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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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About 60 sixth graders from Lake Roosevelt Elementary and Nespelem Schools will be trekking to the Tall Timber Ranch, near Leavenworth, next week. Sixth graders from the two schools have been going to the ranch for the past several years to learn about teamwork and outdoor experiences. Lake Roosevelt Elementary has 51 sixth graders, and Nespelem eight. School officials here said six adults will go with the students, and all will travel by school bus. The outing is for May 18–20. While there, students for the local schools will be the first t... Full story
An Electric City councilmember was admonished by the full council at a special public hearing last Wednesday night for activities judged to be beyond her authority. Reprimanded was Councilmember Birdie Hensley, who became a member of the council for the second time this last January. The mayor, John Nordine II, asked councilmembers Aaron Derr, Brad Parrish, Lonna Bussert, and Richard McGuire, to vote to reprimand Hensley in a public hearing that she had called for. At issue were inquiries Hensley made of other agencies regarding the use of hote... Full story
Get ready for the 60th running of Colorama, May 6-8, with a special guide to the event inside this issue of The Star. There's a big parade, a rodeo, craft booths with food and gift ideas, and a newcomer - The Fun Zone - an inflatable event of its own, providing fun for all ages. And if that isn't enough, you can take a helicopter ride and get a bird's eye view of the fun. A beer tent and a cowboy saloon will be featured - the latter for the Ridge Rider's Colorama Rodeo, and the former sponsored... Full story
Colville Tribal members go to the polls Saturday to vote on 28 contenders for positions on the Colville Business Council. The primary vote will reduce candidates for each contended office to two who will face off in the general election in June. Poll voting will begin at 8 a.m. Certification of poll voting will be held at 10 a.m., on May 9. Absentee ballots will be certified May 12. Twenty-eight contenders have filed for seven positions in the tribal council. Six of seven incumbents have filed for re-election. Councilmember Nancy Johnson, who n...
The idea of a trailer park and residential development along the Banks Lake Golf Course has surfaced again. Grant County Port District 7 commissioners raised the topic at their meeting last week as they wrestled with how to continue financing the operation of their 18-hole golf course. Both ideas were thought to be viable projects back in 2012, but the financial times put an end to any kind of new development along the golf course. None of the present commissioners held office when the two ideas surfaced previously. Present commissioners are... Full story
It will soon be toe-tapping time at Sunbanks Lake Resort. It’s nearly Rhythm & Blues Festival time at the resort on the shores of Banks Lake in Electric City. The festival is scheduled for May 19-22. Sunbanks has won the state Blues award for the past two years running and this year attracts bands and musicians from all over the country. Headlining the four-day event is James Harman’s Bamboo Porch Revue. The Delgado Brothers are back and Hamilton Loomis, Casey Miller & the Barnyard Stompers, Matt Andersen & the Bona Fide, Karen Lovely Ban... Full story
An ombudsman hearing to review evidence in the case of a former Grant County Mosquito District 2 clerk, previously scheduled for Tuesday, April 26, has been re-scheduled to June 21, the prosecutor’s office reported. The clerk, Karyn M. Byam, 40, an Electric City resident, has been charged with theft and misappropriation of funds, totaling $129,834. The case came to attention of county authorities after a Washington State Auditor’s Office report highlighted problems. Deputy Prosecutor Mark A. Laiminger said last Tuesday the delay was to aff... Full story
A public hearing will be held tonight for an Electric City council member who wants to answer her reprimand in public. The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. tonight (Wednesday, April 27) in the city council chambers. Councilmember Birdie Hensley had asked for a public hearing after she was reprimanded by Mayor John Nordine II and the city council for making inquiries of other agencies, suggesting she was doing so on behalf of the council. Tonight’s hearing will not take input from the public, but will outline what city officials see as the p... Full story
There is a new major event for Colorama this year, because another major feature won't be appearing. Jump N2 Fun, a firm that features a host of inflatable slides and bounce houses, will replace the carnival this year and will be located at Banks Lake Park, just south of North Dam Park. "In recent years the Colorama carnival provided by Paradise Amusements has delivered increasingly disappointing showings," the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce said in a statement Tuesday. "Last Friday,... Full story
There will be free health screenings available for the general public here April 28. The Grand Coulee Lions Club, in cooperation with Coulee Medical Center, will have the Northwest Lions Foundation mobile screening unit on hospital grounds from 12 to 6 p.m. Screenings for blood pressure, glaucoma, diabetes, sight and hearing will be available, free for all local residents interested. The Lions Health Screening Unit is a professionally-equipped, state-licensed mobile unit staffed by healthcare professionals, Lions Club members and volunteers.... Full story
Electric City is hosting a community workshop, led by Washington State University’s Rural Communities Design Initiative. The meeting, one of two being planned, will run from 1-4 p.m., Saturday, May 14, in the Veterans Center in Electric City. The second such meeting date hasn’t yet been set. The focus of the workshop will be parks, recreation and revitalization. The meeting is prompted by Electric City’s trail and pathways project, and needs in other park-like areas. Guiding the WSU team, made up of professors Kathleen Ryan and Bob Krika... Full story
by Roger S. Lucas & Scott Hunter It took three officers to finally subdue a man originally pulled over on a traffic stop who now faces a handful of charges, including third-degree assault of the officers and resisting arrest. Floyd denies the charges. Arrested and taken to Grant County Jail Saturday was Lyle A. Floyd, 46, who owns the Body by Dam gym in Grand Coulee. In addition to giving an Electric City address, Floyd also lives in Nine Mile Falls, near Spokane. At 9:40 p.m., an officer got a call from a concerned motorist who had seen a... Full story
A pit bull that attacked and bit an Electric City woman who was walking her dog has been declared “dangerous” by the Grand Coulee City Council. The dog, named Rocky, described as “huge” by the victim, was finally subdued by police and quarantined for 10 days on a rabies check. The victim, Angie M. Nomee, 49, told police she was walking her dog on Center Street when Rocky came out and attacked her dog, an Australian shepherd, and then attacked her when she tried to help her dog. She was bitten on both arms and hands. Nomee’s dog, Ginger, needed... Full story
Elmer City residents will soon be able to walk to the post office on new sidewalks. They will also be able to cross SR-155 on a new lighted crosswalk. It’s all part of a Washington State Transportation Improvement Board grant that the town got. The project is well underway, with DWK Fowler Construction doing the work. Public works director Jimmer Tillman has worked on the grant for the past two years. It is the second major grant that Elmer City has received through the TIB grant system. The earlier one was for 3rd Street. It connected the E... Full story
They will be churning up the water on Banks Lake this weekend, looking for big rainbow trout, smallmouth bass and walleye. It's all part of the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Triple Fish Challenge, kicking off from Coulee Playland on Saturday, and continuing Sunday. The grand prize for this year's fourth annual Triple Fish Challenge, fittingly, is something that will make fishing easier for the winner. The Triple Fish Challenge is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, April 23... Full story
by Roger S. Lucas Students at a number of area schools will see this Friday, Earth Day, how well they did in a recycling contest as results of a Colville Tribes challenge are unveiled during Earth Day celebrations at the powwow grounds Friday, April 22. Tribal Recycling threw out the challenge to schools in Keller, Inchelium, Nespelem, Paschal Sherman and Lake Roosevelt. The challenge was to see which of the schools could collect the highest weight of Number-1 and Number-2 plastic bottles. Tribal Recycling provided bins for the various elementa... Full story
Mark Herndon was selected by the school board Monday night to become vice principal at Lake Roosevelt Junior and Senior High School. Herndon is currently principal of Clallam Bay, a K-12 school in the Cape Flattery School District at Sekiu, Washington, and will take over his new duties here next fall. He replaces Paul Turner who will become superintendent of the Grand Coulee Dam School District July 1. Herndon has been in his present position for three years. Before that he was assistant principal at Neah Bay, where he also taught shop and scie... Full story
Shane Proctor remembers his roots. He returned to the Grand Coulee area last week to put on his seventh annual bull riding clinic at the Nespelem rodeo grounds. He brought along two of his sidekicks from the professional bull riding circuit, one of them a graduate of his Nespelem clinic. Putting on the clinic along with Proctor were Gustin Patton from Australia and Derek Kulbaba from Walla Walla. Kulbaba is a graduate of Proctor's "school of hard knocks," having attended four years at the... Full story
National Park Service officials reported to police that someone had prowled a vehicle and took a purse with two credit cards inside, which they later tried to use at the Safeway store in Grand Coulee. The vehicle prowl occurred within the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. When a woman, who was wearing a green camouflaged jacket and a pink Seahawks cap, tried to use one of the cards, the transaction was rejected. However, when she used the second card, the transaction went through, and was caught on camera. In that transaction, the woman... Full story
There will be a new clown in town for Colorama. You'll see him get rolled and tossed by bulls weighing up to a ton at the Ridge Riders Colorama Rodeo. Scott Wagner, who has his own way of getting thrills, will be out in the arena taking the heat off the bull riders May 6 – 7. Ridge Riders President George Kohout said last week that Wagner joins a host of rodeo specialists this year, the 60th year of the rodeo event. Wagner has 15 rodeo events scheduled this year and said last week that he is e... Full story
Residents of Electric City could receive a Parks and Trails Survey as early as this week. The survey asks more than 20 questions about how residents view their city and what their needs are for the future. The survey came out of a community meeting held Jan. 20, at Coulee Medical Center, and is tied to Electric City’s plan to put in a pathway and trail system using tourism-dedicated lodging tax funds to do so. The survey was developed by Grant County Health District and was provided to Electric City’s Parks and Pathway Advisory Committee for... Full story
A Lake Stevens man led Grand Coulee police officers on a chase and withstood getting hit with tasers at least four times Monday morning before finally being subdued. Arrested and taken to Grant County jail Monday was Kyle A. Simpson, 26, who had allegedly taken a number of clothing items from the Variety Store without paying for them. Police were called and found Simpson near the trailhead at SR-155 and Federal Avenue. Police Chief John Tufts instructed Simpson to stop, but he wouldn't. When... Full story
A local man wanted in the burglary of his grandparent’s house was found in a house on Burdin Boulevard and arrested, police reported. Michael S. Snyder II, 26, was taken to Grant County Jail on April 1. In addition to the burglary charge, Snyder faces the additional charges of trying to escape and resisting arrest. Police said they’d been looking for Snyder after identifying him as the person who broke into the home of Milton Snyder, his grandfather, on Miller Avenue in Electric City, March 7, and on another occasion the same month. Police had... Full story
You still have a couple of days before your Coulee Dam park survey is due. The town of Coulee Dam is taking a comprehensive park survey to determine the use of its parks and how and where the community would like to see improvements. The survey is due at town hall on April 8, and if you don’t have a copy of the survey, there’s still time to get one and participate in it. Copies are available at town hall. The survey is primarily for local residents, but outsiders are encouraged to fill out the survey, too. Town Councilmember Gayle Swagerty, alo... Full story
POWER has a new fish pens manager in Electric City. Bill Hancock, who lives near the fish pens, volunteered to handle those duties at the annual meeting of the group March 24 at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center. The future of the fish pens was in doubt going into the meeting, with POWER President Carl Russell indicating that he planned to step down after 25 years. As it turned out, Russell agreed to continue as president if someone else managed the fish pen operation. That’s when Hancock stepped forward. In the election that followed, t... Full story