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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Firefighters have the 21-mile Grade Fire, about 25 miles north of Keller, 40 percent contained, but they will be keeping a watchful eye on reports of thunderstorms predicted this week. Kathy Moses, public information officer, said the fire has covered 2,250 acres and has been held to the east side of State Route 21. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, Moses said. Fire broke out in the afternoon July 1, and quickly spread to 1,000 acres. Fire crews Tuesday were mopping up parts...
A large crowd enjoys the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce's fireworks display Saturday night at the Festival of America. The finale used a long span off the top of Grand Coulee Dam and lit the area in a red glow. Cheers from the crowd were heard from the north end of town for the display that was doubled in size and expense from recent years and called "spectacular" by some. The display was engineered by Rocket Man Pyros out of Spokane. - Peggy Nevsimal photo...
The body of a 28-year-old man who had jumped from the Coulee Dam bridge June 26, was found Sunday by workers at the fish pens several miles downstream. Jamie Williams had jumped from the bridge about 7 a.m., telling a friend that he thought he could make it. He was later seen moving downstream calling out for help. Rescuers searched for Williams by boat, from along the shore and from a helicopter but were unable to find him. His body was found Sunday near the fish pens, about a mile downstream...
Commissioners of the Coulee Area Park and Recreation District plan to visit Okanogan County Assessor Scott Furman this month about putting a tax levy on the ballot in November. Okanogan is the lead county for the four-county junior taxing district, which has never imposed a tax, but not for lack of trying. Commissioners have twice asked voters to commit to funding the district, in 2010 and 2012. The measures failed each time with about a 57-percent approval rating, shy of the 60 percent required for passage. President Bob Valen said the...
Dispatch advised officers that a man was seen burying an unknown object at the overlook area just above Grand Coulee Dam. Officers arrived and learned that a Georgia driver and two friends had hit a bird with their vehicle and buried the bird and placed a rock on top of the little grave. The men, Dion Schmidt, 20, Isaiah Broomfield, 24, and Bernardo Stapleton, 21, reported to police that they buried the bird, then had a short ceremony for it, took a picture and started walking towards the dam. The person who reported the incident said that the...
Entire families can be entertained for two days for free next week at the Ridge Rider rodeo grounds at the group’s annual Junior Rodeo, July 18 and 19. Events begin at 10 a.m. Admission is free, and there will be a concession booth providing food and refreshments. The Junior Rodeo involves both boys and girls up to the age of 18. Young cowboys and cowgirls in several age groups will compete in such events as barrel racing, dummy roping, calf riding, bull riding, calf roping, saddle bronc riding, chute dogging and steer wrestling. Top placers w...
The Washington State Department of Health has notified the Grant County Health District that three Grant County mosquito samples were positive for West Nile virus. The district announced last week in a press release that the samples were collected by Grant County Mosquito Control District #1. They are the first positive samples in Grant County this year and the second in Washington. The positive samples locations were: · One trap: Sand Dunes Road and Camas Place “Western Sand Dunes” · Two traps: Dodson Road near I-90 exit 164 There have been...
Little boy finds cat door A woman on First Street in Grand Coulee got a shock Sunday when she saw a 2-year-old boy partway through her kitchen cat door. Vicki Fish, who lives at 400 First Street, said at first she thought it was a raccoon, but then saw the boy's head extended through the door. It happened about 9 p.m. and she immediately called 911. Before police arrived she had picked the boy up and was able to return him to his parents, who at the time were out looking for him. Fish said the...
The Coulee Medical Center Guild/Auxiliary has started a shoe drive in the area, which will eventually benefit people in third world countries. It’s all a part of several programs being undertaken by members of the CMC guild/auxiliary, according to President Clea Pryor. The shoe program has drop boxes in several locations in the coulee area and also in Wilbur. Drop boxes for shoes may be found at Coulee Hardware, Sunflower Graphics, Loepp Furniture, North Cascades Bank, the Coulee Dam Credit Union, Eagles Lodge, The Star newspaper and at C...
Halme Builders Inc., of Davenport is the construction company building new sidewalks on Federal Avenue and Main Street in Grand Coulee. A photo caption last week named the wrong company, although with the same family name....
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office suspended a search last night for a man who went missing while swimming in Banks Lake Friday afternoon, but would pick up the search this morning, a spokesman stated Friday night. Immediate family had been notified of the suspension, but the victim’s name would not be released until today, allowing time for other family members to be notified. A marine unit deputies and state park rangers at Steamboat Rock State Park had been on the scene since about 5:30 p.m. when the search suspension was announced about 9 p...
State fire assistance has been mobilized under the Washington State Fire Services Resource Mobilization Plan in support of local firefighters working to contain the Douglas County Complex Fire – 2 fires: Jameson Lake Fire, 8 miles ESE of Waterville, and Pine Canyon Fire, 14 miles SE of Mansfield, in Douglas County. Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste authorized the mobilization of state firefighting resources on July 10, 2015, at 11:15 pm at the request of Douglas County Fire District 1 and District 8. The fire started at a...
Music, food and fireworks. Sounds like Festival of America time in the coulee, when patriots can celebrate America Friday and Saturday at the park below the Visitor Center, with a guide to the action below. The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, the organizer of the event, has put together live music, kids activities, a big show in the park, fireworks and more to entertain local residents as well as the thousands of visitors who crowd the park and surrounding areas each year. Listen to the music of MacDaddy, Tuxedo Junction and the Olso...
A Nespelem man jumped off the Columbia River Bridge in Coulee Dam Friday morning, reportedly because he thought he could make it. The 28-year-old jumped from the bridge around 7 a.m. Another person was trying to keep him from doing it, said Coulee Dam Chief of Police Pat Collins. Soon, three boats were in the river searching for Jamie Williams, but by 9:30, it was more likely a recovery effort than a rescue, since the man had been in the river for hours, Collins said. The jump was not a suicide...
Response to a fire in the heat of Monday afternoon in Grand Coulee underscored the nervousness of local fire fighters in the current, extreme heat conditions, with fireworks legal. As a summer thunderstorm rolled through the area at just after 5 p.m. downpours heralded thunderclaps, and lightning may have lit up a mostly empty lot on B Street, empty except for several large piles of firewood. Even with the downpour, the fire caught, and high winds fanned it. "It does show the extreme fire behavi...
Grand Coulee Dam area fire fighters are concerned because of the extreme, hot weather we have been experiencing, which is predicted to continue for the next 10 days. Any fire activity will put extra stress on the firefighters because of the high temperatures. We are asking everyone to be extremely careful during all their outdoors activities. The probability of fire starts are extremely high from any ignition sources, even small sparks. Fireworks need to be used very carefully; even legal “Safe and Sane” fireworks will start fires very easily....
Port hears report on course Grant County Port District 7 commissioners heard at their meeting last week a report that there are 84 members of the golf course, on a par with last year’s membership total. They also heard that the golf course is in good shape and that several tournaments are scheduled for the near future. The Port District is in its third year of managing the course. The Port District is running the course largely with volunteer help. Fireworks banned The Douglas County fire marshall has placed a ban on all fireworks from u...
by Roger S. Lucas Coulee Dam Town Council members may get an earful about chickens at a public hearing next Wednesday, July 8, at 6 p.m. The entire town should take a page from an Electric City couple with five chickens. Eric, Misty and son Logan Braaten live on 10 acres on the edge of the city, and they can tell you that chickens are nice people. That is, each individual chicken has its own personality. The Braatens have all their chickens named, and Eric explained, "They have their own pecking...
Discussions are going on to develop a school uniform program for Grand Coulee Dam district schools. The issue has come up at the past two school board meetings, and indications are that the idea is alive and moving forward. The teaching and support staff are generally in favor of the idea. The board is moving forward slowly, and, as suggested by outgoing high school principal, Brandon Byers, the district should take this next year in fleshing out the idea. The public and student body to date haven’t had an opportunity to express their f...
Lake Roosevelt High School will get its first woman principal, ever, for the 2015-16 school year. Superintendent Dennis Carlson named Ronanda Liberty as principal of Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School at a school board meeting Monday night. She replaces Brandon Byers, who took a position as assistant principal at Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake, a school of about 800 students. Byers came to the district here in 2008 as an English teacher and served as principal of the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School for a year before moving to the...
MOSES LAKE, WA – The Washington State Department of Health has notified the Grant County Health District that three Grant County mosquito samples were positive for West Nile virus. The samples were collected by Grant County Mosquito Control District #1. These are the first positive samples in Grant County this year and the second in Washington. The positive samples locations were: · One trap: Sand Dunes Road and Camas Place “Western Sand Dunes” · Two traps: Dodson Road near I-90 exit 164 There have been no human cases of the virus in Washing...
Keller, Wash. – The Twenty-One Mile Grade Fire began on the afternoon of July 1 and is approximately 1,000 acres. It is located approximately 25 miles north of Keller, WA and east of Hwy 21. The Colville Indian Agency Type 3 Management Team transitioned to the Washington Interagency Incident Management Team #5 – IC Bruce Holloway – today at 0600 hours. On this incident, firefighters are dealing with treacherous terrain and hot temperatures - expected to reach 100 degrees today – that are exp...
Chickens got their feathers ruffled at Coulee Dam at the last town council meeting. The evening started innocently enough as town officials unveiled a proposed ordinance that would allow local residents up to four chickens — only hens, of course; no one wants to wake up in the morning to a rooster crowing. That brought up a lot of questions from council members and those in the audience, and the chicken ordinance is headed for a public hearing at 6 p.m. July 8, during the regular council meeting on that date. The big question asked by m...
A man jumped off the Columbia River Bridge in Coulee Dam this morning, reportedly just because he thought he could make it. The 28-year-old jumped from the bridge just before 7:30. Another person was trying to keep him from doing it, said Coulee Dam Chief of Police Pat Collins. Collins said at 9:30 that three boats were in the river searching for the man, but that it was more likely a recovery effort than a rescue, since the man had been in the river for hours. Collins said the jump was not a...
Make a wish and it might come true. At least if you're a Grand Coulee 6-year-old with some serious health issues. The Make a Wish Foundation sent Keyshia Goodlance and her family on a trip across the state last weekend, an answer to Keyshia's wish for a simple shopping trip to buy makeup. The foundation helps children with life-threatening illnesses to make their wishes come true. They arrange for special treatment with businesses that range from big corporate partners to small-town retailers...