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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Nothing is more important than our children. They are the future, so providing for them strengthens us all and the society in which they live, in which we all live, inseparable, whether we acknowledge it or not. That’s why the top story this week is about a good program at Nespelem’s school, which has seen a decline in student behavior over several decades. If the PAX program is successful, it could reverse that decline, leading to better lives for all the community’s children, in both the Nespelem and Grand Coulee Dam school districts. Teach... Full story
October is National Farm to School month (#F2SMonth). “Farm to School” refers to schools serving local, farm-fresh foods ranging from fruits and veggies to honey and meat. The more local foods we serve our kids, the better. One-third of U.S. children are obese or overweight, and only 2 percent of children get the recommended serving of fruits and vegetables each day. Farm-to-school programs increase students’ daily fruit and vegetable consumption significantly. Moreover, each dollar invested into Farm to School stimulates an additional $2.16... Full story
The Raiders exceeded their football win total from 2014 last Friday night as they defeated the Manson Trojans 28-12 at home. "We had great effort from start to finish," Head Coach Geary Oliver said. "We had a great week of practice, and our kids worked hard to correct last week's mistakes. We are learning how to play for each other as a team." Oliver said Manson "is a good team, and they executed their scheme well, but this week we won the turnover battle." Oliver noted that "Beau Michel had an... Full story
The Lady Raiders won in three after losing in three last week. On Manson’s home court, Lake Roosevelt lost in a three-game set Sept. 22 before defeating Tonasket in Coulee Dam Thursday in a three-game sweep. The match at Manson was disappointing as the Lady Raiders came out with poor energy, head coach Kasey Garvin said. “They came in with a very strong energy, and we had no energy,” she said. After the loss, Garvin challenged the team to rebound quickly from the loss, rather than let it linger. “On Wednesday, we addressed things that needed... Full story
It’s not often the stars align in such a way as to guide the steps of our local leaders, but right now might be a good time for them to look up. In an area that can benefit from every scrap of efficiency it can find, it might seem obvious that similar services two miles apart could benefit by joining forces. Now think about the local police departments. Coulee Dam has one; so does Grand Coulee. Electric City does not, but Coulee Dam recently learned their police would be servicing that city on the other side of Grand Coulee via a bid that was m... Full story
The U.S. healthcare system is afflicted with a debilitating chronic illness — rising costs. Health spending could top $10,000 a person this year. Fortunately, there’s a cure. It’s called value-based care, and it represents a fundamental change in how we pay for health care. Instead of paying healthcare providers for what they do to a patient, value-based care compensates them for how their patients do after they leave the doctor’s office. By emphasizing outcomes instead of inputs, value-based care can improve patient health — and cure our... Full story
Steven Flowers' touchdown with 42 seconds left in the game kept the Raiders from a scoreless loss against Soap Lake Friday night. Flowers ran the ball in from 54 yards out, and the kick was good to give Lake Roosevelt seven points to the Eagles' 34. The Eagles had come to town with a 2-0 win-loss record and showed up ready to play. The Raiders played hard and kept trying to get back into the game. The Eagles were too much, however, and the Raiders dropped to 1-1 overall. "We played hard to the... Full story
Raider Cross Country travelled to Spokane Valley to compete in the Runners Soul Erik Anderson Invitational last week. There were more than 300 runners present from all classifications of schools across Eastern Washington and North Idaho at the race. “Our boys’ and girls’ teams both pushed themselves very hard to compete in the race in Spokane against some very large schools,” Head Coach Gary Darnold said. Will Friedlander led the Raiders, finishing with a personal record time of 19 minutes, 36.86 seconds. That is an improvement of over three m... Full story
Nearly a dozen agencies presented possibilities for long-term help to about 50 people affected by the fires on the Colville Indian Reservation, but none of them will be quick or easy. The Tunk Block and North Star fires have burned about 600 square miles of forage and forest. Imagine a mile-wide strip of charred ground stretching from Omak to Grants Pass near the southern edge of Oregon. Within that area are cattle, miles of disappeared fences, and millions of board feet of charred timber, all... Full story
Nespelem Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., is getting ready for its annual meeting in a year full of challenges. The utility, which delivers electric power to rural areas on the Colville Indian Reservation and in Okanogan and Ferry counties, lost many poles and miles of line in the current wildfires that have burned large swaths of its service area and its customers’ assets; it had explored, but later decided against, a merger with another utility; and it just hired a new general manager who started on the job Sept. 8. Members can meet him a... Full story
The Raider football team defeated the Tonasket Tigers Friday for a season-opening win, the first in several years, and a come-from-behind win at that. "We were hesitant at first and it showed, but we competed from buzzer to buzzer," Head Coach Geary Oliver said. "We improved throughout the game and played at a high level in the second half." LR fell behind 35-14 in the first half, and rallied back in the fourth quarter, scoring four touchdowns and connecting for two-point conversions to come... Full story
Raider cross country travelled to Moses Lake Saturday to take part in the Moses Lake Invitational, where many regional schools were in attendance. Some, like Lake Roosevelt, were running the first race of the 2015 season. For the Raiders, it was a good start, Head Coach Gary Darnold said. “They all gave very strong efforts for the first race.” Will Friedlander was the first Raider boy across the finish line, with a time of 21 minutes, 33 seconds. Loryn Moore led the Raider girls with 24:43. Darnold pointed out that the split between the lead ru... Full story
The Lady Raiders won their volleyball season opener Thursday night at home against the Liberty Bell Mt. Lions. LR came away with a win three games to one, all of them just two-point games, 26-24, 23-25, 25-23, and 25-23. Jocelyn Moore and Aiyana Picard were leaders for the Lady Raiders on the floor. At the service lin,e Kayley Duclos led LR. This week the Lady Raiders travelled last night to Oroville for a 5 p.m. match. Going into the match, Oroville had lost to Okanogan by a three-game sweep.... Full story
Steven Flowers' touchdown with 42 seconds left in the game kept the Raiders from a scoreless loss against Soap Lake Friday night. Flowers ran the ball in from 58 yards out, and the kick was good to give Lake Roosevelt seven points to the Eagles' 34....
"Rehab" is beginning even as firefighters have a tough time on the eastern edge of the massive North Star fire, where Interior Dept. Secretary Sally Jewell appeared Monday to visit state and tribal leaders during a push to educate Congress on a need for a different funding model for such fires. The scale of the fires that have burned across about 20 percent of the Colville Indian Reservation made a good backdrop for Jewell to make her case that fighting such catastrophic fires ought to be funded... Full story
We’ve had long, hot fires in this area before, but none that afforded us such an opportunity to get to know how the machinery of firefighting works in this country. As the season heated up and it became obvious resources were in far too short supply, watching what fires demanded the most and how they were used became necessary to grasping the complexity of the decision-making process. Firefighting teams move about the country to fires where their particular skills are needed, which changes constantly. Teams are supposed to work in 14-day s... Full story
[UPDATE 5:20 p.m. 9/2] As of this morning, the closest point between the North Star and Tunk Block fires was on the southern end of the fire. It was about 2.5 miles apart on the south end along the highway 155 corridor. On the north end, near the Aeneas Valley, the fires are about 10 miles apart, said Stan Hinatsu, the lead public information officer for North Star and Tunk Block Fires. He said the break in weather had allowed crews to build a fireline closer to the actual fire perimeter with the goal of protecting structures and minimizing... Full story
Fire crews are gaining on the fires with help from the weather and more resources, including troops, who were visited by a four-star general this week. On Monday, Interior Dept. Secretary Sally Jewel will visit the North Star Fire as the administration proposes changes to the way wildland fire fighting is funded in the nation. "Fire seasons are becoming longer and more intense," Interior stated in a press release announcing the visit. "The Obama Administration has called for a new funding...
We held a memorial last week for my friend, Wally Loe. I would like to share a few thoughts about him. First, I would like the family to please accept my dear and sincere condolences. His legacy started a long time ago. He was our basketball coach at Coulee Dam High School. In 1963, our first year of being a “Class A” school, we took our school to the state tournament in Tacoma. It was also the time our gymnasium turned north and south. All of our school and community remember the season, the players, and the circumstances leading up to the... Full story
Recently, my truck’s water pump went out near Deep Creek. We were on our way home and it was about 4 p.m. on a Saturday. I called our local NAPA store (Tri-City Auto Parts) for their advice, and it was a good thing I did. Within a matter of minutes, they got me hooked up with a NAPA Service center in Airway Heights, who fortunately have a tow truck. Another thank-you to Barbara King for driving to Deep Creek to pick us up. On the following Monday, we drove in and picked up the truck. So I wanted everyone to know just how much I appreciate o... Full story
At 150,000 acres, the North Star Fire is still threatening Nespelem and, now, Republic. More resources to fight the fire are being added each day to fight the fire, occurring in what Incident Commander Rich Nieto called “epic conditions, historical conditions” at a community meeting Saturday at Lake Roosevelt Schools. But it’s been slow getting the resources that would normally be added quickly, only because of the hundreds of fires throughout the dry West. Officials said the fire was the larges single fire burning now. That doesn’t include... Full story
A Coulee Dam-based effort to help out firefighters on the North Star Fire is catching on like wildfire. It started with a GoFundMe effort to raise money for a continuing effort to supply baked goods and other small items that fire- fighters might need. But it has expanded to include minor medical supplies to the growing force based at the Nespelem Community Center and to other fire-fighting centers, said Glo Carroll, who with her husband Rob started the site and organize deliveries. A small... Full story
Mona Berland is in a red zone, ordered to leave, just like everyone else at Owhi Lake. She’s not going to, but she’s convincing her neighbors they must in advance of a day firefighters are saying could go badly. On Thursday, wind in the Nespelem area was blowing from the south, holding the then-75,000-acre North Star Fire at bay. But since then, the fire has grown to more than 150,000 acres, and the town of Nespelem is still in danger. And Berland’s home east of town is still in the immediate evacuation zone. Hurting from fibromyalgia at 64 ye... Full story
In the midst of smoke and flame, a rising beam of hope shows a promising path, one that will need our focus in the months to come: the desire good people have to help. That desire is striking in the experience of Rob and Glo Carroll, whose own desire to help led them to set up a GoFundMe page to which donations have been coming in steadily for a week. Their effort supplies normally self-sufficient firefighting organizations with items they need but find hard to get amid the massive, thinly-stretched firefighting efforts across the West. They... Full story
Reducing stigma. Someone wants to promote a “stigma”? and keep part of it? and you offer them space? Curious. Harold A. Maio, retired mental health editor Ft Myers, Florida... Full story