Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Sept. 17 A male subject was arrested on Powell St. in Waitsburg on a Walla Walla County warrant. Deputies arrested a subject on a warrant and had additional charges on E. Fourth St. in Prescott. Sept. 16 Dispatched advised county units of a single-vehicle, non-injury collision in the 5000 block of Middle Waitsburg Road. Upon investigation the male driver was arrested for DUI. Sept. 15 A caller advised dispatch of a visibly intoxicated male and female arguing outside the Tuxedo Bar and Grill in Prescott. Sheriff’s deputies observed the s...
DAYTON – The Blue Mountain Station will host its third annual Oktoberfest on Sat., Oct. 14 from 11 a.m – 5 p.m. on the station grounds, located at 700 Artisan WAy in Dayton. This year's offerings include some new contests and events. As always, the Dayton Kiwanis will grill up their delicious, locally-sourced bratwurst for just $5. An additional $3 will buy a german potato salad and german cabbage side dish prepared by the BMS Co-op. Another $2 will buy a Warren Orchards apple strudel for desser...
DAYTON – The Dayton Memorial Library will host a Micah and Me Dance party in the Delany Room on Sat. Sept. 23 at 11 a.m. The band is made up of three at-home dads who desire to entertain, educate and empower children from ages 0-7 through the power of music. Over the last several years they have played hundreds of live shows for children across Washington and Oregon. Band members play ukulele, guitar, bass drum and bass guitar while dancing and singing. Each shows runds 45-60 minutes, d...
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WAITSBURG – Walla Walla County Sheriff John Turner provided a quarterly service update to council members at their Aug. 16 council meeting. Statistics for the first six months of the year show 356 calls for service for the first six months of 2017, which is a higher mid-year number than previous years, Turner said. In 2016, total calls for service for the entire year were 532, which was up significantly from 247 in 2015, 352 in 2014, and 502 in 2013. A call for service is any call in to the department and they can run the gamut from welfare c...
WAITSBURG – WHS graduate and Walla Walla attorney, Bertha Clayton, will present one of three free fall "Big Idea" programs at the Walla Walla Public Library. Clayton, who is the State Monitor Advocate for the Washington State Employment Security Department will present, "Ode to the Harvesters: Examining Current Agricultural Labor Issues in Washington State." Clayton is the daughter of Roy and Abelina Poirier and grew up on a small farm on Coppei Creek, outside of Waitsburg. She graduated from W...
WAITSBURG – Renowned “apple detective” David Benscoter will be in Waitsburg on Sept. 30 to visit with locals at a dinner fundraiser and to give a lecture about his lost apple discoveries. Waitsburg Tree Committee and city council member, Kate Hockersmith, read an article about Benscoter, who has discovered several varieties of lost apples, mostly in the Steptoe Butte area, and approached him about visiting Waitsburg. It turns out, Benscoter already had interest in coming to the area and jumped at the opportunity. Hockersmith was pleased to di...
10 WHS graduate, Jared Farley, received a pleasant surprise last week when he learned he had been awarded a $10,000 Milotte Foundation Scholarship. The award is funded by photographers and filmmakers, Alfred and Elma Milotte whose goal is to "perpetuate a passion for the natural wonders of our world." Walt Disney discovered the couple's work and commissioned them to film Seal Island and the Alaskan Eskimo, two films that launched Disney's True Life Adventure and People and Place series. The...
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The weather was warm and skies were blue (rather than filled with smoke) for Dayton's Columbia County Fair & Rodeo last weekend. See more fair photos on the Last Page....
Annual community event takes a step back in time WAITSBURG – On the third Sunday of each September, Waitsburg takes a step back in time to celebrate history with its one-of-a-kind Pioneer Fall Festival. This year's 45th annual celebration, to take place on Sun., Sept. 17, is shaping up nicely. The festival will begin at 11 a.m. with the traditional non-denominational church service held on the Bruce House Museum lawn. Waitsburg Christian Church pastor Matt Wyatt will officiate. Pioneers of t...
DAYTON – More than 50 people showed up Monday evening for a public hearing held by the Columbia County Planning Commission on the final draft of Columbia County Fairgrounds Facilities Improvement Plan. About a dozen people spoke to the commission and the audience, conveying their hopes and concerns about potential improvements to the fairgrounds facility and Touchet Valley Golf Course near Dayton's west end. Many expressed concerns about horse stall rentals becoming too expensive, and t...
Arraignments: --Alonzo Grant Snicer, 44, Dayton. Charged with third degree assault and resisting arrest. Court documents state that deputy Foxe was dispatched for a welfare check on Aug. 9. When he arrived, Snider allegedly prevented Foxe from exiting his vehicle by holding the door closed. When Foxe exited the vehicle he used a tazer on Snider, then hit him. Foxe then went to the ground and a non-striking bullet was fired from his gun. Witness accounts say that Snider pushed Foxe to the ground while kicking and hitting him. Foxe was treated...
Sept. 10 At 1:10 a.m., deputies cited and released a male on Coppei Ave. and Preston Ave. for driving while license suspended....
Dixie farmer Bob Brock garnered some attention when he stationed himself holding a flag, alongside his Patriot Jeep, just outside Dixie on Monday, Sept. 11, in honor of Patriot's Day. Several people posted on Facebook asking who he was and we even received a call at The Times office, inquiring about him. Brock drove his jeep across the country to ride in the Washington D.C. Memorial Day parade earlier this year and has continued to honor veterans at parades and events since. He records many of...
New fall banners grace Waitsburg's Main Street, courtesy of the Waitsburg Historical Society. The banners welcome fall on one side and advertise the annual Pioneer Fall Festival on the other. The Waitsburg Celebration Days committee is planning to purchase winter banners, displaying a cardinal on a snowy branch, as well....
DAYTON – As we head into fall, things are heating up at Dayton's historic Liberty Theater. With a spectacular new musical, film festival, and a visit from a premier musical act, there should be plenty of entertainment to keep everyone happy as the days get shorter and the nights get colder. There is no one else quite like the Doo-Wah Riders; for over 30 years they have been riding their own patch of the musical range throughout the west, building an impressive grass-roots fan base along the w...
DAYTON-Savonnah Henderson has been around art her whole life. Her father, Steve Henderson, is an internationally known fine artist. She has two paternal uncles and one paternal sister who are artists. Her brother Jordan has recently shown his Colombian-trip-inspired wood carvings and charcoal drawings at the Wenaha Gallery, and her father has several of his paintings on display there, now. And Savonnah is now employed at the gallery as a framer and manager-in-training, according to Pat Harri...
COLUMBIA COUNTY – Columbia County Commissioners have decided not to place a proposition on the November ballot imposing a sales and use tax for costs associated with law and justice. While Municipal Court Judge Scott Marinella, Sheriff Rocky Miller, and Civil Deputy Tim Quigg see the needs associated with it, they have said the timing is not right, according to Commissioner Merle Jackson. The commissioners are, however, moving ahead with a proposition to impose a sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent, which is to be used solely for t...
DAYTON—Representatives of the Umatilla Confederated Tribes came before the BOCC at last week’s regular meeting to present and discuss a proposed Memorandum of Agreement for the Rainwater Wildlife Area, which, if enacted, would establish a formal working relationship between the tribes and the county. Since 1997 the tribes, in conjunction with the Bonneville Power System, have acquired land in the Rainwater Wildlife Area, of which 10,835 acres lie in Columbia County. The lands have been purchased for the purpose of mitigation for impacts on fis...
WAITSBURG – This year's Fall Festival Pioneers of the Year most certainly meet the definition of pioneers. Dorne and Dorothy Hall, have ties to the area dating back to the early 1800s, earlier even than Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Dorothy's family, the Dauphins, settled in the area in 1835 and Mathew Dauphin was a signer of the early Indian treaties at Frenchtown, according to Dorothy, who is active in the Frenchtown Historical Foundation. Dorothy's great grandfather, on her mother's side, M...
WHS freshman Amy Farley was named champion for her 4-H Equine Individual Presentation at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup on Sunday. Amy will advance to represent Washington Sate at the Eastern Equine 4-H Roundup in Kentucky in November....
Dayton FFA Josilyn Fullerton – FFA Beef Grand Champion Market, FFA Beef Grand Champion Fitting/Showing, FFA Round Robin Fitting/Showing, Overall Round Robin Hayden Woolridge – FFA Beef Reserve Grand Champion Market Katie Patton – FFA Beef Res. Grand Champion Fitting/Showing Alexus Wanlarbkum – FFA Swine Grand Champion Market Rebecca Pellici – FFA Swine Reserve Grand Champion Market Livestock Judging Team – Second place Livestock Judging Individual Placings – Josilyn Fullerton (2nd), Kianna Price (3rd), Ben White (9th), Sidney Andrews (10th...
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Flashing lights and uniformed first responder for fire, police, sheriff's offices and agencies from across the Touchet Valley filled the arena before Thursday nights demolition derby at the Walla Walla fair. The tribute was organized by Fair Board Director Stan Bly who wanted to make sure EMS personnel received some well-deserved recognition. The point was driven home by the fact that emergency personnel responded to calls to the demo pit, the grandstands, and on the racetrack multiple times...
