Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Thousands of Operation Christmas Child (OCC) shoeboxes packed with gifts and school supplies for children in Third World countries will be collected Nov. 16-23 at church relay centers across the country. In 2014, a total of 16,814 shoebox gifts were given by local donors, including 152 from the Dayton-Waitsburg area. The operation began 23 years ago by Samaritan's Purse, a Christian relief agency founded by Franklin Graham. Over 100 million shoebox gifts have been given to needy...
The Waitsburg Alumni Association is raffling a 7ft. double-fleece blanket, in Cardinal colors, with the proceeds going to benefit Coats for Kids. Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6/$5 and may be purchased from alumni association board members, at the alumni table during Hometown Christmas, or by calling Marge Benson at (509) 629-2988. A drawing will be held during Hometown Christmas on Dec. 6 and the winner need not be present to win....
The city crew will have the flowers out of the way just in time to start preparing for Hometown Christmas, which is the first Sunday in December each year....
WAITSBURG – With its cheery red, white, and green checked floors and the reflected light of stained glass bouncing off the soft green walls, it's no wonder Leslie Nichols has dubbed her stained glass studio her "happy place." The small getaway, carved out of a corner of the family shop, serves as an artistic sanctuary for the Waitsburg mom of four. Nichols said she has always been artistic but felt a particular draw to stained glass as a medium. "I just love all the colors and textures, and t...
WAITSBURG – The Q Wood-Fired Grill will be hosting a monthly Supper Club with the theme, "Around the World on Fire," featuring world cuisines that are cooked over an open flame. The first Supper Club event will be Nov. 21, featuring Argentine cuisine. The Q co-owner Sandy Kleck said the Supper Club meals will be more informal than the Winemaker Dinners currently hosted by The Q. "Each month we'll feature a meal from a country that cooks over an open flame such as Spain, Portugal, Korea, and B...
Pacific Power Regional Manager Bill Clemens (r) presented a check from $2,000 to Waitsburg City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe last week. The funds will be used toward the development of the new sports complex - including four Little League fields and a soccer field - at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds. Development of the first Little League field should begin this year, with the remaining fields, including backstops and dugouts, added in 2016....
A trial was underway in Dayton last week in the courtroom of the Columbia County Courthouse. Levi Helgerson of Dayton is facing a charge of first degree assault of a child for an incident that occurred in February 2014. Jury selection began Monday, Nov. 2, and the trial is expected to run at least through Friday....
DAYTON – The Columbia County Board of Commissioners on Monday heard a presentation from the former Public Works Director of Kittitas County about that county’s success in forming a flood control district. Kirk Holmes, who is now an engineer in the private sector, described his county’s history of flooding in the last couple of decades, and the process they went through to get voter approval to form a flood control district. That approval resulted in a property tax levy of seven cents per thous...
WAITSBURG - Many Waitsburg groups are offering families a helping hand this holiday season. Several are listed below for those in need or those willing to donate or lend a helping had. Waitsburg Resource Center: The Resource Center provides food and resource referrals to members of the Waitsburg and Prescott school districts. Families may visit once-a-month to receive non-perishable food, meat, potatoes, and eggs. The center accepts both food and monetary donations. Christmas Basket Donor Program: Families, groups, individuals or businesses...
Jan Cronkhite's home is a favorite stop for Waitsburg trick-or-treaters who can always count on a performance by her skeleton marionette, Aloysius (pronounced al-u-wish-es). The 81-year-old former Waitsburg librarian has been entertaining with marionettes since she before she was a teen. She began her role as puppet master when her mother gifted her with a pair of boy and girl marionettes when she was twelve. Cronkhite would perform, joined on stage by her cat, before the 500 members of the...
Waitsburg Presbyterian Church Reverand Bret Moser was recently honored with a free flight in a WII trainer plane for his service to our country. The flight was provided through Amvets of Walla Walla. The pilot, local farmer Mark Small, owns the plane and has recently given rides to Waitsburg residents Jack McCaw and Dave Morbach, as well. Small’s plane, a 1942 PT17 Stearman, is dedicated to his father, who was a pilot in WWII....
It was Halloween at the Salty Sea Dog Inn (a.k.a. Dayton's Weinhard Hotel) where dozens of tourists and locals dressed up and joined the fun for a Pirate-Themed Murder Mystery Weekend. Want to join in on the fun? The next voyage begins Nov 14....
DAYTON – Longtime Dayton resident and former Hawthorne Gallery owner Patti Eaton is on a historical quest to glean information about the Halpine Society, a fundraising group organized by the Dayton First Congregational Church in 1892. Eaton is especially interested to learn more about the hooked rugs made and sold by local women who belonged to the society. Eaton recalls, in her early years, hearing people talk about the church ladies making rugs. As a child, she had no interest in the group a...
DAYTON – The Dayton Chamber of Commerce is adding a new dessert course to its Christmas Kickoff Celebration this year: gingerbread. Kids in the Dayton and Waitsburg schools will compete this month in a gingerbread house-building contest to be sponsored by the Chamber. Each class, from preschool to high school is invited to enter a gingerbread house that the students will create together. Gingerbread house entries must be at least partially edible, but can be made out of just about anything. T...
WAITSBURG – As cooler temperatures settle in and the holidays draw near, the Waitsburg Resource Center (WRC) board is sending out a reminder that donations are always welcome. Recent emergencies have dramatically impacted national food assistance resources, which affects us locally and makes community support increasingly important. In a TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program) email update titled "pretty slim pickins," Blue Mountain Action Council (BMAC) Food Bank Director Jeff Mathias e...
In early September, The Times shared the story of Waitsburg Middle School teacher and high school football coach Gabe Kiefel and his experience as a potential bone marrow donor. After a fairly grueling screening process, Gabe was scheduled to donate, but the donation was postponed when the recipient, a 14-year-old boy with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), failed to meet the criteria for starting the procedure. As our Sept. 3 story ended, Gabe was unsure if he would actually donate, after all....
Waitsburg "givers" had just as much fun as trick-or-treaters this year as demonstrated by Jan Cronkhite on the front page and the folks shown here....
WAITSBURG – Employee compensation was a hot topic as it related to city budget planning at the Oct. 29 city council meeting. City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe sought council input on employee salaries, longevity compensation and insurance as he prepares to draft the city’s 2016 budget. Hinchliffe provided the council with summary information and job descriptions on the city’s current employment positions consisting of two staff positions and four public works positions. Council members also...
Columbia Co. Hospital Dist. Commissioner 3 Kenneth J. Dyball 595 Jim Kime 490 Waitsburg School District Director #5 Russ Knopp 199 Margaret A. Terry 95 Dayton School District Director #4 Joe Huether 243 Katie Leid 779 WW County Fire District 2 Annexation of Waitsburg Yes 58 No 21 City of Waitsburg Annexation into Fire Dist. 2 Yes 146 No 76 Columbia Co. Fire District 2 EMS Property Tax Levy Yes 38 No 30 Prescott Joint Parks & Rec. Maint. and Operations Levy Yes 97 No 50 Preliminary results as of Tuesday, Nov. 3 Final results will be certified...
DAYTON – Representative Terry Nealey, of Dayton has been awarded the “City Champion” award by the Association of Washington Cities. Nealey is one of six legislators recognized this year for their work to support city interests during the 2015 legislative session. In a press release, AWC commended Nealey for his work to try to craft solutions to problems and costs associated with costly public records requests, while maintaining public access to information. “For many years, Rep. Nealey has done a tremendous job supporting cities’ needs in...
WAITSBURG – The City of Waitsburg has a new tool to help with future planning related to the city’s water system. Anderson-Perry Technical Manager Howard Boggs introduced the city’s newly developed water model at the Oct. 29 city council meeting. The city requested the water model earlier this year, initiated partly by the proposed Whoopemup Meadows housing development and also to help the city identify weaknesses in the current water system. “We always had a good idea of what the city’s...
Mayor Walt Gobel and council members Kevin House, Karl Newell, and Debra Callahan were present with Marty Dunn and K. C. Kuykendall absent. Howard Boggs from Anderson-Perry gave a review of the city’s recently completed water model. See story on page 5. Approved Main Street Bridge agreement with Anderson-Perry. Approved motion to give notice to terminate agreement with Waitsburg Ambulance Service. This will allow EMS funds that currently pass through the city, to go directly to Fire District #2. Approved WWVMPO amendment to include a...
WAITSBURG – From pumpkin producers to pool plungers, Rural Youth Enrichment Services (RYES) is intent on giving local kids a helping hand. RYES is a nonprofit organization, founded in 2009, with the goal of providing a wide variety of activities to youth of all ages, with a primary emphasis on entrepreneurial activities, self-sustaining gardening, green technologies, and bringing arts and music into the community. "The original view was that we would provide the programs ourselves, but that h...
