News bites for Jan. 19
JOEL MARTIN | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 1 month AGO
The Ritzville Police Department is looking for a Motorola pager and 110-volt charger stolen in a burglary in a December burglary in Ritzville. The pager belongs to the Ritzville Fire Department and was assigned to a volunteer, according to the RPD, and the only people in the area who should have that kind of pager are firefighters. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Ritzville Police Department at 509-659-1313.
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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. | January 18, 2024 6:12 PM
OTHELLO — The Adams County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a burglary suspect, according to a statement from the ACSO.
Joshua Joseph Gutierrez, 28, is wanted on suspicion of residential burglary and first-degree theft, according to the statement.
Adams County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 25-year-old Isaac Isaías Fuentes-Gomez on the same charges on Tuesday, according to the statement. Deputies also executed a search warrant in the 900 block of East Sagewood Street in Othello, where multiple confirmed stolen items were recovered. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about Gutierrez’s whereabouts is asked to contact the ACSO. Tipsters can remain anonymous.
EPHRATA — Although lakes in the Columbia Basin may be frozen over, the ice isn’t safe to walk on, according to an announcement from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.
It can be very difficult to tell how thick the ice is simply by looking, the GCSO wrote. Anyone falling through will quickly go into hypothermia, and first responders may not arrive in time.
People walking dogs near an ice-covered lake are urged to keep them on a leash, as some people have fallen in while trying to rescue a dog that has broken through the ice.
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Eco-gardening symposium coming April 5
MOSES LAKE — Here in the Columbia Basin, we have many things in abundance: sunshine, wide open spaces, fine wine, great tacos. What we don’t have in abundance is water. How to grow plants in spite of that lack will be one of the topics of an Eco-Gardening Symposium April 5. “One of our sessions will be on three gardeners who have taken out part or all of their yards to put in drought-tolerant plants,” said WSU Grant-Adams County Master Gardener Diane Escure, co-coordinator of the symposium. “They’re going to be saying, what’s the pros and cons? … Here are the things to be aware of, what are we looking for? What do they experience? We’ll have slides of their before and after landscapes, and what they hope to accomplish.”
Help is available for problem gambling
OLYMPIA — Some people, when they go to the store for milk and coffee, pick up a lottery ticket at the same time. Some people like to spend a day or a weekend at a tribal casino. Some people like to vacation in Las Vegas. And for most folks, that’s just fine. But for other people, any of those things is the first step into a very dark place.
CBAA to screen silent Buster Keaton classic
MOSES LAKE — On March 28, the audience at the Wallenstien Theater will be swept back to a time when girls were flappers, young men were sheiks, jazz was king and liquor was bootlegged when Columbia Basin Allied Arts screens the 1924 classic silent comedy “Sherlock Jr.”