Articles from the November 27, 2013 edition
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Meetings and Notices
No Chamber Meeting The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will not be meeting this week due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Regular meeting will resume on Thursday, Dec. 5 at noon at the American Legion Post for decorating... — Updated 12/2/2013
By Law enforcement contract will likely split
An eventual contract for law enforcement services between the Bureau of Reclamation and local agenices will probably end up looking like this -- Grand Coulee, four officers; Coulee Dam, two officers; and two officers from the... — Updated 11/27/2013
Legals for November 27, 2013
Hospital Dist. 6 PUBLIC NOTICE OF MEETING CANCELLATION The regularly scheduled Public Hospital District #6 Douglas, Grant, Lincoln & Okanogan Counties Board of Commissioners scheduled for November 27, 2013 has been cancelled.... — Updated 11/27/2013
After a dry October, first seasonal snow falls in November
The home weather station measured a trifling 0.14 inches of precipitation for October. Looking back at past years shows we’ve had more — 1.15 inches in 2012, 0.54 inches in 201... — Updated 11/27/2013
Trees of Sharing ornaments all around the community
The Trees of Sharing trees, decorated with ‘wish’ ornaments for more than 140 local children, are all around town. Trees are located in Grand Coulee at Funzee’s, Safeway Pharmacy, and Glacier (formerly North Cascades Natio... — Updated 11/27/2013
Food bank gets boost
Zion Lutheran church members Ray Duclos, left and Evelyn Russell, right, present Care and Share Food Bank manager Fern Blaylock with a donation of $1,770, the results of the... — Updated 11/27/2013
Dennis Conway
Dennis Conway, 63, of Conway, S,C., died suddenly Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. Dennis was born December 28, 1949, and grew up in Coulee Dam, Wash., creating a network of lifelong... — Updated 11/27/2013
Norman Hudnall
Norman Hudnall passed away on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. He was born June 13, 1927, in Omak, Wash., to Clyde and Lucy (Holt) Hudnall. He married his wife of 65 years Helen (Bush) in... — Updated 11/27/2013
Coulee Recollections
Ten Years Ago The man who threatened to blow up Grand Coulee Dam was released last week from Spokane County Jail. Richard Vialpando was released after five months in jail. Laura Dick, of Nespelem, won a statewide contest on... — Updated 11/27/2013
A Thanksgiving Message
Thanksgiving is a day that we as a nation take time out from our busy lives to gather with family and friends to give thanks for our many blessings. America’s first Thanksgiving celebration is traced to 1621 in Plymouth, M... — Updated 11/27/2013
Tears in a man's eyes
Not too many years ago, I almost died. Literally. My wife called everyone she could think of and told them they better come visit me before it was too late. My memory of those days... — Updated 11/27/2013
Memories triggered from letter
The letter to the editor Nov. 6 by Roberta Warden Gamble brought back memories. I knew Billy Bell in the 1930s. He had two bands of sheep. There were 1,000 ewes and 1,200 lambs in a band. The reason there were more lambs in a band... — Updated 11/27/2013
City not addressing dog barking problem
I live in Electric City and I know the rules on how many dogs we can have. There are three Shepherds on our block that bark at trucks, deer and birds, it doesn’t matter what it is. When you work nights and come home to sleep and g... — Updated 11/27/2013
Needed: stable medical workforce
When our family moved to the Airport Addition of Coulee Dam from the northeast corner of Wyoming in 1980, we were where we wanted to be, hopefully for the rest of our life. Lake Roosevelt High School was just around the corner,... — Updated 11/27/2013
Art selection to start soon
An art committee made up of local residents will soon begin the process of selecting some $140,000 work of artwork for the new K-12 school complex. Under state law, 1 percent of public funds for construction projects must be put... — Updated 11/27/2013
Grand Coulee library light- up set for next Thursday
It’s light the library time. A special program is planned for the Etheta Anderson Grand Coulee Library on Thursday, Dec, 5. from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. A special lighting of the library, a repeat of last year’s program, is planned. The... — Updated 11/27/2013
Big price found for engine repair
Grand Coulee had a bit of sticker shock when officials learned that it would cost about $20,000 to make repairs on its brush fire truck. Fire chief Rick Paris told the council last Tuesday night that the fire truck had blown a head... — Updated 11/27/2013
Main Street gets lights for the Christmas season
They are lighting up Main Street. Grand Coulee Main Street merchants have bundled some money together to purchase special holiday season lighting in an effort to make the local... — Updated 11/27/2013
Port to look for golf course grant
Port district commissioners approved a plan at their meeting last Thursday to seek a grant to fix up the Banks Lake Golf Course. The idea came from Frank Andrews Jr., a planner and grant writer for the Colville Confederated... — Updated 11/27/2013
Newsbriefs
Star observes holiday The Star Newspaper office will be closed both Thursday and Friday, Nov. 28 and 29, for the observance of Thanksgiving. The newspaper office will open at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 2. LR soft soled for NA month Lake... — Updated 11/27/2013
Making progress
Roy Moon installs electrical components in the K-12 new school project, which is making fast progress now that workers can work inside. The elementary school side is completely... — Updated 11/27/2013
Port District to buy golf carts
Port District 7 commissioners voted Thursday night to purchase 21 golf carts that they have had on lease since 2008. District President Orville Scharbach told commissioners that the carts would be paid for in three years. The... — Updated 11/27/2013
Early ceremony planned for swearing in town's elected
Mayor-elect Greg Wilder will be sworn in Dec. 23, as Coulee Dam mayor by U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby from the U.S. Department of Justice Eastern Washington, Wilder stated last week. Others elected to office in the town of Coulee Dam... — Updated 11/27/2013
Pennies earned
–Patrons of the penny auction last Saturday listen for the winning numbers for hundreds of items they'd bid on during the auction and lucheon. The fund raiser for Lake R... — Updated 11/27/2013
Administrators: CMC needs to focus on longterm survival
Directions in the management of Coulee Medical Center are aimed at providing for the long-term survival of the hospital, despite shorter-term difficulties, its top administrator and board chairman said this week. Chief Operating... — Updated 11/27/2013
