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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Voters will decide on about 30 positions up for election in the 2021 elections for local town councils, school boards, and more. Candidate filings of intent to run for these offices are open from May 17-21. Grand Coulee Three seats on the Grand Coulee City Council are up for reelection this year, all to four-year terms. At their Jan. 19 council meeting, it was announced that three council members’ terms expire on Dec. 31 and are up for reelection in November: Council Position #1, currently held by Tammara Byers; Council Position #2, c...
Dalley Katich, 17, of Wilbur, will reign over the Colorama PRCA Rodeo this week, and she's looking forward to welcoming all to Colorama. And look for Dalley to wave back at her in the parade and applaud when she rides out into the rodeo arena. Check out The Star's Colorama Festival section for times and places, inside this issue. The high school junior has been in rodeo since age 3 and participates in barrel racing, pole bending and breakaway roping. She's been looking forward to representing...
The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce is asking for cooperation in keeping everyone safe during Colorama. The chamber issued the following guidelines: “Masks are to be worn at all times (except when actively eating or drinking) at all Colorama Festival activities, including all events being held in North Dam Park (Beer Garden, Food Fair, Arts and Crafts, Kids Festival Zone, Helicopter Rides), and the Parade down Midway. “We ask the community to do their best at making personal choices that keep themselves and their families safe whi...
Local counties remain in Phase 3 of Washington's COVID-19 recovery plan, which means that the local Colorama Festival with its variety of activities in the area can go on as planned despite Grant County, for one, not meeting the requirements to stay in Phase 3. Grant County's incidence rate is 50 percent higher than current guidelines calling for it to be rolled back to Phase 2. "This is our wakeup call," GCHD Administrator Theresa Adkinson said in a statement Tuesday after Gov. Jay Inslee...
Lake Roosevelt High School intends to hold a high school prom this month to give its students a sense of normalcy. “We believe as a district that students need a sense of normal and that traditional events should continue during this pandemic,” Superintendent Paul Turner said in a statement to The Star. “We understand that this event will look different from years past but are adapting to the current guidelines.” “Other schools in our area have opted to let parents host prom,” the statement continues. “If we host Prom as a district, we have mor...
The city of Grand Coulee is considering installing electronic speed limit signs on both ends of the city limits along SR-174 and paying for it with money brought in from a public safety tax. The signs would potentially be placed near East Heights, and the hospital and canal area. In both directions, while approaching town, the speed limit changes from 60 miles per hour to 35 mph. The public safety tax was started as a result of Grant County's Proposition 1, which passed in 2019. The proposition...
You may be able to spot a Grand Coulee Police car more easily if the department gets new badging for their cars. The topic of "rebadging" eight Grand Coulee Police patrol cars was discussed at Grand Coulee's March 16 council meeting. "Apparently, people think the wave is weird," Mayor Paul Townsend said about the current logo that is on the side doors of the police cars, a version of the city's logo which shows a drawing of the Grand Coulee Dam with a wave flowing from it. City Clerk Lorna...
Coulee Dam Police 4/28 - A man found a credit card on a table at Crescent Bay and turned it over to police. Using the name on the card, they attempted to contact the owner without success. - A person reported having been cornered by two dogs on Crest Avenue but was able to chase them off. Grand Coulee Police 4/27 - Police assisted the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office by responding to an incident at Lakeview Terrace mobile park where a woman said she had been fighting with her brother and she had hit him with a baseball bat. Upon arrival, one o...
Community members aren't happy with library-related decisions made at the administrative level that have affected the local library and that have led to the resignation of branch librarian Lisa Moore. The topic was brought up at Grand Coulee's April 20 council meeting, where the council discussed workers at the library being required to "have some kind of degree," a requirement Councilmember Alan Cain called "elitism B.S." City Clerk Lorna Pearce said that a representative from the North...
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The continued closure of a city emergency route during a long-stalled federal construction project is worrying the city council in Grand Coulee. During their April 20 meeting, the Grand Coulee City Council discussed the continued closure of B Street during construction of the US Bureau of Reclamation’s fire station located along SR-155. The bureau awarded the $13.6 million construction contract in 2016. Construction began in April of 2017 and was originally scheduled to be complete in the first half of 2018. Numerous delays, including c...
The Colorama parade will be held like normal along it’s Midway Avenue route, but button raffles will be held online with multiple prize drawings held over multiple days. “The parade is on!” Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachel Haven told The Star in an email. Haven received official word that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will be opening B Street, which runs near the fire station they are constructing, as an alternate route which allows Midway Avenue to be used for the parade. Colorama buttons are also out and f...
With five more dead in Grant County from COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy apparently on the rise, health officials issued pleas this week for people get use the available “tools to take the fight to the virus.” The five deaths reported by Grant County Health District Monday night bring the county’s total fatalities to 120, and officials noted the ages of those who don’t survive is trending younger than it was early on as seniors were the first non-healthcare group to be allowed to get vaccinated. All Moses Lake residents, they were man in his...
The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday that Siam Palace, Coulee Construction, and Centerline Development have come together to sponsor 20 Kids Festival Zone day passes to the community. The passes will be raffled off and posted on the GCDA Chamber of Commerce Facebook page and in The Star. To enter, provide your name and contact info by email to chamber@grandcouleedam.org, message the chamber at https://www.facebook.com/gcdachamber, or stop by the chamber office (17 Midway Ave, Grand Coulee). It’s limited to one entry per p...
The chamber of commerce is seeking volunteers to help with the “Kids Festival Zone” part of the Colorama festival this year, which will feature attractions such as a mechanical bull, a bungie jump and more, as well as tamer stuff for little kids. The area will also offer traditional carnival games, which is what the chamber needs volunteers to staff. Think of those subtle skill games like throwing a hoop on top of a bottle from 10 feet away. Executive Director Rachelle Haven says she needs at least six individuals to staff games over the cou...
Grand Coulee Police 4/20 - A woman reported that a public bus parked so close to her at Safeway that she couldn’t get out of her car. Police advised her to contact the bus service, and the woman said she was already going to do so. 4/21 - Loud banging, yelling, and a female screaming were reportedly heard from a Partello Parkway apartment. Police found the door to the apartment ajar and clothes, garbage, and more on the floor. Police pushed the door further open and found no one inside. The tenant came home with a woman in the passenger s...
Men and machines were moving tons of earth Monday across the road from the Ridge Rider Saddle Club Rodeo Grounds in Delano to make a new parking lot ahead of the upcoming Colorama Rodeo. Parking has long been a problem at the rodeo, and President George Kohout figures the group's first event under the auspices of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association is going to bring a much greater need for more. He said the work underway will add "four or five" acres of parking space. - Scott Hunter...
The Colville Tribes are interested in purchasing the community building in Coulee Dam that houses the old movie theater, bowling alley, restaurant, fire station, and more. At Coulee Dam’s April 14 city council meeting, the Colville Tribes Natural Resources Director Cody Desautel, who also oversees the tribes’ Real Estate Services program, asked the city council if they were interested in selling the building. Asked by Councilmember Merv Schmidt how the tribes might use the building, Desautel replied that it would be used similarly to its curren...
Vendors are being selected for the Colorama festival, and the usual parade looks likely. Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachelle Haven told The Star in an email that roughly 20 food and market vendors are being selected, and that the chamber is still receiving applications. The parade is still being finalized but looks like it will happen as it has traditionally. "We have applied for all the proper permitting and worked with the Grant County Health Department to...
Lake Roosevelt High School is in the process of finalizing its 2021-22 LRHS School Improvement Plan (SIP) and would like feedback from community stakeholders. The SIP is required by the state and is to be developed and reviewed annually. It looks at academic outcomes and action steps that focus on improving school goals, community engagement, equity, and other important factors for school success. The SIP review will take place the week of April 26-30, with the specific day and time to be determined. The panel will look at the current draft...
Receiving no response from the contractor that built their wastewater treatment plant, nearly to completion, has led Coulee Dam representatives to consider taking a trip to the contractor’s office across the state so the city can close the books on the cost of the plant and tell Elmer City what its share will cost. The wastewater treatment plant being built by McClure & Sons, based out of Mill Creek, Washington, is almost entirely complete, and is functioning, but some details are not finished, including installation of a handrail and some p...
People with cars, trucks, SUVs and trailers wait in line Saturday at North Dam Park as Rotary Club volunteers unload their paper documents into bins for shredding. The machine operator at left loads the bins onto a lift that takes them to the top of the truck and dumps them into a powerful shredding machine. He estimated that 7,000 pounds of paper were shredded - more, he said, than many shred events he has serviced in Spokane. People were also generous at the free event, donating $1,567 to the...
Next Monday the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors will choose an architect to help design the future of their facilities. On April 19, the board interviewed two architectural firms: Design West Architects and NAC Architecture, and will choose one of them on April 26. "The board this week is looking at the material, looking through their Statements of Qualifications, so they can be ready," Superintendent Paul Turner told The Star on Tuesday. "Either one of them will be very...
The Community Crab Feed and Triple Fish Challenge events held this past weekend and sponsored by the local chamber of commerce were judged a success, especially by the angler who has been trying to win that tournament since he was 7. “The Community Crab Feed went great!” Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachelle Haven told The Star in an email. “The meals were delicious. We heard that many people were planning at-home crab feeds, which sounded like a lot of fun.” She said 300 pounds of crab from Pacific Seafood...
Under a new state law just passed on April 16, businesses that have lost revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic may qualify for a deferral of their 2021 real property taxes. Businesses that apply for the program and establish a payment plan with the Grant County Treasurer will not have penalties and interest applied to their taxes due, as long as the business remains compliant with the terms of the payment plan but will be subject to the current payment plan fee of $5.00 per month charged on other payment plans The Grant County Treasurer is now...