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CHENEY — A cold front moving through the region beginning Monday night is expected to bring more rain and windy conditions to the area Tuesday. Rain is expected in the morning, with winds picking up through the afternoon and into the evening. Forecasters at the National Weather service are predicting potentially damaging wind gusts from 40-60 mph peaking between 4-8 p.m., with 60 mph gusts possible locally. A High Wind Watch has been issued for Tuesday afternoon and evening from the Wenatchee area east through the Columbia Ba...
RITZVILLE – Lind-Ritzville High School Athletic Director Greg Whitmore is asking parents and guardians of middle school and high school student athletes intending to participate in sports this school year to register on FinalForms. “Although there are no interscholastic athletics taking place this fall, there are three seasons planned with a starting date shortly after Christmas,” Whitmore said. “Coaches will be reaching out to students through FinalForms.” FinalForms, an online registration system for student-a...
The Palouse Falls Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute hosted their annual Fall tour Saturday, Oct. 26. This is the fifth tour since their formation in 2015. The previous tours were by bus but due to Covid-19, it was decided to hold this tour by car caravan. The tour was led by Chapter President Lloyd Stoess, Vice-President Jacqui Hair, and Chad Pritchard, a professor of geology at EWU. Seventeen people checked in at the Ritzville City Park for introductions and...
September 26 Recovered Vehicle - 800 block West Rehn Road Ritzville Deputies responded to a report of an abandoned trailer/utility vehicle at the location and determined it had been reported stolen to an agency in Grant County. The vehicle combination was impounded as its owner could not be contacted. Nuisance/Noise - 300 block South Reynolds Road Othello Deputies responded to a noise complaint and advised the responsible to turn down the loud music. September 27 Domestic - 2100 block West Bench Road Othello Investigation is...
It has been difficult to get excited about watching football on TV. I know that I said I would be a fan and watch, but if the team that you really support isn’t playing then it makes it tough to want to get to know teams that are playing 1000 miles away. Think back a year ago. On September 30, 2019 I was in Cheney watching the Eagles play North Dakota. Well let’s just say I was doing my best to watch the game since snow was blowing directly into my face. It was a cold, wet...
RITZVILLE – A maintenance and operation levy for Park and Recreation District No. 4 is on the ballot for the Nov. 3 general election. The measure, if approved, would authorize the District to levy a special property tax of $75,000. This would be an estimated $0.194, or just under $2, per $1,000 of assessed valuation in 2020. Funds collected would be used for maintenance and operation of the Ritzville Water Park for the year 2021. The levy failed to reach the needed 60% a...
RITZVILLE – High school and middle school student-athletes and coaches are encouraged to sign up for free Mindset Wednesdays training sessions. “I have listened to these speakers before, so this should be an excellent series and important for this period we are going through,” Lind-Ritzville High School Athletic Director Greg Whitmore said. The sessions begin Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 5 p.m. Mindset Wednesdays feature Collin Henderson, founder of Master Your Mindset, LLC; and Ngozi Musa, founder of Aesthetics and Athle...
OTHELLO – The first-ever Red & Blue Benefit Tourney to raise funds for the Adams County Sheriff's Department and the Adams County Volunteer Firefighters was a whopping success Saturday, Oct. 2. Othello Golf Club Manager Rick Wolfs said funds would be split evenly, with both groups receiving a check for $6,000. Wolfs said 72 people showed up to golf in the event that began with a shotgun start at noon and lasted until almost 5 p.m. Wolfs said there was one team of volunteer f...
RITZVILLE – Bryce Court, Social Studies teacher and golf team coach at Lind-Ritzville High School, was recognized by high school principal Kevin Terris for going "above and beyond his call of duty as a teacher." "Bryce has been instrumental in our high school's shift to creating a school with high demands with high levels of support," Terris said. "He has been open-minded, resourceful, and creative in creating a unique way to teach and learn in our building." Court came to L...
On November 3, 2020, Adams County residents will be given another opportunity to vote for the Ritzville Water Park pool levy, running a second maintenance and operation levy that did not pass in August. It is important for us to note that these measures do require an investment from residents, many of whom that do not utilize the pool. However, with respect to that situation, the benefits of passing the levy are wide-ranging. In short-term, local jobs will be created for our youth, who will gain from work experience that may...
It is official. Boeing will consolidate its 787 manufacturing in South Carolina. This news has many implications for the state including a direct impact on the state’s budget outlook. Although the September revenue forecast didn’t make an assumption about what Boeing would decide, a downside risk to the forecast was if South Carolina was picked. From the September revenue forecast: “The potential consolidation of Boeing 787 production in South Carolina and resulting decli...
Janet Eileen (Jeske) Sackmann touched the lives of so many in our community. She always had such a welcoming smile and was a pleasure to visit with; her energy and vitality was contagious. James 1;22 was the verse she lived by, "be doers of the word, and not hearers only...". Janet went to be with Jesus on October 1, 2020, after a swift battle with cancer. Janet Eileen Jeske was born on August 19, 1936, in Warden, Washington; she was the sixth child born to Edward and...
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife already manages about a million acres of publicly owned lands statewide. Now, the agency is trying to use recent wildfires as an excuse to regulate more land use, and potentially increase its land holdings. Last week, the agency called for sage-grouse to be listed as an “endangered” species. It will be collecting public comment on the idea through Dec. 30. According to agency South-Central Regional Director Mike Livingston, this yea...
School increases time on campus RITZVILLE – Lind and Ritzville School Boards unanimously approved adding Lind-Ritzville Stages of Reopening 2020-2021 Matrix B to Appendix A of the Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools 2020-2021 Back to School Plan at a special board meeting Monday, Oct. 5. The new matrix is available on the school’s website, under the Reopening Plan. “We added this to start getting opportunities faster for all age groups to have some face to face time at school,” Ritzville School Board Chair Marci Miller...
That the scene has become familiar makes it no less wrenching: A distraught couple searches through the ash, char, and melted metal of what was once their home. Only the concrete pad and the occasional fireplace remain. What is also in that tableau -- but hardly noticed -- are trees. A few are killed and many are scorched, but most are alive and green. The house vaporized because it could not cope with fire; the forest survived because it could. And paradoxically, it was the house fire that killed the trees. Those...
RITZVILLE – Adams County passed their annual audit with no findings. In an exit conference with county commissioners Sept. 28, Bradley White of the Spokane Team with the Washington State Auditor’s Office said the county had “good processes in place to ensure it’s financial data.” White said he worked with county auditor Heidi Hunt, who “made his job easier.” “Heidi is someone who takes her job really seriously, and she does a great job in making sure she has her ducks in a row,” White said. “She really makes our job easier by...
OTHELLO – McCain Foods USA will resume construction of a 170,000-square-foot expansion to its potato processing facility in Othello. The construction was halted last spring due to COVID-19 restrictions on all non-essential work. "This expansion will increase production capacity through the addition of a new state-of-the-art French fry processing line, bring new jobs to the community and require approximately 11,000 additional acres, sourced from local potato growers in the r...
RITZVILLE – Need necessitates invention, and a short supply of masks at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic led East Adams Rural Healthcare CEO Corey Fedie to approach Lind-Ritzville High School Principal Kevin Terris about printing masks for the hospital and clinic, with the school's 3D printer. Fedie said the collaboration began four months ago, after he saw a clinic in Billings, Montana, was printing masks. "N95s were still in short supply, and Kevin volunteered over t...
RITZVILLE – A Revised 2020 Dance Performance held on the main stage at Wheatland Communities Fairgrounds Saturday, Oct. 3, featured dancers from beginning to advanced. Instructor Karen Kinch has been teaching dance in the area for many years, after dancing professionally in musical theater and rehearsing with the Spokane Ballet Company when they first began. "It's just been a joy to be able to pass on my love of dancing," Kinch said. She said Saturday's recital was a m...