Legals for May, 25 2023

Warriors fall in 1B state tournament

MOSES LAKE — A five-run top of the second inning was enough for Naselle to defeat Almira/Coulee-Hartline in the second round of the 1B State Baseball Tournament on Saturday, leaving Larson Playfield with a 5-3 win over the Warriors. ACH added three runs of its own in the bottom of the third, but couldn’t add on any additional runs over the final four innings.

Learning to fly

Drones still looking for that perfect place on the farm

PASCO — It’s not too hard to learn to fly a drone, according to Washington State University smart farming expert Jake Schraeder. “Any kid who grew up playing video games would get it pretty quickly. It's fairly intuitive,” Schraeder said on a recent Friday in a cherry orchard north of Pasco. “The kids, when they crash, they can start their game over,” responded orchard owner Denny Hayden, pointing at one of the larger WSU drones sitting on the ground near Schraeder. “How much are those?”

Council to consider housing plan

MATTAWA — Mattawa City Council members will vote June 1 on a plan designed to help address growth and housing availability. Council members held a public hearing on the draft housing action plan Thursday; there was no public comment. Rachelle Bradley of SCJ Alliance, the city’s planner, reviewed the plan for the council, and said it had been updated based on previous comments from residents. Information on the plan was reviewed at a March public meeting and at a couple of community events. “We added (a new section) based on feedback, which is to implement a citywide code enforcement program,” Bradley told council members.

Mavs bounce back from CBBN title loss, advance to state

Balderas’ walk-off gives ML a 9-8 win over West Valley

EAST WENATCHEE – Despite a 5-3 loss to Eastmont in the Columbia Basin Big-Nine district title game on Saturday, the Moses Lake Mavericks rallied with a 9-8 extra-innings win over West Valley (Yakima) later in the day to move on to the 4A state tournament. “We’re super excited to have qualified for the tournament,” Moses Lake Head Coach Mike Hofheins said. “We feel like we underachieved last year, felt like we should have been there last year and didn’t make that happen. For us to make it happen this year was one of our goals that we have checked off.”

City seeks port help for water cleanup funds

MOSES LAKE — The city of Moses Lake is looking for assistance from the Port of Moses Lake to lobby for state and federal funding to help deal with the chemical contamination found in three of the city’s wells located in and around the port on the grounds of the former Larson Air Force Base. “As we look at putting in requests to the state and federal legislatures for funding support for treatment, support from the port for these requests is probably among the most important and biggest things you could do for us,” said Assistant City Manager Rich Huebner during a port commission meeting on Monday.

Hot career

Fire science class shows path to an occupation of service

QUINCY — Yanetzi Gonzalez said the fire science class at Quincy High School helped her make up her mind about her future. Marcelo Moreno said he had a good idea what he wanted to do after high school, but the fire science class showed him there were even more opportunities. Gonzalez, Moreno, Genesis Franco and Mario Guerrero, all QHS juniors, were among the participants in fire science state competition sponsored by SkillsUSA, and all four of them finished in the top 10. Gonzalez and Moreno qualified for SkillsUSA national competition; Moreno had other commitments, so Franco will be taking his place...

Legals for May, 22 2023

Examining the benefits of a local port district

Port of Moses Lake executive director talks about the economic benefits of the port

MOSES LAKE — Don Kersey, executive director of the Port of Moses Lakes, sat in his corner office overlooking the Grant County International Airport thinking about a line he heard a lot growing up here. “We always knew that Moses Lake was going to grow, going to pop. It was always that’ll be next year and the next five years, but it’s gonna happen. It’s gonna happen,” Kersey said. “And we all sound like broken records.” ...

Moses Lake city manager resigns

MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake city council accepted the resignation of City Manager Allison Williams at a special meeting on Friday and named Moses Lake Police Chief Kevin Fuhr as acting city manager. “The council decided we are going to go in a different direction and elected with Allison’s approval to exercise separation,” said Mayor Don Myers after the five-minute-long council meeting...

Moses Lake to move forward with RV tenant evictions

MOSES LAKE — The city of Moses Lake announced Thursday it will enforce a trespass request next week on any vehicles parked on private property along N. Central Drive between the Goodwill and Home Depot. “Our hope is that people will follow the trespass order and they will be gone,” said Police Chief Kevin Fuhr. “But if not, we will take enforcement measures and impound the vehicles.” ...

Built to spec

Home construction loans offer home buyers lots of options

MOSES LAKE — One of the peculiarities of the Columbia Basin is that, even in a housing crunch, we’ve got tons of land waiting to be built on. There’s space for housing, just not the homes themselves. One solution to that is for would-be homeowners to look into a home construction loan. “Because of the limited inventory that we're seeing in the existing home market, a construction loan gives (home buyers) the option to build a new home on a lot,” said Terran Brown, a sales manager with Churchill Mortgage, which recently held an online informational seminar in Moses Lake on home construction loans. “Specifically in the Moses Lake area, you have plenty of land, plenty of lots available for a good price where you don't have a ton of existing resale inventory.”

Legals for May, 19 2023

Colorful results

FFA project brings bright blooms and greenery to downtown Moses lake

MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake High School FFA members and horticulture students fanned out through downtown Wednesday, shovels in hand, followed by wagons filled with flowers and water buckets. After all, those flowers that beautify downtown every summer don’t plant themselves. They don’t raise themselves, either. The FFA participants and hort students do that, all winter long...

Legals for May, 18 2023

Wahluke student arrested after alleged threats against teacher

MATTAWA — A Wahluke School District middle-schooler was taken into custody on Monday after the student allegedly posted an online threat against a teacher, according to a joint statement issued by the Wahluke School District and the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. According to the GCSO portion of the statement, posted Tuesday on the WSD’s website, a 12-year-old male student allegedly posted a photo of what appeared to be a handgun along with a piece of paper covered with expletives and the teacher’s name. GCSO deputies were brought in to investigate and consulted with the Grant County Prosecutor’s office before arresting the suspect, the statement said.

Tactical response team to tour Ephrata High School

EPHRATA — The Moses Lake Regional Tactical Response Team will tour Ephrata High School on Wednesday afternoon beginning at 4 p.m. as part of the team’s ongoing safety and security training program, according to a press release from the Ephrata School District. The release said the team, composed of officers from various regional law enforcement agencies, will meet with district officials and walk through high school buildings and classrooms to familiarize themselves with the school.

Moses Lake says ‘forever chemicals’ found in 4 city wells

MOSES LAKE — The City of Moses Lake has stopped pumping water from three of its municipal drinking water wells following the discovery of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – known as PFAS chemicals – above Environmental Protection Agency standards that have been proposed but are not yet in place, according to Water Services Manager Chad Strevy. Strevy said the chemicals have been detected in four of the city’s 18 wells – three of them north of SR 17 on what used to be Larson Air Force Base and the fourth west of the lake itself in Mae Valley, not far from the Links at Moses Pointe.

Legals for May, 17 2023

Legals for May, 16 2023