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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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St. Dunstan’s of Grand Coulee will hold a Christmas Eve Service on Wednesday, Dec. 24, at 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Coulee Dam Community Presbyterian Church will hold its traditional candlelight Christmas Eve service on Wednesday, Dec. 24, beginning at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Zion Lutheran Church will be holding a Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m. in Grand Coulee and at 9 p.m. at Bethel in Coulee City. A Christmas Day service will be held on Thursday, Dec. 25, at 11 a.m.... Full story
No Chamber until Jan. 8 The Grand Coulee Dam Chamber of Commerce will not meet until after the holidays. The next meeting will be held Thurs., Jan. 8, at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. Care and Share Food Bank Closed Dec. 26 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. The food bank will be closed on Friday, Dec. 26 and reopen on January 2. Merry C... Full story
Sixty years ago, the holiday season in the community stretching from Electric City to Nespelem featured all kinds of parties, programs and events. Here's a sampling of some of them and the folks who were here in our towns back then. Floyd H. Phillips, Bureau of Indian Affairs Superintendent at the Colville Indian Agency, Nespelem announced that a $200 per-capita payment will be distributed to approximately 4,000 Colville tribal members, just in time for Christmas. The distribution of $804,000... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam School District #301J AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, OPENING FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER - POSITION #5 A vacancy exists on the Board of Directors for the Grand Coulee Dam School District. The Board is seeking letters of interest from those citizens living within the district’s Director District #5 who wish to fill the vacancy. Candidates shall be United States citizens and qualified voters resident in the following described director district: Director District 5 Starting at the intersection of Spokane Way and Main St. Northwest on Main S... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 12/11 - Loepp Furniture advised police that a big screen TV was missing from its warehouse. An employee had noted that the warehouse roll-up door was part way open when he went to get the TV for delivery. 12/12 - An Electric City resident reported to police that she had backed out of the Senior Center and hit a car across the street, causing minimal damage. - Police checked on a report of a man on Crest who was photographing himself with a sword. Police found the man behind the apartments in the parking lot. - A man who thou... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors Monday night approved a $1.1million four-year levy for maintenance and operations to go before district voters Feb. 10. In doing so, the board followed the recommendations of a special levy committee that had met twice to flesh out a levy plan for the district. The levy will ask district taxpayers to fund the $1,130,000 over four years, making it the third time the district has voted on a four-year levy plan. The levy, if approved, will help the district keep class sizes small, pay for pre... Full story
Following a shakeup in the Coulee Dam Fire Department that came to a head last week, town leaders this week have stated their confidence that citizens are safe and that calls for emergency services will be met. “In terms of providing protection, we’re safe,” Mayor Greg Wilder said in an interview Wednesday, but there are definitely longterm issues that are being addressed. Within the last week, Wilder has received three resignations of longtime fire department and ambulance personnel. First, the fire chief, Robert Jackson resigned. Then Ben A... Full story
When you make a 911 call to report a fire in Coulee Dam you expect a town fire engine and crew to respond. Don’t count on it. Last week, Coulee Dam fire chief Robert Jackson resigned after 12 years as chief. When reached he refused to comment on his resignation. The issue came up at the Coulee Dam Town Council meeting last Wednesday night, and shortly after announcing it to the council, Councilmember Ben Alling, who has been a member of the fire department for 38 years, announced his resignation from it. Since then, Mayor Greg Wilder stated, a... Full story
The town of Coulee Dam has made an offer to Electric City to provide police services. The offer was sent last week and outlined for Coulee Dam Town Council members last Wednesday night by Mayor Greg Wilder. The five-year offer would begin in 2015 at $101,253.50, and include annual cost-of-living increases in each subsequent year. Currently, Electric City contracts with Grand Coulee for police protection, but its five-year contract runs out Dec. 31. The final year on that contract was about $80,000. In spite of the fact that Electric City and... Full story
Electric City will spend thousands less on boosting tourism efforts and related job growth after the city council reversed itself in a 3-2 vote last week. The council last Tuesday night backed off its previous decision in November to spend 75 percent of its annual hotel/motel taxes each year, choosing instead to stay with its present ordinance that fixes spending at 50 percent of what comes in during a given year. John Nordine, one of two council members on the tourism committee, told the council that he would still like to see the city do a... Full story
Early deadline for newspaper Due to the Christmas holiday The Star newspaper has a deadline for its next issue for news and advertising at 5 p.m. this Friday. Next week’s issue will be published Tuesday, Dec. 23. Happy Holidays. Pay raise approved Coulee Dam’s council approved a 2.1-percent increase in wages and salary for Teamster Union employees and department heads for 2015, at its meeting last Wednesday night. The council also selected Councilmember Shawn Derrick as mayor pro-tem for 2015. Senior meals supported Electric City council vot... Full story
Lucinda Parker, an abstract artist from Oregon, has been commissioned to produce $75,000 worth of artwork for the new school complex. Parker was one of scores of artists recommended to a local committee by the Washington State Art Commission. The $75,000 project is required as part of the public building/art program and is administered by the state art commission. Nate Piturachsatit outlined the local committee’s selection to Grand Coulee Dam School District directors Monday night and indicated that dozens of artists were considered before P... Full story
Bidders move in to check their bids on items at a silent auction Saturday at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center, where plenty of bargains were for sale, along with lunch. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
While the Grand Coulee Dam area was shrouded in clouds Saturday, just above Crown Point the view offered bright blue sky over fluffy clouds. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
Ten Years Ago The Coulee Dam Town Council approved a hotly contested budget last week before a packed house of community members who spoke their minds on several hot budget issues with the Mason City Park project and the rejection of a $90,000 grant from the county for park improvements, the top issue. Dick Taylor of the Coulee Dam Business Alliance, the driving force behind the park project, commented, "This is a major gift....the town's partnership is a relatively small, short-term loan to... Full story
The “ Lighting of the Library’ was held Dec. 9 at the Grand Coulee Public Library and was attended by about 75 people. Santa arrived, courtesy of the Grand Coulee Fire Department, and greeted each child in attendence with a new book and a candy cane. Cookies and punch were furnished by the librarians and the library board. There were several door prizes donated by members of the community. The winners and donors were: • Aaliayah Cheney won the teddy bear donated by Grand Coulee Postmaster Fawn Brashears. • Theseus Berry won a $50 gift card, d... Full story
Chamber After Hours This Week The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Chamber After Hours meeting on Thursday, Dec. 18, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Starkey Professional building. See our ad page 3. 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. The food bank will be closed on Friday, Dec. 26 and reopen on January 2. Merry... Full story
The Lake Roosevelt boys basketball team had been scheduled to play three games this past week, but instead one was rescheduled, one is up in the air, and the Raiders lost to Warden in the only game played. A Dec. 9 road trip to Liberty Bell has been rescheduled for Jan. 22. Oroville protested moving to the old middle school a game scheduled for last Thursday, and stated that as the reason they would not come to play Lake Roosevelt. “The outcome of that contest will be decided at the League Athletic Directors meeting in January,” Grand Cou... Full story
With the Lake Roosevelt gym in the midst of getting a new roof, it hasn’t taken much over the last two weeks to send sports schedules into disarray, with schedules changing sometimes daily. The reconstruction of the leaky roof couldn’t be started until after the school district knew it would have money left over in its construction funds and has led to leaky conditions during a rainy November and December, cancelling, altering and postponing basketball games and wrestling matches. Senior high games have been moved to the old middle school gym... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 12/9 - A person living in Grand Coulee Manor complained to police about another person living there and said he is being harassed. Police advised him to get a protective court order. 12/10 - A construction firm owner told police that an unauthorized person passing himself off as a representative did work and received the money for it. 12/11 - Police advised a walker to stay off the roadway at E. Coulee Blvd. in Electric City. - Police responded to a domestic violence report on East Coulee Blvd., where a man had allegedly... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam School District taxpayers will be asked to vote on a new maintenance and operation levy, Feb. 10. The amount and duration will be decided Dec. 15, by the school board, after it receives a recommendation from an independent levy advisory board. That advisory board met last Thursday and will meet again at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 10, in the new school conference room. Karen Depew was elected chair of the advisory board. Depew has chaired a number of the recent levy committees. The advisory board will work out the details of... Full story
As it stands today, Electric City will be out of police coverage for its residents on Dec. 31. It’s a money issue. Electric City pays for police protection from Grand Coulee, which wants more. Council committees of the two cities met a couple months ago and agreed to a price for coverage in 2015 at $115,000 — up from $77,000 in 2014. That would give the two cities time to come up with a comprehensive plan that could lead to a two-city police department. A week ago, Grand Coulee sent a contract offer for that amount to Electric City and to dat... Full story
Jessica Schneider from the J.R. Newhouse accounting firm, left, tells tasters about wine samples at the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce's annual Vintners & Brewers Tasting & Auction Saturday night at Coulee Dam Town Hall. The bottom line for the candy cane-themed event isn't known yet, said Executive Director Peggy Nevsimal on Monday. But since live auction proceeds alone were nearly double last year's, it's safe to say it was a success. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
1 years ago The preliminary 2005 budget has been released for the town of Coulee Dam with expenditures at $1.26 million with over $777,000 for police operations including revenue of $540,000 in USBR security contracts. Removed from the budget were roof repairs on the town hall and community building, two new patrol cars and paving for parking lots. Also removed from the budget were plans to match a grant from the Okanogan County Economic Alliance for improvements to Mason City Park. As the... Full story
Chamber Meeting at Pepper Jacks The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its noon meeting Thursday, Dec. 11, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. A recap will be held on the Vintners and Brewers event held last Saturday. GCD Ski Club to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Ski Club will be meeting Monday, Dec. 15. They will meet at 4:30 p.m. at the Nespelem School and 6 p.m., at Lake Roosevelt Jr./Sr. High School. For more information call Steve Hansen 509.633.3807. Care and Share Food Bank The food bank at the Church of the N... Full story