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The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos secured a 20-6 win against Columbia-Burbank during the Homecoming game on Sept. 21. The game served as the final nonleague contest, before the Broncos move into league competition on Sept. 28. After a two-game losing streak, Head Coach Greg Whitmore said the Broncos needed the Homecoming win to help boost their confidence moving into a league game against Colfax this week. LRS ends nonleague competition with a 2-2 record. Whitmore said the...
The Washington State Junior High and High School Rodeo will roll into the Ritzville Rodeo arena on Sept. 28-30. In the junior high contest, Ritzville’s own Harlee Hennings will be competing in poles and barrels on Friday and Saturday. On Saturday and Sunday, Ritzville Rodeo Queen Aaliyah Yaeger will be competing in barrels and poles....
The Adams County Historical Society will host their Annual Dinner and Program on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 1 p.m. at the Ritzville Zion Philadelphia United Church of Christ. The event is the annual fundraiser for the Society. The cost is $20 per person, and the meal is catered by Tee Time. This event is open to anyone interested in Adams County history. The program will be presented by Richard Scheuerman, entitled “Indian Summers, Stories Behind the Native American Portraits by Anne Harder Wyatt.” Tickets for the event are ava...
Local producers will take center stage at the second annual My Farm, Your Table event on Saturday, Sept. 29, in downtown Ritzville. Residents are invited to attend the afternoon event to discuss area crops with producers, as well as attend a taste-testing event in the evening, which will highlight area products. The event is provided in partnership by Lincoln-Adams Washington State University (WSU) Extension Office and the East Adams Library District (EALD). My Farm, Your...
The Mennonite Country Auction (MCA) will once again be raising money for relief efforts nationally and around the world conducted through the Mennonite Central Committee. This year marks the 41st annual sale and auction. It will be held at the Menno Mennonite Church on Oct. 6. The event has a little something for everyone. Early risers can enjoy breakfast from 7-9 am. Then, one can venture in to the fellowship hall to check out the beautiful hand and machined quilts, wall hangings, comforters, and afghans. At 10 a.m. the...
The Washtucna Lions Club will begin offering bingo on the first and third Saturday of every month, beginning on Oct. 6 at the Lions Den. The doors will open at 5 p.m. for food and social hour, and bingo will begin at 6 p.m....
Businesses and organizations seeking 110 funding in 2019 need to submit their applications by Oct. 10, and are encouraged to attend the 110 presentation meeting on Oct. 16. During the Ritzville City Council meeting, Mayor Gary Cook said 110 funding applications have been distributed to local organizations. The deadline to turn in applications is Oct. 10. The Council also voted to designate Oct. 16 at 5:30 p.m., as a time to 110 funding presentations from applicants. The 110 funding presentation is not the only scheduled item...
The Lind and Ritzville School Board of Directors were provided with updates regarding the first month of school, ongoing activities in extracurricular student activities, and an upcoming levy that will appear on the Nov. 6 General Election ballot. Adams County Sheriff Dale Wagner, who discussed the upcoming proposition on the General Election ballot, provided the Community Connection for the evening. He explained the measure proposes a three-tenths of one percent sales and use tax increase with the costs being dedicated to...
Ritzville residents who walk by the H.E. Gritman Building in the next couple of weeks may see crews working to restore the structure’s brickwork. Building owner Brenda Owens said she contracted with Wolf Creek Contracting to rehabilitate the brickwork, which is scheduled to be finished before the end of October. The H.E. Gritman Building is one of the structures in the Ritzville Historic District in the downtown area. The 116-year-old building houses the H.E. Gritman Senior Center, as well as local businesses like R...
Children who want to learn the basics of coding can attend the East Adams Library District’s (EALD) Coding Club every Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Ritzville Public Library. The Coding Club provides children, and adults, with an opportunity to learn fundamental coding skills that could lead them to program their own video games, websites or mobile phone applications. EALD Youth Services Library Assistant Millie Hopkins said the Ritzville Library Foundation provided the resources t...
LRS CHEER. During halftime of the Sept. 21 Homecoming football game, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague cheerleaders performed a routine for the large crowd of Broncos fans. -Journal photo by Katelin Davidson...
Novelist Layne Hansen visited the Ritzville Public Library on Sept. 22 as a part of the East Adams Library District’s (EALD) local author series. During the event, Hansen read the introduction and prologue from his book “Careful Measurements,” which was published in June. He explained the book title was taken from a quote of Whittaker Chambers from his autobiography “Witness.” Chambers was an American journalist and a Communist spy, who defected from communism in 1938. Han...
A Moses Lake driver was injured in a two-vehicle collision on Interstate 90, milepost 221 outside of Ritzville city limits on Sept. 18. A Washington State Patrol (WSP) report stated Mandy Epolito, 36, of Moses Lake, was driving a Chevy Impala westbound on I-90 when she crossed the median and collided with a Kenworth semi-truck. Epolito was transported to East Adams Rural Healthcare the driver of the semi-truck, Ronald Weaver, 52, of East Earl, Pennsylvania, was not injured....
Do you ever have a problem cheering for your favorite team? As Major League baseball winds down and the Mariners are eliminated from the playoffs, as fans we still want them to win don’t we? I was listening to the game on the radio on Sunday and still hoped for some success as if the game was one that really mattered in August. I still want them to win. I know there are some that couldn’t care less but a win is a win and I still want the M’s to win. For those fans of college f...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos cross country team began league competition with a Northeast 1B/2B League meet at the Colfax Golf Course on Sept. 18. Linnea Schafer finished 14th in the 2.95-mile womens’ race with a personal record (PR) of 20 minutes and 43.08 seconds. Jordyn Fode completed the event with a PR of 34:45.75. Sam Michels led the Broncos boys after he finished the mens’ race with a PR of 17:29.30 Eli Michels clocked in at 23:59.08, while Erik Hughes recorded 37.11.96, a PR for both athletes. Head Coach Mor...
Lind-Ritzville Middle School (LRMS) started school Aug. 27 welcoming the high school students into the school. LRMS boys had their first football game Sept. 12 at Colbert. LRMS volleyball girls had their first game on Sept. 17 at home. The boys beat Davenport on Sept. 20, 13-0. Good luck to all sports players. Homecoming week was Sept. 17-21. The days included meme day, Disney day, woody western day, Ohana day, and finishing up the week spirit day. Both the middle school and high school students participat...
Last week, President Trump signed appropriations legislation approved by Congress, H.R. 5895, the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, to fund some of the highest priorities of the federal government, including health care for our veterans. In addition, the legislation provides resources for Hanford cleanup and research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Through their service, our veterans have earned the care promised to them, and the federal governme...
Last spring, Boeing revealed its proposed hypersonic passenger airliner, which would fly much higher and faster than the Concorde: the only previous supersonic commercial airplane. For reference, supersonic jets fly over the speed of sound (660 mph or Mach 1), while hypersonics surpass Mach 5 or 3,800 mph. Boeing told the annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference held in Atlanta its sleek new airplanes would travel at Mach 5, enabling them to cross the Atlantic Ocean in just two hours and the...
I like a “win-win” idea as much as anyone, and its all the better when the idea has to do with farming, and the source of the idea is WSU. So I was happy to see the recent write-up in the Spokesman-Review featuring longtime WSU faculty member Tim Murray and the research he’s doing in south Spokane County on using fly ash to improve soil quality. I’ve known Tim for a long time, at least back to when he was doing work on perennial wheat. His project, which is another example of the world-class thinking coming out of our sta...
This letter is in response to Mr. Wade with hope that it will bring him more than a “basic fundamental understanding” of the new state funding plan. The reference to how teachers can make more by working in other districts is nothing new to the educational system. Districts in higher property value areas could collect additional funds, which afforded them the ability to provide additional paid days to their teaching staff. This gave those teachers higher salaries than their counterparts located in areas with lower pro...
To all of our dear Ritzville Citizens, We appreciate the many ways in which you support our schools, and are especially grateful for the exceptional support involving our capitol projects and the high school renovation. While our facilities personnel did an amazing job of readying the building for construction, we find ourselves waiting for the State of Washington to complete required paperwork so we can get the ball rolling. As soon as that happens the removal of asbestos will begin, followed by the required demolition. We...
MUSCLE MAN volleyball proved entertaining on Wednesday night, when all males from the classes competed in Gilson Gym. Senior Shontz Yaeger reacts to freshman Sage Teal’s block during the first match of the night....
ASHLYNN NORTON dodges Kelsey Billigmeier during the Powderpuff Football game on Jimmie Snider Field on Sept. 19. The junior class would move on to win the Homecoming week activity....
SENIOR WIN. Members of the senior class celebrate after winning the “stuff your face” contest on Sept. 19 as part of the Homecoming week activities. The seniors had to race members of other classes in an effort to eat foods like red onion, saltines, broccoli and tomatoes first, with the seniors emerging victorious....
ASSEMBLY. Hours before the Broncos game against Columbia-Burbank, Lind-Ritzville students and faculty gathered at Gilson Gym for a Homecoming assembly. The event included a skit where school staff lip synced to “Eye of the Tiger....