Coulee Recollections

10 Years Ago

The Colville Tribe’s two lumber mills are receiving about 100 truckloads of logs a day and loggers are keeping up with their goal of cleaning out a 9,000-acre section of the forest fire burn. 

The Raiders are still firmly atop the Caribou Trail League standings. LR has defeated every team in the league once and Tonasket twice, while remaining undefeated in CTL action. 

Shane Proctor took top honors in the World’s Toughest Rodeo event in Raleigh, N.C., last Saturday and currently is third in the standings in the race for prize money and a chance for a small ranch in Colorado. 

40 Years Ago

The new visitor arrival center at Grand Coulee Dam is nearing completion and will be open to give newcomers and those interested a complete picture of the history of the dam. 

50 Years Ago

Looking like modern Gullivers in Lilliput, laboratory specialists working amid models in the Bureau of Reclamation’s Engineering and Research Center at Denver are solving giant problems to assist in the design and construction of the third power-plant at Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. Their discoveries in miniature will be applied in momentous reality to one of the most staggering engineering challenges ever. 

60 Years Ago

Spring, maybe? Regardless of the calendar, the buttercups apparently thought spring had sprung last week, as evidenced by some brought into The Star office Wednesday afternoon from a handful picked near the mouth of Coyote Creek by Elmer McGinnis of Nespelem. Elsewhere around the area, residents report forsythia in bud, pussy willows popping, roses and primroses in bloom since Christmas, tulips up several inches and showing signs of budding — all this with two months still to go before spring officially arrives. 

Flu Leads Illnesses in Grant County — Influenza was the most “popular” illness reported to the Grant County Health Department. There were 4,940 cases reported in the county during the year, far and away the heaviest of the communicable diseases reported. Next in line, running a poor second, was German measles, with 840 cases.