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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Students, are you having trouble with your homework and your parents can’t help? Then North Central Regional Library might be your answer. Kim Mehr, out of the Wenatchee Public Library, and representing NCRL, made a presentation last month to students in seventh through 12th grades about services available for them, and homework was one of the topics. Students must have a library card, easily obtainable at any NCRL branch, and go online to the regional library home page at www.ncrl.org. Click on the Research & Homework tab. You can access i... Full story
1 years ago The Grand Coulee town council passed a $2.8 million dollar budget for fiscal year 2005 Tuesday night including $65,000 to replace the roof on city hall, a projected $733,000 budget for law enforcement, and $12,000 is earmarked for tourism activities sponsored by the chamber of commerce. The city will pay more than $860,000 in salaries, overtime and benefits plus an estimated $304,000 for the USBR police security contract. Tis the season for "eats" and good cheer with Stucks Bar and... Full story
Nate Piturachsatit has moved from physical education coordinator to counselor at Lake Roosevelt Elementary School. The change was approved by the Grand Coulee Dam School District board for the remainder of the year. Principal Lisa Lakin said this week that Piturchsatit is also taking his internship as a principal and expects to complete it this next spring. The district had the unexpected retirement of Rosella Covington, who held the counselor position at the middle school for a number of years. The district had advertised for a replacement... Full story
City of Electric City Notice of sale Of Surplus items The City of Electric City will sell by sealed bid the following: 1) 1965 Dodge, ¾ ton M37B1, 250 gallon tank with pump and hose with approximately 16,353 miles on odometer, minimum bid is $1,000. 2) 1980 Toyota Pick-up with approximately 99,541 miles on odometer, minimum bid is $100.00 3) 1983 International with 6 yard dump bed, snow plow blade and sander with approximately 157,985 miles on odometer, minimum bid is $2,500. All three vehicles are being sold AS IS and are available for... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board made two decisions on athletic policy Monday night, one over the objections of one of its members. School board Director Ted Piccolo had issues with changing district policy so that student athletes can be failing one class and still participate in sports. The policy requires athletes to carry a 2.0 grade point average (C average) to participate in sports. The change the board approved allows an athlete to carry one failed grade. “I don’t think it’s too much to ask that a student passes all their... Full story
Star closed for holiday The Star newspaper office will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 27 & 28 for the Thanksgiving holiday. The office will open for business again on Monday, Dec. 1, at 9 a.m. Local will march in Macy’s Parade Lynda Nutt, who worked for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Visitor Center, will be in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City as part of the “Red Hot MaMas.” She says the group will be on directly after the 121st commercial, behind the Paddington Bear balloon. The group was also in the 2005 Macy’s Pa... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board Monday night approved a five-year grounds contract with Oasis Lawn Care for an annual cost of $37,600. The contract includes mowing, trimming and edging, lawn aeration, pruning, fall leaf removal, weed eating the hillside above the athletic fields, chemical and fertilizer applications and summer irrigation. Oasis provides its own equipment, and where it can, its proposal stated, tries to hire Lake Roosevelt graduates, and students returning for summer work from college. Superintendent Dennis Carlson... Full story
Grand Coulee is sporting a sixth-grade girls' basketball team in a Moses Lake league this year, following the change to a new school system that groups grades differently. Grand Coulee Dam School District switched this year from a "middle school" system that included fifth through eighth grades to a "junior high-high school" that starts at seventh grade. From left to right are Heatherly Budravage, Maeha Piturachsatit, Lacey Moon, Bryn Chaffee, Raehanne Steinert, Chelsea Dudley, Makaylee Caddy,... Full story
1 years ago On Monday, Nov. 15, the Colville Tribes' fish and wildlife dept. released 712 rainbow trout, weighing an average of 5.35 pounds, in to Lake Rufus Woods at Ed Scahllenberger's net pen site about 16 miles downriver from Grand Coulee Dam. Another 86,000 triploid rainbow trout (fish with three sets of chromosomes instead of two) that were too small to release, weighing in now at three to a pound and approximately five inches in length, were purchased by the Tribes from Schallenberger an... Full story
1 years ago Grady “Skip” Lael joined the Marine Corps exactly 61 years ago, in 1943 on Veterans Day, serving 29 and a half months with the Amphibian Tractor Battalion in one lone, famous campaign in the Pacific, the taking of Iwo Jima. He landed at Iwo on Feb. 19, 1945 and left on March 26. He said that his Battalion’s job was to get men and materials on shore under fire fights everywhere. Lael looked through binoculars to see the Marines raise the first flag on Mt. Suribachi and that flag was a small one that a Marine had on his back. “It w... Full story
You still have until this Thursday to submit names for the Trees of Sharing program, which distributes Christmas gifts to children in need. Names will be accepted at Safeway, Harvest Foods and Coulee Medical Center, and are for preschool kids from the area or school children attending Grand Coulee Dam School District schools. The trees will be up soon with the tags showing the age and gender of children who are earmarked for gifts. Just take a tag, prepare a gift and get it back at one of the... Full story
Smoke from an electrical panel in the new school kitchen set off an alarm and caused evacuation of some 700 students at about 9:20 a.m. Tuesday. The incident put the Lake Roosevelt schools' emergency plan into action and students were walked to the old Lake Roosevelt High School gym to await the arrival of parents and buses to take them home for the day. School will remain closed for students Wednesday while the electrical problem is repaired. Staff, however, will report for duty, and one of the... Full story
Names are now being accepted for the local “Trees of Sharing” campaign that spreads holiday cheer and presents to kids who may not get them otherwise. Names of children may be submitted on slips of paper and turned in at Safeway, Harvest Foods and Coulee Medical Center. The Trees of Sharing is for kids residing in the Grand Coulee Dam area and school age children must attend Grand Coulee Dam District schools. Children’s names will be collected through Nov. 13. Trees with “ornament tags” will be placed at selected locations in the community... Full story
1 years ago With the third year of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant ending, the Grand Coulee Dam School District is seeking alliance with local cities to fund the fourth year and possibly extend the program for a second term. Administered by the federal Dept. of Justice, COPS has invested $10.6 billion in 50 states to put police officers in schools and other crime preventative measures. Joe Pakootas, chairman of the Colville Business Council, said he’s happy about the deal with the Douglas County Public Utility District, s... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board authorized the purchase of Center School and land adjacent to it at its meeting Monday night. The title to the site used by local school districts for decades stipulated that ownership would revert to a private holding company if it was no longer to be used for a school. The price to see that that doesn’t happen, said district Superintendent Dennis Carlson, is $155,000. The sale will give the district clear title for the Center School building and surrounding land for a total of 8.465 acres. Carlson s... Full story
Following the move from the old elementary and middle school buildings in Grand Coulee to the new school complex in Coulee Dam, hundreds of items left in the two buildings will be tagged for sale. The new school has all new furnishings, so the desks, chairs and more from the old schools need to find a new home. Those items from the old Center Elementary School were declared surplus Monday night by the Grand Coulee Dam School District board. Items will be offered first to other school districts and government agencies, and after 30 days will be... Full story
You have our permission sleep in Daylight Savings time ends this Sunday morning. Move clocks back one hour. Boat launch permits available online Seasonal boat launch permits for Lake Roosevelt are now availabe online and at Coulee Hardware. They are no longer available at the National Park Service Office in Coulee Dam. The Annual Boat Launch Permit for Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area will now be available online through pay.gov at https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/64970644 or look for the link in this story at grandcoulee.com... Full story
Dr. Dennis Carlson’s contract as superintendent of schools was extended for an additional year by the Grand Coulee Dam School District board Monday night. The extension will take Carlson’s contract through June 30, 2016. This is the second extension of Carlson’s contract. Carlson came to the district in 2010, and immediately started working on funding for the district’s new school complex, which was completed in September. Carlson has stated that he would like to continue with the effort to develop the new gym before he retires from the dis... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved a number of hires, allowed a leave of absence, and approved the retirement of a veteran counselor at its meeting Monday night. The board met in the new school after providing a tour of the building for the North Central Washington Educational Service District board of directors and Superintendent Richard McBride and hosting the group for an evening dinner. The board meeting started at 7 p.m. The board approved eight hires for the 21st Century SHARP Kids program. Hired for that program were... Full story
Alumni Association to Meet Tonight Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association will hold its fall meeting on Wednesday, October 15, 2014, at 1:00 P.M., at United Methodist Church, 406 Center Street in Grand Coulee. Anyone who attended any of the Grand Coulee schools is invited to attend. The main objective of the Association is the awarding of scholarships each year to graduates of the local high school. There will be a report regarding this year’s recipients’ enrollment in their respective schools. We’ll also hear responses to the last newsl... Full story
1 Years Ago Two studies, into a fatal accident at Grand Coulee Dam, where Charley Sage oand Gardner Zemke died, found that the accident could have been prevented or minimized if certain safety procedures had been in place and followed. The uniformed police officer that walks the halls at Lake Roosevelt could be eliminated next year due to a dropping enrollment. This came from a statement from District Superintendent, Bob Ranells, stating that the COPS grant that has funded the officer the last three years must be picked up by the school... Full story
Public Notice Town of Coulee Dam NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF COUNCIL MEETING To the citizens of the Town of Coulee Dam, Washington, the Town Council of the Town of Coulee Dam, Washington will not conduct a Council Meeting on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 due to lack of quorum. The next regular council meeting will be held on October 22, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. Stefani Bowden, Clerk/Treasurer (Publish October 8, 2014) Coulee Area Park and Recreation District Grand Coulee, Washington Aquatic Wellness and Fitness Center Architectural Conceptual Drawings Req... Full story
by Scott Hunter It's not as evident as the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce's annual Colorama parade through the main business district, but chamber committees have been working behind the scenes on both problems and opportunities, identified with a goal of boosting economic development leading to growth and jobs. And one big lead just opened up. The now vacant Center School in Grand Coulee, along with more than eight acres of land in the middle of the city, could become available to... Full story
The Coulee Dam town council passed a resolution last Wednesday evening honoring school Superintendent Dennis Carlson and State Sen. Linda Evans Parlette. The two were singled out by council members for the work they each did on getting the new K-12 school complex. The joint resolution read: “Whereas, school superintendent Dr. Dennis Carlson and the Grand Coulee Dam school district board have caused to be visioned, planned, designed, and built a new K-12 school complex in the Town of Coulee Dam, and... Whereas, the project would have l... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam School District directors Monday night OK’d the hire of people in eight positions: • Shannon Peterson, Title I paraprofessional • Jennika Hill, one-on-one paraprofessional • William Kemble, bus driver and transportation supervisor • Mary Schilling, director, 21st Century Grant and PLTW Grant • Wendy Olbricht, one-on-one paraprofessional • James Caddy, eighth-grade boys basketball coach • Stephanie Anderson, one-on-one paraprofessional.... Full story