Articles from the May 19, 2011 edition
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Valley Farmers Race Against Rust
DAYTON - The last time Jay Penner saw the potential for stripe rust to cut yields at his farm in half was 50 years ago . That was right around the time of his high school graduation, when his family grew the club variety of a wheat called Omar on...
Bulldogs Beat Alumni 7-6
DAYTON --The Dayton softball team held its second annual alumni game Saturday, with the varsity softball team facing off against their "bitter" rivals, the alumni from years past. The day included...
24 Cardinals Qualify For Districts
CLARKSTON - It hasn't happened before that anyone can remember, but there is a good chance WP will end up with two track and field Triple Crowns at this week's big district championship meet in Walla...
For The Love Of The Game
WALLA WALLA - Now that the baseball season is over for the Tigers and Bulldogs, Touchet Valley fans of the sport can turn their attention to a professional season full of games and events. Locally,...
BIRTHDAYS
The Times extends congratulations and best wishes to the following whose birthday anniversaries fall on this week: May 19: Gerald Hawks, Jordan Demaris, Jim Hansen, Gerald Collingwood, Terry John, Everett White, Walter Richard White, Joan Summers...
STORK CALL
Tiernan and Sarah (Henze) Pearson are the proud parents of a seven pound, 10-ounce daughter, Stella Lucille Pearson, born Monday, May 9, 2011 at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. Proud grandparents are Neil & Linda Henze...
Valley Youths At Livestock In Spokane
SPOKANE - For more than eight decades, several Dayton and Waitsburg families with FFA (Future Farmers of America) and 4-H have made the annual trek the first full week in May to the Spokane Fairground...
BRIEFS
RODEO A GO AT DAYTON DAYS DAYTON - Dayton Days promoters have found an insurance policy within their financial reach, so plans are moving forward to hold the Memorial Day weekend event with rodeo and parade, Columbia County Fair manager Shane Laib...
DEATH NOTICE
Eugene Morrow "Red" Mohney L ong-time Waitsburg resident, Eugene Mor row " Red" Mohney died at Booker Rest Home in Dayton on May 11. Funeral services were held May 16th at Waitsburg Presbyterian Church with Herring Groseclose Funeral Home caring for...
POLICE NOTES
Waitsburg/Walla Walla & Dayton, Columbia County 5-10 DUI. Possible DUI reported at store Main in Dayton . Fraud. Telephone scam reported in Dayton. Animal Sick/Injured. Report of a deer hung up in fence on Highway 12, Dayton. Animal Stray. Two cows...
Wine & Country Living
Today, I received word about a food contest I'd entered and won. This was a bet I took from a friend who said I was too good to send a recipe into Tony Tantillo, Safeway Stores fresh produce representative. The truth is I am neither too smart nor...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
From the pages of The Times Ten Years Ago May 24, 2001 After a blustery Saturday, those in attendance enjoyed horse racing at its finest at the 88th running of the Days of Real Sport. The handle was off by about $7,000 compared to 2000. A captivating...
BRIEFS
FROMAGERIE PLANT SALE DAYTON - Nourish Gardens presents "Spring 2011 Heirloom & Heritage Plant Sale, Friday and Saturday, May 20-21, noon - 5 p.m., and Fri-Sat, May 27-28, noon - 5 p.m. Sale will feature tomatoes, peppers, melons, squash, cucumbers a...
Payne & Phillips Win PEO
DAYTON - Why were Dayton High School seniors Molly Payne and Davy Phillips selected as the 2011 recipients of the Philanthropic Education Association's Citizenship Award? Kris Takamura, president of...
Parade Day Schedule Sat., May 21
Cowboy Breakfast 7 - 9:30 a.m. Town Hall. Parade lineup/setup 7 - 10 a.m. North end Main Street. Parade 10 - 10:30 a.m. Main Street Wait's Market 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Preston Park Rezonators Blue Grass 11 - 11:30 am Preston Park Troublemakers Blue Grass...
Born Runners?
DAYTON - I let Trent Hafen catch his breath after he ran the 800 meters during the season's last Middle School track meet Thursday in Dayton. He pretty much blew everybody out of the field. But...
The Show Goes On!
Commercial Club President Robbie Johnson grew up in a tiny western Washington town called Rosburg, about 20 miles north of the Astoria, Oregon. Drawing from a far-flung population of about 2,500, Rosburg had only one grocery store/gas station not...
Waitsburg Parade Day Saturday
WAITSBURG - Proudly bearing the Stars & Stripes behind the Veterans' Color Guard this coming Saturday morning, 12-year-old Emily Adams will do more than spearhead Waitsburg's annual parade. She will...
Council Mulls Corps’ Coppei Flood Project
WAITSBURG - The way Stanley Heller describes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' proposed new flood control project for Coppei Creek certainly sounds enticing: protection against a 100-year flood, a possible reduction in home owner's insurance rates...
Burn it or save the bones?
WAITSBURG - City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe has the approvals in place and now it's up to the City Council to decide at their regular monthly meeting Wednesday night whether to allow Fire District No. 2...
