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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Eastern Washington University released their Dean’s List for Fall Quarter Tuesday for undergraduates who earned 12 quality hours with a grade point average of 3.5 or better. Local students on the list are: Derek Atkins and Addison Hansen, both of Coulee Dam; Stephen Flowers, Grand Coulee; Matthew Tillman, Nespelem....
Twice last weekend people wanting to fish through the ice of Banks Lake found out it was thinner than they'd figured. On Saturday afternoon and amphibious motor vehicle designed for ice fishing headed out on the ice from Coulee Playland with three men inside. When they tried to drive the four-wheeled vehicle over the off-shore log boom, the vehicle, a Wilcraft amphibious ice fishing vehicle, high centered on the logs and it broke through the ice at both ends, leaving it unmovable. But it was bui...
Grand Coulee Police 1/10 - Two women were reported as appearing to try to break into a red car near Midway Avenue and Spokane Way. Police saw the vehicle but didn’t find anyone around it after searching the area. 1/11 - Police arrested a man at a motel on Spokane Way and took him to Reardan where he was transferred to a Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy who took him to jail in Spokane County. The man had been charged there with assault, harassment, and malicious mischief against his girlfriend earlier in the month at a hotel. Because he was in...
Spokane Falls Community College listed several local students last week among its 1,451 on its honor roll for fall quarter 2022, which ended in December. Students must have a grade point average of 3.0 or above to be listed on the honor roll. Local students making the grade at SFCC included: Taylor Bartholomew, of Grand Coulee; William Friedlander, of Coulee Dam; Emily Nichols, of Keller; and Logan McElyea, of Wilbur. Also, Shawn Traxler, of Coulee Dam, has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Fall 2022 President’s List by ear...
Looking at something from a different angle can reveal much that hadn’t been noticed before. That principle may have been evident at a school board meeting Monday night. School leaders made plans Monday to systematically consider student opinion in coming meetings, the result of advocacy on the school board by two new student representatives. Appointed as ex-officio representatives in October 2022, Juniors Layla Flett and Celeste LaPlace have been discussing with other Grand Coulee Dam School District board members ways to get student c...
Zion Lutheran Church is celebrating it’s 85thAnniversary on January 15, 2023 at 11:00 am. Our guest preacher for the celebration will be Rev Daniel Wurster who was the pastor at Zion from 1973-1976. We are also hoping that former pastors Ken Goodfellow and William Goodin will be in attendance to celebrate with us and bless us. We look forward to being a part of the community for many years to come sharing God’s Love in word and deed. Lutheran pastors began visiting the Grand Coulee Dam community in 1933. Pastor Hugo Gurney was serving the Lut...
Grand Coulee Police 1/3 - One catalytic converter was cut and stolen from a U-Haul truck parked near the hardware store, and the catalytic converter was cut but not taken from a second U-Haul. - Police checked on a deer that had been hit by a car somewhere near the hospital. When approaching the deer, it was able to get away. Police decided it didn’t need to be put down since it was able to get away. 1/5 - A woman was banned from a Dill Avenue residence after an argument involving someone being allowed to use her car. - Jail was more a...
Call for bids to create a website/domain for Center Senior Living Center Senior Living is a 501c 3 non-profit with the goal of converting the former Center School in Grand Coulee to a top-quality 60 bed assisted living and memory care facility. The board will accept proposals to create a domain and build a website for this project. The proposal should include examples of your work and previous experience. Proposals should be returned to Center Senior Living no later than January 15th, 2023. Return bids to: CSL, PO Box 748, Grand Coulee, WA 9913...
Park district commissioners last month approved a proposal for vendors to address in bidding on the maintenance work for North Dam Park for the year. The Coulee Area Park and Recreation District maintains and manages the park on about eight acres of land that belongs to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation below North Dam. Commissioners Dec. 14 approved as to form a document that lays out the scope of work they expect will be done for up to $25,000 in 2023, including everything from mowing the lawns...
Here’s a look at the most popular stories in The Star over the last year. January Stolen car found abandoned at Keller Ferry after chase A stolen Cadillac that police stopped following because of a new state law was found at the Keller Ferry Marina the next day anyway. Washington State House Bill 1054 took effect in 2021 and limits, among other things, the circumstances in which an officer can pursue a vehicle in a chase, including circumstances related to probable cause, weather conditions, the safety of others, and more. A local officer h...
Mary Atkins, born June 24, 1946, died Thursday, December 22, 2022, following an extended illness. Mary was known for being a cook for many businesses in the Grand Coulee Dam area over the years and eventually retiring from Coulee Medical Center. She was known for her good humor and being a friend to everyone. At this time no services are being held....
Darrel Fleischman, 75, born January 23, 1947, a long time resident of the Grand Coulee Dam area died on Saturday, December 17, 2022. Born in Omak, Washington, to his parents Floyd and Rose Fleischman, he lived in Omak until his family moved to Moses Lake, Washington. After high school he went to Washington State University until he joined the Army during Vietnam where he was in the 44th medical brigade. After Vietnam he returned to Moses Lake and worked for the waste water treatment facilities....
John Paul Holmdahl, 86, was born May 19, 1936, in Seattle, Washington, to Norman Holmdahl and Margaret Dodgson Holmdahl. He passed on Tuesday, December 27, 2022. John moved with his parents to Coulee Dam, Washington, where brothers Jim and Tom were born. Their father was a well-respected engineer for the Grand Coulee Dam. A young John spent part of his youth trapping animals around the Banks Lake area to raise money. He even sold some of the pelts to Sears. He adored his father who taught him...
Grand Coulee Police 12/25 - Police responded to a Bay Area Drive home where the security alarm was going off. The homeowner was there and explained that he forgot the passcode for the alarm. 12/26 - Police went to Continental Heights where a woman had reported that a man was intoxicated and needed to be escorted away. When police arrived, she explained the man had already left as had another man whom he had been arguing with, wanting to fight him. Police weren’t able to find either of the men. - Police were unable to find any evidence of a w...
Call for bids to create a website/domain for Center Senior Living Center Senior Living is a 501c 3 non-profit with the goal of converting the former Center School in Grand Coulee to a top-quality 60 bed assisted living and memory care facility. The board will accept proposals to create a domain and build a website for this project. The proposal should include examples of your work and previous experience. Proposals should be returned to Center Senior Living no later than January 15th, 2023. Return bids to: CSL, PO Box 748, Grand Coulee, WA 9913...
With temperatures near 0 last Thursday, two leaks on one drum gate on top of Grand Coulee Dam build ice formations as they spray. Ice built up on much of the dam during recent frigid weather but was crashing to the river below on Monday when temperatures were in the high 30s. See our upcoming weather chart on page 2. - Scott Hunter photo...
Sara "Rosalie" Scallan was born June 26, 1937 in Coulee Dam, Washington to Carlisle "Bill" and Elizabeth "Betty" Beery. She passed away on Monday, December 19, 2022, at home in Coulee Dam, surrounded by her daughters. In her younger years, Rosalie was an avid horsewoman and a gifted trainer, spending many days horseback riding with the Moore girls and catching wild horses on the reservation. She graduated from Coulee Dam High School as Salutatorian in 1955. On July 30, 1955, she married David...
Grand Coulee Police 12/20 - Police checked on a situation at a Burdin Boulevard home where a man said his mother ripped the phone cord out of an Xbox while trying to make a call related to food stamps. The man was also concerned about his mother’s health after a friend said she was having trouble breathing. Medical personnel were allowed to come to the residence to check on her. - Police went to Kelsey Avenue to investigate a report of someone getting hit with a shovel. The man and woman at the residence said that they had argued but nothing p...
TOWN OF COULEE DAM, WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY improvement PROJECT Ferry Avenue Sidewalk Improvements Contract No. TA-7243 Federal Aid No. TAP 0280(003) Sealed bids will be received by the Town of Coulee Dam, Washington, at Town Hall located at 300 Lincoln Ave., Coulee Dam, WA 99116 until 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2023, and will then and there be opened and publicly read aloud. The project is located within the Town of Coulee Dam between Grant Avenue and the Fiddle Creek Pathway. The project is funded by the Fe...
Children talk and stare at Santa and Mrs. Claus, who stopped at Mason City Memorial Park in Coulee Dam Dec. 14 in an event arranged by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce. It also featured other characters popular during the season, such as Elsa. Cocoa around the fire was popular too. Firefighters helped by making the place look like daylight with big lights on their fire trucks. - Scott Hunter photo...
Toyoko Spence, 85, was born on August 21, 1937 in Fujisawa, Japan and passed away peacefully with her daughters and family by her side in Mead, Washington on Thursday, December 15, 2022. Toyoko met Dick Spence while he was overseas serving in the Navy. They married in Tokyo, Japan on December 22, 1964. Later, they were stationed in Oahu where they welcomed their first daughter, Pam. After Dick was discharged, they lived in Nespelem for several years before they moved to Coulee Dam and had...
Grand Coulee Police 12/12 - A man on Schreiber Road reported that a cargo trail had been broken into and two boxes and a tool bag were taken along with various tools. Police took photographs of the crime scene as well as footprints in the snow. It seems that a lock was “defeated” by whoever stole the items, and removed to enter the trailer, according to the police report. - Police shot an injured deer near the intersection of Continental Heights and Federal Way after determining it was the most humane thing to do for it. 12/13 - Police che...
Local mayors decided against further studying whether their Regional Board of Mayors could consider taking over the Spring Canyon Cemetery. Meeting as the RBOM Dec. 7, the mayors voted to drop their research into taking over ownership of the cemetery currently owned by the local Lions Club. The club had approached the mayors about that possibility last August, and they’ve been looking into it ever since. Coulee Dam Mayor Bob Poch said his council was not in favor of it. City Clerk Stefani Bowden had asked the Municipal Research Services Corpora...
Sometimes, if it’s not one thing, it’s another when you’re dealing a federal agency that gives you money. Or takes it back. Nespelem’s school board learned Monday that some of their Impact Aid money was being clawed back. Impact Aid is a federal grant program for local educational agencies that have lost local property tax revenue due to the presence of non-taxable federal land. Superintendent Effie Dean explained that the Impact Aid agency had found the school district’s 2019-2020 school year application for Impact Aid faulty, for two years...
Grand Coulee Police 12/6 - An officer assisted tribal police with a man they had arrested for damaging a window at their police station. The Grand Coulee officer helped move the man, who was being combative, from a tribal police car to inside the hospital, and then back out to their police car after he was discharged from the hospital. - Police closed a door that was open at The Star newspaper after searching the building first. - Police collected information about a hit-and-run that may have occurred in the parking lot of the bar in Electric C...