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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Freida Leona Slattery passed away on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Gig Harbor, Wash. She was born July 16, 1923, in Thermopolis, Wyo., to Hazel and Clarence Cowan. Freida’s father passed away when she was very young. She lived her first 18 years in Thermopolis and graduated from high school there. Upon graduation, her mother Hazel and grandmother Sadie moved to Spokane, Wash., where Freida graduated from Holy Names College with a teaching degree in elementary education. She was introduced to Clark (the love of her life) by her good friends Joan a... Full story
Income tax time is nearly here and free tax preparation will be offered again at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center. Volunteers trained in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service and AARP will be available every Tuesday from Feb. 10 to April 7, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The service is available to anyone with low or middle income. You do not need to be seniors or members of the senior center to take advantage of the free help, says volunteer Hazel Johnson, although special attention is... Full story
Chamber at Pepper Jack’s The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, Jan. 29, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. On the agenda Launi Ritter of Heaven Scent Computer Services will be giving a presentation on internet scams.... Full story
Financial Literacy is an important skill, but is not usually "fun" to learn about. Not so for 193 Lake Roosevelt High School students who took part in a "Spending Frenzy" last week, learning about money management and having fun while doing it. Spending Frenzy is an interactive, life-sized version of the board game called "Life." Students were given a check, which they took to the bank and cashed in for a return of $40,000 in play money. They were then given certain tasks to complete. By the... Full story
COULEE DAM—The Grand Coulee Dam School District board will now begin its meetings at 5:30 p.m., its members voted Monday night. The board now meets in the Lake Roosevelt High School library. • The Grand Coulee Methodist Church women donated $100 to the school district to purchase snacks to be used in the school’s health rooms to aid diabetic students. The school board accepted the gift. • Student enrollment for district schools stood at 707 for the month of January. Last year the January count was 667, an increase this year of 40 student... Full story
Legal Notice Town of Coulee Dam Parks and Natural Resources Board Meeting To the Citizens of the Town of Coulee Dam, notice is hereby given that the Parks and Natural Resources Board of the Town of Coulee Dam will hold a regular meeting at Town Hall on Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 10:00am. (Publish Jan. 28, 2015) SUMMARY OF ORDINANCES PASSED OF THE CITY OF ELECTRIC CITY, WA On the 13th day of January, 2015 the City Council of Electric City passed the following ordinances. A summary of the content of said ordinances, consisting of the title,... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 1/14 - Police gave the Grand Coulee owner of an abandoned vehicle on Morrison a few extra days to remove it. 1/19 - Police were called to a location on Palmer in Electric City when a man went to check on his mother and found her deceased. - A Bridgeport resident was ticketed for parking in a handicapped parking space at Safeway. - A Coulee Dam man was stopped on Midway after an officer clocked his vehicle at 48 mph in a 35 mph zone. When he smelled alcohol, he wrote the man a ticket and advised him not to drive the rest of... Full story
The Lake Roosevelt High School gym should be ready for basketball again this week, an official from Walker Construction assured the school board last Wednesday evening. Jim Crowley stated that the gym roof is sealed and that the final steel sheeting should be on site in about three weeks. Crowley said final cleaning of the interior of the gym would be completed by the end of last week. High school basketball games and wrestling tournaments were forced to move to the old Grand Coulee Dam Middle... Full story
Plans for the construction of a 261-foot high tower that would rise within the flight path to the Grand Coulee Dam Airport are under study, by the Federal Aviation Administration, which is seeking public comment. The FAA became interested in the proposed antenna tower when airport Manager Bob Babler responded negatively to a questionnaire about the proposed height and location of the tower. The tower would be some 3.08 nautical miles from the airport runway, a paved landing area nearly 4,200... Full story
The school district maintenance and operations replacement levy, on which voters will cast ballots Feb. 10, could actually cost taxpayers less than they are now paying. The Grand Coulee Dam School District is seeking a replacement levy for four years, 2016-2019, asking for $1.13 million each year costing $3.95 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation, compared to $4.54 per thousand now being paid with the current levy. A person with a $100,000 house would pay $395 in school levy taxes in the new levy compared to the $454 they are now paying,... Full story
Park district gets compliments from auditor The park district that operates North Dam Park and Event Center passed a state audit, according to Philip Mendoza, of the State Auditor’s Office, who shared the results with the district in a preliminary note. “Overall, the District did an amazing job with their reporting to our office and ensuring that controls are in place for the safeguarding of assets and complying with applicable state laws,” Mendoza wrote Jan. 16 to Phil Hansen, secretary and treasurer of the Coulee Area Park and Recre... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board voted to donate playground equipment at Center School to Electric City and will take a look at giving two portable buildings at the high school to a Carlton Complex Fire group at its next meeting. The district had offered up the playground equipment to other agencies, as required by law, with no takers, and voted to donate the equipment to the city of Electric City, to be used in a proposed park. Some of the playground equipment at Center School has been relocated to the new school site, and the... Full story
Chamber at Pepper Jack’s The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, Jan. 22, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. Karen Depew will be talking about the upcoming school levy. 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 reopen on January 2. Happy New Year. Open Sewing at Senior Art Roo... Full story
IN THE TRIBAL COURT OF THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERVATION Colville Tribal Credit Corporation, ) Case No.: CV-CD-2014-37202 a lending institution wholly-owned by ) the Confederated Tribes of the Colville ) Indian Reservation ) )CHIEF OF POLICE ) PUBLIC NOTICE ) OF SALE OF Plaintiff, ) REAL PROPERTY vs. ) Shelley Dick, a single individual, ) ) ) Defendant ) The Colville Tribal Court has directed the undersigned Chief of Police, Colville Tribe, to sell the property described below to satisfy a judgment in the above-entitled... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 1/13 - A woman reported that she had received a call from a party who said they represented the PUD and if she didn’t pay her back bill they were going to shut her power off. She told the caller that she didn’t owe a back bill and then called PUD customer service who said they were aware of the scam and she should call police. She gave the police the number the party called from. - Two suspicious males were reported to police, who met up with them and questioned them. One was wanted on an arrest warrant from Kennewick, but h... Full story
Sherrie Rene Reyes – Palmanteer (56) Left us during the evening hours of Sunday, January 18, 2015 from her hospital bed at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, surrounded by her loving family to bid her farewell. Born March 22, 1958 in Portland, Oregon into the loving home of Francis and Bonnie Overberg-Reyes, Sherrie graduated with the Bicentennial Class of 1976 from Lake Roosevelt High in Coulee Dam, Washington. Sherrie learned at the side of her mother Bonnie – "The Best Cook Ever" and acc... Full story
If you've ever found yourself wondering if it might be more efficient to have one city instead of four to govern the local area, you're not alone. The local chamber of commerce offered Monday to head up efforts to look at the question of consolidating at least two local cities. Their overture met with encouraging words from the mayors of both cities - Chris Christopherson, of Grand Coulee and Jerry Sands, of Electric City. "I'm encouraged by this," Christopherson said. "I think it would work,"... Full story
Grand Coulee’s volunteer fire department responded to 216 ambulance calls within its jurisdiction in 2014 and the department made an additional 51 ambulance calls in Coulee Dam, Fire Chief Richard Paris told the city council recently. The ambulance crews were busy with 112 transports from Coulee Medical Center to other hospitals or to the airport where patients were picked up by MedStar and flown to other sites for treatment. Four additional transports were made for other jurisdictions, Paris reported at the council’s Jan 6 meeting. Fir... Full story
The park district that struggles to find ways to pay for maintaining North Dam Park will have an easier time financing the effort with a new grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Coulee Area Park and Recreation District commissioners learned Monday night the district will get a five-year matching grant from the USBR, totaling up to $149,703. “We can spend as much as we can match,” Commissioner and Treasurer Phil Hansen told the commissioners. Maintaining the park costs about $30,000 a year, Hansen said. The grant will help pay for tha... Full story
Below we present several well-thought-out nominations for Volunteer of the Year for 2014. Karen Depew for Volunteer of the Year I would like to Nominate Karen Depew as Volunteer of the Year. I know I only know a very small part of Karen Depew’s volunteer activities, but hope others will fill in the blanks. This past year, Karen has been one of the Coulee Pioneer Museum’s most active volunteers, and, along with Constance Wilson, has organized several displays at the museum, not only bringing the ideas to the museum but rounding up the thi... Full story
Thaddeus D. "Pete" Moore (81) was born December 29, 1933, in Spokane, Wash., and passed away during the evening of Saturday, January 3, 2015, in Spokane. Raised in the Elmer City, Wash., home of his parents, George and Lois "Hank" Walling-Moore, Pete attended Elmer City Elementary, Mason City Junior High and high school in Nespelem, Washington. During his senior year Pete left high school to serve his country with the US Navy, his favorite port of call being Japan. During the Korean Conflict,... Full story
Big Bend Community College is offering classes to meet three education goals during winter quarter. Adult Basic Education (ABE), GED prep classes and HS21+ competency-based high school diploma classes are for adults 21 and older who are lacking a high school diploma. For information on how to participate in these programs locally, please contact Linda Black at lblack_ged@yahoo.com or 633-3611. Class sessions began Tuesday, January 6 at 3:30 p.m. in the old Grand Coulee Dam Middle School Annex. A minimum number of students is required for these... Full story
Chamber at Pepper Jack’s The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, Jan. 15, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. The program will be an update on the Senior Center by senior center president Birdie Hensley. Demos to Meet Okanogan County Democrats are meeting on Saturday, Jan. 17, at El Paraiso Restaurant next to Okanogan Inn off of Highway 97. The meeting will begin at noon. Consortium to Meet Coulee Corridor Consortium will meet Friday Jan. 16, at noon, at Corral Restaurant, 120 S. Main St. , War... Full story
Electric City citizens still have police protection in the wake of a last-minute, inter-city agreement that came together before the year 2014 came to an end. The Electric City Council voted unanimously last Tuesday night to stay with Grand Coulee for its police protection. The evening had its moments as the meeting started with Councilmember Aaron Derr proposing that the city accept a proposal for a contract with Coulee Dam for police services. Derr argued that the Grand Coulee contract was for too much and Electric City couldn’t afford it. I... Full story
A committee to help the Grand Coulee Dam School District pass its Feb. 10 special maintenance and operation levy will meet at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at the new school secondary library on the second floor, Chair Karen Depew said this week. “We need volunteers to help,” Depew stated. Depew said that she encourages local citizens to turn out and assist the district in promoting the levy. The district is asking voters to approve a four-year levy of $1.13 million annually. The school board accepted the recommendations of a special levy exp... Full story
