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Performances of Ritzville Community Theatre’s (RCT) production of “Let Him Sleep ‘Til It’s Time for His Funeral,” begin on Thursday, Nov. 8, in Trinity United Methodist Church’s social room. The performances continue on Nov. 9-10, and each night doors open at 6:30 p.m. and curtain is at 7 p.m. The three-night performance features veteran RCT actors, Jean Richards, Kathryn Schafer, Bill Sager, Lee Egnew and Ed Riederich. Kymberlee Webb joins the cast for the first time, and H...
Jake’s Café will be the gathering place for a Veteran’s Day celebration on Sunday, Nov. 11. The evening will begin with a no host dinner at 6:30 p.m. Come and join in the celebration and take this time to gather and remember our troops and our fallen heroes. All veterans and their families are encouraged to attend....
The Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce (RACC) is having the monthly membership meeting at Casuela’s Grill on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 12 p.m. Guest speaker, Otto Stevens, is providing narration for 180 of his favorite color photos of various landscapes, buildings and scenery of the surrounding area. Stevens is an active member of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Photographic Society of America and serves as field trip chair for the group....
The family favorite Turkey Bingo event returns to the American Legion Hall on Saturday, Nov. 10, hosted by the Ritzville Lions Club. From 2-10 p.m., attendees have the chance to win a turkey or two, just in time for Thanksgiving. Aside from the 80 turkeys being awarded to bingo winners, individuals can also purchase raffle tickets to win one of 14 cash prizes. Raffle tickets can be purchased for one dollar from Ritzville Lions Club members and the proceeds benefit the Ritzville Lions Club Civic Improvement Fund. The first...
The H.E. Gritman Senior Center is hosting a pancake breakfast on Friday, Nov. 9, from 7:30 a.m. until noon. The center hosts an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast on the second Friday of every month. Pancakes are served with the choice of ham or sausage, with a suggested donation of $5 per person. The breakfasts serve as the main, ongoing fundraiser for the center. The senior center is located at 118 West Main Avenue in downtown Ritzville....
The Lind Community Church fellowship hall will be the site for a community Thanksgiving Dinner on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m. The meal is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Non-perishable food items are accepted at the event and the items collected are to be donated to the Ritzville Food Pantry. A free will offering will be collected for the Lind Ministerial Association and monies raised are used to support local families in need....
The Lind School District is holding a surplus sale on Nov. 14 from 1-5 p.m. and Nov. 15 from 1-8 p.m. in the Lind Elementary School gymnasium. Items include over 500 used library books, miscellaneous classroom materials, textbooks, curriculum, furniture, encyclopedias, office machines, Cortelco phones, and more. Lind Elementary School is located at 206 W Third Street....
The Ralston Grange is hosting the annual community Thanksgiving potluck and program on Tuesday, Nov. 20, with the theme of “Giving Thanks for Community Volunteers.” The potluck begins at 6:30 p.m., immediately followed by the program. This year, members are asking for help in providing entertainment during the talent portion of the program. As an incentive, the Ralston Grange is contributing $25, on behalf of the performer, to the charity of their choice. Performers are welcome to showcase musical talent, act out a skit, or...
Bronco Junior Hoopsters registration opened on Nov. 5 for students in third through sixth grade in both Lind and Ritzville. Students should have received paperwork from the schools on Nov. 5, and all paperwork must be returned by Nov. 21. Practices begin in December with games to follow in January and February. All of the games are on Saturdays. Registration forms must be turned in by Nov. 21 for students to participate. Due to new policies, late forms will not be accepted this year. Insurance coverage for the athletes has...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna/Kahlotus Tigercats knocked off the Garfield-Palouse football team on their home turf on Friday, Nov. 2, with a score of, 58-38. The win moved the Tigercats into third in the Southeast 1B standings, and in position to compete in the state playoffs. The Tigercats now face Almira-Coulee/Hartline (ACH) in the first round state playoff game in Coulee City on Friday, Nov. 9, with game time at 7 p.m. ACH is number one in the Northeast 1B South league, with a league record of 6-1, and an overall season record...
A group of male members from local law enforcement agencies are participating in “Movember,” a mustache-growing movement geared towards raising awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer. November is men’s health awareness month, and participating law enforcement officers are collecting pledges to donate to charity. Movember has gained popularity worldwide in the past 10 years, and has now made its way to Adams County. The participating members had to be clean-shaven by Nov. 4, and the competition...
On Aug. 4, 2004, Robert Reynolds deployed to Iraq as a United States Marine to fight for our country. It was his 27th birthday. For the next six months, Reynolds would be stationed in Iraq and participate in various assignments. He would return home in February 2005 as a veteran, and the recipient of the Purple Heart. Now eight years after his deployment, Reynolds serves as a corrections officer in the Adams County Sheriff’s department, where he has worked for the past s...
Crystal Reynolds assists Brody Boness with a fishing line while Jerod Harder waits patiently for his turn. The fishing game was one of many activities at the Benge Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Benge School. Aside from the variety of games, kids also participated in a Halloween costume competition and played bingo. –Journal photo by Katelin Davidson...
The AAUW and Ritzville Public Library have announced the dates of the November book clubs. The AAUW Book Club will meet on Nov. 14 at 10 a.m., at the Ritz Roadhouse. The book for November is “Lark and Termite” by Jayne Anne Phillips. The Ritzville Public Library Book Club is meeting on Nov. 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the library basement. This month’s book is “Shanghai Girls” by Lisa See....
When Tekoa-Oakesdale/Rosalia rolls into Ritzville on Friday night, the Broncos will need to be wearing their playoff game faces. TOR finished in a three-way tie in their league with Waitsburg-Prescott and DeSales. Their only loss this season was to DeSales. Head coach Greg Whitmore was thrilled to have the district crossover game behind the team, with the Broncos rolling to a 40-7 domination of the Asotin Panthers. Ever conservative, Whitmore was quick to point out that going...
Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan M. Garcia announced Nov. 2 that the 2012 FSA county committee elections begins on Monday, Nov. 5, with the mailing of ballots to eligible voters. The deadline to return the ballots to local FSA offices is Dec. 3. “The role and input of our county committee members is more vital than ever,” said Garcia. “New county committee members provide input and make important decisions on the local administration of disaster and conservation programs. With better participation in recent years,...
The Lind Women’s Fellowship group closed the doors on another successful Soup Supper and Auction. The event held on Tuesday evening at the Lind Community Church, served over 115 people as it celebrated its 30th year. The meal tickets raised $900, and the live auction, that was headed by auctioneers Dr. Warren Kragt and Grant Miller, generated over $2,500 on 32 donated items. The largest bid of the evening was $300 for a handmade quilt made and donated by Lenora Sackmann. T...
The Lind-Ritzville FFA chapter sent teams to compete in the state horse judging contest and the Adams County soils contest throughout the past month. Recently, the team that traveled to the state horse judging competition included members Kate Schell, Heidi Hennings, Erika Leffel, Peyton Curtis and Rachel Schell. The contest consisted of four halter classes, two performance classes, tack identification, equipment identification and oral reasons. The Lind-Ritzville Team placed...
A hard, poorly fought battle is finally over! I think most of us would have preferred to hear more positive comments and ideas about how we are going to climb out of this bottomless pit. However, President Obama ran ads on the east coast that we were not worthy of hearing and Mr. Romney and Ryan decided to drop down to that level of campaigning. Whatever happened to “planks” that the parties built their platforms on during the conventions? The treasury announced on 10-31-12, that we will reach our $16.4 trillion bor...
As a former commercial Morse telegrapher, primarily with the “original” Western Union Telegraph Co., I handled a lot of press copy for newspapers. When the sending telegrapher finished transmitting and there was nothing more, they would say, “end it – 30.” The receiving telegraphers would give the office call letters and their personal sine. For the “SK” Spokane chapter of the Morse Telegraph Club Inc., at it’s Fall 2012 meeting, the few who bothered to attend voted to sine “30 and NM” (no more). The chapter has officially be...
It is unacceptable in this day and age that there is a cancer for which the relative five-year survival rate is still in the single digits. It is particularly unacceptable when you consider that the overall five-year relative survival for all cancers is now 67 percent and the overall cancer incidence and death rates are declining, while the incidence and death rates for pancreatic cancer are increasing. Pancreatic cancer is anticipated to move from the fourth to the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. by 2020, an...
When Bob Tracy stopped by the office a few weeks ago, he came bearing a Card of Thanks – an expression of gratitude for an enormously kind and generous act that had moved him. We were arriving at The Journal at the same time, so we walked in together, took care of what he came to do and then talked about the incredible generosity of people when there’s a crisis, in this case Bob’s crisis. More or less, Bob and I know each other because he has worked for the City of Ritzville and I report on the city’s activities. He’s ha...
Rob, “The Right Stuff,” Meline was born to Maurice and Joyce Meline on Oct. 12, 1956, in Ritzville. He was an avid sports fan and athlete, lettering in football, basketball, baseball and track every year in high school. He won numerous awards in athletics, including being named Inland Empire Player of the Week multiple times. He still holds state records for B8 football from the state championship game in 1974. He attended Washington Sate University from 1975-1980, where he ea...
Paul G. Simonson passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Pomeroy, Wash. He was born Aug. 10, 1952, in Pocatello, Idaho, to George and Deloris (Borgens) Simonson. He attended school in Aberdeen, Idaho, graduating in 1970. Immediately after graduation, the family relocated to Ritzville to farm the Borgens Family homestead. He went on to college at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, and obtained a degree in Applied Welding Science. He worked as a welder in the Seattle shipyards, in...
A major expansion of broadband fiber is now complete in Adams County, providing local residents, businesses, hospitals and libraries with access to high-speed Internet for the first time. To celebrate the project’s completion, Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) and the Ritzville Public Library are hosting an open house on Friday, Nov. 9, from noon to 2 p.m. and inviting the community to attend. The statewide broadband expansion project, a joint effort between local PUDs, private companies, ports, cities, counties and N...