Articles from the April 21, 2011 edition
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Dayton Cut & Wrap Expands Business
DAYTON - Dayton business owners Jim and Connie Westergreen have big news for small ranchers in Columbia and Walla Walla counties. The couple will soon expand their meat processing operations to...
Dayton Takes Lead At Golf Scramble
DAYTON - Dayton and Tri-Cities Prep were scheduled for an 18-hole match at the Touchet Valley Golf Course in Dayton last Friday, but both teams were missing so many golfers the coaches decided to mix things up and put the kids into teams and play a...
Bulldogs Lose Fight With DeSales Irish On Saturday
WALLA WALLA - If Dayton's success last week against Tri-Cities Prep represented the perfect baseball games, Saturday's double- header defeat at the hands of the Irish in Walla Walla was a mirror oppos...
Lady Tigers Hold On To Perfect Record
PRESCOTT - Coming off a nearly three-week break since their last outing, the Waitsburg- Prescott Lady Tigers swept the TOR Nighthawks in a league double header. The Tigers took the first game 11-6 wit...
WP Tigers Defeated Saturday At Home
PRESCOTT - The WP Tigers dropped the ball here Saturday to lose another league double-header against the TOR Spartans. Zach Bartlow pitched six innings for the Tigers in the opener, throwing three strike outs. Dalton Estes seemed to get the Tigers...
Lady Bulldogs Steal Two Irish Victories
WALLA WALLA - Winter continues to hold Southeast Washington in its grasp, with snow flurries and hail bombarding the Touchet Valley early this week, but the rain held off and the sun peeked through...
Cardinals On Fire
WALLA WALLA - The WP track team had a phenomenal day last Wednesday at Borleske Stadium. It was no wonder that the skies above opened up with a downpour during the event because these Cardinals were...
Friday Night Fun Raises Funds
WAITSBURG-The Waitsburg Booster club held a "Not So Silent Auction" and Spaghetti feed last Friday night to raise funds for a new press box on the football field. While attendance was a little lower...
BRIEFS
FIRST THURSDAY CONCERT IN MAY WALLA WALLA - The May 5th First Thursday concert will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 323 Catherine Street, Walla Walla, beginning at 12:15 p.m. The Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla University will be playing a...
POLICE NOTES
4-18: Criminal Mischief. Pickup on S 2nd Street, Dayton, sustained damage to paint job. Property Damage. Mailbox on W Clay Street, Dayton, knocked over. 4-17: Fish & Game. Turkey hunter reportedly shooting on hillside behind E Dayton Ave., Dayton....
BIRTHDAYS
April 21: Tracy Keve, Brooklyn Butler, Rebecca Dunn, Joyce Zingle, Dean and Deanna Keiser and Darrel Mock. April 22: Julie Yokel, Mary Cunningham, Marge Benson, Mary Mathews and Dawn Roberts. April 23: Claudia Cunningham, Juanita Gluck, Vera Webber,...
MEMORIAL
A memorial for Travis Weedman will occur on Saturday, April 23, at the jimgerman bar on Main Street in Waitsburg from 3-5 p.m....
Wine & Country Living
This week I visited my old friend and associate Chef/ Organic Activist Jesse Cool. Back in the early '90s, Jesse asked me to take her place as Executive Chef at her popular Flea Street Café in Menlo Park, California, while she wrote her first cookboo...
Students Of The Month
Waitsburg and Starbuck schools this week announced March Students of the Month. Top: Jack Willis, a 4th grader at Starbuck. Below: Waitsburg Elementary students Riley Witt, 4th grade, and Joseph...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago April 26, 2001 Pat Mohney was in the right place at the right time-to save a 2-year old girl from certain death when he happened upon two Rottweiler dogs that had suddenly turned vicious on Hogeye Road, east of Waitsburg. Several area...
HONOR ROLL
Students of Waitsburg High School receiving a 4.0 for the third quarter of the 2010-2011 school year include seniors John Montgomery, Megan Withers and junior Kayla Huxoll. Earning an Honor Roll grade point of 3.25 or higher include the following stu...
All Aboard!
DAYTON - Creativity and determination has carried the Port of Columbia through several years of planning the Blue Mountain Station, and a little cold weather and rain couldn't keep them from...
BRIEFS
PARADE PLANS ANNOUNCED WAITSBURG - Parade Waitsburg, a day of family-fun activities, on Saturday, May 21, will kick off at 10 a.m. with a parade on Waitsburg's Main Street. Parade Grand Marshals will be announced next week. The Parade will honor our...
Coffee Done Right
WALLA WALLA - Despite the most wishful fantasies about growing coffee in greenhouses somewhere in the hills around Waitsburg, it's obvious that sourcing one's coffee shop product here fresh isn't a...
Fairgrounds An Asset
Before the last votes for the recent city elections were in, Mayor Walt Gobel and the members of his caucus determined that the coming year would be different from their first. Waitsburg residents overwhelmingly voted Gobel and the current council...
State Park Enjoys A Long History
Many of us have enjoyed the Lewis and Clark Trail State Park off Highway 12 between Dayton and Waitsburg. Lewis and Clark Trail State Park is located on what is one of the first homestead sites in Washington Territory. James Bennett homesteaded the...
