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The special season of Lent begins this Sunday, and Trinity United Methodist Church (TUMC) is starting a study entitled “Not a Fan,” written by Rev. Kyle Idleman. This is a six-part series for each Sunday of the six weeks of Lent. The dictionary defines a fan as “an enthusiastic admirer.” Fans want to be close enough to Jesus to get all the benefits, but not so close that it requires sacrifice. The six-week study helps attendees work on developing and understanding the relationship between Christians and Jesus. The study c...
The Broadcast Youth Group in Lind is making enchilada “meals to go” as a fundraiser for the upcoming summer church camp and the Creation Festival, a Christian music festival. The enchiladas will be made at the Lind Community Church on Saturday, Feb. 23. Meals are available for pick up between 12-1:30 p.m., or delivered locally with prior arrangements. Pre-orders must be in by Wednesday, Feb. 20. A single enchilada plate consists of two ground beef enchiladas, Spanish rice and beans for $7, or interested persons can pur...
Lind-Ritzville High School is hosting a blood drive on Wednesday, Feb. 20, beginning at 10:45 a.m. and concluding at 3 p.m. Donors are asked to bring photo identification and their donor card. Free cholesterol testing is done with every donation. Donors can sign up online at http://www.inbcsaves.org with sponsor code ritzvillehs....
Patricia “Pat” Fode began her journey into poetry purely by accident, but it is a passion that has grown and developed into her first publication, “Let the Spirit Talk.” The book is a collection of poems composed by Pat throughout the past 16 years and has drawn inspiration from a broad range of experiences. The Zion Philadelphia United Church of Christ (UCC) is hosting a book signing with Pat in the fellowship hall on Sunday, Feb. 24, at noon. The book will be availab...
The Lind-Ritzville FFA chapter is participating in a community service project by collecting donations to benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Spokane. The chapter’s officers and advisors are traveling to volunteer their time serving breakfast and donate items to the organization on Feb. 22 as part of National FFA Week. National FFA Week runs from Feb. 16-23, and provides chapter members with an opportunity to educate the public about the importance of agriculture. FFA members from across the country are enco...
The Zion Philadelphia United Church of Christ (UCC) in Ritzville is working with the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to provide a mobile Community Service Office (CSO) on Wednesday, Feb. 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 102 East Main Avenue, in the old Parkway building. The CSO unit has onsite representatives to offer assistance to those needing to apply for state assistance regarding cash, basic food, medical, and drug and alcohol treatment services. The CSO unit also collects completed paperwork for existing...
Columbia Bank is currently hosting a food drive, which lasts for the entire month of February and directly benefits the local community. The Ritzville bank branch is accepting non-perishable food items Monday through Friday, during regular business hours. The food items collected will be donated to the Ritzville Food Pantry at the end of the month. Any individual who makes a donation to the food drive will have their name entered in a drawing that will take place on Friday,...
Women farmers in Washington state have the unique opportunity to participate in an agriculture workshop offering inspirational speakers, practical advice on how to improve management skills and networking opportunities with other women entrepreneurs. “Growing Your Successful Farm Business” will be held on Saturday, Feb. 23, and will broadcast the keynote speaker to 21 different locations throughout the state, including Spokane and Pullman. The new localized format of the conference is designed to let women farmers benefit fro...
During a regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Jan. 28, the Adams County Commissioners unanimously agreed to amend the schedule of regular meeting days and adopt new meeting criteria. The new meeting schedule was effective on Feb. 1 and includes changes to dates and locations. The board of commissioners regularly meets in Ritzville at the Adams County Courthouse and at the County Public Services Building in Othello. During these meetings, the commissioners facilitate conversations regarding budgetary, supervisory processes...
OLYMPIA. Sen. Mark Schoesler said the jobs-education-budget focus of the Senate Majority Coalition Caucus is exemplified by a school-construction funding bill passed unanimously by the Senate Monday. Typically money for school construction is part of the capital budget, which lawmakers don’t tend to adopt until late in a legislative session. Schoesler, R-Ritzville, said Senate Bill 5445 would make that money available much sooner, placing $475 million from bond sales into the state school-construction account as soon as t...
The Board of Directors of Big Bend Electric Cooperative, Inc. recently voted to refund over $1.63 million to the Cooperative’s consumers. Refunds are being mailed to consumers who purchased power from the Cooperative during 1996 or 2011. According to the Cooperative’s Manager, Dan Murphy, Big Bend Electric Cooperative is a non-profit consumer-owned utility. “When more revenue is collected than what is needed to cover operating expenses, the Cooperative allocates the difference to consumers as ‘capital credits’ for return to...
The Fire Protection District No. 2 is welcoming a new fire chief and two assistants to the helm of the department. The commissioners unanimously approved Kevin Starring to serve as the Lind Fire Department’s chief following the retirement of previous fire chief, Don Klemmer. Joining Starring in the leadership positions at the department are Mike Doyle and Rubben Labes, both who are serving a one-year trial term as assistant fire chief. Previously, there has only been one a...
Community members gathered together to celebrate local leaders and support the Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce (RACC) during the annual Community Recognition Night and Auction on Saturday, Feb. 9. The auction, held at the C.J. Newland American Legion Memorial Hall, serves as the primary fundraising event for the RACC. With decorations and a catered meal based around the East Meets West theme, those in attendance helped raise $6,728 to support the RACC through the live and...
The Ritzville Public Library, Page Turners and AAUW book clubs have all announced their upcoming meetings. The AAUW Book Club is reading “This Child will be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life” by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. For the meeting date and location of the book club, contact Vel Babbitt at 659-0488. The Ritzville Public Library Book Club is currently focusing on “The Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson. The group will discuss the book at the meeting on Feb. 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the library basement. At the beginni...
After taking an 8-5 lead at the end of the first quarter, the LRS Lady Broncos lost their opening round sub regional tournament game to DeSales, 38-21 on Saturday, Feb. 9. Statistics from the game were not made available to The Journal prior to press time. The Lady Broncos were trailing in the contest 15-10 at the end of the first half. They advance in the tournament’s consolation bracket to face Asotin on Friday, Feb. 15, at Walla Walla Community College. The game is slated for 3 p.m. This is a loser out game. If they w...
When the Mat Classic opens in Tacoma on Friday, three LRS Broncos will be there. Two of them, Keanu Niezwaag and Cory Coble, have earned the right to compete in the state wrestling tournament in their respective weight classes. Layne Hawks just missed that opportunity, but has qualified as an alternate and will wrestle if another competitor fails to make weight or withdraws due to injury prior to the start of the tournament. The trio turned in strong efforts last Friday and...
The prediction made by head coach Mike Jones that districts would be filled with physical and fast-paced basketball games proved true during the Tigercats’ first round district games. The Tigercats took a win on Thursday night over Rosalia to move the Tigercats into a game with the number one league ranked team, Garfield-Palouse. After trailing for the majority of the game, the Tigercats snuck past the Rosalia Spartans to earn a 50-44 win during the first round game. The T...
Friday the LRS Broncos will set out to do something no one else has done this season – defeat the St. George’s Dragons in the semi final showdown of the sub regional tournament in Walla Walla. The Dragons are 23-1, having lost to 2A Pullman, 55-54 earlier in the season. They come into Friday’s game favored to win the 2B state basketball title. During the district tournament, Colfax came closer than any league opponent has to defeating the Dragons. They pulled within four...
According to our local newspaper, the citizens will be asked whether to continue to upgrade the existing East Adams Rural Hospital (EARH) facilities or to build anew. There may be an attempt to inject a bit of humor here as we are told, “Commissioners have already embraced the building committee’s recommendation that new construction is the most viable and likely the most affordable option.” Why ask the citizens to pay the unnecessary costs inflicted upon them by those who were hired to serve us? The persons respo...
Immigration, the deficit, gun control and jobs are definitely the hot topics that will face Congress as we plunge into 2013. We have a democratic senate that has not passed a budget in almost four years and a combined Congress that did less and spent more time in recess than any Congress since the 1940s. We need to remember that the Senate is required by law to pass a budget each year. The two parties are pointing fingers, but we only need to look at President Obama as he is the primary Senator who eviscerated President...
Caring Neighbors, a nonprofit entity established by Big Bend Electric Co-op, recently donated $500 to the Washtucna School District Reading Program. The Reading Program is designed to help promote independent reading by immersing each student in books. This is the 21st consecutive year that this program has been in place. Big Bend Electric Co-op members have donated the funds for Caring Neighbors....
When Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, it extended some of the farm programs from the 2008 Farm Bill. Farmers and ranchers will soon be able to sign up for programs at the Adams County Farm Service Agency office. The extended programs include: the Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payment Program (DCP), the Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE), and the Milk Income Loss Contract Program (MILC). FSA will begin sign-ups for DCP and ACRE for the 2013 crops on Feb. 19. The DCP sign-up period will end on A...
I hope that you’ve been paying attention to what has been taking place around the country. I’m talking about the weather, not sports right now. It’s amazing at just how bad some of the storms that have hit the Northeast have been. The weather forecasters predictions of snow accumulation and total nastiness have been remarkably accurate. I like the four seasons that we have in the Northwest. I’m not a huge fan of winter, but I tolerate it because spring is just around the corne...
Dear Friends, The Legislature is already past the halfway mark of the time allotted for its policy committees to complete their first round of work. In the Senate that means our 13 policy committees have two weeks left to act on Senate bills (the two fiscal committees always get extra time – until March 1 this year). While our Majority Coalition Caucus is moving forward on our three priorities – jobs, education and a sustainable budget – our members are continuing to pursue legislation that would help people they serve and b...
Our Founding Fathers recognized certain rights are inherent to all Americans, which is why they had the wisdom and foresight to draft the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, documents that were forged by life experiences in the fight for freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression. The Bill of Rights, composed of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, serves to protect the natural rights of liberty and property. Specifically, it guarantees our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to due process,...