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RITZVILLE – Four Lind-Ritzville high school juniors competed in this year's Distinguished Young Women program, with a showcase event highlighting the girls' talent, fitness and self-expression Sunday, Mar. 28. Dakota Killian was chosen as the 2022 Distinguished Young Woman. "I'm just very excited to be able to represent this community," Killian said. "I love this community and I'm grateful to have lived here my entire life, so I'm happy for this opportunity." Killian said s...
RITZVILLE – Part of Interstate 90 was closed for much of Sunday, due to high winds and blowing dust. The closure began at 3:30 p.m. and lasted until the late evening, with the Department of Transportation announcing I-90 reopening between milepost 182 east of Moses Lake and milepost 222 in Ritzville around 9:30 p.m. in both directions. The Department of Transportation reported near-zero visibility due to high winds and flying dust. Hakobyan Harut-Hakobovich of Brooklyn, New Y...
SPANGLE - The Broncos girls fell short Monday night, 3-2, and were eliminated from post-season play by the Liberty (Spangle) Lancers. Set scores in the NE2B league semifinal were 20-25, 25-22, 17-25, 29-27, 16-18. The loss to the No. 2-seeded Lancers marks the end of the season for the No. 3 seeded Broncos, who finish with a 9-5 record. Liberty (10-1) advances to the Tuesday, March 30, title tilt against the No. 1-seeded Colfax Bulldogs. Colfax, 12-0 against Class 2B...
KETTLE FALLS – The Broncos high school and middle school runners competed in a league qualifier in Kettle Falls Saturday, Mar. 27, with freshman Caleb Heater moving on to the league championship in Asotin Saturday, April 3. "Yesterday was a perfect day for racing. The weather was beautiful, the course was nice and flat, and the kids were excited to be there," Head Coach Morgan Hunt said. "Caleb Heater ran an extremely great race. He is our only high school boy going to the meet next Saturday." Heater finished the 5...
RITZVILLE – Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) staff traveled over from Renton Thursday, Mar. 25, to honor Lind-Ritzville Athletic Director and 2020 WIAA Board President Greg Whitmore. The presentation of a plaque, in front of the student body assembled on the stadium bleachers, came as a surprise to Whitmore. "Greg was the WIAA board president last year, and the tradition is to honor them with a gavel at the end of the year. We weren't able to do that t...
Basketball’s new season is getting started even while the NCAA tournament is still in progress. The musical chairs of college coaching changes and the dreaded I’m going pro or better yet the transfer portal for the players. EWU’s Shantay Legans is on his way to Portland to try to revive a Pilot basketball program that couldn’t be revived by two pretty good coaches, the last being a former NBA star with the Trailblazers, Terry Porter. I’m thinking that Legans will try to ge...
Editor’s Note: The Journal did not receive a dispatch records report this week before going to press. Watch the April 7 issue for both weeks' reports. March 18 Morgan-Para, LLC, a Washington limited liability company, Othello, to Anquiano Properties, LLC, a Washington limited liability company, Othello – 745 E. Hemlock Street, Othello. $350,000. March 19 Olsen Homes, LLC, a Washington limited liability company, Othello, to Juan A. Lopez Labra, a single person, Othello – 980 Sandstone St., Othello. $214,890. March 24 Brigi...
RALSTON – A vehicle traveling north on Highway 261, south of Ralston near Herman Road, rolled and came to rest in a wheat field Monday morning, around 8 a.m. The driver, a 32-year-old woman from Spokane, was not injured, and no one else was involved in the collision. Washington State Patrol Trooper Crosby said the woman reported being distracted, and looking up to discover she was going off the road. "She didn't say she was falling asleep, or that she was on her cell phone, s...
GRANT COUNTY – A 57-year-old Warden man was deceased at the scene and residents of Connell and Ephrata sent to the hospital when a tractor trailer struck a pickup truck from behind early Friday morning, Mar. 26. Froylan D. Valdivia of Warden was northbound on Highway 17 in a Chevy pickup truck when he slowed to make a left turn. Abel Juarez Avila of Connell was driving a tractor trailer northbound on Highway 17 when he struck Valdivia's vehicle from the rear. Valdivia died, and Avila, age 30, was transported to the Othello ho...
RITZVILLE – An Othello man pleaded not guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of his son, in Adams County Superior Court Monday, Mar. 22. Felipe Tapia-Perez, 27, remains in Adams County Jail on $50,000 bail following the death of his four-year-old son. His trial is scheduled for April 27. According to court documents, Tapia-Perez had driven to the home of Perla J. Arteaga-Ochoa, the mother of his three children, to pick up his kids for the weekend on Feb. 27. Tapia-Perez was sitting in his vehicle and a...
Washtucna schools considering four-day week WASHTUCNA – The Washtucna School District is considering going to a four-day school week on a permanent basis, starting with the 2021-22 school year, and is requesting community input. A community forum and survey was scheduled to be held in the Washtucna Gym with a brief question-and-answer session afterward Tuesday, Mar. 30, from 6:30 - 7: 00 p.m. There will also be surveys available at the parent-teacher conferences Thursday, April 1. Sprague Days returns SPRAGUE – The ann...
LIND – Councilperson Jim Dworshak presented information on quiet zones at the Mar. 23 town council meeting. Dworshak said for a quiet zone to be in place, the town would have to accept full accountability, and insurance would be $150,000 per track. In the event of an emergency on the track, the horn would still sound. The funds to cover the insurance would have to come out of the water, sewer and garbage accounts, causing an increase of $88 per month per utility user to cover the cost. The quiet zone would have to be placed o...
Emanuel Lutheran Church has the following Holy Week schedule: Maundy Thursday service April 1 at 7 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church at 218 West 3rd Street in Sprague. Good Friday service April 2 at 7 p.m. at Emanuel Lutheran Church, 206 South Division Street in Ritzville. Easter Sunday Worship service Sunday, April 4 at 11 a.m. at Emanuel Lutheran Church. All services are available in person, as well as online through the Emanuel Lutheran Facebook page. Benge Community Church will be holding an Easter Sunday Service at 7:30...
LIND – Students from Lind-Ritzville Middle School were inducted into the National Jr. Honor Society last week. Pictured, from left, are front row: Erien Warren, Jackson Nichols, Connor McAnally and Connor Boettcher. Middle row: Damon Schilling, Taytum Labes, Zoe Galbreath, Madelyn Carpenter and Cameron Boness. Back row: Ryan Anderson, Brix Curtis, Alyssa Williams, Addy Colbert, Emmy Klewin, Claire Wellsandt, JP McAnally, and Brody Boness. Not pictured are Levi Cooper and J...
Surprisingly, there is something U.S. Presidents agree upon — America’s economic and national security hinge upon maintaining our technology edge in semiconductors. Those tiny computer chips are the brains of modern electronics. They operate our laptops and smart phones and permeate every sector of our lives from farming and manufacturing to health care and public safety. They are embedded in our military’s most advanced equipment and give us a tactical edge. Semic...
Beware of what is happening in Washington, D.C. The so-called Equality Act is now in the Senate after passing the House and having President Biden's support. This act is supposedly an extension of the 1964 Civil Rights bill which was to help ethnic groups, not liberal/unconventional groups like the transgender/LGBT who think they're entitled to anything they want with little or no discrimination. This will affect all institutions; public, private, religious. The transgender restroom/locker room/shower theme is overriding the...
This will sound funny anywhere outside Olympia, but there is a question that for years has stumped half the Legislature. If an income tax is so good for the people of the state of Washington, why do they say no every time they are asked? Advocates of higher taxes and spending have tried just about everything. Big income taxes, little income taxes, income taxes dedicated to noble purposes and income taxes that are only supposed to hurt millionaires. Yet the people keep voting n...
OLYMPIA – The 2021-23 Senate capital budget proposal unveiled March 25 will provide needed funding to increase broadband in rural parts of Washington, said 9th District Sen. Mark Schoesler. The Senate proposal dedicates $490 million toward broadband expansion in the state. “Insufficient broadband has been a problem in 9th District communities and other rural parts of Washington, so it is very good to see the Senate capital budget provide so much funding to address it,” Schoesler, R-Ritzville, said. “Having better broadba...
OLYMPIA – Senator Mark Schoesler (R- Ritzville) opposed a bill passed by the Senate Ways and Means Committee last week 13-10. Schoesler said the Democrat-sponsored "carbon cap and tax" bill would punish Washington citizens and companies. "This is another bill that would punish people and companies, without any proof of even helping the climate," Schoesler said. "The bill is called the Climate Commitment Act, but I'm afraid the only thing it will commit Washingtonians to is h...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) announced 27 community health centers in Washington state will receive a combined total of $213,959,125 million in American Rescue Plan funding to support COVID-19 vaccination and services for vulnerable and underserved populations. In Othello, the Columbia Basin Health Association will receive $7,420,375. The Moses Lake Community Health Center will receive $5,600,250. The Community Health Association of Spokane will receive $16,041,875; and the N.A.T.I.V.E. Project, also i...
RITZVILLE – The dilapidated McElroy Coulee Bridge south of Ritzville on Highway 261 is getting replaced. The bridge is located at milepost 57.7, at the junction of Leisle Road and Highway 261, in between Harder Road to the north and Franz Road to the south. The contract was awarded to Shamrock Paving Inc./Murphy Brothers of Spokane, who began the project March 8. "The project is ahead of schedule and on budget," Project Superintendent Randy Wicks said. According to D...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Mar. 31, 1921 PERFECT PLANS FOR ANNUAL PICNIC ON CRAB CREEK Recently a meeting was held in Spokane of the executive committee of the Lincoln and Adams County Pioneer and Historical Association to plan for the coming Pioneer Picnic at Crab Creek. The committee plans to make this fair the best ever, and has arranged for five horse races each day, $150 being the minimum purse for any race. Besides the races there will be athletic contests...
OLYMPIA – The Office of Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention was launched on March 25 to address community gun violence. It is part of the Department of Commerce and is a “statewide effort to coordinate evidence-based intervention and prevention strategies.” “The office’s work will be directed at the highest risk populations of perpetrators and victims in the highest risk communities,” stated Penny Thomas, a representative of the department of commerce. “The office will f...
OLYMPIA – Businesses have until April 9 to apply for the fourth round of Working Washington small business grants. This latest grant round focuses on brick-and-mortar businesses directly impacted by COVID-19 public health measures. The grants will be administered through the Washington State Department of Commerce, rather than distributed locally. The application is available on the Washington State Department of Commerce website. Legislators approved $240 million for this round, as part of an early action bill that also p...
WASHTUCNA – The school's All Student Body (ASB) will be sponsoring a Drive Thru Easter Egg Hunt Friday, April 2, from 4 - 5:30 p.m. Participants are asked to drive by the Washtucna school, and volunteers will give adults bags full of plastic Easter eggs with candy already in them. Then, it is up to participants to hold their own hunt any way they want to celebrate. Kids do not need to be present when the eggs are picked up. Participants are encouraged to open the eggs Easter weekend. There will be notification of winning one...