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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Tickets are on sale for a hometown dance concert by a hometown band. The members of the popular Frog Hollow Band have agreed to perform Saturday evening, May 18, during the Waitsburg Celebration mark- ing the 100th anniversary of the Days of Real Sport racing weekend. The concert is a collaboration of the Waitsburg PEO chapter, the Waitsburg Lions Club and the band, whose members live in Waitsburg, Prescott and Walla Walla. It's a fundraiser for PEO, which promotes education for women. "When we learned noth- ing was scheduled for...
WAITSBURG - Imagine a raised vegetable bed the size of a dinner table. Now picture growing enough greens in this 5' x 5' space to feed a family of four year round. Impossible? Not according to Waitsburg's Mickey and Tawnya Rich- ards. With their partners Ray and Debi Fosnot they have worked since December building their new business, "Lettuce Eat Fish". As long as you have the right ingredients - fish, fish feed, rocks, water, light and heat - you should be able to meet your leafy needs around...
At the launch of Paul Gregutt's Waitsburg Cel- lars, tasters were offered a small ribbon-bound booklet describing the elements of the new wine label's logo. The image contains many symbols - all elements of what inspires winemaker and critic Gregutt and his wife, filmmaker Karen Stanton Gregutt, about being artists in Waitsburg. "Our sense of time both slowed and expanded," Gre- gutt wrote about the couple's transition to life in Waitsburg, which started about eight years ago. "The century-old...
Basketball, football and baseball fans in the Touchet Valley may be wondering what happened to former Cardinals head basketball coach T.J. Scott. Scott, who stepped down from his part-time coaching and teaching positions in the area last summer, reports he is alive and well in a remote part of southeast Alaska where he just took a team of Tsimshian Indian high school basketball players to the state title game. The Annette Island Chiefs, who hail from a community 15 miles by floatplane or ferry...
Tourist season is just around the corner, which means the Touchet Valley will be filling up with visitors taking in special events, the many historic sites on offer, or just visiting local friends and relatives. A host of small boutique hotels in our area offer those visitors a wide variety of lodging experiences. Dayton's best-known boutique hotel, the historic Weinhard on Main Street, recently added two dates in May for a weekend special that has drawn guests from throughout the region - a...
WAITSBURG - Paul and Karen Gregutt adopted their beloved Cookie more than a year ago. But they didn't take the three-year-old Terrier Chihuahua mix on an extended car trip until earlier this year when they drove down the coast to be with family in Palm Springs. During their first few nights on the road, they quickly made a discovery. As dog owners, the Waitsburg couple was either charged exorbitant rates or, well, relegated to the dog house. "Places are expensive or shabby," Karen Stanton G...
PRESCOTT - The Lady Tigers' offense gave rise to hope for the season, but its defense left much to be desired in Tuesday night's face-off against the Weston- McEwen Tigerscots, head coach Angie Potts said. "We hit the ball better," she said in an interview after the game, which WP lost 20-7. "That was definitely a bright spot. But a game like this doesn't build confi- dence." Although it was a non- league matchup against the team from Oregon, Potts said her players are on notice that they have t...
PRESCOTT - It took the WP Tigers a few innings to warm up in their Tuesday night game against the hard-hitting Weston McEwen Tigerscots. But when they finally did, there was no stopping their cannon balls and bullet runs, demolishing the visitors 11-5. After being down by as much as 4-0 in the 3rd, the Tigers' ignited in a magical 6th inning, firing on all bats and wielding a home run off a high arcing hit from sophomore Chance Leroue. It landed well beyond the field fence. "When it came off...
WAITSBURG - Touchet Valley football fans who can't get enough of their favorite sport don't have to wait until fall to see action on Cardinal Field. For the first time in nearly a decade, a minor league team will bring the pigskin game back to Waitsburg with some former high school stars on the new team to boot. The Waitsburg Elite will make its first appearance at the high school field this Saturday with a team scrimmage starting at 3 p.m. The first game of the eight-game season will follow on...
WAITSBURG - Long- time Waitsburg resi- dent, activist and tireless his- torian Jeff Broom received the prestigious Commercial Club Community Service award on Tuesday, a recog- nition some said was long overdue. "Jeff has done more than his share to see that Waits- burg is on the map and de- serves our thanks for all his volunteer work to support our wonderful community," club members Larry and Deanne Johnson wrote in their nomination letter. Broom, who received a standing ovation from...
PRESCOTT - A chilly March breeze at the Tigers' ball fields wouldn't let spectators shake off their winter blues completely. But in every other respect, Saturday's sun-drenched jamboree was the perfect start of the spring sports season for the Touchet Valley teams, their coaches said. "It was a productive day," said Dustin Snedigar, the WP Tigers' head baseball coach. "We got a good look at a lot of kids. It was a success for everyone." Six baseball and softball teams, including the Dayton B...
PRESCOTT - A group of teachers in the Prescott School District has created a scholarship fund in honor of former athletic director Jack Smiley, with the first recipient expected to be a 2013 graduate. The initiators of the Jack Smiley Memorial Scholar- ship, the Prescott Education Association teachers' union, hope the popular sports fig- ure's reputation and his as- pirations for young studentathletes will inspire Prescott alumni and residents of the Touchet Valley to help sup- port it with...
WAITSBURG - The cen- tennial celebration of Waits- burg's Days of Real Sport will not have the traditional pari-mutuel races for which the third weekend in May became so famous over the decades. But the big weekend that organizers are now calling Waitsburg Celebration Days on May 17-19 is shaping up to be action-packed for lo- cal families and visitors. It will have everything from a Cowboy Dance on Friday to court races Saturday, and plenty of kids activities on Sunday, according to mem- bers of the committee that met on Monday night to firm...
WALLA WALLA - A Prescott man remains a key suspect in a recent spate of Touchet Valley burglaries, after the Walla Walla County Prosecutor dismissed ear- lier charges in the hopes of building a bigger, better case against him. The case against Jimmy Mathews, 33, identified in court records as a resident of Prescott, is part of an ongoing investigation into one of the biggest property theft and trafficking operations in the area's history. It recently yielded hundreds of stolen items at a residence in Walla Walla. Mathews was arrested in mid-Dec...
KENNEWICK - Four contestants each from Prescott, DeSales and Connell high schools sat at round tables in the lobby of the South Hills Church in Ken- newick last Wednesday. In front of them was a metallic strip wired to a box near the moderator who sat across from the players. She fired off a question: "Name the Egyptian president who was assassinated by extremists in 1981 for ne- gotiating peace with Israel." Several students slapped their hands on the strip to make the buzzer go off and signal...
TACOMA - Before WP Tiger Tristan Newman even set foot on one of the many mats at the Tacoma Dome Friday, he had every reason to celebrate victory, his coach, family and friends in the stands said. "It's always been our goal to get kids here," said head coach Lanny Adams, who has been a wrestling coach for 28 years, waiting to see a competitor to state. "Tristan has helped me make that dream come true." Newman, a freshman expected to make future appearances at state, did not advance after losing...
REARDAN - Freshman Tristan Newman is content to revel in the prospect of being the lone Tiger going to the state wrestling meet at the Tacoma Dome Friday and Saturday, but only for a moment. He's quick to point out that he wouldn't have gotten this far without all his years as a "little guy" in Waitsburg's "Matbird" program (a nod to his parents and coaches) or his teammates on the Waitsburg-Prescott wrestling team. "I wish they could be there with me," he said about the other Tigers who...
DAYTON - Senior Bull- dog Samantha Harting saw several of her friends get scraped up in motorcycle spills, so when it came time at her high school Youth & Government club to propose a new law in Olympia, she crafted a bill that might protect them better. Junior Cardinal Meara Baker, a member of Waits- burg's Youth & Government club, chose a different issue for her bill. She feels that as a state of immigrants, Washington should have a law requiring high school students to graduate with foreign...
WAITSBURG - Before Martha Mason moved to Thailand for two years in the early 1960s, she had her sights on music for her creative journey through life. But when she returned to the U.S., ready to pursue a college degree in the field, she couldn't do it. "It was too emotional for me at the time," said Mason, who now lives in Dayton. "It just wasn't working." And while in Thailand, she had discovered some- thing else that would lead her down a different path. "I had an epiphany," she said. "On a...
PASCO - The Dayton Boys Varsity basketball team ended their 2013 season on a high note with a 57-55 cliff-hanger win over Tri Cities Prep on Saturday. "It was a great way to end their year," Bulldogs head coach Roy Ramirez said. "They did a great job finish- ing that game." Plagued by second-half scoring slumps for most of the season, the Bulldogs displayed one of their strongest after-the-half rallies yet, outscoring the Jaguars 19-12 in the third quarter and holding on to their lead until the...
DAYTON - The Bulldogs boys varsity team fought until the bitter end in their 60-41 loss against the WWVA Knights Tuesday night, but they could not get past their two biggest season-long hurdles: height and second-half shooting malaise. "It's been like that all year," head coach Roy Ramirez said. "You can't fault their effort. They all played hard. They ran the floor well. They passed the ball well. But during the second half they have a tough time putting the ball in the hole." And not b...
DAYTON - Tuesday night's 38-31 victory over Walla Walla Valley Academy wasn't quite as sweet for the Lady Bulldogs as the 45-40 cliff-hanger win over DeSales on Saturday, but the seniors were pleased they pulled it out of the hat on their home court during Senior Night. "It was awesome to get a win," senior Malia Frame said. "It was a bit messy, but we were able to pull it off." With only one regular- season game left against Tri Cities Prep on Saturday, the Lady Dogs are virtually guaranteed s...
WAITSBURG - Kate Hockersmith, the instiga- tor and, some might say "mother," of Waitsburg's bluegrass scene, remembers the first local jam night. It was some time in December at the old Carmen's Deli on Main Street. She put the youthful Troublemakers, fresh from their musical exchange in Ja- pan, in the same room with several veteran bluegrass musicians from Walla Walla and created a Touchet Valley tradition marking its fifth an- niversary this winter. Together with bluegrass lessons...
PRESCOTT - After serving as its "accidental" superintendent for three years, Dr. Bill Jordan announced last week he will be leaving the Prescott School District at the end of the school year. "Our district is strong, good things are happening," Jordan said in a telephone interview. "It's a good time for someone to come in and take over this district." Jordan, who has been universally praised for turn- ing around a school dis- trict struggling with enrollment, morale and academic achievement,...
PRESCOTT - Residents of Prescott are rallying behind the family that lost nearly everything this week- end in one of the town's worst structure fires in three decades. Jason and Christine Steele and their four children were forced from their home at 410 Touchet St. on Sun- day after a fire that started in their garage spread quickly through the four-bedroom one-story structure. Walla Walla fire districts 7 (Prescott) and 2 (Waits- burg), along with other area stations, responded to the...
