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The annual Family Night event, hosted by Ritzville Grade School, kicks off on Monday, March 3, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Scholastic Book Fair coinciding with the event opens at 5 p.m. before the Family Night activities begin. Activities include the book fair, basket raffle, dinner and a variety of other activities for kids of all ages. The dinner menu for the event includes pizza, salad and dessert. The basket raffle consists of themed baskets that were created and donated by staff members at the grade school. Basket themes...
The H.E. Gritman Senior Center is hosting a potluck on Friday, Feb. 28, beginning at noon. Attendees are asked to bring tableware for the meal. The event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend the potluck meal....
AgVentures NW, LLC, is hosting a Seed Division meeting at the Harrington Community Hall on Feb. 28. Registration is open from 8 to 8:30 a.m. the day of the event, but individuals must contact AgVentures with plans to attend. The meeting begins with a discussion of the 2013 winter wheat strip trials and AgVentures Seed Division update by Paul Porter. Following the discussion, AgriPro-Syngenta Ed Driskall is providing and update on wheat varieties and seed treatments, as well as Millers report from the Portland meeting....
Due to inclement weather conditions, the Mobius Science Night was canceled last week, but has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 4, from 6-8 p.m. at the Lind-Ritzville Middle School gymnasium. The community night presentation of science experiments is open to the public and expected to engage all age groups. The highlights of Science Night include explosions, slime, hovercrafts and telescopes. Pizza and drinks will be provided for free to all in attendance. The two-hour event is intended for community members of all ages,...
Liz Smith has been appointed International Exchange Coordinator for EF Foundation for Foreign Study, the leader in high school exchange. Smith is working with EF Foundation placement specialists to match international students with host families living in and around Ritzville. Smith is currently seeking host families for the 2014 school year. “We welcome host families of all shapes and sizes. Among those who truly enjoy the exchange experience are parents looking to give their families a glimpse of the world and introduce t...
Rep. Doc Hastings (WA-4) announced on Feb. 13 that he will retire from Congress at the end of year. “Two decades ago, the people of Central Washington first voted to place their trust in me to represent them in Congress. In the nine subsequent elections, I’ve been humbled to have been given the privilege to serve as their common sense voice and to work for solutions to improve our local communities and pursue a better, brighter future for our Nation. It is with deep appreciation for that privilege that I announce that thi...
Women in Washington, Oregon and Idaho will gain practical advice for improving farm management skills and networking with other women producers at the 2014 Women in Agriculture Conference to be held at 28 locations on Saturday, March 15. The conference is designed for women who have been farming for years as well as for new and aspiring farmers. The keynote address will be broadcast to all 28-conference locations, and each location will feature three local women producers who will share their experiences. Among the locations...
The AAUW, Page Turners and Pushing the Limits book clubs have announced meeting dates for the month of March. The AAUW Book Club is reading “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” by Sheryl Sandberg. The group will meet to discuss the book on Wednesday, March 12, 10 a.m. at The Roadhouse. The Page Turners Book Club, for children between the ages of eight and 12, is reading “Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O’Dell. The group is meeting on March 12 at 4 p.m. at the Ritzville Library. Extra copies are available...
The Ritzville Community Theatre (RCT) is presenting three productions of dinner theatre during the month of March. The group is performing “Checkmate” with one presentation at Trinity United Methodist Church on March 14 and two performances at Memories Diner on March 28 and March 29. Checkmate is a comedy written by Miles Athey and Harry Schafer, and has been written specifically as a dinner theatre production. The play is set in Lordy Be Rest Home in the Wild West, and follows the happenings at the rest home facility, whi...
To be able to reflect back on a journey traveled and believe to have made progress is a victorious feeling. A progressive journey well established, but far from finished, is exactly what Lind School District faced this winter. Following the majority passing of the Lind School District facilities bond, the combined support from Lind community members has given Lind-Ritzville Middle School and Lind Grade School the opportunity to vastly improve conditions throughout their buildings, which has staff examining the schools’ p...
The Lind-Ritzville High School Communications/Debate class held an assembly on Feb. 7 to introduce a new and unique concept to their peers. They challenged the students and staff of the high school to be more aware of their thoughts, and focus specifically on thinking more positively. In October, Communications/Debate class teacher Kathy McAnally asked the class to come up with a project or idea to make the school a better place. She wanted her students to use the new speaking skills they had learned, and be able to give...
Sign-ups for Lind Little League athletes are from 6-7 p.m. on March 3 at the Lind Elementary School. Ritzville Little League had sign-ups on Feb. 24. The registration fee per player is $25 and the leagues available are tee ball, Minor League, Major League and girls softball. Tee Ball is open to athletes between the ages of five and six, and children turning five before May 1 are eligible to play in the league. Minor League athletes must be between the ages of seven and 12. Major League play is reserved for athletes between...
Finishing as the No. 5 seed to the regional tournament means the road to the WIAA 2B Hardwood Classic has to go through Colfax on Saturday. The LRS Lady Broncos must defeat the Lady Bulldogs when they meet at 2 p.m. at Cheney High School. The winner advances to state, the loser’s season is over. “We don’t have to tweek a lot of what we do to win,” head coach John Galbreath said. “We need to compete the whole game. If we do, we are going to be fine. If we don’t, then we are...
Cort Ruzicka keeps his eye on the target despite a TCP defender’s best efforts. -Journal photo by Stephen McFadden...
Saturday’s regional basketball tournament is a single game event for the teams who have advanced this far. The winners earn a trip to the state tournament. The losers pack up and go home until next season. The LRS Broncos intend to make the most of it. A win catapults LRS to the Spokane Arena next week for the three-day WIAA 2B Hardwood Classic. A trip to state must go through Lake Roosevelt. The Broncos meet Lake Roosevelt at 4 p.m. at Cheney High School on Saturday. “I like...
Carol Ann Davis of Frederick, Maryland, makes a strong point as she talks to the room full of guests who gathered Saturday to congratulate Doug Kelly. Kelly had a bone marrow transplant in July 2012. Davis was the only registered donor in the world who was a perfect match for Kelly, a 1982 Lind High School graduate. Friends and family gathered to celebrate the news that Kelly has been declared cured as a result of the transplant. His wife, Lisa, arranged the surprise visit...
A few weeks ago we were treated to the 50th anniversary of The Beatles debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. For those of you too young to know anything about that show let me tell you it was a staple in our house on Sunday nights. Ed would bring on comedians, singers, dancers, magicians, ventriloquists and, the thing I enjoyed most, rock and roll bands. When I went to school the day after The Beatles debut in 1964, we were all mesmerized. It wasn’t so much that the boys from L...
Feb. 18, 10:27 p.m. – An Atlanta, Georgia, based security company advised of a pickup that had run off the roadway at North Paha-Packard Road. Sergeant Ben Buriak arrived at the scene and learned the vehicle was parked on the shoulder of the road, but had sunk in the mud up to the axles. Buriak was advised a tow was already in route and no damage was observed to the vehicle. Feb. 18, 11:17 a.m. – Ritzville complainant advised of a section of carpet in the roadway on East Danekas and Schoessler roads. The carpet had been rem...
President Obama’s “State of the Union Address” was received with the obligatory applause but even his oratorical skills couldn’t hide the lack of enthusiasm that he had shown in previous addresses. He really made a serious blunder by not establishing some political capital during his first two years when he had both houses. His ambitions from previous years have basically been defeated. His signature healthcare law that he has illegally amended 16 times is floundering and the prevarications that have been adding up are cau...
During the recent election Lind and Ritzville voters were asked to approve replacement Maintenance and Operation (M&O) levies, and the Lind School District voters were asked to support a 15-year, four million dollar bond. Currently, the Lind M&O is passing at 73.9 percent, the Ritzville M&O is passing at 68.6 percent, and the Lind bond is passing at 69.5 percent. When the preliminary election results were released on the evening of Feb. 11, I felt a true sense of awe. I was amazed at the level of support we received from our...
I for one am extremely tired of our little newspaper being used as a regular political column. I feel this is taking advantage of our “Letter to the Editor” space. Correct me, if I’m wrong, but it seem the space is meant for local people to discuss local problems. Mr. Ray doesn’t even live in Ritzville. And he has hardly missed an issue in at least a year. Is there some reason we have become Mr. Ray’s political platform. It’s bad enough during presidential election years, but this seems, to me, to go beyond what we should h...
If you were to compare our Senate majority’s priorities – jobs, education and budget – with the votes taken in the Senate so far this year, you’d see a tilt toward jobs and education. There was a reason for holding back on budget work; keep reading for how that’s about to change. Last week got off to a busy start. We were out on the floor of the Senate chamber voting on bills until about 11:45 p.m. Monday. The deadline to bring Senate bills to a vote (except budget bills) this year was 5 p.m. Tuesday; it was another 45 minute...
Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce past president John Kragt (right) presented Rose Garden Estates director Carol Newton with the Yard of the Month award for the month of February. Rose Gardens Estates was selected as the recepient of the award for continually decorating the center and the yard with holiday decor. Rose Garden Estates is located at 406 South Cascade Street in Ritzville. -Journal photo by Katelin Davidson...
Five years ago, Brittany Stromberg joined the staff at the Living Legacy Wildlife Museum as the sole artist to complete the massive task of bringing life to the museum through paintings. Throughout the course of the years, her expertise has also led her to become one of the main landscape designers for the museum. The wildlife museum, located off East Weber Road in Ritzville, includes 27 diorama rooms and well over 100 taxidermy animals. While the museum is still in the...
Helen J. Malby, 82, died on Feb. 23. Helen was born Jan. 12, 1932, in Lind to Henry and Marie Ida (Fitz) Orman. She graduated from Lind High School. Helen married Wesley Malby June 8, 1952, in Lind. They moved to Oregon in 1959 and eventually made their home in the Salem area. Helen retired from the State of Oregon in 1992. Helen was a long time charter member of Willamette Rhododendron Chapter of Salem and long time Philatelic stamp collector. She enjoyed gardening, as well...