Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - In an impressive hometown season opener, the Waitsburg-Prescott Mustangs last Wednesday took Liberty Christian to the wood shed for a punishing 20-0 victory that bodes well for the rest of the middle school football season. "I was proud of the kids," head coach Jim Leid said. "They did well." In the opening minutes, with the Patriots in possession, Luke Alexenko brought down a Patriot running back for a loss of two yards. His tackle was followed by two more tackles from Alex B...
SPOKANE - The Waitsburg Prescott Tigers are 2nd in the state after defeating the next-to-best team in Washington - St. George - 3-2 Saturday. "It was a very interesting game," assistant coach Bart Baxter said. "They're definitely the toughest team we've faced. It was a very physical game. We're the toughest team they've faced. We've never been that close." WP, the brand-new team in the 2B league from the Touchet Valley, has now beaten the top two teams, Riverside Christian and St. George, t...
RICHLAND - The Waitsburg Prescott Cardinals won their second match in a row Tuesday night against Tri-Cities Prep to improve their league record to 2-3 going into Wednesday's game against the tough Liberty Christian Patriots at home. On Thursday, the Cardinals beat DeSales in three games 25-13, 26-24 and 25-12. Tuesday night, WP beat TCP 25-21, 25-17 and 25-15, a game that saw many subs in warm-up to Wednesday's key game against LC. "We came out really strong, ready to play," head coach Je...
PASCO - Just how important is Kris Cady to the Cardinals' offense and defense? Well, try sitting him out for half a game as head coach Jeff Bartlow did because Cady breached team rules last week. The difference was night and day. During the first half of the WP game Thursday against the Chiawana Riverhawks' JV team, the Cardinals trailed 6-7. As soon as Cady, who is a running back on offense and a strong safety on defense, and running back Justin Armstrong were back in the lineup, the Ca...
WAITSBURG - Those who were there last year will never forget the scene. When the final whistle blew, sealing WP's 35-28 victory over DeSales, the home crowd in the bleachers and on the sideline swarmed the field in jubilation. It was the first time in nine years that the Cardinals had beat the Irish, and it seemed to matter more than the outcome of any other game that season except for the playoffs. The two teams are gearing up for another showdown Thursday at 7 p.m. in Waitsburg. Both c...
DAYTON - Already known on the West Coast for All Wheels, there is a good chance that by next year Dayton will become known far and wide for a brand new summer event: Mule Mania. Get ready for mule barrel racing, mule wagon pulling, mule pole bending, mule team penning, mule team roping, "Pony Express" relays and perhaps even some serious chuck wagon cook offs. Dayton will be "All Mules" on the weekend of July 15 - 17, 2011. The Chamber of Commerce and the Columbia County Fairgrounds are n...
WAITSBURG - There are no specific long-term plans for the use of 103 Main St. between the old Delta Connection building and Poto's Small Engine Repair. But owner J.P. Kent said he does "not intend for it to sit vacant" after repairs to it are completed by mid November. "It could be so many things," said Kent, owner of Remote Data Storage in Walla Walla who bought the historic building three years ago. "It depends on what the economy will support. It does not have to be one thing." Heavy...
PASCO - After being behind at halftime, the WP Cardinals rallied for a 24-point second half and beat Chiawana 30-7 last night to go 4-0 for the season so far. quot;We came out in the second half played with a lot of heart,quot; head coach Jeff Bartlow said after the game. quot;We picked it up and took care of business.quot; The Cardinals played the much-bigger high school's JV team, which was endowed with plenty of talented players and put WP to the test, particularly in the first half. WP was the first to score with Zach Bartlow running for a...
STARBUCK - Starting at dawn on Tuesday, three teams from Idaho Mountain Search Rescue made one final attempt to find Bob Bulota, the 64-year-old Starbuck resident who has been missing from his home since March. Using three cadaver dogs specially trained to pick up the scent of humans, dead or alive, the teams of two volunteer rescuers each fanned out along the bushy Tucannon River west of Starbuck with one team starting at Bulota's cabin on First Street. Columbia County Sheriff's officials, who...
ASOTIN - WP became the second area team in a row to lose against the Asotin Panthers by two points Thursday. In a cliffhanger of a series of five games, the Cardinals lost the first two 19-25 and 31-33, won the second two 25-20 and 26-24, then lost the last 13-15. "I was frustrated that we didn't win it, but happy about the way the girls played," head coach Jesse Buehler said. "It was our hardest-fought match. There was an urgency that hasn't been there in other games." Game two in particular s...
RICHLAND - The Dayton Bulldogs fell to the Liberty Christian Patriots Tuesday night, losing their match in three games 25-21, 27-25 and 25-21. "We just lacked motivation, made too many errors and weren't consistent," head coach Shannon Turner said. "We did not play our game." The team, she said, "will learn from it and move on." After this second loss in a week, the Bulldogs are 1-2 in league competition, but it hasn't been a bad season so far at all. The Bulldogs played a close match against the Asotin Panthers last Tuesday night only...
ATHENA - It seemed so close, yet it remained so far away. The End Zone became an obsession for the Bulldogs in their game against the Weston McEwen TigerScots Thursday night. Several times, they came within yards of it but never made it across the goal line for an official score. When the Bulldogs did break the plane, the play was called back because of an offensive holding penalty. Dayton's struggle in the Red Zone was one of the reasons the Bulldogs lost 25-2. But those numbers didn...
PRESCOTT - Just few weeks into the season, the brand new Waitsburg-Prescott Tigers are already ranked third among the state's 25 B2 teams, and perhaps they should be even higher. "We beat the number one-ranked team twice," head coach Rickie Hamilton reWP under his breath during Tuesday afternoon's rout of the Dayton Bulldogs 19-0. "But I'd rather be at the bottom so we don't have a target on our backs." The team Hamilton referred to is Yakima's Riverside Christian Cougars, which the Tige...
WAITSBURG - When Swissair Flight 111 went down off the coast near St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, in 1998, a newspaper account of the crash described the nighttime waters at the site as "inky." Canadian artist Michelle Forsyth took that description to set the context for a sculpture she dedicated to the air disaster that killed all 229 aboard. Her piece, "For September Second," is now on display at AMO Art Gallery on Main Street, open by appointment. She worked the nighttime darkness into he...
ENTERPRISE - In their first away game of the season, the Bulldogs fell to the Enterprise Outlaws 34 - 0 last Thursday. Dayton came close to the end zone several times, thanks to big individual plays by such veterans as Colton Bickelhaupt and Dain Henderson, but each time a fumble or an interception cost them the opportunity to score. "We just need to learn how to finish," head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said. The long bus ride, Bickelhaupt said, also played a role in wearing down the team b...
WAITSBURG - After last Wednesday's loss against Dayton, fortunes and abilities began to turn around for the Cardinals volleyball team after WP beat visiting team Pilot Rock in fivegames Friday and won Saturday's WP Invitational in Walla Walla. But a game against Walla Walla Valley Academy Monday turned the tide back again - the Knights won three of five matches against WP. In their Friday evening game against Pilot Rock, the Cardinals lost the first two games (20 - 25 and 20 - 25), then won the third (25 -21). In the fourth, Genesis Pe...
WAITSBURG - After 5' 8" middle blocker Sarah Mascall went out with a tweaked ankle during the first volleyball game against Waitsburg-Prescott, the young Bulldogs looked like the underdogs as they found themselves up against the much taller Cardinals. But in the end, Dayton won the two teams' first league match last Wednesday night, beating WP in four games. The Bulldogs won three of the games 25 - 23, 25 - 16 and 25 - 12. WP won one 25 - 17. "It was a good win," said Dayton head coach Shannon...
When you follow the Touchet River along Bolles Road west of Waitsburg, you'll spot a tall pine towering above the other trees along the banks. It may be one of the few reminders of the first people who traveled this valley between the Snake and Columbia rivers. According to legend, Native American traders planted the pines because the species' height made them visible from great distances thus marking their trail. Celebrated explorers Lewis Clark were the first white men to document the area on...
WAI T SBURG - On an early spring weekend five years ago, the Tour of Walla Walla made its usual no-stop route through Waitsburg. Just as the racers were starting up the grueling Middle Waitsburg Road through the fields south of town, a thunder and lightening storm of biblical dimensions descended on them and tour organizers quickly realized they better cancel the event for the rest of the day lest riders get hurt. So, out of the blue, hundreds of cyclists were stranded in the little town of Wait...
DAYTON - Josh Frame's 10-yard running touchdown seemed to set the pace for the Bulldogs' season opener against the Stanfield Tigers, giving Dayton a 6 - 0 lead. But it wasn't until well into the fourth quarter and seven Stanfield touchdowns later before the dawgs regained their footing and began to put together a more solid offense. Even then, however, they were unable to erase any part of their 7-48 deficit and could only take comfort in the fact that the Stanfield Tigers have been picked to...
DAYTON - The top-ofthe hill Main Street building that was once home of Patit Creek Cellars will be entirely devoted to wine again this fall, giving Dayton two winetasting venues by the end of the year. Owners Paul and Marcene Hendrickson have leased the 1,100-square-foot building at 507 E. Main to Abacus Wine Llc of Pasco, which will operate the location as "Dayton Wine Works" and targets casual wine drinkers and travelers. In May, Dayton resident and former winemaker Reggie Mace announced he...
WAITSBURG - Few Waitsburgers will forget how on Sunday, Sept. 6 last year, the town sirens wailed in the predawn hours and the sky north of Main Street was lit up with the orange glow of a huge fire. Many gathered on the bridge to see how the town's largest historic structure and once its economic heartbeat, the abandoned Wait's four mill, was engulfed in flames so big firefighters could only contain the blaze and watch its stories collapse one by one. Within hours, the 145-year-old building...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs lost their season opener against Stanfield tonight 7 - 48, but the home team knew they had a tough opponent in a team that's destined to top their league this fall. Despite a game-opening running touchdown by Josh Frame in the first quarter, the Stanfield Tigers drilled through the Bulldogs' defense for much of the game until the Dayton boys finally caught the spirit and stopped them in their tracks. By then, however, the Tigers had scored seven touchdowns due in part to an uncomfortable Bulldogs defense and a...
KAMIAH - Senior T.J. Hofer made and saved the day for the Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals in their 6-0 victory over the Kamiah Kubs tonight. In an intensily defensive game on both sides, Hofer scored the game's only touchdown during the third quarter, then made a game-winning interception during the Kubs' last drive of the fourth quarter that could have resulted in an equalizer and extra-point victory for the home team. Cardinals Zach Bartlow and Kris Cady each had impressive runs in a game in which both teams struggled to make yardage. More...
WALLA WALLA - A Walla Walla man who took up residence in Waitsburg this summer was charged today with first-degree rape, sexual exploitation of a minor and first-degree possession of images depicting a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. If convicted of the charges, 31-year-old Carl Grayson Bell Jr. could reportedly be sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. The maximum sentence for first-degree rape of a child is life in prison. Bell was charged with three counts of first-degree rape of a child, two counts of sexual exploitation of...
