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Micheala Doyle, a senior at Lind High School, is collecting eyeglasses for those in need of prescription lenses in the community. Doyle set up drop boxes for the eyeglasses at three locations, Jim’s Market, Ritzville Drug Company and Harvest Foods. The fundraiser began on Jan. 2 and the first collection will run until Feb. 2. Doyle will then put out new boxes and do another collection from Feb. 2 until Mar. 2. Doyle decided to collect eyeglasses as her senior project after she attended a Lions Club meeting last year and l...
Washington State’s minimum wage increased by 37 cents on Jan. 1 to make the current minimum wage $9.04 an hour. This increase has made local business owners nervous and uncertain about the changes they might have to make in the near future. Sam Duncan, co-owner of Ritzville Drug Company, refuses to let any of his employees go, mainly because the store is currently being run by a total of five employees. Last year, the store had to lay off one employee at the beginning of the year because of the increased minimum wage. ...
ms from the Heart” fundraiser for his senior project in November and when it concluded on Friday, Dec. 16, he could not believe the success. Knodel had a goal to donate a ham to at least 40 families in the Lind community for the holiday season. Knodel surpassed his goal and with the $2,200 he received in donations, he was able to purchase over 100 hams. “It was a huge success, more than I could have ever hoped for,” said Knodel. “I’m so thankful. I couldn’t have done it wit...
Lind Community Church welcomed new pastor Jeremy McLellan to the church earlier his year. McLellan and his family moved from Sandy Valley, Nev., to Lind during the end of July. McLellan, his wife Christy and their three children, Timothy, Bailey and Abigail, are now members of the Lind community and hope to revitalize the Lind Community Church. Early in 2010, Lind Community Church had to decide whether or not to keep the doors open on the church. The church needed a pastor...
In 2010, Lionel Delevingne and Steve Turner produced a book titled “Drylands: A Rural American Saga,” which the content focused on agricultural development in Adams County. Lionel Delevingne is a native of France but moved to the United States in 1975 to pursue a career in photography. Soon after his arrival in the U.S., he met Turner and they began combining their journalistic talents to produce various publications. Turner wrote the book “Amber Waves and Undertow: Peril...
The Adams County Commissioners unanimously approved the 2012-2017 Six Year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) during the morning session on Monday, Dec. 5. Adams County Assistant Public Works Director Scott Yaeger presented the TIP plan explaining the specific differences and changes from the previous years. Yaeger explained that eight projects on the current program are proposed programs that funding has not yet been secured for. The Surface Transportation Program-Rural (STPR) allocates federal funds for rural highway...
The Ritzville FFA chapter hosted the annual Greenhand Initiation Night on Thursday, Dec. 8, in the shop. There were three different awards distributed; the discovery, greenhand and chapter farmer awards in which each respective member was awarded a pin. The newest discovery members to the Ritzville FFA chapter are Joel Anderson, Ryan Frederick, Bryson Gering, Mike Oestreich, Skyler Oestreich, Michael Shields and Andrew Witt. The chapter welcomed the new Greenhand members:...
Lind High School now has a robotics team among their high school students that plans to participate in the largest robotics competition in the United States this upcoming year. The team will consist of 20 students and they will be building a robot to use in a competition in 2012. The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international competition that allows high school students the opportunity to be innovators. The FRC began in 1992, and each year the number of teams drastically increase worldwide. The robotics team began...
Bill and Jeanette Wills have the honor of being the Grand Marshals for the Lind Chamber of Commerce’s 12th annual Lind Christmas Parade on Sunday, Dec. 11. Jeanette Wills was born and raised in Lind, while Bill Wills grew up in Kentucky. Jeanette wanted to remain in Lind and as Bill said, “She wanted to come home, and I followed.” After Bill returned from the service, he moved to Lind with Jeanette. The Wills’ are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary on Thursda...
Big Bend Community College has donated eight more computers to the Ritzville library for the community to use. The computers will be located downstairs in the library and will be available for full use sometime in the next few weeks. There are already seven computers at Ritzville High School and five at Lind High School that have been donated by Big Bend. All of these computers are being donated because of a grant that Big Bend received earlier this year. LeAnne Parton from Big Bend hopes that these computers will help...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna boys gained their first win against Garfield-Palouse on Saturday, Dec. 3, with a final score of 53-35. The starters for the Tigercats were Darcy Stamper, Matt Stubbs, Austin Summers, Justin Wargo and Jake Aune. Stamper lead the team in points with a total of 19 points, nine of those in the second quarter alone. “Everyone that went in to the game worked extremely hard,” said head coach Mike Jones. “It was effort that won the game.” Aune scored 11 points for the Tigercats, Jed Zimmer scored 10, Summers...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna lady Tigercats played their first non-league basketball game against Garfield-Palouse on Saturday, Dec. 3. The Tigercats lost their game 22-33 and look forward to playing Gar-Pal in league play on Friday, Dec. 9. The lady Tigercats led the game with a first quarter score of 4-3 and a halftime score of 10-9. Hayley Dorman, Kadie Whinery, Jenna Goude, Anne Fleming and Logan Harder started the game for the lady Tigercats. “The girls played good defense the entire game,” said Coach Tim Stamper. “But we ca...
The holiday season is said to be the ‘season of giving,’ and this holiday season, a local teen is doing just that. Brandon Knodel is a senior at Lind High School and for his senior project he has started a fundraiser titled “Hams from the Heart.” Knodel decided on this project after looking under the gift tree in the high school at the food donations that are collected underneath and realized what he saw is what families would be eating for Christmas dinner. “I looked and saw Mac and Cheese,” said Knodel. “And then I thought...
Stepping into Remember When… antique shop, you might not realize that it is actually a business. The warmth of a wood stove and the smell of fresh brewed coffee are the first things that greet customers to the house. Carly Gillette bought the house that her parents lived in for 31 years and turned it into an antique shop that opened on Dec. 3. Her mother, Liz Gillette, is helping with the business that started because of Carly’s passion for antiques. “My dad had an antique sho...
Fall prevention classes began at the Zion Philadelphia United Church of Christ’s fellowship hall on Monday, Nov. 14, to help participants reduce their chances of injuring themselves in a fall. Stay Active and Independent for Life (SAIL) classes are sponsored by the ZP Church and East Adams Rural Hospital. SAIL classes take place on Mondays and Thursdays at 3 p.m. at the ZP Church. Each class lasts about an hour and it has a warm-up and stretching portion, followed by aerobics and ending with a cool down. The class works on i...
LaCrosse/Washtucna football coach Jeff Nelson was presented with an award for being Coach of the Week on Monday, Nov. 21. The NFL High School Coach of the Week is sponsored by Sterling Savings Bank and focuses on rewarding coaches for their involvement with youth football. Each week during football season, the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington State Football Coaches Association selected two football coaches to win their award. Nelson won the NFL High School Coach of the...
Last week, Ritzville Grade School was filled with legendary individuals ranging from Tutankhamen to Elizabeth Taylor. A total of 74 students participated in the Living Wax Museum event that took place in the Grade School small gym and a few classrooms. The Living Wax Museum had two performances, one in the evening of Monday, Nov. 21, and one daytime performance on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Students from grades 6-8 participated in the performance. Each student dressed as a famous...
Lind High School agriculture program received a plaque for being the Region One Outstanding Middle/Secondary School Agricultural Educational Program for 2010-2011 on Monday, Nov. 28, at the high school. Andy Williams, the agriculture teacher, received the award in St. Louis, Mo., at a National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) conference on Nov. 16. This specific award is sponsored by the National FFA Alumni Association and is only given to six programs nationwide....
Sterling Savings Bank presented the local schools with their collection of donated coats on Friday, Nov. 18. Sterling Savings Bank is a partner in the KXLY Coats 4 Kids drive that raised a total of 18,474 coats this year. Chad Hoeft, Sterling Savings Bank branch manager presented the local school district representatives with the coats. The branch had a total of 120 donated coats this year. Robert Roettger received the coats on behalf of both the Lind and Ritzville school...
The Project 56 committee held a public meeting on Thursday, Nov. 17, to discuss the current progress and plans for the ongoing project. The group unanimously decided to refocus and continue the plans for expansion of the track, and only the track. The refocused project goal is to produce an eight lane all-weather track with two straight of ways, one down either side of the track. Spatially, this track will fit at the already designated location and will allow multiple field events to occur at the same time. Currently, the...
Jen Kronvall from the American Cancer Society spoke at the Chamber of Commerce General Membership meeting on Thursday, Nov. 17, to discuss the upcoming 2012 Relay For Life of Ritzville event. The Relay For Life of Ritzville event will continue to be hosted at the high school track as it has for the last five years and with the money raised going to the American Cancer Society. During those past five events, the Ritzville community has been able to raise around $183,000 for cancer research. Last year alone, the Ritzville...
The FBLA and FFA chapters at Ritzville High School are hosting a rivalry food drive in association with the Apple Cup game. Community members are encouraged to bring non-perishable food to the high school lobby during regular school hours. There are two boxes set up under the window; one is red in support of the Cougars and one is purple in support of the Huskies. The food drive starts on Nov. 14 and will continue until Nov. 23, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving break. If you are unable to drop off food at the high school,...
Former Bronco Ray Bernard has become a part of the Gonzaga Bulldog family. Last August, Bernard received a job offer from Gonzaga to become the public address voice of the women’s basketball team. For the last 10 years, Bernard could be heard as the voice of WSU basketball. He spent seven years as the full-time voice of the women’s basketball team and three years as a substitute announcer for both of the men’s and women’s basketball teams. Bernard graduated from Ritzville High School in 1969 and from there, attended the Uni...