The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON - Since 1988, Kevin Winger has been flying and refu- eling crop dusters at a small airport between Dayton and Waits- burg called Wing-Air.

On clear summer mornings with little wind, the crop dusters fly high into the sky for about 30 to 45 minutes, spraying 100 acres of crops for fungus, aphids and weeds and come swooping back into the airport for refueling. The whole scene is like a NASCAR pit crew, the crew mem- bers scurrying in to pump gas into the plane, clean the windshield and quickly discuss the next flight with the boss.

Winger moved from La Grande, Ore., to the Touchet Vall...