Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG-A whopping 85 kids participated in last week's Mega Sports Camp Vacation Bible School at the Waitsburg Christian Church. During the five-day event, children learned Bible stories while learning about different sports. More than 30 volunteers from the Waitsburg Christian Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Waitsburg Resource Center, The Bicycle Barn, the Christian Motorcyclist Association, and many others from five different communities, helped make the program a success, according to...
Harvest is swinging into gear in the Touchet Valley and with it comes The Times' annual Harvest Edition. We hope you enjoy this special issue with the Harvest Special section beginning on Page 13....
DAYTON-When Levi Sowerby was given the news that he wouldn't walk again he got to work exploring alternative methods of healing, and within one year of receiving that diagnosis, it no longer applied. In 2005, 17-year-old high school gymnast Sowerby was representing the state of Texas at the National High School Gymnastics Invitational in Orlando, Fla., when things went awry for him. Sowerby was warming up for floor competition with a double back flip when he felt something in his spine slip....
DAYTON—Dayton Schools Superintendent Doug Johnson announced the resignations of Elementary School Principal Denise Smith and Librarian Valerie Kerr at the July 17 school board meeting. Smith was chosen from a field of three finalists as elementary school principal in August of 2017. Johnson said Smith has accepted an assistant principal position at an elementary school in Issaquah and said Smith began looking for other employment this spring, for both professional and personal reasons. Due to budget constraints, the District is not planning t...
Dayton Senior Center 403 E. Patit St. 12 p.m. Thurs., July 30 Spaghetti Mixed Veggie/salad Garlic Bread Fruit Jello Milk Tues., Aug. 1 Grilled Ham Steak Mac n’ Cheese Baby Carrots/Salad Wheat Bread Tropical Fruit/Milk Thurs., Aug. 6 Chicken Strips Dipping Sauce Potato Wedges Caesar Salad Gelatin Salad Milk Waitsburg Tues., July 30 Salisbury Steak Mashed Potatoes Vegetable Bread Cookies/Milk...
Dayton High School's Class of 1969 gathered over the weekend of July 19-20 for its 50th reunion. Of 59 surviving classmates, 40 attended festivities at Dayton's Touchet Valley Golf Course and the annual Alumni Parade. Since the parade occurred on the day of Apollo 11's historic landing on the moon 50 years ago, it was decided to make that the theme for the float and the weekend. A rocket adorned the float as did banners proclaiming the class as "one giant leap for Mankind."...
All ballot testing, processing, tabulation, and canvassing meetings take place at the Elections Center, 310 W. Poplar St., Walla Walla. Accessible voting is also available at this location. Ballots started mailing on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (Military & Overseas ballots were mailed on Friday, June 21, 2019). Observers are welcome during ballot testing, preparation, processing, tabulation, and Canvassing Board meetings. A minimum of one person from each political party is requested to observe all processes. The ExpressVote (a disability access...
DAYTON—Sixty local children will have the opportunity to appear on the Liberty Theater stage in a Missoula Children’s Theater (MCT) production of “Pinocchio” in early August. Pre-registration will take place during box office hours, from 2-5 p.m. on Tues., July 30 and Fri., Aug. 2 for children entering grades one through six. Auditions for parts will take place on the first day of camp which is Mon., Aug. 5 at 9 a.m. The week of rehearsals will culminate with two public performances, on Fri., A...
MAIN STREET SALON DAYTON Private room with restroom available for rent Salon station for rent Call Christine 509-382-2060 Part-time position in Waitsburg, 2.5 hours per week at $14.00/ hr. Shift is 10am - 12:30 pm on Tuesday›s. Coordinate the Senior Round Table/ Meals on Wheels program. For more information, please call Jane at 509-527-3775 at the Walla Walla Senior Center. CITY OF DAYTON Director of Planning and Community Development The City of Dayton is looking for a Director of Planning and Community Development to join the City of D...
DAYTON—Terry and Jan Nealey will host a farewell ice cream social on Aug. 1 for YoungLife Area Director Marne Henderson, who is making the move to Olympia where she has accepted a staff position with Greater Olympia YoungLife. Henderson worked alongside Jan and Terry Nealey and others, when they started YoungLife in Dayton in 1999 and has remained active in the organization ever since. In 2018, Henderson took a leap of faith and retired from teaching after spending 15 years as a Waitsburg elementary and middle school teacher to become a Y...
The Q Wood-Fired Grill catered a successful and well-attended Outstanding in the Field dinner at Montiellet Fromagerie outside Dayton last Saturday....
WALLA WALLA Valley—The Walla Walla Valley has been nominated in USA Today’s 2019 Best Readers’ Choice travel awards. Their panel selected the Walla Walla Valley as a contender for the Best Wine Region. The valley is described as follows: “Italian immigrants began growing wine grapes in Washington’s Walla Walla Valley in the 1850s. Today, this region features more than 100 wineries producing a range of varietals, most popularly Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Franc and Malbec. T...
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...
Views from the event....
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...
Views from behind the scenes....
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...
Local farm dogs say "hello"...
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...
