Articles from the September 15, 2011 edition
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Daytonites: You Own It, You Fix It
DAYTON - In Waitsburg and many other cities in Washington State, homeowners are responsible for any trouble in the sewer line between their home and the sewer main. When the line gets blocked and needs to be dug up, residents are required to hire a...
Bulldogs Fall To Towering Panthers
DAYTON - One look at the Asotin roster and it's easy to see why its volleyball team had at least one advantage in their threegame victory over the Bulldogs on Tuesday night. Senior Panthers JaLisa...
Dayton Victors Of The Valley
DAYTON- The sultry heat outside was no comparison to the heat inside the Dayton gym last Wednesday night as the WP Cardinals and the Dayton Bulldogs went head-to-head battling point-for-point in...
WP Tigers Dominate Soccer Jamboree
DAYTON - The WP Tigers won the seasonopening soccer jamboree in Dayton last Wednesday, but not as convincingly as last year. The friendly late-summer competition between the teams from Dayton,...
WP Shuts Out Knights
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals took its first league victory at home Tuesday night as they defeated the Walla Walla Valley Acedemy Knights in three games. It was a faced- paced match with the teams... Full story
WP Douses Rockets
PILOT ROCK-The WP Cardinals were at it again last Friday night in Pilot Rock blasting the Rockets with a 60-14 non-league victory. It took a little more than the 65 seconds it took last week to get...
Bulldogs’ First 2-0 Since 2006
DAYTON - With 11 minutes to go in the third quarter, it began to dawn on the players on the Bulldogs sideline that a second victory of the season might be possible. Garrett Turner had just caught a... Full story
Fluffy Dogs, Felines & Fun At County Fair
DAYTON - Tucked away behind a barn and a race track at the Columbia County Fairgrounds, whiskers, floppy ears and cold noses were making kids and judges smile. Kittens meowed loudly from their cages,...
Tourism Executive Visits Touchet Valley
WAITSBURG - Suzanne Fletcher, executive director of the newly formed Washington Tourism Alliance, will visit Waitsburg and Dayton on Friday afternoon. Her visit here is part of Fletcher's tour of the greater Walla Walla area that starts with a...
BIRTHDAYS
Sept. 16: Lois Mettler, Kevin Steffanson, Bruce Harris, Jerry Mock, Pam Davis, Dan Bickelhaupt. Sept. 17: Gustavo Reese, Tom Duckworth, Elizabeth Alleman, Mindy Eaton, Nathan Hansen, Nathan Hamann. Sept. 18: Ashley Wilson, Jeff Pietila, Rob...
Wine & Country Living
A rriving home from a weekend away isn't always so happy. I found my neighbor had lost her beloved "Pearl," The Coon Cat. As the week progressed, I'd hear Sally outside calling randomly for her kitty, her best friend, and it became unnerving,... Full story
POLICE NOTES
Dayton/Columbia County 9-6 Stray animal on Main Street. Hit and run on Main Street reported for insurance purposes. Syringe found alongside the road. Civil dispute. Injury accident at Eckler Mountain Road. Illegal burning on South 3rd Street. 9-7...
ENGAGED
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Kovach of Bellevue, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beaudry of Post Falls, Idaho, announce the engagement of their daughter Jillian Evona Beaudry to Dane C. Henze, son of Mr. and... Full story
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago September 20, 2001 Local firefighters spent more than 12 hours Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning on a controlled burn that went out of control on the North Coppei. The fire fueled by brisk southwest winds, moved to Rocky Point-Jas...
BRIEFS
HALLOWEEN AT SHERIFF'S OFFICE DAYTON - On Halloween Day from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., the Columbia County Sheriff's Office will be offering bags of treats at no charge. Costumes are encouraged. The staff is bringing back this Halloween tradition for the...
The BURG
First Phone System Installed Here In 1903 I t was 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell's invention was first installed as a commercial venture. The first successful demonstrations device was in Havana Cuba in 1849! In Waitsburg, the first telephone was... Full story
CO3 Now Open
A few weeks ago, some 20 plus members of the local PEO chapter came in to have lunch at the Coppei Coffee shop. They enjoyed coffee, sandwiches and drinks from the shop's ever-growing menu, then...
The Right Call
I t was a brief but awkward moment in council chambers Monday night. Council members were in the midst of discussing a proposed amendment to the city's municipal code that shifts the burden of repairing and maintaining the public-right-ofway portion...
2011 PIONEER FALL FESTIVAL
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg resident Jane Butler, age 90, has deep family roots in the Touchet Valley through her husband Bob. Butler has lived in town about 50 years, non-consecutively, and is being...
Bohleen In Court For Bike Fatality
WALLA WALLA - The man charged with killing a Seattle cyclist on Middle Waitsburg Road in May appeared in Walla Walla County Superior Court Monday for the first time. Melvin Bohleen, 73, of Dayton, dre...
Kitchen Fire Takes Dayton Home
DAYTON - In the early hours of the morning last Thursday, Tia Gore was making her five-year-old daughter a birthday cake. Together with her eightyear old son, Gore and her daughter were planning to...
