Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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In a Dec. 22 story about the WP football team's awards banquet, we misidentifi ed the hometown of player Greg Stearns who won the Coaches' Award. He lives in Waitsburg....
A sincere thank you to all who helped to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary by attending the reception following the Cantata and by cards and letters with welcome messages and newspaper clippings. Your thoughtfulness is appreciated. Good thing about our years together is that we have spent 48 of them right here in Waitsburg. We were adoptees and you have always made us feel welcome. Anita and Tom Baker...
To the Editor: Concerned Citizens: $20 license fees, $18 Garbage fees, and .02 percent sales tax. I would like to think that I do not have to tell the city council, Mayor and administrator the fi- nancial problems we have in this world. The Waitsburg city residents are struggling to live in the middle of four surrounding counties and cities that have unemployment at 13.5 percent. We got a surprise on our utility bills this month for garbage pickup-we now have to pay a fuel surcharge. This charge will be a forever thing if garbage companies...
DAYTON -- Imagine the concrete staircase in a bigcity office building. Now picture walking up one flight to a landing and another flight to the second floor in full bunker gear - 75 pounds of boots, pants, a coat, a helmet and an air tank. Repeat this 69 times, seeing the red hand railing, red utility lines and a black sign with white letters showing the floor number. At least three times, your ears will pop from going from sea level to 788 feet. Occasionally, you might run into other firefighte...
You could call it a dilemma, perhaps a challenge or maybe it's nothing more than a transition. It all depends on your perspective. For the last few years, some of Waitsburg's clubs and organizations have seen in a reduction in ranks and/or participation among their members and volunteers, many of whom are getting on in age. As a result of that, and as a result of developments outside the community, the future of some of their hallmark events is in question and we feel it's important to share news of this trend to inspire new and younger people...
In Judith Henderson's Wine and Country Living column Dec. 15, the author misused a word. The story was meant to read Abott's "infallible plate."...
I always get a feeling of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies Smiling At Me" when I see the beautiful Blue Mountains, spotting them as I drive back and forth to Walla Walla. This feeling is felt many times by many people over the years. Many people tell me so. The poet Joaquin Miller, operating the Mossman Express between Walla Walla and Lewiston in 1861, was so impressed with their evanescing hues that he declared 'The Blue Mountains are the most beautiful in the world.' But one must look at them every day to really see them. Undoubtedly, an...
On behalf of the Waitsburg Historical Society board, I would like to thank all those who have helped us to restore, maintain and operate the Bruce Memorial Museum. This is a great source of pride for all of Waitsburg and we all have a stake in its preservation. We will again need volunteers to help conduct tours next year. Volunteers work in pairs, on Friday and Saturday afternoons. You meet nice people from out of the area and learn the nature of their interest in the museum, which helps us to...
We've been meaning to write about this sore subject for some time. Waitsburg resident Clyde Burdine finally inspired us to take it on when he stopped the Times publisher on his way back from a jog up Whoop Em Hollow Road. Burdine, who drives up and down Mill Race several times a day, pointed to the carcasses of several hogs dumped next to the culvert that runs under the road near the intersection with Whoop Em Up Hollow. He suggested we draw attention to something he says is becoming someone's "bad habit." Burdine took the first step by...
On Dec. 2, Charlie Button, the CEO of Dayton General Hospital, gave this testimony in Olympia regarding House Bill 2130 that would change Medicaid reimbursement for all critical access hospitals and reduce Dayton's hospital budget by $404,000. No decision has yet been made by the legislature. On behalf of the Board of Commissioners of Dayton General Hospital and the residents of Dayton and Waitsburg, Washington, I urge you defeat House Bill 2130. Our state benefits from the strong network of rural and urban hospitals working together to ensure...
A Gift For Future Nurses A s we've all finished unwrapping our sweaters, scooters and snowboards after the recent holidays, another kind of gift must be noted. The Baker Family, Anita and Tom, give $500 to $800 to nursing students at Walla Walla Community College. This is one of the best gifts because an education and a career never gets replaced by a newer model or goes out of style. At last month's PEO Career Tea at Waitsburg High School, Anita Baker pitched this scholarship to the students...
After dispelling alarmist notions foretelling the end of the world in 2012 last week, we'd like to take the opportunity this week to look at what will happen next year or what we would like to happen. Some of the items that follow are predictions based on announcements made in 2011, while others are more in the realm of our wishful thinking. Overall, we feel 2012 will be a good year for the Touchet Valley. We expect Waitsburg and Dayton to get even more attention as travel destinations, hopefully sustaining the existing and new downtown...
To the Editor, The Walla Walla Port Commissioners acted wisely to eliminate Director Jim Kuntz's $25,000 deferred compensation package. In my opinion, the additional compensation beyond his base salary was both deceptive and excessive. Clearly, the total compensation of $159,726 he received last year was inappropriate and unjustifiable, in light of allegations of his unprofessional behavior in the workplace and his inability for years to bring jobs to the valley. The fact that Mr. Kuntz is still employed at the port in any capacity is the...
Nostrant Gets New Liver S EATTLE -- When Dennis Nostrant received an urgent call on his dedicated "transplant" cell phone at 2 a.m. on Dec. 4, he learned he had six hours to make it from his home in Thronton, south of Spokane, to the University Medical Center in Seattle. He had reason to be somewhat skeptical. Three times over the previous months he had received similar calls from his medical coordinator at the center calling him in to be ready for a liver transplant only to be told that, for...
The hills around Waitsburg were socked in Monday. Fog as thick as split pea soup obscured everything but a dozen feet in front. It was a reminder that it's sometimes hard to know or see what lies ahead. According to some students of history and prophets of doom, that's the way it will be for the global community in 2012. We're not talking about the normal ups and downs of the international economy or oil prices or food prices or regional conflicts. We're talking about the end of the world as we know it. It's supposed to happen about a year from...
To the Editor, I have been privileged to attend several adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Among them have been the version performed on Broadway starring Hal Linden and Roddy McDowell, the Houston Texas Alley Theatre comic adaptation and the Raleigh North Carolina's Theatre In The Park production starring Ira David Wood III. I would stack our own Touchet Valley Arts Council Productions' adaptation up against any of those, Chapman and Ferrians could take the show on the road. The Liberty Theater experience started with the...
Elvira Laidlaw, co-author of Wait's Mill, told about the early 1900s worship at the new Little Brown Church on the corner of Main and Fifth streets (the First Presbyterian Church). This church was built in 1887. Before that time (1869), the citizens of Waitsburg celebrated at the new school house on Academy Street for Christmas. Her very first remembrance was of the Christmas exercise. She remembered dimly "the first Christmas tree and the decorations - the filling of bags of popcorn and nuts. There were recitations and dialogues by the...
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...
