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The Adams County Harvest Festival returns to downtown Lind on Aug. 25. During the event, people can browse different county vendors on Second Street, between E and I streets, beginning at 10 a.m. Attendees who are 21 years and older can go to the beer garden at Slim’s Bar and Grill, which opens at 6 p.m. A portion of the proceeds from the beer garden will donated to the Lind Calvary Assembly of God Church. The festival’s street dance street dance begins at 8 p.m. and will feature the Spokane River Band....
The LaCrosse School District is hosting a Welcome Back Barbecue on Monday, Aug. 27. The annual event includes a community open house and welcome back dinner. The meal will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the meal includes burgers and salad. The schools and classrooms will be open from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The annual event provides a time for students, parents and community members to meet the teachers, and visit with friends and neighbors. There is no charge for the meal, and all members of the community are welcome to attend. For...
The East Adams Library District (EALD) is holding a water balloon fight on Aug. 23 from 6-7 p.m. at Ritzville City Park. The activity is for teenagers 13 years and older. Teens can earn bonus water balloons and prizes for completing their summer reading goals. For more information, call 659-1222....
For those individuals preparing to submit an entry to the Wheat Land Communities’ Fair, they must head to the fairgrounds on Aug. 29. All entries will be accepted from 4-8 p.m. and must be submitted to the appropriate department. Entry forms are available at each department. This includes livestock entries. For individuals needed more information regarding individual department rules, extra copies of the 2018 Exhibitors’ Guide area available at The Ritzville Journal office. Entry forms for the Sausage or Kuchen contest are...
Flag football forms are currently available at the Ritzville Grade School and Lind Elementary School offices. All students between kindergarten and sixth grade, 5-12 years old, can participate in the flag football league. The registration fee is $35 per athlete, and the fee and registration forms must be received by Wednesday, Aug. 29, for the student to participate. Forms can be returned to the grade school offices in Lind or Ritzville. For more information, contact Zach Gardner at 509-347-6400 or zgardne...
The Ritzville Fire Department will be taking second grade students on the fire truck during the Ritzville Community Parade on Sept. 1. Parents can drop their children off at the fire station on First Avenue at 10:30 a.m., before the parade begins. At the conclusion of the parade, children can be picked up back at the fire station....
The Ritzville Community Parade is set for Saturday, Sept. 1, during Labor Day weekend in downtown Ritzville. Parade entry forms are available at the Ritzville City Hall office, located at 216 West Main Avenue, as well as online at http://visitritzville.com and clicking on the link “Parade Entry Form” on the right hand side of the page. This year’s Junior Parade theme is the 60’s. Participants are welcome to decorate bikes, have wagons or dress in their favorite outfit from the decade. The Junior Parade will immedia...
The Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce is seeking volunteers to help at the ice cream booth during the Wheat Land Communities’ Fair from Sept. 30 to Aug. 2. The chamber is also asking for monetary donations to help support the loca organization. To volunteer or donate, contact Marsha Smith at 659-0234....
The Ralston Grange concession will be open from Wednesday through Sunday during the upcoming Wheat Land Communities’ Fair. Wednesday afternoon and evening only the Grange will be offering a potato bar at their building. All other days the food concession will offer kraut ranza, German sausage, jalapeno sausage, soft pretzels, chocolate zucchini muffins, Wilma’s popcorn balls and beverages. Activities at their building will include hosting the Adams County Pet Rescue on Thursday afternoon beginning at 4, bingo on Friday fro...
Students throughout the region are gearing up to head back to school in the upcoming week. Locally, the Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools and Washtucna School District will start school on Monday, Aug. 27. Parents of Lind and Ritzville students are reminded it is late start Monday, and school will begin at 9:35 a.m. For students in the LaCrosse and Sprague school districts, classes will resume on Wednesday, Aug. 29. In the Lind-Ritzville Districts, there will be multiple changes occurring this school year, which is due to...
The Adams County Commissioners voted 2-0 to adopt an interlocal agreement for the county Solid Waste Comprehensive Management Plan at the Aug. 20 meeting. Commissioner Chairman John Marshall was absent from the meeting. Public Works Director Todd O’Brien said the five municipalities in Adams County had signed the interlocal agreement, which is effective for 10 years and automatically renewed every five years. O’Brien will send the document to the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) for a final review. After he...
During the Aug. 14 Lind Town Council meeting, Mayor Paula Bell presented a draft of the consultant agreement with Century West Engineering for engineering services. The Town selected Century West from three finalists for engineering and consultation services at the July 24 meeting. According to the agreement, Century West will provide the Town with planning, design and construction management for projects relating to water, sewer, storm drainage, streets and traffic. The company will also perform construction surveying,...
HOLLAND FUNDRAISER. Big Bend Family Fun Center in Ritzville held a fundraiser for Robert Holland on Aug. 19. During the event, customers ate dinner and bowled free games. There was also a silent auction with items donated by local businesses, and face painting for children. Proceeds from the event went to help Holland and his medical costs. Holland was diagnosed with cancer in March. After surgery and chemotherapy, doctors discovered a growing tumor in his pituitary gland....
Area first responders had another busy week responding to auto collisions and an RV fire. The Washington State Patrol and Lind Fire Department responded to two separate one-vehicle rollovers on Highway 395 near milepost 68 on Aug. 16. According to a Washington State Patrol report, Jonathan Bakker, 19, of Richland, was driving a 1994 Toyota Corolla along Highway 395 in the right lane. Bakker was approaching a slower vehicle when he swerved to the left to avoid a collision. Bakk...
The East Adams Library District (EALD) hosted an author reading featuring author Betsy Dickinson at the Ritzville Public Library on Aug. 18 as part of the library’s Summer Author Series. During the event, Dickinson read from portions of her first novel “The Water Master,” which was published in 2016. “The Water Master” focuses on the married couple, Susan and Jay, and their move to the northwest. Shortly after they arrive at their new home, the couple meets the Water Mas...
A blanket of smoke has hung over Adams County for a past few weeks, but on in the afternoon on Aug. 19, the skies darkened and the air quality drastically decreased for residents. Sunday afternoon marked the beginning of hazardous air quality conditions for residents, which remained in effect for nearly 24 hours. The county had experience unhealthy and very unhealthy air quality levels for the past week, according to the Department of Ecology’s Air Quality Monitoring chart. T...
Aug. 10, 10:36 p.m. – Washtucna complainant advised of a fire on South Haase Road. Deputy Ned Bernath responded, and the fire had been extinguished prior to him arriving on scene. Aug. 10, 4:20 p.m. – Lind complainant came to the Sheriff’s Office and advised an individual did not show up for a scheduled child exchange at 4 p.m. at the Lind City Park. The complainant requested an incident report to document the reported violation. Aug. 10, 9:57 p.m. – Lind complainant advised of red and white cars driving fast through the are...
There’s so much to do during harvest that my legislator duties naturally shift to the back burner. But sometimes farming and being a state senator simply have to overlap, and that’s when the cab of a combine can be a pretty good place to meet and visit, like this past week, when Japan’s consul general for our region came to town. Consul General Yoichiro Yamada had arrived at his new posting in Seattle last summer, coming from his nation’s embassy in Belgium, and following other postings in Russia, Poland, New York and Ken...
While most of our attention in the Pacific Northwest these days is on trade wars, tariffs and wildfires, there are critical talks underway between the U.S. and Canada over future allocations of the Columbia River system’s water. The two countries are renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty, which went into effect in 1964. It is a 50-year agreement under which both nations can redo providing there is a 10-year advanced warning. That occurred and negotiators are now busy meeting. A new agreement would begin in 2024. At the t...
John Adams once said, “National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” I am pleased that the recent agreement to provide for our national defense for the upcoming fiscal year was a moment of clear unity in Congress to fulfill our constitutional duty to “provide for the common defense.” In July, the House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 5515, the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (or NDAA) on a bipartisan vote of 359-54, and it had already passed the Senate. Preside...
Your District has always sought to be your “medical home”, a one-stop portal to all the healthcare services you need. That does not mean that we here can provide every service you might need: we cannot, for example, perform brain surgery. But, like all rural healthcare facilities, we do try to offer at least initial access to most or all of the various medical specialties you are likely to need. We do that, or try to, by having a spectrum of medical specialists make periodic visits to our facility, where they can see pat...
The annual Ritzville Jamboree kicks off the gridiron season for the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos football team on Friday, Aug. 24. The jamboree begins at 6 p.m. at Jimmie Snider Field. The annual event allows coaches from across Eastern Washington to participate in a preseason event and give the teams an opportunity to fine-tune their skills and determine line up positions for the start of the season. This year, the teams participating in the jamboree are LRS, Colfax, Davenp...
“What surprised me is how super fun this camp was. I knew I would learn things, but I didn’t expect to learn in such a fun way. I would go yearly if I could!” said Taylor Galbreath of her week at Tech Trek at Eastern Washington University held July 29 through Aug. 4. Tech Trek at Eastern Washington University is one of three Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) camps offered in Washington to girls after their seventh grade year of school. The American Assoc...
The Victorian Bed and Breakfast, located at 105 South Division Street, provides guests with an opportunity to stay in a Victorian-era home close to downtown Ritzville. Housed in a two-story Victorian built in 1899, retired pastor Jerry Mahn, and his wife Kathy, own the home and operate the B&B. Jerry explained opening a bed and breakfast was a long-time goal for the couple. The Mahns were living in Florida where Jerry was performing missionary work when they learned the local...
Robert O. Pence passed away on Aug. 20, 2018 in Spokane, WA. There will be a graveside service held Friday Aug. 24, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at the Lind Cemetery. Arrangements handled by Danekas Funeral Home Ritzville, WA....