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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA – The Walla Walla Police Department is now accepting applications for the 2016 Citizen’s Academy classes which will be held on Thursday evenings from 6:30- 9:30 p.m., Feb. 11 – April 29. The Citizen’s Academy provides the community with an understanding of how law enforcement agencies and the judicial system work. Past graduates are citizens from throughout the Walla Walla Valley and includes students, parents, grandparents, and retirees. Registration is free and the deadline is Jan. 29. The class is limited to 30 students age 18...
****PRESS RELEASE****WALLA WALLA POLICE DEPT**** Police Searching for Suspect in Vehicular Assault January 22, 2016 Walla Walla Police have probable cause to arrest Kyle Zenk, 20, transient from Waitsburg, for a collision yesterday morning near the intersection of Park Street and Cherry Street. Officers were dispatched to the area at 7:29 a.m. for a report of a one vehicle collision. Upon arrival, officers found the vehicle, a 1994, Honda Accord, crashed into a tree. A 15-year-old female...
The Times received the following email message this morning from the Walla Walla Police Department's public information officer, TIm Bennett: Zenk was taken into custody without incident last night. He was at a friend’s residence in Waitsburg and was tracked down by the new Career Criminal Apprehension Team (CCAT) of the Walla Walla Police Department. No other information is available at this time....
WAITSBURG – Sixteen-year-old Waitsburg High junior Jared Farley remembers crashing on a trail at Ski Bluewood when he was six or seven years old, and wanting to walk rather than ski back down. Just then, the Bluewood Ski Team passed by and Jared recalled thinking, "Wow! I want to be like them!" His quick-thinking Mom, Sandra, told him if he would ski to the bottom of the run, he could join the team. That wreck was the unlikely nudge that led Farley to his current hobbies of competitive skiing an...
DAYTON – The Washington State Legislature opened its 60-day 2016 session on Monday, and once again, education funding is the number one issue legislators will face. In a phone interview with The Times last week, Republican Representative Terry Nealey, of Dayton, expressed a sense of déjà vu about having to revisit the issue once again. "We've increased education funding about one-third" since the State Supreme Court's McCleary decision, he said. "Still, we're being held in contempt by the cou...
WAITSBURG – More than 35 people attended a Jan. 6 community forum to learn more about the Waitsburg Raceway proposed by Walla Walla resident Brandon Kelly. Kelly hopes to convert the horse race track at the Waitsburg fairgrounds to a compacted dirt car race track. Kelly had received tentative approval from the Waitsburg city council at their Dec. 16 meeting, but the council wanted to run it past the community before signing a lease contract. During the December meeting, council members r...
Preston Hall Student Spotlight students for the month of December...
WALLA WALLA – Waitsburg High School seniors Caitlyn Jones and Zion Branson received the Exchange Club of Walla Walla Youth of the Month Awards for December. DeSales students Cara Hall and Jacob Edstrom also received December recognition. The seniors will be eligible to compete for the Exchange Club's Youth of the Year Award and a $1,000 college scholarship. The 2015-16 Youth of the Year theme is "Responsible Citizenship for a Strong America." The program is coordinated by Mark Higgins. While i...
DAYTON - With many steps in between, Monte Fulbright has come full circle, from his student days here to signing on as Dayton General Hospital's new Laboratory Department Manager. After graduating from Dayton High School in 1978, Fulbright attended school in Pullman with the intention of pursuing a career in agriculture. Armed with a degree in science from WSU, Fulbright did some substitute teaching at Waitsburg and Dayton High Schools for a couple of years. Then came a career shift. While...
DAYTON – Columbia County is the new owner of the home at 721 S. Third St. in Dayton after a criminal forfeiture process was completed last week. The home, which is located across the street from Dayton High School, was formerly owned by Monty N. Dunn, who pleaded guilty last May to delivery of methamphetamine. Dunn is currently serving a four year, nine-month sentence in a DOC facility. According to Columbia County Prosecutor Rea Culwell, the forfeiture process took about six months. She said t...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg Historical Society member Mary Phillips gives Bill Zuger credit for the musical traditions display that will debut at the Wilson-Phillips House Museum during Waitsburg Celebration Days in May. Zuger suggested the idea for a musical display and kicked it off by donating one of three violins made by his grandfather, Edgar Buroker (1876-1950). Buroker is said to have lived on Coppei Avenue, was a building contractor in Waitsburg, and built some of the area's wooden grain e...
DAYTON – The Times has learned that buyers have entered into an agreement to purchase Dayton’s Country Cupboard restaurant and bakery. According to good sources, paperwork was signed on Saturday for the purchase of the building and business from owners Rayleen and Chuck Sursley. The transaction is expected to be completed and closed around the end of January. Information was not disclosed regarding the identity of the buyers, since the transaction is still pending. When the new owners take over, they are expected to continue running a res...
DAYTON – The Dayton School District is offering tours to help voters understand more about the facilities improvements and technology upgrades the district hopes to make, should the two tax levies on the February special elections ballot pass. Superintendent Doug Johnson lead an informal tour last weekend and will lead another on Wed., Jan. 20 at 11 a.m. The tour will begin at the district office located at 609 E. Second Street. Voters are asked to support a four-year $1.46 million M&O levy which will replace the current $1.3 million levy. T...
WAITSBURG – As of midnight, Dec. 31, the Waitsburg City Fire Department and the Waitsburg Ambulance Service ceased to exist. The services those entities provided are now covered by Columbia-Walla Walla Fire District No. 2. On New Year's Day, The Times sat down with Chief Jim Callahan and his son, Assistant Chief Brian Callahan, to talk about the changes – or lack thereof – to expect in 2016. Background Jim, who has been either assistant fire chief or fire chief for all three fire entities for o...
DAYTON-Waitsburg natives Gwynneth Neace, DO and her husband, Lewis Neace, DO, are the newest physicians to join the Columbia County Health System. The Neaces say they are happy to be home, and are looking forward to working in the community. Dr. Gwynn Neace received her Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine from the University of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Mo., in 1977. She has been Board Certified in Pediatrics since 1989, and has practiced most recently at Metropolitan Pediatrics, in...
WALLA WALLA – State Senator Mike Hewitt announced this week that he will not seek re-election this year. The Walla Walla Republican, representing the 16th legislative district, is finishing his fourth four-year term. "I've had 15 good years protecting the interests of my neighbors," Hewitt said in a press release. "It's time to step aside and give someone else a chance to do the same." Hewitt, who has lived his entire life in the Walla Walla Valley was first elected to the state Senate in 2...
DAYTON – The Wenaha Gallery, located on Dayton's Main Street, devotes every January to a food drive supporting Dayton's community food bank. Each year, people from within and outside the community donate hundreds of pounds of food to the effort. The food bank is just one of the projects supported by Project Timothy, an ecumenical ministry spearheaded by St. Joseph Parish in Dayton and St. Mark Parish in Waitsburg, and aided by a number of other area churches. The volunteer-based ministry operate...
DAYTON – Three years ago, director Bev Startin successfully took on the ambitious task of bringing the wildly popular musical comedy Nunsense to the Liberty Theater. The hilarious tale of a group of unfortunate nuns trying to raise money following a disaster was a hit, with sold out shows throughout its run. That classic musical comedy by playwright Dan Goggin has entertained audiences far and wide; so much so that Goggin has had a very successful career writing eagerly sought sequels. The lates...
WAITSBURG – A nippy nineteen degrees didn't deter a group of Waitsburg residents from welcoming in the new year with a bit of fun and fitness. On the evening of Dec. 29, Dan Nechodom put out a Facebook invite for anyone interested to join him for an informal 5K run/walk/crawl on the morning of Jan. 1. Nechodom dubbed it the FFFF, or Freeze yer Fannie on the First for Five K. And true to the math teacher that he is, quickly nicknamed it the F^4 (four to the fourth) 5K. Nine hardy r...
PRESCOTT – Inmates at Coyote Ridge Correctional Facility know firsthand the importance of positive adult support for at-risk teens. That understanding led them to raise and donate $3,700 to Jubilee Leadership Academy, a program that helps teens in need. Jubilee is in its 20th year of operation and survives solely on community financial support. The academy, located on land donated by Broetje Orchards outside Prescott, provides a safe haven for up to 65 at-risk youth who could not afford its $...
PRESCOTT – The Prescott School District will ask voters to approve a replacement maintenance and operations levy in the amount of $650,000 for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years. If passed on the Feb. 9 special elections ballot, the levy will replace the current $615,000 levy. While the total dollar amount is higher than the previous levy, the cost per $1,000 to residents is lower due to a rise in district property values. The proposed levy is estimated at $1.92 per $1,000 of assessed value. The 2014 maintenance levy was $2.33 per $1,000 a...
Columbia County Superior Court December 16, 2015 Sentencing: Terry Elmo Riner, 47, Dayton. Sentenced to 18 months confinement following a Revocation of Residential DOSA (drug offender sentencing alternative). He was charged in Oct. 2014 with possession of controlled substance other than marijuana, a Class C, felony but failed to comply with treatment and custody requirements and refused to submit a urine sample. Trials/Pre-trials Set: Joel O. Ballard, 23, Charged with assaulting a fellow resident at Patit Creek ARC on Nov. 29. Ballard was...
DAYTON—At their meeting on Dec. 21, CCHS hospital commissioners adopted a resolution finalizing the selection of Shane McGuire as CEO of the hospital district. They also approved the 2016 budget, and discussed the hospital remodel/redesign. The budget for 2016 shows projected net revenue of $12,537,174, expected expenses totaling $13,508,178, and an operating loss of $971,004. Non-operating sources of revenue, money from donations and grants, interest income, and tax revenue, adds back $...
DAYTON - In November, the Coalition for Youth and Families hosted the movie Paper Tigers at the Liberty Theater. Many community members have since responded, asking what is next. Coalition members say they hope to use the information and momentum from that event to help redefine their work. And they’re asking for the community’s help. Community members will soon be invited to a partial-day or day-long Strategic/Action Planning session that would take a look at the needs and resources of the community through the eyes of different groups, inc...
