News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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by Roger S. Lucas The 10th Annual Koulee Kids Fest is Saturday, with everything for kids. Pick up your Koulee Kids passport at the Visitor Center, Saturday Market or Coulee Hardware and you can be on your way to fun and maybe prizes. The event is organized by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce and many partners. Get your passports stamped at six or more fun venues and you are qualified for great gifts at a drawing at the end of the day. Fun activities at the various venues include: • catching a fish at the big tank at the Colville T... Full story
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An art volunteer at Center Elementary and the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School is teaching students art history and how to paint in the style of famous painters. Cathy LaPlace, born and raised in France near the Belgium border, discovered that the district's art program was somewhat limited and is giving up hours of her time to help out. She meets with interested students after school to explore artists, their styles, and some of the art they have produced. Recently, her students studied the life... Full story
The Senior Center may now build a garage to house buses on their property in Grand Coulee. And, if anyone is still interested, a licensed daycare could set up shop on Main Street. Those two subjects of longstanding requests are now possible, following an ordinance passed the Grand Coulee City Council May 20. The issues had come before the council about a year ago and the city held a public hearing on the matter early in April. The Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center has two buses and had come before the council a year ago to ask if they could build... Full story
The flags are going up Saturday, Veterans, their families, and the general public looks forward each year to the "Isle of Flags" at Spring Canyon Cemetery. This year there will be over 500 flags flying for veterans from the local areas. They go up in a gigantic volunteer work effort beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday. You can go and help. Then the flags come down on Monday beginning at 3 p.m. if it's not raining. This year 13 new flags will be dedicated in honor of the following: Clifford W. Avey,... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation will begin showing the new laser light show on the face of Grand Coulee Dam, “One River, Many Voices,” this Saturday beginning at 10 p.m. The new show incorporates the story of the area, beginning with how the land was formed, the original inhabitants of the area, why Grand Coulee Dam was developed and the numerous effects and benefits the dam has had on local communities and the nation. The show replaces the original laser show developed in 1989, and which ran for 25 consecutive summers. In 2011 the Bureau con... Full story
The Ridge Riders have pulled out all the stops for this year’s 3rd Annual Cleatis Lacy Memorial Bull Riding event, this Saturday May 24, at the rodeo grounds. Bull riders will be facing the longest eight seconds in sports (riders must stay on the bull eight seconds for a successful ride), and the new attraction, the Wild Horse Race, will provide some extra thrills for rodeo fans. Adults will pay $10, and students over 10 years of age $8. Those under 10 get in free. The Lacy bull riding event honors the late Cleatis Lacy, a longtime rodeo partic... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation is planning to build a new fire station. It's the "where" that's in question. The Bureau is seeking public comment to identify issues to be addressed in an environmental assessment, due out this fall. The Bureau is looking at two locations for the new fire station: one, on land it owns, near the intersection of SR-155 and "B" Street; the other on land managed by the National Park Service at Crescent Bay, uphill from the boat launch and adjacent to the access road. A... Full story
Electric City’s council voted to give the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce $9,000, instead of the requested $6,000, to help promote the area’s new Laser Light Show on the west side of the mountains. The chamber had outlined a media buy on the Seattle side of the state and had requested that each of the three cities, Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam, and Electric City, that collect hotel/motel tax monies, pony up $6,000 each. At its last meeting, Grand Coulee voted $6,000, and last Tuesday night, May 13, Electric City, after considerable dis... Full story
Coulee Dam’s town council was slow to convince last week that the town should reach down in its hotel/motel money reserves and provide the chamber of commerce and the Coulee Area Park and Recreation District with more funds. Grand Coulee Dam Chamber of Commerce officials, and Rec Commissioner Phil Hansen, appeared before the council May 14, each asking for more money. The chamber was asking for $6,000 as Coulee Dam’s portion of a media campaign cost to try to lure visitors from western Washington to the new Laser Light Show. Hansen was asking f... Full story
The towns of Elmer City and Coulee Dam passed resolutions at their last council meetings to take part in the formation of a regional council of governments in Okanogan County. A similar resolution will be on the agenda at other cities and towns and at the county level to develop an organization that can come together and deal with issues that they hold in common. This organization, if formed, would deal with county-wide transportation issues. Earlier cities, towns, and county government in Okanogan County fell under the North Central Regional... Full story
Police have questioned a man after someone reportedly grabbed a child at Center Elementary School last Wednesday. Police Sgt. John Tufts said the man denied touching any child at the school, and conflicting stories from children who were at the scene have made it difficult to determine if anything really happened. Tufts said the child was with several other children, and that his sister, who was only four feet away, couldn’t confirm that anyone had been grabbed. “We are not getting confirmation that anything really happened from the other kid... Full story