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Smokiam Days starts Saturday
SOAP LAKE — Soap Lake’s Smokiam Days celebration features bed races, parade and vendors.
The event starts at 7 a.m. on Saturday with a pancake breakfast at the Soap Lake Senior Center, located at 121 Second Ave. S.E.
Sports
Cowgirl competes in Nevada
MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake junior Matea Frensdorf will make her way to Fallon, Nev., over the weekend to participate in the 24th annual Silver State International Rodeo (SSIR).
The SSIR is open to contestants who finish fifth through 10th in their state or province finals during the year. Frensdorf finished sixth in barrel racing and ninth in pole bending qualifying.
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Business
Midway Beverage expands
MOSES LAKE — Midway Beverage is adding about 10,000 square-feet and six loading docks to meet its growth needs after 31 years.
“We needed more room,” said the company’s owner, Scott Ramsden, on Thursday. “We’re growing.”
Editorial
Costs what?
It’s remarkable what Congress can do when money is no object, as the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure demonstrated when it put out a blueprint for a reauthorization bill to govern the nation’s spending on transportation. It’s a cornucopia of goodies that’s getting strong reviews from interest groups, mainly because it gives them nearly everything they’ve been asking for: Environmentalists get a new bureaucracy to encourage green projects, public transit agencies get a big influx of cash, high-speed rail enthusiasts get new trains, and states get billions in additional money to build and improve roads, bridges and highways.
There’s just one small detail that has been left out — so far, the committee hasn’t identified a way to pay for any of this. And the price tag is breathtaking: $500 billion over six years, a 53 percent hike over federal transportation spending in the previous six.
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Basin Life
Two girls and MACC dispatcher help save a woman's life
QUINCY — Janet, Ashley and Breanne Millard along with dispatcher Helen Terry gathered during the Multi Agency Communication Center board meeting.
“We have a recognition for a 9-1-1 call that Helen took for Ms. Millard. Her daughters called and they performed CPR ... We have a lifesaver certificate for the girls and for Helen,” said MACC Director Mary Allen.
My Turn
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Federal government, get out of my shopping cart!
I like to do things that are bad for me.
I like to play golf without sun screen. I like movies without an educational or moral message. I like barbecued hamburgers. I like the occasional sip of well-aged Scotch. I like the refreshing taste of an ice cold Coca-Cola on a summer day.