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Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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The inconspicuous space appears pinched between a Dollar Store and a closed Title Insurance Company office. Blue-gray paint coats the building and door. One window display contains a large white board listing churches and other agencies with a note: "Thank you to the many individuals and families who give Food, Money and Time." Block letters on the other window proclaims "Food Pantry, Wednesday 9 to 1." The place is easy to pass by without significant notice. Yet the...
The Lind Town Council meeting on Dec. 11 was called to order by Mayor Paula Bell at 7:04 p.m. A public meeting to review the Town Budget had occurred in the hour before in which the usual openings—Pledge of Allegiance and determination of a quorum—had taken place. There was discussion relating to the proposed 2019 budget, however no specific action on the budget took place in that meeting. Councilmember Rose Elkington was excused from the Council meeting due to illness. Otherwise, all other Councilmembers were present: Cou...
The Board of Commissioners for the East Adams Rural Healthcare (EARH) met Thursday, December 20. CEO Gary Bostrom reported the Hospital will be posting their charges on their webpage as of January first next year. The posting is a new requirement for the hospital. CEO Bostrom outlined the difficulty in closing the sale of the former nursing home. The property is partially in Adams County; the remainder being within the City of Ritzville. The projected buyer wants the entire parcel annexed to the City in order to streamline...
Lind’s Town Council meeting on Wednesday, the day after Christmas, was unusually short—probably not unexpected for a meeting in the middle of the protracted holiday season. Mayor Paula Bell called the meeting to order, the Pledge of Allegiance was completed, and a quorum was noted (Councilmembers Richard Baldwin, Myra Horton, Rose Elkington, Kathy Vedder were present; Jim Dworshak was absent). Kylie Buell was also present, and her minutes from the previous meeting were unanimously approved. The first order of business was...
December 7, 2018 became more than Pearl Harbor Day for residents of Ritzville and Adams County. The Washington Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation (DAHP) notified Ritzville and Adams County residents that the Adams County Courthouse has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although Ritzville now hosts six of nine properties in Adams County which have been listed in the National Register, criteria for recognition is not lax. To be listed, a pro...
Short-time Ritzville residents may notice regular news articles reporting that “Caring Neighbors” has donated monies to various groups. It would be easy to assume that “Caring Neighbors” refers to a small local charitable group—but as it turns out, that assumption is extremely minimized as to the nature and impact of Caring Neighbors. To start at the beginning, one must travel back to our rural area in the 1930s, when there was no electric service available for farmers and residents of the region. A group of farmers o...
The H.E. Gritman Senior Center board and interested parties gathered for the annual meeting on Thursday, Jan. 17 at 1:00 p.m. Minutes from the previous year’s meeting were unanimously approved. Janet Sanger reported on the financial status of the Center. In 2017, the Center took in $37,900.62 and spent $36,834.55 on expenses – showing a positive balance of $1,066 (the previous year had a negative balance). The Center had cashed in a CD for $10,000.37 in order to meet Center costs. During the year, CenturyLink, City of Rit...
There is an anticipatory hum among audience members prior to high school concert or drama presentations, and the evening of Wednesday, January 16 was no exception in the gym-theater of Lind Junior High School. The Lind-Ritzville High School drama feature at hand involved two unrelated plays: "Oddball" and "Wait Wait Bo Bait" – both by playwright Lindsay Price. An earlier interview with drama teacher and director Allison Nichols shed some light on what was to come. Both plays w...
The interior of Gilson gym was brightly lit and full of energy on Tuesday evening, Jan. 15. It was the beginning of Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Bronco’s only home wrestling match of the season. At 7 p.m., well after an hour of competitor and team warm-ups, the gym lights darkened, and a single very bright spotlight descended from the high ceiling—dropping to 15-20 feet above the wrestling ring on the single wrestling mat. It was to be an evening of “wrestling under the light,” one match at a time. The result of the unusual...
Last Thursday, January 17, under cloudy skies and an incessant chilling rain, four young Scouts scrambled out of their vehicles to deliver the end of their campaign to collect pairs of socks to be passed out to those in need at the Ritzville Food Pantry. They called their project "Box for Sox." To collect the socks, they left marked cardboard boxes at locations around town: Umpqua Bank, Eagles Lodge, NAPA Parts store, and East Adams Rural Healthcare. After a photo op, Pete...