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Chamber to Meet Chamber will meet this Thursday, March 12 at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon with general business is on the agenda. GCD School and Nespelem School Districts to Meet The Board of Directors of the Grand Coulee Dam School District will hold a board meeting in conjunction with the Nespelem School District Board of Directors to transact items of mutual. Business at 6 p.m., on Thursday, March 12 , at Siam Palace in Grand Coulee. The length of the meeting is expected to not exceed three h...
Grand Coulee Police 3/3 - Police performed a welfare check on a man’s daughter said to live in Delano. Police spoke to a neighbor who said that he hadn’t seen the woman or her boyfriend at the house in about three days, and thought they may be at a house in Coulee Dam. An officer forwarded that information to Coulee Dam police. The neighbor was told to tell the woman to call her father if he spoke to her. 3/4 - Upstairs and downstairs neighbors on Main Street argued over noise. An officer told them each to make sure the landlord was aware of th...
Firefighters dig through the smoldering remains of a fifth-wheel trailer that caught on fire early Sunday morning. Two occupants got out of the trailer on Lakeview Boulevard in Delano safely, Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Chief Ryan Fish said. The call came in just after 7 a.m. - Scott Hunter photo...
Wild kokanee in Lake Roosevelt, showing low numbers, are a subject of study for the Colville Tribes' biologists. For the next two years, groups of kokanee will be caught and tagged in order to study their movement patterns, a press release from Colville Tribes Fish & Wildlife says. The goal of the project is to protect and enhance the wild kokanee salmon populations above Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams in an effort to support tribal subsistence and recreational sport fisheries. "The wild...
There will be a Celebration of Life for Paul Allison at the Grand Coulee Community Church, 405 Center St. Grand Coulee on Saturday, March 14, at 2 p.m. All are welcome! Paul passed away Sunday, January 19, 2020, at Bonney Lake, Washington.... Full story
COVID-19, or the coronavirus, has received widespread news coverage, and as cases and deaths in Washington have been confirmed, how does it affect the local community? "Please be reassured that we have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in our community," stated an email sent to Coulee Medical Center staff Tuesday. The email said the hospital "is taking a proactive approach in preventing potential exposure to staff and patients by screening all visitors and patients prior to entrance into the... Full story
A potential new, big hydro-electric project for the Coulee area, could be more likely to happen sooner than later if legislation being considered by the Senate in Washington D.C. passes. The $1.4 billion Banks Lake Pump Storage Project, proposed by Columbia Basin Hydropower, would bring in an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 workers to build a gravity-fed, pumped-storage system that would drain water from Banks Lake back down to Lake Roosevelt, turning generators in the process, and later pump the...
February proved to be a bad month for restaurant buildings. On Feb. 21, at about 4:12 p.m., a Coulee City woman drove over the curb on Main Street in Grand Coulee, hitting the outside of Siam Palace, before going into reverse and backing into an alleyway. According to a police report from Officer Dan Holland of the Grand Coulee Police Department, the vehicle, a 1995 Ford Ranger, jumped the curb and hit Siam Palace, causing an estimated $10,000 in damage when the vehicle pushed in a concrete planter, bent a window frame, caused damage to the...
The role of a journalist is to be the eyes and ears for the readers. So while at a school board meeting, city council meeting, events, and so on, things that people may not have the time to go to, or don’t have a large enough interest in going to, my job is to listen for what’s interesting and present that to the readers. What are school or city officials saying? What are they doing? What laws are they passing? What changes are happening? What are people saying during the public comments part of the meeting? Public meetings are on the rec...
Chamber to Meet Chamber will meet this Thursday, March 5 at the Pepper Jack's Bar & Grillet, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon. Guest speaker Cassandra Haggeman, of the National Park Service, will address a potential threat from quagga mussels, a destructive invasive species of shellfish that authorities are hoping to keep out of Lake Roosevelt. American Legion Post 157 to Meet The next meeting for American Legion Post 157 will be Tuesday, March 10, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Vets’ Center in Electric City. Food Bank open F...
Vitalant, along with the Grand Coulee community blood drive volunteers led by coordinator Penny Lewis, is planning a blood drive for Monday, March 16. Donation hours will be from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the community room at Coulee Medical Center. Vitalant is the sole blood provider to more than 35 hospitals across the Inland Northwest and needs an average of 200 blood donors every day. A single donation can save the lives of up to three people. For more information contact Stefanie Dunn at 425-314-3799....
Income tax time is here!! Free tax preparation is once again being offiered at the senior center in Grand Coulee every Wednesday through April 14, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers trained in cooperation with the IRS will offer free help to taxpayers with low to middle incomes in preparing their federal income taxes. Special attention is given to those 60 and older. Free e-filing is also available. Taxpayers should bring with them: a copy of last year’s tax return; Social Security cards or other official documentation showing social s...
Grand Coulee Police 2/20 - The owner of storage units on Grand Coulee Avenue reported two units had been broken into. Pictures were taken and the owner would contact the unit renters about the incident and tell police if anything is reported missing. 2/21 - The Department of Licensing reported a man saying over the phone that he was going to overdose on heroin and kill himself. An officer went to an Electric City address where the man’s sister lived. She said he didn’t live there, but lived in a hotel in the Seattle area. She called him and...
Batter up! Lake Roosevelt Diamond Sports baseball and softball sign-ups for young athletes from ages 4-15 will begin March 12 at the Lake Roosevelt Elementary cafeteria from 5:30-7 p.m. Registration forms and payments can also be mailed to: LRDS Box 6004 Grand Coulee, WA 99133 The forms and payments must be received by March 17. Enrollment fees are: T-Ball (ages 4-5) - $35 Rookies (ages 6-8) - $35 Minors (ages 9-10) - $40 Majors (ages 11-12) - $45 Babe Ruth (ages 13-15) - $50 There is also a $5 sibling discount. Coaches will contact team... Full story
A conversation on school bus communication and discipline goes ’round and ’round, and a new director of transportation says he is addressing the issues repeatedly raised over the last couple months. The topic of school bus communication, as well as discipline on the bus, was brought up again at the Feb. 24 Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting, a topic raised back in December of 2019 as well as January 2020. Former school board director Brenda Covington, who has brought up the topic in previous meetings, asked for an update on the top...
The city of Grand Coulee is on track to sign a new contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to provide law enforcement services for the federal agency. The city is currently operating on a six-month extension on a contract that expired in November 2019, a contract in which the city’s police provide additional security at the Grand Coulee Dam. That contract adds four additional officers to the Grand Coulee Police Department, which serves Grand Coulee and Electric City, for a total of eight officers, plus a reserve officer. The bureau pays th...
Craig Moran held up a 30-year-old hawk to a room full of young students at the Vets Hall in Electric City during a two-day event to educate them about birds of prey. Moran, of RaptorLife, a company that teaches people about the raptor category of birds, was showing them August, a 30-year-old ferruginous hawk, that was taken from a nest in Wyoming in 1990. Moran spoke to a mixture of fourth- through eighth-grade students from Lake Roosevelt Schools, and from schools in Wilbur, Creston,...
Ryan Fish was named the new chief of the Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Department at the city's Feb. 18 council meeting. A crowd of about 20 people, including several from the department, applauded after Fish's appointment was announced by Mayor Paul Townsend, who gave Fish his badge. "Thank you for stepping up and doing what you do, and what you're going to do for the city," Townsend said. The fire chief position was opened after Rick Paris retired as chief at the end of 2019 after 23 years in...
The hours of Grand Coulee City Hall could change so that it isn’t closed during the 12-1 p.m. lunch hour, but would close a half an hour earlier, at 4:30 p.m. City Clerk Lorna Pearce explained at the Feb. 18 city council meeting that with a newly adopted union contract allowing for half-hour lunches instead of a full hour, she and Deputy Clerk Andrea Shumaker could alternate their lunches to stay open during the lunch hour. Councilmember Gary Carriere remarked that it makes sense to make the change and have city hall open during the noon h...
Just a reminder that free tax preparation is being offiered at the senior center in Grand Coulee every Wednesday through April 14, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers trained in cooperation with the IRS will offer free help to taxpayers with low to middle incomes in preparing their federal income taxes. Special attention is given to those 60 and older. Free e-filing is also available. Taxpayers should bring with them: a copy of last year’s tax return; Social Security cards or other official documentation showing social security numbers for t...
Parents, students and educational professionals voiced their concerns in a public hearing in the state Senate about a bill that would mandate comprehensive sexual education in public schools beginning as soon as kindergarten. Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Paul Turner told the school board here on Monday the bill appears poised to pass, so they’ll likely need to figure out how to implement it. Lorraine Jenne, chair for the Wahluke School Board in Grant County, testified to the House Education Committee on Thursday in opposition...
Last week, we visited the Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona. It is part of our National Parks “bucket list.” The trip was a real eye-opener. The Canyon is spectacular. It is hard to believe over a billion years ago it was flat ground and covered by ocean waters. In ancient times, there was too much water. Today, it is a deep gorge with a ribbon of water running through it. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, over a mile deep and 10 to 18 miles across. The famed Colorado River run...
Paul Elmer Allinson, 84, was born November 5, 1935, in Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, to the home of Ralph and Mildred Allinson, and passed away on Sunday, January 19, 2020, in Bonney Lake, Washington. After graduating from Menlo-Atherton High School in Palo Alto, California, in 1952, Paul enlisted in the Air Force Reserves and served active duty during the Cuban missile crisis. Paul retired from United Airlines after 38 years of service working in San Francisco, California and then in Seattle, Wash... Full story
Chrystien Hakola died Monday, February 10, 2020, at her home in Deer Park, Washington. Born in 1949 in Grand Coulee, Washington, Chrys graduated from Grand Coulee High School, and received a baccalaureate degree from Eastern Washington University. Later she continued here education to receive a master’s in organizational leadership from Gonzaga University. Chrys was a prominent member of the Grand Coulee area business community until mid-1980’s when her and Chip relocated to The Dalles, Oregon. Her career returned her to Grand Coulee as the... Full story
Arielle A. Cawston and Braxton P. Booze of Coulee Dam, Washington are proud to announce the birth of their son Sebastian Scott Booze, born Saturday, February 15, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 9 lbs., 11 oz., and was 20 inches in length at birth. Sibling is Jocelyn Louella, age 2. Maternal grandparents are Rodney and Colleen F. Cawston of Coulee Dam. Paternal grandparents are Jerry Booze of Salem, Oregon, and Judy Halter of Phoenix, Arizona. Great-grandmother is Alvina B. Cawston of Nespelem....