News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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’Tis the Season for the Trees of Sharing of 2016. The Trees of Sharing program is a way for area residents to anonymously provide Christmas gifts to local children who might not receive a gift overwise. Children’s names may be submitted on slips and dropped off at collection boxes at Safeway Pharmacy, Coulee Medical Center, or Harvest Foods. Names will be collected through Sunday, Nov. 13. Following the collection of names, trees with ornament tags will be placed at selected locations in the community by Nov. 18. Those wishing to provide gif... Full story
A notice went out this week seeking sealed bids for the purchase of Center School in Grand Coulee. The elementary school was declared surplus after students there were transferred to the new school in Coulee Dam. The school board had advertised for bids on the school earlier, but at the time no one was interested in bidding. At the school board’s last meeting, it was determined to seek bids again since three parties had indicated interest in the property. Sealed bids will be received until 2 p.m., Dec. 1. The school property includes the b... Full story
Greg Anderson pulls up a top net at the fish pens Oct. 26 during a delivery of 150,000 rainbow trout. The volunteers of POWER (Promoters of Wildlife and Environmental Resources) will feed them every day until early spring. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 10/30 - An official at the Moose Lodge reported that someone had stolen gas from his truck by puncturing a hole in the tank. - A couple were cited for taking a bottle of whiskey from Safeway and not paying for it. Store officials asked that the two be banned from the store for a year. 10/31 - A customer at Loepps Furniture told police that someone damaged his vehicle while he was in the store. - A man wanted by the Department of Corrections was picked up at a house on Bowen Street and taken to Grant County jail. - Officers... Full story
There’s a big stink at the new school. A sewer smell is upsetting students and proving to be a headache for Lake Roosevelt Schools officials. For maintenance director Randy Bowman, it means getting up above the classrooms frequently to treat the coolers, mainly on the elementary side of the new school. The complaint came up at the recent school board meeting. The problem isn’t new; in fact, it is a carryover from last year. School district Superintendent Paul Turner said that he thinks the problem centers around “hard water” and may cause t... Full story
Lisa Moore stands with a portion of her annual Halloween project at her Electric City home on Silver Drive Saturday. With both sides of the yard decorated (the other side featured pirates), plus a big display in the garage under black lights, the home of Lisa and Gary Moore attracted about 300 trick or treaters in 2015, and Lisa expected another big year. She said she had thought of not putting up the display this year, but her son, Jeremy, who is deploying in the military, objected, saying... Full story
Grant County Port District 7 will take in and spend nearly a half million dollars in 2017, the largest portion of that coming from grants, according to a budget commissioners passed last week. The total budget amount of $467,000 includes one major project for the new year. With grants from the Federal Aviation Administration and Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation, the district plans to repair the 4,200-foot runway. The runway has developed major cracks and the FAA has... Full story
Clarence Roosevelt Jerred, a homeless man featured in The Star last week, was settled in an assisted living home in Omak Tuesday. Jerred, 84, who insisted that he was 86, was taken to Omak Tuesday by Kathy Baty, where he met with Social and Health Services officials and then was located in Katimbang House, an assisted living facility. He is now one of seven living there. "This is already better," Baty said he told her after arriving. "He ate a good meal and was in fine spirits," Baty said. She s... Full story
A trailer fire destroyed an older residence at 306 Burdin Boulevard last Wednesday morning. One firefighter, Jerry Sands, said Grand Coulee was the second fire department to respond, with the Bureau of Reclamation fire truck arriving at the scene moments earlier. The mobile home, sandwiched between other trailers, was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived. Several fire departments responded, and police provided control on Burdin Boulevard. The fire started just before 6:30 a.m., and other... Full story
Time to fall back Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6. Set your clocks back one hour. Firefighters advise that the semi-annual change is also a good time to change the batteries in smoke alarms. All veterans invited All area veterans of military service are invited to a special assembly Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 9:30 a.m. at Lake Roosevelt Schools. “All grades, K-12, will attend, and many have prepared songs and tributes for our guests,” said Sandy Hood, eighth-grade language arts and history teacher. Hood, who has organized sim... Full story
Coulee Medical Center has put a stop to a project that was bleeding money and caused the hospital to borrow on county warrants, the administrator told the board Monday night. The medical records project was supposed to cost $1.3 million to integrate the facility’s electronic medical records with the latest software from Meditech, but extra costs not understood when the contract was signed in 2014 kept slipping in every time another nuance was discovered, requiring another third-party software add-on, with 10 to 15 vendors needed. So far the h... Full story
Law enforcement and emergency services agencies from around the region will be involved in an exercise this Saturday, playing out a scenario with an “active shooter” at Coulee Medical Center. Other hospitals will also have personnel visiting for the drill. The exercise will start about 9 a.m. Visitors going in and out of the building will wear an orange sticker. “We’re going to play it out as live as we can,” said CMC’s Brian McCleary. He wasn’t sure how long the drill would last.... Full story
A discussion about local crime revealed the level of concern many local people in Coulee Dam feel as minor property crimes increase. “We have a serious problem with drugs,” Councilmember David Schmidt said, admitting at Wednesday’s town council meeting he was surprised by that. Schmidt said he’d recently taken a house guest to a local tavern and was repeatedly approached by people there about the problem. “This is becoming urgent, and we can’t just screw around with it,” Schmidt said. Mayor Greg Wilder noted the town had just hired another poli... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 10/24 - Two 14-year-old boys were advised that it wasn’t a good idea to carry toy rifles and pistols near the hospital and in the city. Officers explained their toys looked like real guns. The pair were advised to play with the guns at home. - Police had a report of a bicycle stolen while a boy was shopping at H&H Grocery. Later in the day police located the bicycle on Fifth Street in Electric City. It had been spray painted. The bike was returned to its owner. - Police went to Burdin Boulevard to locate a shirtless man r... Full story
The former Center School in Grand Coulee is for sale, this time with three parties already showing interest in the property. Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Paul Turner told the school board Monday night that he has been in touch with three parties who have shown interest in the building and a total of about eight acres of land. Turner said he is proceeding with an open bid date of Dec. 1. He declined to say who the interested parties are, but said he would have to excuse himself from being involved in the discussions and... Full story
Coulee Dam's Candy Point trail is getting a makeover from the Washington Trails Association. This past weekend, 10-15 volunteers from all over Washington worked on clearing brush along the Candy Point Trail, starting behind town hall, where a lesser-known trailhead has become overgrown with brush over the years. Workers pruned branches and hauled them back to the trailhead, where the vegetation awaited wood chipping by the town crew before being hauled off. The trail was built in 1937 by the Civ... Full story
The pyrotechnics are coming. Look for a lot of noise and fireworks in the sky, Dec. 2 and 3, when fireworks experts from across the state gather on a 135-acre tract near Grand Coulee in Lincoln County. Host to the event will be Alan Cain, who is in the process of completing his pyrotech license. The occasion is a gathering of the Northwest Pyrotechnics Association, whose members gather at different locations to talk about fireworks, and put on a show for themselves and anyone who cares to watch. The show is actually demonstrations by members... Full story
Put yourself in this situation. You are elderly, diabetic, have a memory problem, and you're homeless, and you don't know how to get help. That's the situation Clarence Roosevelt Jerred was in until he met up with Kathy and Dale Baty, owners of Center Lodge Motel in Grand Coulee. They have housed him at the motel since Sept. 25, while they sought ways to help him. Homelessness is increasingly a problem, not only in urban areas, but in small towns across America. Last January, more than 20,000... Full story
Council replacement delayed Grand Coulee Council voted last week to delay the selection of a replacement for Erin Neilson, who resigned from the council recently, until all members of the council are present. Tammara Byers was not present at last Tuesday’s meeting. There are two applicants for position four on the council — Alan Cain and Mike Horne. Pre-Halloween fun planned Parents of kids who can’t wait until Monday to use that Halloween costume can take their kids to either or both upcoming events this week. The Grand Coulee Dam Senio... Full story
A dog named Malquin was declared “potentially dangerous” by the Grand Coulee City Council last Tuesday night. The dog was in the possession of Dorothy Hall, of the 400 block on Roosevelt Drive, at the time of a Sept. 20 incident, who explained that she was keeping the dog for its owner, Sean Bradshaw, who had recently moved out. Malquin, a reddish colored and rather large pit bull, had attacked a yellow Labrador dog owned by Stephanie Hermetz. When Hermetz reported the incident to police she said that “there was blood everywhere.”And when sh... Full story
Two men with guns were arrested and taken to Grant County jail after shooting a street light out from their car near the top of the Grand Coulee Dam. The incident was reported to police by Plant Protection dispatcher Monroe Merriman, who heard the firing while outside his office. Police stopped the pair near Greene Field, and they admitted firing and hitting the street light, police reported. The two, Kristopher T. Simms, 24, from Port Townsend, Washington, and Paul J. Van Dyke, 23, from Chimacan, Washington, said they were on their way to... Full story
Parents of kids who can't wait to use that Halloween costume can take their kids to the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center Thursday from 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. for a quick trial run. The seniors will host a a festive atmosphere with decorations and costumes, and candy said Darla Orr, senior meals program coordinator at the center. The cooks, staff and many members will be dressed in costume, but not scary ones, Orr said, so as not to scare the little ones. She thought the 45-minute window of time that...
Orange clouds provide a spectacular sunset Monday, seen here over Steamboat Rock at about 6 p.m. Expect more partly-cloudy to rainy skies over the next week, as forecast in the Grand Coulee Area Weather Watch on page 10. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
Grant County computer systems being down last week will delay or make it more difficult for Electric City and Grand Coulee to develop budgets for 2017. Electric City has a budget workshop scheduled for 6 p.m., Oct. 25. “We will just have to work around this,” City Clerk Jackie Perman said. The county government’s computer systems were completely offline for about two and a half hours Oct. 12, also making all but a few emergency phone numbers inoperable. Enhanced 9-1-1 was not affected. Jury duty was also canceled for the day. Partial servi... Full story
Electric City has agreed to provide Washington State University an additional $1,000 to finish up work on its Pathway and Revitalization project. The city had contracted with WSU’s Rural Communities Design Initiative team last spring to do initial planning for a project that includes downtown sidewalks, two parks and a trail system along Banks Lake. WSU Assistant Professor Kathleen Ryan, leader of the group, informed the city that her group would need another $1,000 to complete the project. The WSU RCDI group’s original contract was for $5,... Full story