Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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What's better than working hard amongst friends to improve outdoor access for the public? Getting to enjoy the Blue Mountains themselves. We live beside the most incredible natural area that welcomes us, via trails, to precious restorative beauty. But those trails need attention and sweat. Not blood or tears, but some good healthy sweating. Last week I had the privilege of working beside some of the hardworking members of the Blues Crew, a team of volunteers established by the Blue Mountain...
This year's annual community event and fundraiser for support of community youth activities and organizations by the local Kiwanis Club of Dayton was a great success. This is the 33rd year for this annual fundraiser that was started by local Kiwanis Club members in 1986 including Kim Lyonnais and Dwight Robanske. Many sponsors, including local businesses and other organizations, contributed cash and prizes for the event. (See thank you ad) This event would not be possible without the additional...
Friends and supporters of Waitsburg and Dayton area nonprofit organizations now have a new way to donate to their favorite causes. Walla Walla's Blue Mountain Community Foundation is introducing their first Giving Catalog. This online fundraising portal provides donors with an easy-to-navigate online site, and will be open from December 1-31. Visit this crowdraising platform at www.bluemountainfoundation.org/giving/giving-catalog and make a gift to the nonprofit of your choice through the...
DAYTON-"The importance of historic preservation cannot be overstated," said Marcene Hendrickson when she spoke at the Dayton Chamber Awards Banquet, on Nov. 7. "It is not just about a way to save old stuff," she said. "It is a way to recycle sound building material, preserve the town's character and its neighborhood and provide a link between our past, and present, for future generations, as well as to promote tourism." Hendrickson painted a sad picture of Dayton in the early 1980s. She said...
WAITSBURG-Waitsburg Elementary has a lot to be proud of, from the great teachers surrounding our kids to the wonderful programs it offers, including the Cardinal's Nest. The after school program, which has been shaped over the last 15 years, provides students a safe place to unwind after the school day while they wait for their parents. Kathy Carpenter, the current Cardinal's Nest Coordinator, recognized the need for an after school program in 2003. The school received a 5-year grant through...
WALLA WALLA-The Waitsburg Times staff is reflecting on the passing of Walla Walla resident Mark Anderson this past week. He had just celebrated his 65th birthday and was a visitor to the Art X Agent gallery opening for Juventino Aranda and Rachel Smith in Waitsburg on November 3. The founder of the renowned Walla Walla Foundry, his work there brought many notable artists to the region, for the combination of the cutting-edge technology on offer, as well as for the amazing work done by the...
WAITSBURG: Successful 4-H projects take a lot of dedication and hard work. Whether it's helping your goats kid alongside your parents in the dead of winter for a goat project, or spending time meticulously cleaning shotguns after trap shooting practice, 4-H projects don't just stop after the county fair. Waitsburg 4-H members brought home some well-deserved awards and recognitions this last Sunday, at the Walla Walla County 4-H Achievement Night. Record keeping is something that I struggle with...
DAYTON—City of Dayton Mayor Zac Weatherford presented the 2020 Preliminary Budget at last week’s city council meeting. The proposed budget for 2020 is $7,058,033 million, which is .3 percent less than the 2019 proposed budget. He said the budget for 2020 includes a 1% increase in the regular property tax levy, in the amount of $4,201.21. Chris Mills, the County Assessor will be at the next city council meeting on Nov. 20, to address questions about the proposed one percent tax increase. A fin...
WAITSBURG-Paul and Karen Gregutt bought their Waitsburg home in 2005. Busy with professions in Seattle, Paul is a noted wine writer and music afficionado, and Karen is a filmmaker, they had been searching for a second home for years. What they wanted was not the typical second home that busy Seattleites end up with, Karen said she wanted to live in a place with authenticity, "I didn't want to drive four and a half hours to live in Issaquah." Their search on the west side of the state turned...
DAYTON-Founder and master distiller Rusty Figgins has announced the release of a new apple brandy at XO Alambic, named Cameo-de-Vie. The distillery, located at the Blue Mountain Station in Dayton, will offer tastings this Friday and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Cameo-de-Vie is a bit of a play on words. Made mostly from the Cameo apple, a Washington-original apple variety, Cameo-de-Vie is an eau-de-vie de pomme, or apple brandy, if you will. Comprised also of Braeburn and cider apples, with a...
DAYTON-The Dayton Chamber's Community Choice Award for 2019 Citizen of the Year was presented to Liz Carson, for the decades she has spent researching and documenting Columbia County history. Ginny Butler presented the award to Carson at last week's Chamber Awards Banquet saying, "I'm really excited to be able to give this award to this person, who has dedicated decades of her life to researching and documenting Columbia County History." Butler said Carson's research spans over a one hundred...
WAITSBURG—Pam Chapman narrowly defeated incumbent Randy Hinchliffe for the Waitsburg School Director position #5. Chapman received 51.91% of the vote total, while Hinchliffe drew 46.81%; there were three write-in votes. Chapman stated, “I was completely surprised and very pleased to hear I received majority support for the position on the school board. And I would like to thank the Waitsburg Community for that support . I am ready to help in any manner necessary to continue maintaining a successful school district, with our unified team of tea...
DAYTON—Zac Weatherford will serve a four-year term as Dayton’s mayor beginning on January 1, 2020, according to unofficial results from last week’s general election. Weatherford received 66.49% of the vote with 490 votes cast to Delphine Bailey’s 179 votes, and write-in candidate Cindy John’s 68 votes. Dain Nysoe had a solid lead over Cara James for Dayton City Council Position # 4 with 60.67% of the vote, but Position #6 is too close to call, according to staff in the county auditor’s...
WALLA WALLA-The Blue Mountain Regional Trails Plan has garnered the 2019 Smart Communities, Smart Partnership award from Washington State Governor Jay Inslee. Over thirty stakeholders were on hand to celebrate at the Walla Walla County fairgrounds Pavilion. Roughly ninety people crowded the Pavilion to hear Commerce Director Dr. Lisa Brown, and Dave Andersen, Managing Director for the Commerce Growth Management Services Unit, talk about the significance of the award and recognize all the...
DAYTON-Dayton resident Carol Anderson was also a county extension agent, in the Dayton Office. Anderson said she wasn't the only female county agent, here. Rosealee Boyd, and Faye Rainwater served before she did and Cathy Lyman, served after she did. There were other women who served as county home extension agents, for shorter periods of time, she said. "They were generally fairly young women, out of college. A couple of them were married and their husbands had jobs that coordinated down...
Walla Walla—Columbia County Fire district #2 held a meeting of the commissioners on Wednesday, November 5th at the Fire Hall in Waitsburg. Commissioners in attendance were Deb Fulton, Jake Long, Bruce Abbey, Jim Hickman, and Randy Farley. Acting Fire Chief Colton Mohney, Clerk Anne Higgins, volunteer firefighter Matt Spring, Columbia County dispatcher Ashley Spring and incoming commissioner Randy Charles were also in attendance. Amidst the regular business for the District, Waitsburg resident R...
PULLMAN—Written to spark interest in and celebrate the Northwest’s literary heritage, a new essay collection, Salmon Eaters to Sagebrushers: Washington’s Lost Literary Legacy, has just been published by Washington State University (WSU) Press. Author Peter Donahue hopes readers will share his delight in discovering these early novels, memoirs, and poems about the Northwest. Based on his popular, long-running Retrospective Review column in the Washington State Historical Society journal Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, Donah...
DAYTON-The Friends of the Dayton Memorial Library (FOL) is pleased to announce the purchase of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) which is now installed at the library. The purchase was funded in part by a donation received by the FOL from the Broughton Land Company, along with proceeds from recent FOL book sales. The AED unit is installed in the Delany room to ensure availability to all building users, even when the library is closed. The library AED is the latest unit to be placed withi...
EARTH-Now that we're in the thick of November, we are confronted by the turning of the wheel. Daylight savings time has knocked us back an hour. The golden summer days, and the crisp fall air is just about to give way the all-out cold of winter. Before the holiday season takes hold, gardeners have a few days to put their gardens to bed and prepare for next year. Saying goodbye to this year's garden makes space for dreaming of the future. Next spring, I'm looking forward to doubling the garden's...
Waitsburg photographer Bill Rodgers captures a secret gulch....
WAITSBURG—Help your friends and neighbors celebrate the holiday season this year by getting in on a fun new tradition proposed by the Waitsburg Resource Center. For the first twelve days of December place one of the items listed on page seven into a sturdy box or reusable bag. Make it easy on yourself by picking up extras of these typical groceries when you shop, so that you can easily make your “12 Days Box” complete. Once your box is complete, drop it off at the Resource Center at the Preston street entrance of Waitsburg’s Banner Bank, o...
DAYTON-On Monday, Columbia County Commissioners Mike Talbott, Ryan Rundell and Chuck Amerein had the opportunity to visit with Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, topics under discussion included the Southern border wall, healthy forests, breeching dams, and other topics of interest. McMorris Rodgers said during the first two years of the Trump Administration, $5.6 billion was appropriated and signed into law for construction of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. "So that is now unde...
preliminary 2019 Election Results* City of Dayton Mayor Zac Weatherford................................................490 Delphine Bailey.................................................179 Write in...............................................................68 City of Dayton Council Member #4 Dain Nysoe........................................................415 Cara James.........................................................256 Write in...............................................................13 City of Dayton Council Member #6...
Town Hall got spooky Tuesday night, at the Which Witch Dinner and Hat Competition. Witches from all around came for the fun... and some warlocks, too! The dinner, hosted by the Waitsburg Commercial Club, featured local pop-up boutique Country Chic, and Tupperware by Deb Callahan. A beef bourguignon dinner was rounded out by fresh apple pies, games, and live music by Kavin Kuykendall. Kelly Aaron Trop won the Creative Hat Award....
