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Two school boards plan joint meeting The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors and the Nespelem District board of directors will meet jointly at 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 16, at Pepper Jack's Restaurant in Grand Coulee. It is an open meeting and the public may attend. Garbage collection going up The Regional Board of Mayors approved a 2.5-percent increase in charges from Sunrise Disposal at their meeting Monday afternoon. The last time the local trash-hauling company had a cost-of-livin...
Students at Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School thought hard about their future last week when they attended a college fair held in the gymnasium. Twelve colleges from around the Pacific Northwest, including universities, community colleges, technical and trade schools, set up booths in the Lake Roosevelt gymnasium, where students from one grade at a time, ranging from grades seven through 12, were able to ask questions about the colleges, financial aid, and more. "They get to experience...
Tons of food, including potatoes, lettuce, apples, baby carrots and fresh squash, plus frozen ground beef and more were distributed, Sept. 28 to 150 Grand Coulee area households in need of food assistance. Thirty-three volunteers donated their time to unload, repackage, and distribute 8,983 pounds of donated food items brought to the area by Second Harvest of the Inland Northwest, of Spokane. Sponsored by Microsoft Datacenter Operations in Quincy, Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union, American...
The Delano Regional Transfer Station has become a dump site for used antifreeze, the Regional Board of Mayors decided Monday. The offer was made by the Grant County Department of Public Works early in September and agreed to when the mayors had their monthly meeting this week. Now the transfer station can offer year-round dumping privileges to residents within its service area. The county will pay the transfer station for the antifreeze deposit program, with funds coming out of the Ephrata Landfill tipping fees. Two additional sites in the...
I’ve licked my finger, held it up to the air; now I can tell you what winter will bring. If only it were that simple! So, let me share what is being stated by our federal agencies that work in the arena of weather prediction. First, let’s take a look at what is going on in the Tropical Pacific Ocean — down there where La Niña and El Niño are found. That area, down there in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, is called the ENSO — El Niño Southern Oscillation. What’s happening currently is that sea surface temperatures are dropping and there is a l...
Grand Coulee Police 10/3 - A woman on Dill Avenue reported that her 31-year-old daughter was missing. - A woman given a ride to Safeway by a man she didn’t know told police later that she thought he was following her. She told an officer that she didn’t want him to contact her. Police found the man and told him not to make contact with the woman. 10/4 - A man on Roosevelt Drive was arrested and taken to Grant County jail on warrants. Police were going to the residence to present a temporary protection order on him. 10/5 - A woman on Roo...
The town of Coulee Dam will soon become a “non-charter code city,” following a vote at the town council meeting last week. The council voted unanimously to make the switch that Town Attorney Mick Howe said most other municipalities in Washington have already taken. The proposal met with concern among citizens last June, who showed up at a council meeting after hearing of the proposal via a letter delivered door-to-door by a town council candidate, Fred Netzel. His concern, he said at the time, was not that the move would be bad for the tow...
A local man drove over a steep embankment at an overlook just below Grand Coulee Dam Friday night, surviving a 200-foot plunge down the hill. Christopher Coffey, 32, of Electric City, was ejected from the 2000 Toyota Tundra he was driving, ending up about 25 yards from the pickup, the Washington State Patrol and local police reported. As he headed southbound on SR-155 just before 7:30, Coffey drove uphill through two fences and an aluminum street light pole before heading over the hill to the...
Marlene Oddie and Nancy Goddard, of Grand Coulee, are semifinalists for the 2017 AQS QuiltWeek event in Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 4-7. Quilts were entered in this international contest from 42 U.S. states and 13 other countries. Oddie has been chosen to display the quilt "RONDURE - SEAGLASS." Goddard, in collaboration with Oddie, has been chosen to display the quilt, "JEWELS," along with 214 other entries in the contest. As semifinalists, their quilts will be displayed in the show, which is...
A study on Elmer City’s options for sewage treatment suggests the town may save over the long run by building a new treatment plant of its own, instead of extending its decades-long contract with Coulee Dam. Elmer City has received its wastewater treatment plant alternative study developed by Indian Health Services, and the report will get its first airing at the town council’s meeting, Oct. 12. The report provides several alternative routes for the town to develop its own sewage treatment system, or do nothing at all and remain with Cou...
The town of Elmer City currently has no plan to upgrade its sewage pump station, which it will need to by spring if it is to continue sending sewage to Coulee Dam. The issue came up at the town’s last council meeting when two members of Coulee Dam’s council and two of its engineers informed Elmer City that they needed to update their pumping station by March of next year when Coulee Dam’s new wastewater treatment plant goes online. If the new sewer plant went online now, “it would fail,” Elmer City Mayor Gail Morin stated last week. “It may n...
Bridge inspection may slow traffic State Dept. of Transportation bridge technicians will use an under-bridge inspection truck for a regularly scheduled structural and safety inspection of the bridge over the feeder canal on SR 174 in Grand Coulee on Thursday. The work is scheduled for Thursday only, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Drivers should expect short delays with single-lane, flagger-controlled traffic. County-wide burn restrictions lifted The Grant County Board of Commissioners and fire marshal announced Tuesday that county-wide burn...
The 2017 Lake Roosevelt homecoming royalty stands in front of family, friends, and classmates during halftime at the homecoming football game in Coulee Dam on Friday. Chosen by their classmates, the royalty rode onto the field in classic cars and posed for the many pictures taken of them. Homecoming week featured displays of school pride from students, such as dressing up in styles from past decades, a homecoming dance, and donating hygiene items to be given out through the local food bank (see...
Another homecoming is in the books at Lake Roosevelt High School and out of all the fun a serious community need was met. When leadership students Alan Nordine and Blossom Armstrong were asked to head up the community service aspect of Homecoming Week, they researched many ideas, said the leadership class teacher, Lori Adkins. The students considered national and statewide needs. Many worth causes existed, but one stood out to them right here at home, Adkins said. When contacting the local food...
Grand Coulee Police 9/23 - An officer returning from taking a prisoner to jail came upon a two-vehicle accident near Coulee City. The officer took information, cleared the intersection and advised the county sheriff’s office and Washington State Patrol. 9/25 - A man on a motorcycle known to have a warrant for his arrest was detained and, after the warrant was confirmed, taken to Grant County jail. - Coulee Dam asked for assistance after one of their officers stopped a vehicle, had one person detained, and two others fled in the vehicle. The v...
A Grand Coulee woman who has tried to salvage a “dog rescue” operation, but was prevented from doing so by the city, hopes to relocate outside Grand Coulee so she can continue her work with animals. In a notice to the city Dorothy Harris indicated that she is now in conformance with the number of dogs she has (three) and currently is no longer operating her “rescue” operation. “I actually don’t have any rescues for the first time in over 30 years,” Harris informed the city. Harris has been in a struggle with both the planning commission an...
State Patrol investigators are piecing together the scene of a crash near the top of Grand Coulee Dam tonight. A driver apparently powered through the parking lot in the overlook just below the top of Grand Coulee Dam, knocked over a street light, drove through the fence and down the long hill to the bottom of the ravine at Riley Point. No tracks were visible on the hillside lit by the floodlights of a Bureau of Reclamation fire truck about 9 p.m. tonight, suggesting the pickup at the bottom...
An Electric City man who went missing Monday night, prompting authorities to issue a “Silver Alert,” was found Tuesday afternoon and is safe. Donald S. Fisher, 69, hadn’t been seen since about 7 p.m. Monday, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday morning in a “Silver Alert,” a system used in the United States to disseminate information about missing persons — especially senior citizens with conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease — in order to aid in locating them. Fisher had been suffering from recent strokes and a brain surgery and... Full story
The students sat in rows, all looking at the face of the man projected in the front of the class, authoritatively stating the rules for language arts. "1984" posters adorned the walls. Author Lindsay Schopfer spoke to sophomore English students through video chat on Sept. 19, giving them writing tips, writing exercises, and taking questions. Schopfer, among other outside authors, will be giving feedback on students' writing throughout the school year. Brian Daniels, who teaches sophomore and...
Ambulance calls reported The Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Department made 44 ambulance calls in August, Chief Rick Paris told city council members last Tuesday night. Thirteen of the calls were in Coulee Dam, and 25 calls were in Grand Coulee. EMTs made six transports of patients. Firemen also responded to five calls: one electric fire in Grand Coulee, two in Grant County Fire District 14, and two mutual aid calls. Color run coming Oct. 21 Coming soon: the second annual “Color Me Pink & Purple” Breast Cancer Awareness Fun Run/Walk, Oct. 21, begi... Full story
The Lake Roosevelt Schools hosted their seventh Cultural Awareness Gathering last Thursday, featuring immersion in a variety of aspects of Native American culture. Student bodies from the Grand Coulee Dam and Nespelem school districts enjoyed activities such as beading, weaving baskets, eating smoked salmon hot off the smoker, and more, before watching and participating in a powwow. "The kids are loving it," said Karrie Utz, one of the organizers, during the event. Students learned about the...
A Road Products Inc. worker uses a grinder to cut through the pavement of the runway at Grand Coulee Dam Airport last week along the lines of wide separations of pavement to cover major cracks in the 4,200-foot runway. The Spokane company submitted the low bid of $248,000 for the work. The runway will be closed while equipment and workers are active on the runway. Painting of runway lines will follow completion of the project in about 30 days. The work is being paid for by grants from the...
A Coulee Dam enterprise has been awarded nearly three quarters of a million dollars to foster economic independence among native people. The U.S. Treasury Department awarded the nonprofit Northwest Native Development Fund $745,500, the company announced in a press release. The grant award is funded from the Native American CDFI Assistance program, for certified Native Community Development Financial Institutions (Native CDFIs). NNDF has received seven such awards since 2009 and was certified in 2011, said Ted Piccolo, NNDF executive director....
A Grand Coulee man who appealed a “potentially dangerous dog” charge in municipal court Friday was denied. Andrew Kramer, whose dog “Howdy” had bit a Portland woman in front of Banks Lake Pub July 22, appeared before Judge Richard Fitterer in August to appeal a decision by Grand Coulee’s city council declaring his dog to be “potentially dangerous.” He indicated in the August court meeting that he wanted to secure counsel to help him appeal the decision. Kramer appeared Friday before Fitterer, without his attorney, and his appeal was readily d...
OLYMPIA – Sept. 25, 2017 – The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will again offer 12 free days next year, in which day-use visitors won’t need a Discover Pass to visit state parks by vehicle. The “free days” for 2018 are in keeping with legislation that created the Discover Pass, a $30 annual or $10 one-day permit required on lands managed by Washington State Parks and the Washington Departments of Natural Resources (DNR) and Fish & Wildlife (WDFW). The Discover Pass legislation provided that State Parks could designate...