News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Some 63 people associated with the City of Grand Coulee will get Medstar memberships as a way for the city to say thank you to them. Getting memberships are city staff, elected officials and volunteers. The city council approved the measure at its last meeting, subject to getting an okay from the city’s attorney. City clerk Carol Boyce said this week that Grand Coulee is moving forward with the plan. The normal cost for a Medstar annual membership is $59, but under a group plan the city will get memberships for $48. The membership program c... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce named its "Achiever of Year" and "Business of the Year" at a special awards luncheon last Thursday at the Moose Lodge. The chamber membership chooses the honorees through a ballot process. The "Achiever of the Year" is Debbie Bigelow, chief executive officer at Coulee Medical Center. Bigelow stepped into the hospital position during a time of turmoil and was instrumental in rebuilding trust and confidence. She recently announced her intent to retire... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam Yacht Club has been working on tearing out its aging docks at Eden Harbor over the last three weeks to make way for new ones. Keith St. Jeor said Friday, while pulling the old docks apart, that the club had determined it made sense to replace them. They were installed in 1981-82. The club has purchased used docks from a Lake Pend Oreille marina that suffered damage in a wind storm. About 10 members drove up there in pickups and trailers to pick them up last August. Now that... Full story
Elmer Easter eggs Elmer City will have an Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday, March 27, at 1 p.m. at the city park. The hunt will be in three age categories: five and under, 6-10, and 11 and older (no age limit). Help is needed to fill plastic eggs with candy and hide the eggs. If you can help, call Mayor Gail Morin at 633-0526. It’s spring concert time The Lake Roosevelt Elementary bands and chorus will hold a concert in the LRHS gym at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 23. Coming in April, the Lake Roosevelt junior and senior high bands and choir w... Full story
Banks Lake Golf Course is offering a special reduced price through its punch card program this season. Port District 7 officials, who manage the course, said last week that the new punch card program is designed to save golfers money and to encourage people to play the 18-hole course. The punch cards are good for both nine-hole and 18-hole play. Play six times for nine holes, and punch card users will get one free nine-hole play. Play 10 times for 18 holes and they’ll get two free 18-hole plays. Players ask for a punch card when they sign in a... Full story
Electric City will continue to fix up city hall this year. The city plans to paint city hall, add a stone wainscotting, put up a new logo sign and redo the air conditioning system. The city has put $49,000 in this year’s budget for the upgrades and repairs. In past recent years the city has put in carpeting, painted the inside, upgraded its council room, and made other repairs. City officials were not certain when work would begin on the upgrade project.... Full story
The Electric City council has moved forward on developing a parks and recreation plan for the city. The council authorized city planner Kurt Danison to move forward by voting up to $5,000 to develop the plan. Danison had noted that the development of the plan will include three public meetings to gather input from residents. He also outlined that a finished plan would put the city in position to seek grants for development of parks and recreation projects, including the proposed trail, inside the city. He wrote the council: “It not only lets a... Full story
Police have arrested a 26-year-old local man suspected of burglarizing his grandparent’s Electric City home. Grand Coulee police had been looking for him when someone called to say Michael Snyder II had been spotted at the Coulee Dam Casino. Police arrested him there Monday and, after allowing him to finish his coffee and have a smoke, took him to the Grand Coulee police station, where investigators linked him to the burglary on Miller Avenue in Electric City, the home of his grandparents, Milton and Marcia Snyder. They had been away at the t... Full story
"Rumpelstiltskin," a play loved by audiences both young and old, will be performed here March 12, using talent from local schools, and produced by the Missoula Children's Theatre. Auditions for the various roles were held Monday, March 7, at the Grand Theatre in Grand Coulee. The play is sponsored locally by the Grand Coulee Dam PTA. "Rumpelstiltskin" is a fairy tale that originated in Germany and was part of the collection gathered by the Brothers Grimm and published in their collection of... Full story
The public will find out the chamber’s “Achiever of the Year” and “Business of the Year” at the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce award luncheon at noon Thursday at the Moose Lodge in Grand Coulee. The chamber sent ballots out recently, asking membership to make their preferences known. Five people have been nominated for “Achiever or the Year”: Debbie Bigelow, Coulee Medical Center administrator; Birdie Hensley, Electric City council member and president of the Senior Center; Kerry Higgins, chamber president owner of Trail West Mo... Full story
The grand prize for the Chamber of Commerce’s fourth annual Triple Fish Challenge, fittingly, is something that will make fishing easier for the winner. The Triple Fish Challenge is scheduled for April 23-24 at Coulee Playland Resort on Banks Lake. The grand prize is an Achilles 14-person inflatable boat and Yamaha outboard motor. The “challenge” is to catch smallmouth bass, walleye and rainbow trout, with various levels of winners chosen in categories like the biggest fish in each species each day, total stringer weight each day, and total... Full story
When storm clouds and the chilly winds of winter subside, a strange phenomenon occurs - golfers come out of the woodwork. They were out in force last Saturday, and officials at Banks Lake Golf Course said Monday that the greens have been mowed and recent rains have helped fairway grasses get their spring color. The 18-hole, 6,127-yard course isn't officially open. Grant County Port District 7 officials, who operate the course, refused to offer up an opening date at their last meeting, realizing... Full story
Hundreds of Easter baskets for sale The annual Senior Center Easter basket sale will begin Monday, March 14. There are close to 400 baskets to choose from — no two baskets are alike. The sale is at the Senior Center, 203 Main Street in Grand Coulee. CBC candidate positions open Opening date for candidates to file for Colville Business Council positions was Monday, March 7. Candidates will be certified March 27, and the primary election will be held May 7. Daylight Saving Time Daylight Saving Time will begin this Sunday at 2 a.m. Clocks should b... Full story
If you live within the boundaries of Electric City, Grand Coulee or Coulee Dam and are thinking of burning garden waste, think again. It’s illegal, and has been since 2007. The Washington State Department of Ecology has stated that you could be fined as much as $10,000 per day if this law is violated. Officials stated that the ban includes the “urban growth areas” around these municipalities, as well. Residential and land-clearing burning is banned, and you may not dispose of yard waste in a recreational fire. Burning anything in a burn barre... Full story
The lockdown of schools across Grant County was prompted Wednesday morning after a 39-year-old Flagstaff, Arizona, man made threats to shoot up Coulee City schools, according to the sheriff’s office. Benjamin VanTassell is in the Grant County Jail facing multiple charges. VanTassell called Spokane television station KHQ around 7:00 that morning, expressing the threats. KHQ staffers notified the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, which sent deputies to Coulee City. The Coulee City schools were closed for the day. VanTassell has a child in the sch... Full story
OLYMPIA—Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed a bill responding to the state Supreme Court’s 2012 decision that the state is unconstitutionally underfunding basic education. “This … recommits the Legislature in 2017 … to fulfill the state’s constitutional obligation to fully fund education,” Inslee said before he signed the bill into law. The bill, SB 6195, establishes a task force to create recommendations about teacher compensation and retention, local school levies’ limits and conditions, and sources of state funding. The bill also requires l... Full story
“Rumpelstiltskin,” a play loved by audiences both young and old, will be performed here March 12, using talent from local schools, produced by the Missoula Children’s Theater. Auditioning for the various roles will be held Monday, March 7, at the Grand Gallery Theatre in Grand Coulee, from 4-6 p.m. The play is locally sponsored by the Grand Coulee Dam PTA. “Rumpelstiltskin” is a fairy tale that originated in Germany and was part of the collection gathered by the Brothers Grimm and published in their collection of “Children’s and Household Tal... Full story
Glo Carroll has been selected as The Star newspaper's "Volunteer of the Year." She topped the voting total of 171 people who took the time to vote for Carroll and for Archie Dennis, who came in second in the balloting. Glo is the kind of person you can't say no to. She rose to prominence locally during the huge North Star wildfire last summer as she recruited the help of local people and of residents throughout the state to help the brave firefighters who were being stretched thin across fire... Full story
The school board and Paul Turner agreed on a three-year contract Monday night and the Grand Coulee Dam School District has a new superintendent of schools. The board and Turner agreed to a $105,000 annual salary. Turner will take over his new duties July 1. The board offered the position to Turner about a month ago, subject to working out a contract. The contract was signed Monday night. Turner is currently vice principal of the Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School in Coulee Dam. He served... Full story
It’s hard to go to work if you’ve got no one to watch the kids. That’s a problem Coulee Medical Center will tackle, at least for its own employees, following a decision by hospital commissioners Monday night. They voted to spend up to $15,000 to fund a refurbishment of the basement of the old clinic building to house a daycare program for hospital employees. A relative lack of daycare facilities was identified as a problem for economic development locally as far back as 2009 by the Horizons study funded by a grant through Washington State... Full story
Officers from Grant County’s Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team and the Secret Service Thursday initiated their second Grand Coulee raid within the past three weeks, this time on a house at 409 A Street. Officers recovered several items that had earlier been taken in a burglary on Wetzel Street in Grand Coulee. Officers served a search warrant after investigators developed information that Melvin Toulou, 43, had been storing stolen property at the house. Toulou had been arrested Feb. 12, when his home was raided and officers found e... Full story
The Colville Tribes will gain millions from an agreement approved last week that settles the claims of nearly 700 tribes nationwide against the federal government. The nearly $1 billion settlement with the Obama administration has been reached over claims the government shorted tribes for decades on contract costs to manage education, law enforcement and other federal services. Tribes and tribal agencies are expected to submit claims for compensation ranging from $8,000 for some Alaska Native villages to $58 million for the Navajo Nation. The C... Full story
Shane Proctor, a 2003 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School and longtime resident of Grand Coulee, showed his toughness, again, last Saturday, by winning the “Iron Cowboy” award at Arlington, Texas. It was another feather in Proctor’s cowboy hat, and a little jingle to boot, as the win gave him prize money of $115,625, and vaulted him from eighth to first in the Professional Bull Riding world standings. Now it’s on to the next PBR major, the third of four, this time in Las Vegas, Nevada. He won it all Saturday before some 35,000 fans cheerin... Full story
Eighteen students from Coulee Dam schools will be going to Northern Quest Resort in Airway Heights to continue studies of the Salish language. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved the trip at its meeting Monday night. The trip is for March 8 – 11 and involves members of the Lake Roosevelt Spirit Eagle Society. It’s all part of the Title VII after-school program. Indian Education Director Kim Stanger made the presentation to the board and stated Tuesday that 17 of the 18 students making the trip are from the third, fourth, fif... Full story
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office says schools in Coulee City are closed this morning “as a precaution.” GCSO adds only that there have been no injuries and that law enforcement officers are at the school. Reports coming from a person near the school say those officers look “pretty calm” and that the street has not been cordoned off. The sheriff’s office has not said what the nature of the threat is, only that they “will share more information when we can.” Possible update: GCSO is asking the public (at about 9:50 a.m. Wednesday) to a...