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 Mobile Food Bank of 2nd Harvest will distribute free produce, nutritious perishable products and other groceries for families in need at Zion Lutheran Church, Tuesday, May 24 from 10 a.m. to noon. Last year’s 2nd Harvest visit distributed 7,230 pounds of vegetables and perishable foods, and officials here said that about 10,000 pounds of free food should be available this year. Those attending the free food distribution are asked to bring their own boxes. This year, there will be two such free distributions of food by 2nd Harvest. The s... Full story
All of the incumbents who filed for re-election in the Colville Tribal Business Council primary election last week made it into the general election, scheduled for June 17. Only one councilmember up for election, Nancy Johnson, for the Nespelem District Position 2 seat, did not file. The top vote getters for that seat — Sheliah Cleveland with 177 votes, and Brian Nissen, a three-time former council member with 164 votes — will make it into the June general election. Others in that race were Charlene E. Bearcub, 151 votes; Cory Christman, 114... Full story
Bureau of Reclamation workers are lowered from the top of Grand Coulee Dam Tuesday to dissemble catwalks on which they've been working for weeks along the bottom of the drum gates. The walkways are put in place at the top of the spillway whenever maintenance work on the drum gates is taking place. At the end of Tuesday, catwalks remained along three drum gates. - Nora Jenn photo... Full story
Council against shipping out youth Elmer City’s town council passed a resolution last week to ask Okanogan County commissioners to keep its juvenile detention facility and not send juveniles to a facility out of the county. The council cited the negative impacts, both socially and economically, this would have on youth and their families. Horsemanship clinic this weekend The Ridge Riders, with Lucia Clemetson, CHA certified riding instructor in charge, will offer its Horsemanship Clinic May 20-22, at the rodeo grounds. There will be sessions f... Full story
Approximately 100 concerned citizens from across Okanogan County attended a special session of the Okanogan County Board of Commissioners May 10. At stake: the future of Okanogan County juvenile detainees. A quiet group waited patiently for their opportunity to tell the three county commissioners one thing: Do not move troubled youth out of Okanogan County. Included in the group were District Court judges Charles Short and Robert Grim and Superior Court judges Christopher Culp and Henry Rawson. Questions from the judges and comments from... Full story
Everybody loves a parade, including those who enter the parade and win trophies. The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the annual parade gave out a number of awards at the Colorama Festival parade of a week ago. The Grand Sweepstakes Award went to the Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union for its float. The chamber gave the President's Award to the Newport Rodeo Pooper Scoopers. In Community entries, Miss Creston Royalty took first, Grand Coulee Public Library took second and a... Full story
A sale of used items on the sidewalk outside of Harvest Foods and Variety in Coulee Dam today (Saturday) has drawn huge support from contributors. The sale is to give support to the family of Justin Arnold in their efforts to bring him closer to home from a New York care facility. Arnold suffered a critical brain injury when he was struck by a car in New York, where he was pursuing his education as a chef. Transporting him across the country will require a special flight. The sale today is...
The Regional Board of Mayors learned Monday of a proposed Banks Lake Pumped Storage Project that could employ 2,500 people during construction and end up providing permanent employment for 150-200 workers. Columbia Basin Hydropower managers told the mayors that the project could run as high as $1 billion and take several years to complete. The target date for completion would be 2025, representatives stated. But there’s a long way to go before anything could be declared “shovel ready.” The permit process and finding the money for the proje... Full story
A risky first-time replacement to the traditional Colorama carnival came through as a big positive for most families with children and even helped the fund-raiser's bottom line, the chamber of commerce reported Tuesday. The Fun Zone, home to nine big, inflatable slide-and-jump attractions, was a major hit with families, Peggy Nevsimal, executive director of the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce stated Tuesday. The rented attractions were a last-minute replacement for the carnival, which... Full story
A man involved in many local causes who helped with the sound system heard at Saturday’s parade died driving his Harley later that night just east of Grand Coulee. Walter H. Nuehring, known locally as Steve Nuehring, was riding his white 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle toward Wilbur on highway 174 at milepost 23 when he left the road to the right, then tried to correct it and rolled the bike, the Washington State Patrol reported. He was 59. Nuehring had lived in the Grand Coulee Dam area for a couple years, he had told The Star last year, s... Full story
A young driver died as a result of a single-car accident 10 miles north of Nespelem Sunday afternoon. The Washington State Patrol said the car, driven by Thomas C. Jacobs, 17, Tonasket, was going too fast for road conditions in the area. The driver was taken to Coulee Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The WSP said the 1996 Honda Civic was southbound about 3:17 p.m. on highway 155 near milepost 55, when the driver failed to negotiate a curve, lost control and struck a tree.... Full story
The Colorama Pro-West Rodeo was a great success, according to Ridge Riders President George Kohout. "I think it was one of the best rodeos we have had here for a long time," Kohout said early this week. The "Rattlesnake Saloon" lived up to its name again this year and rodeo hands had to dispatch a rattlesnake that wandered into the refreshment tent. That's the second time this has occurred. "The rattlesnakes are bad this year," Kohout stated. "We had to kill four or five as we were getting... Full story
Electric City will hold the first of two planned community meetings to discuss its plan for a Pathway Trail through the city. The full topic will be parks, recreation and revitalization. The meeting will be from 1-4 p.m., Saturday, May 14, in the Veteran’s Hall in Electric City. The public is invited to participate by offering ideas they might have about any possible trail system. Running the meeting will be a team from Washington State University’s Rural Communities Design Initiative, made up of two professors and several students. A sec... Full story
Award-winning blues musician Matt Andersen will take the stage with his band, the "Bona Fide," on May 21 at the biannual Sunbanks Resort Rhythm & Blues Festival. His new album, "Honest Man," debuted at number five on the sales charts in Canada, from where he originally hails. Andersen has toured the world, sharing the stage with such legends as Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, and Greg Allman, among others. Armed with a soulful voice and an acoustic guitar, Anderson belts out his earthy songs with true... Full story
Grand Coulee won hands down the blue ribbon for producing the highest tonnage of garbage for 2015, a Sunrise Disposal report to the Regional Board of Mayors indicated. The disposal company reported that it picked up 700.77 tons of garbage in Grand Coulee last year. Coulee Dam was a close second, with Electric City third and Elmer City fourth. The four municipalities together operate the Delano Transfer station through the RBOM. Sunrise presented their report at Monday’s meeting of the mayors. Coulee Dam contributed 609.73 tons of garbage, a... Full story
The Laser Light Show’s opening performance for the year will be Saturday, May 28, beginning at 10 p.m., Bureau of Reclamation officials stated last week. Work on the drum gates, which has occupied most of the spring, will be finished in mid-May, which will allow a spillage of water for the Laser Light Show’s background. The Laser Light Show, now billed as “One River, Many Voices,” is a new presentation developed for the 2014 season by Luma Laser of Eugene, Oregon. Last year, because of a number-three drum gate leak, it was not possible to spil... Full story
About 60 sixth graders from Lake Roosevelt Elementary and Nespelem Schools will be trekking to the Tall Timber Ranch, near Leavenworth, next week. Sixth graders from the two schools have been going to the ranch for the past several years to learn about teamwork and outdoor experiences. Lake Roosevelt Elementary has 51 sixth graders, and Nespelem eight. School officials here said six adults will go with the students, and all will travel by school bus. The outing is for May 18–20. While there, students for the local schools will be the first t... Full story
The school board meeting for the Grand Coulee Dam School District scheduled for Monday night, May 9, has been rescheduled to Tuesday, May 17, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The delay is due to a lack of a quorum. The town of Coulee Dam council meeting that was scheduled for tonight (Wednesday, May 11) has been canceled. The next meeting of the council will be Wednesday, May 25.... Full story
If you live in Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam or Elmer City, you should have gotten a plastic bag in the mail on Thursday. That's to put food in for the Care and Share Food Bank. Add some non-perishable food item to the bag and your postal carrier will pick it up on Saturday. Or you can drop it off at the Grand Coulee Post Office, where they're also putting on a barbecue from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the parking lot. You can just drive through to drop off your donation, if you like. This volunteer...
An Electric City councilmember was admonished by the full council at a special public hearing last Wednesday night for activities judged to be beyond her authority. Reprimanded was Councilmember Birdie Hensley, who became a member of the council for the second time this last January. The mayor, John Nordine II, asked councilmembers Aaron Derr, Brad Parrish, Lonna Bussert, and Richard McGuire, to vote to reprimand Hensley in a public hearing that she had called for. At issue were inquiries Hensley made of other agencies regarding the use of hote... Full story
Big smiles and wide eyes attest to a fun day at Lake Roosevelt Elementary last Friday as kids launch themselves into the school's annual Mini Bloomsday Race. - Jacob Wagner photo... Full story
Get ready for the 60th running of Colorama, May 6-8, with a special guide to the event inside this issue of The Star. There's a big parade, a rodeo, craft booths with food and gift ideas, and a newcomer - The Fun Zone - an inflatable event of its own, providing fun for all ages. And if that isn't enough, you can take a helicopter ride and get a bird's eye view of the fun. A beer tent and a cowboy saloon will be featured - the latter for the Ridge Rider's Colorama Rodeo, and the former sponsored... Full story
Colville Tribal members go to the polls Saturday to vote on 28 contenders for positions on the Colville Business Council. The primary vote will reduce candidates for each contended office to two who will face off in the general election in June. Poll voting will begin at 8 a.m. Certification of poll voting will be held at 10 a.m., on May 9. Absentee ballots will be certified May 12. Twenty-eight contenders have filed for seven positions in the tribal council. Six of seven incumbents have filed for re-election. Councilmember Nancy Johnson, who n...
County officials discussed with the Coulee Dam Town Council Wednesday a plan county commissioners are considering to house juvenile offenders out of the county at a privately-run facility in Medical Lake. Juvenile Court Administrator Dennis Rabidou, Superior Court judges Christopher Culp and Henry Rawson, and others attended. Rawson said he does not understand why the county commissioners are even considering a proposal that will be more expensive and serve the community more poorly, but he suggested the town council consider passing a... Full story
CMC Guild to offer goods at Colorama The Coulee Medical Center Guild will have a booth at the Colorama Festival at North Dam Park selling Moso bags, seasoned salts, plants, and both coffee and cold water. Students’ rock painting draws police Eighteen Lake Roosevelt students were confronted by police for painting rocks in the vicinity of Crown Point. Police were told that painting the rocks was a tradition of the senior class, but the officer explained that it is illegal to do so. A list of the students was given to the principal of the s... Full story
