Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Lindseys Embark On Adventure From The Heart WAITSBURG- Not quite a quarter century on the planet, Cole and Brittany Lindsey found themselves at a crossroads late last year. Cole, now 25, had worked as a Department of Ecology contract biologist doing environmental impact assessments at Hanford for three years, while Brittany, 24, was working as an emergency room nurse at Kadlec in the Tri Cities. The lease on their rental came up, and they needed a change. Plus, they were ready to give in to a...
WAI T SBURG - Trenton Kitselman started wrestling when he was 12. He was still living in Forks at the time. Then his family moved to Waitsburg about three years ago and he joined the Matbirds. For several years, he immersed himself in the sport, attending practices three days a week and going to winter tournaments. It quickly turned into his favorite pass time. But after the 2010 season, his competition in the sport came to an abrupt end. The problem? He is too old . Matbirds, which gratefully...
WAITSBURG - Al - though the WP men's team technically didn't have a perfect season, it was only two points short of it thanks to a loss at the hands of Weston McEwen in the first game of the season when the players just came off their very long and emotional football season. The Cardinals ended their regular season with a 79-68 victory over Liberty Christian Saturday and face Walla Walla Valley Academy on Kison Court at 6 p.m. Wednesday night. If they win, they will face the winner of the game...
WAITSBURG - Having already logged a perfect season, the Lady Cardinals Tuesday extended their historic winning streak with a 57-29 win over Liberty Christian. The women now go into the district championship game against DeSales at Whitman College on Friday. "DeSales is the toughest opponent of the season," head coach Jerry Baker said after the game against the Patriots. "It's a lot harder to beat them three times than it is to beat them twice." But running over league teams repeatedly like a...
WALLA WALLA - If there were ever a team that deserved to place third in the league and play tough, second-ranked Asotin in the Panthers' own den Wednesday, it's the Dayton Bulldogs men's team. They pulled out all the stops in a convincing 65-40 tie-breaker win over the Liberty Christian Patriots at the DeSales gym in Walla Walla Monday, leaving little doubt they have it in them to prevail over the talented and experienced Asotin players. "That was a good one," senior Bulldog Dain Henderson...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about our pleasant surprise when we learned that the Times was a business with two buildings. We bought the company because we wanted to run the newspaper, but we also wanted to open a coffee shop on Main Street. At first, I thought the Times building at 139 Main would be the best place for an espresso bar, but the more I considered it, the more I realized we'd be much better off consolidating our news offices in a renovated front office and making the Mock building next...
WAI T SBURG - The first giveaway was a pellet. Nathaniel Farnam found it one day in late January when he came in to work on the Loundagin building next to the post office as he has for more than a year, helping turn it into a boutique hotel. It was an unusual excre- tion. Most pellets of its kind are ovoids, about the size and shape of a chocolate Easter egg or formed like a little Almond Rocca log. This one was spherical, not the shape of what he thought it belonged to. But when Farnam took it...
WAITSBURG - Following the announcement that there will be no pari-mutuel horseracing this year in Waitsburg, Dayton and Walla Walla, the board of the Days of Real Sport has cancelled its annual May racing event for 2011. But DRS directors said they hope it will only be a temporary interruption of a near century-old Waitsburg tradition as they and the other Class C tracks try to change the way their racing events are funded, paving the way for a resumption of the sport in 2012. The Dayton Days...
WAITSBURG - There will be no pari mutual horseracing this year in Waitsburg, Dayton and Walla Walla. The Washington State Horseracing Commission decided Thursday to give only six days of racing to the Class C "Bush" circuit and they all went to Sun Downs in Kennewick. The decision, which came as a disappointment to many in the region's horseracing community, does not necessarily spell the end of nearly a century of racing in the Touchet Valley. But changes will have to be made in state law and in the way racing is funded to pave the way for...
WAITSBURG - Head football coach Jeff Bartlow is now also WP's head track and field coach. Bartlow, who has been on the track and field staff as an assistant coach for a decade, was hired at the last meeting of the Waitsburg Prescott sports combine last week. He replaces longtime track and field coach Ron Huntington, who retired after the last season. "He's our best fit for the job," Prescott High School Athletics Director Jack Smiley said. "He'll do great because he is dedicated and organized."...
WAITSBURG - Until Cardinals announcer Fred Hamann spoke the words, it hadn't quite sunk in for the players and hometown crowd on Kison Court after the final buzzer sounded. With their wins over the Irish Saturday night, both varsity teams are now guaranteed the top spot in the league, with their first playoff game at home Feb. Xx. "And with that win, the Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals are now league champions," Hamann said as the crowd broke into a prolonged cheer. The Cardinals men's team beat De...
WAITSBURG - Or should the dateline be "PALM SPRINGS?" Let's go there for a minute in the very recent memory of Waitsburg's very own filmmaker Karen Stanton Gregutt. January. Eighty degrees and lush. Check. Boulevards lined with palm trees, packed with Beamers and Bentleys. Check. Hollywood honchos arriving at screening theaters a la Oscar Night. Check. Beautiful women and handsome guys. Check. Tans. Check. Valets running like mad. Check. A poolside party for French filmmakers at the former home...
DAYTON - Lee Ann Literal has been a racehorse owner and trainer for almost a quarter of a century. The stables on her 500- acre ranch on Smith Hollow Road are a living testament to that long "track" record. She owns 29 horses, including five that are currently racing and 20 that have retired from the sport over the years. Literal doesn't make her living racing horses, but the purse money she gets from the five racers does help pay for the care of the retirees. For that reason alone, she wants horse racing in the area to continue. "I love the...
A group of about a dozen businesses based in Waitsburg and Dayton are creating a new organization to help promote tourism in the Touchet Valley. Named the Touchet Valley Tourism Alliance, the diverse group that includes the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, Ski Bluewood and a number of hospitality and retail businesses in both communities, plans to launch a number of initiatives to strengthen the area as a travel destination in the coming years. Waitsburg's Commercial Club has been invited to participate as well. "This is the first time a...
ASOTIN - It wasn't until the final buzzer of the men's game sounded that WP players and a big contingent of fans knew for sure the Cardinals had passed one of the biggest tests of the season: beating the Panthers in their own den. It was neither easy nor particularly pretty, especially in the end. The physical game reflected both rivals' appetite to win with composure and smart ball handling, giving the Cardinals just enough of an advantage. With 45 seconds to go and both teams fouling like it...
WAITSBURG - Diane Dill and her son Alex didn't lose everything Saturday. Their horses were outside when the fire in the barn on Bolles Road started just before noon, and two of their four goats were saved by Brian Seagraves, who runs the cabinet shop next door. Still, Alex Dill lost Raffle, the pregnant goat he has owned since he joined 4-H in fourth grade, and Frosty, another pregnant goat he got a year and a half ago. "I was pretty sad," said the 16-year-old Waitsburg High School sophomore...
The first time we drove into Waitsburg, I knew there was something missing on Main Street. Someone in Walla Walla had recommended the Whoop ' Em Up Hollow Café for dinner, and once downtown, we discovered Waitsburg also had a charming hardware store, a great bar, a friendly pub and even a homegrown brewery. But we could find no place to get espresso. Other than John and Marilyn Stellwagen's table at the Waitsburg Hardware and Mercantile, there was no place to get together during the day, there...
When longtime Waitsburg resident Bert Aylward and his wife Linda were getting ready for his family reunion at Fort Walla Walla last summer, they rummaged through a trunk full of old photographs. The couple had stored the keepsakes after his parents passed away but had not gone through all the old pictures yet. Every one of the 88 Witt descendants coming from across the country to Walla Walla was supposed to present or recite an item of family history. As Aylward went through the photos, it...
WAITSBURG - The Walla Walla County Sheriff's Office is requesting local residents' assistance in locating Adam Hermanns, whom they call "a potential witness" to last Tuesday night's fire at his parents' residence on West 2nd Street in Waitsburg. "We are attempting to locate Adam as a potential witness related to the fire," Undersheriff Eddie Freyer said in an interview Wednesday. Freyer, who came to the scene of the fire after midnight last Tuesday and again on Wednesday morning, said his office...
WAITSBURG - The Walla Walla County Sheriff's Office is requesting local residents' assistance in locating Adams Hermanns, whom they call "a potential witness" to Tuesday night's fire at his parents' residence on W. 2nd Street in Waitsburg. "We are attempting to locate Adam as a potential witness related to the fire," Undersheriff Eddie Freyer said in an interview Wednesday. Freyer, who came to the scene of the fire after midnight Tuesday and again on Wednesday morning, said his office is taking the incident very seriously, investigating it as...
WAITSBURG - Saying they support Waitsburg's youths but couldn't see the viability of Tawnya and Greg McVey's BMX track concept, the city's council voted for a second time to deny the use of up to five acres of city land for the project last Wednesday. "I don't think it's fiscally responsible for this council," Councilman Orville Branson said . After a relatively short public hearing at which a handful of local residents (including Tawnya McVey) and a Walla Walla man formerly associated with the track there spoke about the pros and cons of the...
WAITSBURG - The Cardinals were already looking ahead to Saturday's tough away game against Asotin. But first there were the Touchet Indians Tuesday night, by now a mere bump in the road to one of the two teams' best-ever basketball seasons. The Lady Cardinals demolished the Touchet team 53-18 with many younger Cardinals taking part in the victory against the Indians, who struggled from the getgo. The score was 27-8 at half time and 42-14 by the end of the third when Samantha Moss, Katie Hofer,...
WAITSBURG - Neither Cardinals basketball team had much trouble with the Liberty Christian Patriots, beating them handily at Kison Court Friday night. But the wins had their significance since they marked the end of the first round of league match ups with WP still undefeated in the league. The Lady Cardinal s topped the Patriots 64-34. The points spread was already large enough during the first half to allow head coach Jerry Baker to bring out some of his younger players. "That was our best...
WAITSBURG - The Cardinals Booster Club needs to raise at least $19,000 if it wants to break ground for a new press box and equipment storage building in late spring, according to members of the Waits- burg sports community. But the good news is that they have a plan for their goal and support seems to be building in the rest of the community. The proposal is already backed by the Waitsburg Booster Club, the WP Quarterback Club and the Waitsburg Lions Club. A group of coaches, boosters and fans...
