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Santa visits with Pazel, Amaris and Shai Miller at the Grand Coulee Library Dec. 13, after arriving on a fire truck during an annual event there with cookies and door prizes, in one of several visits to the Grand Coulee Dam area. He also visited with kids at the Moose Lodge and at the Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union. - Scott Hunter photo...
The city of Coulee Dam will oppose changes to the operation of a beach upriver from the Third Powerhouse behind Grand Coulee Dam being considered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The city council unanimously voted last week to send a letter to that effect. The bureau is considering restricting people from driving vehicles onto the beach during low drawdowns of Lake Roosevelt, or possibly closing the area to fishing entirely. It is seeking comments to include in its decision-making process. The spot is popular with older anglers, from whom...
Phone scammers posing as Grant PUD Grant PUD customers are reporting receiving calls claiming to be from the utility saying that their power be will shut off if they don’t receive an immediate payment. The scammers will even call from a local number. Those receiving these calls should hang up and block the number if possible, authorities say. “If customers are unsure about the status of their account, they can always call us at our customer service number, which is 509-766-2505, to talk to a Customer Service Representative in our call cen...
Chamber This Week Chamber will meet at noon, Thursday, Dec. 20, at Voltage Coffee House. General business is on the agenda. GCD School Board of Directors to Meet Grand Coulee Dam School Board of Directors will be holding a regular school board meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 20, in the LRHS library. Food Bank to Distribute Christmas Meals Dec. 21 The food bank at the Church of the Nazaren will be distributing Christmas meals on December 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. Normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church...
SUMMARY OF RESOLUTION PASSED Of the City of Grand Coulee, Washington On the 4th day of December 2018, the City Council of the City of Grand Coulee passed the following Resolution. A summary of the content of said Resolution, consisting of the title, provides as follows: RESOLUTION NO. 18-16 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND COULEE, WASHINGTON, INCREASING THE SCHEDULE OF CHARGES FOR THE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE WITHIN THE CORPORATE BOUNDARY OF THE CITY OF GRAND COULEE. The full text of this Resolution is posted... Full story
Grand Coulee 12/11 - Between Dec. 6 and Dec. 11 someone reportedly broke into the coin repositories of four machines in the laundry room in the apartments on Hill Ave. 12/13 - A Burdin Blvd. woman reported that she heard a loud diesel truck outside her home, walked outside, and saw that the taillights had been taken from her Dodge Ram. 12/14 - A King St. woman asked an officer to check her residence to see if her vehicle was missing after being warned by an Omak police officer that that might be the case. The vehicle was indeed missing. It was...
Even if a new “enrichment” levy passes next February, the Grand Coulee Dam School District is set to lose $800,000 per year the way things are currently budgeted, the result of recent changes in state law. If the levy doesn’t pass, that loss figure is closer to $1.2 million. According to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, many districts are on a course to lose major dollars. The 2012 McCleary decision by the state Supreme Court ruled that the state wasn’t fully funding basic education, and it required the Legislature to do s...
The local chapter of the Public School Employees union voted 28-8 to ratify a 6-percent raise in the Grand Coulee Dam School District late last month and the school board approved the change last Thursday. After months of deliberations, the PSE Nov. 27 approved the raise for the roughly 75 members, plus a $2-an-hour raise for the lead mechanic position and a 50-cents-an-hour raise to the Spanish paraprofessional position. The lead paraprofessional in the preschool was made a “coordinator,” which comes with a raise of about $1.15 an hour, as...
Grand Coulee approves senior meals donation Grand Coulee will donate $3,500 to the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Meals Program, the city council decided at their Dec. 4 meeting. The program donated over 16,000 meals to the Grand Coulee Dam area from October of 2017 to September of 2018. Grand Coulee approves hotel-motel tax distribution The Grand Coulee city council decided how to disperse their hotel-motel tax money for 2019, giving $4,000 to the Coulee Area Park & Recreation District, $7,000 to the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, and...
Hank Wiebe and his friends are raising hell against the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s recent announcement that they are considering no longer allowing people to drive onto “Geezer Beach” behind the Third Powerhouse at the Grand Coulee Dam, or possibly not allowing fishing there at all. The Grand Coulee man has been placing petitions at local businesses to gather signatures to voice opposition against the idea. “People are fired up, saying, ‘Keep after them,’”Wiebe said. Wiebe said that he and his friends go fishing at the beach regular...
The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking comments on the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed modernization project for generating units 19–21 (G19–G21) in the Third Power Plant at Grand Coulee Dam. The proposed modernization project will provide continued, reliable hydropower production for 40 years or more and will ensure that Reclamation meets its contractual obligations for power generation, the bureau said in a press release. In the draft EA, analysis is underway on a proposed action and a no-action alternative for any pot...
Solutions to serious problems should not require contortions of logic that look like the loser in that old game of Twister. You know the one: where players try to reach different spots on a large surface on the floor with different parts of their bodies until one of them finally falls over. The solution the state Legislature came up with after the state Supreme Court ruled the state was neglecting its primary constitutional responsibility — basic education — was a partial solution that will not last because it does not address fundamental ine...
Chamber This Week Chamber will meet at noon, Thursday, Dec. 13, at Voltage Coffee House. General business is on the agenda. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet The Grant County Fire District 14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, December 17, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City Fire Station. Grant County Mosquito Dist. 2 to Meet Grant County Mosquito Dist. 2 will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday, December 13, at 5 p.m., at the Mosquito District building. Senior Volunteers Offering Caregivers a Break Senior Center volunteers will...
Grand Coulee 12/4 - A man appearing to be heavily intoxicated urinated on himself at Safeway and was given a courtesy ride by an officer. - A student was caught with marijuana at the former middle school in Grand Coulee. Possession charges were forwarded to the juvenile prosecutor’s office. - A woman at the senior center asked police to take a man someplace warm. The officer told her they didn’t have a warm place to take him. The woman said they would let him stay until they closed. - An estimated $200 in damage was done to a door that had bee...
A Grand Coulee woman offered last week to help Coulee Dam work on getting the former Village Cinema up and running. Kimberly Christensen and her husband, Michael, who started their Coulee Kettle Corn business a year ago, moved to the area eight years ago. The coulee was new to her, but he was raised in the area, she said. Now she just wants to help improve things if she can, she offered, and Coulee Dam is the town that holds two areas of concern: the closed movie theater and the closed swimming pool, both owned by the town. Christensen said...
The Bureau of Reclamation may change rules related to fishing and recreation on "Geezer Beach," a popular spot along the shore behind the Third Powerhouse of the Grand Coulee Dam. People will often drive their vehicles onto the actual beach to go fishing there during the spring drawdown, something that the bureau may no longer allow, with another alternative being not allowing fishing or recreation there at all. "Driving and parking on the drawdown can present a public safety risk to drivers...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved the details of a new “enrichment” levy, at their Nov. 26 school board meeting. The levy will be on the Feb. 12, 2019 ballot for voters to approve or deny. The enrichment levy, also known as the Replacement Educational Programs and Operation Levy, replaces what was called an “operations and maintenance” levy that expires at the end of 2018. The enrichment levy is the second part of a two-levy approach intended to replace the single levy now taken over by the state. That O&M levy took in up t...
Port district approves levy increase Grant County Port District 7 commissioners Monday approved an increase of $698.01 to their tax levy to be collected in 2019. The 1.5-percent annual increase brings the total amount of taxes the district collects to $47,376.63. The port district runs the Grand Coulee Dam Airport and operates the Banks Lake Golf Club on district land. Winter access more limited at recreation area Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is inviting people to “come and enjoy the great outdoors,” but notes in a recent press rel...
Chamber This Week Chamber will meet at noon Thursday, Dec. 6, at Voltage Coffee House. General business is on the agenda. Senior Volunteers Offering Caregivers a Break Senior Center volunteers will be offering free activities for those with mild to moderate dementia whose caregivers need time for other tasks. For more information call Cheryl at 509-431-1027, Char at 425-879-5835, or Betty at 509-631-2201. American Legion to Meet The American Legion Post 157 next meeting will be at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, December 11 at the Vet Center in Electric Ci...
Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce President Kerry Higgins celebrates after his coin toss deteremined the winner of a "bead game" at the group's annual Vintners and Brewers auction, this year with a 1960s theme. Participants touch their heads or backsides to signal their choice for the toss, with the winners standing for the next toss. Ben Hughes, at center, won that game as he signaled heads and collected $490. The community spent nearly $28,000 in support of the chamber Saturday night,...
Grand Coulee 11/25-26 - A disagreement over child custody on Fourth Street was eventually resolved with a temporary custody order and a temporary restraining order. The mother took custody of the child while an officer stood by. - A woman lost her phone while in Moses Lake, and while using the “Find My Phone” app, traced it to apartments in Royal City. Grand Coulee Police attempted to contact Royal City Police, but no one was on duty. Grand Coulee Police told her to try to call Royal City Police the next day. 11/26 - A man was reported lyi...
The symmetry of the arches on the bridge on top of Grand Coulee Dam is reflected in the sunny, still waters of Lake Roosevelt Saturday. For the weekly Weather Watcher forecast, see page 8. - Scott Hunter photo...
Foundation rumor unfounded A rumor of a crack in the foundation of the new fire station under construction was put to rest by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Tuesday. Lynne Brougher, public affairs officer for the bureau, told The Star in an email on Tuesday that the foundation is just fine. “An inspection of the Fire Station was completed this morning and the only cracking that was observed is within normal parameters for concrete,” Brougher said. “The building has control and expansion joints per engineered designs to control cracking. It al...
Brenda Covington was chosen Monday night by the Grand Coulee Dam School District directors to join their the board. Covington and Lisa Lyngar were interviewed for about half an hour each to fill the Electric City area spot on the board left vacant earlier this year, with the board choosing Covington after deliberating in executive session. Covington will finish the unexpired term of the position left vacant by Joette Barry, which has less than two years left on it. Covington will have to run for re-election for a four-year term. Covington said...
A young shopper at the Vintage Christmas Market Saturday checks out handbags at Coulee Dam Town Hall. The Grand Coulee Community Church will hold a bazaar this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and a Coulee Christmas Bazaar will be held at the Lake Roosevelt Elementary School from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Next Saturday, the Senior Center Christmas Bazaar will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Main Street in Grand Coulee. - Scott Hunter photo...
