News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Jean was born September 24, 1916, at the Bunco Ranger Station near Belmont, Idaho, where her dad was a forest ranger. She died April 4, 2015, in Spokane, Wash. She was the second of three children born to Clifford and Bessie Middleton. She attended school in Clarkford and Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Jean obtained her lifetime teaching certificate from Lewiston Normal and taught in Oldtown and Sandpoint One of her students introduced her to his older brother, Ervin Henke. Ervin and Jean were married... Full story
Chamber To Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at the Melody Restaurant in Coulee Dam on Thursday, April 16, at noon. Guest speaker is 2015 Colorama Queen Gunderson. Care and Share Food Bank The food bank at the Church of the Nazarene normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, hwy 174, Grand Coulee. The bank still can use clean plastic grocery bags. Open Sewing at Senior Art Room Tuesdays from 1-5 p.m. there will be open sewing at the senior center art room. There... Full story
Lake Roosevelt is being held at a level about 47 feet below the full mark while maintenance is completed on the drum gates that hold the water back when the lake is full. The Bureau of Reclamation reports the lake will likely remain below 1,255 feet above sea level until May 10. The water forecast for the Columbia River drainage above Grand Coulee Dam, from April to August this year, is estimated at 82.5 percent of normal, so the maximum level allowed for flood control right now would actually... Full story
So you think you know where the walleye, rainbow trout and smallmouth bass hang out in Banks Lake! Then you better enter the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Triple Fish Challenge, April 25-26, at Coulee Playland. Bring in the highest total weight for the three fish species over the two-day challenge and you could win the grand prize, an Achilles four-person inflatable boat with outboard motor with a value of $3,400. The action kicks off at 9 a.m. each of the two days and the weigh in each day will be at 3 p.m. Additional... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 4/5 - A Roosevelt Drive woman advised police that her grandson is missing and that she was fearful that he might be using drugs. 4/6 - Police have been bothered by a man who wants to be involved with a woman at a location on Main Street. The man keeps asking police to do a welfare check on the woman, who apparently doesn’t want anything to do with him. The officer advised her to let the man know that she wants him to stop doing this. - An intoxicated man reported to police that the owner of an establishment in Electric C... Full story
Kids race through the Grand Coulee Dam Lions Club's 79th annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday at Ludolph Field, which was cleared in under 10 minutes of 2,000 plastic eggs. A photo of the winners of prizes are on page 4. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation’s Pacific Northwest Region announced that Tim Koczur has been selected as the new deputy power manager at Grand Coulee Dam. Koczur will serve as a member of the management team, providing leadership and direction for the Grand Coulee Power Office, the bureau said in a press release. He assumed his new duties April 5. Koczur has worked for the Bureau of Reclamation for eight years. Since 2011, he has served as the facility manager for seven dams and six power plants along the North Platte River in Wyoming. Prior to m... Full story
Design West, the architectural firm that designed the new schools here, has been hired to do the school district’s “study and survey.” The school study and survey is done every six years and is financed out of a grant from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The cost of the study and survey the last two times it’s been done in the Grand Coulee Dam School District has been $7,441. The grant to pay for the report is based on square footage and other factors, and the exact amount of the grant hasn’t been determined, according... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce is organizing its "Run The Dam" race for its second year, working hard to make it an annual event that participants can't pass up, organizers said. This year the races on the Saturday of the Colorama festival will be starting with a "wave start" due to a minor course change to keep the runners safety the top priority, said Mandy Button, in charge of the event for the chamber. The half-marathon will start at 7a.m., the 10k at 7:15 and the 5k at 7:30.... Full story
Passed away on Friday, March 27, 2015, at Hospice of Spokane Hospice House. She was born on September 29, 1930, in Aberdeen, Wash., to Nick and Reatha Ruotsala. Ethel graduated from Hoquiam High School and earned her associates degree at Aberdeen College. She went on to marry Charles W. Hale in 1953, in Everett, Wash., with whom she had 3 children. Ethel was a lifetime member of Beta Sigma Phi since 1973 in both Marysville, Wash., and Grand Coulee. She was also very active in the Democratic... Full story
The prize winners from the Grand Coulee Dam Lions Club's 79th annual Easter Egg Hunt last Saturday at Ludolph Field, from left, are Elisha Sharr, Vernon George, Maci Greer, Paris Figueroa, Brooklyn Marchand, Solomon Harris, Celeste LaPlace, Kendra Jimenez, Tranice Cruthcher, Kadynce Clark, Jose Gutierrez and Kinley Duclos. - Rich Avey photo... Full story
Chamber To Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at the Melody Restaurant in Coulee Dam on Thursday, April 9, at noon. Guest speakers will be Teresa Boyer and Deb Dzuck from the WSU Foundation. They will be talking about Estate Planning. CMC Guild to Meet Coulee Medical Center Guild will hold its meeting Monday, April 13, at noon at the hospital. Come early for lunch. Memberhsip dues are only $5. Please join us. Guild meetings are the second Monday of the month. Care and Share Food Bank The food bank at the Church of the... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam Airport Request For Qualifications For Airport Engineering and /or Environmental Services The Grant County Port District No. 7 is requesting interested firms to submit their qualifications for professional engineering, planning, environmental assessment for projects and construction consideration analysis. Qualifications should include identification of firm’s capabilities to manage projects including site investigation and collection, preliminary and final design, projects advertising and bidding, construction management, a... Full story
Beer tent OK’d for July 4 The Coulee Dam Town Council gave the chamber of commerce permission to erect a “beer tent” on its maintenance complex parking lot for the July 4 Festival of America. Chamber manager Peggy Nevsimal provided the council with information about the beer tent hours and how it would be managed. Egg hunt this Saturday The Grand Coulee Dam Lions Club will hold its 79th annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4, at 11 a.m. at Ludolph Field, the former middle school athletic field in Grand Coulee. The hunt is for child... Full story
I find it very disappointing that we are beginning the third year in which adults over 21 years of age living in Washington state can legally possess and use cannabis (marijuana) products, yet we have NO legal cannabis businesses in the Grand Coulee Dam Area (Electric City, Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam, et cetera) due to local moratoriums. Don’t get me wrong, as there are PLENTY of cannabis products available here in our cities and towns ... just NONE from legitimate businesses. To our local city council members: I am sure that the criminal e... Full story
1 years ago Coulee Community Hospital opened its newly designed birthing room on March 16, 1995, a $20,000 project funded by the Coulee Medical Foundation and celebrating its 10-year anniversary and 516 deliveries this spring. Another birthing room became necessary by 1998 which was satisfied by remodeling a patient room, complete with infant warmers and birthing beds. Grand Coulee police booked five suspects into Grant County Jail following an Electric City raid on Lakeview Avenue where they found evidence of drug abuse and possible... Full story
Chamber To Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at the Melody Restaurant in Coulee Dam on Thursday, April 2, at noon. The program will general business. Care and Share Food Bank The food bank at the Church of the Nazarene normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, hwy 174, Grand Coulee. The bank still can use clean plastic grocery bags. Open Sewing at Senior Art Room Tuesdays from 1-5 p.m. there will be open sewing at the senior center art room. There is no charge.... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam Airport Request For Qualifications For Airport Engineering and /or Environmental Services The Grant County Port District No. 7 is requesting interested firms to submit their qualifications for professional engineering, planning, environmental assessment for projects and construction consideration analysis. Qualifications should include identification of firm’s capabilities to manage projects including site investigation and collection, preliminary and final design, projects advertising and bidding, construction management, a... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 3/22 - Safeway advised the police that there had been a vehicle prowl in its parking lot. A woman said that someone had taken prescriptions. The woman’s husband said the vehicle was locked and there was no way anyone could have gotten into the vehicle. They told police that they didn’t want to report the incident. - An Electric City man was banned from Coulee Medical Center for the second time after he went to the clinic complaining of an earache, then stayed in the lobby for six hours after treatment. A nurse had tal... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $7.2 million contract to Gardner Zemke Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to replace the switchgear for six pump-generators at the John W. Keys III Pump-Generating Plant, a part of the “Grand Coulee Power Complex,” the Bureau of Reclamation said in a press release. Replacing the switchgear begins a 20-year modernization project at the plant. The project, is funded through Bonneville Power Administration, South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation District, East Col... Full story
A fire early Monday morning destroyed the office and storage area of the DWK Fowler Construction Company in Delano. The fire broke out about 6:15, and when firefighters responded they found smoke coming out of the eaves of the building. Firefighters had trouble accessing the fire through the roof because of metal roofing, building owner Wayne Fowler said. Firefighters were eventually able to extinguish the blaze with help from the Fowler crew and a backhoe that tore the end of the building out... Full story
Big changes may come to the four-corners intersection of the two state highways in Grand Coulee, or not, after a petition got the attention of a state agency with 1,100 signatures. Local residents will have an opportunity to see some of the state Department of Transportation's proposed traffic control alternatives to the intersection at a meeting of the Grand Coulee City Council, April 7. The session starts at 6 p.m. DOT Traffic Engineer Terry Berends said his presentation will include a number... Full story
Center Elementary School and its surrounding property is officially for sale. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board had declared the property surplus in February, and after a public hearing to determine what to do with the property Monday night, it decided to list the building and the total 8.5 acres. The school board also authorized Superintendent Dennis Carlson to order an appraisal of the building and property. Only a single resident, Hank Wiebe, spoke to the board about the property. Wiebe resides next to the school, and commented... Full story
1 years ago The Bureau of Reclamation’s law enforcement contract with the city of Grand Coulee increased by nearly $100,000 for union modifications on time-and-material rates, boosting the government contracts to a total of $1.5 million dollars. The GCD Chamber of Commerce held its 2005 installation and awards luncheon at Pepper Jack’s with 40 people at the first daytime version of the annual event. Dennis King, of The Frame King in Coulee Dam, is the Achiever of the Year and newly named to the board of directors. Sunbanks Resort is the are... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam Lions Club will be holding its 79th annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4, at 11 a.m. at the middle school athletic field. Children ages 0 – 10 are invited to participate in this free event.... Full story
