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  • Oil painting and a safe studio

    Lane Gwinn, the Times|Aug 15, 2019

    Artists have always found a way to make beautiful art out of the most toxic materials. Traditionally, oil paint not only used toxic pigment like cadmiums and colbalt, it was also common to use hazardous solvents like turpentine or mineral spirits to thin paint and clean brushes. Over the last few decades, paint manufacturers have worked to replace or modify toxic pigments in their products. This was done for economic and liability reasons, but the result has made oil paint one of the safest...

  • Elevator operators Mayberry and Benevides keep harvest on track

    Lane Gwinn, The Times|Aug 8, 2019

    If you want to know about grain elevators you can ask two of Northwest Grain Growers longtime employees Lupe Benevides and Tim Mayberry. Both have worked at the local elevators as warehousemen and foremen for over 37 years each. If you ever had a summer job working at the local elevators or driving trucks for the local farmers, you know them well. Lupe Benevides Lupe Benevides lives in Dayton and oversees the Columbia County, Waitsburg and Coppei elevators and is on call to help out at all the...

  • Dog Ownership: Paws and effect

    Lane Gwinn, the Times|Aug 1, 2019

    Dogs are loving companions, watchdogs, hunting buddies and important members of our families. They are also part of the community and can have a significant impact on the relationships between neighbors, city employees and government representatives. The responsibility we have as dog owners extends not just to our dogs’ welfare but to our community as well. No one loves the sound of barking dogs, no one feels safe walking their street if an unleashed dog shows aggressive, potentially dangerous behavior and no one likes to step in anything a d...

  • A hankering for hill country

    Lane Gwinn, the Times|Jul 25, 2019

    This 4th of July a familiar face showed up at the Patriot's Parade in Waitsburg. Jonne Antilla from Götene, Sweden has been visiting eastern Washington almost every year since his first visit in 2007. His journey started in 1986 as an agriculture student in Sweden when he was given a brochure of various farming, forestry and ranching techniques. "There was a picture of a wheat field and I noticed right away this is not Sweden. There was a giant hill with combines coming towards you. The header...

  • Nobody's Perfect

    Lane Gwinn, the Times|Jul 18, 2019

    Last week I was reminded that just because I am an avid reader of newspapers and the owner and publisher of this newspaper, I am not a reporter. This hit me when I opened the July 11 Times and found an error I was completely responsible for. First, by giving incorrect information to the managing editor, Dena Martin, then not proofreading the final story before it went to print. As I said, I am not a reporter. I am, however, a publisher so I am printing my first correction: The article "Patriot's Parade Begins with a Dare" states that Anita...