Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Lions Are Always There WAITSBURG - When anyone in the community needs a new pair of glasses, funding for after-school programs or new lights for athletic fields in Waitsburg, the Lions Club is always there to help. "Our community would be lacking very dramatically if it hadn't been for the (Lions Club's) fundraising efforts," said Bret Moser, the club's president. The club, chartered in Waitsburg in 1964, now has 80 members and about 25 to 30 members who attend the club's bi-monthly meetings,...
It's 2015. Waitsburg is a thriving town with every store front filled with merchandise, customers and activity. Visitors come from all over to experience a one-of-a-kind Main Street. During the day, families wander up and down the sidewalks, patronize the hardware and grocery store, browse at the retail stores and linger at the coffee shop or the diner or the Mexican restaurant. At night, they move their feast from one downtown restaurant to another, one bar to the next, while all together supporting several dozen jobs and helping to pay for...
To the Editor: As a member of the group of Waitsburg residents who take advantage of the delivery of drugs to the Waitsburg Clinic, I want to thank the Waitsburg business owners and individuals who have given so generously to see this service continued. For some in the community this is truly a medical necessity for their health care. For others it is a way to maintain their independence and see a savings in time and money as well. So a thank you to: Hubbard Law, the Whoop Em Hollow Café, The Times and Markeeta Little Wolf. I want to also to...
Man's Best Friend T he winter sun had already gone down on the western horizon, but it was still quite light in the hills east of Waitsburg when Dizzy and I went for our run late one afternoon last week. Several times a week, we pick a different country road to jog. We like Bolles Road. Whoop Em Hollow Road is a favorite. We've been up Lower Hogeye and down Whiskey Creek. This time, we chose Smith Hollow, following Eighth Street out of town past the cemetery under the eye of Butter Cup and up...
TACOMA - At Saturday's state championship game, the Cardinals' home crowd didn't have a live mascot like Blitz, the big bird of the Seahawks, or the Mariners' Moose, to fire up the crowd. They didn't need one. They had the lovely WP cheerleaders and they had Melissa Harting, whose one-of-a-kind voice has been booming from the sidelines of ball fields for years now. We want to salute Harting and the hundreds of other dedicated hometown fans for coming out to support the boys of fall on the other...
Dear Editor, With the recent elections finished, and after reading a few articles posted in local papers about the hospital board's race and the desire from some to see change in the hospital district, I felt compelled to write a letter in support of the hospital, and the positive changes that I have witnessed over the last several years. I have worked at the hospital over the last 15 years, currently as an employee (for the last year and half) but prior as a consultant for 13 years. I have seen many changes, many of which have transpired over...
About Needs & Good Deeds WAITSBURG - - A Waitsburg resident who prefers to remain anonymous told the Times that she takes full advantage of the prescription drugs drop-off program co-sponsored by Elk Drug, Columbia County Health Systems and the City of Waitsburg. In her late seventies and describing herself as "lowincome," she has limited mobility and even more limited resources to pay for gas to go to Dayton, so she benefits from being able to swing by the Waitsburg Clinic to pick up...
When the Cardinals gathered near the uprights for their post-game huddle at Edgar Brown stadium Saturday night, the coaches were as ecstatic as the players and fans after their resounding victory over arch rival Colfax. "It's no longer a dream," assistant coach Troy Larsen told them. "Go ahead and pinch yourself." Larsen's excitement was an invitation to everyone to revel in a new reality: the Cardinals are going to the Tacoma Dome to play in the state Superbowl of their high school sport, known as the Gridiron Classic. Never in the modern...
To the Editor, I want to express my thanks and gratitude to all the voters of Columbia County and Waitsburg who came out and voted during this past election. Thank you so much to all who wrote letters, made phone calls, and otherwise campaigned for me. You are appreciated far more than words can express! We have our work cut out for us, but we will work as a team and with continued community backing the Hospital District can pull through! Please write letters, send emails and make phone calls now, today, to Governor Gregoire to let her know we...
Center Sees Big Numbers WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Resource Center, which opened in the AmericanWest Bank in December 2010, is being used by our neighbors more than ever. The city's food bank had been run out of the basement of the Presbyterian Church for 25 years until the bank offered up its space. The churches in town formed a board and its new visible spot and word of mouth is bringing more neighbors through the doors, said Bethany Moser, the chairwoman of the board. The Leos Club at...
A s many readers may remember, we were hopeful, but a bit skeptical, about the prospects for this season's Tigers team. After losing veteran head coach Rick Hamilton and seasoned assistant coach Bart Baxter, who guided the first-year team to a magical winning season, we were wondering how WP would top that performance. We weren't sure how the new head coach, Precott High School teacher Mark Grimm, who had general coaching experience but not in soccer, and his assistant Jay Potts would do with the young team. There were some questions about the...
"Nor were the women of less fortitude than their men, while they did remain at home in their cabins, their work was hard; carried great responsibilities and suffered many terrifying moments from the Indians who were all about and delighted in frightening them. Fearful of the natives, Lois Lloyd, during her first year in the valley in 1859, when Albert was away for the day, had taken her baby and a lunch and hidden in the woods until he returned in the evening. It was such women that 'Lyman's History' recorded: Not one of these noble women but m...
D About Needs & Good Deeds AYTON -- When Teeny McMunn's sister decided to take her own life, she let everyone know why. The sister suffered from the onset of Huntington's disease, a chronic hereditary condition that destroys a patient's ability to feel, think and move. Their mother at Booker Rest Home had died from it and the young woman didn't want to suffer from the same degenerative demise or be a burden to her family. So, she wrote everyone a letter and then killed herself with helium. It...
Members of the Waitsburg Christian Church found a small care package at their door step or tied to their door knob Sunday. In a plastic bag was a little bundle of chocolate candy and a 8.5x11 seasonal Thanksgiving greeting. As part of a reminder how blessed we are, the message said this is "a time to give thanks to the Lord above, for friends and family to share our love. May we share these blessings of love with our neighbors too, as our Lord and savior would have us do." Instigator Pam Conover credited the congregation's children and some of...
Kitties Need Loving Homes WAITSBURG - In the Waitsburg Hardware and Mercantile store on Main Street, there's something furry lurking behind the shelves. John and Marilyn Stellwagen have owned and operated Black Dog Rescue out of their store for six years now and there are plenty of animals to be adopted - cats particularly. "This has been a busy year," Marilyn said. This year, the rescue program has facilitated the adoption of about 150 animals, including dogs, cats and ferrets. Typically, the...
This week we mark Veterans Day. We hope everyone in our community will take a moment to recognize, silently or in person, the sacrifices our local servicemen and women have made, and continue to make, on our behalf. In Dayton, the American Legion hosts its annual Veterans Day breakfast 7 - 10 a.m. Friday at the American legion Hall. In Waitsburg, author Karen Fisher-Alaniz will speak at the Veterans Day Assembly at Waitsburg High School at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. Her new book "Breaking The Code," recalls how her father, WHS graduate Murray...
Letters to the editor are a great and valuable expression of difference of opinion and community concerns. When these letters are used as a weapon to destroy a member of the community, they are neither great nor valuable. We are very surprised with the letter written by Mr. Snyder and published on Thursday, the 20th of October, regarding Blaine Bicklehaupt. Since when did freedom of speech give us the right to deviate from facts to vilify our business competitors? This type of animosity can't help the community. We have known Blaine for a few...
By now most of the community is aware of the port director's "unprofessional behavior" in the workplace. That's what it has to be called for the Union- Bulletin to print it. The facts are that the commissioners fired the auditor/treasurer for "performance issues," then turned around and gave the executive director a raise not long after two commissioners and the port director vacationed together in Phoenix at the director's condo. Wouldn't any reasonable person want to know the entire story and what our tax dollars might be paying for behind...
This year, Port Director Jim Kuntz will receive a"happy December"salary check for $25,000, for no justifiable reason. Added to his reported base salary of $134,726, this makes his cash compensation package just under $160,000. My research (calling many port districts and asking for the dollar amount of their director's salary and the actual amount of any "add-on's" like vehicle use) shows Kuntz's total compensation package to be the fourth highest in the state, behind only the port directors of Vancouver, Tacoma and Seattle. Port Director...
