Articles from the March 14, 2013 edition
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By BE MERRY
Officially, spring doesn't start until March 20. But when I find myself humming "Mr. Blue Sky" by the Electric Light Orchestra every morning, I think it's safe to say spring is on its way. Spring brings new blooms and, emerging from hibernation, the...
DRINK
As the buds start to swell on just about everything and we're all putting away our heaviest winter clothes, my thoughts always turn tohellip;what to drink with all those "pack-away-the-winter-bins-and-blues" chores. It's no longer cold enough to...
EAT
One of the signs that spring really has arrived is the appearance of mounds of vibrant green spears of asparagus at your local grocers. It has become one of my favorite rituals of the season, heralding a new and bountiful year of fresh garden...
Dayton Winter Sports Awards
Varsity Boys Basketball Team Awards: Most Inspirational -Isaiah Lambert & Cruz Ramirez Most Improved - ZachWaggoner Coach Awards: Wyatt Frame - MostValuable Player Isaiah Lambert - Most Valuable...
Prescott Jamboree: Coaches Like What They See
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 perf...
Coach Builds Young Dayton Team
DAYTON - Dayton track and field head coach Dan Nechodom isn't training athletes to sprint toward districts in May, he's training students to be athletes for life. Nechodom is new to the high school...
GLORY ‘B’
This week's column is going to be a bit of a hodge-podge- which is different from a "sinkhole" like the one that opened up in Florida last weekend. (I'm sure some of you won't see the difference...
WP Boys Aim For State in Track
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg Prescott track and field head coach Jeff Bartlow might want to apply for the position of UPS driver, because with this year's large turnout of about 40 male and female a...
High School, Baseball and Welding
The Magill farmstead, nestled among the trees along the South Touchet River, is the current home of foreign exchange students Pedro Barbosa of Patos De Minas, Brazil and Thammanoon (T-Noon)...
Teaching Kids and Parents
WAITSBURG - A room full of more than a dozen three-to-five-year-olds can be daunting, even when you don't have a camera. Last week when a photographer showed up, almost all of the kids at the...
BIRTHDAYS
March 15: Drew Farley, Arvilla Cyr, Debra Olson, Sara Dimak, Stacey Mohney, Tom K. Baker, Gage Baker, Sharon Puckett, Sara Payne Dimak, and Lolita Clayton. March 16: Edna Clough, Mike Estes, Edith Largent, Carol Heilbrun, Michael Kerry, Guy Keeney,...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago March 13, 2003 Seventeen-year-old Jessica Smith will reign as Queen of the 2003 Walla Walla Fair And Frontier Days, which will feature Diamond Rio in concert and Don Johnson as parade marshal. Princesses on the court include two Days of...
Judith Henderson’s Wine & Country Living
I f you only get one love in your life then the San Francisco bay area might just be mine. This year's visit was no exception. As if something so innate as a new word phrasing could through me off, it seems the younger bay area generation needs a...
CROPS
The wheat futures market as an entity exists to serve one ultimate purpose: to constantly re-discover the balancing point between real supply and demand going forward - that point being the daily/hourly/tick-by-tick price. After all the noise and...
Keith Orrin Carpenter 1952 – 2013
Keith Orrin Carpenter died February 22, 2013, of a heart attack, in Angeles City, Philippines. He had moved to the Philippines with plans to retire there in December, 2012. Keith was born Novem- ber 19, 1952 in Walla Walla, Washington to Virgil and...
POLICE NOTES
Dayton 3-5 Theft of student's school supplies was reported on S. 3rd Street. Harassment was reported on S. 5th Street. Minors were reportedly smoking on S. 4th Street. Possible fraud was reported on E. MainStreet. A runaway was reported on Fairground...
Clarification
The Cowboy Dance during Centennial Days is open to high school students only. This is not a community event. This is a fundraiser for Dayton High School Parents of Graduates 2013 and Waitsburg Associated Student Body. The dance is for area high...
Bowling for Knowledge
I promised you this a long time ago and never got around to writing it up, so here you go: the results of Knowledge Bowl Regionals. Yes, they happened a long time ago - two weeks from last Monday, to be exact. But better late than never, right? I...
Memorabilia Display Coming
Dear Editor: The Waitsburg Historical Society is planning a special display of historic Days of Real Sport memorabilia in conjunction with the celebration and events to be held on Saturday, May 18, 2013. We have several items in the collection such...
All Roads Lead Me Back
A lice Andison's Standfast ranch is somewhere in the hills near Waitsburg, per- haps just across the county line in Columbia County. Our town isn't described in any great detail in "All Roads Lead Me...
It’s Visitor Season
Why would anyone want to visit little towns like Dayton, Waitsburg, Prescott or Starbuck? They're out in the sticks - hundreds of miles from the nearest big city. There's nothing to do but watch the wheat grow, right? Wrong. As we've been working on...
Smiley’s Name Lives On in Scholarship
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...
Local Agencies Form Crisis Program
DAYTON - In late Febru- ary, a local resident arrived at Dayton General Hospital's emergency room in a state of psychiatric crisis. After being examined by medical personnel, he was transferred out...
