News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Elmer City is advertising for consulting engineering firms to provide professional services for wastewater treatment planning. The request also covers an analysis of its existing system, hydro-geological investigations, evaluation of treatment alternatives and preparation of a wastewater treatment plan and subsequent design and construction engineering and inspection for wastewater facility upgrades. The request is in regard to the town’s plan to have parallel planning tracks. While working with Coulee Dam on its plan to upgrade its w... Full story
Grant County prosecutor D. Angus Lee is proposing legislation that he says will make it harder for the mentally ill to access and misuse firearms. “In an effort to reduce criminal misuse of firearms, I am proposing a simple amendment to RCW 9.41.047(3) that I anticipate will have universal support, will reduce or prevent future gun violence, and will have little or no fiscal impact,” Lee said this week. He said the current law allows for the restoration of firearm rights for those with mental health issues so severe that they have been involunt... Full story
Steve Becker talks with Lowell Hensley following Becker’s chamber of commerce talk last Thursday at Pepper Jack’s. Coulee Medical Center’s director of marketing said the facility will always be “your hometown hospital” but is working hard at becoming a regional medical center. Becker spoke on behalf of then Gov. Chris Gregoire at the opening of the new medical center. He worked for her for two years and joined CMC last year. “What that medical center represents is a tremendous amount of c... Full story
Two days earlier, people on opposite sides of a contentious issue hadn’t gotten along so well, but the regular meeting of the Coulee Dam Town Council Wednesday progressed with civility remarkable by contrast. The town council accepted without comment a 275-signature petition by citizens to submit plans for a wastewater treatment facility upgrade to third-party engineers for “value engineering,” a formal process performed on many projects by engineers who do nothing else but look for ways to save money in such proposals. The petition also said... Full story
Ice climber Craig Pope, of Moscow, Idaho, makes his way to the left, looking for a path up on icicles clinging to the coulee wall at Million Dollar Mile along SR-155 Sunday. At one point, he said, the ice was only about an inch thick. Ice and rocks fell from a higher spot as Pope was about 160 feet from the bottom. He was there with three climbing colleagues. — Scott Hunter photo... Full story
City to get sexual harrassment training Department heads and staff at the city of Grand Coulee will attend a sexual harassment training at 4 p.m. this Friday, according to mayor Chris Christopherson. He stated that he didn’t want to comment on the reason for the training. Christopherson said that members of the city council have also been asked to attend Friday’s training class, or one scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7, which is scheduled for firefighters and ambulance workers. Canfield & Associates, the city’s risk management firm, will... Full story
A safe with an estimated $2,800 inside was taken from Banks Lake Golf Course during the night hours Monday. Thieves dragged the 300-pound safe out the back door after gaining entry with a crowbar, police stated. The loss was discovered by Port District 7 Commissioner Orville Scharbach, along with Mike Parisian. The port district operates the golf course and Parisian is an employee. Grand Coulee Police Chief Mel Hunt said the safe was dragged across the floor and through the same entry door. Police suspect that there had to be at least two... Full story
If they allow chickens in the city, they might attract snakes that would come for the eggs. That and a declaration that chickens are “filthy birds” were among comments The Electric City Council heard Jan. 22. Ken Doughty, who was against the city allowing chickens, said that he drove around his neighborhood on Sunset Drive and estimated that there could be 300-400 chickens there if they were permitted. He said that chickens could attract raccoons. The issue is still before the planning commission and will be a subject at a February council mee... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam School District board members took next year’s calendar and turned it upside down at their Monday night meeting. A printed calendar for the 2013-14 school year was given to board members at the district’s last meeting a month ago to give them an opportunity to look it over. Look it over they did, and they were quick to note they didn’t like it. Board member Ted Piccolo jumped in first, stating that he didn’t think the district needed to take so many days off. The calendar that had started with Wednesday, June 11 being the las... Full story
The local housing market is surviving a bumpy ride and is showing signs of improvement, real estate broker Merle Kennedy told chamber of commerce members at a Thursday luncheon last week. Kennedy said that the housing market last year looked bleak but with a number of sales late in the year, 2012 nearly matched the value of homes sold the year before. Before the international financial crisis, home sales through Foisy & Kennedy in 2007 totalled over $8 million, with 75 units sold. In 2011 sales totaled $6,638,600 and home sales came to... Full story
A Grand Coulee woman is seeking information on the whereabouts of her 14-year-old son, who was reported to police as a runaway Jan. 15. Keyana Gendron told The Star newspaper Monday that her son, Terrance Jim, has been missing for more than two weeks. In the original police report, which was published Jan. 23, it was stated that Terrance had run away three times previously. The family lives on Bowen Street. The Jan. 23, report stated that the boy had left with a friend. Gendron said that if... Full story
The school board gave the Rotary Club a list of possible projects that it could take on to enhance the new K-12 school. The Rotary Club advised school officials that it had $15,000 and would like to see how far it could leverage the money toward something at the new school. The Rotary Club plans to apply for a Rotary District grant to double its monies and continue leverage with other possible grants. The school board picked student plaza tables, a gathering spot for students and also visitors to the gymnasium. Cost of this project was... Full story
• In a story last week, it was reported that Coulee Dam Mayor Quincy Snow had requested that a meeting with the Colville Tribes Community Development Committee on Tuesday be changed from 9:30 a.m. to 9 am. An agenda from the committee emailed the prior Friday showed that Snow had been given the 9-10 a.m. time frame in the meeting. He gave a presentation, asked if he could answer any questions and left. The meeting was held to supply information about the town’s planned wastewater treatment plant. Snow had not responded to two phone mes... Full story
Coulee Dam has received a grant from the federal government to re-do lower Crest Drive from River Drive to the city limits, a distance of under a quarter mile. The federal grant was for for $302,750, with the state Transportation Improvement Board paying the town’s match of $47,250, for a total of $350,000. Work is expected to be done in April if the bids come in OK, according to public works director Barry Peacock. The work includes removal of guardrail, excavation of the road material, re-paving and flaggers for one-way traffic while the w... Full story
An American bald eagle perches in a tree at Crescent Bay on Lake Roosevelt Tuesday morning. — Scott Hunter photo...
Giving farm families the ability to protect their property and livestock from predatory wolves is a right protected by the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, claims Sen. John Smith (R-7th District, Colville) as he testified Tuesday (Jan. 29) before the Senate’s Natural Resources Committee on legislation he’s proposing to control the marauding animals. A second bill Smith is sponsoring would allow law enforcement officers to kill attacking wolves under certain circumstances. The two bills would also limit the Department of Fish and Wildl... Full story
A blood collection drive scheduled for today (Monday, Jan. 28) has been cancelled. The collection was cancelled after Inland Northwest Blood Center personnel arrived at Coulee Medical Center’s Professional Building A (the former clinic building) and found it not ready. “They chose to go back to Spokane and hopefully return in a couple of days in one of their coaches,” local drive coordinator volunteer Bonnie Femling said. “Please hang on to your blood and come to donate it when they return!” Coulee Medical Center spokesman Steve Becker sa...
For Rayne Rabe, a distinct connection exists between belting out a tune and barreling through your opposition. Practicing one has given her the ability to do the other. Before moving to Coulee Dam in July, Rabe had earned a reputation by another name, “Chick Norris, Derby Rayne-ger.” That was in Orange County, Calif., where she rolled with the Orange County Roller Girls roller derby team. Now she can’t wait to start a team here. Demonstrating her moves last week at the skate park in Grand Coule... Full story
Development of Coulee Dam’s wastewater treatment plant upgrade is on hold for three months. The council made the decision at a hastily called meeting Monday afternoon on Martin Luther King Day. Even though the meeting date wasn’t announced until late Friday, the council chamber was packed and fireworks started immediately as community activist Greg Wilder and Mayor Quincy Snow tangled over the timing of the meeting. The council, which normally meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of the mon... Full story
Greg Wilder, 69, a Coulee Dam activist, said last week that he plans to file for the office of mayor as an “agent of change” when the filing period opens in May. Wilder has been at odds with two-term Mayor Quincy Snow, and the town administration as a whole, for the past two years, largely over the proposed wastewater treatment plant. Wilder says he has determined that the present $4.92 million plant now being designed is being overbuilt and that it will cost the citizens of Coulee Dam too high of sewer bills for the next 20 years. He has con... Full story
The new K-12 school complex is being advertised for bids this month. Design and school officials went over the project, estimated to cost $24 million, with townspeople last Wednesday night at a meeting in the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School library. Plans will be ready for review by prospective bidders on Jan. 29, and a pre-bid meeting for general contractors has been set for 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13 at the construction site. Bids will be opened, Superintendent Dennis Carlson said, on Feb. 25,... Full story
A local group of stakeholders will get the first look at the text for the all new laser light show within the next couple of weeks. Participants include the Colville Confederated Tribes, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Coulee Area Chamber of Commerce, the National Park Service, a representative from each town and someone from the irrigation district, as well as others. The inaugural showing of the new laser light show is scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, but Bureau of Reclamation officials said it might not make that date. The old laser light... Full story
Coulee Dam Mayor Quincy Snow, Greg Wilder and Elmer City Councilmember Larry Holford all met with the Colville Tribes Community Development Committee Tuesday to discuss the proposed wastewater treatment facility. The meeting, originally set for 9:30 a.m. was rescheduled at Snow’s request for 9 a.m. He told the group that the town had decided to delay proceeding with the facility plan, taking 90 days to get a fresh look at it, and he encouraged the Colville Tribes to participate. Holford and Wilder, who were expecting the meeting to begin at 9:3... Full story
Piccolo to coach baseball Ted Piccolo, a member of the school board, has been named the Lake Roosevelt High School head baseball coach. He was named at a meeting of the school board last Wednesday night. Flu causing some absences School officials said this week that the flu season has hit the district, but not too hard to date. Lake Roosevelt High School reported that an average of about 10 are missing school each day. The high school has 212 students. At the Middle School, absences are running from 10-15 a day. There are about 200 students... Full story
Coulee Dam’s town council will meet in a special meeting Monday at 2 p.m. with one item on the agenda, the wastewater treatment plant, according to a notice delivered late Friday. A notice faxed to The Star Friday afternoon did not elaborate or offer a reason for calling a town council meeting in mid-afternoon on a federal holiday. Monday is Martin Luther King Day. Controversy over the planned upgrade of the plant, and associated costs, and the town’s contract with Elmer City are at the heart of a petition circulating in the town asking the...