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A California woman arrested last Thursday who allegedly made a bomb threat while on a tour at Grand Coulee Dam, was booked into Okanogan County Jail and released the next day on her personal recognizance. Christina Frisvold, 33, was arrested by Coulee Dam police officer Michael Sullivan after she told him two times that she had a bomb, according to police. She was on the tour with her boyfriend, Robert Marty, also from California, who, according to a police report, had told her to stop talking about a bomb. She later told officials that she...
Science teacher Ralph Rise was presented with a statewide award last week, an example for educators across the state. Sonia Siegel Vexler, co-director of LASER, the Pacific Science Center’s Leadership Assistance for Science Education Reform, presented Rise Wednesday with a check for $5,000 and a trophy in the form of a Galileo thermometer with a special inscription. Rise will give the money to the school to further the science programs that have built him a reputation over the last several y...
Grand Coulee is going to make an effort to get a daycare center in its Central Business District zone. The public interest in a daycare center has attracted the attention of city officials, and the ways and means of making a zoning change was discussed last Tuesday night with Vivian Ramsey of SCJ Alliance, the city’s planning group. The city’s planning council, made up of council members and city staff will have to be reconvened and a recommendation will have to be made to council. When this is done the recommendation goes before the State Env...
The K-12 school project is underway. It started at 9 a.m. Tuesday with a formal groundbreaking, and immediately Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Dennis Carlson met with builder representatives from Walker Construction to get the project moving. Four members of the school board, Joette Barry, Ken “Butch” Stanger, Carla Marconi and Ted Piccolo, all turned the initial spades of dirt over to declare the near $23 million project started. Members of the Colville Business Council also tu...
Grand Coulee officials are trying to get a sidewalk project on Spokane Avenue changed to the same kind of improvement on Federal Avenue. A sidewalk on Spokane Way lost its main focus when city officials realized that Center School would no longer be in use after the 2013-2014 school year since students would move to a new building in Coulee Dam. The project’s main intent had been to provide sidewalk service to Center school. Now the city is checking with the State Transportation Improvement Board, the source of the funds, to see if the a...
Ten Years Ago Plan finalized for water sharing. Grand Coulee and Electric City will soon share another resource when a pipe joins one water supply to the other. Last night, the Electric City town council approved a contract that promises to lead to the eventual connection of the town’s water supply to Grand Coulee’s water supply. Old west shootout possible for Colorama. The traditional Colorama theme of the old west may be taken one step further this year. Several Okanogan County residents plan a shootout before the grand parade. A com...
Dorothy Louise Young Clark, 91, Grand Coulee, passed away Monday, April 15, 2013, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Wash. She was born December 23, 1921, in Centralia, Wash., to Odin and Claudia Young. She moved to Grand Coulee with grandparents in 1933. She attended school in 5th grade in a one-room school; in 1934 the main school was built and she finished school there. She married Bill Walker in December, 1941; they had two daughters Terri and Tana. She married Jay Clark in October, 1948,...
Surrounded by her adoring family, Mary Ann “Mare” McNeilly, 77, peacefully passed into the arms of her loving savior from her Coulee Dam, Washington, home Thursday morning, April 11, 2013. Born Mary Ann Meyers on June 8, 1935, in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Ann happily spent much of her early childhood at the home of her dearly loved great-aunt and uncle: Mary (Mayme) and Otto Goellner. In 1944, nine years young, Mary Ann moved to Grand Coulee, Wash., with her family. As a teenager she sang in the...
Coltan and Kelsey Hoppe of Wilbur are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Kendall Jo on Friday, March 22, 2013, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 8 lbs., 5 oz., and was 21-1/2 inches in length at birth. Maternal grandparents are Wade and Traci Starzman of Wilbur. Paternal grandparents are Gail Hoppe of Harrington and Lon Hoppe of Post Falls, Idaho. Great-grandparents include Dale and JoAnn Portch of Wilbur, Shirly Groh of Odessa and Ralph and Mick Starzman of Stevenville, Mont....
Marcella and Charles Jennett of Grand Coulee are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Riley Eden Jennett on Friday, March 22, 2013, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 6 lbs., 6 oz., and was 21 inches in length at birth. She joins Kaia Jennett at home. Maternal grandparents are Paul and Kathy Braun. Paternal grandparents are Chuck Jennett and Patty Richardson....
Karrie Denise Delafield of Electric City is pleased to announce the birth of her daughter Zoie Mae Sommers on Monday, March 25, 2013, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 6 lbs., 6.5 ounces and was 18 inches in length at birth. Maternal grandmother is Wanda Hauser of Newport, Wash....
Derek and Alicia Pulsifer of Brewster are proud to announce the birth of their son Nicholas Lee on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 7 lbs., 9 oz.,nand was 20-1/2 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Kara 8, Emily 6 and Matthew 3. Maternal grandparents are Tad and Peggy Loutzenhiser of Newport. Paternal grandparents are Katy Pulsifer of Washougal and Dan Pulsifer of Battle Ground, Wash....
Danniell Lee Croasmun and Charles R. McNeil of Wilbur are proud to announce the birth of their son Skyler Ray McNeil on Friday, April 5, 2013, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 9 lbs., 8 oz., and was 21 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Gracy Lee McNeil 7 and Lillyann McNeil 2. Maternal grandparents are Tod Croasmun and Tracy Croasmun. Paternal grandparent is Madonna Dawson. Great-grandparents are Red and Clara Croasmun....
Shonita and Shawn Ankney of Electric City are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Mavrick Mae Ankney on Monday, April 15, 2013, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 6 lbs., 4 oz., and was 18-1/2 inches in length at birth. Sibling is sister Dariane Seyler. Maternal grandparents include Gerald Ratcliff and the late Lynda Palmanteer-Ratcliff. Paternal grandparents are Stephanie “Pete” Palmer and Duran “Tony” Ankney. Great-grandparents include Rose Happ and Jerry Happ of Rogue River, Ore., Colleen Leskinen of Nespele...
Kanya and Matt Bryant of Grand Coulee are proud to announce the birth of their son Bo Matthew Bryant on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz., and was 20 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Kaven 12 and Keely 4. Maternal grandparents are Clark and Jackie Perman of Electric City. Paternal grandparents are Buddy and Ruth Bryant from Creston. Great-grandparents include Irene Perman and Maggie Breen, both of North Dakota....
No Chamber at Noon – Business After Hours Instead The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will not be holding a noon meeting April 24 due to its Business After Hours that evening. It will be held at Funzee’s on the Midway, Grand Coulee from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Time for Flag Dedication For those wishing to dedicated a deceased veteran’s flag for the Isle of Flags should contact Ben Alling at 633-0663. The deadline is May 17, 2013. POWER to Meet The POWER group will be holding a meeting on Thursday, April 25, at 7 p.m., at the Senior Cente...
Grand Coulee Police 4/14 - A Spokane woman was stopped for expired tabs on her vehicle and the officer learned that her license had been suspended. A licensed driver who was with her at the time took charge of the car and the Spokane woman was cited and given a court date. 4/15 - A woman on King Street called police to say that her former boyfriend was making threats against her current boyfriend and that they planned to drive to Ephrata and get a protection order. The former boyfriend was contacted and he denied making threats. 4/16 - Police...
CITY OF GRAND COULEE NOTICE OF SALE OF SURPLUS ITEMS The City of Grand Coulee will sell by sealed bids, a 1981 Ford Club Wagon Van, approximately 58,190 miles, sold as is. It is available for viewing at Grand Coulee City Hall, 306 Midway Avenue, Grand Coulee. Minimum bid is $1250.00. Bids must be submitted on city supplied bid form which may be obtained from the City Clerk’s Office, 306 Midway Ave., PO Box 180, Grand Coulee, WA 99133. The Bids will be opened and awarded to the highest responsive bidder before the close of business April 2...
Fish help needed Anyone able to help in releasing rainbow trout at the net pens in Electric City would be welcomed by the Promoters of Fish and Wildlife at 9 a.m. Saturday. After releasing the fish, the POWER group will clean the net and get it ready for a new batch coming April 23. County to auction real estate Okanogan County will hold a surplus real estate sale by auction at 9 a.m., May 10, at the Okanogan County commissioner’s hearing room. Six parcels will be up for auction, officials stated. This is a public auction, and all sales will b...
A Spanish teacher at Lake Roosevelt High School is in Okanogan County Jail this week, facing charges of forgery and identity theft, after being arrested last Thursday by Coulee Dam police. Guillermo Guzman has also had a hold placed on him by Border Patrol agents and he will face deportation hearings in Tacoma when he is finished in Okanogan County, according to a jail spokesman. Guzman was picked up by Coulee Dam police officers along with a Border Patrol agent after a man with a similar name...
The Bureau of Reclamation is having trouble attracting and retaining new skilled employees, Power Manager Mark Jenson told a number of local leaders Monday afternoon. Jenson said that often a combination of local factors creates a problem for workers recruited or transferring to work here on the Grand Coulee Dam project. Jenson stated that project employment, now 466 workers, will move to 582 by September of 2014. That’s a payroll jump from the present $32.6 million to $42 million in 2015. That expected boost of 116 employees is “not a tem...
The largest producer of hotel/motel taxes in the area proposed changes to the way the funds are used at a meeting of some 20 community people Monday. Pat Welton, managing partner of Sunbanks Lake Resort, stated that the three local municipalities that collect the tax are currently “hoarding” the money and releasing it bit by bit. The fourth local community, Elmer City, doesn’t have any campgrounds or motels within its borders. Sunbanks, located inside Electric City’s boundaries, accounts for about $60,000 a year of the funds collected from th...
The Bureau of Reclamation reported this week that it had received an exception to the federal government hiring freeze so it could fully staff its Grand Coulee Dam tours. The Bureau had earlier stated that it might have to trim the number of days and hours that it provided tours due to the hiring freeze. Public Affairs Officer Lynne Brougher said the job offerings will be posted this week and it was her intention to have the tours fully operable by Memorial Day weekend. After the hiring process is complete, tour guides will have to be trained,...
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new K-12 school facility will be at 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 23, school district Superintendent Dennis Carlson announced. All contracts and processes have been concluded and the general contractor, Walker Construction, is about ready to start. Carlson said the north parking lot at Lake Roosevelt High School will have to be vacated so contractors can place their equipment on site. Carlson said school board members, the contractor and architect will be there that day, along with others, to participate in the...
So, the administrators and staff of Center Elementary school have decided to do away with the annual Colorama “Hoe Down” that has been taking place in our community for at least 25 years that I know of. This decision provides yet another example of how our local schools continue to erode in the Arts department and demonstrates a narrow-minded approach to the development of a well-rounded student that will function in the 21st Century with global intelligence and the ability to “think outside the box.” First, the elementary school decided to eli...