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Ten Years Ago A bill in the state senate would tax camper and motorhome owners to support state parks, and have the effect of canceling a recent parking fee imposed throughout the state. The parking fee, $5 a day or $50 a year, has been criticized as double taxation by those who think state government should run its parks without the parking income. A diverse group of people recently took a motorized tour of a stretch of land where a pipe could someday transfer water from Electric City to Grand Coulee. The group included Electric City Mayor...
The Colville Tribes will receive the Sierra Club’s “Watershed Hero Award” in special ceremonies Saturday, Feb. 23, in Spokane. The award is for the Tribes’ cleanup efforts in the upper Columbia River of hazardous wastes deposited by slag from Teck Metals, LTD, a mining company in British Columbia. Slag deposits contain mercury, cadmium, zinc, copper, arsenic and lead. Teck, in 2012, admitted that its Trail, B.C., smelter had disposed of 9.7 million tons of contaminants into the Columbia River system. Officials of Teck acknowledged that it had...
Mayor Quincy Snow assured those attending a town council meeting last Wednesday night that the town would follow through on a “value engineering” study of its $4.92 million wastewater treatment plant project. He made the announcement after a long presentation by David Dunn, an engineer from the state Department of Ecology, who came to the meeting to explain the value engineering process. At the end of the presentation, Snow asked if the town should have gone through this process earlier. “It is late in the process for major changes to be made,...
Tribal members have been asking questions regarding the Tribes’ Ceremonial Locker such as how it’s used, when it began and who can benefit from it, the Colville Fish and Wildlife department state last week. The department seeks to manage the big game population for the benefit of the membership for subsistence and cultural needs. “One of the things that the tribe recognizes is the need to give the animals a rest in the winter months, to survive and reproduce in the spring,” said Randy Friedlander, interim Fish and Wildlife director. The “Ce...
Sin...redemption--being right or wrong. Are you so righteously ‘right’ that you allow yourself to stoop down, in servitude to evil … instead of being true to yourself … true to your reservation, and, most importantly, true to your own Colville tribal peoples: The Colville Confederated Tribes. Never before in all my 49 years of Colville tribal political participation through simply voting in annual tribal elections have I seen such outright evil, retaliatory bitterness, such mean and ugliness as is currently being delivered by what we now kno...
Michael Wade Rounds I (68) met his Savior Jesus Christ face to face at 10:59 p.m., on Wednesday, February 6, 2013 when he left this world from Spokane’s Deaconess Hospital. Michael’s beloved wife Rachel and their family were by his side to witness Michael’s Home-going. The only son of Edwin Bud & Josephine Louise (Landergreen) Rounds, Michael was born September 24, 1944, in Seattle, Washington. Twenty-two years to the day that he entered this world, Michael received his best-ever birthday gift,...
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Planning Department Pete Palmer, Land Use/Shoreline Administrator P.O. Box 150, Nespelem, WA 99155 509-634-2577 PUBLIC NOTICE The Colville Tribes Land Use Review Board will be holding a public hearing to make a ruling on the following Land Use Development application for a conditional use: Colville Tribes Information Technology Program has submitted a land use and development application for a conditional use permit to construct a call center. They are proposing to install a used 30’x60’ mod...
During the early morning of Saturday, February 9, 2013, in Nespelem, Washington, Alton Everett “Al” Foster, 89, took hold of his beloved Hazel’s hand and together they walked to their eternal home. Al began this life’s journey in the Vancouver, BC, Canada, home of Robert Clayton and Edna Pearl (Chugg) Foster on August 13, 1923. Growing up in the Seattle, Washington, area, Al was a member of the Roman Catholic Church and served during World War II with the United States Army as a crimina...
CALL FOR BIDS Town of Coulee Dam Feeder 4 Pole Replacements The Town of Coulee Dam will receive sealed bids for Feeder 4 Pole Replacement Project. Specifications may be obtained by contacting The City Clerk’s Office, during business hours. Sealed Bids should be mailed to Town of Coulee Dam, 300 Lincoln Ave, Coulee Dam, WA 99116, or hand delivered by 10:00 a.m. on February 26, 2013. The Town of Coulee Dam reserves the right to reject any and all bids. (Publish February 13 and 20, 2013) CITY OF GRAND COULEE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION The City of G...
Michael Wade Rounds I, 68, met his Savior Jesus Christ face to face at 10:59 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, when he left this world from Spokane’s Deaconess Hospital. Michael’s beloved wife – Rachel and their family were by his side to witness Michael’s Home-going. The only son of Edwin Bud and Josephine Louise (Landergreen) Rounds, Michael was born September 24, 1944, in Seattle, Washington. Twenty-two years to the day that he entered this world, Michael received his best ever birthda...
Things are about to happen with the new “Sanpoil” ferry, the one that will replace the “Martha S. at Keller Ferry, sometime this year. Late last fall, a large concrete slab was poured near the Crescent Bay boat launch site where the pieces of the new ferry will be put together. Ken Rau, who will be here along with Foss Maritime Company workers, will be preparing the slab site for a large cocoon-type covering to be placed where actual work on the ferry will occur. Sometime in February, electric power will be provided at-the-site and workers will...
REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS (RSQ) FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES The Town of Elmer City is inviting statements of qualifications from consulting engineering firms to provide engineering services for wastewater facility planning, analysis of existing system, hydrogeological investigations, evaluation of treatment alternatives, preparation of a Wastewater Facilities Plan (per WAC 173-240-050 & 060), and subsequent design and construction engineering and inspection for wastewater facility upgrades. The Town of Elmer City is...
Two days earlier, people on opposite sides of a contentious issue hadn’t gotten along so well, but the regular meeting of the Coulee Dam Town Council Wednesday progressed with civility remarkable by contrast. The town council accepted without comment a 275-signature petition by citizens to submit plans for a wastewater treatment facility upgrade to third-party engineers for “value engineering,” a formal process performed on many projects by engineers who do nothing else but look for ways to save money in such proposals. The petition also said...
• In a story last week, it was reported that Coulee Dam Mayor Quincy Snow had requested that a meeting with the Colville Tribes Community Development Committee on Tuesday be changed from 9:30 a.m. to 9 am. An agenda from the committee emailed the prior Friday showed that Snow had been given the 9-10 a.m. time frame in the meeting. He gave a presentation, asked if he could answer any questions and left. The meeting was held to supply information about the town’s planned wastewater treatment plant. Snow had not responded to two phone mes...
REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS (RSQ) FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES The Town of Elmer City is inviting statements of qualifications from consulting engineering firms to provide engineering services for wastewater facility planning, analysis of existing system, hydrogeological investigations, evaluation of treatment alternatives, preparation of a Wastewater Facilities Plan (per WAC 173-240-050 & 060), and subsequent design and construction engineering and inspection for wastewater facility upgrades. The Town of Elmer City is...
Development of Coulee Dam’s wastewater treatment plant upgrade is on hold for three months. The council made the decision at a hastily called meeting Monday afternoon on Martin Luther King Day. Even though the meeting date wasn’t announced until late Friday, the council chamber was packed and fireworks started immediately as community activist Greg Wilder and Mayor Quincy Snow tangled over the timing of the meeting. The council, which normally meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of the mon...
Greg Wilder, 69, a Coulee Dam activist, said last week that he plans to file for the office of mayor as an “agent of change” when the filing period opens in May. Wilder has been at odds with two-term Mayor Quincy Snow, and the town administration as a whole, for the past two years, largely over the proposed wastewater treatment plant. Wilder says he has determined that the present $4.92 million plant now being designed is being overbuilt and that it will cost the citizens of Coulee Dam too high of sewer bills for the next 20 years. He has con...
A local group of stakeholders will get the first look at the text for the all new laser light show within the next couple of weeks. Participants include the Colville Confederated Tribes, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Coulee Area Chamber of Commerce, the National Park Service, a representative from each town and someone from the irrigation district, as well as others. The inaugural showing of the new laser light show is scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, but Bureau of Reclamation officials said it might not make that date. The old laser light...
Coulee Dam Mayor Quincy Snow, Greg Wilder and Elmer City Councilmember Larry Holford all met with the Colville Tribes Community Development Committee Tuesday to discuss the proposed wastewater treatment facility. The meeting, originally set for 9:30 a.m. was rescheduled at Snow’s request for 9 a.m. He told the group that the town had decided to delay proceeding with the facility plan, taking 90 days to get a fresh look at it, and he encouraged the Colville Tribes to participate. Holford and Wilder, who were expecting the meeting to begin at 9:3...
I have been asked to give a definition of the word Okanogan, and decided to let everyone know because it is a word you hear every day and have never understood. Though there is no real consensus as to the definition of the word Okanogan there is a definite way to explain the word to you. The people who speak Nsylixcn (Okanogan) lived from Wenatchee to Vernon, from Revelstoke to the Kettle River and from the Cascade Mountains to the Kettle Falls. This is Indian Country to me, and a couple of ways to define “Okanagan.” The Okanagan People hav...
Ten Years Ago Jerry Beiermanwas selected as Volunteer of the Year for 2002. A long-term plan for Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area’s new superintendent will develop after she gets to know the area for a couple months. “I intend to develop a vision in the next six to nine months for a five year plan,” said Deborah Bird. She plans to watch, listen and observe in order to discover ways that Grand Coulee, Electric City, Coulee Dam and Elmer City can work together in a mutually efficient way with the Colville Tribes in the area. The Raider wre...
Elmer City Mayor Mary Jo Carey said her town would rather be part of Coulee Dam’s wastewater treatment plant project than develop its own plant. In an interview, she said Elmer City’s council voted to move forward investigating its own plant as a safety valve in case the town can’t work out its problems with Coulee Dam. “It’s all about money and how we have been treated,” Carey stated. “Our citizens can’t afford the high monthly wastewater treatment costs as outlined by Coulee Dam.” “What we’d like to see is for Coulee Dam to stop its plan...
A petition asking Coulee Dam’s town council to reconsider it current course to upgrade the town’s wastewater treatment plant is being presented door to door by a half dozen people. Greg Wilder, a resident who has been skeptical of the proposed design and critical of the town’s process in the matter, said the group hopes to present signatures from 90 percent of the town’s households to the council at its Jan. 23 meeting. Monday afternoon, he said, some 200 signatures were in hand. The petition drive was started by Kathy and Tom Skordas, he said...
The Colville Tribal Court of Appeals will hear arguments at Gonzaga University School of Law’s Barbieri Courtroom, at 10 a.m., Friday, Jan. 25. The hearing, which is open to the public, is part of Gonzaga Law School’s centennial celebration. The panel will ask if the lower tribal court abused the power of discretion in blocking further prosecution of a dismissed case. The law school is located at 721 N Cincinnati St., in Spokane. The case being heard, Colville Confederated Tribes v. G. Stensgar / C. Signor (case no. AP12-007/008) addresses an...
The Star newspaper has launched a new Community Calendar of events that will make schedule coordination across the community easier. Cities, churches, ball clubs, service organizations and more can all add their upcoming events to the calendar, which can be accessed by anyone, anytime online and at least once a month in the newspaper. It’s on page 8 today. To see the calendar online, go to The Star Online at grandcoulee.com. Just under the date at the top of the home page, click on Calendar in the green menu bar. The GCD Community Calendar w...