Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
