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It might sound a little fishy — that’s because it is. Here’s your opportunity to win an Achilles four-person inflatable boat and Yamaha outboard motor. All you have to do is place first in the 5th Annual Triple Fish Challenge tournament, April 22 and 23. The place: Banks Lake, boating from Coulee Playland. Entry fee is $20 for those up to 14 years old, $60 for those 15 years and older. You can submit your entry form online until midnight April 20, or in person from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, April 21, and registration will continue during boat inspect...
A Grand Coulee man was sentenced in Grant County Superior Court Monday to 29 months imprisonment for possession of stolen property. According to the Grant County Prosecutor’s Office, Melvin Toulou, Jr., 43, still faces three additional Grant County felony charges. The three additional charges are 1) a charge of possession of stolen property in the 2nd degree, and possession of a firearm 2nd degree, often referred to as possession of a firearm by a felon; 2) possession of stolen property 2nd degree, and trafficking of stolen property in the 1...
Workers clean off the surface of drum gate 3 on top of Grand Coulee Dam last week. Maintenance on the drum gates, which let water over the dam when necessary, occurs annually as lake levels allow. - Scott Hunter photo...
After years of court dates and a life put on hold, a former Lake Roosevelt High School Spanish teacher had a burden lifted by Okanogan County Superior Court Monday, when it dismissed charges of identity theft and forgery. After receiving a call from a woman in California four years ago, Coulee Dam police checked the Social Security number Guillermo Guzman-Romo had used to apply for the Spanish teacher job at Lake Roosevelt High School. It was the same number he'd used as he worked to put...
Electric City will soon fill its vacancy on the city council. Three residents of the city filed letters of interest to fill the vacancy after Brad Parrish resigned a couple of months ago. City Clerk Russell Powers said that the three — Jeremy Miller, Ken Anderson and Lisa Lyngar — will be considered by the council when it meets April 11. “I don’t know if the council will move on the appointment,” he said Monday. “It may want to take some time before they name a replacement.” The council plans a retreat April 15, in Ephrata, and might want to di...
It’s time to clean up your lawn and flower beds and take advantage of the area spring cleanup, and free dump at the Delano Area Transfer Station. The free dump privilege will be April 8–15. Coulee Dam will pick up limbs only, which will need to be stacked at the curbside on the following schedule: Tuesday, April 4 - Mason City Addition - Aspen, Birch, Cedar, Fir, Holly, Pine, Spruce, Civic Way and west side of Central Drive from Civic Way south. Wednesday, April 5 - Airport Addition - Tilmus, Camas, River Drive, 11th and 12th Streets, Cre...
Monday was a busy day at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center. That was the day that Easter baskets went on sale. The place was filled with 371 Easter baskets, and accordingly, people. Workers started putting the baskets together last Friday, and finally finished Sunday afternoon. The baskets are colorful, wrapped in various colors of see-through material, with soft animals, candy, coloring books and a wide variety of items that capture the attention of children. This year's total of 371 baskets,...
An Native American artist, politician, and former principal chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma will be coming to Coulee Dam to give a presentation in the Lake Roosevelt High School gym on Thursday, April 13. Enoch Kelly Haney will be giving a motivational speech to sixth- through eighth-grade students from Nespelem and Lake Roosevelt schools from 9:15 a.m. until 10:05 a.m. The speech will address such topics including goal setting, as well as overcoming challenges to achieve success. An accomplished sculptor, Haney’s works include ...
A group of seniors organized a surprise 92nd birthday party for Betty Davis at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center Monday morning. They created a huge doughnut board as part of the celebration. It was a complete surprise, particularly since Davis' birthday is actually early in January. - Roger Lucas photo...
Four of the five school board seats in the Grand Coulee Dam School District will be up for election this year. Potential candidates must file their intention to run for a seat May 15-19, with a primary election on Aug. 1. School board Chairman Joette Barry is the only sitting member of the board who will not be up for election. She has two more years on her present term. One of the four up for re-election, Ken “Butch” Stanger, from District 2, has already indicated that he won’t seek another term. The other three — Carla Marconi (Distri...
Leaders at Coulee Medical Center will submit to its federal funding agency by the end of the week a plan to turn the facility around financially. That plan will show a reduction in wage and benefit costs of $2.1 million a year following decisions made by Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Owens to cut staff in non-patient care positions. “People understood that we needed to adjust where our focus was in the facility,” Owens said of the general reaction in the hospital, which has employed as many as 225. “If it wasn’t a direct patient care positio...
According to the state Department of Transportation, the Keller Ferry will be out of service for hull repairs starting at midnight Friday, March 31, and expected to resume at 6 a.m. Monday, April 10....
INCHELIUM, Wash. – Colville Tribal Police & Natural Resource Officers, Ferry County Sheriff's Office, Spokane County Air Support Search Team are currently searching the Inchelium area for a missing 83-year-old woman who has Alzheimer's. Officials said Estelle Abbott, 83, was last seen on Grand Louis Road. They said she left her home on Monday morning with a tan/grey pit bull named Jay to check the mail and walk the dog but she did not return. Mrs. Abbott has blonde hair and blue eyes. She is 5...
A meeting of Electric City’s parks and recreation committee last Thursday focused on two new city parks, and they will recommend the city council to move forward on developing them, spending nearly a half million dollars over the next four years. The group, voting unanimously, recommended that the park plan go out for a 60-day public review. Other recommendations include that the council hire and contract with a landscape engineering firm to design and create plans for both the McNett Avenue Park and the Grand Avenue Park. Both parks will be re...
Lacey Kent demonstrates to visitors at the science fair at Lake Roosevelt Schools Thursday night how her hand-made volcano erupts when a little baking soda and vinegar is applied. The first-grader took first place in the kingergarten-to-second-grade division of the fair, which drew 28 entries that explored various subjects, including the relative worth of diet pop and the possible use of osmotic pressure in hydropower production. For a list of the winners. - Scott Hunter phot...
Fifteen local firefighters completed a 12-hour advanced wildland firefighter course after taking instruction Thursday evening and all day Saturday. The class was taught by three Washington State Department of Natural Resource firefighters, and sponsored by the local fire departments and districts, and is one of several courses offered. The course, called S-131 Firefighter Type 1, or Advance Firefighter, covers a range of topics including safety standards and hazardous identification. The course also includes the risk management process used on...
Sometimes those closest to a problem are best suited to find the solution. This may be the case in an Electric City/Grand Coulee wastewater bill conflict. An apparent plug in the line last October showed that Electric City had twice the amount of sewage flow as normal, some 105,500 gallons compared to the normal flow of 63,000 gallons. This caused Electric City's bill for the month to be some $5,000 above normal. The two cities have been bouncing the problem between their city councils for...
So you have always wanted to be an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). Now is your chance. An EMT recruitment call was put out by the Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Department. Those interested should call 633-2200, or contact a current firefighter or EMT. The class will begin early in April. The local area needs EMTs to staff the ambulance, which makes about 400 calls per year. Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Department Chief Richard Paris said the department answered 402 ambulance calls in 2016 and already this year there have been 104 EMT calls....
City could tax tabs for roads Grand Coulee’s council is taking a casual look again at forming a Transportation Benefit District and charging $10 every time residents license their cars and pickups. The money from a TBD goes into the city’s street fund, and that’s the only way the money can be used — for streets. The TBD is a tool designed by the Legislature to help cities and towns make up for the financial hit taken when voters passed a statewide initiative in 1999. I-695 cut fees on annual vehicle tabs from 2 percent of a vehicle’s value to a...
The city of Grand Coulee is about to take a big step forward into the technology age. Grand Coulee is moving forward on a plan to accept credit cards for the payment of utility bills. There’s a catch … the city will only accept credit card payments online. City Clerk Carol Boyce presented the idea at the council meeting last Tuesday night, and the council gave its OK to move forward. Currently, the city accepts checks, cash and money orders. The city will be working with the firm GovPayNet, which will handle all of the transactions and cut the...
Some 34 injured veterans and 20 host boat captains made a day of fishing on Banks Lake Sunday, the first of what organizers said they hope is an annual event. The Fallen Outdoors organization takes veterans on outdoor excursions and says its mission is to "film and show real-life American soldiers balancing duty for their country and passion for the outdoors." Eastern Washington Team Leader David Atteberry said the event had been planned for March 10 but was postponed because the lake was...
A framework for a new school strategic plan was adopted by the Grand Coulee Dam School District Monday night. The framework was decided by a group made up of school people and community members at a special meeting a couple of weeks ago. Superintendent Paul Turner explained to the school Monday board that the plan was “just the framework” and that the board would be working to put “in specifics and a timetable” for completion. The plan was approved midway through a lengthy meeting that included two executive sessions, one lasting for about a...
A young Electric City man was killed and another man injured last week in a one-car rollover about a mile south of Electric City. Brandon Buche, 23, had recently finished a tour with the U.S. Navy, where he served as an electrician’s mate. He was employed at Safeway in Grand Coulee while working to pursue a career with electricity. Around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, Buche was driving a 2006 Jeep Wrangler on Bay Area Drive near Coulee View Road when he failed to negotiate a curve in the road, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office reported. The Jee...
A Grand Coulee man awaits sentencing in Grant County Superior Court after being found guilty in a jury trial last week. Melvin Toulou Jr. 43, was convicted Thursday of one count of possession of stolen property in the second degree, a class C felony. The charges stem from a car prowl that was discovered on the morning of Aug. 13, 2016. On that day, victims Gretchen and Brandon Whitelaw, who live on Division Street in Grand Coulee, reported to Grand Coulee police that someone broke into their...
The Grand Coulee Dam and Nespelem school districts’ boards of directors will hold a joint meeting tonight (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. at La Presa Restaurant in Grand Coulee to discuss items of mutual interest. The meeting is open to the public. Coulee Dam Superintendent Paul Turner will brief the two boards on what he learned while he was at the recent NAFIS (impact aid) conference in Washington D.C. Turner said he was concerned that President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress shows a 13-percent decline in school funding. Turner said it wasn...