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DAYTON -- The 131st class to graduate from Dayton High School recessed from the gym and into the rest of their lives on Saturday with thousands of dollars in scholarship money in hand and an upbeat Kenny Chesney country song filling the room. Valedictorian Carter Currin said any bad moments in high school were ultimately tiny blips on the radar and many happier moments await the group. "We, the class of 2012, are ready to make that future bright," salutatorian Keisha Phillips said. The future do...
WALLA WALLA - Frank Brown wants to be clear about why he wants to be a Walla Walla County Commissioner - and that's to serve people. "I want to work for the people," he said. Brown, who is 58 and lives on Blue Creek Road, is a 1973 graduate of Walla Walla High School and has lived here most of his life. He did leave the area for college in St. Louis and Seattle to study forensics and engineering, but since 1989 he has lived on his current 20 acres in the Mill Creek area. Brown is the third...
WAITSBURG - After 30 years selling liquor on Main Street in Waitsburg, Bonnie Olson closed the doors of her liquor and spirits store on May 21. Olson had obtained a license from the state before the big transition that allowed her to carry and sell liquor, and but she recently decided that running her own store wasn't a priority. "I just decided I really didn't need to do that," Olson said. Initiative 1183 was passed by voters in the last General Election. The initiative took liquor sales in Washington out of the hands of the Liquor Control...
WAITSBURG - You know it's that time of year again when you hear the continual pop-pop hellip; pop-pop of Harleys in low gear passing through town on their way to the Fairgrounds. Memorial Day weekend. Time for the annual Pig Roast when motorcycle riders (and not just on Harleys) come from far and wide to join in this annual three-day event that began 25 years ago in a Waitsburg backyard. Because it is governed by the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, it is a clean and sober event, one that has long since outgrown the backyard of its original...
Joel Dean Smith loved Waitsburg. It's where he spent many boyhood summers, visiting his grandparents - fishing, hunting, trapping and searching out morel mushrooms. And when he returned stateside from Vietnam in 1970, a double amputee at 22 years old, it was Waitsburg that welcomed him home. It was the local newspaper and the community who followed his progress as he was transferred from a field hospital in Saigon to one in Japan, and eventually to the U.S. For all those reasons, his wife,...
DAYTON - A state inspection of Booker Rest Home this spring turned up plenty of issues and potential problems that must be addressed, but none of them posed actual harm or were "life threatening" to residents. "There are some issues the facility needs to work on, that's quite obvious," said Shirlee Steiner, a regional administrator for Residential Care Services under the state Department of Social and Health Services, the agency that conducted the inspection. The survey of Booker Rest Home took place over a six-day period in mid-April and a...
DAYTON - The director of nursing services for the Columbia County Public Hospital District has resigned following months of controversy over staff management and low morale at Dayton General and the Booker Rest Home. The resignation this weekend of Virginia Romine, whose last day will be June 10, came just days after a meeting of the district's board of directors on Thursday in which former and current medical employees and members of the public pleaded for changes in nursing personnel treatment and management practices. In an interview on...
When longtime Waitsburg resident Bert Aylward and his wife Linda were getting ready for his family reunion at Fort Walla Walla last summer, they rummaged through a trunk full of old photographs. The couple had stored the keepsakes after his parents passed away but had not gone through all the old pictures yet. Every one of the 88 Witt descendants coming from across the country to Walla Walla was supposed to present or recite an item of family history. As Aylward went through the photos, it...
