Articles from the September 12, 2013 edition
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Festival Honors Local History
WAITSBURG - While there is still a bit of reprieve before the dreaded "fall back" in time requiring that clocks be adjusted to accommodate the end of Daylight Savings Time, a more enjoyable step b...
BE MERRY
On the front of this week's paper I wrote about the upcoming Pioneer Fall Festival. While that story detailed the facts about what you can expect to find at this year's event, it didn't relay the...
DRINK
Last Thursday afternoon I was flipping some magnificent rib eyes on the grill when I looked up to see a massive wall - like an enormous tidal wave of black and brown cloud - bearing down on me. The surrounding trees were whipping around like drunken...
EAT
This is a quick-draw down-and-dirty list with some easy pointers, because I get tired of chips and dip - usually by the second game of the season. So here are some easy options that offer up a little zip, zing and zest to your game time munchies...
Young Lady Cardinals Get Tough
WAITSBURG - Doing what it takes to advance to post-season play will literally be a whole new ballgame for the 2013 WP Cardinals volleyball team. The graduation loss of Rhiannon Chapman, Jen Ni...
Standing Tall: Lady Dogs Have Height, Speed and Strength
DAYTON - The number of returning players to Shannon Turner's volleyball team may be the same as last year: six. But there's something different about the core of the Dayton team this year. "I'm p...
Silver Lining Playbook
DAYTON - Half an hour after the last lightning strike flashed across the skies over Dayton Thursday night, the Bulldogs and Mac Hi Pioneers took to the field, warmed up and began their game an hour la...
Lady Cards Win Season Opener
PILOT ROCK - The WP volleyball team changed course midstream during Friday night's game against Pilot Rock, pushing ahead to win their first game of the season. The Rockets won the first two sets,...
Cardinals Put Away Pilot Rock
PILOT ROCK, Ore. - The bad news about the Cardinals' first game of the season against Pilot Rock Friday night was the number of turnovers and penalties: five lost fumbles and two big flags that cost...
Constitution Week Celebrated
The Constitution of the United States of America is commemorated each year between September 17 - 23rd. September 17 is designated Constitution Day, celebrating the signing of the Constitution by the 39 delegates of the Constitu- tional Convention....
Volunteers Needed
Now that the City side- walk policy has been ap- proved, volunteers are need- ed to create an inventory of cracks, breaks, gaps, etc. City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe is also forming a list of homeowners inter- ested in paying for materials, with...
Gail Broom’s “Great Pumpkin”
WAITSBURG – When it comes to pumpkins, Charlie Brown’s got nothing on Waitsburg gardener Gail Broom, whose very own ‘great pumpkin’ placed first in the weight class at the Walla Walla County Fair. B... Full story
Columbia County Fair 4-H Corral Wranglers
Goats Lightweight: Grand Champion - Kate Kuykendall Reserve Grand Champion -Jessie Atteberry 3rd - Megan Forney 4th - Morgan Forney 5th - Makenzie Forney Heavyweight: Grand Champion - GraceCoulston Reserve Grand Champion -Devon Harsman 3rd - Taylor...
FFA Awards: Walla Walla & Columbia County Fairs
Columbia County Fair Hogs Grand Champion Market - Luke Alexenko Champion Advanced F&S - Tristan Newman Reserve Advanced F&S - Hannah Grant Champion Novice F&S - BrandonPenner Reserve Novice F&S -...
BIRTHDAYS
Sept. 13: Dave McKenzie, Sr., Jeffrey Hofer, Joey Gar- cia, Nadine Scoggins, Helen Rich, Claudia Hevel-Doty, Jeffrey Liebermann, Nancy Bickelhaupt, Christine Jenks, Brook Rasmussen. Sept. 14: Jerry Harshman, Stan Pierson, Dan Jones, Doug Brown,...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago September 18, 2003 Brad Huffman bested a field of 20 to lead the Waitsburg Cardinals Cross Country team to its first win in four or five years. Marci Jo Lanning finished fourth in the girl's com- petition. "It was a great day," said...
Judith Henderson’s Wine & Country Living
Now that this part of the country has been deemed Washington State's wine country, you might try your hand at growing a wine grape vine or two in your own back yard. One place you can purchase wine grape root stock is at the historical Waitsburg... Full story
CROPS
The mind of the wheat market is pondering a seasonal low. $6.35 - $6.38 - $6.36hellip;The last three lows printed by the Chicago December futures contract, all within the last three weeks and all within three cents of the lowest the contract has...
Coordinators Needed
ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE) is looking for outgoing people to serve as Area Coordinators in the Western Region of the United States. ASSE provides academic year and semester exchange programs in the United States for high sc...
Julia Mark
Julia Mark, 82, died peacefully at her home in Dayton on September 5, 2013. Julia was born July 8, 1931, in Durban, Natal Province, South Africa, to Norman L. and Eunice Phelps Rice. She was the y...
POLICE NOTES
Dayton 9-3 Report of grass pulled up out of park. Possible telephonefraud reported on E. Spring Street. Unwanted subject atfairgrounds. Littering complaint on S. 4th Street. Juvenilessmoking on S. 4th Street. Deputy on standby for civil matterat...
Wheat Growers Association Opposes Initiative 522
On behalf of more than 1,800 members, the Washington As- sociation of Wheat Growers is strongly opposed to Initiative 522 on the Novem- ber statewide ballot. I-522 would force Washington farmers and food companies to implement costly new labeling,... Full story
Too Happy for School
Between the start of school and the Columbia County Fair, it's been a very busy week. Talk about an embarrass- ment of riches - the events of the past seven days could constitute a whole month's worth... Full story
