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DAYTON - It was a good week for the Dayton Bulldogs volleyball team. The girls beat Walla Walla Valley Academy on Thursday, after cruising to victory over the DeSales Irish last Tuesday. "Everyone has been contributing, which has paid off for us with wins," head volleyball coach Shannon Turner said. "These girls have really stepped the last three matches which has made a big difference." Dayton won at home against DeSales in straight sets, 25-21, 25-20 and 25- 12. Madison Mings had 13 k...
SPOKANE - A team might win some games and lose some games, but as long as there's progress underneath it all, there's always a reason to be optimistic. That's the conclusion Jay Potts, assistant coach of the Waitsburg Prescott Tigers, drew after this past week's three games that put the soccer team's record about where it was last year at this time. On Thursday, the Tigers beat the Irigon, Ore., Knights 4-1 on that team's home turf. They lost in a tough game against St. George in Spokane 6-2 Saturday and roared back with a 6-0 win over Moses...
PRESCOTT - Some coaches worry about having enough players to field a team for the season. But that's not Mark Grimm's challenge. He could field two if he had to. The WP Tigers' head soccer coach starts the season with 26 athletes on the roster, including six freshmen and some seven talented forwards/ strikers, giving him plenty of firepower up front. What he doesn't have yet is a solid shield in the back, or a team that has brought together its diverse playing styles into a cohesive syst...
ASOTIN - For a while, it all went as well as it could for the 15-man Dayton Bulldogs squad against a tough opponent playing on home turf near the west bank of the Snake River. "It was back and forth," head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said about his team's game against the Asotin Panthers Friday. "We were shutting them down (offensively)." But with a little more than 4 minutes on the clock before the end of the first half, the Panthers broke out of their cage and went on a rampage, clawing up 20 points and leaving the Bulldogs feeling shr...
SPOKANE - When asked about Saturday's highlights in the Tigers' game against Northwest Christian, assistant coach Jay Potts had just five words. "Ernesto Valdovino and Christian Caro," he said before he went into the many contributions the other players made, and the sweetness of the team's first regular season win against last year's state champions. "We're pretty impressed with ourselves," Potts said about beating the Crusaders at their home field, which he dubbed "a hostile en...
STANFIELD, Ore. - With less than a minute before halftime, the Dayton Bulldogs ended a steady march through Stanfield territory and arrived at the half-yard line, ready to pound it into the end zone. The score was 12-7 in the Tigers' favor, but the momentum was all on Dayton's side. A touchdown would mean going into the break with a lead and the much-needed confidence that comes with it, Dayton head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said. But then the eleventh Bulldog, a freshman, was led to believe there were too many players on the field and ran a...
YAKIMA - With almost its full complement of returning starters, the WP Tigers Tuesday posted its first regular-season win over Riverside Christian, beating the Crusaders 4-0 on their home turf. Barely 5 minutes into regulation time, midfielder Paul Zamora scored on an assist from Ernesto Valdovino, who got one for his team himself 12 minutes into the second half on an assist from Luis Garcia. Unassisted, Garcia gave the Tigers a 3-0 lead in the 79th minute, followed 2 minutes later by the f...
WAITSBURG - As messy as Waitsburg Prescott's victory over Pilot Rock was last week, Friday's 49-6 win over Weston McEwen came up smelling like roses. It was so clean that this weekend's sloppily victorious Seahawks might learn a thing or two from a practice on Cardinal Field. "That was the biggest thing we focused on," head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "We made a lot of improvement and our goals were met that way." Last week, the Cardinals had five turnovers and 110 yards in penalties. This week,...
PRESCOTT - The down- side of getting a generous grant for the town swim- ming pool is that taxpayers get the wrong impression, according to Patsy Adams Warnock, chair of Prescott's Joint Park and Recreation District. Some might think they no longer need to pitch in, she said. To the contrary, the swimming pool's annual maintenance and operations levy relies as much as ever on a critical super-majority of at least 60 percent in the upcoming general election on Nov. 5. The levy calls for about the same amount as last year - $110,000 - to operate...
DAYTON - The number of returning players to Shannon Turner's volleyball team may be the same as last year: six. But there's something different about the core of the Dayton team this year. "I'm pretty positive," Turner said about the 2013 volleyball season that started with Monday's jamboree in Clarkston and gave fans a first look at this year's lady Dogs in their home game against Pomeroy on Tuesday night. "The team chemistry is really good and their confidence is higher," the team's he...
DAYTON - Half an hour after the last lightning strike flashed across the skies over Dayton Thursday night, the Bulldogs and Mac Hi Pioneers took to the field, warmed up and began their game an hour late. After the kickoff, Dayton players - 11 on the field and only three on the bench - marched down to the 4-yard line on a number of tough running plays. Then, on third and goal, quarterback Christian Warner threw a pitch pass to running back Lowden Smith, who was promptly sacked by the Mac Hi defen...
PILOT ROCK, Ore. - The bad news about the Cardinals' first game of the season against Pilot Rock Friday night was the number of turnovers and penalties: five lost fumbles and two big flags that cost WP two 60- yard runs. But the good news is that the team still won convincingly 36-6, that the defense looked strong, that quarterback Owen Lanning had a solid game and that lots of new players got to work out their jitters in the non-league matchup. "We can correct all that," head coach Jeff B...
DAYTON - Anyone hoping to buy, sell or grow pot in the Touchet Valley area under Washington state's new law legalizing marijuana, may have to wait a while. Walla Walla and Columbia counties, whose voters opposed Initiative 502 last year, are drafting ordinances placing a moratorium on such activities until the state's Liquor Control Board has its act together and the rules are clear. And while those ordinances apply only to unincorporated parts of the two counties, their cities are makin...
DAYTON - Bulldogs head coach Dean Bickelhaupt and his players are ready for their first test of the season: Thursday night's matchup against the Mac Hi Pioneers. And it doesn't faze the team to have only 19 eligible players. "We're ready," Bickelhaupt said about the home game that kicks off at 7 pm. "They're excited about it. We'll see how we do." After ending the 2012 season with a 1-8 record, the 'Dogs hope to improve their fortunes with an influx of six freshmen, some of whom Bickelhaupt d...
DAYTON - More than seven years ago, Bulldog senior Heather (Lambert) Clarys tore her ACL in a state tournament basketball game in Spokane that ef- fectively ended her school athletics career. But it didn't dampen her passion for sports. After graduation, she went on to get a Bachelor's of Science in Exercise with a minor in coaching from Eastern Washington Uni- versity. She then worked as a personal fitness trainer in Tri-Cities. And now she's back, as her alma mater's new athletic director. Dayton's sports community couldn't be happier. "I...
WAITSBURG – For those who are familiar with Markeeta Little Wolf’s unique personal style, the way she views her garden should come as no surprise. “It’s like the way I dress,” she said during a recent interview at her home on Fourth Street. “Cowboy boots and a silk dress. Not everyone would dress like that. But I know what looks good on me.” As part of their monthly meeting Saturday, 20 members of the Waitsburg Garden Club toured the former entertainer’s lush landscape a few doors down from t...
WAITSBURG - Inspired by the metal work Dayton artist Yancey Yost did on the letters for the Times building, Coppei Coffee owner Allison Bond had him make a sign for her shop next door. The shapely cup in arrested rust was to be mounted above the door at a 90-degree angle to Main Street, much like the sign above the jimgermanbar a few doors up the street. By the time it was done, she had already invested about $1,000 in the sign's creation and was ready to put it up, so she went into City H...
WAITSBURG – When it comes to equitation, Doug Phipps has just about seen it all. For some three decades, the smiley, wiry figure you may have seen around town in his broad hat, jeans and boots has trained as many as 100 riders and as many horses around the world. From countries like Austria, Holland, Germany, Spain, France, Israel and here at home, he has led a number of them to world titles in Western Pleasure, Reining, Showmanship, Trail, Hunter Under Saddle and English Pleasure. But there’s...
When Gail Gwin was still a water color painter, her imagery was almost photorealistic. She would paint small granite rocks so perfectly defined you can almost hold them in your hand. In one composition, they are whimsically linked to finely ren- dered miniature furniture by lines and symbols reminiscent of a road map. In short, she had complete control over her objects and where she placed them in a three-dimensional space in a two-dimensional painting. Nowadays, as a printmaker, she still has...
DAYTON - Patricia Becker remem- bers the smell like it was yesterday. On an early fall morning three years ago, she went to her son's home to get it ready for his return from a week at the hospital in Walla Walla. When she opened the door, an unpleasant odor struck her nostrils and she discovered that raw sewage was coming into the house on East Patit through two floor drains in the basement. "It went all the way up to the wall," Becker, who owns 306 East Patit, said in an in- terview this...
DAYTON - Reactions to the unexpected departure of Columbia County Health Systems' CEO Dale Polla late last week were mixed. Less than a year on the job, Polla resigned on Thursday following a special executive session of the hospital district's board. Board Chair Lisa Naylor said the parting of ways was mutual. "There was agreement on both sides," she said. "He was a great person to keep things nice and steady, but in this changing world we wanted someone on the cusp of things." In the i...
WAITSBURG - Is the movie on your laptop freezing up? Can't have more than one person in your house gaming or watching videos at one time? Dropping too many Skype calls? Help is on the way as home and business owners can finally hook up to the NoaNet high-speed fiber optics cable that now runs through the Touchet Valley. Waitsburg's Touchet Valley Communications and Dayton's Touchet Valley TV offer download speeds so high applications for it have yet to be invented. But for now, speeds of up to 50 megs will help make streaming a lot more re...
WAITSBURG - In a town like Waitsburg, the start of fire season has an unmistak- able sound. It's not the tone of the Main Street siren, it's the frequency. If composer Claude De- bussy was right about music being the silence between the notes, the composition that announces the most ignitable time of year picked up sev- eral beats this weekend. And if local fire fighting officials are right about the conditions that can feed the flames, this summer could be more wor- risome than previous ones....
DAYTON - If this year's National Night Out at the Dayton City Park sounds like business as usual, it's true for the most part. About 1,000 people, almost half Dayton's population, are expected to turn out next Tuesday, Aug. 6, for the anti-crime, anti-drug event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch and local law enforcement. Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., some 40 exhibits will be on hand on the park lawn. There will be food, prizes and a movie as in years past. But one important a...
WAITSBURG - Megan Mor- rison found her prince long before she became a Princess. The member of the 2013 Waitsburg Court who hails from a household of few means, received 'Tex' as a gift three years ago from an older family friend who no- ticed the 12-year-old was the only one who could handle the feisty old rodeo horse. "Tex was picky," Mor- rison, now 15, said through her tears during a recent interview at an equestrian event in Walla Walla. "If he didn't like you, he'd let you know." The...
