Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON—At their regular board meeting last week hospital administrators addressed what CEO Shane McGuire characterized as “a significant care hole” in the local community for patients who do not need long term nursing care, but require some assistance with activities of daily living. McGuire also said there is a need to trim the financial loss at Booker Rest Home, which is about $500,000, annually. “How can we absorb another half-a-million-dollar loss at Booker?” McGuire asked the commissio...
WAITSURG – This year's annual American Legion Memorial Day Service at the Waitsburg Cemetery included the addition of four names to the memorial wall and a muster for two high school students, Caitlyn Jones and Trey Potts, who have enlisted with the military. Legion Commander Ron Standring and Auxiliary President Rose Engelbrite opened the ceremony, which began with the flag-lowering by Wilson Hollow Wranglers 4-H group members Jared, Drew, and Amy Farley. Waitsburg City Council Student R...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg resident Melissa Hansen, running as a Republican, is one of six candidates in a race for the District 2 seat on the Walla Walla County Board of Commissioners. That seat, which covers the eastern half of the county, including Waitsburg and Prescott, will be vacated by Waitsburg resident Perry Dozier, who is not seeking re-election. Also running for the position are Republicans Don Gibbard, Todd Kimball, and Jacob Radke, and Democrats Randal Son and Michael Bates. Hansen s...
Veterans have a lot of things that are hard for them to have access to. Some of them don’t have access to much money, or when they return to civilian life some of them don’t have access to a place to live because they might have been away for so long. Lincoln said, “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.” So how do we do this? One of the things that many people see is that veterans don’t have homes or jobs once they get out of the service. Getting veterans in a home or maintaining a job is something...
Preston Hall Students of the Month for May are Wyatt Bohlman (8th) and Raven Beckman (7th)....
DAYTON – The students laugh and squirm and look generally unnatural as they stand in large groups in front of a slowly panning movie camera. Business owners also look stiff as they pose for a short moving picture shot, some of them smoking cigarettes. These are all citizens of Dayton in 1938, shown in a short 15-minute movie created to promote patronizing local merchants. Also shown in the video are many scenes showing business fronts on Dayton's Main Street and surrounding areas. Several of t...
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WAITSBURG – Waitsburg High School freshman Loren Negron has every right to be proud of herself for winning first place in the creed speaking competition at the 86th Washington State FFA Convention over the weekend of May 12-14. But for the Philippine native, the experience became much more than just meeting a goal. It taught her to believe in herself, to be an inspiration to others, and showed her much it means to have the strong support of friends and family. Negron moved to the United S...
Mayor Walt Gobel and council members KC Kuykendall, Marty Dunn, Kevin House, Karl Newell, Kate Hockersmith, and student representative Stuart Walsh were in attendance. -Approved reimbursement to resident Joe Ryhmes for a $365 plumbing bill that resulted from a sewer backup that was caused from a problem with the main line, rather than the resident's line. -Representatives from the Society for Creative Anachronism (dressed in full Renaissance garb) requested to use Preston Park, and allow...
Baccalaureate: Thursday, June 2, 7 p.m. Waitsburg Christian Church Graduation: Friday, June 3, 8 p.m. Waitsburg High School Gymnasium Alexus Josephine Snyder Jaidyn Noelle Brown Caitlin Ann Mohney Megan Rene Morrison Anissa Jolynn Holmberg Trey Allen Potts Maurisa Jean Hulce Zion Ira Branson Levi Raymond Hatfield Mark Anthony Montgomery Caitlyn Ashly Jones Brandon Moyer Penner Bailey Drew Adams Austin Joseph Hopkins Coe Davis Richards Rachel Ann Gradwohl Stuart James Walsh Jason Michael Carter...
DAYTON - For several years, top notch musicians have converged on the Walla Walla Valley during the month of June, sharing their love of chamber music through spectacular performances. And though the name of the festival would suggest that the festival is limited to the city, in truth the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival offers events in neighboring communities, and this year two of those musical moments will take place in Dayton. Fun With Music, to be held Friday at 4 p.m. at the Dayton Memorial Library is an outreach activity geared...
Western art painter Chris Owen, who was born and raised in Montana's modern west, will be showcasing his artwork as the featured artist at Dayton's Wenaha Gallery from Mon., June 6 through Sat., July 2....
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Waitsburg was hopping last weekend as residents and visitors enjoyed taking part in the many events that were part of this year’s Waitsburg Celebration Days. Event-goers enjoyed live music, a parade, car show, Brewfest, good food, games, and more. Both the ATV Sunset Cruise and Karen’s Ride Poker Ride were popular events. One hundred fifteen machines joined the poker ride and 220 hands of poker were played. See the Last Page for more Celebration Days photos....
WAITSBURG – After weighing input from a handful of citizens who spoke at the May 18 Waitsburg City Council meeting, the council voted unanimously to move forward with the planned removal of five large trees on W. 6th Street. The council also agreed to consider amending the current tree ordinance at an upcoming council meeting. The trees were to be removed earlier this month, because they had caused extensive heaving to the existing sidewalk. Local homeowners have agreed to replace that sidewalk...
DAYTON—The City of Dayton and Columbia County have entered into talks with Basin Disposal, Inc. to develop a plan for BDI to process refuse at the transfer station in Dayton. The county has also been discussing whether to repair the old facility, or to build a new one, after a fire at the transfer facility in July, 2015 destroyed most of its equipment and seriously damaged the integrity of the main building. Darrick Dietrich, president of BDI, and Dayton Mayor Craig George were on hand at the C...
WAITSBURG - Melissa Hansen, a participant in Leadership Class 37 of the Washington Agriculture and Forestry Education Foundation Leadership Program (AgForestry), received the Jack Felgenhauer Leadership Fellowship during the class' graduation in Pasco on May 6, 2016. The fellowship was established in recognition of the late Jack Felgenhauer's forward-thinking leadership for the wheat industry; his dedicated and tireless promotion to build a successful link between rural and urban communities;...
Waitsburg National Honor Society members served dinner at the Christian Aid Center in Walla Walla on Monday night. The club also hosts an annual Red Cross blood drive and raises funds for Black Dog Rescue and the Waitsburg Resource Center. Advisor Liv Leid said it was a neat experience to reach outside of Waitsburg....
Below are lists of candidates who filed for office for local county and legislative races last week. Races with more than two candidates will appear on the Aug. 2 primary ballot. The top two primary vote-getters in each race, regardless of party preference, will move on to the Nov. 8 general election. Walla Walla County Commissioner #1 Partisan Office 4-year term Jim Johnson (Prefers Republican Party) Jared Frerichs (Prefers Democratic Party) Craig Sivley (Prefers Republican Party) Walla Walla County Commissioner #2 Partisan Office 4-year term...
AUTO 1ST: Bojack Farms 2ND: WWCC Truck 3RD: McKinney Farms (Combine with parade marshals) BUGGY & HITCH: 1ST: Dixie Aichele Others in division, placement not identified: Pat Gleason, Jill Perrine, Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days Parade Marshal YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS: 1ST: Waitsburg Rainbow Girls 2ND Touchet Valley Little League 3RD: Waitsburg/Dayton Girl Scouts ADULT ORGANIZATIONS: 1ST: American Legion 2ND: Waitsburg PEO Chapter 3RD: Columbia Basin Shrine Club ROYALTY: 1ST: Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days 2ND: Pendleton Round-Up 3RD:...
Construction workers were busy Tuesday morning breaking a new entrance into the west side of the Moose Creek Cafe and Bakery....
DAYTON—Last week, Chris Andrews, Lily Reconoco, Josh Hartwell, Kylee Harris, Logan Literal, and Sheanna Brinckens, from the organization Students Helping Each Other, performed a trial-run poetry slam before an audience at the Liberty Theater. With only eight minutes allotted to each, the students had to explain adverse childhood experiences, describe the number of their own individual risk factors, explain the concept of resilience, and describe their participation in all the drug p...
DAYTON—There are two new activities, and one ongoing activity, at the Dayton Memorial Library, specifically for adults, according to Dayton Memorial Library assistant Lorna Barth. “Coffee, Cookies, and Coloring” is a new activity at the library that takes place on Fridays between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. This activity provides an opportunity for adults to de-stress from their busy week, with colored pencils, pens, and printed pages, Barth said. Barth also said that a new writing group is formi...
DAYTON - When Rob Moore started teaching typing and business at Dayton High School in 1987, following three years at Pateros High School, Ronald Reagan was President, the Soviet Union was still together, and typewriters were still in use at DHS. Moore, who has just finished his 29th year on the staff at Dayton, has decided to close the curtains on his teaching career at the end of the academic year. He is widely known among his former students (of which I am one) and co-workers for his...
WAITSBURG – Outgoing FFA President Tristan Newman gave a touching farewell speech, crediting his "five-foot firecracker" FFA Advisor Nicole Abel, and his father, Travis Newman, as major influences in his life, at the Waitsburg FFA Awards Ceremony on May 17. Bill Stonecipher, who was recognized for more than 40 years of service as an FFA board member, left a few more teary eyes as he referred to the "four or five generations of students I've watched grow up" as his "kids," and made it clear h...
