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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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OLYMPIA – The Washington Service Corps and the Washington Reading Corps need people who can commit six months to making a difference. The Washington Service Corps offers a chance to help children, adults and veterans prepare for careers and increase their computer, financial and basic skills. Find a list of open six-month positions at https://washingtonservicecorps.org. Members of the Reading Corps tutor struggling students, and plan school and family literacy events. See a list of open six-month positions at https://washing...
Joel DeWinkler helps build a protective wall on the outside of the Colville Tribal Museum with Tyvek and plywood before taking down the doors and more from the front of the building as part of an upgrade project. The wall will help keep out the elements, as well as any curious animals. - Jacob Wagner photo...
Grand Coulee Police 11/14 - Police had to kill a deer that had been struck near milepost 24 on SR-155. The deer didn’t have use of its back legs due to being struck by a vehicle. 11/16 - A local man reported receiving serious threats from an Oregon man, and the information was turned over to the FBI. 11/17 - A woman on West Grand Avenue reported that someone had broken into her home and taken her wallet and some pills. - A resident on Goodfellow Avenue in Electric City told police that he had two phone calls threatening that the federal g...
There has been a rash of car prowls in the Grand Coulee area. In a three-day period, Nov. 7-10, nine prowls were reported and investigated by police. In every incident, owners of the vehicles had left them unlocked; one had even left the keys in the ignition. All reported that someone had ransacked their vehicles, going through whatever was inside and leaving things in a mess. On Nov. 7, two prowls were reported on Banks Avenue. In each case the guilty party got some loose change and a few odds and ends. Also on Nov. 7, prowls were reported on...
Better get your rakes out, pick up your leaves and other garden waste, and bag them; you only have through Saturday to take advantage of free dumping privileges at the Delano Regional Transfer Station. You must reside within areas served by Sunrise Disposal to get the free dumping privilege. Remember to bag your garden materials (nothing else) and tie your loads down. Limbs must the cut to under six feet to be accepted. The Transfer Station will be open this week during the following hours: Thursday and Friday, 10-2, and Saturday,...
Politics in Coulee Dam have changed dramatically as a result of the Nov. 7 election. Town residents elected a newcomer in politics as its mayor, and also two newcomers to the council. According to results updated since the election, Larry Price garnered 73.56 percent of the votes in his bid for mayor, defeating Gayle Swagerty, who received 26.44 percent, 192-69. Swagerty gave up her council seat to run for the mayor’s seat being vacated by Greg Wilder, who chose not to run again. In council races, incumbent David Schmidt lost his Position 1 sea...
Veterans young and old shared some of their thoughts about serving in the military with a gym packed with students as Lake Roosevelt Schools held their annual veterans' assembly last Thursday. Elementary and junior-senior high school choirs and bands performed patriotic songs, such as "The Star Spangled Banner," "America the Beautiful," and the service songs for each branch of the military, as veterans from each branch stood for their song. Ava and Ashlyn Sam, elementary-aged girls, sang a...
Army Specialist Jonathan Hughes had been back from Iraq since September when he spoke at the local chamber of commerce meeting last week. He spent nine months in the northern part of the country, including in Mosul, the city that was taken from ISIS last summer and was basically leveled in the process as Iraqi forces moved forward. "Our job was just to advise and assist," Hughes said. "Every movement that they made, we were one step behind them." A "combat engineer," Hughes said American forces...
Local emergency responders rushed to the scene of a one-car rollover Monday morning after a federal security officer found a man crawling from his overturned car along the highway to Bridgeport. James Hernandez, 21, of Spokane had been heading east on SR-174 when his 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis swerved to the right before Hernandez overcorrected, then drove off the highway to the left, a Washington State Patrol report concludes. A highway sign was broken and lying on the ground, and the Grand...
Electric rates to rise in Coulee Dam Coulee Dam residents can count on paying a little more for electric power next year, following a discussion at the city council last Wednesday. Council members agreed to plan on writing in a 5-percent increase to electric rates to cover a 5-percent increase in wholesale electric costs from the Bonneville Power Administration, a 1.6-percent increase for city employees, and other rising expenses. Stefani Bowden, the city clerk, said overall expenses would rise by $40,000 next year and the 5 percent would just...
In a joint effort between the Colville Tribes and the Nevada Department of Wildlife, 98 more pronghorn antelope have been released on the Colville Indian Reservation, the second time the animal was released there since January 2016. "We captured 12 males and 87 females from Nevada," said Eric Krausz, wildlife biologist for the Colville Tribes Fish and Wildlife program in a Nov. 3 press release. "The total composition included 26 fawns, 20 yearlings, and 53 female adults. We lost one female...
The Electric City council declared a dog owned by Krayton Duclos as “potentially dangerous” at its meeting Tuesday night. The complaint was filed by a neighbor, Gary Martin, who resides next to Duclos on Gerard Street. Martin told police that Duclos’ dog, named “Volt,” had repeatedly tried to attack and bite him while he was riding his bike. He stated that he had to get off his bike and put it between himself and the dog to avoid getting bit. Both Duclos and Martin attended the meeting, and the Volt also was present. Martin stated that this...
Kayla Wells-Moses, Family & Consumer Sciences Educator with Colville Reservation WSU Extension, was honored at the National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences 2017 annual session, "Harvesting Opportunities in NEAFCS!" The conference was held October 16-19, 2017 in Omaha, Nebraska. During the Awards Banquet at the conference, Kayla received three National Awards. The first award Kayla received was a 1st place National and 1st place Western Region Human Development/Family...
A business advisor, in association with Grant County Economic Development Council, will be in Electric City Nov. 30 to meet with interested business firms. Allan Peterson, a certified business advisor with the Small Business Development Center, has four openings during his time here. Openings are 9-10:30, 10:30-12, 1:30-3, and 3-4:30. To take advantage of the openings you can make appointments by calling 509-762-6040 or email (allan.peterson@wsbde.org). Peterson will assist business owners with marketing plans, planning for growth and details...
Grand Coulee Police 11/7 - A Banks Avenue resident reported that someone had gone through an unlocked car the previous night. Police followed footprints to an unlocked truck, where nothing was taken. An adapter and some change was taken from car. - Another resident of Banks Avenue stated to an officer that someone had entered a vehicle and taken a $20 bill. - A Dill Avenue resident stated that someone had prowled their two cars during the night. A small knife, a hat, coat and some change was taken from one vehicle; a coin holder with about $5...
OLYMPIA – Nov. 6, 2017 – With the recent opening of waterfowl and upland game hunting seasons, Washington State Parks’ Boating Program wants people who hunt from boats to be safe and know the boating laws before they head out on the water. “Hunting can be an extreme activity,” said Wade Alonzo, Boating Program manager. “Hunters who use boats are often doing so in conditions where disaster can strike quickly, especially in the cold weather. It’s important that hunters prepare for the possibility of changing weather, cold water shock and hyp...
Ramona Hicks started “turning over the rocks” in June, as she took the lead position at Coulee Medical Center after the resignation of the last CEO. And lately, Hicks has been meeting with as many community groups as possible to tell the story of the hospital’s current status and finances, and to ask what the community really wants and expects from the hospital. Hicks, the interim chief executive officer, spoke at the Rotary Club last Wednesday. Although business has been brisk, so is the rate at which expenses pile up, and the hospital is suff...
Nespelem Elementary School will start late today, Thursday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m., due to a prediction of freezing rain....
Now, 95 years young, World War II veteran Fred Long walks with a slight stoop and uses a cane, but his health is fine and his power of recollection is keen. Long, who has lived in the Grand Coulee Dam area for 25 years, was born in Oroville, and moved to the Renton area when very young. He joined the National Guard in 1940, before the war broke out, was assigned to the quartermaster corps and learned how to drive truck (they were 1936 Chevys), Fred said. After a number of stateside postings, he...
Upsets in the town of Coulee Dam were the order of the day as ballots were counted Tuesday for mayor and three council positions. Newcomer Larry Price won decisively over Councilmember Gayle Swagerty in the town’s mayoral race. Price collected 116 votes to Swagerty’s 34 as of 9:20 p.m. Another upset at Coulee Dam saw newcomer Fred Netzel defeating incumbent Councilmember David Schmidt, who was running for another Position-1 four-year term. Netzel received 101 votes to Schmidt’s 50. In the council race for the Position 3, another new face won a...
B Street Bud, Grand Coulee's marijuana shop, has now been in operation since New Year's Day 2016, and has to follow a lot of rules in their line of business. Employee Sean Luna spoke to the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 2 about the nuances of how the business operates, describing some of the laws for growing, delivering, selling, buying, and smoking. To be a seller, B Street Bud had to apply to the state Liquor and Cannabis Board for a marijuana retail license, and then be...
When Fritz McGinnis wanted to buy Russell Drug in Grand Coulee decades ago, he had no way of knowing his ambition to run a community drug store here would eventually be realized by a couple he hadn’t yet met, the eventual owners of the company of small community pharmacies he grew. That would be Amanda and Paul Goyke, who are working hard to get ready for the opening next week of their latest new pharmacy, inside Coulee Medical Center. “Everything goes in circles,” Amanda says, reflecting on the intersection of the history of their compa...
Grant County’s Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team busted another illegal marijuana growing and sales operation last week, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Based on a tip from a patrol deputy, INET opened an investigation on 42-year-old Cesario Huerta of Moses Lake, and last Wednesday served a search warrant at his house in the 1600 block of North Frontage Road East, the GCSO said. INET seized 99 plants, 50 pounds of processed marijuana, 10 firearms and a gun silencer. Huerta faces charges including manufacturing marijuana and...
Grand Coulee council gave Dorothy Harris another 90 days to get the number of dogs she has down to two. Harris and her sister-in-law, Doneen Harris, had been operating a dog rescue on Young Street and had worn out their options before both the city’s planning commission and the council. The council gave Harris 90 days to find homes for her dogs. That 90 days would have expired in mid-November. She had been told by council that if she needed more time she would have to come to the council and ask for it. She did last Tuesday night, and her r...
Is Grand Coulee goat friendly? We may find out. Officials in Grand Coulee may have to look at their animal ordinance and add goats. Councilmember Tammara Byers told her colleagues that she had been approached several times by people who would like to have one of those pet pygmy goats. Actually, goat people say that you need to have two since goats are herd animals and need the company. The little goats, pets in many cities, are playful, can also be destructive and at times can be very loud, according to information on pet goats on the...