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WAITSBURG -- It seems like a grinch, or perhaps a group of young grinches, was bent on stealing the spirit of Christmas last week. Police and citizens' reports indicate they stole outdoor Christmas lights, decorations and even absconded with a plastic likeness of Baby Jesus. The spate of vandalism and theft throughout the city started last Tuesday and continued through the weekend. Some called it the worst the town has seen in years. In all, half a dozen reports of stolen or damaged Christmas...
PRESCOTT - After operating a convenience store in Prescott for eight years, the Walla Walla Farmers Co-op said it will close the retail operation just before Christmas, leaving only one grocery store in the town. "It wasn't profitable for us," said Doug Nelson, the co-op's controller in Walla Walla. "It was more a service to the community." The fueling station will remain open, though customers will need to open an account with the co-op to get gas and diesel because the station will not...
Man's Best Friend T he winter sun had already gone down on the western horizon, but it was still quite light in the hills east of Waitsburg when Dizzy and I went for our run late one afternoon last week. Several times a week, we pick a different country road to jog. We like Bolles Road. Whoop Em Hollow Road is a favorite. We've been up Lower Hogeye and down Whiskey Creek. This time, we chose Smith Hollow, following Eighth Street out of town past the cemetery under the eye of Butter Cup and up...
DAYTON -- In previous years, Ski Bluewood may have waited to open with a minimal snow base of 20 inches. But this year, the new owners were prepared with the right equipment to pack a solid foundation for the rest of the ski season. Ski Bluewood opened last weekend and will remain open just on weekends until a high pressure system surrenders its grip on the Pacific Northwest and allows some more moisture into the region for additional snow fall on the mountain, coowner Mike Stephenson said Tuesday. About 70 percent of the mountain is open to...
About Needs & Good Deeds WAITSBURG - - A Waitsburg resident who prefers to remain anonymous told the Times that she takes full advantage of the prescription drugs drop-off program co-sponsored by Elk Drug, Columbia County Health Systems and the City of Waitsburg. In her late seventies and describing herself as "lowincome," she has limited mobility and even more limited resources to pay for gas to go to Dayton, so she benefits from being able to swing by the Waitsburg Clinic to pick up...
SUMNER -- In only its second season as a high school soccer combine, the Waitsburg Prescott Tigers beat the defending state champions Saturday and brought home the coveted trophy. It's the first time WP has won a state title as a combine, the first time a team has won it for Prescott in 35 years and the first time in 109 years since a team has brought a state trophy home for Waitsburg. An eight-man PHS football team won the state title in 1976. A 1902 WHS football team won the then-equivalent...
PASCO - After being tripped up in the playoffs by the mighty Bulldogs two years in a row, the WP Cardinals finally took the puppies from Colfax to the pound 42-13 Saturday at Edgar Brown stadium in Pasco and became the first-ever combine team to go to Tacoma for the state championship game in football. quot;It's no longer a dream,quot; one of the WP assistant coaches told the elated players after their semifinal victory. quot;Pinch yourselves. We're going to Tacoma!quot; The Cards were the first to score and went up 28-7 by halftime. At no...
WAITSBURG -- The Cardinals find themselves exactly where they were last year -- undefeated (12- 0) and facing the equally undefeated Colfax Bulldogs (11-0) in the semi-final game of the state playoffs. Even emotionally, the WP players are as confident and as ready as they were last year to take on their Eastern Washington rivals, who have knocked them out of the playoffs two years in a row. "We want to win and we think we can," head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "The kids are really hungry. The kids really want it." But some of the factors that go i...
SUMNER - Only in their second year as a high school soccer team, the WP Tigers fought their way to the top of their sport in the state. After defeating their tough rival St. George of Spokane 2-1 on Friday evening, Tigers went on to take on the Highlanders, defending state champions. Francisco Gonzalez scored the winning goal and goalie Pedro Mendoza was instrumental in keep the Providence shots at bay to clinch the victory. More in this week's print edition Thursday....
DAYTON - Sure, the Bulldogs wanted to go further . The 2011 football would have loved to face WP in the playoffs this weekend instead of being knocked out early by the Ritzville Broncos. The 2011 volleyball team had high hopes to go to district and return to the state playoffs as they did last year. The 2011 soccer team would have been thrilled to win a few more games against a few more teams. Yet all expectations aside, Dayton's 2011 fall sports season gave the Bulldogs every excuse, as...
WAITSBURG -- When the Cardinals meet the Broncos in the quarterfinals this weekend, one observer may have a bit of a deja vu. Dean Bickelhaupt, head coach for the Dayton Bulldogs whose season just ended, will be there, burning with curiosity to see if WP can do what his team couldn't: beat the tough scrappy team from Lind-Ritzville-Sprague that suffered only a single onepoint loss (14-13) against the dreaded Bulldogs from Colfax who denied WP a state championship last year. "It will be a good...
MOSES LAKE -- A playoff win against Moses Lake Christian was predicted for the WP Tigers, but what was not foreseen was the time it took for the team to score its first goal. Just as they did earlier in the season, the Tigers beat the Lions by a wide margin, this time 6-1, but they weren't the first to get on the scoreboard. The win gives the Tigers a 14-2-2 record for the season and sends them to the semifinals against St. George in Sumner on Friday. Last year, they were knocked out of the...
D About Needs & Good Deeds AYTON -- When Teeny McMunn's sister decided to take her own life, she let everyone know why. The sister suffered from the onset of Huntington's disease, a chronic hereditary condition that destroys a patient's ability to feel, think and move. Their mother at Booker Rest Home had died from it and the young woman didn't want to suffer from the same degenerative demise or be a burden to her family. So, she wrote everyone a letter and then killed herself with helium. It...
PRESCOTT - In the end, the Tigers' playoff game against Spokane's St. George Saturday wasn't all about winning or losing. After the teams tied each other twice this season, the seeding game was to determine who would continue the state playoffs as numbers one and two. WP has one more playoff game before the state championship tournament in Sumner in two weeks. But that game is against a team they beat handily earlier in the season. St. George won the match 2-1 after striker Erik Muelheims...
WAITSBURG -- Call them the bone yards of the industrial age: old factories, warehouses, stock yards, substations, fabrication shops, foundries. You can find them everywhere, including in our towns right here in the Touchet Valley. Just think about Wait's Mill after it burned or the apple packing plant near the railroad tracks. These structures of the past aren't just empty buildings, hangars or basements. They have an economic biography and a body of work in the form of the products, tools,...
WAITSBURG - The welcome many newcomers have received from Waitsburg residents over the years has inspired acts of gratitude in the past. Larry and Deanne Johnson's now-famous and well-attended summer gumbo party at their home on Fifth Street is a case in point. But this week was the first time newcomers ever lit up the entire downtown as a thank you for the way Waitsburgers brought them into their midst. Allison Bond and Bruce Donohue, who bought the former Lybacker home on Fourth Street almost...
DAYTON -- The Bulldogs' choice was easy. Lose to Asotin, place fourth in the league and face the other Bulldogs in the playoffs, the ones from Colfax. Or, beat Asotin, place third in the league and take a chance at the first playoff opponent. "We knew we had to win that," Dayton's head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said about last Friday's game against the Panthers on their home turf. "I told them that with all the hard work they've done all season, they deserved it." Dayton pounded out their 34-22 win against nevereasy to-beat Asotin, which missed...
DAYTON -- To help make Dayton's Main Street between First and Third streets even more of a party block, Dayton Wine Works announced it plans to set up a second venue in the old Jitters coffee shop space. The company took over the old Patit Creek Winery space on Main Street just above Fourth Street about a year ago. It reports in summer traffic in particular has been strong and the company plans to offer a lot more space at the 232 E. Main Street location for tasting, food service, an art gallery...
Just to get an idea how rare Tim Fuller's cancer is -- one only needs to do the math. About one in every 200 Americans each year is diagnosed with some form of cancer. The kind of cancer Fuller has only afflicts one in every 10,000 Americans. But what's worse for the 45-year-old Dayton man and his family than knowing his disease is rare is knowing that there's no way to figure out what kind it is, where it came from and where it's going. This makes Fuller's oncology treatment a moving target, to...
DAYTON -- Each at the top of their league, the Bulldogs and Tigerscots clashed Tuesday in a match that was more playoff preparation than victory for the Dayton team. The Bulldogs, who fell victim to its own inconsistent focus, lost in four against the Weston-McEwen team. "We had a lot of highs and lows," Bulldogs head coach Shannon Turner said. "They need to learn to focus. But this was good competition. I think the last time we beat them was in 2006 and that was the year they were state...
DAYTON - Coming off of a narrow defeat against the Cardinals, the Bulldogs didn't necessarily need a confidence booster going into Friday night's game against Tekoa/Oasksdale/Rosalia. With good reason, they took pride in their performance that nearly knocked WP off its top undefeated position in the league. The Bulldogs were ready for anything. But they got another shot in the arm anyway, handily beating the Nighthawks, 26-6, with a defense that squeezed almost every TOR ground and air campaign...
PRESCOTT -- The Tigers and the Bulldogs measured their progress quite differently in Tuesday's matchup at Prescott. Superficially, the score would put them light years apart. WP swept Dayton away, 12-1. But the fully expected lopsided result masked underlying fundamental improvements for each team as they march toward the end of the soccer season. The Tigers are now 9-1- 2, having recently lost its first regular-season game. The goal is to sharpen its team skills to ready themselves for the...
WALLA WALLA -- The set never changes throughout the play. We're always just a breath away from Marilyn Monroe in her sanctum: in her bedroom, in her dressing room, at her makeup table, eavesdropping on her telephone conversations and listening to her innermost thoughts about fame, relationships, sex and acting. From a seat in the Powerhouse Theater balcony watching "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" is like being a fly on the wall in the "sex goddess'" home, while her life flashes before our eyes from...
WAITSBURG - To say Sunny Thompson was nervous when she first performed the role of Marilyn Monroe in "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" may be an understatement. After all, one of the first audiences to see her new show in Los Angeles was made up of die-hard fans of the late "American Goddess," including some of the producers, cast and stylists from the original "Some Like It Hot." These were people who knew Monroe personally or at least knew her style, body language and mannerisms intimately. At least a...
WAITSBURG - The WP Tigers rolled to easy victories in their last two games, beating Walla Walla Valley Academy 11-0 last Wednesday and Riverside Christian 11-1 on Saturday. The Tigers were scheduled to play Riverside Christian in Yakima on Tuesday, but no results could be obtained before this newspaper's deadline. In Wednesday's match against the Knights, WP's Enrique scored the most goals with three, followed by Lino Diaz, Francisco Gonzalez and Aldair Escalante each with two. Luis Torres and Jesse Albarran had one goal. In the same game,...
