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RITZVILLE — All four levies asked for by the Lind-Ritzville School co-op are being approved by voters in the special election Feb.11. The co-op asked for two levies in Lind and two in Ritzville, including a replacement levy for each district. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Superintendent Don Vanderholm reached out to The Journal. “On behalf of both school boards, staff, and administration, I want to thank you very much for your generous support in passing the levy proposals put before you on Feb. 11,” Vanderholm said. “Beca...
The Lind-Ritzville Sprague boys and girls basketball teams both picked up wins in their first matchups of the district tournament on Thursday. The LRS girls won 46-42 over Kettle Falls in a back-and-forth game. They will play Colfax in the semi finals on Tuesday. The boys beat Jenkins (Chewelah) 49-43. They will play St. George's on Tuesday. More information on both games, as well as Tuesday's games, will be in next week's issue of The Journal....
RITZVILLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys and girls basketball teams said goodbye to their seniors on Tuesday. The girls team honored varsity players Brinley Moore and Eliza Galbreath. "Both of them are four-year players here," girls head coach Steve Wellsandt said. "Brinley worked her way up through the JV and has done a good job ... She understands what we need to do defensively. And all season long she has been a good outside shooter ... Eliza is a four-year starter. She...
RITZVILLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague wrestling team hosted an afternoon of matches Saturday to help coaches finalize seeding for Thursday's district tournament at Liberty High School in Spangle. The event didn't have brackets or champions. "It was a mix-and-match," Coach Jason Hilzer said. "Trying to see kids who are going to be in the same weight in the postseason so that we don't have an argument when it comes to seeding in this year's tournament. "So, we tried to match...
RITZVILLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls basketball team had already wrapped up the No. 2 seed in the district before playing its final game at home against Colfax on Tuesday on senior night. The Broncos fell behind early and ultimately lost 50-48. The Broncos were slow out of the chute Tuesday falling behind 10-3. LRS head coach Steve Wellsandt took a timeout with 2:15 remaining and the Broncos responded. They scored on a fast break out of the timeout to make it 10-5....
RITZVILLE - Seniors led the way as the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys basketball team defeated Colfax 57-52 on Tuesday. Austin Thompson scored 21 points and had the game winning basket for the Broncos as he and three other seniors played their final game at Gilson Gym. The Broncos had a shaky first quarter. They stuck with Colfax early, trailing at one point 10-8, before giving up a run to fall behind 20-8. Thompson then scored back-to-back baskets, including a three pointer, to...
SPANGLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos wrestling team finished a distant fourth-place in the 1B/2B League-South wrestling tournament Thursday night, Feb. 6, at Liberty High School. Two gold medalists - Brandon Davis at 106 and Johnny Ryan at 113 - lead the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague team (153 points) that finished behind champion Liberty (Spangle) with 297 team points, runner-up Davenport with 246 and third-place Reardan with 168. The Broncos finished well ahead of...
RITZVILLE — Both Lind-Ritzville/Sprague basketball squads will be the No. 2 seed of Northeast 2B-South division at the district tournament this week at West Valley High School in Spokane. More importantly, both teams earned a first-round bye. The boys and girls Broncos will open play on Thursday. . The boys will take on Jenkins High School (Chewelah) at 8 p.m. in the main gym. Jenkins, the north division’s No. 3 seed, opened play on Monday by beating Asotin 61-37. The Broncos have not faced Jenkins this season. Should the Bro...
KAHLOTUS — The recent Washington Interscholastic Activities Association sports classification list for schools for the next four years raised some questions about the local district. On the list, Kahlotus High School is listed as an independent Class 1B school. The list shows Lind-Ritzville/Sprague-Washtucna as a separate Class 2B cooperative. But that doesn’t mean Kahlotus will be going its own way. Kahlotus School District Superintendent Gregg Taylor said no decision has been made to split up the current cooperative ath...
SPANGLE - The Liberty Lancers wrestling team took top district honors Thursday night, Feb. 7, with 297 points in the Northeast 1B/2B-South tournament. The Lancers had six individual champions at the tournament in their home gymnasium on senior night. Liberty's Owen Prince won the 120-pound class, Ashton Strobel 132, Cole Prince 160, Jesse Turner 170, Josiah Cwik 220 and Charlie Harrington 285. Davenport was a distant second with 246 points, followed by Reardan in third with...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos have momentum heading into the final two games of the regular season, winning both of their league games in the past week. The Broncos got the job done on the road against Asotin on Jan. 25 and then at home against Reardan on Jan. 28, improving their record to 7-3 in league play and 12-5 overall on the season. Against Asotin, the Broncos used a huge third quarter to erase a four-point halftime deficit. LRS came out of the locker room...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague athletics program will remain participants in the 2B classification for the next several years, after the WIAA approved new classifications during a meeting on Jan. 26. According to the WIAA website, Kahlotus tentatively appears to be headed back to play Class 1B sports, instead of playing cooperatively with Lind-Ritzville, Sprague and Washtucna. The new classifications reflect consideration of the percentage of high school students receiving free or reduced lunches, officials said, noting...
SPRAGUE – Sprague Chamber of Commerce President Tim Wilken was named 2019 Citizen of the Year during the organization's annual banquet Monday night at Sprague Elementary School. Wilken received multiple nominations for the award, selection committee spokesman Chris Canaday said. "This gentleman has been life-long in Sprague," Canaday said during the presentation of the award. According to Canaday, the 35-year-old Wilken has been instrumental in city improvements and is a...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls basketball team fought for most of the game, but fell to Liberty on Friday, 45-37 in Spangle. On Tuesday, the Lady Broncos defeated Tekoa-Rosalia 67-19 at home. Before the season, LRS head coach Steve Wellsandt identified the Liberty Lancers as his team's toughest opponent of the season. As the season progressed, Wellsandt said he feels his team has gotten closer and closer to where they need to be to compete with Liberty. On Friday, his...
A week with three events over a span of five days saw several Lind-Ritzville/Sprague wrestlers make progress on the mat, while the late grind of the season has been a challenge physically for a couple of Broncos. South League Match The team traveled to Colbert on Jan. 14 for a South League match being hosted by Northwest Christian. Sophomore Johnny Ryan won his first match via pin in the first period in the 113-pound weight class, and went on to win his second match 9-0. Hilzer said that as of now, Ryan would be the No. 1...
As the regular season winds down, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos have turned their focus to closing out league play strongly and earning as high a seed as possible in the Northeast 2B Conference Tournament. The slate of games this past week saw mixed results for the boys team, which fell in a spirited performance on the road against undefeated Liberty on Jan. 17 and then rebounded strongly with a win against unpredictable Tekoa-Rosalia at home on Jan. 21. Early foul troubl...
Larry Oscar Erichsen, entered his heavenly home on January 2, 2020 at the age of 77. His passing, peaceful and restful, at the Hospice Home in Spokane, was the result of a nine month battle fighting pancreatic cancer. Larry had lived a full and wonderful life. Larry was born on November 21, 1942 in Plentywood, Montana to Ludvig Erichsen & Addie (Erichsen) DeMoss. He graduated from Plentywood High School in 1960. After graduation he went to the Navy and served on the U.S.S....
Lind-Ritzville/Sprague athletic director Greg Whitmore talked about the benefits of intermittent fasting at a lecture that was open to the public he held this month at Lind-Ritzville High School. Besides his athletic duties–which includes coaching the Broncos football team–Whitmore has also taught health at the high school for 28 years. In an interview with The Journal in August, Whitmore said he was wanting to also bring health lessons to the general public. Part of this effort to teach health to the public included sta...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls basketball team added two more wins against quality opponents last week as the Broncos took down defending state champion Tri-Cities Prep 48-44 at home Friday and Colfax 54-31 on the road Saturday. The Lady Broncos have now won five in row and have not lost in 2020. Head coach Steve Wellsandt said early this year that the three-game stretch consisting of games at Reardan, home against Tri-Cities Prep and at Colfax would be a challenge for his squad. The Lady Broncos won all three games and...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos had everything working in the first half of the team’s road game against the Colfax Bulldogs, and a 5-1 start to league play was well within reach. Then, the third quarter happened. After jumping out to a 28-14 halftime lead over the Bulldogs, one of the top teams in the league in recent seasons, the Broncos were close to cementing themselves as one of the top two teams in the South Division through the first half of league play. But Colfax awoke from their offensive slumber in the third qua...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos wrestling team wasn't able to compete against the entire field that was expected at the team's home tournament over the weekend, but several LRS grapplers had high finishes at the Bronco Invitational on Jan. 11. Sixteen teams were scheduled to participate in the tournament, but only nine could show up due to inclement weather throughout the region. Of the nine that were able to compete, LRS head coach Jason Hilzer estimated that the team...
Larry Oscar Erichsen, entered his heavenly home on January 2, 2020 at the age of 77. His passing, peaceful and restful, at the Hospice Home in Spokane, was the result of a nine month battle fighting pancreatic cancer. Larry had lived a full and wonderful life. Larry was born on November 21, 1942 in Plentywood, Montana to Ludvig Erichsen & Addie (Erichsen) DeMoss. He graduated from Plentywood High School in 1960. After graduation he went to the Navy and served on the U.S.S....
SPRAGUE – The Sprague Chamber of Commerce will announce the community’s Citizen of the Year during a celebration Monday, Jan. 20. Doors open at 6 p.m. at Sprague School, S. 512 F St. The event includes silent and live auctions, as well as a swearing-in ceremony for new officers. Organizer and volunteer Joy Wilken said the chamber is still accepting donations for the event. “From small items to large items,” she said. “We have gift certificates for homemade things to craft ite...
A passenger train hasn't stopped regularly in Ritzville for nearly 50 years, but a committed group of citizens is looking to change that fact after recent movement at both the state and local level. The newly found interest in bringing back passenger rail service to Ritzville began last year, when $250,000 was set aside in the state's $10 billion 2019-21 transportation budget to conduct a study of the feasibility of an east-west intercity passenger rail system. The proposed...
Norman Thomas Arp (age 90) of Ritzville, Washington was called home on New Years Eve morning. Norman was born on April 18, 1929 in Calgary Alberta, Canada to Emil (Shorty) and Jean Arp, born a Canadian Citizen. His father was a US Citizen born in Iowa. He was raised by his mother on a farm outside of Calgary. At the age of 14, he had to take a job driving taxi so he could support the family when his mother was ill and his father was working in the US for the railroad. Having a dual citizenship, Norman came to the United...