Articles from the August 19, 2010 edition
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Hospital Consultant Reports To Board
DAYTON - The consultant who has been hired to conduct a work environment assessment reportof Columbia County Hospital District #1 will be presenting her findings during the district board's regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday. Unlike previous...
Another Week, Another Fire
PRESCOTT - For several tense hours Monday, Teresa Price experienced a mother's worst nightmare. She and her husband Bruce were on one side of the fire along Harvey Shaw Road while their 19-year-old s...
Wine & Country Living
This week I took a drive out along Highway 12 toward Pasco and ended up at Ice Harbor Dam and Fishery. If you haven't been out to the dam and watched the indigenous fish climb the stairs, you s...
New Pharmacist: “This Is Home”
DAYTON - The last time Holly Warner left the Touchet Valley, she cried for days. She was barely 11 and living with her mom in Dixie, which she says was a tomboy's paradise. There was a creek c...
Turner And Greenwood Lead Walla Walla County Primary
WALLA WALLA - Candidates John Turner and Richard Greenwood led their respective primary races for Walla Walla County Sheriff and Coroner after an initial and unofficial vote count Tuesday night. At the count, only 751 of the 11,829 cast ballots...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago August 31, 2000 Enhanced 911 Mapping and Addressing Project has completed its address assignments. The focus of the Enhanced 911 project is to ensure that each telephone line in the telephone company's database has a corresponding...
VETERANS HELPING VETERANS
DAYTON - Dayton VFW Post 5549 will give a seminar Aug. 20 and 21 to help veterans learn about accessing health care, prescription drugs, counseling, pension funds and more. The Vets Helping Vets Benefits Seminar will take place from 1-6 p.m. both...
FARMERS MARKET IN WAITSBURG?
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council will consider a request by resident Amy Morris to open Preston Park for more long-term events at its regular meeting Wednesday. Morris, whose homeschooled daughters sell their jewelry and candles at the Dayton...
WAITSBURG MAY CLOSE RC TRACK
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council at its regular meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday will consider closing the Remote Control track at the Fairgrounds. City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe said the track, which was initiated by former city councilman Bart Baxter,...
PRESCOTT SCHOOL BOARD BUSINESS
PRESCOTT - The Prescott School Board had a special meeting on Monday, Aug. 9, and hired Bill Jordan of Walla Walla as its superintendent search consultant. Other business items discussed included approving repairs to one of the district's rental...
WAITSBURG PRESCHOOL OPENINGS
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg Parent Cooperative Preschool has openings for enrolling children and families for fall 2010. Join the classes and learn new parenting skills to build stronger and healthier families. Spend meaningful time with your child in...
STORK CALLS
Hannah Marie Haney, daughter of Chad and Alicia Haney of Deer Park, Wash., was born on Aug. 13 at Valley Hospital in Spokane, Wash. Weighing 6 pounds 12 ounces, she measured 19 inches. Proud grandparents are Jerry and Kathy Berg of Dayton and...
POLICE NOTES
Waitsburg/Walla Walla County Dayton/Columbia County 8-17: Mental Health. Deputy spoke with Dayton citizen on Main Street about the inappropriate use of the 911 line. 8-16: Malicious Mischief. Report of malicious mischief on Coppei, Waitsburg....
A View Against ORVs In Town
Recent city council meetings involved heated debate over a proposed city ordinance that, if passed, would allow unlicensed, uninsured, unsafe, and extremely noisy off-road vehicles (ORVs),...
Editorial
When Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy Jeff Jenkins searched Melinda Meske's home at Valley View Court in Dayton on the evening of May 6, he found 14 different colored baggy containers with trace amounts of methamphetamine. He also found one needle, t...
Klara Lovise Walthew
Clyde resident Klara Lovise Walthew passed away June 23, 2010. She was born in Norway on October 12, 1947, to Nils Rasmussen (deceased) and Suzanne Estes. Klara is survived by her mother, Susanne Estes of Walla Walla; her husband Wayne Walthew a...
Jesse Donald Nettles
Long-time area resident Jesse Donald Nettles, 75, of 733 S. 3rd St. Dayton, Wash., died August 12, 2010, at the Dayton General Hospital. There are no public services. Don was born February 11, 1935, in Arlberg, Arkansas to Jesse and Gladys Dobbs...
Bennie Warren Janes
Long-time Dayton resident Bennie Warren Janes, 81, of 208 E. Tremont St., died suddenly and peacefully at his home on August 11, 2010. A Remembrance Gathering in Bennie's honor will be held on Thursday, August 19, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the D...
Carl W. Henze
Waitsburg resident Carl W. Henze, 89, of 250 W. 6th St. Waitsburg died August 14, 2010, at the Booker Rest Home in Dayton. Funeral Services will be 10 a.m., Thursday, August 19, 2010, at the Waitsburg Christian Church with Pastor Mike Ferrians...
www.waitsburgtimes.com
WAITSBURG - In another step to reach its readers in cyberspace and to become the Touchet Valley's predominant news source, the Times has launched its own website: www.waitsburgtimes. com. Earlier this year, the Times established its first online p...
Dayton’s About History
DAYTON - When it comes to envisioning a more attractive, more prosperous downtown Dayton, the ideas flowfrom far and wide. Focus on the Green Giant and the history of the cannery, some say. Develop...
$11 Million Marijuana Raid
UMATILLA NATIONAL FOREST - A wilderness raid in the upper Tucannon watershed Tuesday morning earned Columbia County Sheriff's deputies the largest marijuana seizure since 2008. Deputies pulled 4,562...