Staff Writer
JOEL MARTIN
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.
ARTICLES BY JOEL MARTIN
GCAO cat room open again after outbreak
MOSES LAKE — The cat room is reopened at Grant County Animal Outreach, and the shelter could use a little help.
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Hot stuff
MOSES LAKE — Greenpoint Technologies engineer Gary Neu walked away with $100 and some serious bragging rights at the company’s annual chili cookoff April 27. “My reliable meat pimps at Ernie’s (Quality Meats and Wine) came through for me again,” Neu said. His chili wasn’t very spicy, he said, just …
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CB Job Corps to hold open house Wednesday
MOSES LAKE — The Columbia Basin Job Corps Center will hold an open house Wednesday, to show prospective students and their community what the program has to offer. “We’ll have all our training programs on display,” said Community Liaison Susan Mann. “We … have our construction trades – carpenters, plasterers, …
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Bourbon & Bowties
MOSES LAKE — The fourth annual Bourbon & Bowties fundraiser raised more than $350,000 April 24 to bring more doctors to Samaritan Healthcare. “The population in our hospital district is large enough that we’re about 22 primary care physicians short,” said Roberta Bigalk, executive director of the Samaritan Foundation. The …
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BASIN EVENTS: May 1-9
COLUMBIA BASIN — Spring is finally here and it's time to get out in the sunshine. Music, sales and celebrations galore await you this week.
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Hayden unveils Give as you Go community support program
REDMOND, Ore. — Hayden Homes, the Oregon-based builder behind more than a dozen Moses Lake housing developments, announced recently that it is pledging $25 million in charitable giving over the next four years through its Give as you Go initiative. “It always kind of bothered me when my friends’ companies …
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Museum’s Rusty Mammoth sale tomorrow to be the biggest in years
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake Museum & Art Center’s annual Rusty Mammoth Sale is tomorrow, and it’s a doozy, according to Museum Superintendent Dollie Boyd.
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Moses Lake Adventist Church finished after 20-plus years
MOSES LAKE — After decades of fundraising, labor and repeated setbacks, the Moses Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church building is finally complete. “It was miracle after miracle,” said Hugh Thomas, a member of the church’s building committee. The building, located on West Valley Road across from the Grant County Fairgrounds, was …
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Children climb, dig and explore at MomCo Touch a Truck
MOSES LAKE — Fire trucks, excavators, police vehicles and even an aircraft became a playground for children at MomCo’s annual Touch a Truck event Saturday morning. “We have all new trucks this year,” said organizer Brittney Ketterer. “We have all new vendors. Our surprise is the airplane, which is a …
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Volunteers clean up downtown ML, plant trees
MOSES LAKE — The downtown core of Moses Lake is tidier due to the work of about 75 people at the Downtown Moses Lake Association’s annual Spring Cleaning Saturday morning. “I expected to see more trash, but we did a lot of picking up of weeds,” said Sara Guadarrama, “Weeds …
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Fairgrounds turns Grant County into a destination for horse competitors
MOSES LAKE — The sound of hoofbeats is a constant at the Grant County Fairgrounds. “We have a horse event almost every weekend starting in March through October, not including August because we’ve got the fair going on (that month),” said Events Administrator Shayla Anderson. The fairgrounds boasts two pavilions, …
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Library activities for May 2026
COLUMBIA BASIN — There’s a lot going on at your local library. Find yours and check it out.
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BBCC Job and Career Fair connects job seekers with jobs
MOSES LAKE — More than 1,200 job seekers were expected to come out to Big Bend Community College for its annual Job and Career Fair Thursday. “(We’ve had) a great turnout, said Mindy McManis, human resources manager for Simplot in Othello. “We have a lot of people from the public. …
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Moses Lake collects debris, serves up lunch at Citywide Cleanup
MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake’s Citywide Cleanup took in a lot of trash Saturday.
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