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Although the idea of consolidating local towns wasn’t popular during a brief discussion in Electric City, the idea of consolidating local fire and EMS services does have support. During their Sept. 13 council meeting, the council briefly discussed the idea of the consolidation of towns. Councilmember Brian Buche said the vast majority of people he has spoken to on the topic are against the idea. Councilmember Bob Rupe agreed. Fire Chief Mark Payne said that he wasn’t in favor of consolidating the towns, but was in favor of consolidating loc...
The Lady Raiders lost to Okanogan in volleyball but beat Bridgeport this past week and currently has a 2-1 win-loss record. LR lost 3-0 in Okanogan Sept. 13. "Our game against Okanogan was really good," Head Coach Meagan Caudell said. "We didn't win, but we learned a lot about where our weaknesses were, and the girls really stepped up with a lot of changes that were made. Nevaeh English was dominant all throughout the game, along with Aaliyah Marchand." Cylia St. Pierre entered the contest in...
The Raiders are off to a good start this season, with a 3-0 win-loss record following their victory over Mabton. In a road game Sept. 15, The Raiders had a solid victory, shutting out Mabton 44-0, and scoring all of those points in the first half. Tanner Kiser returned an interception 26 yards to put the Raiders’ first points on the board, 6-0. Brit Egbert then scored on a 40-yard run to go up 12-0, then threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Tanner Whitelaw to put the Raiders up 18-0. Egbert scored again on an eight-yard run, Ivan Alejandre ran two...
Lake Roosevelt cross country runners went to Wapato Point in Manson to compete in the Trojan Invite on Sept. 17. Noah Hunt was the fastest Raider boy in the 5,000-meter race, placing 14th out of 34 total runners with a time of 21 minutes, 28 seconds. Kailah Leadingham placed 6th out of 12 runners in the girls’ 5,000-meter race with a time of 28:08. “As far as the first race goes, I think it went pretty well,” Head Coach Matthew Timentwa said, adding that he was glad for the smoke to have cleared out before the day of the race. “All of my kids...
Time to lace up your sneakers because the Run the Dam festival takes place this Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16-17, and includes fun and activities for people of all ages in addition to the race. About 300 runners are expected to run in the event, according to event organizer Kelly Buche. Runners can participate in 5k, 10k, and half marathon races that begin by running across the top of the Grand Coulee Dam starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. Participators can pace themselves in the event, and can...
Do you know who’s going to need a career to make a living someday? High school kids. And do you know who could use some employees? The local hospital. Put two and two together, and you’ve got Coulee Career Connection. The local hospital has jobs to fill, and local high school students could eventually be the perfect fit. Lake Roosevelt High School students will be attending an event called Coulee Career Connection on Oct. 5 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the school gym where they can learn about different careers in the medical field and the edu...
The wildfire smoke in the air, which may come from this or that fire depending on which way the wind is blowing, is unpleasant and unhealthy to breathe, and has an effect on local events. Grand Coulee Dam School District leaders discussed air quality at their board meeting on Sept. 12 when Superintendent Paul Turner discussed www.purpleair.com, showing how sensors installed at volunteer locations measure air quality. Local sensors on the network include one south of Osborn Bay, one near Spring Canyon, one in downtown Grand Coulee, another in ea...
The Friday night of Labor Day weekend my wife and I both got home very late. Bubba Egbert and the Raiders won their football game and Mrs. A. was very thankful that Jessica Tufts is her assistant cheerleading coach. Bubba and Jessica are LR grads. Lori used to coach Jessica as a cheerleader. Bubba played collegiate football and his expert, leave-it-all-on-the field, no drama style will lead to success for the Raiders. I was returning from the Spokane Tribal Powwow where I saw many local folks. I visited with Soy Redthunder (such a wonderful...
The Raiders hosted the Highland Scotties in a smoky Coulee Dam Sept. 9, defeating them mightily and giving them a 2-0 win-loss record for the season. The Raiders led 42-0 at the end of the first half. In the first quarter, Ivan Alejandre ran 51 yards for a touchdown, then put the icing on the cake by kicking the extra point. He put in work kicking extra points after a 36-yard Chase Clark touchdown run, a Brit Egbert 16-yard touchdown run, and a precision 51-yard touchdown pass from Egbert to...
Local park district commissioners have secured funding from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to help keep North Dam Park alive for several years to come, provided matching funding can be secured for a park that is the center of community-wide events. “It looks like we have done it, mission accomplished,” Commissioner Kevin Portch of the Coulee Area Parks and Recreation District said Aug. 31 in an email to the other commissioners and interested parties, including The Star. CAPRD, which manages North Dam Park, located on USBR land, was in some fin...
Fall approaching doesn't mean we are in the clear as far as wildfires go, and many of our worst fire seasons have happened in September and October. "Washington state is in the midst of wildfire season," the Washington State Department of Health warned in a statement last week. "Although it's been a mild season to date, it is important to be prepared and ready to protect yourself and your family from wildfire smoke before the smoke hits." It was in September of 2020 that about half a million acr...
By Jacob Wagner The Lake Roosevelt Raiders won their football season opener in Kittitas Friday to mark a successful start to their season. Against the Coyotes, Sept. 2, the Raiders won 40-21. "The kids played hard for the first game," Head Coach Bubba Egbert said. "We did things pretty clean, really. They did really well." LR led 21-0 at the end of the first half. Kittitas got on the board with a pair of touchdowns with extra points in the third quarter, scoring 14. The Raiders added 13 more...
Sunbanks Lake Resort's "Blues & Roots Festival" begins Thursday night and runs through the weekend, and locals get a discount to enjoy the music. In the resort's third and final music festival of the year, the tunes aren't limited to "blues" in the strictest sense of the term, although one of the Pacific Northwest's favorite blues rocker bands, Too Slim and the Taildraggers, will top off the show Sunday night. Before the Taildraggers take over the stage, the weekend will be filled with music...
With emergency medical services, such as ambulance services, being desired everywhere in the Coulee, it’s important to have a successful EMS system in place, city leaders heard last week. Nic Alexander, who serves as assistant fire chief to Chief Ryan Fish for the Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Department and the Grand Coulee Ambulance, spoke at the city’s Aug. 23 council meeting. “We need to be ready for the future,” he said. Alexander noted forming an EMS tax district is just one option for providing support to the service that is current...
Rock ‘n’ Roll has come a long way since LIttle Richard, continuing to both dazzle and offend, allowing young people to express themselves, and now, earn credits in high school. Raider Rock Band started as a club last year with history and creative writing teacher Justin Thompson leading the group, and now it is an actual class taught on the stage at Lake Roosevelt Jr/Sr High School, open to grades 9-12 for the year-long course that applies to a student’s art credits. “Last year, rock band club became something really special, although not ent...
In the early part of the 20th century, some people developed the notion that they could improve society by preventing undesirable people from reproducing. They called their idea eugenics, which means the good gene. The concept was widely adopted by the elite of American society. They would sterilize undesirable people so that those people could not reproduce. The idea won favor with U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. It was endorsed by various members of the American Academy of Medicine and the...
Sometimes it's hard to know where to look for help when it comes to things like getting food or energy assistance, or how to go about receiving medical care, but luckily some people specialize in connecting you to the right people. The STAR Hub, located on Midway Avenue in Grand Coulee since November of 2021, is a division of Rural Resources Community Action, a non-profit based out of Colville, and they specialize in connecting people to organizations that may be able to help. The STAR acronym...
I was excited to learn Norway’s government is investing €10 million over five years to develop cultivated meat and precision fermentation. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. It’s better for the environment, public health, and livestock. “We can increase self-sufficiency in food in Norway, and we do not have to kill animals to produce the necessary protein,” said the project’s leader, Sissel Beate Rønning. “In Norway, we have both the expertise and the money needed to develop new tech...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is open to receiving any questions, comments, or concerns regarding security upgrades they are planning on making at the Grand Coulee Dam and related facilities. The bureau has identified eight areas where it says security upgrades are needed, from new or upgraded gates and fences to a new security department office. The bureau "invites the public to identify issues or alternatives for consideration in the development of an environmental assessment for the Grand...
Short-term rentals are an unpopular idea to some in Electric City, but the idea keeps getting brought up. The city voted down the idea of allowing short-term (under 30 days) rentals in 2019 after more than a year of discussing the issue. But the idea was brought up again last month, with the city council discussing various pros and cons to the idea, and rules they could make to address problems that can arise from short-term renters. Such rules could include requiring owners to live within a certain distance of a rental property, requiring the...
A pedestrian and bicycle pathway connecting the Coulee Playland area to the Banks Lake Park area will probably be done next year instead of this year, and now has some extra funding. Last February, the pathway's construction looked likely for this summer, but at the Aug. 9 Electric City council meeting, City Engineer Steve Nelson of Century West Engineering said the project looks more likely to be constructed next year, although it could still go out to bid in 2022. He also said that an addition...
Wildfires in recent years have had a devastating impact on the U.S., including within the Colville Indian Reservation, and a representative from the area will now serve on a federal commission tasked with addressing the issue of these fires. Recently appointed the Colville Confederated Tribes executive director and their former Natural Resources director, Cody Desautel is one of 47 people selected from 500 applicants nationwide appointed to the new federal Wildland Fire Mitigation and...
After two years without the ability to open our doors, we are again at the end of our sale season as we come to the community to thank everyone for a fantastic TEN week run at the VET Center. Our American Legion Post appreciates everybody who has stopped by and shopped with us during our sale. Although it seemed like a very long stretch for those of us who worked every week to gather and prepare all the treasures that we had for sale, the time flew by as we greeted many of the same people on a weekly basis. With this year shortened by three...
After two years without the ability to open our doors, we are again at the end of our sale season as we come to the community to thank everyone for a fantastic TEN week run at the VET Center. Our American Legion Post appreciates everybody who has stopped by and shopped with us during our sale. Although it seemed like a very long stretch for those of us who worked every week to gather and prepare all the treasures that we had for sale, the time flew by as we greeted many of the same people on a weekly basis. With this year shortened by three...
Nancy Kuiper is the new Athletic Director for the GCDSD. She is such a phenomenal common-sense choice – THANK YOU! She is one of the top three Lake Roosevelt Raider multi-sport athletes of all time along with Dawni Bjorklund and Kasey Rey. All three were top tier student-athletes who excelled at high school state (champions/records) and collegiate levels. All have wonderful parents. Nancy has always been a role model and work horse. She has high expectations for herself and others. She hears and puts others first, collaborates, learns and is s...