We're all in this together
We're all in this together
by Scott Hunter Festival organizers getting everything ready for the chamber of commerce's big Festival of America below the dam Friday discovered a key asset had gone missing Monday morning - the beer tent. Apparently, a thief had backed up to the trailer holding the chamber's assortment of festival tents, tables and chairs, and temporary fencing, hitched it up, and drove off. The big tent has been used for several years at festivals where libations are served as a fund raiser. It was also...
GCD School District policies around managing students, athletics and money shifted Monday, as board directors voted approval of changes in the junior/senior high handbook, athletics policies on participation in sports, paying to enter events and in some instances park, and even on the kind of bag you can bring into school events — clear only. Some changes address safety issues and society’s changing ways of handling them. “You can’t go into any major sporting event without a clear bag,” Director Shannon Nicholson told Director Rich...
The Grand Coulee Volunteer Firefighters would like to remind everyone to be careful during the upcoming July 4th holiday and to be careful all summer during outside activities. The weather has turned warm and very dry. We had a good spring with great grass growing weather. We have a lot of grass and other vegetation that has grown well. Now it is dried out and is ready to burn, especially on hot windy days. We hope everyone is able to get out and enjoy the holiday and the summer ahead of us. We just want to remind everyone to be careful with...
OLYMPIA — Gov. Bob Ferguson Tuesday announced the appointment of Winthrop resident Rachel Hong to the Okanogan County Superior Court. Hong’s appointment, effective July 3, fills the position that Judge Robert Grim’s resignation will vacate. The governor’s office announced the appointment in a release. Hong is a litigation attorney and longtime federal judicial law clerk with more than two decades of legal experience, including more than 10 years at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. As a career clerk to...
A lot of visiting goes on as people upset with the Trump Administration's policies walk and talk, including with dogs, along Midway Avenue Saturday. - Scott Hunter...
They are inescapable, these words. They are present everywhere, down the street, and all the way to Washington, D.C. They have become prominent in our society and its politics over the past decades; truly the agony of our nation. Ignorance, intolerance, indifference, irresponsible, ineptitude and ineffectual. Let me share the definition of each of these words according to The American Heritage Dictionary. Ig.no.rance -- The condition of being uneducated, unaware or uninformed. In.tol.er.ance --...
Democrat Senators and Congressmen are pushing to Impeach Trump again. For his bombing Iran Nuclear sites, that every President from President Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump again has said Iran can’t have nuclear bombs. However, Obama used 26,000 bombs to bomb Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, & Yemen in 2016 alone. Never did obtain an act from congress to conduct Military Operations. President Biden bombed Syria, Yemen, Iran with 3,246 bombs No complaints from Democrats. & not congress approval either....
What’s most important to remember about the monstrous “big beautiful” bill ginned up by Trump’s Reichstag is that Republicans are just being themselves. They’ve always pined to fatten the fat cats and screw the average citizen – to take from the needy and give to the rich, like Robin Hood in reverse. None of this is new. What’s different now is the sheer scale of the cruelty, the scope of the destruction, and the spineless fealty to a fascist. And what truly galls me is the Republicans’ repugnant hypocrisy. In 2011, President...
July 3, 1844, fishermen killed the last confirmed pair of Great Auks (Pinguinus impennis) at Eldey Island, Iceland. The Great Auk was a large flightless bird native to the North Atlantic. At its peak, the population of the Great Auk was in the millions. Because it and other flightless birds were popular as meat and bait, they were hunted tirelessly. Why the fishermen killed the last breeding pair is disputed. Some felt the fishermen were working for a businessman who wanted to sell the specimens to collectors. Other’s thought the fishermen...
For a stand-alone guide to just the Festival of America, pull this sheet of paper out from the rest. You'll get just the info on the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored festival and related items. But if you're wanting more information about the local area, keep it all together. Above, people watch the fireworks shoot from the top of Grand Coulee Dam in this 30-second exposure from...
From 12-2 pm Fuel For Ghosts The local rock band will play originals & covers. They feature a local barista and teachers. Dylan, the barista has played for several local festivals and cut his musical chops on the mean streets of Portlandia. 3-5 America's First Corps Band – These musicians stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, will playing pop & rock covers. We've had several military bands at our festivals, and they never fail to please enthusiastic crowds. 7-9 Vaughn Jensen Band...
The Bureau of Reclamation will put on a special showing of the original Laser Light Show on Grand Coulee Dam on this Independence Day. The original light show was commissioned to launch in 1989 in celebration of the centennial anniversary of Washington's statehood. At that time, a laser show was relatively unusual and a sophisticated technology for this rural community, even though the guts of the original show's computer was basically an Atari video game board. That show ran nightly through...
A variety of vendors will be ready to serve you in the park just below the Visitor Center at Grand Coulee Dam. Several types of food and treats will be offered at seven different stands. Also in the market, lots of variety, including body art, fresh bread, soaps, blooms and moonshine - wait, we don't know what that one is about but we'll have to check them all out. Food Inland Empire Concessions Marsalees Thai Food Marsalees Burgers & Ice Cream SweetLips El Charro Birrieria What's Poppn' Ali'i...
Grand Coulee Police 6/11 - Someone reported that a man and woman constantly go into the bathrooms at North Dam Park and stay there for 20 minutes at a time, possibly doing drugs. - A person walking down SR-155 was reported as suspicious. He told police he was walking home and had declined a ride earlier. He didn’t display any concerning behaviors. 6/13 - A man wanted an incident documented in which a woman didn’t show up at Safeway to transfer custody of their child. 6/14 - A deer ran down a hill and into the passenger side of a Toyota...
Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group holds its meetings Monday through Friday evenings at 6pm at the Vets Center. There is also a noon meeting every Wednesday. These meetings are open and non-smoking. For more information, contact Paul 631-4551 or Phyllis 631-1187. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at 634-4921. Food Bank Closed July 4th Due to the 4th of July holiday on Friday the Care & Share Food Bankwill be ckosed. The will resume...
A Celebration of Life for Ambrose Edward-Dale Moore will be held at 3pm, Friday, July 11 at the Nespelem Community Center, 5 Circle Grounds Road, Nespelem. A dinner will follow. Moore passed away February 2.... Full story
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