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VOL. LXXIV NO. 39 SERVING THE GRAND COULEE DAM AREA, WASHINGTON STATE DECEMBER 24, 2014

NewsbriefsStar takes a long weekend

The Star office will be closed for Christmas Dec. 25 and 26. News items and advertisements may be left in the dropbox outside the front office door along with contact information, or emailed to [email protected]. The next issue will be published Dec. 30, a day early to avoid publishing on the New Year’s Day holiday.

City hall closed, too

Grand Coulee’s city hall will be closed Friday, Dec. 26, so staff can be with their families during the holi-day. City hall will open for business Monday, Dec. 29.

Ridge Riders elect officers

George Kohout was re-elected president of the Ridge Riders. It will be his fourth term as presi-dent. Others elected were Shane Marchand, vice president; Danielle Florenzen, secretary; Monty Fields, treasurer; and Janet Doughty, Janet O’Neil and Ryan Doe, all trustees. The Ridge Riders plan their annual banquet on March 14.

Hire approved by school board

The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved two hires at its meeting a week ago. Hired were Jaci Gross as seventh-grade girls’ basketball coach and Susan Duclos as junior class advisor.

Flu shots advisedBetter get your flu shot. That’s

the advice of Grant County Health District officials, who report they’ve been told of more than 200 influ-enza lab reports and schools with 10 percent of their students out of school. Flu symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.

EMT and CPR classesThe Grand Coulee Volunteer

Fire Department will put on an emergency medical technician class sometime in February. Those interested may call Chief Rick Paris at 633-2200 or Ryan Fish, assistant chief, at 631-4016.

A CPR class willalso be held at 6

Cherubs we have heard on high

Town officials confident of emergency coverage

Police seek driver after high-speed chase

Nespelem Elementary School students sing at the school’s annual Christmas program Thursday night to a crowd of several hundred parents, friends and loved ones in the school gym. — Scott Hunter photo

by Scott Hunter

Following a shakeup in the Coulee Dam Fire Department that came to a head two weeks ago, town leaders last week stated their confidence that citizens are safe and that calls for emergency services will be met.

“In terms of providing pro-tection, we’re safe,” Mayor Greg Wilder said in an interview Wednesday, but he said there are definitely longterm issues that are being addressed.

Within the week, Wilder had received three resignations of longtime fire department and am-bulance personnel. First, the fire chief, Robert Jackson resigned. Then Ben Alling, a fire depart-ment stalwart for nearly four decades, resigned from the fire department during last Wednes-day’s town council meeting. The next day, another longtime emer-gency medical technician, Bonnie Femling, handed in her resigna-tion.

Nevertheless, Wilder said, the town is covered, even if it’s through its mutual aid agree-ments with other towns and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Grand Coulee’s EMTs already respond to calls in Coulee Dam when necessary. Personnel from the two departments can and do help out on each other’s calls.

“Happens all the time,” Wilder said. “People needing an ambu-

lance are just as safe now as they have ever been.”

Grand Coulee Fire Chief Rich-ard Paris recently reported to that city council that his depart-ment is responding to Coulee Dam calls, especially ambulance calls.

Okanogan County Sheriff ’s Of-fice Chief Deputy of Special Oper-ations Mike Worden is in charge of the county’s call center through which Coulee Dam’s 911 calls are dispatched. He said protocols are already in place to call the next agency if the dispatcher gets no response from an agency after several attempts to “tone” their personnel.

In Coulee Dam’s case, such a call would be routed through Grant County’s dispatch center to Grand Coulee’s fire or ambulance service.

Worden hasn’t been aware of a problem with Coulee Dam fire responses, he said, but the town’s emergency medical service is an-other matter.

“It was difficult to listen to the callers waiting and wondering as to what was taking so long,” he said. So now dispatchers will only allow for two non-responses to tones for the Coulee Dam ambu-lance before sending the call for Grand Coulee’s service.

“We very rarely have to tone another agency more than once, because they immediately an-swer,” Worden said. “Coulee Dam has been different.”

Car was reported stolen from Nespelemby Roger S. Lucas

Grand Coulee and tribal police are looking for a 28-year-old Nespelem man who avoided capture af-ter a 100-mile-an-hour chase Dec. 12, that ended up on the Colville Indian Reservation.

Michael D. Desautel, Jr., was seen by Tribal Po-lice Cpl. Harold Allan Oneal, at Coulee Gas and in-formed police dispatch of the incident. Oneal knew the red 2012 Ford Escape had been reported stolen from Melvin Zacherle, a Nespelem resident.

Dispatch notified Grand Coulee officer Dan Hol-land, who saw Desautel get into the car at the gas station, across the street from the Grand Coulee po-lice station, and pull out onto Midway Avenue. Hol-

land pursued him.Desautel pulled over after seeing Holland’s blue

lights at Van Tyne and Morrison, where the suspect was told to put his hands out the driver’s window, then use his left hand to shut the engine off.

But as Holland approached with his gun drawn, the driver took off.

Holland and Oneal gave chase through Coulee Dam and Elmer City at speeds over 100 mph, and later turned off on a Bureau of Indian Affairs dirt road. The officers pursued Desautel near the Keller Butte area and then back to Nespelem but lost him somewhere along the way.

When Desautel is found, he faces charges of at-tempting to elude police, possession of a stolen ve-hicle, reckless driving, reckless endangerment, and obstructing a police officer.

The report was sent to the Grant County Pros-ecutor’s Office.

Volunteer of the Year to be awarded in January

The Star will publish the annual volunteer of the year award in January this year.

Readers have until 5 p.m. Jan. 12, 2015 to nominate a volunteer to honor by:

• writing a letter to Volunteer of Year, P.O. Box 150 Grand Coulee, WA, 99133,

• sending an email to [email protected] with the subject Volun-teer of the Year, or

• posting to The Star’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Grand-CouleeStar.

Please include your contact information (not for publication).We’ll publish your comments and letters in print and online and

post nominations in an online poll on Jan. 14.Readers can make their preference known through that poll or by

dropping off or mailing a signed slip of paper with their preferred hon-oree written on it by Jan. 21.

The honoree will be announced Jan. 28.

Police chief civil service protection will remainInter-city negotiations to resumeby Roger S. Lucas

Grand Coulee’s new police chief will have civil service pro-tection because of action the city council took Dec. 16.

The council undid work from its previous meeting when mem-bers had been persuaded by May-or Chris Christopherson and city attorneys to remove civil service protection when the city hires its new chief of police.

The back-and-forth council ac-tion came after the mayor previ-ously had stated that he would let the Civil Service Commission do its work in advertising for and testing police chief applicants.

A few weeks ago the council had voted to remove the chief from protection and then two weeks later (last Tuesday night) repealed that ordinance.

Now things are back on the original track.

Government jobs are put un-

der civil service protocols to keep them away from political pres-sure.

The city’s Civil Service Com-mission has received six appli-cants to its advertisements for a new chief, published both in The Star newspaper and in statewide law enforcement journals.

Now the Civil Service Com-mission is arranging background checks, oral and written testing. When that is complete, the com-mission will offer up its top three candidates to be considered by the mayor.

When Christopherson got the council to remove the chief from protection, he offered up a bone to council members, stating in the ordinance that he would run his candidate past them before nam-ing a chief.

That portion of the ordinance still stands, so council members will get an opportunity to support or reject the mayor’s choice.

Last Tuesday the mayor was challenged on a related matter by Councilmember Paul Townsend.

Townsend said that the coun-cil should have set the salary pa-rameters for both the chief and

city employees. He said the coun-cil wasn’t informed of either.

It also came up that the may-or’s initial offering to Electric City for a police coverage contract had soured relations between the two cities.

The mayor had proposed a plan under which Electric City would pay over $200,000 the first year of a new contract, and by the end of the fifth year would pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars. This year (2014), the final year in the current 5-year contract, Electric City paid $77,000.

That issue has been stalled since the cities’ two police com-mittees had met and agreed to a $115,000 contract for 2015.

Grand Coulee Councilmem-ber Tom Poplawski insisted that the two sides needed to get to-gether to negotiate a contract. He and Erin Nielsen will represent Grand Coulee and John Nordine and Aaron Derr will represent Electric City when the two sides get together for a meeting sched-uled for Dec. 23.

Coulee Dam has also made an offer to police Electric City.

Victim says police indifferent to her loss of life savings in goldby Roger S. Lucas

A Grand Coulee woman who lost her life savings in gold Kru-gerrands has charged that police here show no interest in pursu-ing ideas she has offered on who might have taken them.

Dorothy Harris reported to po-lice early in June this year that someone had taken 200 gold Afri-can Krugerrand coins along with other coins from her home.

At the time, the Krugerrands were valued at $1,308 each, with

the total loss at $261,600.Harris said she has gone to the

police here a couple of times late-ly to provide ideas on who might have taken them, but the police show no interest. She said one of-ficer just laughed at her.

The Krugerrand coins, 1 oz. each, were kept in a 6-inch by 9-inch box, wrapped in white pa-per and masking tape.

Harris said this week that a roll of $2 bills was also taken, along with numerous silver coins,

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Councilmember Shawn Der-rick asked Alling during the coun-cil meeting whether a fire truck would respond in an emergency. He told Alling he didn’t appreci-ate his response to “call 911 and see if anybody shows up,” Derrick recalled Wednesday, but he’s not worried.

“The department is obviously more than just Benny,” he said. “I’m not concerned with the level of protection that we have now versus what we had two months ago.”

He noted, however, that Alling had reported that for a fire call to the new school in Coulee Dam

Nov. 4, only Alling and one other firefighter responded from Cou-lee Dam. The rest came from the USBR and Grand Coulee depart-ments.

Town Clerk Stefani Bowden, looking at a roster of fire depart-ment members, said she could see names of at least five who are very active on calls.

The fire department was to meet Monday night in their regu-larly scheduled meeting and dis-cuss operations and how they will move forward.

Wilder said he might name an interim fire chief as early as this week.

some given to her by her mother. She said a pearl necklace valued at $3,500 was also taken.

The Krugerrand gold coins have lost a little value since Har-ris’ loss and now the going price is about $1,200.

Harris acquired the coins while serving in the military in South Africa and had purchased the coins between 1980 and 1992. She said that the coins were pur-chased for $300 to $375 each.

“I had in mind that the coins would be my retirement,” Harris stated at the time.

“I have given police the name of a person that is well known to them, and they haven’t even interviewed the person,” Harris said this week.

Harris took note of a KREM 2 news report Monday that a 1978 Krugerand had been dropped in a Spokane Salvation Army bucket.

Interim Police Chief John Tufts said the department takes her loss seriously and police have in-terviewed a person she said might know about the Krugerrands. “He said he didn’t have any informa-tion about them,” Tufts said.

“We have also talked with a person of interest on one occasion and gone back,” he added, “but now the person won’t come to the door.”

Krugerrands were first pro-duced in 1967. Later, the United States and other countries for-bade bringing them into the coun-try due to South Africa’s apart-heid policy of racial segregation, which was dropped in 1994.

At the time of the loss, Harris told police that the person who took the coins would have to have been known by her sevens dogs in

Couple to greet the New Year twice next week

Man apparently dies in truckMan arrested after cars keyedby Roger S. Lucas

An Everett man was arrested Dec. 12, after allegedly damaging a number of cars in front of Banks Lake Pub in Electric City.

Nicholas Swartz, 26, found himself in Grant County Jail on a first-degree malicious mischief charge for allegedly “keying” some nine cars in Electric City and fighting with witnesses who reported the incident to police.

The report stated that Swartz had circled nine cars and key

scratched them on both sides.Police stated that there could

be as much as $5,000 damage to the vehicles.

Police confronted Swartz, who refused to take his hands out of his pockets when ordered to do so by an officer.

Officer Sean Cook said he had to take Swartz to the ground and then put him in hand restraints.

Swartz admitted keying the cars but didn’t offer a reason for doing so, according to Cook’s re-port.

Gym roof should be finished soonby Roger S. Lucas

The Lake Roosevelt High School gym roof is sealed and games there should resume in January when the Raiders have home games sched-uled.

Superintendent Dennis Carlson said Monday that workers had sealed the roof and reported only one tiny leak during a recent rain storm.

“I expect the roof will be finished, weather permitting, within a few weeks,” Carlson stated.

When workers initially started to put a new roof on the gym, they discovered asbestos, which delayed progress on the roof. Rain had caused some game changes when the roof leaked and later during re-pairs some dust particles, including hazardous asbestos, fell into the gym, leading to a decision not to use it.

Handling the material required special treatment by personnel trained in the abatement of asbestos, further delaying progress on the roof.

The only remaining event in December that was scheduled for the LRHS gym was the Powerhouse Wrestling Tournament, which has been set to take place in the old middle school gym in Grand Coulee on Dec. 30.

Making a joyful noiseThe Community Choir performs Sunday afternoon to more than 100 who came to hear Christmas songs and share in refreshments at St. Henry’s Catholic Church. — Scott Hunter photo

by Roger S. Lucas

A 58-year-old man was found inside his vehicle in a ditch on “B” Street near the gate to the Bureau of Reclamation industrial area Friday night.

The driver, Richard J. Wippel, was later pronounced dead at Coulee Medical Center.

Police had to break a side window to gain entrance to the locked pickup, whose driver was then taken to the hospital.

The police report stated that there was no sign of a pulse and it appeared that some

type of medical condition caused the vehicle to leave the road. The vehicle was not damaged.

Washington State Patrol was called to in-vestigate and reported to police that “they be-lieved that this was a death that caused the driver to drive off the road, and they saw no signs of the accident causing the death.”

order to gain entry into her house.Harris said that an Electric

City resident who came to the property to do yard work called to say that someone had entered the house and ransacked the draw-ers in a dresser in the basement. When Harris came home she saw that the drawer where she kept the Krugerrands had been dis-turbed. That’s when she realized the loss.

Tufts said information was filed the day of the loss for deal-ers to report anyone who tried to sell Krugerrands to report the in-cident.

“My guess is that the Kruger-rands could have been melted down in order to dispose of them,” Tufts stated.

Will post to Star from both sides of datelineby Scott Hunter

Damon Eric Harrell and his wife Kymberly will usher in the New Year at midnight twice next week, if they can pull it off, and they will post to The Star’s Face-book page as they go.

The Harrells (he is the son of Melvin Harrell Sr. of Grand Cou-lee) plan to fly to Auckland, New Zealand to watch the midnight fireworks from the 1,076-foot Sky Tower, then head across the Inter-national Dateline to catch the New Year’s Eve celebration in Honolu-lu, Hawaii.

They plan to leave Auckland the morning of Jan. 1, 2015, tak-ing an eight-hour flight scheduled to arrive in Honolulu Dec. 31, 2014 about 9 p.m.

“From what I understand, the flight that we will board is the only one that will have passengers who

will see two New Year’s eve cel-ebrations, in two different time zones and two different hemi-spheres,” Harrell said in an email exchange with The Star. “The first major city and the last major city (to greet the new year), so yes we will witness the midnight fire-works in both locations.”

To pull it off, Harrell said, they need two factors to fall in their fa-vor. The flight has to leave and ar-rive on time, and they have to get out of customs in Honolulu within an hour.

“Luckily, the Jet Stream will help us out at 38,000 feet,” he said.

Harrell said they plan to post selfies and other photos to the The Star’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/GrandCouleeStar from both locations.

“I am very excited to be the first person from Grand Coulee to have pulled this off,” he said. “I will keep you posted on our prog-ress.”

Based in Houston, Texas, Har-rell said he works in the crude oil industry.

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O P I N I O N

Jess,shut up!Jesse Utz

10 years agoElectric City Mayor Ray Halsey

said the city will have a balanced budget in 2005, totaling nearly $5.8 million with $294,000 taken out of cash reserves to make it balance with most of those funds going for a new fire truck. And $65,000 will go to the operations-maintenance section of the bud-get to make ends meet. The law enforcement contract with Grand Coulee will continue at a cost of $58,780, plus just over $9,000 in other law enforcement-related costs.

During the last meeting for

2004, the Grand Coulee Dam School District and Lake Roos-evelt High School honored sec-retary Vicki Zowada for 14 years of service with a reception. She was also honored with the staff member of the month by the stu-dents of LRHS. Zowada remarked that she is walking out with a big smile on her face.

Leslie Green, Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star, is pictured on The Star’s community page presenting proceeds of the 2004 Penny Auction to three organiza-tions: Terry Anderson, Okanogan Home Health and Hospice, Fern Blaylock, Grand Coulee area food bank, and Mike Wiltermood, Cou-lee Community Hospital building fund. Each received a $600 check.

Winners of the Nespelem School Christmas essay contest included: preschool/kindergar-ten, Kiana Sam, Cooper March-and, Terry Jim; lst/2nd, Marissa Lafountain, Lachelle Bearcub; 3rd/4th, Sean Waters, Amanda Palmer; 5th/6th, Casey Nicholson, Dan LaPlante; 7th/8th, Bailey An-kney, Laweesa Anthony.

20 yearsThe way the Grand Coulee

Project’s fire protection service is managed is about to change and firefighters will likely earn less under a plan to merge their proj-ect branch with the management and services branch sometime early in 1995. Plant Protection was the only branch of the project not affected by the recent reduc-tions in force, said Ron Bell, presi-dent of Local 89, International Federation of Local and Techni-cal Engineers, representing 14 plant protection employees. The Plant Protection dispatch opera-tion, which serves as the area’s 911 will not be affected but Proj-ect Manager Steve Clark said he will meet with personnel about efficiency measures. Bell said the union isn’t too concerned about job loss, but the drop in time-and-a-quarter wages could cost some firefighters several thousand dol-lars a year. Bell said management started looking at plant protec-tion’s structure after Bureau in-vestigators of alleged sexual mis-conduct wrote a report that the current system makes it too easy for such problems to occur. Clark has refused comment on the mat-ter, citing privacy concerns. Bell said management contends the project doesn’t have as much need for firefighters as it did during the days of construction, and is now using automated systems with

Coulee Recollectionsmore planned. Bell said that at-titude may be shortsighted, point-ing to a 1970s cost-savings plan that failed when project manag-ers wouldn’t install carbon diox-ide anti-fire systems in genera-tors. Then, when windings in unit 21 caught fire, it was tough to put out and the Bureau spent mil-lions on repairs, said Bell.

30 years agoRoberta (Birdie) Hensley of El-

mer City will head the Columbian Toastmaster Club for the coming year and her new appointment was announced at the Christmas meeting and program recently where Myra Mason was judged the best speaker with a talk titled “We could be better than we are,” and Ester Rice was the best table topic speaker.

Last Thursday, four of fifteen passengers on a school bus re-ceived injuries in an accident about five miles west of Grand Coulee on Highway 174. Stu-dents Donna Fountain 11, Kyle Steveson 11, Bill Jess 7, of Grand Coulee and Jake Buckner 10, of Mansfield were hurt when the bus, driven by Jack Wilson, 44, of Electric City, stopped to pick-up two children and was just get-ting underway when a semi-truck and trailer slammed into the rear of the school bus. Truck driver, Larry Gilliespie, 48, Okanogan, veered his rig to the left which jackknifed, causing the trailer to

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smash into the rear of bus, which did a complete turn on the road. No estimate of damage was listed for the 1984 Peterbilt truck but the school bus was set at $16,000 to $18,000, said school bus super-visor Ray Halsey.

40 years agoVeterans of World War I, Bar-

racks and Auxiliary 2009 will meet this Friday (Dec.6, 1974) in the Coulee Dam City Hall at 12:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

Put on your dancing shoes. Starting on Jan.7, 1975 at 8:00 p.m., the Grand Coulee Eagles Lodge will host ballroom dance lessons for six weeks, with in-structors from Spokane who will teach the Ed Cheney Method of Ballroom Dancing. There’s classes for beginners and more advanced dancers and the lesson package is priced at $25.00 per person. Everyone is welcome so call Cecil Trefry or Ted Rice for a reserva-tion.

Delight Beaty, Juliene Hunter, Mindy Benson, Sallie Ogg, Jim-my Pachosa, Darren Morris, Geri Pitner, Todd Banks, Kenn Cop-ple, Darla Mellor, Charlene Bot, Therese Graham, Jim Sanders, Greg Tucker, Eric Bute and Kevin Avery were featured in “A Thanks-giving Story,” a play written and produced by the students of Mrs. Joyce Behren’s fourth grade class at Center Elementary in Grand Coulee.

To the residents of the Grand Coulee Dam Area: Time for a little soul searching

I have lived here for 65 years and I have never seen such quar-relsomeness among the entire community. In the past we have had our shares of disagreements between the towns and between the people of the towns. But now we seem to have reached a state where it seems like we can make no progress going forward, only backward.

For example, Coulee Dam can-not go forward with their waste-water treatment plan until Elmer City decides whether or not it will join in a communal plan.

Electric City is faced with a lack of police protection until it can decide whether to accept Grand Coulee’s new offer or go with Coulee Dam’s bid. If it choos-es Coulee Dam, then the officers will have the problem of crossing boundaries to answer calls. The

roster of firefighters and EMTs for Coulee Dam has dwindled un-til we no longer have a viable fire service or ambulance service. It is true that our neighboring towns have offered to take up the slack, but valuable time is being lost while another town is found that can answer the needs of Coulee Dam.

We have quarreled among ourselves, but managed to come together and build a new beauti-ful new school system. We came together when we realized our new hospital needed public com-munity support to get it back to proper management.

It is Christmas time, a time when perhaps we all need to do a little soul searching. Are we treat-ing our neighbors as we would wish to be treated? Are we will-ing to share a little of what we

have to make life safer for those around us? Are we willing to lis-ten to our neighbors with respect and consider our answer before we speak? Are we willing to re-consider some of our pet ideas and grant that our neighbor may have some right on their side? Are we willing to turn off the TV and go to a meeting that may be very boring or very uncomfortable?

If we are not willing to do these things, then we only have our-selves to blame if the community continues to deteriorate.

So, PLEASE, think over where our duties to or community lie and where our personal responsi-bility for a great life in the Coulee begins.

Carol NetzelCoulee Dam

A young spirit of ChristmasWas I that bad? Was I a spoiled brat? Sometimes

in this world of selfishness and entitlement, I see it in our youth and I wonder those very questions.

I see kids daily believing that they have a right to everything, no matter if they deserve it or not. The “What about me?” and “I will do what I want” generation seems to be in full force and living adult lives as 12- and 13-year-olds. We can sometimes give up on trying to teach humility, grace and pa-tience to this group of young adults, but recently I saw a glimpse of a few things that melted me down and I see a flicker of hope in the future.

To do a quick summary of the events I witnessed would not do them justice, and to give you a full account would vio-late some confidentiality. So I will give you a vanilla, generic breakdown.

A young lady who received some unexpected gifts could not say thank you enough and was truly humbled by the generos-ity. In a time where our youth seldom say “Thank You” or show any humility, this girl could not contain it and it was contagious to those surrounding. The spirit of Christmas grew in each adult around her, and smiles and tears danced with joy and peace as the group shared a small mo-ment that said everything will be OK. It made the adults say, “I can do this a little bit longer.” If one child can show us they recognize the efforts made on their behalf, then I can keep on trying, myself.

A Christmas wish list can be full of desires and wants, most of which will be forgotten in a year. But on occasions, a young one’s list can be dotted with the real meaning of Christmas. Two such letters I had the privilege of reading. One did start out how you might expect, with the gimmes and wants, but then it took an opposite turn and asked for gifts for his entire family. Hmmm, maybe a child can see that others have needs as well. The second let-ter was a simple request — to have mom home for Christmas. It was followed by, “I know that is not

going to happen, but if it could…..” Yes! She got it. The simple spirit of Christmas on a holiday wish. It would mean the world to her family and it would matter. A difficult request, but from the heart. Not a selfish desire but a true spirit-warming need for the holiday season.

There were a few other moments that almost moved me to tears, showing me that there are some unselfish kids out there. A singing of happy birth-day by a crowded lunch room, a few Merry Christ-mases and birthday wishes at the perfect moment,

added with a gift from an unex-pected child at the perfect time. These are enough sometimes to bring a 41-year-old man to tears, but better yet, it gives him hope for the future.

Sometimes we give up on the younger generation and write them off as lost. But if we look hard enough and keep up the fight, we get a glimpse now and then of teachings actually getting through. This time of year can be difficult for the best of us, includ-

ing those shorter and less mature than the average, but hope and faith and joy and love is not entirely lost on them. They feel it too.

Yes, sometimes they can seem very selfish and sucking the nature of our being into an abyss of end-less needing more of this and that. This can be hard to overcome. They are out there, though. In small packages. Thoughtful kids that know that there are bigger things out there than what is on their Christ-mas wish list. Yes, the Spirit of Christmas is alive and well. Now let’s hope it is contagious enough for more young ones to catch it.

As you sit around your tree opening what was given to you, let us not forget about those less fortu-nate who have very little. Let us also not forget that a child was born in a manger long ago, a child that would become the savior of us all. MERRY CHRIST-MAS, EVERYONE!

Counting our blessingsIt’s that time of year when we count our bless-

ings. In America, they are abundant, especially this year.

For starters, the unemployment rate is down from 7 percent last December to 5.8 percent. Wash-ington state mirrors the national average. Housing starts, retail sales and our gross domestic product are all up from last year, signs of an improving economy.

Since consumer spending drives economic growth, low interest rates have helped. Home mortgages and auto loans hover in the 3- to 4-per-cent range. Contrast that to Rus-sia, where interest rates are near-ing 20 percent as bankers struggle to keep investors in the market as the ruble plunges.

Thanks to new “fracking” tech-nology, America is rapidly becom-ing energy independent, dropping the national average price of gaso-line to $2.47; $2.76 in Washington state.

Because of plunging gas prices, Bloomberg re-ports that holiday shoppers started the season with extra money in their wallets. The cheapest gasoline prices since 2010 amount to about $500 in annual savings for the average American.

Compare that to Europe, where a gallon of petrol costs as much as $9.26 in Norway. In Italy, where a gallon of gasoline costs $8.11 and the average wage is $97 per day, 8.3 percent of a worker’s daily earn-ings go to pay for a gallon of fuel.

This year also brought good news for Washington state agriculture. Washington’s apple growers cel-ebrated a record harvest of 150 million boxes this year, compared to 129 million boxes in 2012.

Fortunately, our region didn’t suffer a severe drought like California, a state that lost 428,000 acres of irrigated cropland and an estimated 17,000 part-time jobs because of water shortages. The Uni-versity of California at Davis reports the statewide economic cost of the 2014 California drought is ex-pected to total around $2.2 billion, nearly as much as the entire value of Washington’s 2012 apple pro-duction, our state’s largest agriculture crop.

Sufficient water supplies kept our electric rates

for homes, businesses and industries among the lowest in the world, while providing migrating salmon with ample stream flows. The Columbia Riv-er salmon runs were the best in 75 years, and on a single day last September, 67,000 salmon swam up the river past Bonneville Dam. That was four times as many as on any day in the 1990s.

Good news this year for Boeing, as well. Reuters re-ports that Boeing has net or-ders of 1,274 for the year as of Dec. 2, and has delivered 647 aircrafts - nearly 20 percent more than chief rival Airbus.

The good news for local workers is that Boeing will fabricate the giant wing for the new 777X in Everett and has ramped up production of its popular 737 in Renton to 42 per month. The company announced plans to produce

52 a month by 2018.Of course, things are not rosy for everyone, but

they are much better now than they have been since the beginning of “the great recession” in 2008.

There are still many people looking for work, too many jobs are part-time, and the job opportunities for many college graduates, in particular, are mea-ger. Terrorists, whether they are blood-thirsty mili-tants like the Taliban or ISIS, or internet hackers like the North Koreans who nailed Sony, are still worrisome.

We still have a growing national debt, but we have the ability to stop borrowing and begin repay-ing it. America is blessed with enormous energy potential, creative people and industrious workers. That is a recipe for success, as long as our political leaders don’t shackle it.

The best Christmas present we can give ourselves is the freedom to do what we do best: innovate.

Don C. Brunell is a business analyst, writer and colum-nist. He recently retired as president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest busi-ness organization, and now lives in Vancouver. He can be contacted at [email protected].

Guest Columnby Don Brunell

Seventy-three years agoMason City Church c. 1941 Christmas


CHURCH OF THE NAZARENEWelcomes you

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Community Youth Group Sundays 4-5:30 p.m. at GCD Middle School.

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St. Dunstan’s of Grand Coulee will hold a Christmas Eve Service on Wednesday, Dec. 24, at 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

Coulee Dam Community Presbyterian Church will hold its traditional candlelight Christ-mas Eve service on Wednesday, Dec. 24, beginning at 7 p.m. Ev-eryone is welcome.

Zion Lutheran Church will be holding a Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m. in Grand Coulee and at 9 p.m. at Bethel in Coulee City. A Christmas Day service will be held on Thursday, Dec. 25, at 11 a.m.

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Chamber of Commerce will not meet until after the holidays. The next meeting will be held Thurs., Jan. 8, at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee.

Care aNd Share Food baNkCloSed deC. 26

The food bank at the Church of the Nazarene normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, hwy 174, Grand Coulee. The bank still can use clean plastic grocery bags. The food bank will be closed on Friday, Dec. 26 and reopen on January 2. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Christmas 60 years agoSixty years ago, the holiday

season in the community stretch-ing from Electric City to Ne-spelem featured all kinds of par-ties, programs and events. Here’s a sampling of some of

them a n d t h e f o l k s w h o w e r e here in our towns back then.

F l o y d H. Phillips, Bureau of Indian Af-fairs Super-intendent at the Colville Indian Agen-cy, Nespelem a n -nounced that a $200 per-capita payment will be dis-tributed to approximately 4,000 Colville tribal members, just in time for Christmas. The distribu-tion of $804,000 comes from res-ervation timber sales and grazing fees.

SantasSanta, as portrayed by Louis

Wilinit for the 15th consecutive year, handed out sacks of candy to the children who showed up to see him in front of the Grand Coulee city hall at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 24, 1954. The treats were furnished by the Grand

Coulee volunteer fire crew and sacked up in the B Street Fire H a l l , said fire chief M.O.

Baker. Another Santa was at Loepp’s Hard-ware and Furniture in Grand Coulee on Saturday, Dec. 18 to distribute favors to the kiddies and listen to requests. But Santa’s help-er for the past three years, Ar-thur Gevals of Coulee Dam, wasn’t riding around in Coulee Dam in a red fire truck or mak-ing stops this year because he was c o n -f i n e d to the M a -r i n e

H o s -pital in Se-

attle. Mrs. Claus (Mrs. Gevais) said her husband re-

ceived dozens of letters from Santa fans, mailed to his home or to him at the hospital and also through a special mail box set up in the hardware store.

Santa’s stand-in, also known as Luther Ratliff, visited with 50 kids at the Green Hut Coffee Shop in Coulee Dam at the Christmas Party Sunday afternoon for the Coulee Dam Community Hospi-tal staff, doctors and executive board members and the Coulee Dam Volunteer Fire/Ambulance crew and their families. Mrs. W.D. Boydston of Coulee Dam played the piano for the party.

Santa visited the community

Christmas Party sponsored by the Elmer City Commerical Club Saturday evening at the town hall with 75 guests attending and treats were handed out to all of the children. Two movies, “The Night Before Christmas,” and “The Guiding Light” were shown for entertainment.

Santa’s 1954 schedule included several stops at the Colville In-dian Agency where he handed out treats to everyone attending the agency’s Women’s Club at their holiday potluck and party held at the agency’s “council hall” Dec. 18. Last Monday evening, Santa put in an appearance at the Nespelem Public School where the grade school students put on a Christ-mas program, then on Tuesday, the children had parties and gift exchanges in their classrooms, followed in the afternoon with a Christmas program put on by the junior and senior high students in the high school auditorium. The skits were judged and the junior class won the $5.00 first prize.

Parties and Programs

The eighth grade Girl Scout Troop of Coulee Dam were enter-tained at a Christmas party by their leaders, Mrs. Joe Kelly and Mrs. Robert Beasley at Mrs. Clyde Keefer, Jr.’s home where they ex-changed gifts and sang carols. The Coulee Dam Cub Scouts held a pack meeting at Central School on Dec. 9 with awards given to Hurrell Carter, Bill Keefer, Wal-ter Goman, Roger Daugherty, Michael Ploskey, Dean Skorheim, Ralph Sanders, Ray Wykoff, Bob Hedstrom, Perry Owens, John-nie Romero, Bill Stevens, Richard Weil, Charles Logue and Charles Seaton. Mrs. Loren Wykoff and Mrs. Victor Ecklund’s packs put on skits as entertainment.

The Lions Club will host its Christmas Party at 7 p.m., Dec.18 in the V.F.W. hall at Delano, fea-turing a $2.00-a-plate dinner, put on by the V.F.W. auxiliary with Dora Rose and Hazel Tailent in

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Raider boys now .500 for the seasonby John R. McNeil II

After losing the first two games of the season, the Raiders re-bounded back to .500 by winning both games last week.

Both were at home in the Grand Coulee gym. Roof repairs continue at Lake Roosevelt’s Gailord Nelson Gym.

Lake Roosevelt’s game against Bridgeport Dec. 16 was moved to Grand Coulee due to vandalism at Bridgeport.

In that game against the Mus-tangs, the Raiders took a lead and held on to it, coming away with a 58-22 win, a big boost for the pre-viously 0-2 LR.

“Guys really bounced back and performed well,” Head Coach Matt Simpson said. “A home game makes a big difference in a play-er, and we needed a home game to gain confidence, momentum heading into Christmas break to discover what we can do.”

Then on Friday, the Raiders hosted the Manson Trojans, who played with great intensity and

stayed in the game early. After one quarter, LR led 23-15.

In the second quarter the Raiders pulled away to build a 15 point lead at halftime, 39-24. Fouls started piling up for LR in the second, but Manson had trou-ble making their foul shots.

In a rough third quarter both sides tried to draw fouls and started to have heated exchanges.

Manson scored 16 points in the quarter, but LR scored 19 to push the lead to 18 points at the start of the fourth quarter when LR would cruise as Manson floun-dered. Lake Roosevelt won 69-48.

Chance Garvin led the Raiders with 20 points and three steals against the Trojans. Jackson Lou-ie contributed 13 points. Merle Picard had 10 points for the night. Jacob Palmer scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds. Aus-tin Rosenbaum and Jesse Louie each scored five points. Taren Redstar scored four points and Bill Nomee put up two.

“We are a deep team,” Simpson said. “Our whole squad is really

stepping up.” With injuries, the Raiders have

had to call on others to step up, and Simpson looks for the team to continue playing up to a higher level.

LR takes the two-game win streak and the momentum that goes with it into practice this week when there are no games due to Christmas.

Next week, the Raiders will travel to West Valley High School in Spokane Valley to take on the East Valley Knights on Monday at 2 p.m. East Valley (2A) is 3-3 over-all with a two-game losing streak coming into the matchup with LR. In those two losses the Knights were outscored by over 30 points. Then on Dec. 30, LR takes on 2B Colfax at 12:30 p.m. Simpson be-lieves the Raiders are up to the challenge.

“We match up well with both teams,” Simpson said, “and it’ll be a great test to see where we are at and areas of improvement.” Simp-son is thankful for the opportu-nity for the Raiders to perform in front of a big stage. “We are excited for this opportunity to be included in one of the biggest area tournaments around,” he said.

Lady Raiders on three-game win streakby John R. McNeil II

The Lady Raiders picked up two wins in the Grand Coulee gym and are now in a three-game win streak.

Head Coach Wallace Pleasants attributes the winning ways in part to what Entiat had shown the Ladies in their loss. He said they had “played horrible at En-tiat, and that exposed the girls to what needs to be worked on, and we have been working on that ever since.”

Last Tuesday, Bridgeport Fil-lies came to Grand Coulee for a game that had been moved due to the vandalism at their own school. The Fillies challenged the Lady Raiders, but in the end lost 55-43.

Coach Pleasants said his team was working through adversity and, “showed lots of improvement over the (Dec.4) Entiat game.” After working on defense in prac-tice, he said, “it looked a lot sharp-er against Bridgeport.”

The Lady Raiders hosted the Manson Trojans Dec. 19, when they built a big lead early on, then held off a Trojan rally to stay ahead at halftime 33-17.

In the third quarter the Lady Raiders had trouble making shots, and the Trojans continued to rally, closing within nine points of Lake Roosevelt.

Then in the fourth, the Lady Raiders had an offensive explo-sion, scoring 20 points and seal-ing the win 58-40.

“Talked at halftime about what we can control on the floor and what we need to focus on,” Pleasants noted. “We had to work through the adversity and keep our composure. Once the girls did that, we played solid Lady Raider basketball.”

Katelynn Schilling led the Lady Raiders with 17 points against the Trojans. “Katelynn Schilling is working herself back in after her knee injury and is be-coming a big part of the offense again,” Pleasants said.

Alana Epperson scored 12 points against Manson. Lachelle Bearcub put up 11 points. Riley Epperson contributed eight. Joc-elyn Moore scored six points and grabbed some needed rebounds. Kayla St. Pierre and Kiana Sam each scored two points.

This week, the Lady Raiders have practice time to work on skills and heal up for the next stage of the season. On Monday, they will travel to West Valley High School in Spokane Valley to take part in the Eagle Holi-day Classic, facing off against the Colton Wildcats. Tipoff is at 12:30 p.m.

Colton has won the 1B girls state title the past six years and is currently 6-0 scoring over 80 points in their last three games.

The next day, the Lady Raid-ers play Lakeland of Idaho at 2 p.m. Lakeland is 3-9 overall with many of those losses being close games.

Wrestlers continue improvement processby John R. McNeil II

Raider wrestlers earned suc-cess at the two outings they trav-elled to last week.

Against the Tonasket Tigers, Oroville, and Pateros the three Raider wrestlers at Tonasket Dec. 17 split their matches 2-2. Octa-vio Alejandre and Oscar Pakootas won matches at Tonasket, while Oscar Pakootas and Reese Caddy lost theirs.

“For the three that wrestled, they came up against good com-petition at Tonasket,” Head Coach Steve Hood said. “They are going to be a big factor this year in the B’s.”

Hood said the stiff competition is part of the process toward the postseason.

“We wrestled good matches and got good competition from (Tonasket),” he said. “We got what we wanted, and that was mat time and gauging what our strengths are and working on the weakness.”

“We want hard, tough match-es to encourage our wrestlers to work hard in the mat room to achieve that continual improve-ment in the matches, (which) can lead to better things,” he added.

Saturday, the Raiders braved the fog and bad weather to com-pete in the Cashmere tourney. At Cashmere the Raiders had six wrestlers competing, four of whom placed. In team standings the Raiders finished last out of 10 teams. Still, Coach Hood liked what he saw from the wrestlers, who had improved “on the weak-nesses that were highlighted in

practice.” Hood also liked to see what

former top Raider wrestler Shane Proctor, now a world-champion bull rider, showed the wrestlers in practice on Thursday and Friday that could be used in the tourney on Saturday.

Octavio Alejandre took home the gold at 285 pounds. Alejandre pinned his first two opponents (Cody Francis of Reardan and Ian Allen of Quincy) before facing Rey Rubio of Quincy in the champion-ship match. Alejandre could not pin Rubio, but he did not let Rubio score any points and came away the victor, 4-0.

Oscar Pakootas overcame ad-versity to claim a bronze in the 138 bracket. After blowing out Ty-son Sandust of Omak 17-0, Pakoo-tas came up against Mat Crise of Chewelah. Crise took the lead but Pakootas came back and forced overtime with an escape. With the match tied five and the first take-down would win. Crise was able to score it before Pakootas.

Rather than hang his head, Pakootas came back and defeated Ryleigh Spaeth of Cashmere 11-4, setting up a third/fourth match with Juan DeLaCruz of Chelan. Pakootas stayed on the offensive and claimed third place 7-2.

“It was a good back-and-forth match,” Hood noted. “Both ran into trouble and were able to counter it to stay wrestling.”

Jacob Smith also took home a bronze at 120 for Lake Roosevelt. Smith defeated Josh Sey of Chel-an by major decision before los-ing to the eventual weight class champ, Caleb Cole of Reardan.

Smith rallied back and pinned his way to third place, taking down Mark Jimenez of Chelan and Joe Dallas of Omak.

Reese Caddy took home fifth for LR at 132. Caddy pinned Dan Cloros of Cashmere before los-ing to Ivan Reyes of Chelan 17-1. Caddy then pinned Page Bates of Cashmere before losing his second match to Will Casados of Mt. Baker by pin. This set up a fifth/sixth match against Steele of Cashmere. Both had wrestled to the one-day limit, so the match could not be decided on the mat. In a conference, the tourney offi-cials awarded fifth place to Steele. As no match was wrestled, then both Caddy and Steele should be considered as placing fifth.

Michael Thomas wrestled his first matches ever at Cashmere in the 160 bracket. He lost both but both his coaches noticed Thomas improve in his second match, which bodes well for next week. Gabe Moses went 0-2 at Cash-mere, as well, in the 145 bracket.

No matches are scheduled this week with the Christmas holiday.

Tuesday, Dec. 30, the Raiders will host 12 teams for the Pow-erhouse Tournament. The Power-house will be at the Grand Coulee gym in the former middle school, due to ongoing roof repairs at the Lake Roosevelt gym. Noxon/Arlee of Montana, Okanogan, Omak, Wilbur-Creston-Keller, Rainier, Almira/Coulee-Hartline, Warden, Brewster, Oroville, Newport, Sel-kirk, and Republic have been in-vited to take part in the tourney. Wrestling will start at 10 a.m.

Chance Garvin lays in two points.

Jacob Palmer passes over Manson defenders. — Scott Hunter photos

Jackson Louie attempts a jump shot and draws a foul.


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HAVE IT ALL!!!For Sale by Owner

$275,0004 bdrm., 3 bath house in Almira, Wash.

Daylight Rancher on approximately 6.5 acres.

This home features hardwood floors, vaulted knotty pine ceilings, custom fireplace, bay windows and an attached 2 car garage. Daylight basement include 1 bdrm., 1 full bath and a large family room. Also a HUGE SHOP 40x70 ft with 4 bays and includes a 10,000 hoist. Shop includes a guest bedroom with a mechanic’s bathroom. HUNT-ERS - this shop includes a 10x12 ft. BUTCHER ROOM with stainless steel coun-tertops and sink. Also an 8x12 ft. REFRIGERATED LOCKER ROOM FOR GAME - Plenty of room to store all your toys. Close to Lake Roosevelt. Bring the horses. Property is fenced. Zoned for residental, agricultural and commercial.

CURTIS 509-639-2696 or CELL 509-953-4496

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Nominations are open for positions on Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union Board of Directors:

• 2 year term • Non-Compensated • Expenses paid • Must be a member of CDFCU

Nomination Deadline: January 7, 2015. Send Resume to:

NOMINATING COMMITTEEPO Box 216 Coulee Dam, WA 99116

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Finish building this home on the best 4-lot corner in Wilbur. New home (or double your money). $29,900. 509-647-0117 or 509-641-2141. (Mc12-3-tfc)

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APTS READY to RENT1201 River Dr., 1&2 Bdrms.

Move In Ready, Laundry Onsite Max 509.895.9245

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The Nespelem School is accepting applications for a Paraprofessional. Must be able to work with students; preschool – 8th grade, have a desire to work with children, and monitor students during recess.

Must have a AA degree or have passed the Washington State Prax-is Test and will pass a background check, please apply.

HOW TO APPLY: To apply, mail a resume to Ms. Pankey, P.O. Box 291, Nespelem, WA 99155 –or phone 509-634-4541, on line application www.nsdeagles.org

HOURS / DAYS / SCHEDULE: 6hrs plus 1.25 will occur in the After School Program working on reading and math.

SALARY / WAGE / BENEFITS: Rate of pay depends on experience and qualifications.

CLOSING DATE / DEADLINE: Open until filled.

FOR SALE – Classic ’77 AMX, 6 cyl., 4 spd., $2000; 2 Fender Guitars with amps $400; Pistol Taurus 38 Special, $400. 633-0553. (T12-17-2tp)

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10x20 STORAGE UNIT FOR RENT – In Grand Coulee. Call 631-0194. (N2-27-tfc)

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT - at Coulee Professional Building on Burdin Blvd., across from the hospital. 633-0496. (S5-15-tfc)

3 bdrm., quiet corner in Almira. 20 minutes from dam, new kitchen, bath, paint, appliances, w/d, electric fireplace, a value while we make it new, $495, 509.647.0117. (Mc11-26-tfc)

IN GRAND COULEE – Now taking applications – 2 bdrm., 1000 sq. ft, completely furnished duplex, w/s/g paid. No smoking, no pets. $950 per month, 631-1222. (C12-3-tfc)

FOR RENT: 2-bedroom basement apartment, and a 2-bedroom duplex, both $550.00 per month. 1st, last and damage deposit required. Call 633-2485 for more information. (F10-29-tfc)

TRAILWEST MOTEL RENTALS – Monthly $450; 2 Weeks $375; Weekly $225. 108 Spokane Way, Grand Coulee, Wash. (T11-5-tfc)

CUTE 2 bdrm., smaller home, big fenced yard, new paint and appliances, big tub and shower, ready now, a steal at $375. 509.647.0117. (Mc11-26-tfc)

PERFECT FOR OUT OF TOWN WORKER: Furnished studio apt. $450/mo., including all utilities. Grand Coulee. 509.631.0124. (P12-10-tfc)

Commercial Space - Excellent location! Great shop or office space Grand Coulee, across from Safeway Available Jan 1 Approximately 1000 sq ft 509.724.0294. (D12-10-4tpp)

FOR SALE OR RENT - 5 bedroom, 3 bath, garage, arena, stalls, tack room, electric heat, propane fireplace, 3 acres all irrigated & steel fenced, paved driveway 1 mile south of Electric City, $1500./month rent or $355,000. Kathy McKay 775-3511 or [email protected] (Mc12-17-6tpp)

From Out Of Town? Clean, fully furnished, one bedroom apartment. Located in Coulee Dam, short walk to restaurants, grocery shopping, school, casino and the dam. A must see! Month to month with minimum 2 month stay. $700/mon, includes electricity, sewer and garbage. First, last, and $500 damage deposit. Favorable back ground check required at applicant expense from Airfactz of Spokane. Contact landlord at (509)633-3167. (W12-17-tfc)

2 Bdr mobile home for rent in Grand Coulee, fenced yard, carport. W/S/G paid/ $650 month. $500 deposit. Available now. 509-860-1630 Sorry, no pets or smoking. (S12-24-2tpp)

3 bedroom / 2 bath home. wonderful home for rent in Electric City. Please call Virginia at 509-990-1471 for details. (M12-24-3tpp)

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HOUSEKEEPER WANTED – Trail West Motel. Call 633-3155, ask for Sam. (T11-5-tfc)

In Home Caregivers - Needed for the Grand Coulee Coulee Dam and Nespelem area. Call 509-422-1791 for more information. (B12-10-4tpp)


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120 E Grand Ave, Electric City, 1350 s.f. 3 bedroom, 2 bath home that has been extensively remodeled. The home has an open kitchen with appliances all included, big Living Room-Dining room, Covered Breezeway, Large Deck, Lake View, fenced yard, sprinkler system. Need Garage space? No problem. There is a 30’ by 36’ detached garage with power, water, heated floor and roll up door and more. A 20’ by 20’ garage with bench space, roll up door and stand up loft. A 20’ by 16’ Tool shop that is insulated with benches all around, plus a 21’ by 22’ 2 car carport. All this and only 1 minute to Coulee Playland Boat Launch. List Price is now just $152,900.

120 E. Grand Ave., Electric City

45885 Geostar Drive N, Grand Coulee, Custom Ranch Style Home in immaculate condition overlooking Lake Roosevelt. The home was designed to take full advantage of its beautiful setting and yet provides lots of privacy. Built in 2009, it has 3 Bedrooms and 2 baths and appr 1,664 s.f. of living area all together. The kitchen features Canyon Creek Beech wood cabinets and stainless appliances. Home has Hardie Board lap siding, oak hardwood flooring, 3 sided gas FP, 9 foot vaulted Ceilings, and stamped & exposed aggregate patios. The lot is 1.53 acres in size and has plenty of off-street parking and a 2 car 600 s.f. attached garage. Too many amenities to list them all. The List Price is just $345,000

#55676 Bay Area Dr NE, Electric City, Beautiful custom built 3 bedroom 2 bath home with the property set up for horses. The home was built in 2004 and has appr 1,700 square feet that is all on one level. Home has Vinyl lap siding, dimensional Comp roofing, Gas Fireplace, Central Heat & AC with HP, and vaulted ceilings. There is a detached garage/workshop with tack room and hay storage. Corral for the horses and three separate pastures that are all fenced, so you can rotate your grazing. Beautiful landscaping and wonderful sunsets. The property is 5 acres in size all together. List price is now just $329,500.

#127 Silver Drive, Electric City, Looking for a larger 3 Bedroom home and just haven’t found the one? We think you will like all the amenities this property has to offer. Built in 1979, home has 3 Bedrooms and 1 3/4 baths, including master bath. There is hardwood flooring in part of the home, plus tile & carpeting. The home has Central H & Air Conditioning, Vinyl lap siding, a wood fireplace with insert, and a newer dimensional composition roof. The property is appr. 17,500 s.f. in size and has a very large fenced backyard, with an above ground lap pool, a few cherry trees, and an in ground auto sprinkler system. List price is just $234,900 with seller providing a $7,500 heating/cooling allowance.

#20 Western Ave, Electric City. Need a place with a lot of room for rigs? This property gives you lots of options. There is a detached shop that is 24.5’ by 48.5’ with 14 foot sidewalls, plus a built in basement garage that is another 1,040 s.f. in size. The home has just over 2,000 s.f. on the main level, plus another 300 sf upstairs. The home has 4 bedrooms & 2 baths, a metal roof, Central FA H & AC with a HP, All newer floorings and newer interior and exterior paint as well. Huge composite decks & woodstove in the Living Room. The property is appr. 26,000 sf. List price is just $199,500 with $2,500 closing allowance. 1104 Camas Street, Coulee Dam. 3 Bedroom Ranch Style home that is 1,625 sf in size and all on one level. Home was built in 1963 and has a very large LR with gas FP. It has one and three quarter baths, large utility room, and dining room right off the kitchen. The home has copper plumbing and the owner is having a new 200 amp CB service installed soon. It has Electric BB heat and a large covered patio in the backyard. The property is appr. 110’ wide by 120’ deep or about 13,200 s.f. all together. There is an attached garage that is 22’ by 22.5’ plus a det. garage that is 20.5’ by 28’ that owner stored his airplane in. List Price is now $130,000

708 Spokane Way, Grand Coulee, 3 Bedroom home with a view of Grand Coulee Dam and Lake Roosevelt. Home has just under 1200 s.f. on the main level, plus another 870 s.f. in the partially finished basement. Home has a full bath upstairs and a 3/4 bath down. The home has T1-11 lap siding,

new Dimensional arch tab roof, Central Heat and AC, and immaculate landscaping. There is a medium sized deck for summer barbecues. The land is 125’ by 80, or 10,000 s.f. and has a 2 car carport. List Price is just $129,500 with $2,500 closing cost credit

602 Spruce Street, Coulee Dam. 3 Bedroom home with 940 sf up and 940 s.f. downstairs. Home has had a number of updates. It has vinyl lap siding, copper plumbing, Fireplace upstairs and wood stove downstairs. Family Room and two bathrooms. Large patio in the back with RV hookups and a hot tub hut. The property is appr. 125.5 feet wide by 77.5 feet deep, or appr. 9,725 s.f. all together. There is a detached garage/shop that is 24’ by 36’ and there is lots of off street parking. List Price is just $119,500 with $2,500 closing cost allowance

#535 Butler Square, Grand Coulee, View Location Home has appr 1,075 s.f. on the main level, plus appr 525 s.f. downstairs. The Living Room has lam flooring & a brick hearth for WS. The kitchen has newer cabinets and countertops. There are 2 bedrooms on the main level, plus a full bath and UR. The dining room is on the lake view side as well. The home has 2 more rooms downstairs that could be used as bedrooms but are non-egress. Home as vinyl lap siding and vinyl 2 pane windows, and a 200 amp cb service. The lot is 80’ by 80’ and there is a 1 car garage and additional off street parking. Located just minutes away from Lake Roosevelt & Banks Lake. List Price is just $112,500 and Seller will pay up to $2,500 of your closing costs. 607 Fir Street Coulee Dam, 2 Bedroom Ranch Style home in East Coulee Dam. Home was built in 1971 and has appr. 900 s.f. of living area, Central H & AC, Updated floorings, and Metal roof. Living room is 11.5 by 17.5, and there is a large covered patio, fenced yard, and detached 1 car garage. The lot is 60’ by 80’ and the property taxes have been very reasonable. List Price is now just $99,500.

214 A Street, Grand Coulee. Here is the perfect little cottage just for you. Home has 750 s.f. on the main level, plus another 750 s.f in the basement. Home has recently been replumbed. It still has the older fuse electrical service. Concrete block construction with Comp 3 tab roof, stucco interior walls, and patio area. Lot is 50’ by 120’ deep and has 1 car carport. List price is just $52,500. Owner also has another 50’ by 120’ building site available next door. If you want the extra property, not a problem, List price for both is $64,900.

212 E Street, Grand Coulee. Home is a 1964 Marlette single wide with expando and a frame addition. It has just under 850 s.f. of living area all together. There are 2 bedrooms and two other possible bedrooms. It has Central Heat and a water evap AC. Copper wiring. There are two lots that total approximately 100’ wide by 119.85 feet all together. There is a workshop that is 16’ by 17’ and lots of off street parking. List price is just $44,900

Looking for Land? We have a number of lots and building sites available both in and out of town. Prices start at $13,500 and go up from there. A complete list of properties for sale can be found on our website at www.FoisyKennedy.com, or give us a call at 509-633-0410.

411 Center St., Grand Coulee#411 Center Street, Grand Coulee. Looking for a reasonably price 3 Bedroom - 2 Bath home? Take a look at this one. Home has approximately 1,440 s.f. all together. Home has both a Living Room and Family room, Master Bedroom and bath are on one end of the home, with two additional bedrooms and bath are on the other end. Home has Central Heat and swamp ac for air conditioning. The property is appr. 75’ by 100’ or 7500 s.f. and includes a det garage/shop and a 14’ by 24’ carport. Taxes are very reasonable. List Price is just $67,500

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Director of FinanceColville Tribal Federal Corporation

Coulee Dam, WAClosing Date: January 1, 2015

Colville Tribal Federal Corporation (CTFC) is searching for a dynamic Director of Fi-nance to join our Corporate Team and be-come a key contributor in managing this multi-faceted company with over $120M in revenue. We have competitive pay and excellent benefits. Responsibilities: Di-rects and oversees all the financial activi-ties of the Corporation including monthly financial reporting, forecasting business growth, operating plans and capital invest-ment. Will participate in strategic planning and identifying business opportunities and suggest changes. Requirements: Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting with 10 yrs of Corporate Fi-nancial Mgt. exp and 3yrs Supervisory exp with a MBA or CPA Certification. Must have demonstrated knowledge of Section 17 Federal Corporations preferred.

For a complete job announcement/de-scription contact CTFC, Attn: Human Resources, POB 5, Coulee Dam, WA 99116 or [email protected] or call 509-634-3208.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERColville Tribal Federal Corporation

Coulee Dam, WAClosing Date: January 4, 2014

Colville Tribal Federal Corporation (CTFC) is searching for a dynamic Chief Executive Officer to join our team with competitive pay and excellent benefits. Responsibilities: Oversees the manage-ment, financial and administrative func-tions of CTFC including all subsidiaries, affiliates, and future business enterprises assigned, acquired, or developed. The incumbent reports to the CTFC Board of Directors who provide broad policy di-rection to the CEO and CTFC. Require-ments: Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Mgt or related field, MBA pre-ferred. A minimum of 15 yrs progressively responsible experience in management and leadership roles in private business required. May substitute up to 5 yrs Tribal and other Government experience for private business experience. Must have demonstrated knowledge of Section 17 Federal Corporations preferred.

For a complete job announcement/de-scription contact CTFC, Attn: Human Resources, POB 5, Coulee Dam, WA 99116 or [email protected] or call 509-634-3208.

We’ve Been Looking For You!

Colville Tribal Federal Corporation (CTFC) is searching for a dynamic

Corporate Counsel

to join our diverse team with competitive pay and excellent benefits. Responsibili-ties: Provides general legal advice to our firm on issues of corporate governance and administration, specializing in busi-ness law. Advises CTFC in areas con-cerning its’ legal rights, obligations, and privileges. Requirements: Bachelors De-gree, ability to obtain membership in WA State Bar Assoc, 10 yrs experience as a practicing attorney specializing in cor-porate transactions or business law and have a gaming background.

January 15, 2014

To become our newest team member please contact us in order to receive a full job announcement/description to CTFC, Attn: HR, P.O. Box 5, Coulee Dam, WA 99116 or email to [email protected] or call 509-634-3208.

Per Diem Dietary AideOpen until filled

CMC is seeking a Per Diem Dietary Aide. This position must prepare, deliver and distribute food and beverages for patients, residents, staff and visitors. Must be high school graduate or equivalent. Current State Food & Beverage Service Worker’s Permit is required.

Part-time Dietary AidePosition close – Jan. 31, 2015

CMC is seeking part time Dietary Aide. This position must prepare, deliver and distribute food and beverages for patients, residents, staff and visitors. Must be high school graduate or equivalent. Current State Food & Beverage Service Worker’s Permit is required.

Apply online at: www.cmccares.orgOr email information to:

[email protected] PHONE: (509) 633-1753

FAX: (509) 633-0295E.O.E.

ENDOCRINOLOGISTAccepting applications until April 2015

Coulee Medical Center is seeking a fulltime endocrinologist to provide care and treatment to patients with endocrine disorders including diabetes, thyroid disorders, infertility, metabolism, glandular cancers, growth hormone deficiency, genetic dysfunction, heart disease, osteoporosis, obesity and hormonal imbalances.

GENERAL SURGEONAccepting applications until April 2015

CMC is seeking a fulltime general surgeon with specialized knowledge and experience related to the diagnosis, preoperative, operative, and postoperative management, including the management of complications, in the following components of surgery: alimentary tract, abdomen, breast, skin, and soft tissue, head and neck, vascular system, endocrine system, surgical oncology, and trauma.

Per Diem NACOpen until filled

CMC is seeking Per Diem NACs to work in our Acute and LTS departments. Must have current Washington State NAC license and BLS.

Per Diem Registration SpecialistPosition close – Jan. 31, 2015

This position will assist, acknowledge and register all patients, answer and route calls and respond to walk-in patients. High school graduate, one year in a medical setting and excellent customer service skills required. Good computer skills preferred. Must be able to perform multiple activities and work as part of a team in a very fast paced environment.

Grand Coulee Dam School District #301JAVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, OPENING FOR SCHOOL

BOARD MEMBER - POSITION #5A vacancy exists on the Board of Directors for the Grand Coulee Dam School District. The Board is seek-

ing letters of interest from those citizens living within the district’s Director District #5 who wish to fill the vacancy. Candidates shall be United States citizens and qualified voters resident in the following described director district:

Director District 5Starting at the intersection of Spokane Way and Main St. Northwest on Main St to Midway Ave.Southwest on Midway Ave to Bridgeport HWY. Northerly on Bridgeport HWY to the southern boundary

of Township 29, Range 30 E and Section 35. East following section line to western boundary of 2010 Coulee Dam city limits. Clockwise following city limits to Columbia River.

Northerly following Columbia River to School District boundary. Counterclockwise following School Dis-trict boundary to the eastern crossing Columbia River excluding the area of the Fourth District. West through Columbia River to the northeast corner of Township 28, Range 30 E and

Section 12. South ¾ of a mile, West ½ of a mile (more or less) to the 2010 Grand Coulee city limits. West 1/3 of a mile to Eden Harbor Rd. Westerly on Eden Harbor Rd to Garner Ave.

West on Garner Ave to Wetzel St. South on Wetzel St to Martin Rd. South on Martin Rd to E Grand Coulee Ave. Northwest on E Grand Coulee Ave to Spokane Way. Northwest on Spokane Way to the point of the beginning.

LETTERS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2015 AT 2:00 PM.

The School Board will review the letters of interest a special meeting on Janaury 7, 2015 and may select one or more interested candidates to be interviewed.

PLEASE SUBMIT A LETTER OF INTEREST TO:Supt. Dennis Carlson, Ed.D.110 Stevens Ave.Coulee Dam, WA 99116 (Published Dec. 24 and 31, 2014)

SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 1024of the City of Grand Coulee, Washington

On the 16th day of December, 2014, the City Council of the City of Grand Coulee, Washington, passed Or-

dinance No. 1024. A summary of the content of said Ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as follows:

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAND COULEE, WASHINGTON, AMENDING SECTION 2.24.015 AND SUBSECTION 2.28.010(A) OF THE GRAND COULEE MUNICIPAL CODE TO REIN-STATE THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN CIVIL SERVICE AND REQUIRE COUNCIL CONFIRMATION OF MAYORAL APPOINTMENTS, CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, AND SETTING AN EFFEC-TIVE DATE.

The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.

DATED this 16th day of December, 2014. Sig. ___________CITY CLERK, CAROL BOYCE

(Publish Dec. 24, 2014)


On the 16th day of December, 2014, the City Council of the City of Grand Coulee, Washington, passed Or-dinance No. 1025. A summary of the content of said Ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as follows:

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2014 BUDGET, INCREASING CERTAIN FUND EXPENDI-TURES, AND AMENDING CITY ORDINANCE NO. 1014


DATED this 16th day of December, 2014. (SIG)_______________ CITY CLERK, CAROL BOYCE(Publish Dec. 24, 2014)


On the 16th day of December, 2014, the City Council of the City of Grand Coulee, Washington, passed Or-dinance No. 1026. A summary of the content of said Ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as follows:

AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE CITY OF GRAND COULEE, WASHINGTON FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2015, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK/TREASURER OF THE CITY TO MAKE THE NECESSARY TRANSFERS IN SAID BUDGET WITHOUT FURTHER ORDER OF THE COUNCIL.


DATED this 16th day of December, 2014. (SIG)________________CITY CLERK, CAROL BOYCE(Publish Dec. 24, 2014)

The deadline for the Dec. 31 issue will be Friday, Dec. 26.

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Grand Coulee Police

12/11 - Loepp Furniture ad-vised police that a big screen TV was missing from its warehouse. An employee had noted that the warehouse roll-up door was part way open when he went to get the TV for delivery.

12/12 - An Electric City resi-dent reported to police that she had backed out of the Senior Cen-ter and hit a car across the street, causing minimal damage.

- Police checked on a report of a man on Crest who was photo-graphing himself with a sword. Police found the man behind the apartments in the parking lot.

- A man who thought his boss had just come to his house to give him a paycheck told police that he received a punch in the face instead. He said his boss accused him of stealing, but the man told police that he had not stolen any-thing.

- A man on Stevens Street in Electric City was taken to jail on a prior warrant after being in-volved in a domestic violence is-sue.

- A Coulee Dam woman was stopped because she didn’t have a license plate on the front of her car and one of her brake lights was not operating. The officer found that her license had been suspended and she could not find her registration and proof of in-surance. She was cited and a li-censed occupant of her car took over driving duties.

12/13 - An Electric City wom-an asked police to go to her fa-ther’s house because she knew he wasn’t doing well. Police heard the man call for help and had to kick in a garage door to get in. They found the man on the bed-room floor and called for medical assistance.

- Plant Protection advised po-lice that a car was in the ditch near the B Street extension. Po-lice arrived and found that be-cause of the fog the man had turned too early at the intersec-tion and ended up in the ditch. A passerby helped get the car out.

- Three men fishing in a limit-ed access area were told to leave the area, and did.

- Electric City Bar and Grill told police that two men were fighting. Police found that the two men had been drinking and neither wanted to press charges.

12/17 - A 16-year-old was ar-rested for punching a hole in the wall of his home and later re-leased to his mother. The report is being forwarded to the Grant County prosecutor’s office for re-view.

- An Everett driver was cited for turning his high beams on and nearly blinding a police officer in Electric City.

- A Coulee City woman report-ed that a man attempted to run her down with his vehicle after she was leaving Coulee Medical Center. He was later found by Grant County officials and taken to jail for attempted vehiclular as-sault.

12/18 - Police were called to a residence on Washington Place in Electric City where a woman had taken a lot of pills in an appar-ent suicide attempt. The woman was taken by ambulance to Cou-

lee Medical Center and a mental health professional was called.

12/19 - Police were advised by Plant Protection that there was a disabled vehicle across the street from the pumping plant at Grand Coulee Dam. A woman at the ve-hicle stated she was out of gas but that someone was bringing gas for the car. A short time later the gas arrived.

Coulee Dam Police

12/14 - A motorist with a faulty headlight was stopped at 12th and River Drive and received

a warning by the officer. On the same day another driver with a faulty headlight was stopped at Roosevelt Way and River Drive and also received just a warning.

An officer watched a driver run the stop sign at Mead Way and Roosevelt Way and pulled the car over and issued a warning.

12/20 - It was another day of burned out headlights for officers. An officer stopped a vehicle with a faulty left headlight on River Drive and issued a warning and later stopped a vehicle on SR-155 with a faulty right headlight. That driver also got a warning from the officer.

charge, and more fun is planned with dancing to the music of an orchestra afterwards. Each mem-ber is asked to bring a small gift for a child which will be distributed to needy children for Christmas. The Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary will hold their holiday party two evenings later on Dec. 20 at the V.F.W. hall in Delano.

The Grand Cou-lee Dam Jay-C-Ettes sponsored a Sunday afternoon party for the elder-ly patients at the Coulee Dam Com-munity Hospital where 14 seniors enjoyed refreshments and gifts including a Christmas courage and a box of dusting powder for the ladies and candy for the men.

The Eagles Auxiliary cel-ebrated its sixth anniversary by honoring past presidents, Helen Townsend, Aurora Mills, Mrs. Jessie Reese, Leah Spratlin, Ida Bartel, Margaret Bartel and the late Grace Kidd, and other char-ter members, Cleo Larson, Eloise Neal, Irene Lehto, Bernice Beck, Lila Jurgensen, Tillie Pozar, and Betty Miller. The auxiliary held its Christmas party at the Eagles Hall Dec. 16 with Sue Winegar-den and Fay Wilson in charge

of the costume party where at-tendees were asked to dress up as Cowboys or Indians. Refresh-

ments were served and each person brought a gift cost-ing not more than $1.00 for a gift ex-change. Cleo Larson won the costume contest, dressed as an Indian.

The Grand Coulee Dam Business and Professional Wom-en’s Club recently held it’s Christmas Party at the Do-ver Perry home in Electric City with 40 members and friends at the turkey

dinner. The club’s president, Mrs. Alan Spratlin, was honored with a surprise birthday party and a gifted a table lamp. The BPW Club netted $120 from its recent fashion show, held at the Grand Coulee High School auditorium as a fundraiser with proceeds going to purchase an infant air-lock machine for the Coulee Dam Community Hospital. Mrs. Grace Potter, owner of Grace’s Dress Shop of Grand Coulee provided 100 holiday outfits, all modeled by local girls and women who were treated to hair styling from Spo-kane’s G.W. Steckler for the show. Tickets at the door sold for 50 cents each and included refresh-ments served on the auditorium’s balcony.

The Grand Coulee Volun-teer Fire Department held its 15th annual Christmas party at the Grand Coulee City Hall on Christmas Eve where 600 young-sters received bags of candy and nuts from the fire crew. This event is financed by the fire department through proceeds from the Fire-men’s Ball held at Thanksgiving time.

The Electric City P.T.A. held its annual Christmas potluck party in the school’s all-purpose room and the group sang car-ols after listening to Gwen Cro-ker talk about holiday customs in England. The Grand Coulee Community Church school put on a program and choir concert on Sunday evening in the church, plus a play will be put on by the junior members under direc-tion of Mrs. C.C. Lindbergh with Thane Curry in charge of music. Dancing, games and a musical program will entertain all those attending the annual Coulee Dam Firemen Association’s party at the town’s community building on Saturday, Fire General chair-man John Chlolero is in charge. The eighth grade Coulee Dam girl scouts were entertained at a holi-day party by their troupe lead-ers, Mrs. Joe Kelley, Mrs. Robert Beasley, and Mrs. Clyde Keefer, Jr. The girls sang carols and ex-changed gifts.

On Wednesday, Dec. 22, the Roosevelt Theater in Grand Cou-lee sponsored a free movie, “Bed-

time For Bonzo,” starring Ron-ald Reagan and a chimpanzee, a holiday gift from the local Moose and Eagle Clubs. Children and students were admitted free and adults paid 50 cents. The theater is holding a drawing prior to the movie starting at 7:15 p.m. and one lucky kid will win a real Roy Rogers wristwatch.

The Nespelem Altar Society held its Christmas Bazar and Luncheon at the town hall on Dec. 14 after holding an election meeting on Dec. 13 where new of-ficers installed are: Mrs. Ernest Orr, president; Mrs. L. A. Rhodes, vice-president; Sherry Orr, secre-tary; Nellie Stanger, sgt. at arms; and Shirley Palmer, membership chair. Each club member received a Christmas card and handker-chief and dessert was served by Isabella Arcasa and Christine Yercoshin.

More holiday events in the town of Nespelem included: A Dec. 23 Christmas Party sponsored by the local Chieftan 4-H Club with Jean Betty Arcasa and Mr. and Mrs. Chas Hall in charge, with treats, games, a gift exchange and news about their recent bake sale at Casy’s Store and a skating party coming up. The Nespelem Methodist Church presented a Christmas program at the church Dec. 19 with refreshments served by the church ladies. Those at-tending brought gifts to the party which will be sent to the Method-ist Deaconess Home For Children in Everett, Wash.

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Christmas BreadWhen we think of Christmas bak-

ing, we usually think of cookies and cakes, and even the tradition of home-made candies. But in Europe, and especially in Italy, sweet luscious breads — doughs enriched with eggs and butter and loaded with dried fruits and cream — have special promi-nence during the holidays.

While it’s been a long-held custom the world over to mark Christmas with special food, in the 1300s and 1400s in Italy, Christmas treats were especially anticipated. At that time, wheat was a rare commodity, and during the rest of the year, bread was made with harder, poorer-qual-ity grains. In Milan, controls were so strict that the bakers were not allowed to use wheat flour except on Christmas Eve. So it was an extraor-dinary event indeed when Christmas came and bakers were able to make tender loaves of simple bread from flour made from those soft kernels.

Later, a sweet, buttery, yeasted “cake” began to appear in the same city. Legend says that Panettone is named after a creative, quick-thinking kitchen attendant to the 13th-century Duke of Milan named Toni. He com-bined leavened dough with butter, sugar and raisins to replace a dessert that had burned. Pan del Toni, the unmistakable yeasty, fruit-studded, heaven-scented bread, has become the Panettone we relish today. During the holiday season, tender, moist loaves of Panettone are shipped to us from across the sea.

The traditional way of making of Panettone is a drawn-out affair and involves using a natural yeast and a two-day dough fermentation process. The extended fermentation gives the bread a long shelf life. This complex process is why preparing and eating Panettone is a seasonal event.

Our recipe for Cranberry Panettone Muffins reflects the unique flavors and opulent tastes of traditional

Panettone, but it is more accessible to the home cook.

CRANBERY PANETTONE MUFFINS

2 packages dry yeast (about 4 1/2 teaspoons) 1 1/4 cups warm water (100 F to 110 F) 5 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided 3/4 cup sugar 7 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh orange rind 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 large eggs 2 1/2 cups sweetened dried cranberries 1/4 cup finely chopped crystal- lized ginger Cooking spray 2 tablespoons almonds, chopped finely

1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in a large bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Lightly spoon 1 1/4 cups flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Add to yeast mixture, stirring with a whisk to combine. Cover; let rise in a warm place (85 F), free from drafts, for 1 hour.

2. Combine sugar, butter, rind and salt in a large bowl; beat with a heavy-duty stand mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes). Add eggs, beating until combined; beat in yeast mixture.

3. Lightly spoon remaining 4 cups flour into dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Add flour to egg mixture, beating at medium speed until smooth. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic (about 3 minutes); add enough of remaining 1/2 cup flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough

from sticking to hands (dough will feel sticky). Knead in cranberries and ginger until well incorporated.

4. Place dough in a large bowl coated with cooking spray, turning to coat top. Cover and let rise in a warm place (85 F), free from drafts, 1 hour or until doubled in size. (Gently press two fingers into dough. If indentation remains, dough has risen enough.)

6. Coat 6 (1-cup) muffin cups with cooking spray. Cut 6 (5 by 12-inch) strips of parchment paper; place paper in muffin cups to extend 3 inches from the top of the cups. (Lining the muffin cups with strips of parch-ment makes it easy to remove the Panettones after baking.)

7. Divide dough evenly among muf-fin cups. Lightly spray each muffin with cooking spray; sprinkle evenly with nuts. Let rise in a warm place (85 F), free from drafts, 1 hour or until doubled in size. (You also can

prepare this recipe in traditional muffin tins for a yield of 18; trim the parchment paper for the muffin cups to 2 1/2 x 6 inches, and shorten the baking time to 20 minutes.)

8. While muffins rise, preheat the oven to 375 F.

9. After muffins have doubled in size, bake at 375 F for 25 minutes or until muffins are lightly browned.

Makes 24 (1/4 muffin) servings.TIP: To store muffins, line bottom of

an airtight container with paper tow-els, place muffins inside, add another layer of paper towels on top of muf-fins to absorb any moisture. Seal the lid. Muffins will keep up to four days. Reheat muffins in the microwave for 30 seconds before serving.

***Angela Shelf Medearis is an

award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cook-book is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook.” Her website is www.diva-pro.com. Read Gina Harlow’s blog about food and gardening at www.peachesandprosciutto.com. Recipes may not be reprinted without permis-sion from Angela Shelf Medearis.

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