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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Benjamin and Ashley Garza of Coulee City are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Isabella Danielle Garza born Friday, May 22, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 7 lbs., 10 oz., and was 22 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Kaiden age 5, Kyanna 3 and Kalaya 18 months. Maternal grandparents are Robert and Amber Olson of Coulee City. Paternal grandparents are Narcedalia Mendez and Anastacio JiJon of Warden. Great-grandparents include Marlene Grant and Phyllis Rice of Coulee City.... Full story
Jason and Kristen Fulfer of Elmer City are proud to announce the birth of their son Jason Thomas Fulfer, born Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 7 lbs., 13 oz., and was 20 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Amy Dorman age 7 and Marteena Fulfer age 9. Maternal grandparents are Ken and Connie James. Paternal grandparents are Robert Wade Fulfer and Rosalee Atchison. Great-grandparents are Bob and Donna Riley, Leona Dick and Jimmy Wiley, Gabriel and Yvonne Moses and Ernest and Arlene... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 5/19 - Police assisted a Coulee Dam officer in identifying a woman who had given two names. The woman’s driver license was suspended and there were several arrest warrants for her. After assisting it was left to Coulee Dam to complete the arrangements. - Police checked on two 911 hang-up calls from Coulee Medical Center and determined that it could have been from a problem with the phone lines. 5/19-20 - Police received a private call on an alleged child abuse incident on Grand Avenue East, in Electric City. The next day, p... Full story
Repeated Announcement Grand Coulee Dam School District #301J AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, OPENING FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER - POSITION #5; POSITION #3 Two vacancies exist on the Board of Directors for the Grand Coulee Dam School District. The Board is seeking letters of interest from those citizens living within the district’s Director District #5 and Director District #3 who wish to fill the appropriate vacancy. Candidates shall be United States citizens and qualified voters resident in the following described director district: Director District 5 S... Full story
It’s in the hands of the city clerk. That’s the best Grand Coulee’s city council could come up with last night (Tuesday) in regard to a controversial application for a marijuana retail business license. About 30 people showed up to offer their view of the issue, and with a show of hands all but two were against it, the applicants. Clerk Carol Boyce when asked after the meeting if she was going to issue the license, said, “I haven’t made up my mind yet.” While members of the council repeatedly told the audience how important it was to come to... Full story
Kudos to Jean Comstock and Jim Pachosa, the Grand Coulee business couple that have asked the city council to grant them a business license for a marijuana retail store near Coulee Medical Center, and to Grand Coulee Police Department Chief John Tufts, who, when asked recently about enforcement problems, said that the department isn’t pursuing recreational cannabis (marijuana) users. It has taken years for this clarification to come; however, it is obviously not a crime for adults, including tenants of the Grand Coulee Manor apartment b... Full story
Repeated Announcement Grand Coulee Dam School District #301J AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, OPENING FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER - POSITION #5; POSITION #3 Two vacancies exist on the Board of Directors for the Grand Coulee Dam School District. The Board is seeking letters of interest from those citizens living within the district’s Director District #5 and Director District #3 who wish to fill the appropriate vacancy. Candidates shall be United States citizens and qualified voters resident in the following described director district: Director District 5 S... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 5/12 - A local bank reported to police that an employee had been terminated for taking money and the official provided surveillance footage to police. - Police found four subjects in the area of the Tanner gates near North Dam Park after hours and all left the area. 5/13 - A man who found a card holder that belonged to an assault victim turned it in to police. The holder contained several government keys. - An apartment owner on Main Street told police that a resident had been asked to leave but had returned to the... Full story
A Grand Coulee business couple has asked the city council to grant them a business license for a marijuana retail store near Coulee Medical Center. Jean Comstock and Jim Pachosa appeared before the council last Tuesday night and requested support in getting the business license in the city. Comstock has one of the Grant County state permits created by the passage of Initiative 502, which legalized recreational marijuana, and is seeking an OK from the city council. Earlier the couple had visited Electric City council with the same request but... Full story
Kids at Lake Roosevelt Schools will have more direct access to health care if a plan to that end pans out between Coulee Medical Center and Lake Roosevelt Schools. The project was taken on by a University of Washington third-year medical student studying at CMC. "Across the nation there's this new trend of school-based health centers," explained Jonathan Patberg, speaking at a Rotary Club luncheon last week. In some places, that means building a clinic inside a school, but not here, Patberg... Full story
Equipment is surplus Several video cameras and accessories have been declared surplus by the city of Grand Coulee, along with some Dell computer equipment, minus the hard drives, which will be stored in the city’s safe. Fire and EMS activity reported Grand Coulee’s Volunteer Fire Department answered four calls in March, including one structure fire. The department had 34 ambulance calls during the same period, including 12 transports. In April, the department didn’t have any fire calls, but was called for a fuel spill and one rescue. There... Full story
Ronald McDonald, a Camas Street resident, took a spill Sunday when he tried to stop his motorcycle near the Galaxy Smoke Shack on SR 155 near the bridge in Coulee Dam. He said he was unfamiliar with the hydraulic brakes on his cycle. McDonald complained of an injured wrist and was taken by ambulance to Coulee Medical Center. McDonald had a motorcycle permit and told officers he was taking oxygen from a container because he had emphysema. Police directed traffic while the roadway was cleared. ... Full story
Grand Coulee 5/4 - Plant Protection advised that two boats were tied to the buoy line at the canal near North Dam Park. The fishermen agreed to move back. - Police checked on a report that a man had fallen on Federal Avenue. The officer found a man who said he had just been at the senior center and was on his way home but his legs were not working right. - An Electric City man told police that someone had placed a trailer on his property. Police found a 22-foot trailer registered in Montana and some other material on the site. Police asked... Full story
Alyeana Caldwell of Grand Coulee is proud to announce the birth of her daughter Addalyn Niole Scranton on Friday, April 24, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 7 lbs., 7 oz., and was 21 inches in length at birth. Sibings include Nevaeh Scranton, age 3. Maternal grandparents are Sharissa Steffen and Craig Steffen. Paternal grandmother is Patsy Scranton. Great-grandparents are Al Jordan and Peggie Jordan.... Full story
Tasheena Friedlander and Chauncy Cawston of Moses Lake, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Mila Mae Cawston, born Sunday, Apr. 26, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 9 lbs., 9 oz., and was 20 inches in length. Siblings include Leo J. Cawston, age 4, and Larrysa Friedlander age 2. Maternal grandparents are Suzette Aripa of Nespelem and the late Les Moses. Paternal grandparents are Melynda Covington of Nespelem and Lonnie Cawston of Coulee Dam.... Full story
Brenna Carson and Brian Brooks of Elmer City are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Korbyn Rosaline Carson-Brooks Johnson on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 7 lbs., 14 oz., and was 20.5 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Nathan Carson 9, Jasmine Brooks 9, Lasane Brooks 8 and Renita Carson-Brooks Johnson 21 months. Maternal grandparents are Clara and Ron Carson of Elmer City. Paternal grandparents are Renita Brooks and Standous Paige of Seattle.... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 4/27 - Police interrupted some juveniles that were cutting some shrubbery at an abandoned house on Fortuyn Road. The youth were advised to stop doing this and complied. – A woman on Goodfellow Street in Electric City told police that she was the victim of identity theft. She said that she had a call on a credit card issue and couldn’t have made the charges because she was incarcerated at the time. She was advised to call her bank and cancel the card. 4/28 - Police arrested a woman on E. Grand Avenue for fourth-degree ass... Full story
Look for supt. Nespelem School District is looking for a new superintendent and signed an agreement with a search firm Monday night. The district will pay $6,900 to Northwest Leadership Associates to look for a new part-time superintendent, but consultant Lloyd Olson said the district needs that position filled at least three days a week, not one. The job is “bigger than that,” he said, suggesting a salary of $60,000 a year. The job is currently held by Dr. Mary Hall, who also works with the Colville Tribes’ college program. Debra Pankey is th... Full story
Dortha A. Reid, 101, passed away peacefully Wednesday, April 22, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. Dortha was born April 3, 1914, to August and Watie Henkel in Wenatchee, Wash. She was the eighth of 12 children and was raised in Wenatchee. Dortha married Kenneth E. Reid on January 17, 1936, in Magna, Utah. She worked at Remington Arms in Salt Lake City during the war. They returned to Washington state in 1948, and moved to Electric City in 1950. Ken and Dortha owned their own... Full story
Niole Peters and Adam Lambrecht of Grand Coulee are proud to announce the birth of their son Killian James Lambrecht on Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 4 lbs., 8 oz., and was 16 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Evan Jay Lambrecht 10, Aaliyah Peters 5 and Brooklyn Lambrecht 1. Maternal grandparents are James and Kathy Jagemann. Paternal grandfather is Lyle Lambrecht.... Full story
You can save some big bucks this year by purchasing Colorama Carnival tickets early. Chamber of Commerce officials, the sponsoring agency for the event, said advance daily tickets are now on sale at seven locations: The Credit Union, Chamber of Commerce office, Coulee Hardware, Coulee Medical Center, H & H Grocery, Loepp Furniture and The Star newspaper. Advance session tickets are $25. If you wait until the event, the session ticket costs go to $30. But the value of purchasing early is even greater. With your $25 advance purchase you get five... Full story
Jamie Fry and Clinton Conant of Nespelem are proud to announce the birth of their son Kacyn Scott Conant on Friday, April 10, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 7 lbs., 3.5 oz., and was 20 inches in length at birth. Sibling is Mercedes Fry, age 5. Maternal grandparents are JoAnna Fry and Ray Fry. Paternal grandparents are Scott Conant and Debra Wagner. Great-grandparents are Lois James, Sheila Cleveland, Suzie McKinney and Modesta Fry.... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 4/13 - A man on Banks Avenue told police that a light bar had been taken from his residence and said that it matched one seen on his separated wife’s boyfriend’s car. The woman told police that she had taken the bar before separation and before a no-contact order had been issued. Police explained it was a civil matter. 4/15 - The American Legion asked for more patrols of the area because they had evidence that maybe someone has been trying to take a piece of equipment. - A woman on Roosevelt Drive advised police that her... Full story
A Spokane man was rescued Saturday through the efforts of a number of agencies after injuring his leg while climbing high on the rocks behind Osborne Bay. Nicholas Vange, 21, who had been camping in the area, along with another man, Nicholas Largent, also of Spokane, had been hiking high in the rocky ledges on the coulee hillside above Banks Lake when he ran into trouble. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office said it received a call at 11:15 a.m. but was unable to immediately respond. Grand Coulee police officer Chris McClanahan was on the scene u... Full story
1 Years ago Total Health Events, LLC, of Blaine, Wash, the same company that put on last fall’s triathlon, is hosting the “Over The Dam Run” 5K/10K and a half marathon on Sunday, May 8 on Colorama weekend. The original race began in 1977, organized annually by an avid group of runners from the Coulee, Spokane and eastern Washington, but numbers of participants in recent years has dwindled. Race Director Jonathon Hoskins says a major attraction for many runners will be the chance to run on the top of Grand Coulee Dam, which had been closed off... Full story
