The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

A re you planning a little get-together with friends sometime this spring? If you live in Dayton, you may need to get permission from the city first.

City Council member Dain Nysoe is spearheading an effort to require city residents who are planning an event to submit a "Special Events Permit Application" first.

The draft application that was reviewed by members of the council's public safety committee on Thursday (I got my grubby hands on a copy too) is 12 pages long, single spaced. It's a lightly edited version of one used by the city of Ephrata, Wash.

(Near the top of Page 1 it actually...