Cop shop, funnel cakes, barges and baseball in Studio Basin podcast
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Joel Martin has been with the Columbia Basin Herald for more than 25 years in a variety of roles and is the most-tenured employee in the building. Martin is a married father of eight and enjoys spending time with his children and his wife, Christina. He is passionate about the paper’s mission of informing the people of the Columbia Basin because he knows it is important to record the history of the communities the publication serves. | August 18, 2022 10:32 AM
In our most recent episode of the Studio Basin podcast, Columbia Basin Herald Managing Editor Rob Miller chatted with reporters Charles Featherstone and Ian Bivona about possible Moses Lake Police expansion, the Grant County Fair and Charles’s adventures rollin’ on the river.
The MLPD has outgrown its current building, Featherstone said, and is looking for bigger digs. The department currently shares a building with the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department. MLPD has its eye on five acres on Central Drive, next to the Lauzier ball fields, that could accommodate a 25,000- to 28,000-square-foot building. This would allow MLPD enough room to house a dedicated mental health worker, as well as an agent from the ATF, although some council members weren’t certain about the price tag of a new building versus renovating the current facility.
The Grant County Fair started this week and runs through the weekend. Miller talked about the musical lineup at this year’s fair. The country band Lonestar is the big headliner this year, and there are also a number of classic rock cover bands and country singer Kameron Marlowe.
Finally, Bivona talked about the Seattle Mariners, the Seahawks and – especially of interest locally – the Babe Ruth World Series, hosted in Ephrata by the Columbia Basin Riverdogs. High school sports are about to start up for the fall, Bivona added.
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Fall is time to clean out the garden and get ready for next year
MOSES LAKE — 2026 is at that awkward stage; the days are still almost summer-warm, but the nights are beginning to get chilly. That means there’s a lot to accomplish before winter comes howling to our door. “It’s time to start cleaning up your garden,” said Columbia Basin Garden Club President Valerie Parrott. “Spent annuals, most vegetable plants, tomato plants, it’s time to pull them up … It’s time to start harvesting your carrots, too, and dig your potatoes. You don’t want your potatoes to freeze.”
One for the books
Literary-themed auction raises funds for Boys & Girls Club
MOSES LAKE — The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Columbia Basin’s 31st annual dinner and auction was a literary mishmash Saturday, where Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter mingled with the Cat in the Hat, the Dread Pirate Roberts and Buttercup and denizens of Middle-Earth. “We’re bringing books to life,” said Resource Development Director Nicole Jackson, who did the lion’s share of planning the event. “Our vision from the get-go was to look out in the banquet hall and see books come to life around every table.” One of the items traditionally auctioned off at the event is the right to select the next year’s theme, and last year Chuck Yarbro Auctioneers won that right. The theme they chose was “The Enchanted Library.”
BASIN EVENTS: Oct. 9-17
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