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January 28, 2015
Volume 16, Number 4
Mattawa, WA 99349
Firemen’s Ball Feb. 14
Get your dancing shoes, or boots, shined up and ready
to go.
The 47th Annual Firemen’s Ball falls on Valentine’s
Day this year, Saturday, Feb. 14. The event, hosted by the
Grant County Fire District 8 Volunteer Association, will be
held at the Sagebrush Senior Center in Desert Aire. Doors
open at 7 pm, just in time for the tri-tip dinner, served from
7 pm to 8:30 pm.
The dancing starts at 8:30 p.m. The band “Clearwater
Country” plays until 12:30 am.
A no-host bar will be available and free non-alcoholic
beverages are served to designated drivers. There will be
raffle items given away throughout the night.
Tickets are $40 per couple or $25 for singles. They are
available at Fire Station 81 in Mattawa or from volunteer
members. Also check R Place Tavern and Tiddaly Diddalys. For more info call 932-4168 or 932-4777.
The group is asking for donations to help sponsor the
evening that serves as a fundraiser for the volunteer group.
Most of the money is then given back to the community
through scholarships, food bank, and many needed community services.
The Grant County Fire District No. 8 Volunteer Association is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Tax ID 320356759. Funds donated are now tax deductible.
New interim fire chief
Dave Patterson
With the start of a new
year, the Grant County Fire
District 8 has a new interim
fire chief. Former chief Dave
Hargroves did not have his
contract renewed effective
Dec. 31. Since then former
deputy chief Dave Patterson
has been appointed interim
chief.
Fire commission chair
Paul Parker explained that
the commission decided to
designate it an interim position so Patterson could settle
in and see if he wants the job and
the commission could evaluate
his work.
Parker said that in June or July the commission will decide if Patterson will be the fulltime chief based on how he
performs and whether he wants the position.
MATTAWA AREA NEWS
Wahluke JH Dugan is
Coach of the Year
Until he won the award, Joel Dugan said he’d never
heard of it. But it is real, and Wahluke Junior High head
football coach Joel Dugan was named District 5 Coach of
the Year for Junior High and Middle School. The award is
from the Washington State Football Coaches Association.
Dugan explained that he found out he’d won the award
when athletic director Cody Marlow made the surprise announcement during a staff meeting.
“The award ceremony (last week in Everett) was incredibly fun. I got to meet lots of brilliant coaches from all
over the state. My entire family, fiancée, sister, mom, dad,
and grandparents were there to share it with me,” he said.
And Tom Cable of the Seattle Seahawks was the keynote speaker. Dugan said he gave an amazing speech about
teamwork and the Seahawks philosophy.
“It was very moving, especially with the Super Bowl
inching closer. Tom Cable even took a moment to say congratulations and give a few words of advice,” he said.
Dugan has been involved in the local football program
since he came to Wahluke five years ago. This is his third
year as head coach. He teaches US History for 8th Grade
and is advisor for the ASB/Leadership class. They sponsor
carnivals, manage the student store and hold fundraises for
Offer made to reserve officer
A Moses Lake man has been tentatively offered a position as a Mattawa police officer.
After two others that Chief John Turley had asked didn’t
work out, he said he has offered the job to Jordan Miers, 28,
of Moses Lake. Miers has been through the Grant County
Reserve Academy and has been working as a reserve for
Grant County for two years. His father, a 28 year police
veteran, is currently a sergeant with the Moses Lake Police
Department.
Miers has accepted the job, Turley said, explaining the
tentative designation is a formality while a background
check, psychological, and polygraph test are administered.
Turley said he was presented three names by the civil
service and chose Miers because he already has some experience and has taken a significant step, reserve academy,
toward being a police officer.
If it all works out, Miers will start the first part of March.
He will need to attend state law enforcement academy, but
Turley said that may wait until after the summer season is
over.
Local 12th Man found in the Panama Canal
There’s Seahawk mania
all over and on Monday, the
MAN received this photo
of 12th Man pride from the
Panama Canal. Pictured is
Mattawa City Councilmember Brian Berghout, right,
and his brother Chris, displaying the 12th Man flag
while visiting the Panama
Canal this week. The brothers are there thanks to Brian
who was awarded the trip
for sales he made through
his insurance company.
And in case you haven’t
heard, the Seattle Seahawks
are playing in the Super
Bowl Sunday against the
New England Patriots.
MAN
THE
Wednesday
Joel Dugan holds his Coach of the Year Award at
the award ceremony in Everett last week. His
parents are shown sitting with him. Dugan coaches
Wahluke Junior High football.
things like Russell Wilson’s Pass the Peace Foundation.
So why does he think he was nominated and then selected
for the Coach of the Year?
“I got this award because of my awesome football players
and their efforts and my assistant coaches Cole Haberman,
Mark Hull, and Corey Zirker. And most of all the parents
who let their sons and daughters play,” he said.
Vantage to
Pomona line
meetings this week
The Bureau of Land Management will be holding two
public hearings this week for residents to view and discuss
the new supplemental draft environmental impact statement
on the proposed power line in the area known as the Vantage
to Pomona Heights project.
The local meeting will be held this Wed., Jan. 28 at 6 p.m.
at the Sagebrush Senior Center. It is believed most local residents will be happier with the new proposed line than the
original. The new line runs on the west side of the Columbia
River, mostly on the Yakima Training Center. The meetings
held almost exactly two years ago identified a route that mostly traveled locally through the Wahluke Slope farmland.
See complete information this paper on page 7. Note there
is a different email address listed for the BLM on this week’s
advertisement on page 7.
Pizza Party March 5
The Mattawa Desert Aire Lions Club performs and contributes to many community service activities in the area and
they are actively seeking more people to join them.
An evening of getting together at a pizza party is planned
for March 5 at Tiddaly Diddalys. The evening, open to anyone in the community who wants to know more about what
the Lions are, will be held at 6 p.m. Of course pizza will be
served. There is no commitment required and no cost, just an
interest in learning more about the Lions Club.
The next main community event the Lions are involved in
is the annual crab feed. March 21 is the date for this year’s
event at the Sagebrush Senior Center. Along with all-youcan-eat crab, a live auction will be held. Watch for more information about the event in the MAN.
The next meeting for the Lions is Feb. 12 at 7:30 a.m. at
Tumbleweeds. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.
Page 2, Mattawa Area News, Jan. 28, 2015
Karl Edie
The Seahawks were
founded in 1976. I was
born in 1977 to a SeBy The 3 Edieotos
ahawks family. I remember Seahawk sheets on
my bed, Seahawks stuffed
animals in my arms and tons of Seahawk shirts on Sunday
afternoons. I blindly followed the Seahawks because my
dad did and I grew up hating the Raiders and the Broncos
- not really knowing why, just knew that my dad hated them
so they must be bad.
I especially remember a few games where my dad would
record them on the VCR and save them and watch them
later - specifically a few great games where we annihilated
John Elway. I remember Steve Largent’s record-breaking
touchdown and I remember a lot of Dave Krieg interceptions. I remember the Kingdome and I remember my Uncle
Kal’s Seahawk fan-van.
To be honest I never really liked watching football
that much. It was too fast and I didn’t understand it and I
couldn’t find where the ball was. I didn’t start really playing until high school, and I didn’t start really watching to
understand and following where we were in our division
till college.
But my dad was a Seahawk fan and so I was too. So in
all of those great memories what I really remember most
and most often is sitting with my dad and watching the
games (even if I didn’t understand what was going on) with
a bowl of popcorn and cheering for the Hawks. So to me,
the Hawks mean family. Thanks for the memories Dad. Go
Hawks.
Game Bawl
Keith Edie
My first memory involving the Seahawks? To be hon-
est I don’t have a “first memory” simply because I cannot
remember a time when the Hawks weren’t a part of my life.
I’ve always been a 12. I ran receiving routes in the front
yard because I wanted to grow up and be Steve Largent. I
collected the Seattle Seahawk trading cards that the Washington State Crime Prevention Association put together. I
still have them in a cigar box in the drawer of my nightstand! To be in this position, going to back-to-back Super
Bowls, is literally the fulfillment of a 10-year-olds dream,
as he caught post patterns from his dad. Win or lose, the
Seahawks have taken us on an incredible ride and I believe
it’s really only starting.
D.K. Edie
While trying to find ways to pass the time waiting for the
start of Super Bowl XLIX, I started thinking about my love
for all things football. I first started playing football on the
school play ground at lunch time while attending Bedford
Grade School in Iowa. In Iowa, like a lot of mid-west states,
football was king right along with corn. We were not very
organized then, just picking sides and chasing each other
around, pretending we were Bedford Bulldogs, the local
High School team.
My interest actually started before that. I don’t remem-
ber the year, but I do remember watching my dad watching
football on TV. Because he watched it, I wanted to watch
it. My dad had two favorite teams, the Green Bay Packers
and the Minnesota Vikings. I watched the first Super Bowl,
played Jan. 15, 1967, between Green Bay and the Kansas
City Chiefs. I watched SB II with him as well and watched
Green Bay win back-to-back Super Bowls.
That first Super Bowl was held the year after we moved
out to Washington. By then I had been a Green Bay fan for
five years while dad had been a fan for over 18 years. Nothing changed until 1976, 10 years after leaving Iowa. The
birth of the Seattle Seahawks struck a chord in my being
and I became a fan for life from the very start. It took Dad
a while longer to make the switch but he eventually saw the
light and came over. We watched the Zorn to Largent show
that was the Hawk’s early years with my boys, his grandsons. Good years.
Now, he is watching from the same seats Russell Wilson’s dad is watching from, and we all are anticipating those
back-to-back Super Bowl victories. C-ya at the game. Go
Hawks.
Editor’s Note: Good memories. Four generations,
so far, of Edies yelling Go Hawks!
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It’s all over the place, Hawk fever. Fifth graders
Maritza Cruz and Marilu Lara show their Seahawk
spirit in front of a Morris Schott Elementary
classroom door they worked on. The fifth graders painted the Hawk Nation logo shown behind
them. Decorations and Hawk pride can be found
all through the Wahluke School District ahead of
Super Bowl XLIX this Sunday.
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Coach of the Year
Joel Dugan and his team
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high football players so he had this photo taken this week. He is shown holding the award surrounded by his
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Warriors
finishing
season
Senior Warrior Fatima
Romero had a great final
home match as a Wahluke Warrior. The senior,
120 pound wrestler,
won both her matches
last week at home during senior parent night.
The Warriors tied with
Kiona Benton, 24-24 and
won against Connell.
Pictured is Fatima as
she watches the referee
preparing to signal her
pin against her opponent.
Senior Warrior Fatima Romero, the only senior
on the girl’s wrestling team, was honored last
Wednesday night during the last home Warrior
girl’s wrestling match. Here she poses with her
mother Esperanza Martinez, left, and Warrior
Coach Carolina Miramontes.
joyce edie photos
Congratulations Warriors on your fall sports season.
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Page 5, Mattawa Area News, Wed., Jan. 28, 2015
Safeguard Your Eyes from CBHA
Glaucoma is called “the sneak thief of sight” since there are no symptoms and once vision is lost, it’s permanent. As much as 40 percent of sight can be lost without a person
noticing. Although the most common forms primarily affect the middle-aged and elderly,
glaucoma can affect people of all ages
Glaucoma affects almost three million Americans according to the Glaucoma Research
Foundation. “Glaucoma begins by attacking peripheral vision,” Dr. Jason Bleazard, CBHA
EyeCare Director, said. Objects might appear slightly blurry. Patients try to compensate by
squinting or turning the head to focus better. These changes may seem minor at first. “However,” warns Dr. Bleazard, “glaucoma can accelerate quickly, causing eyesight to rapidly
and irreversibly deteriorate.”
Glaucoma occurs when the fluids that nourish the eye do not drain properly resulting in
a build-up of fluids which increases pressure on the eye. This causes damage to the optic
nerve. “When patients come in for their annual vision check-up, we evaluate the health of
their eyes and clarity of vision,” Dr. Bleazard said. “We also can detect chronic and systemic diseases such as glaucoma, diabetes and even hypertension (high blood pressure).”
Glaucoma cannot be prevented, but, if diagnosed and treated early, it can be controlled.
The American Optometric Association recommends that you start the New Year off right
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Dr. Bleazard or Dr. Amanda Gable, call 509-488- 5256.
Public Records
Jail Bookings
Sunday, Jan. 25: Ty Michael Matheson, 41, Desert Aire, arrested by sheriff’s deputies on
a district court warrant for failure to appear, failure to comply (making false or misleading
statements to police, criminal solicitation, third-degree theft).
Karl Edward Groenke, 31, Mattawa, arrested by Mattawa police on a Benton County
warrant for failure to appear (driving while license suspended).
Sentencing: Judge Evan Sperline
Vicente Gerardo Guzman-Tlatenchi, 46, Mattawa, pled guilty to third-degree assault,
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Coach suspended for rest of season
The Wahluke School District officials confirmed on Tuesday that Adrian Sandoval is
filling in for Jeff Ahmann as head coach of the boy’s basketball team. Ahmann was suspended recently for two games and that suspension has been extended to Feb. 6.
According to the Warrior schedule, the last game of the regular season is Feb 6.
In related news, the MAN was contacted regarding a statement in last week’s paper
about a parent meeting held regarding the basketball program. The MAN was told by parents that they did not believe that the meeting was called by parents, but by the district. A
statement from the district regarding the meeting stated, “The district decided to schedule
and coordinate the meeting after receiving concerns from various parents about the basketball program, including one request for a meeting.”
It was following the meeting that Ahmann was suspended for two games.
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Morales on Mattawa
civil service commission
The Mattawa Civil Service Commission has another
new member. Juan Puentes, who was selected earlier in the
month, resigned so Mattawa Mayor Scott Hyndman appointed another new member.
Carlos Morales will now join John Ball as the second
commission member.
A third person is needed on the commission, but the
group can now meet because they have a quorum with the
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PLEASE JOIN US to learn more about the Supplemental Draft Environmental
Impact Statement for the Vantage to Pomona Heights 230kV Transmission Line
Project
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wenatchee Field Office and the U.S. Army Yakima
Training Center (YTC) will host several public meetings to solicit public comments on the
Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS). The SDEIS analyzes a New
Northern Route (NNR) Alternative that would run from the existing Pomona Heights substation,
east of Selah to the Bonneville Power Administration's existing Vantage substation east of
Wanapum Dam. The SDEIS identifies the NNR with design options that vary in length from 40 to
48 miles as well as an agencies Preferred Alternative that is 67 miles. The BLM and YTC will be
available to answer questions about the environmental review process, the Draft EIS, the SDEIS,
Final EIS and analysis that has been completed. This is an opportunity for you to learn more
about the project, ask questions, submit your comments, and share your thoughts.
The 45-day comment period will run through February 17, 2015.
Please plan to join us at one of the following locations:
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 from 6 to 8 p.m.
SageBrush Senior Center
441 Desert Aire Drive SW
Mattawa, WA
st
216 S 1 St.
Selah, WA
Questions? Please contact Robin Estes, BLM Project Manager at: 541-416-6728 or send an
email to: [email protected] Information is also available at the project website:
http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/spokane/plans/vph230.php
Wilson Irrigation is seeking seasonal help, March
through June or July. Must have a current driver’s
license and be at least 21 years of age. Apply in
person at Wilson Irrigation at W. 20 Gov. Road,
Mattawa.
124x2
Dispatcher
Diamond E Transport is looking for a Dispatcher
to join their team at their Mattawa location. This
position is responsible for the scheduling of loads
for the trucks and ensuring their arrival at the port
as scheduled in an efficient manner.
Qualified candidates must have a HS Diploma or
equivalent, plus related experience.
If you are interested in learning more about this
opportunity please apply online at: http://redandassociates.applicantstack.com/x/openings
Diamond E Transport is looking for an Accounting Clerk to join their team at their Mattawa location. This position is responsible for overseeing
the accounting function, including but not limited
to, accounts payables, accounts receivables, and
payroll.
Qualified candidates must have a HS Diploma or
equivalent, plus related office experience. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office software as well
as accounting and payroll systems is essential.
If you are interested in learning more about this
opportunity please apply online at: http://redandassociates.applicantstack.com/x/openings
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CAN TURN YOUR OLD CIRCLE INTO CASH FOR
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May buy some heavy metals for scrape. Call Jerry
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Selah Civic Center
Part time bartender help needed at the Tumbleweeds in Desert Aire. Please apply in person. Must
be 21 years or older. Call Blaine at 932.7370 for
more information.
NEW LISTINGS
Cox Landing, 2 acres with 3 bdrm, 3 Bath , 2296
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help wanted
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JOB OPENING AT ZORRO BLANCO ORCHARD
Position open for an efficient and experienced
person in bookkeeping, payroll, excel and paperwork management. Must be bilingual.
Please submit your resume at [email protected], or you may leave a message at (509)9324847.
Job Opening for someone with experience handling pesticides and has a license for it. It is a position where you will be the spray manager. If interested make a call to (509)830-2868.
POSICION ABIERTA TIEMPO CONPLETO PARA UNA
PERSONA CON EXPERIENSIA CON LOS PESTICIDAS Y
QUE TENGA LISENCIA PARA APLICARLOS . POSICION
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Public Notice
Wahluke School District #73
The Wahluke School District Board of Directors
has changed the time of the regularly scheduled
February 12, 2015 meeting to be held at 9:00AM
on the scheduled day. Board meetings are held in
the administration office Board Room.
To be published in the Mattawa Area News, Wed.,
Jan. 24, 2015.
positions open
THE CITY OF MATTAWA in now accepting Letters
of Interest from persons interested in filling a vacancy on the City Council for position #1 to fill the
remainder of the term in 2015. If you are interested please deliver a letter of interest to the City
Clerk’s office, or mail it to City of Mattawa, P. O.
Box 965, Mattawa, WA 99349. All applicants must
have lived within city limits for the past year and
are a registered voter.
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J. Curtis & Associates, Inc.
LAND SURVEYORS
PO Box 956
MATTAWA, WA 99349
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