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The H.E. Gritman Senior Center will host a Pancake Breakfast on Friday, Jan. 13, from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Breakfast will feature pancakes, a choice of ham or sausage and coffee with a suggested donation of $5 per person. The breakfast serves as a fundraiser for the senior center and is held the second Friday of every month, except during the summer. The H.E. Gritman Senior Center is located at 118 West Main Avenue in downtown Ritzville. For more information contact the center by calling 659-1921....
The Lind-Ritzville Drama Club announced they will be performing Agatha Rex: A Comedy in Two Acts by Lindsay Price, on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Ritzville Grade School. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $5 for adults and $3 for students in preschool through twelfth grade. The cost of tickets at the door will be $7 for adults and $5 for students. Community members of all ages are encouraged to attend the event to support the local actors and be delighted with an evening filled with comical entertainment. In...
The Journal is currently in the process of updating and creating the 2017 Community Directory for the Benge, Lind, Ritzville and Washtucna businesses, organizations and churches. The directory provides locals with information regarding government, businesses, organizations and churches that can be found in eastern Adams County. Those individuals and businesses listed in the directory that have new information, or would like to change part of their listing, are asked to contact Haley Roybal at The Journal office at 659-1020...
Rose Jones is the new Physician Assistant Certified (PA-C) at the East Adams Rural Healthcare, not a Primary Care Physician, as stated in the Jan. 5 edition of The Journal....
At the risk of facing a pool closure during the upcoming summer season, the Adams County Parks and Recreation District No. 4 board is placing a capital improvement levy on the Feb. 14 Special Election ballot. The proposed levy is $80,000 for the resurfacing of the recreational pool at the Ritzville Water Park facilities. The levy is for collection in 2018, but the work would be completed at the pool prior to the 2017 opening. The project has become a necessity for the district, as the current surfacing in the pool continues...
Former Lind resident Gregory Michael “Deke” Gassett recently received the Washington State University Alumni Association (WSUAA) Alumni Achievement Award for his service in law enforcement, volunteer community work and immense support for the University. After graduating from WSU in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, Gassett continued to support the university through his career and by remaining an active role in the community. Gassett’s contributions have benefitted the university immensely including organiz...
The Ritzville City Council announced Soup it Up has been chosen to take over the Ritzville Golf Course Clubhouse contract during their meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Scott Yaeger stated since the current Ritzville Golf Course manager contract expired Dec. 31, 2016, and with minor changes to the verbiage of the contract, he suggested a motion for the mayor to approve the changes and to work toward completing the document. The Council approved the motion. Yaeger then informed the Council the Parks and Recreation Committee met to...
The Adams County Board of Commissioners approved the 2017 budget totaling $28,428,966, during their regular meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 21, in Othello. Chairman John Marshall said one of the county’s goals regarding the budget is to contain consistent funding and he ensured there were no major changes this year. Remaining consistent can prove to be difficult, said Marshall as he said they received an additional $1.2 million in requests than anticipated. In an attempt to keep their goal, Marshall said they matched the 2016 a...
During their regular meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 21, John Marshall was appointed the Head Chairman of the Adams County Board of Commissioners for 2017. Jeffrey W. Stevens is the 2017 Vice-Chairman and Roger L. Hartwig has been appointed for the Chairman position....
July A massive fire put up quite the fight on Saturday, July 9, as Ritzville and surrounding communities united to fight the battle enormous flames. The fire believed to have started at a power pole and proceeded to sweep through Adams and Lincoln County, destroying nearly 2,000 acres of scabland and CRP grounds. While Adams County responds to multiple wild land fires each summer, Saturday’s blaze recorded as one of the largest in the county’s recent history. After losing one...
LEAGUE WIN. Tessa Jantz leaps past a Northwest Christian defender for a lay-in to put additional points on the board for the Lady Broncos in their 62-50 win on Jan. 7. -Journal photo by Haley Roybal...
TO THE HOOP. Camden Smith drives in and dodges a Northwest Christian defender to score two points for the Broncos on Saturday, Jan. 7, during the league game. -Journal photo by Katelin Davidson...
The LRHS drama production of Agatha Rex: A Comedy in Two Acts will be performed Thursday, Jan. 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Ritzville Grade School. All community members are invited to experience the new rendition of a Greek tragedy and support LRHS drama students. Tickets purchased in advance cost $5 for adults and $3 for students age preschool through 18. At the door, adult tickets are $7 and students are $5. To purchase tickets in advance, LRHS drama teacher Allison Nichols can be contacted at 659-1720 or an...
It seems that the older I get the less I enjoy cold weather. I know a lot of people who really like snow and go skiing whenever possible. I’m not a skier and I can’t say that I have been sledding for a long time. But I do know snow is a good thing for the winter crops and we need the snow in the mountains for sure. I’ve said for a number of years if snow would fall on the fields and in the mountains and stay off the roads I think that would be a good thing for a lot of us. I d...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos mat squad spent the week on the road traveling to showcase improvement in their overall skill in league matches and the Springdale Tournament. Dylan Lane, Alex Whitman, Samuele Bortolato and Tucker Guiles traveled to Liberty on Thursday, Jan. 5, to compete in multiple league matches. Lane wrestled first at 138 against David Just from Waitsburg. Hilzer said Just proved to be more experienced than Lane and quickly pinned him in the first round. Whitman wrestled next at 145 pounds against Nate...
There’s nothing like a winter bird-hunting trip to offset all the activity that goes with celebrating Christmas and the coming of the New Year. I managed to put farming chores and the Legislature on the back burner long enough to break the shotgun out more than once recently. First came a duck hunt on the Yakima River near the Tri-Cities, and then some pheasant hunting off to the east, aided by my four-legged friend Colt, the faithful Vizsla. Besides winding down from the holidays it allowed me to see the ongoing benefits o...
The late Yogi Berra coined the phrase “it’s déjà vu all over again!” It is used extensively to describe political miscues. Case in point: ObamaCare. Recently, Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel wrote a column describing President Obama’s failure with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “The vision of the president calling on his party members to—yet again—lay down their political lives for his ‘signature’ law was a reminder of how this disaster began.” Unfortunately, Republicans, who now control Congress and the White...
In the final weeks of the Obama administration, few actions have been as shocking as the decision to abandon our best ally in the Middle East, Israel. Israel not only shares our democratic values, but it is also a key U.S. ally in anti-terrorism efforts. The U.S. has traditionally exercised its veto power it has on the United Nations Security Council to prevent one-sided anti-Israel measures from being approved. The shameful abstention by the Obama administration in December’s Security Council vote on Resolution 2334, which w...
9 is finally in our rearview mirror and the start of a new year is always an opportunity to be optimistic about the future. I think we all look forward to a “better” year, regardless of how we define that individually. Changes have taken place at the City of Ritzville as well. Articles from time to time in this paper have informed (and perhaps amused) you on the arduous budget process we must go through each year leading up to Jan. 1. For 2017 the City Council, finance committee, city staff and myself have all exp...
On Thursday, Jan. 12, community members will have the opportunity to receive free business training from Allan Peterson, a Certified Business Advisor at Small Business Development Center. The topic of the training is defining business models and assessing business value propositions. The event is sponsored by the Adams County Development Council and WSU Lincoln-Adams County Extension and will take place from 1:30- 3 p.m. at the WSU Extension Office located at 205 West Main Avenue. To RSVP or for more information on the...
If you are reading this article, then you have made it to another year. The year 2016 is notable for the seemingly high number of celebrity deaths that occurred. Some have adopted a superstitious view that the year of 2016 was somehow cursed. The fact is all of humanity is indeed “cursed” with mortality. It’s not the year, but our limited time on earth that we should be aware of. In our all-to-brief lives, we sometimes take for granted our family, friends, and good health. It is when we begin to lose all three of these that...
Delores Jean Anaya, died Dec. 27. Delores was born in Benge, on Dec. 6, 1927 to Milton (Bill) and Maysel Myers. The family eventually moved to Washtucna, where Delores graduated from Washtucna High School in 1945. After high school, she married James Jessie Daugherty. They had one son, James Darwin Daugherty. She made her home there, on the family ranch as a housekeeper and mother. She divorced and moved to Spokane in the summer of 1965 with her son. She worked as a waitress...
Charles “Bud” Englehart, 86, died Jan. 5, at his home in Lind. Bud was born Aug. 22, 1930 in a little house “down the street” in Lind, to parents Reinhold and Goldie Elizabeth (Fritchle) Englehart. He had five sisters and one brother. The only time Bud didn’t live in Lind was during his stint in the Army. He worked many different jobs as a young man, but after returning from his Army duty he began working for Lind Electric Shop. Bud and Sharon began dating in 1952 and marri...
Rose Marie, 88, died peacefully on Dec. 25, in her son’s home with him by her side. She was born Dec. 17, 1928 to the late Edward and Helen Dyck Schrag in Odessa. She spent her childhood days at the homestead with her sisters and brother and attended schools in Schrag, Odessa and Ritzville, graduating from Ritzville high school in 1947. Rose kept detailed descriptions of childhood friends, games, cousins, school events and even how much she disliked chickens! (One time the w...
Rose Clara (Beck) Scheeler died on Dec. 22 in Ritzville at the age of 100. She was born June 13, 1916 in Warden to Karl and Magdalena Beck. She was a long time resident of Lind, graduating from Lind High School in 1935. After high school jobs were hard to come by so Rose and her sister Justine cooked school lunches and worked at the telephone office as a switchboard operator. During WWII she worked at Kasper’s grocery store at which time all items purchased were hand w...