Newsbriefs

Chief

candidate

exams

Grand Coulee’s Civil Service Commission will conduct oral exams for six candidates who filed for the position of police chief. The top three candidate’s names, test scores and resumes will be given to the mayor for selection, and the selection will go before the city council for confirmation.

City sets

salaries

Grand Coulee council approved monthly salaries for department heads at its meeting last Tuesday night: Acting police chief, $8,568.61; utility foreman, $5,090.46; and city clerk, $3,923.06. The council also formally approved an $115,000 contract with Electric City for police coverage.

Three percent less junk

Business at the Delano Regional Transfer Station was down $14,781 from 2013 totals, the Regional Board of Mayors learned Monday. The Transfer Station did $439,404 in business in 2013, compared to $424,623, in 2014. The Transfer Station’s busiest month in 2014, was September, when it did $46,838.

Gym roof

nearing

completion

All of the insulation and sealing material should be finished on the Lake Roosevelt High School gym this week and the gym will soon have a new roof covering. Fulcrum Environmental, a Spokane firm, is out this week cleaning any traces of asbestos dust from the inside of the gym, and when that is finished the Raiders will resume sports play in their own gym, rather than at the old middle school gym in Grand Coulee.

Blood drive Monday

Inland Northwest Blood Center will conduct a blood drive, Monday, Jan. 19, in the Coulee Medical Center professional center on the hospital campus. Blood donor hours are from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. All donors receive a Retro T-shirt and are eligible for free cholestrol testing. INBC has a goal of 200 donors.

Karaoke for kids offered

The Ridge Riders will host a kid’s karaoke and activities this Friday, Jan. 16, at the Ridge Riders clubhouse in Delano. Music begins at 7 p.m.

Phishing scams targeting

businesses

Scammers are at it again. This time, they are targeting Washington citizens and businesses with fraudulent emails asking them to pay off tax liens owed to the state.

The email reads that the Department of Revenue has filed a lien in county probate courts or with the Secretary of State. The taxpayer is directed to make a cash-by-wire-transfer payment before Jan. 20. Neither the email nor fax number listed in the email for Revenue is legitimate.