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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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As a child growing up in west Coulee Dam, our outdoor playground was built by the toil of young unmarried men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The CCC was born out of the Great Depression in 1933 and was a voluntary public-works program of President Roosevelt's New Deal. Roosevelt's program put men of ages 18 to 25 to work on projects involving natural-resource development and conservation. The average wage was $30 per month, of which $25 was sent home to their families. With the...
Janice Bonamici Erickson, 66, passed away Friday, February 7, 2020, peacefully with loved ones by her side in Spokane, Washington. Jan was born January 11, 1954, to Anthony and Geneva Bonamici in Spokane, Washington where she grew up and went to school. She attended Eastern Washington University for both a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Education. Beginning her teaching career in 1976, Jan taught for over 40 years, primarily in the Grand Coulee Dam School District. As a life-long learner and... Full story
Our loving mother, Margaret E. (Mickey) Rice Kendall, passed away peacefully in Spokane, Washington. Tuesday, February 11, 2020. Mickey was born the third child of Theo. R. and Bernice E. Rice on the family homestead northwest of Grand Coulee on August 11, 1932. Mickey's growing up years were spent on her family's farm. Her mom helped her dad in the fields so her grandfather who lived with them took care of the kids. She also had two bachelor uncles that lived nearby and were very much a part... Full story
Chamber to Meet at La Presa Chamber will meet this Thursday, February 20, at the La Presa Mexican Restaurant, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon with general business on the agenda. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet The Grant County Fire District 14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, February 24, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City Fire Station. AA Meetings for GCD and Nespelem Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays and Fridays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or...
Keller School District Request for Qualifications / Proposal from qualified Energy Service Providers The Keller School District Board of Keller, Washington requests qualifications and proposals from energy services providers licensed in the State of Washington. A qualified provider will be selected for the purpose of implementing energy efficiency projects and will develop and prepare a Guaranteed Energy Savings Contract pursuant to the guidelines set forth in Washington Code RCW 39.35A.030. The Request for Proposal (RFQ/P) is due on March 6, 2... Full story
Coulee Dam Police 2/10 - A student was arrested for assault after she fought with another student in the hallway at Lake Roosevelt, reportedly over the other student talking about her family over social media. 2/11 - Five post office boxes were pried into at the Coulee Dam post office, three of which were rented out. It is unknown if any mail was taken. - A student was arrested for assault and taken to juvenile hall after police reviewed surveillance footage showing the student hitting another in the lunchroom. 2/12 - A truck pulling a trailer...
Lincoln County sheriff deputies booked two people into jail last night (Feb. 11) after a very precise caller alerted them to what appeared to be ongoing theft from rural mailboxes. Three deputies responded to the area north of Davenport about 7 p.m., taking different roads to prevent the suspect from getting away, Sheriff Wade Magers reported in a press release Wednesday. Deputies Kurt Cuzzetto, Gabe Gants, and Jerad McLagan responded to the area. Cuzzetto found the vehicle, accurately...
The Electric City council voted in a new city clerk/administrator, as well as a new council member, at their meeting Tuesday night. Peggy Nevsimal was chosen out of four candidates as the new city clerk/administrator following an executive session at the meeting. Nevsimal, who is currently the executive director at the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, was absent from the meeting. "At this time we feel that Peggy would be a great asset to the city of Electric City," Mayor Diane Kohout...
Vehicles line up behind a crash on SR-174 just northwest of Grand Coulee Wednesday where a driver of a westbound 2010 Ford Fusion failed to make the curve and collided with a semi headed the other direction, about a mile from where this photo was taken, just before 1 p.m. The USBR fire department helped extract her from the seriously damage car and she was taken to Coulee Medical Center with what the Washington State Patrol said were minor injuries. She was cited for driving too fast for...
A proposal to build a 31-mile water tunnel under the Grand Coulee was made by Frank Harris, a civil engineer from Renton. His plan, publicly announced in December 1935, was to expedite the irrigation of approximately 500,000 acres of land in the Columbia Basin by a gravity system, without waiting for Grand Coulee power. He figured that the amount of water required to lift and fill what is now Banks Lake would be 20,320,000,000 cubic feet before any could flow out into the main distributing canal...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors took new assignments at their Jan. 27 meeting. Director George LaPlace was appointed board chair. Director Carla Marconi was appointed vice chair, and Ken "Butch" Stanger was appointed legislative representative. LaPlace, who has served on the board since 2015, replaces Rich Black as board chair. Black, still a director, has chaired the board since 2016. Marconi has served on the board since 2007. Newly elected Director Alex Tufts, who...
Chamber to Meet at La Presa Chamber will meet this Thursday, February 13, at the Siam Palace Restaurant, Main Street, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon with general business on the agenda. Grant County Mosquito District 2 to Meet The Grant County Mosquito District #2 will hold its monthly meeting at 5 p.m., Thursday, February 13, at 210 W. Coulee Blvd., in Electric City. Okanogan County School Retirees’ Assoc. to Meet Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will meet 11 a.m., Friday, February 28, for a general meeting and no-...
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...
The winter meeting of the Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association will take place at 1 p.m., Wednesday, February 19, 2020, at the Senior Center, 203 Main Street in Grand Coulee. The main item of business will be the All-Class Reunion coming up August 7-9, 2020. Scholarship applications will be available at the meeting, with May 1, 2020, being the deadline for mailing applications for consideration for this year’s awards. All LRHS Seniors are eligible to apply, as are other high school seniors and continuing education college students who a...
Kristen Smith and Keith Copley, of Grand Coulee, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their twin sons born Thursday, January 30, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. Keneth Richard Copley weighed 8 lbs., 3 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Gavin Celestino Copley weighed 6 lbs., and was 19 inches in length. Siblings include Liam and Scarlet Stanford. Maternal grandparents are Lynne and Dale Rinker of Mansfield, Washington, and Ron Smith of Tacoma, Washington. Paternal grandparents are Marilu and Clyde Copley of... Full story
Coulee Area Park and Recreation District (CAPRD) SEEKING VENDOR Coulee Area Park and Recreation District (CAPRD) is seeking a vendor for grounds maintenance at North Dam Park, Grand Coulee, WA The time frame for 2020 contract runs from mid-April through the end of October. The selected vendor will provide maintenance of the park in the areas listed below. The budget for this seasonal project will not exceed 22,000 dollars. We reserve the right to extend this contract for up to two years. • Mowing of all cultivated lawn areas -- picnic s... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 2/4 - A Dill Avenue resident reported a man on his porch, dancing, yelling, and pounding on the glass door. An officer told him to go home and that the resident didn’t want him there. The man did so without incident. - A Spokane Way homeowner said her maintenance person told her a sliding glass door was broken and wanted the incident documented. Police noted there was nothing inside to be stolen. 2/5 - Police responded to an accident on SR-174 near Crown Point Road where a semi truck and a Ford Fusion had collided. There w...
For the last few weeks, The Star has carried some stories from Olympia, written by student journalism interns serving as reporters in the news service of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, of which The Star is a member. I serve on WNPA's board of directors, am a past president, and help edit a few of the stories when tapped on digital shoulder by a dedicated retired publisher overseeing the Olympia bureau. I try to pick stories most relevant to our local readers, although the students produce more than we could ever fit in. The st... Full story
The ability of the school or a parent to be able to communicate with a bus driver for one reason or another is an important one, and the Grand Coulee Dam School District directors discussed the topic at their Jan. 27 meeting. Former board director Brenda Covington spoke with the school board, following up on the topic she had also addressed at their Dec. 9 meeting when she was still on the board. Back in December, Covington had mentioned a woman who was unable to reach a bus driver, and that the bus barn didn’t have phone numbers for the bus dr...
Those interested in the local airport for one reason or another, especially those representing organizations, can anticipate a meeting in April to discuss the Grand Coulee Dam Airport’s draft master plan. At their Jan. 30 meeting, Grant County Port District 7 commissioners discussed wanting to bring in people from various entities, such as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Bonneville Power Administration, the Colville Tribes, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Army Corps of Engineers, the hospital, local cities, and more, to participate in a...
Attention geology nerds! There's some cool stuff happening regarding local geology including a podcast available now and a presentation coming in March. Geologist Bruce Bjornstad will be coming to the Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center auditorium on March 28 to show some of his drone footage from the area from the past few years. Similar videos on Youtube show birds-eye views of places in the Grand Coulee region, including the Dry Falls, the Great Blade, the Potholes area, and much more, as well as...
The Chinese New Year kicked off Saturday, Jan. 25. It’s the year of the rat, which I could suggest was named for a number of people I could name! The lunar year is divided into 13 categories, all named for an animal. While traveling to the Far East once, I was caught up in the Chinese New Year by chance. I had landed in Taipei, Taiwan from Osaka, Japan, on my way to Saigon. I had a booking at the Grand Hotel, referred by Mary Yang Meeds, wife of Rep. Lloyd Meeds at the time. Lloyd represented Washington’s 2nd District. The Grand Hotel was owned...
An abandoned reinforced-concrete bunker, built partially underground, sits atop an isolated granite mountain knob approximately a mile south of the Grand Coulee Dam; approximately 330 feet above the western shoreline of Lake Roosevelt. From September 1941 to August 1942 the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey would construct a recording seismographic station. The bunker would house a seismograph and associated instruments installed to detect possible earthquakes caused or initiated by the...
Tracy Lee Thiel, 65, peacefully passed away in his Grand Coulee, Washington home Monday, January 27, 2020. Tracy entered this world on Thursday, October 28, 1954 into the South Dakota home of Raymond Frederick and L. Grace Sontron-Thiel. Tracy graduated from Colville High School, Colville, Washington in 1973 where he enjoyed art and painting. While well known as the owner/operator of "Tracy's Glass & Screen" of Grand Coulee, Washington, Tracy had found great enjoyment for the last few years as... Full story
Tiffany Ann Henning, 30, passed away Tuesday, January 28, 2020, at Billings Clinic Hospital surrounded by the love of her family and friends. Tiffany is survived by her husband, Jacob, sons Parker and Bodie, parents Nicholas and Linda Berthron, brother Derrick Brandstrom (Christine), all of Billings, Montana, her grandmother Virginia Berthron of Grand Coulee, Washington, two nieces, aunts, and cousins. Tiffany was born on January 15, 1990, in Billings. She entered the world in a hurry and never... Full story
