E.R. Fegert, Inc. wins highway contract

Columbia Basin Herald, Jan. 3, 1972

City in white: Sunshine on snow created this scene in Moses Lake New Year’s Day. View from Hill Avenue is across Pelican Horn to McCosh Park with Crestview Drive on horizon.

by Dennis L. Clay Herald Columnist
| December 21, 2018 2:00 AM

City in white: Sunshine on snow created this scene in Moses Lake New Years Day. View from Hill Avenue is across Pelican Horn to McCosh Park with Crestview Drive on horizon.

E-mail from Cheryl

Facts from the past gleaned from the Moses Lake Herald, Columbia Basin Herald and The Neppel Record by Cheryl (Driggs) Elkins:

From the CBH on Dec. 8, 1981:

Low bidder

E.R. Fegert, Inc., of Othello is the low bidder for a $1.3 million state highway project.

The work will begin this winter and will be completed in the fall of 1982. The project involves a six-mile segment of U.S. Highway 2 from Hartline to the Lincoln County Line in Grant County and is to widen the highway.

After the project is completed the new lanes will be 12 feet wide with six-foot shoulders to provide safe passing and stopping sight distances for motorists.

Meeting changed

The Moses Lake Educational Secretaries Association has changed its meeting place for tonight’s special Christmas meeting from Shadowbrook to the Southshore Restaurant. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m.

New agent selected

Edward M. Forster, 43, an area extension agent on special assignment with the 208 Water Quality Project since 1977 has been named chairman of the Grant-Adams Cooperative Extension.

Forster will begin his duties Jan. 1, says Virginia Hunsaker, Central District supervisor for the Washington State University Cooperative Extension.

Before his appointment as coordinator of the water project four years ago, Forster was staff chairman of the Klickitat County Extension from 1974-76.

He previously served as an area agent in Grant and Adams counties for five years and served as a conservation agronomist with the Bureau of Reclamation for a year.

In addition, Forster spent four years in Brazil and Venezuela as an extension agronomist and cultivated forage crops specialist in conjunction with U.S. and UN agricultural aid contracts.

Forster graduated from WSU with a bachelor’s degree in agronomy and received his master’s degree in agronomy from North Dakota State. He is a certified professional agronomist and is a licensed consultant for commercial pest control.

Forster received an achievement award from the National and Washington County agent Association in 1976.