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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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This year’s vegetable, fruit, and craft market will be offered on Wednesday evenings, the sponsors said last week. The market is sponsored by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, and will be from 4-8 p.m. each Wednesday, starting June 21 and ending Sept. 13. “We have six booths signed up already, for all 13 weeks,” chamber Executive Director Peggy Nevsimal stated Tuesday. The Wednesday Market will be at North Dam Park. Exhibitors pay $5 a week for booth space, or $50 for the entire 13 weeks. Additional information on the Wedne...
Sidney M. Lull Jr. passed away on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, at the age of 76. He was born in Winthrop, Washington, to Elizabeth and Sidney M. Lull on February 1, 1941. Sid was the sixth and last child. He grew up on his father's ranch below Sun Mountain in Winthrop. Sid graduated from Wenatchee Valley College with an Associates of Arts degree, married Joy Jensen, and then shortly thereafter started their family in Winthrop. Sid drove logging trucks for Lloyd Logging, worked on Grand Coulee Dam for...
Chamber This Week The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, June 8, at the Eagles Lodge, Grand Coulee. General business is on the agenda. Coulee Creators Meet Coulee Creators meet every Tuesday 1-4 p.m. Contact Marlene Oddie 509-386-5715 or marlene@kissedquilts.com for details. Enter east end of building, push in door knob to release door latch. Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute to Meet Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet at 7:00 p.m.,...
The Grand Coulee Dam Music Boosters club is active again after over a year of dormancy. The club supports music education for local students by helping raise money to cover instrument rentals and more for K-12 students. The club is meeting on June 14 at 5:30 p.m. in the LR Jr/Sr cafeteria. For more info call Tamra Sacchi at 509-846-5537 or Mrs. Pace at the high school 509-633-1442....
Brooklyn Rose Reichlin of Electric City is the 2017 recipient of a $1,000 scholarship awarded by the Grand Coulee Dam Lions Club. The scholarship application process includes a review of applicants’ academic achievement, community service record, leadership, extracurricular activities, and educational goals. Reichlin, who will graduate from Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School on Saturday, plans to attend Spokane Falls Community College and major in business and cosmetology....
The school board approved a number of personnel changes at its meeting Monday night. Susan Duclos resigned her paraprofessional position and then was hired to a Career Technical Education position. Levi Seekins has resigned his position as athletic director; and his brother, Jeremiah Seekins, was reduced two hours a day. Ken Miles resigned his position as school bus driver, and Patty Neddo resigned as a paraprofessional. The school board approved all changes....
Grand Coulee Police 5/30 - A woman who lives on Wetzel Street told an officer that an American bulldog is running loose in her neighborhood and that, while walking on Bowen Street the dog urinated on her. Police tried to contact the owner of the dog but no one was home. - Police went to a house on Wetzel Street on a domestic violence call and found that a man and woman had been shouting at each other. They were told to keep the noise down. - A traffic sign was sheared off at the ground at East Grand and Washington Place in Electric City. The...
Only one office in the coulee area will require a primary runoff to see who makes it to the general election Nov. 7. Three people have filed for Position 3 on the Coulee Dam Town Council, requiring the runoff election. In all other races, candidates will automatically move to the general election Nov. 7. Bruce Bartoo, Timothy Brooks and Marcia Warnecke each filed for the same council seat in Coulee Dam last Friday, which will bring on a primary election to select the top two on Aug. 1. Others who have filed for Coulee Dam council are David...
The circus is coming to town, and no, not your in-laws. An actual circus! The Culpepper & Merriweather Circus, to be exact. Complete with lions, tigers, a huge tent, and a variety of other entertainment. The circus will take place at North Dam Park on Thursday, June 8, with two 90-minute shows starting at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The circus has been featured on National Geographic's Explorer television series, Entertainment Tonight, the A&E special "Under the Big Top," and in "On the Road with Circu...
There will be a new Care and Share Food Bank manager July 1. Carol Nordine, former Electric City city council member, will take over food bank duties from Fern Blaylock. Blaylock, now 81, has a hard time remembering when she started at the food bank, since it has become such a big part of her life. But she is off on another of her favorite things, helping kids at Grand Coulee Dam District schools. "Fern was a fixture when I came to this position 20 years ago," said Teny Archer, who supervises...
If you hear a loud explosion, hopefully it's just local man Alan Cain, who recently received his Pyrotechnics Display Operator License allowing him to use display-type fireworks that normal civilians can't get their hands on (lest they lose some fingers). To get the license, Cain had to prove he had experience in at least six fireworks shows. Cain said he has experience with about 27, including baseball stadiums, events in Spokane, and other areas. Also needed to get the license are four...
Kelly Steffens is running for Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors in District 5 against incumbent Richard Black. The Star used an incorrect first name in a story last week....
Former Elmer City, Washington, resident Samuel Salvador Rey, 91, passed away peacefully Sunday, May 28, 2017, at his home in Boise, Idaho. Sam was born on December 10, 1926, in Wyoming to Serafin and Belinda (Belle) Cruz Rey. In 1945, he married Gladys Leone Parry in California. From this union, they were blessed with six children: Terry (Connie), Dale (Becky), Trudy, Michael (Janet), Greg (Judith) and Doug (Jane). In 1990, he married Margaret Schmidt in Kelowna, British Columbia. They made...
Chamber This Week The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon, this Thursday, June 1, at the Eagles Lodge, Grand Coulee. Upcoming summer plans are on the agenda. Title VI/JOM Parent Advisory Meet set Title VI/JOM Parent advisory group will be meeting Tuesday, June 6, from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. at Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High, room C212. A light meal will be provided. Discussion of the 2017-2018 Title VI Grant Application is planned. Participation is welcome! Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute...
• Grand Coulee Dam School District board member Richard Black will pass out diplomas to over 40 seniors at ceremonies scheduled for June 10. He was selected from among members of the board at its May 22 meeting. • The school board has delayed its next meeting to June 5 to allow any senior not on the graduation list to make an appeal before the school board. • The school district will accept up to 16 students for summer driver education classes. The cost is on a graduated scale, Superintendent Paul Turner stated. For a class of 11 stude...
Grand Coulee Police 5/22 - A woman called police to report that someone had broken into her apartment, taking nothing, but leaving a meth pipe behind. An officer collected the pipe for destruction. 5/23 - An officer assisted a suicidal woman on Spring Canyon Road until a Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy arrived to take charge. The woman was taken to Davenport. - A Toppenish man was arrested and taken to Grant County jail on a warrant after police pulled him over for failing to stop at an intersection. He was also cited for driving with a s...
A transformer at a Coulee City railway siding awaits delivery to a Bureau of Reclamation facility this week in Grand Coulee. The 346-foot rig was scheduled to beging the journey from Coulee City Tuesday night, stop for the day at a scenic overlook just south of Electric City, then resume the trek about 1 a.m. Thursday morning. It should arrive about 5 a.m. at the switchyard on SR-174 north of Grand Coulee overlooking Grand Coulee Dam. Moving no faster than 25 mph, the million-pound vehicle will...
“We will have a balanced budget next year,” Superintendent Paul Turner stated last Friday. He confirmed this before the Grand Coulee Dam School District board Monday night, going over a number of steps he is proposing to eliminate what he sees as a potential shortfall of about $740,000. Turner said changes to personnel and programs that he hopes to implement have moved the district to within $100,000 or so of his goal. The district will have until July to make final adjustments to its budget, but has until June 15 to notify teachers if the...
There's a new restaurant in town. The Coulee Dam Casino's Spillway Bar and Grill had its "soft" opening May 15 and is now open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Casino's new format upstairs, where Colville Tribal Federal Corporation offices were once located, is a mixture of gaming and food service. The tribal business arm offices have moved to the new tribal headquarters building on the Colville Indian Agency campus near Nespelem. Meanwhile, the casino downstairs is getting a facelift. The...
Newspaper closed Memorial Day The Star newspaper office will be closed Monday, May 29, in observance of Memorial Day. The deadline for news and advertising will be 5 p.m. Friday, May 26. Ambulance and fire calls stated The Grand Coulee ambulance service had 24 calls during the month of April, volunteer fire Chief Rick Paris reported to the city council at its last meeting. Five of the calls were in the Coulee Dam area, 14 were from the Grand Coulee area, and five were to transport patients between facilities. The number of calls this year...
A few races for local public office will be contested in this year’s primaries, but the real issue is the number of offices for which nobody filed a candidacy. A special three-day filing period has been set up, May 23-25, for those who would like to file for offices currently slated to remain empty. Okanogan County announced a special three-day extended filing period May 23-25 until 4 p.m. They can file online, but filers must still appear in person at the auditor’s office by 4:30 that day, which is also the deadline to pay any fees. The top...
Gwen was born in Sunnyside, Washington, on September 29, 1961, the daughter of Alvin and Bonita Hart. The Lord came and took her home on Friday, May 5, 2017. Gwen had a great love for life and her fellow travelers. She had many friends and was a champion for the unfortunate and mistreated. She loved her family dearly and had a special place in her heart for her grandchildren. In 1967, her family moved to the Grand Coulee Dam area. She entered kindergarten there and spent the rest of her school...
Workers apply oil Tuesday at the end of the federal government's chip sealing job on the pavement along SR-155 as a single lane of traffic is led by a pilot car. The job began last week but completion was delayed by a couple days of rain. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation owns and maintains the stretch of highway from Federal Avenue in Grand Coulee to Coulee Dam. - Jacob Wagner photo...
Chamber This Week The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon, this Thursday, May 25, at High Dam Tavern, Grand Coulee. General business is on the agenda. Community Action to Meet The Okanogan County Com-munity Acton Council (OCCAC) Board of Directors will hold its regular board meeting Wednesday, May 31, at 5:15 p.m., at Community Action 424 S. 2nd Ave., Okanogan. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. OCCAC is a community-building organization. It works with community members of all groups to raise the poor out...
Richard McBride, center, superintendent of the North Central Washington ESD (Educational Service District) in Wenatchee, receives a Pendleton blanket from the Colville Tribes upon his retirement. Presenting the blanket last week was Ken Stanger, left, a member of the school board in Coulee Dam, and Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Paul Turner. "We just can't say enough about Rich McBride and all he has done for students in this district and throughout the ESD," Turner said. To...