Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
WAITSBURG – Tuesday, Aug. 29 was a busy day for Columbia-Walla Walla Fire No. 2 volunteers who responded first to a railroad fire that sent smoldering ties into the Touchet River, and then to a fuel tanker that caught fire on Highway 12. The incidents began Tuesday afternoon and lasted into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, according to Chief Jim Callahan. Callahan said the department was toned out about 3 p.m. on Tuesday for what was believed to be an illegal burn on Bolles Road, about a q...
DAYTON – The federal Health Care Authority has made 1.2 billion dollars available to promote Medicaid transformation projects over the next five years. Nine counties in the HCA’s Greater Columbia Region, including Columbia County, stand to benefit, according to Martha Lanman, the County Public Health Administrator who serves on the leadership committee. The Greater Columbia Region was originally sponsoring eight projects and Lanman picked “5,2,1,0,” which is a Chronic Disease/Wellness project that targets diabetes prevention in children. “5,2,1...
Aug. 24 Deputies were notified via dispatched of a suspicious person in the 200 block of Waitsburg. A male and female subject were contacted in the area of Preston Park. The male subject was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant out of Columbia County. Aug. 22 Deputies took a report of a trailer hitch stolen from Powell Street....
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It may be September, but there is plenty of good weather left to get in a last minute camping trip and Alyssa Ravasio has come up with a creative way to make that a little easier, and possibly more interesting. Ravasio founded Hipcamp to solve the problem of popular camp sites filling up too quickly, leaving campers with nowhere to go. The Hipcamp CEO founded the company in San Franciso, Calif in 2013. Hipcamp creats new campsites by unlocking access to private lands such as nature preserves,...
WAITSBURG – September 17 marks the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States and Waitsburg resident Susan Donegan wanted to make sure the date was given proper recognition. Donegan is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and approached the Waitsburg City Council about issuing a proclamation recognizing Constitution Week. They gladly obliged. "I am a member of the Walla Walla chapter of DAR, and approached the city council on behalf of our o...
Last week Rick Nicely (l) and Beau Sabin (r) of Pillars of Society Woodworks LLC, worked on the roof of the 1898 log cabin that is being reassembled at the Smith Hollow Schoolhouse Museum, for the Blue Mountain Heritage Society....
