Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Two Waitsburg-area residents have thrown their hat in the ring for the city's library manager's position. The applicants for the job vacated by the resignation of Su Alexander last month are Heather Hay-Baker and Rosie Warehime. The Board of the Weller Public Library is expected to meet later this month to go over the applications and move the hiring process forward. Alexander left the position late last month, citing personal reasons. Hay- Baker, who lives with her family between...
DAYTON - Touchet Valley residents showed up in big numbers for the rare chance to see the circus and get acquainted with some of the world's most exotic animals in Dayton on Thursday. Local promoters said more than 3,000 visitors took in one of two Carson & Barnes circus shows that ran the gamut from spectacular trapeze and trampoline acts to elephant rides and skateboard gymnastics. "Many people after the circus told us that they couldn't believe such a good circus stopped in Dayton," local...
WAITSBURG - Farmers in the Touchet Valley are predicting their harvest this year will be at least a week later than usual with fields in the Prescott and Waitsburg areas ready by the third week of July and in Dayton by early August. "Almost every farmer coming in says they'll be seven to ten days late," said Matt Weber, an agronomist with the McGregor Co.'s Waitsburg branch, which supplies them with farm chemicals. Concerned at first with the possible spread of rust, growers now welcome the somewhat cooler June temperatures that allow the...
Editor's Note: This is the first in an occasional series about Columbia County Health System serving patients in the Dayton and Waitsburg areas. The series will focus on changes and developments since last year's management study and review. D AYTON - More than a year after Columbia County Health System's board of commissioners called in a consultant to help the hospital district with its management issues, the controversy over staffing has largely blown over. In some departments, such as the...
DAYTON - The Dayton City Council Monday moved adopted a six-year transportation plan that includes several infrastructure projects for roadways, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, storm drains and bridges. The transportation plan has 18 different projects that could begin as early as 2012 and last through 2017. Projects range in cost from $170,000 to $1.4 million with a total of more than $8 million over six years. The plan is basically a wish list. It's required by law to be submitted to the Washington Department of Transportation every year and helps...
DAYTON - The Dayton Saturday Market, the new farmer's market group which wanted exclusive use of First Street in Dayton for its stalls on Saturday mornings, has withdrawn its request to the city. Jacci Wooten, volunteer manager of the recently formed group and former manager of the Dayton Farmers' Market, it was better not to pursue the request. "I pulled it from the agenda," Wooten said. She would not elaborate further. Despite the recent split that led to two farmers' markets using the same...
DAYTON - If you noticed how some Touchet Valley store fronts this weekend carried two posters promoting a farmers' market in Dayton, you weren't alone and you weren't seeing double. A town that has struggled to support one farmers' market now has two: the old Dayton Farmers Market and the new Dayton Saturday Market. The good news, thanks to the Dayton City Council, is that you don't have to choose between them as a shopper. You can go to both at the same time and at the same place: downtown...
WALLA WALLA - Washingtonians are preparing for summer fun. Celebrations that involve alcohol sometimes result in drunk drivers on our roads. So, after beach parties, barbeques, or an evening at the bar, don't drive if you have been drinking. If you drive hammered, you will get nailed! Traffic deaths that involve a drunk and/ or drugged driver are highest during the summer months in Washington. From 2005 through 2009, more than 20 percent of all impaired driver-involved traffic deaths occurred during June and July. That is why extra DUI patrols...
DAYTON - One Main Street merchant noted that on Saturday morning, All Wheels looked more like Christmas Kickoff than the hot- tarmac Father's Day weekend car show Daytonites and visitors have come to expect. But even though the number of families coming to the mobility extravaganza was down this year, the number of cars on Main Street was as big as ever and very few participants complained about the weather. They just dressed for it or spent more time inside shopping their hearts out. "I was so...
WAITSBURG - Four flood reduction risk measures on Coppei Creek ranging in cost from $725,000 to about $4 million were up for discussion at a public interest meeting hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Monday night at the fairgrounds. About 10 area residents, including Waitsburg City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe, turned out for the meeting, which was co-hosted by the City Council. The Corps of Engineers is offering to pay 65 percent of the project. That would leave the city on the hook for about two million dollars if the decision is made to...
DAYTON - Columbia County Sheriff 's Deputy Mark Franklin, who is under investigation for allegedly being untruthful in his report about an incident that happened in Waitsburg in February, has resigned. "It's increasingly difficult to work in the atmosphere at the (Sheriff 's) office," Franklin said in an interview with the Times. He insisted he didn't quit because of the investigation, blaming the office's "toxic" work environment instead. His resignation, which occurred last week, delayed...
DAYTON - Walla Walla's Dave Piper visits at least a dozen car shows a year with his 1934 Made-in-America Dodge D-T, but to him one of the best is the closest to home: Dayton's All Wheels. He likes the Father's Day event that will once again shut down Main Street for a sea of chrome this weekend because the community supports it so well and puts on all kinds of activities to go with the show. "You don't feel like you're intruding in the town at all," Piper said. "You feel like you're joining in...
WAITSBURG - Local 4H and FFA groups came to the Fairgrounds this last weekend for the annual Waitsburg Junior Livestock show as they have for more than half a century. Youths as young as six years old were out in force to strut their animals' stuff in the arena for the chance at the Grand Champion title. Blue and red ribbons were awarded in all classes and each division's reserve and grand champions competed for the overall Grand Champion honors that came with tack prizes, gift certificates and...
WAI T SBURG - Jean Bruno Beaufume' s mission is simple: combine the best characteristics of French and British wheat seeds with those of the Pacific Northwest and come up with superior varieties that farmers in this region will buy. The French-born breeder who will take up his new station in Waitsburg in late July said the mission here for the giant French cooperative Group Limagrain is much more challenging than it sounds. But it's a challenge he is looking forward to. "I'm very excited to...
WAITSBURG - The City of Waitsburg will hold a special meeting to hear a presentation from the U.S. Corps Of Engineers about its proposed Coppei Creek Risk Reduction Project that would protect the city against a 100- year flood. The public meeting is scheduled for 5 pm on Monday, June 20, at the Lions Club Building on the Fairgrounds. In other news, the city council at its regular meeting scheduled for Wednesday, June 15, is scheduled to discuss in more depth the proposed new 10-year contract for waste collection with Basin Disposal Inc. of the...
DAYTON - Columbia County Sheriff 's Deputy Mark Franklin, a former candidate for sheriff in the county, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into an incident that occurred in Waitsburg in February while he was off duty. "I'm concerned about the information we've received," said Columbia County Sheriff Walt Hessler, the incumbent sheriff who was re-elected over Franklin last fall and has called in the help of the Asotin County Sheriff's Office to conduct the inves...
Let's talk about Washington state's wine industry and it's playing a significant role in rural economic diversification efforts. I find this to be invaluable information today because we still have people who are misinformed about the value of our regional wineries in providing alternatives to traditional agricultural crop production. The Washington state wine grape growers and producers are governed by a board of directors. The commission provides a marketing platform for the Washington wine industry and raises awareness of its wines so that...
Ten Years Ago June 14, 2001 After 50 years of serving the heating oil, fuel and petroleum product needs of Touchet Valley, the Roy Leid family announced the merging of Leid-Ford Distributing Co. with R.E. Powell Distributing of Grandview. The first Lavender Fair in the Waitsburg valley is this weekend, June 16-17 at The Cottage, 864 Preston Ave. This event has been five years in the making-because the flood of 1996 ran rampant through the area that is now festooned with lavender and killdeer. Twenty-Five Years Ago June 12, 1986 Denise Winnett...
WHS WAITSBURG - It may seem ironic that Waitsburg Valedictorian Austin Beasley chose a quote from a famous high school dropout to inspire his fellow high school graduates. But the saying from Mc- Donalds fast food chain founder Ray Kroc was on message when it comes to being successful in life. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement, Beasley quoted Kroc as saying. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. The Valedictorian's theme was clear. Taking...
WAITSBURG - When it comes to food, the Touchet Valley has its French connections. There's Spring Valley winemaker Serge Laville. There's Waitsburg's Christian Chemin, the chef for Bon Appetit at Whitman College. And there's Pierre Louis Monteillet of the fromagerie near Dayton. Now, get ready for a big new tie to France in the valley's most traditional culinary pursuit: growing wheat. Group Limagrain, the biggest plant breeder and seed company in Europe, has chosen Waitsburg as the site for one...
HUNTSVILLE-Spring has finally arrived and along with it, are gardens that need weeding, flower beds that need mulching, ponds that need cleaning and flowers that need planting. Just off Highway 12 in Huntsville is a gardener's new little helper. No, we're not talking about "Buddy,"the black lab who meets you at the gate. Rather, it's what's behind the gate that makes you want to grab a wagon and stuff it full of all the color spread over half an acre south of the highway. John Palmer of Ace...
