Articles from the June 25, 2015 edition
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Waitsburg Council Votes for Fire Dept. Annexation
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg's city council is in unanimous agreement that it would like to see the city totally out of the fire and ambulance business. At the June 17 city council meeting, the council a...
Picture-Perfect All Wheels Weekend
A visitor and his son get a close-up photo of a '32 Ford Highboy Roadster during the Show N Shine at last weekend's All Wheels Weekend event in downtown Dayton. Crowds were large and the weather was...
Waitsburg Man Charged with Child Assault
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg resident Tysen R. Beckner, 25, was arrested last week in Idaho and now faces a felony charge of child assault in Walla Walla County Superior Court. Beckner was allegedly i...
Farmers Remain Positive Despite Drought
DAYTON – Anyone driving Highway 12 can see it. The wheat fields are ripening quickly. Gone are the rolling green plains. In their place are fields of shorter-than-normal, already golden grains. And i...
Adding 'Teeth' to County Building Rules
DAYTON – Do you know your county building and permitting rules? Columbia County suggests you reacquaint yourself with them because officials have asked the planning department to brainstorm a way of ...
Beverly L. Hampson
Beverly L. Hampson, 84, entered into eternal peace on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at her home in Eagle, Idaho. Beverly was born on August 26, 1930, a daughter of the late Selma and Merrill Landess. Beverly married the late Richard K. Harper in 1951, and...
Waitsburg Honor Roll
Senior Class 4.0 GPA Gales-Alexenko, Luke Z. Grant, Hannah G. Larsen, Talen T. Philbrook, Emma c. Shafer, Tyler Walker, Samantha R. 3.25 and above GPA Lanning, Owen L. Leroue, Chance O. Mercado, Sofia C. Grant, Michael F. DeRuwe, Mikala L. Edwards,...
Dad's Day Winner
Randy Hinchliffe was the winner of the Waitsburg Friends of the Library Father's Day raffle basket. . ....
Pioneer Portraits - June 25, 2015
Ten Years Ago June 30, 2005 Two hundred years ago, perhaps one way to describe the foods eaten by members of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery is “basic.” The menu choices of those days of yesteryear will be the topic of a Fourth of July coo...
Police Notes - June 25, 2015
Waitsburg Nothing to report. Dayton June 7: Missing juvenile reported on S. 3rd Street; located and returned. Fence posts removed from property on Eckler Mountain/Cougar Canyon Road; posts burned in pit and garbage also left on property. Dayton...
Ken Graham: FROM THE PUBLISHER
I’m sure I don’t totally understand how emergency services operate in and around Waitsburg, but here’s how I can best explain it: The city of Waitsburg has a fire department that puts out fires and r...
Emma Philbrook: STUDENT LIFE
There are pros and cons to computers. One pro, of course, is that you can work on multiple things at once. One con, however, is that you can work on multiple things at once. Take this seemingly simple...
Tearing Up the Street
Workers were busy installing new water lines along the east side of Main Street in Waitsburg Tuesday, making a trip to The Times office especially treacherous for visitors....
Gano Likely Died from Natural Causes
DAYTON – The cause of death remains unknown in the case of Shirley "Ben" Gano, the 88-year-old Oregon man whose body was found near Starbuck last week, Columbia County Coroner Rea Culwell told The Tim...
Public Hearing Planned for Mead Road Paving
DAYTON – Enough public interest was shown in the discussion last week regarding whether to pave Mead Road north of Dayton that Columbia County Commissioners have scheduled a public hearing to discuss the matter further during their next board m...
Christian Women's Connection Luncheon
WAITSBURG – July’s Christian Women’s Connection luncheon will take place July 15 at the Waitsburg Town Hall from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The theme is “Christmas in July.” Lunch is $10 and will be catered by Gleason’s Galley. July’s speaker is Na...
Authorities advise: Banner Bank Phone Scam
WALLA WALLA – Banner Bank wants to make its customers aware of a wide-spread phone scam in which Banner Bank customers and non-customers receive automated calls stating that there is a problem with the recipient’s debit or credit card. The robo cal...
Visit Dayton's New Website Next Week
DAYTON – The city of Dayton hopes to “unveil” a freshly redeveloped website next week, on June 30. The address of the website will remain the same: www.daytonwa.com, but the site will feature a more contemporary design, new tabs and current photo...
County Pursues S. Touchet 'Junkyard' Cleanup
DAYTON – Columbia County has filed criminal charges against county resident Darlene M. Savage, 70, alleging that she has been maintaining an unpermitted salvage or junkyard on her South Touchet R...
'Everyday Hero' Owen Agenbroad at Dayton Library
Dayton WWII veteran Owen Agenbroad (top photo) was the first Everyday Hero to tell his story last Thursday at the Dayton Memorial Library as part of this summer's reading program . ....
Izzy's Big Break
WAITSBURG – Izzy-the-camel owner Mickey Richards says he would love to one day to write a book filled with stories about Izzy. If he does, that book will undoubtedly include a chapter on Izzy's m...
Guatemalan Missionaries Play Guest
WAITSBURG/DAYTON – Guatemala City missionary David Beam cites "enjoying the wide open spaces and the beauty of the land" as a favorite experience in his recent visit to the Touchet Valley. The v...
Troy Larsen Takes Over Cardinal Gridders this Fall
WAITSBURG – Troy Larsen knows a thing or two about coaching football. He has been an assistant coach – both volunteer and paid – for the past 15 years for the Waitsburg and WP teams. Larsen takes...
Waitsburg School Breakfast/Lunch
FREE SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM Monday - Friday Breakfast 8-8:30 a.m. Lunch 11:30 a.m. – noon All children 18 & under receive meals free of charge....
Birthdays - Week of June 25
June 26: Ava Jean Gagnon, Judy Mulhair, Michelle Benson Brooks, Norma Bessey, Toni Chavez and Shalyne Bentley. June 27: Lisa Christensen, Sarah Monfort Torrens and Cameron Collins, Travis Eaton. June 28: Kendra Roberts, Terry Dunn, Kathleen Walborn,...
