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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Grand Coulee and Electric City officials will meet at 2 p.m. Monday, June 16, to discuss ways they can work together on a walking path that could extend across the causeway south of Electric City and through their two respective cities. The meeting will be held in Grand Coulee's council chambers. Gray & Osborne, the engineering firm for both cities, will also meet in an effort to put together a proposal that would allow them to apply for a grant to help with the expense of creating the path.... Full story
Want something from Lake Roosevelt High School before they tear it down? Now’s your chance. The high school education wing is having a giant yard sale this Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14. Everything in the classrooms is up for grabs. Want a desk? Want a blackboard? It’s all up for purchase. How about a chair or two, or more? Lake Roosevelt Principal Brandon Byers said the sale will give people an opportunity to purchase a teacher’s desk, a rolling cart, and even a pencil sharpener. The garage sale will run from 9-4 each day and all purch... Full story
Police are still bewildered by a Grand Coulee woman's loss of some 200 South African gold Krugerrand coins. Dorothy Harris told police that an Electric City resident, Steve Kiona, who came to the property to do yard work, called her at work May 30, after discovering that someone had ransacked his dresser drawers in the basement. She was advised by Kiona that she'd better come home. She found that someone had entered the house, in spite of her six dogs, and had taken, among other articles, a... Full story
The federal corporation that sells the town of Coulee Dam its electricity underbilled the town in the past and now wants the municipal utlity to pay up. Coulee Dam’s town council approved a plan Wednesday to pay Bonneville Power Administration for “undercharging” for electric power over the past few years. Mayor Greg Wilder asked the council for its agreement for him to sign off on paying the BPA back some $47,000 for undercharging since 2012 for providing electricity to the town. He said that the two parties had agreed to pay the amount off i... Full story
Apparently, the mayor of Grand Coulee does not want his police department serving Electric City. That seems the most reasonable way to interpret his proposed tripling of the cost Grand Coulee charges Electric City for answering calls to Electric City. Why this might be is a matter for speculation. On a more hopeful note, the same two cities will explore the possibility of effectively completing a nearly community-wide walking trail. Crossing the causeway and joining Electric City and Grand Coulee with a pedestrian pathway would enhance local li... Full story
I wanted to just say a couple things about the article in today’s paper regarding this subject. First, I was at that meeting also. It states in the article that it all started over an inspection by state DOH at the request of Mayor Wilder. I have to disagree with that. That is when Mayor Wilder had to make it public information. It also states that he requested the inspection because of a couple complaints. I don’t think those complaints had anything to do with the state of the ambulance but were rather more fuel for the complainant’s fire. Tru... Full story
The GC Class of 1964 Tigers committee is making plans for our blue and white 50th Reunion, August 1-3. Classmates are coming from Wyoming, Las Vegas, Idaho, Spokane, coast, etc. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone for this historic milestone in our lives. We graduated 33, and our bond is strong! Friday, Aug. 1, plans pending, but hope to tour the new school and get a group photo at our old school, social hour and activities as new Laser Light Show, etc. Saturday, August 2 is backyard BBQ at the home of Susan Fahr Miller in Electric C... Full story
Firefighters from the Mt. Tolman Fire Center on the Colville Reservation battle a blaze last week that consumed some 700 acres of brush and grass. Fire Management Officer Ike Cawston said they’re still patrolling the area to watch for hot spots. The fire, which burned near Belvedere and along the Columbia River, was reported Wednesday at 8:25 p.m. It burned mostly in grass and sage, but structure protection was called in for the Belvedere area. No structures were lost. Earlier the same day, an unrelated fire started near Omak and another n... Full story
The owner of Wolf’s Den bar complained to the Grand Coulee City Council last Tuesday night that he is being harassed by police for loud music at his Main Street bar. Ted Wolf told the council that police officer Sean Cook had given his bartender a $250 citation May 30, after responding to two complaints that the music at the bar was too loud. He said that he was going to pay the citation because the bartender couldn’t afford it. Cook had responded to two complaints, one right after the other, by Rick Bako, who lives on Federal Avenue. Coo... Full story
Previously, this column wandered along a trail on the lone prairie, searching for the new decorating sensation, the Prairie Look, including a drive by the wheat fields bordering highway 2 between Grand Coulee and Airway Heights. No prairie schooners were sighted, except for the old buckboard wagon situated on the main street of Wilbur. Somehow that wagon with the geese riding high on the seat didn’t cut the mustard for getting the Prairie Look on. However, there was a modern-day prairie schooner sighting in Coulee Dam this past Saturday a... Full story
The Coulee Dam Town Hall was filled to capacity last Wednesday as EMTs, firefighters and townspeople pushed back at city officials for taking on the EMTs a week earlier. Those speaking cited numerous times that EMTs had assisted family members and friends when they needed ambulance service. That support was appreciated, but fell a little off the mark. It had all started when a state inspection of the town’s ambulance service turned up a dozen or so issues that Mayor Greg Wilder stated had been 80 percent fixed by council time. Wilder said he a... Full story
Coulee Medical Center's hospital district commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. tonight (Monday, 6/9/14) for their regular monthly meeting. They will meet in the CMC Medical Arts Building (old clinic building lobby). The agenda is below, including an executive (closed) session dealing with the evaluation of applicants for public employment. The closed session is allowed under the state's Open Public Meetings Act with this clause: "(g) To evaluate the qualifications of an applicant for public employm... Full story
A terse email from Elmer City Mayor Gail Morin to Coulee Dam Mayor Greg Wilder on wastewater treatment billings is raising a stink between the two towns. She wrote, “Thank you for demonstrating Coulee Dam’s imbedded lack of interest in a good faith agreement,” Morin wrote. “We need to look at invoices/receipts after learning that 108 tubes of grease were charged to the plant. It isn’t unreasonable to verify what we are buying. No one pays bills without knowing what they are purchasing. Our requests are honest and reasonable.” Elmer City is 40... Full story
Coulee Dam has selected a Spokane firm to do its alternative analysis for the proposed wastewater treatment plant project. Varela & Associates was selected out of nine firms that initially showed interest in the project. That number was narrowed down to six firms and then to three and later to two when one of the finalists opted out. Officials from Coulee Dam, Elmer City and the Colville Confederated Tribes were on the selection committee. Currently Varela officials are determining the scope of work so they can come up with a cost of doing the... Full story
After several years of collaboration, two local school districts will go their own way next year as they seek to augment students’ education with after-school programs. Nespelem’s school board last week voted to follow a different path, leaving the Grand Coulee Dam School District to apply for the next five years of funding for its SHARP Kids program on its own. The SHARP acronym stands for Safe, Honest, Aware, Respectful, Present. The program is the local implementation of the use of federal funds through the 21st Century Community Learning Ce... Full story
The 10th Annual Koulee Kids Fest and the Saturday Market will each take off Saturday, June 14. Both are sponsored by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce. The Saturday Market, featuring fruits and vegetables, local produce and arts and crafts, opens at Midway Avenue and Morrison Street at 8:30 a.m. and goes until 12:30 p.m. weekly through Sept.13. Market manager Cheryl Hoffman (509.431.1027) can provide information on securing a booth for the market. Or for information interested parties can call the chamber office (509.633.3074). The... Full story
If you are wondering if the school board will decide to re-roof and re-side the old Lake Roosevelt High School gym, you will have to wait a little longer. Superintendent Dennis Carlson revealed to the board last Wednesday night that it will take about $883,000 to do just that. Carlson told the board that dressing up the old gym so it will look like the new facility will have to wait until the district knows if it has enough in its contingency fund to do the job. Carlson had been asked by the board to price the job out so it could make a... Full story
The town council at Coulee Dam approved a budget amendment ordinance last Wednesday night that will provide the chamber of commerce $6,000 for a media campaign to promote the new Laser Light Show on Grand Coulee Dam. The chamber had asked for the added funds from the town’s hotel/motel tax monies at the town’s last meeting and it was tabled to be brought up again Wednesday. The chamber had asked for $6,000 from each of the three towns that collect the hotel/motel tax. The chamber received $6,000 from Grand Coulee and $9,000 from Electric Cit... Full story
A handful of students in Lee Largent's welding class are making their mark on Lake Roosevelt High School. The six have created a "Raider Gate" that will close off the hallway at the high school gym so people won't wander through the building. It came about when janitors complained about kids who wandered down the hall at games spilling Gatorade and popcorn along the way. That prompted Principal Brandon Byers to go to Largent to see if he had any ideas. That's where the students, Falcon... Full story
A few years ago, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) received a complaint about the Coulee Dam ambulance service. They took note of dirty and unsanitary conditions, expired medications and supplies, non-functioning or defective critical-care equipment, inaccessibility to the supplies needed to stock the ambulance, and more. The town was put on notice and required to file a compliance plan in May, 2011. The DOH closed the case the following month without taking disciplinary action because the town had corrected the deficiencies and... Full story
The 2nd Harvest Thrivent Food Truck was at Zion Lutheran Church May 30th handing out 7,584 pounds of food to 215 families. It took 26 helpers to keep up with handing out products. The Washington Beef Council furnished three-pound roasts and a person to pass them out. The $400 to bring the truck here was paid for by the Grant County Thrivent Board with helping hands project (our helpers). It took a lot of people working together, as all volunteer projects do. A big pat on the back and many thanks to all volunteers; without them these different... Full story
An airplane accident killed a man on Banks Lake near Steamboat Rock Saturday. Kenneth A. Berger, 60, of Monroe, Wash. was an accomplished pilot, attorney and longtime city councilman who built his plane from a kit, according to the Monroe Monitor. Berger had already put down his SeaRey LSX amphibious plane at about 5 p.m., witnesses said. They said he apparently was trying to take off again, when the plane flipped over forward into the water. Nearby boaters got to the craft, and two women at... Full story
The Ridge Riders "Wild Horse Race" provided plenty of action for both cowboys and horses at the Saturday night Cleatis Lacy Memorial Bull Riding event in Delano. The new feature of the event actually stole the show as teams of three cowboys tried to saddle a wild horse and ride it across a specified line. There are several team members with aching muscles this week, and it was a wild event with things going on all over the arena. The Casey Heemsah team from Twisp turned in first place. It... Full story
Following the change in Coulee Medical Center’s top manager last month, three more high-level executives will be leaving the hospital, Interim Chief Executive Officer Debbie Bigelow announced last week, and more changes are coming. In the medical center’s “Communicator” emailed newsletter issued Thursday, Bigelow said the next to leave would be Chief Operating Officer Alan Wagner, Chief Financial Officer Joe Vessey and Director of Communications and Marketing Steve Becker. With CMC for nearly four years, Wagner “has played a key role in profes... Full story
The operator of Grand Coulee’s Wastewater Treatment Plant addressed the city council last Tuesday night, seeking $400,000 to make needed repairs. Gary Abbott explained to the council the results of a report from the city’s engineering firm, Gray & Osborne, showing the need for major electrical repairs at the plant. The plant is owned by both Grand Coulee (51 percent) and Electric City (49 percent). Abbott told the council that the electrical equipment had lasted over 30 years, well past normal wear and tear, and was near the end of its use... Full story