Coulee Recollections

10 years ago

Raider basketball practices starts next week for both the boys and girls teams. Head coach Brad Wilson expects 35 or more to show up for the first practice with four starters, all seniors, back this season including Omar Fercha, Jarrad Erickson, Nick Barnaby, and Neil Johnson.Veterans Justin Beagle, Gus Smith and Brandon Heintz will also return.Steve Breeze is the JV coach and Josh Harrison will coach the C Squad. Billy Nicholson is the girls varsity team coach and Loriann Mountjoy leading the girls JV team. Both Raider boys and girls will see their first action in Warden Nov. 30.

The remaining inventory from Midway Merchantile will be sold at public auction Saturday with Milt Snyder as the Auctioneer. Furniture, gifts, household items and antiques are up for grabs at Snyder's final quitting business sale.

20 years ago

On a rainy and cold Tuesday morning, Nov. 15, Coulee Community Hospital was evacuated after financial counselor Lou Pickering took a call at the front desk at about 11:50 a.m. from an unidentified woman who said, "There is a bomb in your hospital," and hung up. Twenty five nursing home patients and the hospital's single patient in the acute care facility were taken by ambulance, van and the hospital's laundry truck to the Eagles Lodge on B Street. About 26 clinic patients had to reschedule appointments but the hospital's first laproscopic colisystectomy had just started when the threat came in so Dr. Gene Goss and the surgery team continued as planned. Local police and USBR personnel conducted a systematic search of the hospital for one and a half hours, starting with the surgery recovery area. Nothing was found and by 1:45 p.m., patients and personnel were returning to the hospital.

Local Electric City and Grand Coulee residents scheduled to serve on the Grant County Superior Court Jury Panel XXX-B From Nov. 28-Dec. 31 include Glenn Adams, D. Clinkenbeard, Sig Elaeson, Brenda Feeley, Wanda Hirst, Wayne King, Dorene Egbert, Melinda Gaddis, Chris Gallagher, William Gorman, Ray Graybill, Lynn Jackson, Jill Jurgensen, Willard Kessler, Joyce Kay Moore, Dorothy Weaver, and Nada Wilder.

Police warn residents of a possible phone scam after a resident on Roosevelt Way received a call from a man in southern California claiming to represent the March of Dimes organization. The caller, with a Spanish accent, said he would send the Grand Coulee man 16 envelopes that he could distribute to people in the Grand Coulee Dam area to collect financial support for the March of Dimes. The caller gave an 800 number but has not called again as he said he would.

30 years ago

Charlie Wendt, reporter for the Elmer City Eager Beavers 4-H Club filed this report: At the club's first meeting for 84-85, held at the Elmer City Town Hall, seven new members signed up including Steve Graves, Jason Jurgensen, Eric Crofoot, Dan Clark, Jamie Benner, Jeff Palmer and Darla Carden. Officers for the new year are: Staci Peasley, Pres.; Koles St. Joer, Vice-pres.; Jodi Rosenberg, Sec.; Greg Wendt, Tres.; and Charlie Wendt, Reporter. Other members include Jeremy Schmidt and Shawn Grimm.

The GCD Junior High Panthers football team evened their record to 2-2 with hard fought victories over Okanogan and the Methow Valley. In the first win, the Panthers struck fast with a pass from Mike Synder to Eric Whitelaw. The pass play covered 50 yards and the extra point made by Layne Battenfield cinched 7-0 with Okanogan rallying in the third quarter with a td but no extra point and the final 7-6 Panthers. The Panthers played away at Methow Valley with MV scoring two quick td's in the first quarter. Panther defense held them scoreless the rest of the game and the offense bullied two td's by Danny Wiyrick and Layne Battenfield for the 13-12 Panther victory. Next up, Tonasket visits Panther country.

The Okanogan County Jury Panel listing for Oct., Nov. and Dec., 1984, as announced by Jackie Bradley, Okanogan County Clerk, includes local residents from Coulee Dam and Elmer City: Tim Alling, Nina Auby, Clifford Babler, Connie Babler, Merwin Bennett, Theresa Blanchi, Joe Braun, Rudy Cleveland, Mary Collier, Earl DeCamp, Margie Dunlap, Ann Elder, Thema Foiey, Mary Gallinger, Helen Gillman, Helen Gray, Margo King, Lois Klingerberg, Gary Kupier, Lisa Loe, Teri Lynch, Pat Neddo, Mary Oakes, Eliza Palmer, Terry Rice, Mildred Rose, Vern Rose, Rosalie Scallan, all of Coulee Dam; Donna Benton, Marjorie Drolet, Chuck Giese, Dorothea Green, Rudy Hatchtel, Theresa Holm, Bill Hough, Cecelia Myrick, Bill Niendam, Chuck Orr, and Renee Orr, all of Elmer City.