News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Unofficial election results for the November 5, 2014 election.... Full story
Names are now being accepted for the local “Trees of Sharing” campaign that spreads holiday cheer and presents to kids who may not get them otherwise. Names of children may be submitted on slips of paper and turned in at Safeway, Harvest Foods and Coulee Medical Center. The Trees of Sharing is for kids residing in the Grand Coulee Dam area and school age children must attend Grand Coulee Dam District schools. Children’s names will be collected through Nov. 13. Trees with “ornament tags” will be placed at selected locations in the community... Full story
Meeting dates change Port District 7 commissioners have changed their meeting dates for November and December because both dates fall on holidays — Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Port District, which meets at the airport office, will meet Nov. 20 and Dec. 18. Meetings start at 5 p.m. Port budget over half million Port District 7 passed a $529,000 budget at its public hearing last Thursday. The budget predicts that for the first time in several years Banks Lake Golf Course will show a profit. The budget showed anticipated revenues at the g... Full story
A 38-year-old Mallot man walking along SR 97 was hit by a car Thursday night about 6 p.m., the Washington State Patrol reports. Tarence Marconi was walking north along the highway when a northbound car drove onto the shoulder, striking Marconi and knocking him into the ditch. The unkown vehicle continued north. Marconi was taken to Mid-Valley Hospital. The incident is under investigation.... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board authorized the purchase of Center School and land adjacent to it at its meeting Monday night. The title to the site used by local school districts for decades stipulated that ownership would revert to a private holding company if it was no longer to be used for a school. The price to see that that doesn’t happen, said district Superintendent Dennis Carlson, is $155,000. The sale will give the district clear title for the Center School building and surrounding land for a total of 8.465 acres. Carlson s... Full story
Halloween for a couple of houses in the area is a real production. Children have a couple of favorite places to visit on Halloween, one in Electric City and the other in Coulee Dam. Dale and Vel Walker, at 107 E. Grand Avenue in Electric City, start about two weeks before Oct. 31. The Walkers get about 300 visitors during Halloween evening. "We try to change things a little each year," Dale said Monday. One of his old standbys is the person who is actually buried and comes up out of the ground.... Full story
Grand Coulee Mayor Chris Christopherson has lost his bid to remove the police chief job from Civil Service Commission protection. He has stated it was his goal to remove the police chief from under the Civil Service Commission. He made that official last Tuesday night when he asked the city council to support this effort. His proposal failed 4-1 as the council rejected the idea, questioning his reasons for seeking the change. Christopherson reasoned that no other city department heads — the clerk, city foreman — fell under civil service pro... Full story
Following the move from the old elementary and middle school buildings in Grand Coulee to the new school complex in Coulee Dam, hundreds of items left in the two buildings will be tagged for sale. The new school has all new furnishings, so the desks, chairs and more from the old schools need to find a new home. Those items from the old Center Elementary School were declared surplus Monday night by the Grand Coulee Dam School District board. Items will be offered first to other school districts and government agencies, and after 30 days will be... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School Districts board at its Monday night meeting approved seven construction change orders for $613,199 for work relating to the building of the new school complex, upgrading the old high school and associated work: • $109,312 for construction of stairs to the lower campus, not in the original design, but needed due to the extension of the retaining wall that was connected to the gymnasium foundation. • $243,278 to resurface tennis courts, repairing major cracks using post-tensioned concrete to be colored and str... Full story
You have our permission sleep in Daylight Savings time ends this Sunday morning. Move clocks back one hour. Boat launch permits available online Seasonal boat launch permits for Lake Roosevelt are now availabe online and at Coulee Hardware. They are no longer available at the National Park Service Office in Coulee Dam. The Annual Boat Launch Permit for Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area will now be available online through pay.gov at https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/64970644 or look for the link in this story at grandcoulee.com... Full story
National Park Service officials at Coulee Dam presented their proposal last week to boost boat launch and camping fees for Lake Roosevelt. One of their main concerns, said Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area Superintendent Dan Foster, is that the current fee structure doesn't comply with the law against undercutting local business rates. The NPS area's camping fees, for example are currently just $10 a night, compared to an average $18 in region, a park study found. Foster said they held pub... Full story
Dr. Dennis Carlson’s contract as superintendent of schools was extended for an additional year by the Grand Coulee Dam School District board Monday night. The extension will take Carlson’s contract through June 30, 2016. This is the second extension of Carlson’s contract. Carlson came to the district in 2010, and immediately started working on funding for the district’s new school complex, which was completed in September. Carlson has stated that he would like to continue with the effort to develop the new gym before he retires from the dis... Full story
Smoke from an electrical panel in the new school kitchen set off an alarm and caused evacuation of some 700 students at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The incident put the school's emergency plan into action and students were walked to the old Lake Roosevelt High School gym awaiting the arrival of parents and buses to take them home for the day. School will reopen Thursday, after the electrical panel is checked and fixed, and after staff has been briefed on Wednesday regarding the incident. There... Full story
The Grand Coulee Planning Commission turned back visitor input last Wednesday night so that members could discuss among themselves the merits of accommodating a request for a zoning change so that an auto repair business could move to a new location. MPH Automotive is located on Midway Avenue at Spokane Way where it is “grandfathered” in because it was already there when new zoning laws were created. Chair and Councilmember Tammara Byers said the planning commission wasn’t taking public comments that night, but would at its next meeting, Nov.... Full story
Grant County Transit officials have their fingers crossed that their plans for a transportation hub in the middle of downtown Moses Lake will become a reality and link far flung corners of the county to other transportation. The GTA’s longest route is the one that comes to the Grand Coulee area, about 77 miles. The group submitted a grant request to the state Department of Transportation Oct. 6, for $1.998 million, according to Lyle Brand, hub project manager. The proposed “hub” project is located at Division and 5th Streets on 1.1 acres near... Full story
The Grant County Sheriff's Office reports that an Electric City resident, a suspect in a recent Sagebrush Flats Rd NW residential burglary is in custody thanks to an animal camera. Steve Kiona, 37, was taken into custody Sunday night for investigation of burglary. Already a convicted felon, he was also found with a loaded firearm in the back seat of his vehicle, as well as items potentially taken from the Sagebrush Flats residence, the sherrif's office said. Just before 2 p.m. Sunday, the... Full story
You can get a coat, free, Nov. 1, at the American Legion’s “free coat” giveaway. The coats were gathered during the Legion’s summer garage sale each Saturday at the Vet’s Center in Electric City, where people donated items for the sale. “No one wanted coats in the summer, so we decided to make then available later for those who need coats,” stated Cindy James, legion commander. The coats have been cleaned, come in all sizes, and some have scarves. James stated that everything is free to the public. And to make it an event, the legion is als... Full story
Farewell gathering planned for Morgans The community is invited to a farewell coffee hour gathering for Reg and Linda Morgan, Sunday, Oct. 26, at 11 a.m. at St. Henry’s parish hall in Grand Coulee. The Morgans will soon be moving to the Tacoma area. Raise granted Electric City workers are getting a raise in 2015. The city council voted last Tuesday night to give workers a 1.9-percent increase in wage and salary. The vote was unanimous. Health district supported Grant County Health District will receive $2,000 from the city of Electric City. T... Full story
The issue of a lack of a local recycling program was raised again at the Regional Board of Mayors meeting Monday afternoon. Raising the issue was Gayle Swagerty, mayor pro-tem of Coulee Dam, who was filling in for Mayor Greg Wilder who is recovering from a stroke. She read from the mayors’ contract with Sunrise Disposal that recycling was part of the agreement. Swagerty it had come up at one of her town’s meetings. The mayors have had similar discussions before and explained that the economy of scale wouldn’t permit recycling beyond corru... Full story
Electric City is inching closer to a new logo. The council looked at four samples developed by graphic artist Richard Button and council members had a good time selecting the one they liked. The problem was that several preferences were noted. At one point it was suggested that they have one of the logos for vehicles and a different one for letterheads. But the council finally settled on one, with mayor Jerry Sands making some small alterations to the design. The council wants to change the color scheme of the logo. The logo design is oval... Full story
An Omak woman wrecked a car five miles north of Nespelem Saturday morning. Angela Gates, 33, was taken to Coulee Medical Center with unspecified injuries after the southbound Toyota Highlander she was driving left SR 155 on the right side, rolled and came to rest on its top. The Washington State Patrol said the driver would be cited with driving under the influence.... Full story
Proponents of larger accessory buildings in Electric City made some headway at a city planning commission meeting a week ago. It is expected that the planning commission will recommend to the city council that zoning be changed to allow 1,728 square foot buildings up to 26 feet in height. Other details such as whether the siding will have to match the homeowner’s house are still to be decided. A healthy showing of proponents showed up at the meeting and voiced their interests. Some voiced their concerns. The pros and cons of the issue are a... Full story
The city of Grand Coulee, by ordinance, has lifted restrictions on lot coverage. As a result of the ordinance, passed Oct. 7, there will be no lot coverage restrictions on all but one zone (C-H) in the city. That zone will allow 75 percent coverage allowance. In the R-1 zone, the maximum height you can build is now 30 feet, with no limit on lot coverage. The same is true in R-2, and R-3. The three zones had a 25-percent limit on lot coverage prior to the passing of the ordinance. In the C-3 and I zones, building height is 35 feet with no... Full story
If you believe Banks Lake is a good place to fish, then you can thank a couple of local men who helped make it happen. Reg Morgan, long since retired from U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and Bill Brashears, who passed away about a year ago, teamed up back in 1987, and started a program of providing fish for Banks Lake that continues today. The organization POWER (Promoter of Wildlife and Environmental Resources) was founded about that time, with Bill's wife Betty coming up with the name. Morgan... Full story
Even the eighth wonder of the world needs rejuvenation sometime. Trouble is, no spa will accept a 3,000-ton turbine. That's why one of the three largest hydroelectric units in the world has been sitting in pieces on the concrete floor inside the largest dam in the nation, like a giant jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved with a 2,000-ton crane. The mammoth water wheel, called G-24, rarely rested in its productive 33-year work life at Grand Coulee Dam in northeastern Washington, apart from... Full story
