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The Adams County Prosecutor's office has charged a Ritzville man with rape. According to a written statement from Ritzville Police Chief Dave McCormick, Michael A. Kuest, 27, was arrested on June 3 at approximately 7:05 p.m. Police say Kuest is listed as a transient but had recently lived in the Ritzville area. Officers responded to a 911 call a little before 5:30 p.m. at the 400 block of East Birch Avenue in Ritzville. At McCormick’s request, officers received assistance at the scene from the Adams County Sheriff’s Departmen...
Loretta Jean Greenwalt Schoonover went to our Lord on Tuesday, Nov., 2019 with her daughter Mary Ann (Punkie) at her side. She was residing at DeSansos Assisted Living in Jerome, Idaho in their loving care at the time of her death. Loretta was born on July 28, 1934, on her grandparents’—Jacob and Caroline (Hochstatter) Greenwalt Sr.—homestead west of Ritzville. Her parents Henry and Hilda (Schaal) Greenwalt had worked the harvest, Hilda chopping wood and cooking for the harvest crew that day. She was delivered by her grandmot...
Cars, pickups and grain trucks raced for glory-and prize money-on both days of the 32nd Annual Lind Combine Demolition Derby on June 7 and 8....
Sunshine came early over the hills of Lind on Sunday, June 9. All was quiet after the Combine Derby the previous day, so the morning held no indication of the Coaster Cars Derby set for later in the afternoon. By early afternoon, however, action picked up on the Lind Smart's Hill racetrack. Coaster Cars began to arrive-carried on flatbed trailers of their sponsors-and hay bale safety barricades were placed at the finish line to keep errant coaster cars on the track. A hay...
So last week was very busy for pro sports if you’re into that. Yes, it was the finals of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). I didn’t watch most of the hockey games but I did watch some of the last two NBA games as in the last six minutes or so. Well, that’s when it really gets good right? I’ll start with the NHL first. The odds on favorites were the Boston Bruins club that already had six Stanley Cups under their belts whereas...
John J. Buehler, 67 of Huntington, Oregon passed away suddenly at his home on Sunday, June 9, 2019. He was born on June 6, 1952 in Nampa, Idaho to John Joseph Buehler and Elma Marie Buehler (Little). He attended Warden High School in Warden, Washington graduating in 1970 and Big Bend Community College for a year. He married Del Rae Marie Buehler on August 6, 1994. The couple ranched and farmed at Warden until 2011. They then bought a cattle ranch near Huntington, Oregon....
Einar Bengtson passed away on May 24, 2019. He was 93 years old. Born in Rusheba Township, Minnesota, Einar was the youngest of five children born to Freeman and Ellen (Anderson) Bengtson. He was drafted into the Army at age 18 and served in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Einar was discharged in November 1945 and reenlisted for the planned invasion of Japan. He was discharged for the second time in December 1946. Einar came to Lind, Washington in 1950 to farm for...
During the 1992 presidential campaign, then-candidate Bill Clinton famously intoned, “I feel your pain,” reassuring voters he understood what they were going through. Since then, similar statements of empathy have become a staple for politicians. But it doesn’t always ring true for every constituent. Take family business owners, for example. Family businesses account for 50 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, generate 60 percent of the country’s employment, and account...
People from all over the world come to the United States for a chance to live a better life. Some are coming here to work, some are coming to reunite with their families, and some are escaping corrupt governments. We should welcome them with a strong legal immigration system. What we should not allow are the criminals that take advantage of the loopholes in our immigration laws. Drug dealers and sex traffickers exploit our lack of border enforcement and outdated technologies, and children are “rented” and bought as “fr...
Ritzville High School graduate Kevin Heimbigner was inducted into the Washington State Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame on June 8. Heimbigner grew up on a wheat farm in Ritzville and graduated from RHS in 1967. After graduating from Washington State University in 1971, he taught business education from 1973 to 2003 at schools throughout the state. Over a 33-year span, Heimbigner coached baseball, basketball and football at Toutle Lake, Odessa, Naselle and Ilwaco High Schools....
The Lind Town Council met for a regular meeting on June 11, as the Town was awarded a grant to put together a traffic plan and discussed potential concerns over a proposed festival. Steve Nelson, an engineer from Century West Engineering, joined the meeting via speakerphone. He reported Lind had been awarded a $55,000 grant by Quarto to put together a Town traffic plan. That document would then be used as a springboard for future work on road improvements. A letter of the award from Adams County will be forthcoming, and the...
Zion Philadelphia UCC will be hosting a caregiver support group on the fourth Friday of every month, beginning this month. The support group is sponsored by Aging & Adult Care of Central Washington, and goes from 9:30-11 a.m. No sign-up or pre-registration is required. The next support group meeting will be held on June 28....
Spay Neuter Your Pet (SNYP) now has vouchers available. To access the vouchers, go to Facebook, search @snyp99169, go to the SNYP Facebook page and send them a message. They will get back to you to set up your voucher. Funds for SNYP are donation-driven. To donate, visit Wheatland Bank or mail your donation to PO Box 421, Ritzville, WA 99169. Since November of 2015, SNYP has spayed and neutered 233 cats and dogs and 112 feral cats....
The Town of Hatton is currently without water, according to an update provided by interim mayor Brittany Baldwin. The pump for Hatton’s well was rendered inoperable earlier this week, and the town’s secondary well isn’t currently functioning. Baldwin told The Journal that the motor for the primary well’s pump is currently being worked on at an irrigation specialty shop in Othello, and that the issue should be fixed in the next couple of days. Baldwin and others have been delivering cases of water to the residents of the tow...
The 103rd edition of Washington State University's Lind Field Day took place at the Lind Dryland Research Station on June 13, as WSU and United States Department of Agriculture researchers shared updates on a number of different topics to regional farmers and industry stakeholders. Topics of interest at this year's Lind Field Day-which WSU says is the best-attended annual field day they host across the region each year-included field sessions on spring and winter wheat...