Coulee Recollections

 

Last updated 4/3/2019 at 9:57am



Twenty Years Ago

The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a Y2K forum Tuesday night to address local concerns about the millennium bug that could infect computers January 1, 2000.

Wright Elementary students Brieanna Clark, Courtney Kennedy, Andrea Schumaker, Leah Philmon, Amanda VanGeystel and Emily Rehn raised over $110 for their school in their crusade for new playground equipment.

Thirty Years Ago

Grand Coulee’s pilot well near Crescent Lake hit an aquifer 61 feet below the ground Feb. 7, giving rise to hopes that engineers picked an opportune spot to site the initial test well.

A strong wind plus floating ice caused undetermined damage to the Project Fish net pens on Tuesday of last week.

Deanna McLean, daughter of Bill and Bev McLean of Coulee City, and Wayne Rice, son of Richard and Kathy Rice of Grand Coulee, were united in marriage on Feb. 11 at the Coulee Dam Community Church.

Forty Years Ago

Residents living below Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River plan to meet Thursday to discuss their future. The meeting comes on the heels of a Bureau of Reclamation notification informing residents that more than 300 homes might be moved because of riverbank stabilization on the Columbia River.

A new addition to the technical equipment at Coulee Community Hospital is the ultrasound unit.

Fifty Years Ago

Last week Grand Coulee City Council meeting was taken up mostly by a report from a Spokane Engineering firm Esvelt and Saxton in which the sewer and water systems of the city were summarized. The cost of improvements will exceed $157,800.

Private Greg Behrens of Grand Coulee was awarded the military rating of Construction Surveyor and received a diploma upon successfully completing the construction survey course with the United States Army Engineering School.

Coming to Carlson Motors is the new Ford Maverick – list price $1,995.

Sixty Years Ago

Since Tuesday morning, there has been no waterfall over the spillway at Grand Coulee Dam for the first time since May 19 of last year, marking the close of the longest sustained flow of water over the spillway since 1951.

Safeway ad for Easter hams: whole or full shank half, 49¢ lb.

Seventy

Years Ago

F. Alton Bryan and Ellsworth Capin announce the opening of the Grand Coulee Funeral Service in the Miller building next door to the Union Station on the Speedball Highway.

Closing of the roadway atop Grand Coulee Dam to general travel by the public for an indefinite period was announced last Friday the Bureau of Reclamation. The report stated that use of the roadway by heavy construction vehicles and other equipment makes its use by the traveling public hazardous.

 

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