the Year” and an “Achiever of the Year” at its annual meeting. Hometown Pizza was named “Business of the Year.” Hunter, president of the chamber, and owner and publisher of The Star newspaper, was honored for his many “behind the scenes” contributions he makes to the community the chamber serves, S...
After a blissful and tranquil four years in the Grand Coulee area, I have retired from Coulee Medical Center, will be released as bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, plan to move closer to our family near Vancouver, Wash., and submit our papers for a church mission. These are major changes for the Tanners, but we know life is filled with changes. We have seen changes here starting with the rebuilding of the bus barn after a fire and ending with the building of Coulee Medical Center! In between we have a lot of great...
Chamber to Meet The GCD Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular meeting this Thursday, Jan. 12, at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar and Grille in Grand Coulee. OES to Meet Order of Eastern Star Grand Coulee Dam Chapter will meet Thursday, Jan. 12. This will be short form and chapter dress. Refreshments and birthday cake will be provded by Linda Carlson. Worthy Matron Carole Fisher and Worthy Patron Don Redfield presiding. Paper Recycling Day Set The Rotary Club has set a date for a community shred day of Saturday, April 28. Last summer, the club s...
