Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - It may be another week or so before the Waitsburg-Prescott sports community will see him on the sidelines, but the two school districts have made their choice for their new joint athletics director. JP Thew, a former assistant coach for the Cardinals and the Tigers, who has just wrapped a second tour of Iraq with his National Guard unit from Oregon, will become the new sports programs coordinator for WP. Thew is expected to start his new job when he returns to southeast Washington by mid-September, school officials said. He arrived... Full story
DAYTON - The Dayton girls' volleyball team has set the bar high this season after winning the title of district champions in the league and competing at the state level last year. Coach Shannon Turner said the team is excited to start competing this year with some new blood in the lineup. The team wants to best its 9-3 win-loss record from last year. Thi s year, the team has 10 players on varsity, and six players are ret urners, Turner said. The team is most excited to play Waitsburg-Prescott... Full story
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals Volleyball Team are licking some bruises and soaking sore muscles after a very long and hot first week of practice . Angie Potts begins her first season as head coach for the Cardinals and Wendy Richards will assist. The Lady Cards lost four 2010 seniors, including league standout Genesis Pearson who now plays for Blue Mountain Community College. Seven seniors return to Kison court to put in their bid for the district title. Leading that group are outside hitter...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg-Prescott cheer squad will soar to new heights this football season because of a larger squad and lots of returning veterans. "We have a lot of athletic girls and a lot of experience," Coach Vickie Hamann said. "The girls are very enthusiastic." The football cheer squad totals 13 girls this year, nine on varsity and four on junior varsity. Hamann is taking on her fifth year as coach and says she is thrilled by the larger turnout. For the football teams, this means more c...
DAYTON - This summer, it was uncertain whether Dayton High School would have a cross country team this fall. But, Coach Dan Nechodom and the district found ways to save money and found six students who were interested in running as fast as they can for 3 miles. Nechodom, back for his eighth year as coach for the Bulldogs as a volunteer, has three high school seniors and three middle school-aged athletes. He had 10 runners last year, but he said this year's smaller team boasts dedicated athletes who have the potential to place in the top ranks...
WAITSBURG - The Cardinals' cross-country running team may be down in the numbers this year, but when it comes to distance competition it's more about "quality than quantity," head coach Joanna Lanning believes. The WP running team is down to six runners - three high schoolers and three middle schoolers. The group has lost five seniors during the past two years, "which is a big hit," Lanning said. Last year, the team consisted of nine runners - seven high schoolers and two middle schoolers. But...
PRESCOTT - Times reporter/ photographer Tracy Daniel ventured to the practice field in Prescott to catch up on the 2011 Tigers soccer team and quickly discovered that the players have gotten a late start in preparing for their season. After becoming district champions and ending their season 18-1 last year, the Tigers have raised expectations going into this fall. But a lot has changed since then. Veteran coach Rick Hamilton left the district and former assistant coach Bart Baxter was passed up for his job. New head coach Mark Grimm, who has... Full story
DAYTON - This season, Dayton soccer coach D.J. Frame wants the league to know the members of his team are ready to step up their game and compete against the best. "We're not just the new guys," Frame said. "We've got to be competitive now." Last year, the Bulldogs didn't fare too well in league play. Out of 14 games, Frame said his team won one, tied two and lost 11. Last year, Frame's fourth year coaching the team, was focused on building the program. But, this year is going to be different....
DAYTON - Just two years ago, the Bulldogs wouldn't have made it among any of the teams in the league to beat in the esteem of other coaches. But one year after Dean Bickelhaupt took over as head coach, Dayton immediately comes to the mind of his counterparts as a team they'll have to watch out for during the 2011 season. "Dayton's going to be a lot better," Cardinals' head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "They won games last year and they'll be in the top three." The Bulldogs won three games last... Full story
WAI T SBURG - On the one hand, head Cardinals football coach Jeff Bartlow argues that it's good to come from a historic season that sent the team to the state playoffs. "The culture of winning is there," he said. "There's no doubt the kids believe in it." The Cardinals went an unprecedented 12-1 and made it to Pullman only to be edged out by Colfax and place third in state. But it also means having to defend a district championship title and being in a position to fend off challenges from... Full story
1 Touchet Valley Call toPrayer 7 p.m. at the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Dayton. 1-4 Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days Gates open at 8 a. m., Walla Walla Fairgrounds. There will be exhibits, livestock competitions, pro rodeo events, concerts and more. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for children. 7 Wednesday Wine Night with Saviah Cellars 5 to 8 p.m., The Weinhard Cafeacute;, 258 E. Main, Dayton. Table-side wine tasting event with Saviah Cellars. Receive 50% off first bottle of Saviah wine with... Full story
The small family farmers of our region are making way into Indian summer, preparing themselves for a good hefty second crop of corn, lettuces, early kale, pumpkins, beets and carrots. I was standing in the middle of Wild Bill's Patit Street Organic Farm today, admiring the rows of different leaf textures, deep burgundy lettuces, subtle green hues of sage, basil and floppy squash leafs. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a noisy blue jay landed on an adjacent fence post. I said to him, "hello, little dinosaur," and when I turned around to walk to the...
Waitsburg/Walla Walla County & Dayton/Columbia County 8-23 Bicycle theft reported. Residential burglary reported on Washington Avenue. Yard ornaments stolen. Traffic hazard. Attempted telephone fraud reported. Medical call. 8-24 Assault reported. Welfare check on hitchhiker. Prisoner transport. Theft of trailer reported at Portway. Traffic hazard. 911 accident dial. Suspicious person reported. 8-25 Suspicious man. Threats reported. Junk vehicle. Warrant service. Disabled vehicle. Prisoner booking. Security check. 8-26 Information. Animal...
Ten Years Ago September 6, 2001 Fifty local kids showed their best animals, including goats, swine, sheep, beef and steers at the Walla Walla Fair. Walla Walla Fair Queen Angela Smith, daughter of Glen and Adelle Smith, and her court were recognized during the concert opening night Thursday; and Days of Real Sport Queen Chelsey Murdock and princesses Corinne McKinley, Trista Flores and Amy Smith flashed smiles at folks along the parade route in Walla Walla. Sally Baker of Austin, MN, spent the long Labor Day weekend with her mother Bettie...
DAYTON - Las t Wedne sday, 64 ladies f rom the Touchet Valley and as far as La Grande and Sunnyside donned pastel golf shirts and hauled their clubs to the Touchet Valley Golf Course in Dayton for an annual all-ladies invitational. The ladies, each pair assigned to a cart, mingled with old friends and made new ones. They laughed excitedly about the day's events and about 9 a.m., hurried their golf carts down the paths to start their nine holes of golf. "It's about just getting together with the...
7TH STREET PROJECT STARTS WAITSBURG - Starting Thursday, Sept. 1, the city of Waitsburg will be grinding asphalt so the city can replace the water line on W. 7th St. The work will take 20 days and will take place on W. 7th street from Orchard to Arnold. COUNTY FURLOUGH DAY DAYTON - On Friday, Sept. 2, some Columbia County offices will be closed because of a budgetary furlough day. Those offices affected by the furlough and will be closed are the assessor, auditor, county commissioners, facilities maintenance, human services, personnel/risk...
WALLA WALLA - When it comes to people getting infections such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, Waitsburg's Sharon Clinton believes it's the luck of the draw. With blood transfusions and contamination risks, contracting such infections can happen "to any of us," she said. It's the main reason that Clinton and her husband Larry attended a fundraising dinner in Walla Walla for Blue Mountain Heart To Heart, a non-profit organization that facilitates support groups, case management, education and...
Prescott High School Principal and acting WP combine AD Jody Thew anticipates that this soccer season will be another successful one for the Tigers, who had a magical first year as a WP combine program in 2010. We hope she turns out to be right. But judging from preseason preparations so far, we have some reservations about this prediction. Last year, the program was headed by Rick Hamilton, a very experienced soccer coach, who knew how to take the raw talent many of the players had developed since childhood playing pickup games, street soccer... Full story
WAITSBURG - Just as some residents in the Touchet Valley were watching the news about Hurricane Irene making landfall on the East Coast on Sunday, they were suddenly taken aback by a local weather event of their own. After late afternoon clouds gathered over Waitsburg, winds picked up out of nowhere and took huge clouds of dust from the dry fields with them, towering high over the city and surrounding countryside. The dust storm quickly reduced visibility to only a few hundred yards and whipped...
WAITSBURG - After recent bicyclist-vehicle collisions that resulted in death and injuries in 2011, local authorities are urging vehicles to be on the lookout for bicyclists and they're telling bicyclists to take precautions to stay safe. The Touchet Valley is becoming more and more a popular destination for cyclists and vehicles and cyclists need to learn to share the roads, said Walla Walla County Undersheriff Edward Freyer and Operations Captain Barry Blackman. "Everybody has a legal right to...
