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More photos from the fair and rodeo will be included in next week's issue of The Journal!...
September is here once again and schools are back in session. It is the last month of the regular season for Major League baseball and the beginning of the football season for real. Whether you like high school football, college football or the NFL your time has come to enjoy games live or on the tube. You are a fan and this is what you have been waiting for since the Super Bowl ended. I know many of you are anxious for the season to get started. Last weekend the Broncos hoste...
Paul Swanson Jr., a former Ritzville student and NCAA Division I athlete will be returning home to bring the “Winning Mindset” training program to Lind-Ritzville/Sprague athletes. Greg Whitmore, the athletic director of the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague sports combine, wants to see LRS teams be more competitive at the state level. “We aren’t sending as many athletes or teams to state as we have in years past,” Whitmore wrote in an email to The Journal in June. “Sometimes that is due to circumstances that we cannot control. However,...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos football team got its first dose of live action on Aug. 30, as it hosted the Ritzville Jamboree. The Broncos welcomed five other teams to Jimmie Snider Field last Friday: Davenport, Northwest Christian, Colfax, Medical Lake and Dayton-Waitsburg. Each team played four ten-play drives; two offensive drives and two defensive drives. LRS kicked things off on offense against Medical Lake, where they found the end zone on a 40-yard touchdown run...
Pearl Elizabeth Soularie (Telecky) passed away on Aug. 27, 2019. Pearl’s final resting place will be at Holyrood Catholic Cemetery in Shoreline, WA, with a burial on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 1 p.m....
There are moments when I look down at the keyring in my hands and am mystified by the large silver key that allows me access to the most magical building in town. Did you know that Ritzville was the smallest town in America to advocate for and receive a Carnegie Library grant? Did you know that in one day, thanks to a very successful community dance, the people of Ritzville raised enough money to meet the grant requirements? That the cornerstone laying brought the governor to town on June 4, 1907? Of the 42 Carnegies built...
Aug. 12 — Noah Matlock, Ritzville, to Jamie Main; Lot 5, Block 51, Second Railroad Addition; $102,000. Aug. 16 — Frank and Myrna Ruzica, Ritzville, to Frank and Myrna Ruzicka Living Trust; Lots 4, 5 and northeastern 20 feet of 6, Block 68, Greene & Proutys 2nd; $106,500....
Local employers will have an opportunity to present jobs and careers to students in grades 6-12 from Lind, Ritzville Sprague and Washtucna during the 2019 Lind-Ritzville-Sprague-Washtucna Career Showcase on Oct. 3 in Ritzville. The showcase is presented by the Adams County Development Council. Stephen McFadden of the ACDC was at the Lind-Ritzville School Board meeting on Aug. 26 to announce the showcase. ACDC has produced two such showcases in Othello, however, this will be the first one it is hosting Ritzville. “I am p...
Every year at the Ritzville Rodeo, young women compete for the honor of being next year's rodeo queen. This year, 16-year-old Julia Klein was the lone competitor. Klein told The Journal before the rodeo that she has wanted to be rodeo queen since she was little. "I feel most comfortable when I'm on a horse," Klein told The Journal in August. "It's been a passion of mine since I was little. It's something that clicks. You get a companionship with the animal." At the Queen's Com...
East Adams Rural Healthcare will be holding its annual Safety, Health & Wellness Fair next Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Knuth Building on the fairgrounds. Over 30 vendors are currently signed up to attend the fair, which includes free breakfast to the first 30 attendees. Goodie bags will also be handed out to attendees. Reduced labs, therapy screens and a free yoga class are some of the activities taking place at the fair. There will also be a raffle and activities for children. The fair is scheduled to take place from 9 a.m....
A recent 2018 financial audit by a public accounting firm based out of Spokane Valley provided mostly good news for East Adams Rural Healthcare in regards to improvements over the 2017 fiscal year. The audit was performed by Dingus, Zarecor & Associates PLLC, an accounting firm that specializes in servicing critical access hospitals, nonprofit healthcare agencies and public sector organizations. EARH has used DZA in previous years, as well. EARH paid around $25,000 for the rep...
Lind-Ritzville High School students are back at school in a newly rebuilt building. The building, however, is not the only thing that is new. It also comes with a lot of new technology. Andy Jones, the district's IT man, was at the school board meeting on Aug. 26 to update the board on the features that the school will have. One of the larger updates involves internet access. "The network is probably the most unique thing," Jones said. "In a traditional network, you have a...
The Ritzville community came out in force on Saturday, Aug. 31 to cheer on and marvel at the dozens of entries in the 2019 Ritzville Community Parade as they marched down Main Avenue. Leading the parade-following members of local law enforcement agencies, the Washington National Guard and the local VFW and American Legion Honor Guard-were Grand Marshals Bill and Karen Curtis. The Curtises were instrumental in establishing the Ritzville Rodeo, which celebrated its 50th...