News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The continued closure of a city emergency route during a long-stalled federal construction project is worrying the city council in Grand Coulee. During their April 20 meeting, the Grand Coulee City Council discussed the continued closure of B Street during construction of the US Bureau of Reclamation’s fire station located along SR-155. The bureau awarded the $13.6 million construction contract in 2016. Construction began in April of 2017 and was originally scheduled to be complete in the first half of 2018. Numerous delays, including c...
The Colorama parade will be held like normal along it’s Midway Avenue route, but button raffles will be held online with multiple prize drawings held over multiple days. “The parade is on!” Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachel Haven told The Star in an email. Haven received official word that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will be opening B Street, which runs near the fire station they are constructing, as an alternate route which allows Midway Avenue to be used for the parade. Colorama buttons are also out and f...
With five more dead in Grant County from COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy apparently on the rise, health officials issued pleas this week for people get use the available “tools to take the fight to the virus.” The five deaths reported by Grant County Health District Monday night bring the county’s total fatalities to 120, and officials noted the ages of those who don’t survive is trending younger than it was early on as seniors were the first non-healthcare group to be allowed to get vaccinated. All Moses Lake residents, they were man in his... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday that Siam Palace, Coulee Construction, and Centerline Development have come together to sponsor 20 Kids Festival Zone day passes to the community. The passes will be raffled off and posted on the GCDA Chamber of Commerce Facebook page and in The Star. To enter, provide your name and contact info by email to chamber@grandcouleedam.org, message the chamber at https://www.facebook.com/gcdachamber, or stop by the chamber office (17 Midway Ave, Grand Coulee). It’s limited to one entry per p...
The chamber of commerce is seeking volunteers to help with the “Kids Festival Zone” part of the Colorama festival this year, which will feature attractions such as a mechanical bull, a bungie jump and more, as well as tamer stuff for little kids. The area will also offer traditional carnival games, which is what the chamber needs volunteers to staff. Think of those subtle skill games like throwing a hoop on top of a bottle from 10 feet away. Executive Director Rachelle Haven says she needs at least six individuals to staff games over the cou...
Grand Coulee Police 4/20 - A woman reported that a public bus parked so close to her at Safeway that she couldn’t get out of her car. Police advised her to contact the bus service, and the woman said she was already going to do so. 4/21 - Loud banging, yelling, and a female screaming were reportedly heard from a Partello Parkway apartment. Police found the door to the apartment ajar and clothes, garbage, and more on the floor. Police pushed the door further open and found no one inside. The tenant came home with a woman in the passenger s...
Men and machines were moving tons of earth Monday across the road from the Ridge Rider Saddle Club Rodeo Grounds in Delano to make a new parking lot ahead of the upcoming Colorama Rodeo. Parking has long been a problem at the rodeo, and President George Kohout figures the group's first event under the auspices of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association is going to bring a much greater need for more. He said the work underway will add "four or five" acres of parking space. - Scott Hunter...
The Colville Tribes are interested in purchasing the community building in Coulee Dam that houses the old movie theater, bowling alley, restaurant, fire station, and more. At Coulee Dam’s April 14 city council meeting, the Colville Tribes Natural Resources Director Cody Desautel, who also oversees the tribes’ Real Estate Services program, asked the city council if they were interested in selling the building. Asked by Councilmember Merv Schmidt how the tribes might use the building, Desautel replied that it would be used similarly to its curren...
Vendors are being selected for the Colorama festival, and the usual parade looks likely. Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachelle Haven told The Star in an email that roughly 20 food and market vendors are being selected, and that the chamber is still receiving applications. The parade is still being finalized but looks like it will happen as it has traditionally. "We have applied for all the proper permitting and worked with the Grant County Health Department to...
Lake Roosevelt High School is in the process of finalizing its 2021-22 LRHS School Improvement Plan (SIP) and would like feedback from community stakeholders. The SIP is required by the state and is to be developed and reviewed annually. It looks at academic outcomes and action steps that focus on improving school goals, community engagement, equity, and other important factors for school success. The SIP review will take place the week of April 26-30, with the specific day and time to be determined. The panel will look at the current draft...
Receiving no response from the contractor that built their wastewater treatment plant, nearly to completion, has led Coulee Dam representatives to consider taking a trip to the contractor’s office across the state so the city can close the books on the cost of the plant and tell Elmer City what its share will cost. The wastewater treatment plant being built by McClure & Sons, based out of Mill Creek, Washington, is almost entirely complete, and is functioning, but some details are not finished, including installation of a handrail and some p...
People with cars, trucks, SUVs and trailers wait in line Saturday at North Dam Park as Rotary Club volunteers unload their paper documents into bins for shredding. The machine operator at left loads the bins onto a lift that takes them to the top of the truck and dumps them into a powerful shredding machine. He estimated that 7,000 pounds of paper were shredded - more, he said, than many shred events he has serviced in Spokane. People were also generous at the free event, donating $1,567 to the...
Next Monday the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors will choose an architect to help design the future of their facilities. On April 19, the board interviewed two architectural firms: Design West Architects and NAC Architecture, and will choose one of them on April 26. "The board this week is looking at the material, looking through their Statements of Qualifications, so they can be ready," Superintendent Paul Turner told The Star on Tuesday. "Either one of them will be very...
The Community Crab Feed and Triple Fish Challenge events held this past weekend and sponsored by the local chamber of commerce were judged a success, especially by the angler who has been trying to win that tournament since he was 7. “The Community Crab Feed went great!” Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachelle Haven told The Star in an email. “The meals were delicious. We heard that many people were planning at-home crab feeds, which sounded like a lot of fun.” She said 300 pounds of crab from Pacific Seafood...
Under a new state law just passed on April 16, businesses that have lost revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic may qualify for a deferral of their 2021 real property taxes. Businesses that apply for the program and establish a payment plan with the Grant County Treasurer will not have penalties and interest applied to their taxes due, as long as the business remains compliant with the terms of the payment plan but will be subject to the current payment plan fee of $5.00 per month charged on other payment plans The Grant County Treasurer is now...
Grand Coulee Police 4/12 - Police issued a public nuisance infraction to an E Street woman who owns pigs that keep getting loose and into other peoples’ property. The issue is ongoing. 4/13 - The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office pursued a stolen vehicle on “the old Grand Coulee highway.” A Grand Coulee officer was going to assist, but the suspect was in custody of Lincoln County officers prior to the Grand Coulee officer arriving at Road V and Road 52, where the stolen vehicle was stuck in a field. 4/15 - A man was banned from the hospita...
OLYMPIA – Starting today everyone 16 and older who wants a COVID-19 vaccine can receive one in Washington. The eligibility expansion marks the four-month anniversary of vaccine rollout in our state. Since mid-December, nearly 4.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered across the state. More than 2.67 million people have received at least one dose and more than 23% of Washingtonians are fully vaccinated. Opening eligibility to everyone 16 and older will further protect our communities and help us get closer to crossing the f...
The school district will be interviewing, then selecting, an architect who could eventually design new athletic facilities, as well as options for what to do with the former high school and middle school. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors voted Monday to interview two architectural firms out of five applicants to a Request for Qualifications to design options for school facilities. The interviews of Design West Architects and NAC Architecture will take place at a special Ap...
Lake Roosevelt Schools are seeking a community review panel for their School Improvement Plan. “We are in the process of finalizing the LRHS School Improvement Plan (SIP) and would like feedback from our community stakeholders,” a description on the school’s website reads. The SIP is a document required by Washington State and “includes academic outcomes and action steps that focus on improving school goals, community engagement, equity, and other important factors for school success.” The SIP review will take place sometime from April 26-...
A second community spring cleaning week will take place from May 1-8, when residents can haul yard waste to dump at the Delano Regional Transfer Station free of charge. The Regional Board of Mayors approved the second week of spring cleaning at their Monday meeting. The spring cleaning event will be self-haul only, with no city pickups of yard waste. Having applied for $3,500 in clean air grant money from the Washington State Department of Ecology, the RBOM was approved for $14,000 due to a misunderstanding that they were applying for $3,500...
Grant County Health District confirmed cases of B.1.429 variants of COVID-19 in three Grant County residents Monday, and lists 103 new Covid cases in the last week, including from the Grand Coulee area. The district’s health officer is advocating masking up with the highest quality mask you can afford, not just to protect others but also to protect yourself against new variants. The variants, often referred to as “California variants,” were identified in the first and second week of April through genomic sequencing at the Washington State Depar... Full story
This year, Colorama will give kids the opportunity to ride a blow up mechanical bull, ride a 34-foot long slide, and more. The "Kids Festival Zone" will be staged at North Dam Park in the upper baseball field on Friday and Saturday, May 7-8, from 12-8 p.m., and on Sunday, May 9 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. "We found All-Star Jump, a rental company out of Spokane that will be joining us for Colorama," Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachelle Haven told The Star in an email....
Nez Perce descendents who are currently in fourth through eighth grades have until April 27 to apply for a free rafting trip down the Snake River in their ancestral Nez Perce homelands. The rafting trip program seeks to have 15 youth from three different areas with Nez Perce residents to go on a 32-river-mile trip along the Snake River July 25-29, which includes two nights camping along the river. The program, paid for with grant money from the Gray Family Foundation, is being conducted in a partnership between the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland Pr...
A 65-room hotel or “Microtel” planned to be built in Grand Coulee is still delayed until further notice according to Caleb McNamara, a partner in the project. Construction on the multi-million dollar Microtel to be located along Midway Avenue was originally intended to start in the fall of 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the project. More on the project can be read at https://www.grandcoulee.com/story/2020/07/08/news/new-hotel-coming-to-grand-coulee/13197.html ....
