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Mount St. Helens program on tap RITZVILLE — “Mount St. Helens-Then and Now” will be presented by geologist Sheila Alfsen of Dallas, Ore., who will detail the onset and May 18, 1980 eruptions sequence. The lecture is set for 1 p.m., Saturday, May 21, at Zion Congregational Chruch, 301 W. Broadway Ave. During the lecture, she’ll explain Mount St. Helens volcanic hazards with examples from other volcanoes and a comparison of their relative sizes during the program. In addition, the presentation will include the advances in volca...
LaCROSSE – Local School Board members have been recognized by the Washington State School Directors Association. Cat Wigen, Mike Stubbs, Terry Miller, Harmon Smith and Tami Schwartz have received 2021 School Board of Distinction certificates. This state-level recognition was presented during the association's recent annual conference. There are 295 school districts in the state and this year, 34 school boards were recognized as Boards of Distinction. LaCrosse School Board was...
MONROE – A memorial scholarship is being established in the name of Jackson David Weaver, who passed away from leukemia on Dec. 16, 2006. Jackson's father, Reid Weaver, is a 1979 graduate of Lind High School, a retired police officer from the city of Monroe and a former instructor at the Washington Police Academy. His father was a school principal in Warden and mother worked as a Nurse in Moses Lake. In addition to Jackson, Reid and his first wife, have two other grown c...
GALESBURG, Ill. – A local woman has been named to the Knox College Dean's List of distinguished students for fall 2021. To make the list, Lacey Miller of Ritzville earned at least 2.5 credits in the term, with a grade-point average of 3.6....
SPOKANE – Spokane Teacher’s Credit Union announced branch closures of some lobbies and branches as a result of the COVID-19 omicron variant. In a memo dated January 20, STCU announced lobbies are closed at Moran Prairie, Cheney, Silver Lake and Ritzville branch locations. Drive-through lanes remain open. The status of these branches will be reassessed over the next week. The Othello Branch was closed, including drive-through lanes, but was expected to reopen Tuesday, January 25. Twenty-seven branch locations remain fully ope...
RITZVILLE – The Caring Neighbors board has recently $9,700 to groups needing financial assistance. Those donations include: Gritman Senior Center-$1,600 to help with food and utility costs Lind-Ritzville schools-$1,550 to help purchase instruments for the band department and to assist students purchasing yearbooks Mesa Elementary-$900 to help fund the after-school enrichment program The Old Hotel Art Gallery-$900 to help with general funding to keep the gallery operational O...
RITZVILLE – If you have lived here for a while, you know the city does not always get enough snow for sledding. This winter is not one of those years. With seasonal snowfall approaching 20 inches, Mayor Linda Kadlec took time Tuesday, Jan. 4, to invite winter sport enthusiasts to try the sledding hill. The hill is located off the alley west of the intersection of Broadway and Jackson streets, overlooking the Pru Field airport. Riders start straight down the hill then enter a...
LOWER GRANITE DAM — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife closed the lower section of Snake River to steelhead fishing effective Jan. 4. The closure extends from the mouth of the river at Burbank upstream to Lower Granite Dam. Above the dam to the Idaho-Oregon state line, fishermen may now only keep one steelehead per day, officials said. No native steelhead – those with unclipped adipose fins – may be kept, officials said, noting only barbless hooks are allowed when fishing for steelhead. The change in the steel...
Editor’s Note: The following letters to Santa from Mrs. Lavigueur’s class were inadvertently omitted from the Dear Santa publication last week. While we published them online, we are publishing them in print below. Dear Santa, How are you doing and Mrs. Claus for Christmas I want a Gaddy Doll house and more Lol Dolls. My favorite season is winter. I really want Rainbow High Dolls. Love, Addy Dear Santa, I want a Lol for Christmas. I want OMG dolls. I want a Barbie. You are a great Santa. I want Barbie Legos. Love, Dear San...
Advent has come and gone and we celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Each Sunday we lit a new candle on our advent wreath until Christmas Eve arrived. That night, we lit the final candle. First came the candle of Hope, then Peace, then Joy, then Love, and then the Christ candle. The Christ candle reminds us that He is the life and light of man. Love, Joy, and Peace we know from Galatians 5 – as the Fruit of the Indwelling Spirit of God. But what about Hope? Ever ponder that one? Christ is our Hope – He...
Editor's Note: Here are Letters to Santa from Mrs. Lavigueur's class. Due to an email error, the letters did not get published in the print edition of the Dec. 22 edition of The Ritzville Adams County Journal. Dear Santa, How are you doing and Mrs. Claus for Christmas I want a Gaddy Doll house and more Lol Dolls. My favorite season is winter. I really want Rainbow High Dolls. Love, Addy Dear Santa, I want a Lol for Christmas. I want OMG dolls. I want a Barbie. You are a great...
Dear Santa, I would love it if you got me a harry potter figure, (any kind will do) Hedwig, a harry potter sweater (preferably one with all the houses on it) and a harry potter bed set. If you can't get any of this you can just get anything close. Anything close to these will be fine. I have been good for the most part!! Thank you, Alex Dear Santa, I would like $100 worth of vbucks so I could buy outfits for Fortnite. I also want a PC so I can watch Youtube and play roblox. I...
LIND - Columbia Grain International launched its Cultivating Community Christmas Campaign partnering with local charities to give back to local communities this holiday season. The company's Lind office has partnered with the Ritzville Food Bank to bag and distribute food donations to indigent residents. In nearby Pullman, the company is also working with food banks in Whitman County. "Our employees have a great understanding of how they can best serve their communities at...
HO, HO, HO, Ho, Ho, Ho, we hear this a lot this time of the year and we all know where it comes from, Santa Clause, right. Every time we hear the words Ho, Ho, Ho, joy begins to rise in our mind. For some people this is the happiest time of the year but for others it is filled with stress, depression, high blood pressure, that we shouldn’t have. In the book “The God Prescription” Dr. Avery M. Jackson III who is a neurosurgeon writes about the treatment of Laughter for Patients and he writes that Laughter will Lower your stres...
RITZVILLE – Fifteen local youngsters got in some Christmas shopping, Saturday, Dec. 11, with the help of more than a dozen members of local law enforcement agencies, first responders and members of their families. The annual event organized by Police Chief Dave McCormick provided shopping opportunities for the children to shop at Ritzville Drug Store and Love's Travel Stop. Participating families were also given gift certificates for local grocery stores. In all $1,600 worth o...
H.E. Gritman Center RITZVILLE – Here are the meals available from the H.E.Gritman Center during the next week: Beginning January 2, 2022 all meals will increase to $6.00 Wednesday, Dec. 8 – Hamburger Stroganoff, noodles, vegetables. Thursday, Dec. 9 – Barbecue pulled pork sandwich, pasta salad, vegetables. Monday, Dec. 13 – Biscuits and gravy, sausage patty. Tuesday, December 14 – Beef stew, salad, roll Wednesday, December 15 – Bavarian pork chops, mashed potatoes, vegetables To reserve a meal, call the center at 509-659-192...
RALSTON – The Christmas Potluck and Party will return this year at Ralston Grange No. 943 on Sunday, Dec. 5, after a one-year hiatus. The event begins at 5 p.m. at the grange hall on state Highway 261 and is open to everyone, grange spokesman Randy Roth said, and it “has been a way for families to kick-off the holiday season for 90 years.” Those attending the event should bring a potluck dish or two to share, he said. The grange will provides beverages, rolls and table service. In addition to the potluck, the party featu...
Baked goods are staples at many family gatherings. Whether hosting family for the holidays, reunions or weekly Sunday night dinners, hosts can make dessert that much better by serving this “Blackberry-Ripple Lime Cheesecake” courtesy of Lori Longbotham’s “Luscious Creamy Desserts” (Chronicle Books). Blackberry-Ripple Lime Cheesecake Serves 10 Crust 1½ cups pecans 2 tablespoons sugar ¼ cup (1⁄2 stick) unsalted butter, melted Filling 2 6-ounce packages ripe blackberries...
RITZVILLE – Ritzville high school social studies teacher, Bryce Court was recognized by the high school for going "Above and Beyond" the last week of October. Before coming to teach in Ritzville, Court taught in Idaho for ten years and Oregon for six years. He began his tenure at Ritzville high school three years ago. Court worked with school officials to devise an academic schedule that would fit the new scheduling requirements. The high school used to have seven periods a d...
Jerad Plager and Sally Schmidt of Paha welcomed their first child, a son, Wesley Nels at 12:46 p.m. Oct. 10 at Samaritan Healthcare in Moses Lake. Wesley weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and was 22 inches tall. Maternal grandparents are Dolan and Jill Schmidt of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Paternal grandparents are Rudy and Joni Plager of Paha. Maternal great-grandmother is Mary Schmidt of Hayden, Idaho. Paternal great-grandmother is Joan Plager of Ritzville....
Dressed in Halloween costumes, children paraded up and down streets in Ritzville on Friday, Oct. 29, collecting treats from local businesses....
A family of moose cross through the wetland in the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge....
RITZVILLE – Caring Neighbors recently donated nearly $9,000 to help with area projects. The non-profit group donated $1,000 to the Dr. Frank R. Burroughs Home and Depot museum to purchase signs for the antique farm equipment display. "Each piece of equipment has a story behind it," organization President Dale Anderson said. Five signs were made in his deceased brother Don Anderson's memory. John Rankin, Flying Arts Ranch artist and local businessman, not only has redone the s...
RITZVILLE – Three teams of students from the Lind-Ritzville Future Farmers of America program are headed to Indianapolis, Ind., for the FFA National Convention on Oct. 24-29. The Agricultural Communications Team of Sequoia Slater-Burns, Arienna Bernal, Claire Wellsandt and Hannah Towne placed in the Top 16 teams in the nation, with their media plan, during preliminary competition in August. They will present their media plan in the semi-finals at the National Convention. The Environment and Natural Resources Team, c...