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Ray McDonald, of Grand Coulee, was recently honored with a 65-year service plaque from the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 302. McDonald began his work as an Oiler for Morrison Knutson in Skykomish. His work took him to Alaska, Montana and Washington. Sean Jeffries, president and District 4 representative presented McDonald with his award....
Celebrate Black History Month with NCW Libraries in February. Explore books, movies, music, documentaries and more by Black authors, illustrators, filmmakers and musicians in the library district’s physical and digital collections. Black History Month is a national celebration in partnership with the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment of the Humanities, and other institutions and organizations to honor Black voices, stories, experiences, and contributions. NCW Libraries is hosting a Black H...
Grand Coulee Police 1/31 - Police responded to a report of an agitated patient, brought into the hospital by tribal police, who was threatening to assault staff. Police learned a female had threatened to strangle a member of the security staff, although the man said he didn’t think she was capable of doing so. Police spoke to the girl who said she wouldn’t cause any more problems. 2/1 - A woman asked police to check on the wellbeing of her father. Police eventually found him at the casino and he said he was doing fine. - Police pulled over a c...
Grand Coulee Police 1/24 - Someone complained that a woman parked her car in an alleyway between D and E Street, blocking access through it. The woman said she thought it was her property and police told her she’d have to contact a land surveyor and real estate attorney to try and establish that. She said she understood and wouldn’t block the alleyway anymore. - A man recently released from jail, unhappy to learn another man was living in the Cardinal Road residence he used to occupy, threatened him. The man who was threatened was older, shorte...
The next blood drive will be held from 1:30 - 5:15 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 20, at the American Legion in Electric City. When you give blood with Vitalant, you have the potential to help hospital patients within your community and, when the need arises, others across the country. All presenting donors will receive a $10 Amazon.com Gift Card, redeemable via email- donors MUST be opted into our rewards program as well as have a valid email attached to their donor account to receive the gift card. Instructions for how to determine eligibility of...
Care and Share Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area AA meetings are held Monday through Saturday at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and non-smoking. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at...
Homelessness is still a big issue throughout Washington, and while the state has spent millions, the governor wants to invest more. In a press conference Jan. 19, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee said while certain encampments have been cleared as a result of past funding efforts, there are still not enough places to house the homeless. “Many of these people have chemical addiction problems that have to be treated if they’re going to succeed. Many of these people have mental health problems that have to be treated,” Inslee said. “Wher...
Workers for Wenatchee firm KRCI LLC work on logs in the parking lot near the boat launch at Steamboat Rock State Park Jan. 19, eventually to form a new log boom in a now restricted area just to the northeast. The log boom work is estimated to be completed, if materials arrive in time, in April, said Washington State Coulee Corridor Area Manager Denis Felton, who oversees Steamboat, Dry Falls and Potholes state parks. The whole project, which includes new fencing erected last year and bank...
Care and Share Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area AA meetings are held Monday through Saturday at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and non-smoking. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at...
In 2022, NCW Libraries’ print and digital materials circulated 1.2 million times. Here are the most popular titles checked out across the region: Physical Materials Fiction: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Non-Fiction: Atomic Habits by James Clear Memoir/Biography: Educated by Tara Westover DVD: Dune Book Club Kit: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Digital Materials eBook on Libby: The Judge’s List by John Grisham eAUdio on Libby: 21st Birthday by James Patterson eBook on Hoopla: Harry Potter and the Sor...
OLYMPIA – Jan. 24, 2023 – The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission is looking for two new volunteers to serve on the Boating Program Advisory Council (BPAC). The new members of the committee must have experience relevant to the program – one position requires a public health and injury prevention background and will serve as the injury prevention specialist. The other position requires a background in recreational boating education. The injury prevention specialist is connected to state and national networks in injury preve...
A herd of 24 mule deer graze in the Bureau of Reclamation's Visitor Center park below Grand Coulee Dam Jan. 19 about 3 p.m. Much of the group roams west Coulee Dam most of the day and night, but they can all be seen in the park in the mid to late afternoons, looking for a little more sustenance to get them through to spring, when new growth sprouts. Wildlife experts warn against feeding the deer, which take months to adapt to new types of food. Several starved to death in Coulee Dam a few years...
Right now, you may be thinking about taxes and records, but soon you’ll be thinking about what to do with those records you no longer need to keep. A local club has an answer. The Grand Coulee Dam Area Rotary Club, which has organized a day to shred those documents every other year for several years, is planning the event again for the Saturday after your federal income tax returns are due — April 22, tentatively at North Dam Park....
Grand Coulee Police 1/16 - Police responded to North Dam, where someone had reportedly jumped a fence with a shotgun while hunting birds and had fired two shots. Police found a man trying to retrieve two dead waterfowl from the water with a fishing pole. He said he had used a hunting app that showed the area as accessible. Police explained it was off limits for a reason. The man understood and was escorted out of the area by USBR Security Response Force officers. 1/17 - A Continental Heights woman reports a man she communicated with online was...
NCW Libraries is offering two upcoming virtual opportunities for adults. A Humanities Washington presentation about Mt. St. Helens and a NCW Virtual Reads program featuring popular author Yasmin Ramirez. In the first program, NCW is partnering with Humanities Washington to offer the live, virtual program After the Blast: Mount St. Helens 40 Years Later. This program will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 and held on the Zoom platform. Writer and biologist Eric Wagner will take participants on a journey through the Mt. St. Helens blast zone. Explore the...
OLYMPIA – Jan. 17, 2023 – Washington State Parks is recruiting seasonal park aides to work in its beautiful outdoor places this spring, summer and fall! Parks is looking for 305 park aides and senior park aides to work from April through September in diverse environments like old-growth forests, channeled scabland and shrub steppe, as well as on Pacific Ocean beaches and the high desert and around Puget Sound and its islands. Park aides enjoy a variety of duties. They may register campers, maintain trails, clean campgrounds and maintain fac...
Care and Share Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held Monday through Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and non-smoking. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at...
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...
Remember the blood drive is set for Monday, Jan. 16, 1:30-5:45 pm at the American Legion Hall (Vets Center) in Electric City. We are currently sitting at 12 scheduled appointments with 14 openings between 2:30- 5:30 Grand Coulee Community Monday, January 16 1:30pm- 5:45pm American Legion 877-25-VITLAL...
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...
NCW Libraries offers a weekly, live virtual story time that connects young children and their caregivers across five counties through reading, song and play. The story time airs on the Zoom platform every Thursday at 9:30 a.m., led by Librarians Clare Morrison, Peshastin, and Dawn Woodruff, Twisp. Upcoming story times include: Jan 12: Read “Ten Ways to Hear Snow”, about a girl who wakes up after a blizzard to a quiet town and realizes that snow actually changes sound. Jan. 19: Pajama story time (wearing pajamas encouraged). Jan. 26: Cel...
Grant County Mosquito Dist. to Meet Grant County Mosquito District #2 will hold its monthly meeting Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 4:00 pm at 210 W. Coulee Blvd., Electric City. Care and Share Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held Monday through Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group...
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...
Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet Grant County Fire District #14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, January 9, 2023, at 6:00 pm at the Electric City Fire Station. Care and Share Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held Monday through Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group...
A group that meets to tie quilts to give to charities will resume that work in January at Zion Lutheran Church. The quilts, which are given both to foreign and local organizations, have been made in the homes of many local quilters, but the tying of them will be done at the church each Wednesday over the next couple months. “We will again be tying quilts at Zion Lutheran Church for the months of January and February,” said Evelyn Russel. “Due to Covid, we only had a limited number of people work at the church but still were able to do 80 quilt...