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RITZVILLE – Mayor Gary Cook welcomed the community to this year’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, in front of the library Friday, Dec. 4. The event was done “virtually” this year, with the tree lit at 5:30 p.m., and the event broadcast live on the Ritzville Chamber of Commerce Facebook page. Mayor Cook thanked the city’s Public Works Department for putting the tree up and putting on the ornaments, many of which were made and donated by community members. Mary Chamberlain spoke for...
NOVEMBER 27 Agency Assist - East I-90 near milepost 199 Ritzville Deputies assisted EMS and the fire district wtih a single vehicle collision. Agency Assist - 200 block West Broadway Avenue Ritzville Deputies responded and assisted corrections deputies with a fight in the jail. Both parties were detained. Trespassing - 2100 block West Highway 26 Othello Deputies determined a juvenile and parent were operating ATV’s on a limited access roadway without permission. The vehicle was removed from the Potholes canal without i...
NOVEMBER 6 Olsen Homes, LLC, a Washington limited liability company, Othello, to Joana Mansanarez and Jose M. Mansanarez-Chaves, wife and husband and Jorge Rangel-Sanchez, an unmarried man – 940 Sandstone Street, Othello. $219,200. NOVEMBER 9 Octaviano C. Galicia and Catatlina M. Morfin, Warden, to Ysenia Magana Marmolejo, Othello – 1979 Peerless mobile home. $10,500. NOVEMBER 10 Northwest Trustee and Management Services, a Washington limited liability company, Spokane, to Adan Garza Jr. and Bonnie Garza, husband and wife, Ot...
Betty Jean Minion was born May 19, 1929. She passed away on December 2, 2020 in Spokane Washington. In 1949, she married Charles Minion and moved to Ritzville Washington. There she raised 4 daughters and worked for the Ritzville School District as head cook. She is preceded in death by her husband Charles. She is survived by her daughters Marilyn Moore (Rick), Janine Minion, Cathie Moeller (Jim) and Diane Volz (Mike). Also surviving are 7 grandchildren and 9 great...
NOVEMBER 1 01:26 The on-duty officer located several political signs in a yard which had not been there earlier in the evening. They were taken to the PD for safe keeping. 03:03 Request to assist the Adams County Sheriff’s Office in attempting to locate a suicidal subject. The subject’s phone may have been near Second and Columbia earlier in the evening. 10:30 An officer was dispatched to the old US Bank Building where it was reported a women was having an emotional crisis. A sheriff’s deputy transported the subject to a Mot...
Maxine Elaine Stroud Cook, 92, went to be with Jesus on Friday, November 27, 2020, in Wenatchee, WA. She was born to Eugene A. and Mary E. Koch Stroud in CA. She grew up with her mother’s family and graduated valedictorian in Lind, WA. She loved playing the piano, the church organ, and also participated in a Miss America contest. Maxine married Leonard L. Cook in 1957. She worked in banking for 36 years. Maxine enjoyed her family, doting over her dogs, and travelling around t...
Catherine Jean McCaffery, 94 passed away December 2, 2020 at the home of her son and daughter-in-law Mike and Colleen McCaffery. Catherine was born in Moscow, Idaho January 6, 1926 to DeMoin and Dora Gilchrist and lived in Genesee, Idaho until moving to Colfax, Washington at the age of 1. She graduated from Colfax High School in 1944 from Washington State College in 1948 with a degree in Home Economics. She taught high school home economics in Davenport where she met and marri...
Laurabelle Janssen, 88, of Ritzville, WA, passed away on December 1, 2020, at Royal Park Retirement Center in Spokane, WA. Laura was born July 20, 1932 in Barclay Township, MN, the 12th child of John Warren and Dora May Grover. On March 3, 1956, she married Charles Janssen. While raising their family in Ritzville, she worked at the nursing home and hospital. In her later years, she cared for elderly people as an in-home caretaker. She never passed up an opportunity to spend...
Karen Izelle (Gallion) Tinkham, born on March 8th, 1944 in Ritzville WA, died peacefully and unexpectedly on November 19th, 2020. Karen lived a life of hard work, dedication and loving her family and friends. Karen grew up in Ritzville and attended Lind High School. After high school, Karen moved to Spokane in the late 1960’s where she met and married her late husband Donald F Tinkham. She was an extremely hard-working woman not afraid of any job. This is what lead her to c...
SPOKANE – Innovia Foundation is launching “A Pine Creek Christmas: Celebrating Malden and Pine City” to provide a brighter Christmas for the families of Malden and Pine City displaced by the September wildfires. The foundation is partnering with individuals, families and businesses to connect sponsors with families. Sponsors will serve as Santa, and bring wrapped gifts for their assigned family, or making a cash contribution for someone else to do the shopping. The foundation is also seeking volunteers to help with shopp...
Raffle to be held Saturday WASHTUCNA – The deadline for purchasing raffle tickets from the Washtucna Heritage Museum is 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. The raffle will be held that afternoon. Call Karin Clinesmith at 509 887 2434 to purchase tickets for $3 each. Prizes include an electronics basket from GigiMedics, a 1942 working radio, a semi-truck race track for ages 8 and above, and an oversized kid’s toy combine. Santa Claus coming to Ralston The Ralston Grange has sponsored a community Christmas Potluck and Party each yea...
“One of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century is dealing with the progress of the 20th Century – especially old computers, monitors, cellular phones and televisions. These appliances depend on hazardous materials, such as mercury, to operate. After a five-to-eight year useful life, many are tossed into dumpsters and sent to landfills where those hazardous materials can leach into the soil, streams and groundwater.” That was the opening paragraph of a column I wrote 20 ye...
During last year’s holiday season, I submitted a letter to the Journal appealing to those in our communities to consider donating to our local non-profit organizations. I would like to again encourage your readers to do the same this year. The four organizations I mentioned last year (Lind and Ritzville Ministerial Associations, Ritzville Food Pantry and The Collective Adventure) all have a vital role helping individuals and families in need, especially during this time of year. These organizations do not normally have o...
The facts are COVID-19 has cost the city in lost tourism dollars as many events were cancelled. Sprague Days, Little League and other softball tournaments, plus several events at our Historical Railroad Museum just to name a few. The schools certainly have been impacted by the pandemic with their many community functions. Senior graduation was scaled back, but to the school and parents’ credit, they found a way to make it memorial for the graduating class. They all deserve m...
OTHELLO – The Adams County Development Council, under contract with the Washington State Department of Commerce, processed small business applications under the Working Washington Small Business Emergency grant program. November marked the second round of grants provided by the state, and 12 first-time applicants were awarded grants. Similar to the first round of grants back in April, the Adams County Developement Council developed an online application to receive applicant i...
It’s been 278 days since Gov. Jay Inslee first issued executive orders shutting down businesses, ending government transparency and calling some people “non-essential.” His mantra at the time, “flatten that curve” on the growing coronavirus outbreak. The governor and his hand-picked advisers told us the shutdowns were temporary, that the so-called emergency was temporary. More than six month later, temporary seems to have a different definition. Businesses are closing daily, residents across the state are protestin...
RITZVILLE – The Adams County board of Commissioners, comprised of Chairman Roger Hartwig, Vice-Chairman Terry Thompson and Commissioner John Marshall unanimously voted to approve an addendum in the services contract with the Adams County Development Council the first of November to deliver $400,000 in grant funds. The trio expressed their concerns over the businesses and events that were adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. They discussed the importance of supporting those that had stores closed, events c...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Dec. 9, 1920 “SPURLOS VERSENKT” PRISONERS’ MOTTO Ralph and Everett Streeter, who were arrested last Friday on the charge of having liquor in their possession are now held under the more serious charge of burglary in the second degree, it being alleged that while confined in the jail they broke into the “dark cell” and destroyed the liquor seized in an attempt to wipe out the evidence against them. A raid was made on the old Gem lodging...
RITZVILLE – The westbound lane of Broadway Avenue will be closed to traffic and parking Wednesday, Dec. 16. The Food Pantry will have a turkey truck parked on Broadway, to give away turkeys to people who have already signed up for the holiday food give-away. Participants will be asked to remain in their vehicles, due to COVID-19 restrictions, while their vehicles are loaded with the food baskets. Police Chief Dave McCormick said the road blockage, which involves just the lane of Broadway in front of the American Legion, w...
RITZVILLE – East Adams Rural Healthcare enacted a “No Visitors Policy,” effective for the immediate future. “This may change at some point, but we are unsure when that will happen,” Corey Fedie, CEO said. Fedie said the decision was not made lightly, but in accordance with Governor Jay Inslee’s new mandates which include recommendations on not having visitors in any long term care settings. “We do have a long term care facility within EARH, and the potential detrimental effect an outbreak would have on the safety and he...
RITZVILLE – Chief Financial Officer Kimberly Polanco presented a revised proposed 2021 budget to East Adams Rural Healthcare board members in a public hearing Dec. 2, stating the proposed budget had been revised to provide a balanced budget in challenging circumstances. “The pandemic brought about an abrupt change to operations with a decline in patient services, as well as challenges in employee and patient education and safety around COVID-19,” Polanco said. “Given the current status, we anticipate the uncertainty around...
RITZVILLE – Santa Claus is coming to town – in a big way. Saturday, Dec. 19, Life Flight will escort St. Nicholas to Ritzville Grade School in – you guessed it – a helicopter. The public is invited to drive up to greet the big man with a wave from their vehicle in Candy Cane Lane – otherwise known as the bus lane, from 2 to 3 p.m. “School staff and volunteers will decorate Candy Cane Lane, culminating with a visual with Santa and a helper there, with some fun things along the way,” Lind Ritzville Superintendent Don Vanderhol...
RITZVILLE – Council members adopted a $9,808,180 budget for 2021 at their Dec. 1 meeting. Mayor Gary Cook said the 2020 budget year presented challenges with the governor’s shutdown beginning in March, leaving the city with an approximate six percent revenue reduction through September. Cook said expenses were cut by about three percent, leaving the city with a net loss of about three percent. “As of this budget planning cycle, we are not sure how the COVID-19 issue will end. We need to plan our 2021 budget with the same...
LIND – The water project funded by a Community Development Block Grant has been temporarily suspended, due to a delay in electrical parts for Well No. 8, Patrick Sheehy of Century West Engineering reported to council at their Nov. 24 meeting. “Due to COVID, electronic supplies are very tough to get, so the parts they need won’t be coming in until sometime in January,” Sheehy said, thanking everyone for their patience and perseverance in the project. “I know it was a big hassle, and a lot of folks were out of water for awhile....
RITZVILLE – Neil Verberne is excited about his work as the new Therapy Manager at East Adams Rural Hospital, where he supervises the physical therapy and occupational therapy departments. Verberne started at EARH in September. He said he was hired to focus on building up the in-patient program. “That’s something that, historically, the therapy department had a hard time with. They weren’t really invested in the in-patient program,” Verberne said. “They were very invested in th...