Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Area residents in Waitsburg Dayton and surrounding areas have been receiving phone calls claiming to be from Social Security for the last couple of weeks. Calls are from an automated system stating that “your social security card has been suspended, due to suspicious activity.” Columbia County Emergency Management gives the following advice: “Please do not respond to these phone calls. If you speak with someone do not give out any personal information, this is what they really want. Tell them...
All board members present: Ross Hamann, Christy House, Lisa Morrow, Jason Kaehler, Randy Hinchliffe Waitsburg Superintendent Mark Pickel took the Oath of Office. Secondary Principal Report (Mark Pickel for Stephanie Wooderchak) Stephanie Hinchliffe, Deanna Coulston, Pam Beasley, Heather Ball and Roseann Groom traveled to a Six Traits + 1 Writing workshop on June 17-18. Stephanie Wooderchak, Groom, Ball, Gabe Kiefel, Kolby Starring, Matt Elder and Tabitha Jordan attended a Teaching for Excellence workshop on July 8-11. Staff thanked the board...
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This 4th of July a familiar face showed up at the Patriot's Parade in Waitsburg. Jonne Antilla from Götene, Sweden has been visiting eastern Washington almost every year since his first visit in 2007. His journey started in 1986 as an agriculture student in Sweden when he was given a brochure of various farming, forestry and ranching techniques. "There was a picture of a wheat field and I noticed right away this is not Sweden. There was a giant hill with combines coming towards you. The header...
COLUMBIA COUNTY-Have you ever wondered how annual wheat yields are calculated? Local data-gatherer Joe Huether wasn't sure before, but he is now a part of the process, which he says he has found to be fascinating. This spring, Huether responded to an ad and was hired as a field enumerator to gather data for the National Association of State Departments of Agricultural (NASDA), which works to achieve sound policy between state departments of agriculture, the federal government and stakeholders....
DAYTON-John Laib is a third-generation Columbia County farmer. He and his wife Carolyn farm the 2,500 original acres on his grandfather, Albert Laib's, home place, and they lease and farm an additional 2,500 acres, growing mainly dry land wheat and alfalfa. They also raise cattle. Laib said the challenges facing farmers today are many, but the biggest frustration for him is that the state legislature is setting policies without understanding how rural communities in eastern Washington live. "It'...
Grains were among the first foods that humankind learned to preserve by drying. Flour, made from wheat, comes in many forms and plays an integral role in baked goods, as a thickener in stews and sauces, and as a base for breaded coatings on meat or vegetables, or in noodles. Washington is the third largest wheat producing state in the nation with more than 2.3 million acres in production. The bulk of the state's grain, approximately 85-90%, is exported. Shipped out of the Pacific Northwest...
1. Awned winter club wheat such as Pritchett (released by K. Campbell). Awned refers to the protrusions projecting from the wheat head. Wheat is either awn-less or awned. 2. Immature spring barley plant 3. 2-row spring malting barley 4. Tame, cultivated white oats and not wild oat. 5. Canola 6. Dry seed peas 7. Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans. Find them in the chickpea crunch and Hearty Hummus. They’re yummy, local and naturally gluten free...
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An example of a flat house storage unit at Northwest Grain Growers in Prescott. The interior of the flat house showing the first pile of soft white wheat accumulating in the back. The grain is unloaded into an under ground pit where the leg, a belt with continuous flat sided buckets brings the grain up to the roof level. An auger then brings the grain the length of the roof to openings where it is released to specific piles. Buckets of pooled samples from each farmer's grain collected from this...
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Columbia-Walla Walla Fire No. 2 volunteer retirees were honored by their peers at a fire station barbeque on Sun., July 15. Retiring volunteers received plaques thanking them for their years of service, with former Assistant Fire Chief Neil Henze also receiving a mounted fire axe....
DAYTON— At last week’s Dayton City Council meeting Christine Broughton was selected by the council to fill the remainder of Zac Weatherford’s city council term, which was created when he became Dayton’s Interim Mayor. The council interviewed Broughton and two other applicants, Cara James and Charity Herren. Mayor Weatherford thanked James and Herren for their interest in serving on the city council and encouraged them to apply for the seat recently held by Kathy Berg. Berg has submitted her resignation from the council effective June 30. Art...
COLUMBIA COUNTY—A grant of $637,000 will take the Touchet Valley Trail, to be developed between Dayton and Waitsburg, from the planning to engineering stages. The grant, awarded by the Washington Department of Transportation’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program will be used for environment analysis, surveying and engineering design to develop the trail and river crossings to 90-percent design completion, according to a Port of Columbia press release. Once constructed, the 9.7-mile “rails with trails” multiuse path will run adjacent to the...
DAYTON-Dayton's annual National Night Out event will take place at the Dayton City Park on Tues., Aug. 6 from 5-8 p.m. Columbia County residents are encouraged to join with thousands of communities nationwide in celebrating an evening of family fun and information during the anti-crime and anti-drug event. The City Park will be filled with events and activities. Banner Bank will provide free hotdogs which will be served with a smile by Dayton Kiwanis and Lion's Club volunteers. Pepsi-Cola...
"I have never seen the wildflowers as profuse as they are in The Blues right now. The color is mind boggling, and the carpets of wildflowers is in places vast. This scene is on Skyline Drive on the west side of 'The Milkshakes' on the way to Table Rock on July 11, 2019," wrote Waitsburg photographer Bill Rodgers. Have a shot you'd like to share with our readers? Send it to dena@waitsburgtimes.com....
Holly (left) doesn't qualify as a farm dog, but yours might! The Times is planning an extra-special Harvest Issue, to come out on July 25, and we need your help. We would love to show off our local canine farm hands, but we need you! If you have (or know of) a farm dog, snap a high resolution photo and send it to dena@waitsburgtimes.com along with the following info: name owner's name age breed dog's favorite job or activity...
Alcoholics Anonymous - Dayton: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7 p.m., Dayton First Congregational Church-UCC dining room, 214 S. 3rd St. Alcoholics Anonymous – Waitsburg: Saturday, Monday and Friday, 9 p.m., Presbyterian Church basement, 504 Main St. American Legion Post #35: First Monday, 6 p.m., Waitsburg Town Hall, 121 Main Street. American Legion Post #42: Second and fourth Wednesdays, 7 p.m., American Legion Building, 211 E. Clay St., Dayton. Bingo: Every Friday, doors open at 4 p.m. Bingo at 6 p.m. Dayton Eagles, 222 E. Main Blue Mountain H...
WAITSBURG—The Waitsburg Christian Church will host a Mega Sports Camp Vacation Bible School on July 22-26 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. VBS Registration forms are available for download at www.christianchurch.com and should be brought to the first day of VBS. Children will be collecting food and resources for the Waitsburg Resource Center. If attendees beat last year’s collection of 489 pounds, they will duct tape Pastor Matt to the wall! Volunteers are needed and welcome. Contact Andraya at (509) 540-4205 for more information. Bicycle Rodeo The eve...
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MAIN STREET SALON DAYTON Private room with restroom available for rent Salon station for rent Call Christine 509-382-2060 CITY OF DAYTON PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT The City of Dayton is looking for a new crew member to join our Public Works Maintenance Department. This is an entry level position; however, a State of Washington Water Pollution Control Plant Operator 1 is desirable. The ideal candidate will have a strong desire to learn and be trained in the operating and maintenance of the City’s public works infrastructure, including, but not limi...
Note from the editor: This article was reprinted with permission from the Blue Mountain Heritage Society Summer 2019 newsletter. The Times thought our readership would find it both as enjoyable and informative, as we did. From the BMHS newsletter editor: The Blue Mountain Heritage Society focuses on preserving the history of southeastern Washington. As we record information about the area’s past, references to people and places are common. In fact, the names of the places quite often mirror the names of the people. In this newsletter, we o...
DAYTON-"It's really amazing how much has been done with just volunteers. We have a really committed group of people working together to preserve our local history," said Blue Mountain Heritage Society (BMHS) President Paula Moiso. Since the BMHS was officially formed in 2004, the all-volunteer group has been hard at work educating the public about the rich and diverse history and resources of southeastern Washington through three heritage museums including the Palus Museum, the Smith Hollow...
Submitted by Booker Rest Home Activities Coordinator Jessica Reger A wet and wild time was had by all at Booker Rest Home in Dayton on Friday July 12. Booker kicked off their 2nd Annual Summer Fun Day, and fun was had by all! The day started with some resident/staff team relay races; bed pan races, a wheelchair agility race, and a PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) race. Not only were these relays a lot of fun, but some of them like the PPE relay and the agility relay actually applied useful...
By the time most of us become adults, we have stopped making mud pies in the back yard. But for potter Kassie Smith of Moscow, Ida., the activities of childhood have morphed into the artisanship of adulthood. "I get to play in the dirt every day, and it's awesome," the artist says. Smith, who holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Idaho, juggles a number of pursuits in her career as an artist: she is a ceramics technician and instructor at Washington State University. When she's not...
