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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Gonzaga professor Jessica Maucione will be at the Grand Coulee Library on Monday, Nov. 19 at 6 p.m., making a free presentation titled "Writing in the Margins, Transforming the Stories We Tell About Race." "Humans have evolved and maintained our integrity as a species because of our ability to collectively create and tell stories," a description of the event reads. "But what happens when those stories divide, segregate, and even encourage violence among us? In this talk, professor Jessica...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders football team suffered their first loss of the season Saturday in Coulee Dam, losing 28-24 to the Onalaska Loggers in the first round of the state tournament, ending their season. Onalaska took an early lead, scoring two touchdowns and two two-point conversions to go up 16-0 in the first quarter. But Raider Cameron St. Pierre returned a kickoff for a touchdown, keeping the Raiders in the game with a 16-6 score. In the second quarter, Onalaska scored on a run, and the R...
Plenty of Lake Roosevelt athletes received All-League honors in the Central Washington 2B League, including senior Steven Flowers, who won both offensive and defensive most valuable player in football. Also making the first team for offense in football were Trevor Johnson and Terry Yazzie, both outside linebackers. Making second team on offense were Hunter Whitelaw and Trevor McCraigie, both wide receivers, and kicker Sam Wapato. Wapato also received an honorable mention for wide receiver, as did Kaleb Horn and Darin Whiteman. Making first...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District will be proposing an “enrichment levy” for 2019 meant to bring in approximately $450,000 each year, the second part of a two-levy approach intended to replace the single levy now taken over by the state. Needing to submit a list of items that match up to $450,000 to the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the district board Monday night approved the following list of areas the money would support: Special Education - $120,000 Pre-School - $80,000 Driver’s Education - $8,000 Scien...
Lake Roosevelt graduate Calen Farmer spent six years in the Navy before pursuing an electronics engineering degree, and the experience took him around the world. Farmer graduated from Lake Roosevelt in 2008 and enlisted in the Navy in February of 2012, just two days before his 22nd birthday. " Like most young people, I was lost in life and didn't know what to do with my future," Farmer said. "I tried going to school, but it just was not for me at the time. After realizing I wasn't going...
Eyeing free grant money to help stretch local dollars, school leaders Monday told a consulting company to go after grants that would help modernize the heating and cooling system in the old gym at Lake Roosevelt High School and more. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board voted to continue to have the company McKinstry pursue grants for upgrades to school buildings. The district hired McKinstry to look for repairs and upgrades that could be made to the former middle school, the annex to the middle school where the Alternative Learning...
The annual veterans assembly at Lake Roosevelt Schools will be held this Friday at the gym in Coulee Dam. Changing things up from previous years, the event will be split into two segments: one for kindergarten through sixth-grade students, and another for seventh through twelfth grades, with an intermission in between. "Veterans and public are welcome to join us for either or both," said teacher Sandy Hood, who organizes the event and felt that one assembly with the full student body was a bit t...
Strong opinions surrounded a post on The Star’s Facebook page when The Star shared an article from the paper headlined “Transgender policy, club approved at school board meeting.” Opinions on both sides of the argument centered around the idea of boys using the girls’ restroom. “So this means that a BOY who thinks he is a girl or wants to be a girl can now go into the female bathroom with my daughter? If that’s the case I do not agree with it,” a Michael Dennis wrote on Facebook. “If you have a wiener you go into the bathroom where the sign...
Lake Roosevelt continues to go undefeated in football, defeating DeSales on Friday, and now prepares to take on Onalaska on Saturday. On Nov. 2 in Coulee Dam, the Raiders defeated the Irish with a final score of 22-6. The Raiders scored first with a six-yard pass from Steven Flowers to Hunter Whitelaw. Flowers scored a touchdown on a 36-yard run in the third quarter, and the Irish scored a touchdown on a pass, also in the third. Flowers ran for another touchdown in the fourth, closing the game...
Hannah Wapato placed 11th and Soarin' Marchand placed 53rd at the state competition for cross country. Wapato and Marchand each competed in 5,000-meter races at the 1B/2B state competition at Sun WIllows Golf Course in Pasco on Saturday, Nov. 3. "It was a great day," said Coach Ann Green. "A little cold, cloudy, slightly windy also. The course was slightly different than years before and had at least six tough hills and about 99 percent grass." "To be honest, I was nervous and anxious for Hannah...
The Lady Raiders’ volleyball season came to an end in Royal City with a close loss against the Manson Lady Trojans last Thursday. On Nov. 1, the Lady Raiders traveled to Royal City for a postseason game with Manson, from which the winner would progress to the state tournament. The Lady Raiders lost 3-2, with scores of 13-25, 25-17, 17-25, 25-17, and 7-15. “It was a tough five-set loss,” said Head Coach Teri Sue Reed. “I’m proud of the girls for taking Manson to five; it’s the best they’ve done all year against that team. Of course I’m di...
Grand Coulee and its dam have been mentioned in songs by a number of popular artists over the years. Woody Guthrie started things off, penning a number of songs in 1941 mentioning Grand Coulee Dam. Most obvious is the song "Grand Coulee Dam," but the dam is also mentioned in what is easily one of the most famous and hauntingly beautiful folk songs ever written, "Pastures of Plenty," where Guthrie sings "Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground/From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board has approved a policy related to transgender students and allowed the continuance of a club for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and straight ally students. At the Oct. 22 school board meeting, the board approved without much discussion a transgender policy that states: “The board believes in fostering an educational environment that is safe and free of discrimination for all students, regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression,” the policy reads. “To that...
A teacher is proposing a change of rules for high school students that would treat them more like adults in the classroom and let them eat snacks as needed while working. An ongoing, time-consuming issue at Lake Roosevelt is not allowing students to have any food or drinks in the classroom, as per a rule stated in the student handbook, according to civics teacher Brandon Keene, who used the issue as lesson in real-life civics. “Eating will always be a need for them,” said Keene, who also teaches world history. “We should not waste our class...
School updates requirements for “emergency substitutes” The Grand Coulee Dam School District board voted to update their criteria for emergency substitutes. Emergency subs are used when the reserve of regular substitutes, for which there are stricter requirements, has been exhausted. Previously needing an associate of arts degree, the criteria for emergency substitutes has been loosened to include those who are journeyman certified or who have taken as many or more college credits than required for an AA degree. “It gives us the latitude to ge...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders have won the league championship for the first time in recent memory. The Raiders won 32-14 on Friday against the Brewster Bears at home in Coulee Dam. Things went the Raiders' way from the get-go, recovering their opening kickoff to the Bears and starting with good field position. Steven Flowers scored soon thereafter, rushing for a touchdown and a two-point conversion to give the Raiders an early 8-0 lead. Hunter Whitelaw scored next for the Raiders, following a...
The Lady Raiders won one and lost one in a volleyball district tournament held in Royal City last week, and a win against Manson on Thursday would send them to state. Against Tri-Cities Prep Oct. 25, the Lady Raiders lost in three sets, 19-25, 21-25, and 14-25 "We led in the first two sets and then lost momentum," said Head Coach Teri Sue Reed. "It was a game of really high and really low for us. We are working hard on evening it out." But the Lady Raiders did better against White Swan, winning...
Raiders Hannah Wapato and Soarin’ Marchand will be running at the state cross country tournament on Saturday. At the Districts 5-6 tournament at Blue Heron Park in Moses Lake Oct. 24, Wapato finished third in the 5,000-meter 1B/2B girls’ race with a time of 20 minutes, 30.29 seconds. Marchand placed 13th in the 5,000-meter 1B/2B boys’ race in 17:54.64. The top 21 girls and top 28 boys qualified for the state competition in Pasco on Saturday. “The race was great,” said Coach Ann Green of the districts competition. “As a team, everyone lo...
The city of Grand Coulee voted to put consolidation, or the merging with other area towns, on next year’s ballot, the first of the four local towns to do so. Councilmember Tom Poplawski spoke about the issue at the Oct. 16 council meeting. “We’re in a position now where we have some things moving,” Poplawski said. He had attended a consolidation discussion meeting at The Wine Bar last month. “I believe Grand Coulee should step to the front of this and move to the head of the line and say ‘we are in favor of this,’ and this council shoul...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders played a friendly game of football with the Soap Lake Eagles on Friday night in Coulee Dam, defeating them 38-20 to go 7-0 in LR's overall win-loss record. The highlight of the first half was a 93-yard touchdown pass from Raider senior Steven Flowers to Trevor McCraigie. Flowers had an outstanding game both on offense and defense, rushing for five touchdowns on offense, and leading the team in tackles with 14 on defense. Flowers also forced a fumble that was recovered...
Members of the union that represents "classified" school district employees, such as bus drivers, secretaries and more, showed up at Monday night's school board meeting for a direct appeal to the board, following an apparently fruitless second negotiating session with the district through a mediator last week. The school board listened to Jesse Utz speak on behalf on the Public Service Employees, who feel they deserve more money for the work they do. Community members, teachers, and PSE members...
Grand Coulee city council members don’t like having drug houses in the community, and so approved an ordinance that gives them some teeth in the matter. Council approved adding to their ordinances the state law on the abatement of drug houses, Revised Code of Washington 7.43, at their Oct. 16 council meeting. If a house is regularly the scene of police enforcement, drug use, drug dealing, or otherwise, the home could be evacuated and boarded up for a year to effectively remove any ongoing nuisances. “Any final order of abatement issued und...
If you’ve noticed a bit of smoke in the air, there’s a chance it’s from controlled burns performed by the Colville Tribes. Acting “fuels manager” for the Colville Tribes, John Elliott explained in a phone call to The Star that the burns should be finished before Thanksgiving. “At that time it’s usually getting too cold to have a lot of success burning,” Elliott said. “At the moment we’re probably about half done with what we’re trying to do in the fall.” Elliott said that they are burning some slash piles that were thinned out by loggers....
The Raiders ran in the Central Washington 2B league championship at the Liberty Bell course Oct. 20. Top Lake Roosevelt finisher for the girls’ three-mile race was senior Hannah Wapato, who placed fifth with a time of 20 minutes, 27.7 seconds. Top LR finisher for the boys’ three-mile race was junior Soarin’ Marchand, who finished with a time of 17:55.4. Seventh-grader Chase Marchand finished third in the middle school boys’ 1.5-mile race with a time of 8:43. The high school district tournament starts at 3 p.m. today, Oct. 24, in Moses Lake at B...
The Lady Raiders defeated the Waterville-Mansfield Lady Shockers as well as the Tonasket Lady Tigers last week as they prepare for districts. On Oct. 16 in Waterville, the Lady Raiders won a close 3-2 match, 25-17, 19-25, 26-24, 19-25, and 15-9. "Addie Hansen had a great game one and game five," said Head Coach Teri Sue Reed about the athlete. "Without her senior leadership stepping up, we would have lost. She really came through for her team." Reed also noted "strong serving" from Raven Clark...