News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The story of a puppy that was taken by some people from Poulsbo had a happy ending. A man reported to police that while he was in Safeway shopping, someone took his little white female Husky pup named “Sage.” A review of a security tape showed that the dog jumped out of the back of a vehicle and went underneath it. Two people coaxed it out, and then took it. An Electric City woman reported that she saw the people earlier in the day at the veterinarian’s office. After reviewing the tape, the officer stated in his report that he had seen the c... Full story
The new Keller ferry, the Sanpoil, was launched at about 8:40 a.m. last Thursday at Crescent Bay. The new ferry, after final fitting and testing, will replace the old Martha S Ferry which was taken out of service July 8. The Sanpoil’s hull arrived by truck March 18, and Foss Maritime workers have been assembling the vessel until last week. Scores of onlookers crowded the parking areas near the overlook area just above Grand Coulee Dam and above the assembly area to watch the slow moving p... Full story
Ballots go out this Friday to begin an 18-day primary election period. Mail in ballots must be postmarked by Aug. 6, the final primary election day, to be counted. Coulee Dam’s mayor position is center stage with three candidates vying for the town’s top position. The primary election will pare the candidates to the two top vote getters, who will face off in the November general election. Incumbent Quincy Snow goes after his fifth four-year term as mayor. He is being challenged by community act... Full story
The Department of Health has ordered Electric City to shut its arsenic treatment plant down. A letter written by the DOH will go out to water customers in Electric City today (Wednesday) advising residents that the plant is being shut down while city officials fine tune the plant in an effort to get a handle on the brown water that some receive from their taps. The city shut the arsenic treatment plant down July 10, and water from the wells will bypass the plant for the immediate future. This means that water customers will be drinking the... Full story
A Coulee Dam woman who feels that when people eat fried chicken together they have a tendency to get along better, plans a joint Coulee Dam-Elmer City picnic in August. Gloria (Glo) Carroll, a Coulee Dam resident who lives on Stevens Street, has appeared before both Coulee Dam and Elmer City councils, inviting them and their towns to a picnic at 11 a.m., Aug. 24, in Coulee Dam’s Douglas Park, with games to follow in Cole Park. Carroll has been attending Coulee Dam council meetings and was struck by friction between Coulee Dam and officials f... Full story
An Electric City man was arrested by Grand Coulee police Sunday and, according to Grant County Prosecutor Angus Lee, is being charged with rape in the second degree, unlawful imprisonment, interfering with the report of domestic violence and obstructing justice. The charges against Michael Berry, 29, of Washington Place, were made after a preliminary hearing Tuesday. Lee said Tuesday afternoon a judge had found there was probable cause on all four counts and Berry remained in jail with bail set at $75,000. An arraignment is scheduled for July... Full story
Fleeing suspects in an Ephrata burglary literally drove the tires off their car after Grand Coulee police put down spike strips to deflate the tires Friday night. Grand Coulee police deployed the spike strips at the north edge of Coulee Dam about 11:30 p.m., to stop the speeding car coming into the area from Omak with Omak police in pursuit. The vehicle had been going up to 90 mph through the Colville Indian Reservation and police reports stated it later traveled some 50 mph through Grand Coulee and Electric City. The silver 2005 Toyota lost... Full story
The debut of the all new Laser Light Show, which had been scheduled for Aug. 8, will now occur next year, officials at the Bureau of Reclamation said this week. A group of stakeholders from the area, who are working with the company preparing the new show, said after a preliminary viewing that the show needed work. Accordingly, bureau Public Affairs Officer Lynne Brougher said it was decided to move the new show to next season. LumaLaser, a company out of Gresham, Ore., which has the $1.6 million contract, has been working with the stakeholder... Full story
A member of the state Transportation Improvement Board will be in Grand Coulee Aug. 6, to meet with the city council. The city has a $215,000 grant and has been asked by the TIB to come up with a comprehensive plan on how they would use it. The grant was first given to the city to build sidewalks on Spokane Way, but that was before officials realized that sidewalks to Center School probably were not necessary because the school will be closing in the fall of 2014, when students move into their new school in Coulee Dam. Then the city quickly... Full story
Grant County Port District 7 will receive funding for a new truck with snow plow provisions and a steel building to house it in. Commissioner Jim Keene reported how the Federal Aviation Administration grant is funding most of the of $293,185 project. The grant will pay 90 percent of the cost of the truck and snow removal equipment, $122,785; with the Washington State Department of Transportation (Aviation) paying 5 percent of the balance, leaving a 5-percent balance of $6,822. The grant will pay 90 percent of the building cost of $101,347... Full story
Grand Coulee police arrested an Electric City man Monday afternoon when he tried to prevent workers from dismantling his burned-out house. Police arrested Michael Lowry, who had ordered the two workers, Timothy Powell and Patrick Peterson, off his property at 214 2nd Street. Lowry told the two they were trespassing, and according to Powell, he was told that he would be shot if he continued demolishing the building. Lowry’s home burned June 4, and Powell told police that he and his partner had been contracted by Fenix Restoration to demolish t... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Dennis Carlson was pleased with the new state budget signed by the governor Sunday. The new state two-year budget fully funds all day kindergarten, a switch from the past when the state funded kindergartens by only 50 percent. The fully state-funded kindergarten will save the district an estimated $150,000 a year. Prior to this the board of directors had committed the district to funding the half not funded by the state because the members felt that early learning needed a boost in the district.... Full story
The town of Coulee Dam can relax a bit now that the state Legislature has passed its budget. On June 20, the town was notified by the Department of Ecology, the agency handling the loan for its proposed wastewater treatment plant, that the loan could be tied up if the budget wasn’t passed. The letter from Chief Financial Officer Erik Fairchild stated that the loan would be suspended, not terminated, if the Legislature didn’t approve the budget. The budget finally did pass, and Gov. Jay Inslee signed it Sunday. Now the town can start spe... Full story
Juan Moreno opened his all new Melody Restaurant in Coulee Dam Monday. He is open for both breakfast and lunch, opening at 6 a.m. to catch workers who have to eat out before going to their job, and closing after the lunch trade. Shuttered for 14 months after the last proprietors went out of business, The Melody is now new in a number of ways. The old-style booths are gone and those patronizing the restaurant will be seated at tables scattered in the attractive dining room. Seating capacity is... Full story
Port District 7 commissioners are trying to deal with a report of 21 cows on the airport runway and several instances of cows breaking out of their pasture and getting on the golf course. It was reported at their meeting last Thursday that one pilot counted 21 cows on the runway on one occasion. Commissioners have called the Grant County Sheriff’s Office to complain and have complained to the party they think owns the cows. Several cows are being pastured at the south end of the golf course, and on several occasions they have broken through the... Full story
Using the Colville Tribal TERO office as a hiring headquarters is working well, according to officials on the Grand Coulee Dam School District’s new K-12 school project. A report by Walker Construction to the school board showed that through June 14, 73 percent of hours worked so far on the school project were worked by Native American workers. The report made to the school board was affirmed by Roger Easling, construction manager for the Wenaha Group, a firm that follows the project for the school district. TERO (Tribal Employment Rights O... Full story
The Nespelem Celebration Rodeo will be held July 12-14, at the Rodeo Grounds, and is being held in conjunction with a pow wow and stick games. The rodeo is sanctioned by the Western States Indian Rodeo Association and stock is being supplied by Red Knection of Keller. Parts of the event are not sanctioned: the Friday night open barrel racing, the Saturday wild horse race, and the Sunday endurance and wild colt races are not sanctioned. The rodeo is open to everyone and will include bull riding, saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, senior team... Full story
Two western Washington men were arrested June 18, charged with cutting up and stealing copper cables at Grand Coulee Dam. The two, Victor W. Ford, 43, of Lake Stevens, and Michael R. Bruce, 47, of Everett, were observed by Bureau of Reclamation plant protection cameras and later arrested by Grand Coulee police at 2 p.m. between the top of the dam and the pullout viewing area at Riley Point. A large copper cable had been cut and dragged up to the sidewalk in plain view of people pulling over at Riley Point to view the dam. When confronted, Ford... Full story
Everyone likes a good old fashioned Fourth of July celebration. You can enjoy one next week, the “Festival of America” a three-day affair, right here in the Grand Coulee Dam area. The celebration kicks off on Thursday, July 4, with music in the park below the Visitor Center. There’s lots to do. A number of craft booths will be on hand and several food booths will fix a summer-time lunch or dinner for you. All the particulars are in a special “Festival of America” celebration secrtion inside th... Full story
Rodeo fans will enjoy two evenings of entertainment at the Ridge Riders Rodeo Grounds this Friday and Saturday. Friday night, beginning at 7 p.m., the Ridge Riders feature the 2nd Annual Cleatis Lacy Memorial Bull Ride. Action starts at 7, but concession stands and the beer garden start up at 6 p.m. Admission for the bull riding event is $10. Then on Saturday night, at 6 p.m., rodeo fans get another opportunity to see a “ranch rodeo.” On that night the concession stands and beer garden open at 5 p.m. Admission fee for Saturday’s event is $8. T... Full story
The Colville Business Council will have four new members as a result of the tribal general election last week. The election was held June 15, and absentee ballots were received until Thursday last week. Newcomers to the Business Council will be Stevey Seymour, Jack W., Ferguson, Ricky Gabriel and Allen (Charley) Hammond. Seymour, in the Inchelium Position 1 race, beat out David T. Madera, 220-146. Ferguson, in the Keller District Position 1 contest, defeated John F. Stensgar, 107-98. Ricky Gabriel, in the Nespelem District Position 1 race,... Full story
Police checked on an Oregon kayaker who was sitting on the rocks talking on his cell phone from inside the buoy line above the dam. Logan Wetherell, of Umpqua, Ore., had kayaked from the Canadian border to Grand Coulee Dam and was figuring out how to get his kayak to the bridge area so he could continue his trip. Police stated that he had his red kayak on a hand drawn trailer and was about to relocate to the bridge area. They noted that Wetherell was charging his cell phone with a solar powered charger. The man had exited Lake Roosevelt at... Full story
Both Coulee Dam and Grand Coulee police officers last Wednesday were involved in the arrest near the Grand Coulee Post Office of a juvenile wanted in a series of warrants on five counts of first-degree child molestation and five counts of second-degree incest. A Coulee Dam officer, Joe Lauseng, who was at the post office at the time, was approached by the youth’s grandfather, who told him that he had the 15-year-old in his SUV parked nearby. Lauseng, because of the seriousness of the warrants, detained the juvenile and because of j... Full story
A Spokane firm, Spilker Precast, is producing some 4,000 concrete blocks for an 1,100-foot-long retaining wall at the new K-12 school building site in Coulee Dam. The blocks, which will come in two sizes, one about 1,200 pounds and the other 4,000 pounds, will be used to expand the area of the school site. Owner Timothy Spilker said his company will be finished producing the blocks within a few weeks. The blocks will be set just below the hill that overlooks the football field and then the space... Full story
The Colville Tribal Police department will begin to handle law enforcement issues within the city limits of Elmer City beginning July 1. Elmer City’s town council approved the agreement at its meeting Thursday night, after having been approached by Tribal Police Chief Cory Orr several weeks ago. At that time Orr stated that tribal police would perform this function without cost to the town. It has been several years since the town has had a formal police department. Its own police department was disbanded years ago due to budget constraints. T... Full story