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 April 27, 1981:

Positively speaking

Deadline near

The 1981-82 telephone directory is ready to go to press and to change a listing or have an additional listing, the time to do so is now.

Pacific Northwest Bell manager Dick Croy said the final day for making changes in the white pages is May 1. The Yellow Pages already are being printed.

To change a listing at Moses Lake or Warden, call before May 1. A service order charge will be made for listing changes. The new directories will be delivered at Moses Lake in June.

Send in forms

The Washington Wheat Commission reminds wheat growers and wheat land owners to complete and return the voter update form mailed to them the week of April 15. Scott Hanson, commission administrator, stresses that information supplied by growers will be used only for voting purposes, and that only those growers and land owners who return the completed forms will be eligible to vote in future referendums.

According to Hanson, many forms have already been returned, but the goal of the Commission is to have every grower and landlord represented.

Anyone who didn’t receive a form in the mail or who m ay have misplaced his form may obtain the update form and return envelope at the county ASCS office.

The simple form asks for production estimates for each of the last three years Production figures are important because the marketing order governing the Wheat Commission states that grower referendums must be completed on a production-weighted basis.

From the CBH on Oct. 12, 1976:

4-wheelers raise funds

Ed Dorszynski, president of the Ace of Clubs Four-wheel drive club, presented a check for $104 to the Grant County Retired Senior Volunteer program.

The funds, which were raised through a series of car washes held by the club, will be used to furnish senior citizens with transportation and meals during their volunteer activities.

Dorszynski said the club, an organization which develops close relationships with four-wheel drive owners expects to conduct future supportive activities for older persons.

Officers of the Ace of Clubs group include Al Redwine, vice president and Rhonda Walker, secretary.

Volleyball meetings

Organizational meetings to form men’s and woman’s volleyball leagues at Moses Lake are scheduled this week.

Women 18 and over interested in forming a women’s league will meet 7 p.m. Wednesday at Central Recreation while those interested in forming a men’s league will meet 7:30 Thursday night in the Moses Lake Library.

For further information on the proposed volleyball leagues, contact Central Recreation.

Jaycees seeking members

A meeting for those interested in the reactivation of the Moses Lake Jaycees will be 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Eastern Washington Bank.

Men of the community between 18 and 36 years of age are eligible for the service organization which has state and national affiliation, said Paul Eide.

Anyone not able to attend but wishing additional information may contact either Edie, after 4:30 p.m., Roger Ellestad, after 5 p.m. or Marvin Gray.

City facilities open for tours

Tours of Moses Lake city facilities will continue until election time, so citizens may assess the need to pass the $1.2 million general obligation bond issue Nov. 2.

The bond election, if passed, will finance construction of new police and fire stations as well as court facilities and possibly remodeling of the present city hall.

The Moses Lake High School social action class will tour the buildings 9 a.m. Thursday. Private citizens are invited to go along with the students, said Roger Biallas, chairman of Citizens for Civic Development.

Tours, scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m., will be Thursday Oct. 18, 22 and 28. Tours are scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 30.

Biallas said arrangements can be made for group tours at times other than those scheduled.

Moses Lake seeks citizen advice

The second of two scheduled public bearings to gather public input on community development will be held during today’s 8 p.m. Moses Lake City Council meeting.

The council called for the hearings to consider the citizen input for community development block grants which are available under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

At the initial hearing Sept. 28, the only input was from Ray Diaz, who asked if it was to be a union project. Councilman Kent Jones informed him the hearings were to determine which projects could be done and that his question did not pertain to that topic.

With no further comments from the public, the hearing was continued until today.

Among other items the council is to consider will be the first reading of a proposed subdivision ordinance. Among other things this ordinance will require developers to pave streets within the projects they are building.

The meeting will be in the city hall council room.