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Educators and alumni will gather for Lind High School’s 48th annual banquet on Saturday, May 11, in the renamed Lind-Ritzville Middle school gymnasium. The Ritzville Adams County Journal is scheduled to take honored class photographs prior to the start of the banquet. The classes of 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1988, 1993, 2003 and 2013 need to arrive prior to 5:30 p.m. for photographs. Lind Alumni Board members will serve as hosts for this year’s alumni banquet. Board members include Myra Horton, Lorraine Wallace, Jeff Fie...
March 27, 12:59 a.m. – Officer Hunter Klewin responded to an agency assist call on Interstate-90 near milepost 222. While stopping a vehicle, Trooper Dustin Stephan heard a loud bang come from the vehicle. Trooper Stephan waited for Officer Klewin’s arrival before contacting the driver. The noise was determined to be from the vehicle’s exhaust. March 26, 4:43 p.m. – Officer Tom Gracie responded to a possible threat in the 500 block of North Columbia Street at the skate park. Officer Gracie contacted the complainant who sta...
Gertrude (Trudy) Heimbigner died on Jan. 10 in Spokane. A memorial service is to be held on Saturday, May 4, at 1 p.m. at the Harrington United Methodist Church in Harrington, with Pastor Cynthia Wuts officiating. Strate Funeral Home of Davenport is entrusted with the arrangements....
The local U.S. Bank branch is now under the management of Brylee Edwards, who transferred to the Ritzville branch last December. Edwards filled the vacant manager position at the beginning of March and is looking forward to continuing to serve the Ritzville community. Originally from Hartline, Edwards has always enjoyed being part of a small farming community. She expressed her gratitude to local residents who have gone out of their way to make her feel welcome in the Ritzville community. Edwards has worked for U.S. Bank for...
Erick and Courtney Strozyk are pleased to announce the arrival of their daughter, Dahlia Louise, born at 5:03 p.m. on March 13 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. At birth, Dahlia weighed 9 pounds, 1 ounce and measured 21 and one-half inches. She joins three-year-old sister Fiona Belle. Paternal grandparents are Ed and Christi Strozyk of Vancouver, Wash. Maternal grandparents are Jim and Kathy Wilcox of Harrington. Great-grandparents are Gale and Irma Gfeller of Lind, Alene...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna girls’ tennis team played a league opening match against Odessa-Harrington on March 26, winning three of the five matches. Odessa-Harrington only has female athletes competing in this year’s tennis season. In the number one singles match, sophomore Lura Potter lost to Cydnee Kiefer 6-2, 6-4, with a super tiebreaker score of 10-8. Brooklynn Hostetler took home her second win of the season, defeating Morgan Marchand 6-0, 6-0. In the number three singles match, Delaney Stewart played a pro-set against She...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna tennis team began season matches on March 19 in Reardan and traveled to Ritzville on Saturday, March 23, to compete in a jamboree. During both of the preseason competitions, the Tigercats traveled with reduced numbers of athletes and without any boy’s doubles team. Against Reardan, the Tigercats number one singles player Justin Wargo suffered a loss to Max Mielke, 6-1, 6-4. On the girls’ side, number one singles player Lura Potter defeated Michaela Hol...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague tennis team has competed in a variety of non-league matches to prepare for the league season to begin this week. The Broncos started with a non-league match against Freeman on Thursday, March 14, and the LRS girls played Odessa-Harrington on March 19. The Broncos hosted a jamboree in Ritzville on Saturday, March 23, with Wilbur-Creston, LaCrosse-Washtucna and Odessa-Harrington traveling to compete. Against Freeman, the Broncos only played pro-sets in...
The Tigercats secured bragging rights as one of the top eight 1B teams in the state with a 59-52 win over Wellpinit in the regional tournament on Saturday. The Southeast District 9 is well represented at the state tournament this year as Pomeroy also earned a trip after defeating Odessa-Harrington. The Tigercats took to the court with confidence and an early scoring run led by Darcy Stamper gave the Tigercats the lead they would maintain for the remainder of the game....
The cheers and celebratory cries rang through the Colfax gym as the Tigercats claimed the district championship title from the Pomeroy Pirates Friday, but the loudest cheers came from the seven senior varsity athletes who earned their first championship title in their high school basketball career. The Tigercats received the SE District 9 championship title when they defeated Pomeroy 60-51 and now continue on to the regional competition this weekend. None of the current...
Eleanor Louise (Freese) Yockey, died at the age of 82 on Tuesday, Jan. 22, with loved ones by her side, after a 15-month courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born Dec. 1, 1930, in Spokane, to John and Bernice Freese. She spent her early years in Harrington, where her father was a wheat rancher. Later the family moved to Ritzville, where they made their home for many years. She was salutatorian for the Bronco class of 1948. After high school she attended...
Gertrude (Trudy) M. Heimbigner died at the age of 80 on Thursday, Jan. 10, in Spokane. She was born July 30, 1932, in St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada, to Stan and Lilly (Stevenson) Collins. She grew up in St. John’s, where she attended school and graduated high school. She later met Arnold “Fritz” Heimbigner and they were married on April 16, 1952 in St. John’s. They moved back to the states and lived in various communities like Odessa, Harrington and Reardan, before settling in Spokane. She worked as a cook at Holy Fami...
Two non-league outings last weekend were positive exercises for the Lady Broncos, as they scored wins over Odessa-Harrington and Warden. The rebound wins follow a tough Tuesday night loss at Colfax. Against Colfax, the Lady Broncos suffered a 57-36 loss after a solid opening quarter. “We started well, after the first quarter we were down two,” head coach John Galbreath said. “It has been a theme lately that we play pretty good for three quarters with one bad one. Our secon...
The way coach Dustan Arlt sees it, the Broncos were one sprained ankle away from finally defeating Colfax last week. They opened the league battle with a 16-9 lead at the end of the first quarter. As time ran out in the first period, Dylan Hartz made a great three-point shot, but came down wrong and rolled his ankle. He would be unable to play for the rest of the game. The Broncos, while scrambling to adjust in the second quarter, were outscored by the Bulldogs 17-4,...
The Ritzville U.S. Bank branch has welcomed Brylee Edwards as the new assistant manager for the local branch. Edwards began her tenure as assistant manager on Monday, Dec. 17, after transferring from the Harrington bank branch. Edwards was born and raised in Hartline, where she grew up on a wheat farm. The Ritzville community has already begun to feel like home for Edwards, who is accustomed to small town life and farming. “All through high school I just wanted to get out. But...
The LRS Broncos were handed their first loss of the season Tuesday when the Colfax Bulldogs capitalized on Dylan Hartz’s ankle injury at the end of the first quarter. The Bulldogs captured a 50-45 win in the league battle, after trailing 16-9 at the end of the first quarter. Colfax took the lead at the half, but the Broncos continued to battle, staying close in the later minutes of the game. Despite rolling his ankle, Hartz led the team with 12 points. Colby Starring scored 1...
Dec. 14, 12:03 a.m. – While on patrol Deputy Jeffery Lane located an open door on East Booth Avenue in Washtucna, at the school. No entry to the main building was made. Property owner will be notified. Dec. 13, 9:10 a.m. – Burlington Northern Railroad advised of a subject wearing a green hooded sweatshirt walking along the railroad tracks near Highway 21 and State Route 395. Subject was seen heading west from Lind. Deputy Ben Buriak checked the area of Lind and along SR395 and did not locate anyone in the area tre...
Harrington author David Michaelson has received two additional awards for his science fiction genre. At a recent convention for the Military’s Writers Society of America, Michaelson’s science fiction trilogy received an Honorable Mention for the first book, “The Centauri Intervention.” The sequel, “Bittersweet Colony,” was awarded First Runner Up during the convention in Dayton, Ohio. These are Michaelson’s second and third awards. He won a Silver Medal in 2010 for his cookbook, “The Burntwater Cook’s Kitchen Guide.” A...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna/Kahlotus Tigercats defeated the Almira-Coulee/Hartline Warriors, 52-36, on Friday night during the first round of state playoffs in Coulee City. The game began with an immediate touchdown for the Warriors when Drew Isaak returned the kickoff for a 60-yard touchdown. The Warriors converted the extra point play to give them an early 8-0 lead over the Tigercats. The Tigercats did not waste any time responding to the Warriors early lead, and Sawyer Hostetler...
Athletes, friends, family and fans were all sporting pink t-shirts Saturday when the LRS Lady Broncos hosted Odessa-Harrington for a volleyball match in Lind. The local team sold the shirts as part of volleyball’s “Dig for the Cure,” campaign. The effort is in support of the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Athletes from both teams were wearing the pink shirts before the match. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society. –Journal photo b...
The LRS Lady Broncos split their recent volleyball outings, defeating St. George’s and falling to Odessa-Harrington. Tuesday night they defeat St. George’s in four games, 21-25, 25-9, 25-15 and 25-6. Saturday while playing in Lind they lost to Odessa-Harrington 26-28, 17-25 and 18-25. The Odessa-Harrington outing was a heartbreaker as the Lady Broncos held the lead in the first game most of the way, allowing OH to creep back in late. “The match started out with a lot of energy, positive energy,” head coach Cari Galbrea...
Submitted by Linda Wagner With the goal to rehabilitate the historic 1904 Harrington Opera House, the Harrington Opera House Society has hosted several events and welcomed the news of receipt of grants that will aid in that goal. Most recently the Opera House received funds from a Building for the Arts Grant that allowed for the installation of air conditioning in the upstairs auditorium. Funds received from US Bank are being used to help improve The Art Room, which is used...
The LRS Lady Broncos hit a few unwanted bumps during league volleyball play in the past week. The team picked up one win in three outings, starting with a loss to Colfax on Thursday, Sept. 27. In the Colfax game the team fell in three matches, 14-25, 15-25, and 20-25. They rebounded on Saturday to defeat Liberty in three straight, 25-21, 25-16 and 25-21. Tuesday when they hosted Northwest Christian, things didn’t go their way and they fell in three matches, 18-25, 12-25 and 18...
Preschool students and the preschool teacher, Nicky Talkington, arrived at Ritzville Grade School for the first time at the start of the school year. A recent graduate of Gonzaga University, Talkington currently resides in Lamont and was recently hired as the preschool teacher for Ritzville. Talkington has an endorsement in special education and in early childhood development. She has previously worked at Millwood Early Childhood Center and at Salnave School in the Cheney...
The Ritzville Art Gallery is welcoming local authors David Michaelson, Miles Athey and Sharon Coleman as the First Friday artists for September. The trio is going to be signing copies of their individual published works as well as discussing their upcoming publications. Ritzville resident, Athey, plans to have his most recent publications available at the book-signing event. The “Crab Creek Chronicles” are a historical fiction about the Ritzville area in the early 1800s and...