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The Ritzville School District facilities hosted the annual Bi-County Academic Contest on Nov. 15, where students from across the region came to compete in a variety of contests. The Bi-County Academic contest is an annual event that brings students in third through eighth grade to compete in various academic events. The students had the opportunity to test their knowledge and skills in math, spelling, interpretative speech, impromptu speech, geography and argumentative speech....
Seven students in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Club represented LRHS in the annual Bi-County STEM Challenge (BCSC) on Monday. The team, which included Cole Cameron, Grace St. John, Trinity Bonita, Spencer Gering, Cinthia Guizar, Emma Aldrich, and alternate Tamera Wolf, competed against groups from Wilbur, Odessa, Harrington and Sprague. BCSC includes two STEM challenges. The first is designated as a “warm up,” allowing students to form groups with representatives from other schools to engage in a shor...
OUT OF REACH. Aidan Miller reaches for a flag on the Harrington player, while teammates Chloe Hoeft and Madisyn Cameron (l–r) are not far behind....
Teams from across Eastern Washington are traveling to Ritzville on Saturday, Oct. 21, to participate in a flag football tournament. Jimmie Snider Field is split into three sections, and the tournament begins at 9 a.m. with the youngest participants. Two Lind-Ritzville teams in the kindergarten to first grade age bracket take the field at 9 a.m. to begin the event. On Field Two is Travis Glisson’s team versus Reardan, and Zach Gardner’s team is on Field Three against Wilbur. At 10 a.m., the kindergarten and first grade tea...
The Broncos boys and girls cross country teams finished their regular season in the District 7 1B/2B race at Kettle Falls on Oct. 10. Rose Melville finished in fourth place in the girls’ 5,000 meters varsity race with a time of 21 minutes and 45 seconds. Although it was not Rose Melville’s best performance, Head Coach Liz Melville said the athlete ran a respectable race and felt she overtrained before the event. Mya Lynch returned from injury and finished the race with a personal record of 35:29.92, improving her time by alm...
Residents and visitors of all ages flocked to Love’s Truck Stop on July 11 to meet History Channel stars “Ice Road Truckers’” Lisa Kelly and “Deadliest Catch’s” Edgar Hansen. Both Hansen and Kelly were in Ritzville as a part of Delo’s Game Changers cross-country road trip, a campaign co-promoted by Chevron Corp. and Love’s. The road trip is in recognition of the 120th anniversary of the diesel engine, as well as the transition of Delo’s API CK-4 and FA-4 heavy-duty engine o...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos golf team traveled to the StoneRidge Golf Course on Tuesday, May 2, for their final league match of the regular season. Cusick hosted the match, which included Asotin, Colfax, Odessa-Harrington, Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, Northwest Christian, Tekoa-Rosalia, Saint George’s and Wilbur-Creston. The LRS boys who competed in the match were Michael Shields, Morgan Brausen, Spencer Gering, Easton Nelson and Dirk Dahlman. Veteran athlete Shields led the team with a score of 87 and Dahlman trailed close...
In spite of the inclement weather this season, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague tennis team has remained competitive in league play and continues to have a large turnout of athletes. In league competition, the LRS girls’ team has a record of 4-0 while the boys’ team has a record of 3-1. Head Coach Liz Melville said the line up has been changing on a weekly basis as they work on new combinations of athletes, and also as individual athletes battle injury or illness. In recent matches, the Broncos faced Odessa-Harrington where the...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague golf team has been making large strides towards improvement after competing in three away matches. The team traveled to Colville on Tuesday, April 11, to face Colfax, Davenport, Wilbur-Creston, Northwest Christian, Odessa-Harrington, St. George’s and Tekoa-Rosalia in a league top six match. Tessa Jantz, Ellie Gering, Morgan Lane and Brinley Moore comepted for the Broncos girls’ team. Jantz led the girls’ team with a score 80. Gering shot 109, while Moore and Lane earned scores of 114 and 118. For J...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna/Kahlotus Tigercats went on the road to face Davenport on the tennis courts on March 29. The Tigercats’ No. 1 girls doubles team of Serenity Davis and Kiernan Hartwell competed in the first match of the day. They lost to the Davenport team 0-6, 0-6, but Tigercats Head Coach Staci Gloyn said they had their strongest performance yet this season. On the court, Gloyn said the Tigercats duo communicated well and showed they are learning each other’s strengths. Gloyn added she was impressed how well the two at...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague golf hosted Asotin, St. John-Endicott, Inchelium and Odessa-Harrington for a league match on Tuesday, March 28, at the Ritzville Municipal Golf Course. Head Coach Nick Weishaar said he is pleased with how the team competed as they displayed improvement in overall skill The girls’ team consisted of Tessa Jantz, Aaliyah Yaeger, Brinley Moore, Morgan Lane and Ellie Gering. The medalist title for girls’ team went to Jantz with a score of 42. Yaeger, Moore and Lane tied for fifth with 60 and Gering ear...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague golf team traveled to Harrington to compete in the second league match of the season on Tuesday, March 21. With two members of the team gone on a school trip, the girls did not have enough players for a complete team, said Head Coach Nick Weishaar. The boys who competed in the match were Michael Shields, Morgan Brausen, Spencer Gering, Easton Nelson, Dirk Dahlman and Devin Schafer. Shields received the medalist title for the boys’ team with 42. Brausen scored a 49 and Dahlman followed close behind w...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague golf team focused on the basic fundamentals of the game as they hosted St. George’s, Northwest Christian, Kettle Falls and Inchelium at the Ritzville Municipal Golf Course on Tuesday, March 14, for the first league match of the season. The team is at full contingency this year, allowing them to have complete boys and girls teams. The match consisted of nine holes and 35 par. The Broncos who participated in the match for the girls team were Tessa Jant...
Christmas is a difficult time for anyone grieving for lost loved ones. It is especially painful for America’s military families whose son, daughter, spouse or parent was killed while serving in uniform. Normally, the fallen are remembered on Memorial Day, but thanks to a Maine family and over 800,000 donors and volunteers, more than a million wreaths will be laid on the tombstones of our fallen soldiers, sailors and airmen on Dec. 17. The panoramic view of Arlington National Cemetery’s rolling hills with its white grave mar...
Ritzville served as the host of the annual Bi-County Academics competition during November, hosting dozens of students from area schools. The students from Lind Elementary School, Ritzville Grade School and Lind-Ritzville Middle School returned home with an impressive amount of awards from placing in the academic contest. The Bi-County Academic contest is an annual event that brings students in third through eighth grades to compete in various academic events. Students...
The Adams County Board of Commissioners held a public meeting on Monday, Nov. 21, at the Adams County Courthouse to discuss the Apple Maggot Quarantine Emergency Boundary Modification with Mayor Ed Stephens of Sprague. Stephens explained the purpose of the meeting is to discuss service with Wheatland Waste Systems to Adams County disposal sites to maintain low costs to the city. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) describes the apple maggot as an invasive insect pest native to eastern North America whose...
Eli “Garrison” Wilson, seven months, died in Davenport, Wednesday morning, Nov. 9. He was born into the Harrington home of Lonnie and Saige Wilson on Thursday, March 31, 2016. Garrison was always a fighter. He conquered his Downs Syndrome with determination and strength, always meeting and exceeding expectations and goals. Little Baby-Bear loved life, especially at bath time when he would happily splash. Garrison had a smile that was contagious and melted your heart, and a g...
Teams from across Eastern Washington are traveling to Ritzville on Saturday, Oct. 22, to participate in a flag football tournament. Jimmie Snider Field is split into three sections, and the tournament begins at 9 a.m. with the youngest participants. Two Lind-Ritzville teams in the kindergarten to first grade age bracket take the field at 9 a.m. to begin the event. On Field Two is Travis Glissen’s team versus Reardan and Gardner’s team is on Field Three against Wilbur. At 10 a.m., the kindergarten and first grade teams con...
A Celebration and Dedication Gala is slated for Saturday, Oct. 1, from 4 to 6 p.m. by the Harrington Opera House Society (HOHS.) The public is invited to this special event to showcase the accomplishments of several long-term goals of the Society: ADA accessibility, including the elevator installation and second floor restroom for the auditorium and the arrival of the 7-foot-1 Boston by Steinway Grand Performance Piano. The Gala will begin with a ribbon cutting for the elevator at 4 p.m., followed by a social hour with...
Archie Dale Staley, the oldest of three children, was born on Oct. 10, 1920, in Washtucna, to Archie D. Staley, Sr. and Gertrude Benigna Suckow Staley. He graduated from Washtucna High School in 1938 and attended Whitman College in Walla Walla for three years before enlisting in the US Army Air Corps. In 1943, Lt. Staley was stationed in Lucera, Italy with the 15th AF/ 301st Bomb Group/32nd squadron where he flew 51 missions as a B-17 pilot. On his sixth mission, Archie’s p...
The Lady Broncos swept the floor with their competition during their three matches in the Bronco Invite volleyball tournament on Saturday, Sept. 10. The tournament began with a match against Odessa-Harrington. In the past, Odessa-Harrington has proved to be a strong competitor for the varsity team and Head Coach Cari Galbreath said she expected it to be a tough match. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague team proved their coach wrong by displaying great defense and powerful offensive at...
Irma E. Gfeller died on Aug. 21 at her home in Lind at the age of 85. She was born on Feb. 8, 1931, in Torrington, Alberta, to Emmanuel and Magdalena Bossert and was a 1954 graduate of the school of nursing at the Provincial Health Service in New Westminster, B.C. Irma became an American citizen in 1960 after waiting the required five years. Irma married Gale Gfeller in Kamloops, British Columbia on Feb. 16, 1955. They had four children: Gregory Gale (Ruth) Gfeller of Post...
A massive fire put up quite the fight on Saturday, July 9, as Ritzville and surrounding communities united to battle the enormous flames. The fire believed to have started at a power pole and proceeded to sweep through Adams and Lincoln County, destroying nearly 2,000 acres of scabland and CRP grounds. While Adams County responds to multiple wild land fires each summer, Saturday’s blaze recorded as one of the largest in the county’s recent history. Adams County Fire Pro...
Fourteen combines battled in the Lind Lions Club Arena on June 11 in hopes of becoming the victor of the Lind Combine Demolition Derby. When the dust settled, two drivers remained and split the title of the 2016 Derby Champions. Longtime competitors Chad Overmyer and Jim Oswald took home the title and split the purse for the event. Oswald began competing in the Derby in 2005, and Overmyer joined the competition in 2009. This year serves as Overmyer’s final year of c...
“Books give soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to imagination, and life to everything,” said Ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Many of those who have experienced the power of reading, like Plato, can attest to its importance throughout life. However, a recent survey conducted by Scholastic and YouGov, a publishing company and an international researching firm, respectively, found that an increasing amount of today’s youth does not relate with Plato. Journalist Alison Flood wrote of the 2015 survey, “51 percent...