News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Grand Coulee Police 3/21 - A woman complained to police that she had loaned a pair of gloves to a man who was trimming her trees and she didn’t get the gloves back. Police are reviewing the incident for theft in the third degree charges. - Police arrested two men at Sunny Drive NE and Fifth Street in Electric City for being in possession of a stolen vehicle. One of the men was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant and the driver was the suspect in the stolen-vehicle incident. The vehicle was taken from the Colville Indian Reservation. In searching th... Full story
Chamber to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, March 24, at Junkers on Main Street in Grand Coulee. On the agenda is general business. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet Grant County Fire District 14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, March 28, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City Fire Station. Local AA Meetings Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays and Fridays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group... Full story
Brad Dudley, center, and Bob Poch, left, look over donated items Saturday afternoon for the silent auction portion of the Elmer City firefighters' fundraiser that night. Dudley spearheads the silent auction effort, which brought in about half the $6,200 in revenue at the 55th annual pancake dinner that fed 240 people. "The donations were incredible," noted member Ralph Rise. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
Okanogan Valley Orchestra & Chorus and the Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union will present the 2016 OVOC Spring Concert on Saturday, April 2 at the Omak Performing Arts Center beginning at 7 p.m. If you enjoy the music of the Beatles, Broadway musicals, or John Philip Sousa, then you’re sure to be delighted with the selections performed. Ticket prices are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $8 for Students and, as always, all children under 12 are free. For more information, contact Chanelle Carlin, OVOC coordinator, at 425-299-0339 or OVOC P... Full story
National Arbor Day is Friday, April 29, this year, and the Arbor Day Foundation is making it easy for anyone to celebrate the annual tree-planting holiday. Join the Foundation in April and receive 10 free shade trees. By joining the Foundation in April, new members receive the following trees: red oak, sugar maple, weeping willow, bald cypress, thornless honeylocust, pin oak, river birch, tulip tree, silver maple, and red maple. The free trees are part of the Foundation’s Trees for America campaign. “These trees provide shade in the summer and... Full story
Join Master Gardeners as they share their gardening experience and expertise on Wednesday, March 30, 1 to 2 p.m. In this class, participants will learn science-based methods to help them succeed as a gardener in our challenging environment. Hosted by the Okanogan Public Library at 228 Pine Street, Okanogan This is a free event, open to the public. For more information please contact the WSU Extension office at 509-422-7245 or email Okanogan.county@wsu.edu or the Library at 509-422-2609.... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 3/1 - Police say a woman was caught on a security camera taking liquor from Safeway and putting the bottle into her coat pocket. Police are investigating. 3/4 - Police are investigating another theft of liquor from Safeway. A security camera showed a male putting a bottle of liquor into his pants and flee from the store, police said. They are trying to identify the suspect. 3/14 - On the hillside near the Trail West Motel, police chased a man who had taken four bottles of liquor from Safeway without paying for them. A store... Full story
The Coulee Dam All-Class Reunion is seeking the whereabouts of the original Coulee Dam High School beaver mascot (Benny the Beaver), which was an actual stuffed beaver mascot mounted on a small wooden platform. If anyone has information on the whereabouts of this mascot, please contact either Bert Smith at 405-637-6398 (bjsmith@telepath.com) or Linda Zlateff at 509-647-5853 or (dlzlateff@bigdam.net). We would like to display him during our reunion activities on August 5 and 6, 2016. Afterward,... Full story
Chamber to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, March 17, at Junkers in Grand Coulee. Dan Foster, from the National Park Service will be the speaker. Okanogan County School Retirees Assoc. to Meet The Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will celebrate Retired School Employees’ Week and OCSRA’s 61st birthday on Thursday, March 17, at 10 a.m., at On the Avenue, 134 2nd Ave S., Okanogan. The association will meet Friday, March 25, at 11 a.m., for a no-host luncheon meeting ata Koala Street Gr... Full story
Wed., March 16 – Dinner Ham & Bean Soup with Cornbread, Egg Salad Sandwiches, Veggie Platter, Fruit Cup, Cookies Thurs., March 17 – Dinner Corned Beef Cabbage, Potatoes & Carrots, Fruited Jello, Irish Soda Bread, Cook’s Choice Dessert. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Fri., March 18 – Breakfast German Sausage & Eggs, Hashbrowns, Muffins, Fruit Bowl, Orange Juice Mon., March 21 – Breakfast Sausage Links & Eggs, Hashbrows, Muffin, Fruit Bowl, Orange Juice Tues., March 22 – Dinner Sunday Boil with Winter Veggies (Ham, Turnips, Potatoes, etc.), Fruite... Full story
by Roger S. Lucas Need a one-eighth inch steel sewer rodder storage reel? Or five pole-hanging Christmas lights? If you do, or are in the market for a list of surplus items at Electric City, then you may find bargains galore. Just go to city hall. Every year municipalities and other agencies go through their closets and bins looking for items that they no longer need, to declare them surplus. That’s what Electric City’s council did last Tuesday night. Declared surplus in addition to items above were: • a Lincoln 240-volt welder (it works... Full story
Young local actors fill the stage at The Grand Theatre in Grand Coulee Saturday afternoon, following their performance in the Missoula Children's Theater production of Rumpelstiltskin. The production, sponsored by the Grand Coulee Dam PTA at a cost of some $3,500, gives local kids a taste of theater, one of the humanities not available in regular curriculum at area schools. Some 45 students took part, auditioning on Monday, then attending over two hours of play practice each night in the week... Full story
Empowering farming through communication is the focus of the 2016 Women in Agriculture Conference, to be held in locations across Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Alaska on Saturday, March 19. In Nespelem, it will be held at the Tribal Administration Building, 44 School Loop Road. The conference begins at 8:30 a.m. In Wenatchee, the conference will be held at Confluence Technology Center, located at 285 Technology Way. This year’s event, “Power Up Your Communication, Power Up Your Farm,” covers communication style and how to use it to ma... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 3/8 - Dispatch alerted police that there were two stray dogs loose on Jackson Avenue in Electric City. The dogs were gone when police arrived. - Tribal police recovered a Honda Civic that was stolen during a burglary on Wetzel Street a couple of weeks earlier. Items in the vehicle were sent to the state crime lab for fingerprinting, including a crowbar found under the floor mat. The vehicle was found on Gold Lake Road near Nespelem. - A woman on Dill Avenue told police that a woman who had just left her house told her that... Full story
Easter bunnies at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center wind down Friday afternoon after a day of putting together Easter baskets. They had made about 200 on Friday and planned to complete at least 400 over the weekend before their annual sale started Monday. Each year, the center takes in and stores good items like toys, books, donated baskets, and these stuffed animal toys to assemble into the baskets they sell for low prices. By Tuesday the center had taken in about $1,400 in sales. - Scott... Full story
Chamber to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet for its installation luncheon at noon this Thursday, March 10, at the Moose Lodge in Grand Coulee. Lincoln Fire Dist. 9 to Meet Lincoln County Fire District 9 will hold its regular meeting Thursday, March 19, at 6 p.m., at the Church of the Nazarene, two miles east of Grand Coulee on Hwy 174. Blood Drive Coming Inland Northwest Blood Center, along with the Grand Coulee Community Blood Drive volunteers led by coordinator Sommer Hicks, will be holding a blood drive in the... Full story
A local club volleyball team has had great success this year, winning three of four tournaments. The Bi-County Wolfpack team competes in the 14U category and here displays their championship T-shirts from the Feb. 27 win at the Volleyfest Tournament in Omak. From left in the back row are Lake Roosevelt students Mikaylah Thompson, Aehsley Piturachsatit, Maeha Piturachsatit, Ellie Hansen, Megan Abel and Coach Chelsea Miller. Kneeling in the front row are Maddie Murray, who attends school at... Full story
What’s cookin’ at the seniors Wed., March 9 – Dinner Pork Roast, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Darla’s Winter Carrots, Applesauce, Pumpkin Pie. Happy Birthday! Thurs., March 10 – Dinner Center Closed for Repairs; Stuffed Manicotti, Green Beans, Dinner Roll, Fruit Cup/Cake or Cupcakes. To-go Meals picked up during Wednesday dinner. Fri., March 11 – Closed for Repairs Mon., March 14 – Breakfast Ham, Eggs, Pancakes, Fruit Bowl, Orange Juice Tues., March 15 – Dinner Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, Salad & Fruit Bar, Cake/Cupcakes Wed., March 16 – Dinner Ham... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 3/1 - Police were asked to make more patrols on Weil Place after a woman reported a trespass at her home there. - A U-Haul dolly taken from Coulee Hardware was recovered by Ferry County Sheriff’s deputies and returned to the owner. 3/2 - Police were asked to set up a watch at the southern Electric City city limits to watch for a suspect wanted in connection to an incident at Coulee City schools. The patrol was ended when the suspect was apprehended. - Police checked on a man on Williams Street who overdosed on alcohol. He r... Full story
As Washington state and the rest of the western United States continue to rebound from drought, I’ve come across a couple of interesting scientific research articles that I’m sharing here. I have two stories, one from here in the United States and the other occurring now in the Mediterranean region. First, let’s revisit the great Dust Bowl era of the 1930s. A recent study that used a reconstruction of North American drought history over the last 1,000 years found that the drought of 1934 was the driest and most widespread of the last mille... Full story
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No Chamber This Week The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will not be meeting this week. The annual installation luncheon will be held next Thursday, March 10, at noon, at the Moose Lodge in Grand Coulee. Okanogan County School Retirees Assoc. to Meet The Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will celebrate Retired School Employees’ Week and OCSRA’s 61st birthday on Thursday, March 17, at 10 a.m., at On the Avenue, 134 2nd Ave S., Okanogan. For more information, call Jennie Hedington 509-422-2954. Lincoln Fire Dist. 9 to Meet Li... Full story
Throughout the Bible, God has established certain days and events to remind His people of His faithfulness. For Christians today, those include communion and water baptism. Now we know that these observances do not save us, but they remind us of God’s grace and also in some way provide an illustration of the salvation that God offers through His Son, our Savior, Jesus. To the believers of the Old Testament there was no more significant observation than the Passover; and though we are not specifically instructed to observe the Passover in this a... Full story
Free tax preparation is still being offered at the Grand Coulee Senior Center. Volunteers trained in cooperation with IRS and AARP are available every Tuesday now through April 12, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. This service is available to anyone with low or middle income. You do not have to be seniors or members of the senior center to take advantage of this free help. However, special attention is given to those 60 and older. Taxpayers need to bring: A copy of last year’s tax return and social security cards, or other official documentation showin... Full story
The Master Gardener volunteers will be demonstrating rose pruning and rose care from 10 a.m. until noon on Tuesday, March 8. This will be a live demonstration and hands-on workshop, using the rose bushes in front of the Okanogan County Courthouse located at 149 3rd Ave. North, Okanogan, Washington. This is a free event, open to the public. Anyone interested in learning pruning techniques and rose care is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact the WSU Extension office at 509-422-7245 or email okanogan.county@wsu.edu. WSU... Full story