Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG–Waitsburg Celebration Days kicked into gear with a well-attended parade on Saturday morning, and partied on until The FrogHollow Band introduced their new lead singer just before midnight at the Burgers, Band & Brews event at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds. The fun-filled day offered enjoyment for everyone – art lovers, beer guzzlers and mud slingers alike. This year's patriotic parade boasted an impressive 68 entries. Fifteen of those were from Shriners clubs from the Columbia Basin, Spoka...
DAYTON – Port of Columbia Manager Jennie Dickinson is quite proud of the document she shared with The Times last week – the Blue Mountain Station Development Agreement. She and planning consultant Bill Stalzer collaborated at length to produce this "road map" for the Port's continued commercial development on Artisan Way. "This document explains in detail how everything we have planned at Blue Mountain Station fits within the county's current comprehensive development plan and zoning res...
DAYTON – Memorial Day weekend will feature a buzz of activity this year the likes of which haven't been seen since the end of pari-mutuel horse racing several years ago. As the historic Dayton Days celebration has dwindled to a festive, but simple, downtown parade, event organizers have hatched a plan to rekindle the weekend excitement and provide a new opportunity for a blossoming event, Mule Mania. Mule Mania Beginning this year, Mule Mania will fill the Columbia County Fairgrounds with f...
DAYTON – Numerous non-partisan offices opened for filing last week in Columbia and Walla Walla Counties. Filing closed Friday. Positions included those in the City of Dayton, Dayton and Waitsburg School Districts, Columbia County Health System, Port of Columbia and area fire districts. A special extended filing period will be held Wednesday through Friday next week for those positions that received no filers last week. For more information, contact the auditor's office in either county. For p...
WAITSBURG – Thirteen Waitsburg FFA members spent Thursday through Saturday at the State FFA Convention in Pullman. The team walked away with a several awards including another Nutrients for Life win. Local FFA President Mikala DeRuwe had the distinguished honor of making it to the finals as a top-10 state officer candidate. Waitsburg earned third place and a check for $1,000 for this year's Nutrients for Life Project. The project, spearheaded by DeRuwe, involved partnering with local ag c...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg Elementary School third-grade teacher Marne Henderson loves finding unusual and exciting ways to bring learning to life for her students. Earlier this month, she accomplished that in a quite literal fashion when she challenged her students to bring historical figures to life as part of a "living museum." Henderson's students spent the last several weeks studying biographies. As a culminating project, each third grader wrote a report and dressed up as the person they were s...
WAITSBURG – Staff at Waitsburg's Whiskey Creek Sports Bar and Grill tested equipment and honed the menu at a soft opening earlier this week. Grill owner, Dan Cole says the restaurant's grand opening is planned for June 1. A few lucky guests were fortunate enough to taste "protein sandwiches" on Monday and seafood items on Tuesday. In addition to a massive plate of biscuit and gravy (topped off with a fried egg), Monday's guests taste-tested the Upside Down Southern (grilled chicken, smoked c...
Buggy & Hitch: 1st – AJ Carriages 2nd – Walla Walla Fair Parade Marshals 3rd – Dixie Aichele Royalty: 1st –Asotin County Fair 2nd – Pendleton Round Up Court 3rd – Benton-Franklin Fair & Horse Heaven Rodeo Organizations: 1st – Friends of the Library 2nd – American Legion 3rd – Commercial Club Youth Organizations: 1st – Girl Scout Troop #531 2nd – Waitsburg Rainbow Girls Floats: 1st – Columbia County Fair 2nd – Waitsburg Class of 1980 3rd – Waitsburg Alumni Association Performance: 1st – Main Street Cowboys (Pendleton) 2nd – El Katif Sh...
Retiring Waitsburg Christian Church pastor of 25 years, Mike Ferrians, was honored in a retirement celebration on Sunday, May 17. . ....
Friday, May 22 8 a.m. Mule Mania Classic (Classes 1-19) – Fairgrounds Outdoor Arena 9 a.m. Vendors Open Shops – Fairground Mall Noon-11 p.m. Beer Garden – Fairground Mall 1 p.m. Mule Mania Classic (Classes 20-33) – Fairgrounds Outdoor Arena 6 p.m. Chuck Wagon Cook-off & Dinner – Fairground Mall Saturday, May 23 9 a.m. Vendors Open Shops – Fairground Mall 10 a.m. Dayton Days & Mule Mania Parade – Main Street, Dayton 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Summer Season Opening at Blue Mountain Station Noon-12 a.m. Be...
DAYTON – Last week the Washington State Department of Natural Resources presented to several county residents at a public hearing its plan to sell 640 acres of land it owns in Columbia County to the Bonneville Power Administration in exchange for land deemed of equal value that BPA owns in King County. All three county residents in attendance were unhappy with DNR. Merle Jackson, a county commissioner and land owner in the rural northern part of the county where this land exchange is planned, s...
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners agreed last week to sign an interlocal agreement with the Houston-Galveston Area Council, a government services organization based in Texas, through which the county may purchase product and services from other government agencies. Lisa Caldwell, emergency management director for the county, presented the agreement to commissioners last week. She hopes that joining the council will assist the county in purchasing a new 911 phone system for the Columbia Coun...
Friday, May 22: 9 a.m. installing flags and crosses on over 800 graves at the Dayton Cemetery. Everyone is welcome to help. Saturday, May 23: American Legion Post #42 Color Guard will lead the Dayton Days Parade on Main Street at 10 a.m. Monday, May 25: 7-10 a.m. veterans and friends invited to breakfast at Legion Hall, 211 E. Clay St. 11 a.m. Memorial Day ceremony at Dayton Cemetery. Tuesday, May 26: 9 a.m. Pick up crosses and flags from graves at the Dayton Cemetery. Again everyone is welcome...
DAYTON – Local youth leaders are asking community members and other supporters to help save the Dayton Summer Youth Program (Summer Rec.). All supporters must do is go online to: https://www.state-assist.com/cause/1502697/sos-save-our-summer. Those who vote for SOS (Save Our Summer) will help Blue Mountain Counseling and the Coalition for Youth and Families win a $25,000 grant from State Farm Insurance. Projects that receive the most community support (the top 40 projects) through voting will b...
Waitsburg farmer Jack McCaw took a seat at "The Game Table" during Saturday's art dedication ceremony. . ....
WAITSBURG – A visit from their neighbors, Mayor Walt Gobel and his wife Gwen, threw a happy kink into Jack and Nancy Otterson's Waitsburg Celebration Days plans this year. When the Ottersons told the Gobels that Eastern Star would be riding in their convertible and that Jack would be driving his red truck for the Alumni Association float, the Gobels informed them that they would need to reconsider that plan because they had been selected as 2015 Waitsburg Celebration Days parade marshals. (...
WAITSBURG – A horse with an empty saddle will walk in Saturday's Waitsburg Celebration Days parade in honor of Karen (Huwe) Mohney, who has been selected as parade co-marshal, posthumously. Mohney, a lifelong, active member of the community, passed away unexpectedly on March 15 at age 53, following a dog handler's event in Heppner, Ore. Mohney was born to Waitsburg residents Pete and Meredith (Hulce) Huwe on September 5, 1961 and attended school in Waitsburg, graduating with the Class of '80. I...
Light dances off Jeffrey Hill's "Founding Fathers" sculpture . . ....
STARBUCK – Columbia Pulp, the 449-acre wheat straw refuse recovery and paper pulp manufacturing facility to be located on Highway 261 near Starbuck, has now been issued its six required building permits and is "ready to go," Columbia County Planning Director Kim Lyonnais reported on Tuesday. "Just last week they received their shoreline exemption to temporarily pump water out of the Snake River for dust control as they grade the site," Lyonnais said. "I think they're shooting for early June t...
DAYTON – A final count of votes on Tuesday confirmed the failure of Dayton School District’s $800,000 capital-improvement levy. It was a close vote, but just 48.9 percent of residents voted to approve the measure. A 50-percent approval was required. A majority of voters inside city limits approved the levy, according to the election results posted online, but voter turnout was lower in the city than in previous years where support for the district had been strong, according to Dayton Sch...
Top: Winners for the Waitsburg Elementary School 2014-15 Chess and Checkers Tournament . . ....
WAITSBURG - The annual Waitsburg High School alumni banquet will be held on May 23, 2015 at the Waitsburg Elementary School multipurpose room. A meet-and-greet will take place at 5 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. A social gathering will follow at the Waitsburg Town Hall. The Bruce and Wilson-Phillips houses will be open from 2-4 p.m. and the high school will be open from 4-6 p.m. Dinner is $15/person and dues are $10. The event is sponsored by the Waitsburg High School Alumni Association and is open to all graduates of the high school, their spouses...
DAYTON – Directors of the Columbia County Health System are wrestling with a tough decision: What will the community need from its hospital in the next five to 10 years? "With legislative changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and the rapid technology changes going on, this is hard to figure out," CCHS Chief Operations Officer Shane McGuire said. "There is so much going on in healthcare right now, I feel bad for the board coming in once a month and trying to keep up with everything g...
Dayton seniors Matthew Warren and Sarah Phillips are recipients of this year's P.E.O. Citizenship Award for possessing good qualities of character (honesty, courtesy, amiability, morality and punctuality), achieving high scholarship, and participating in a number of community and school activities. They are pictured here with Susie Payne, a member of the P.E.O. Citizenship Award Committee. P.E.O., which stands for Philanthropic Educational Organization, is an international group whose mission...
Dayton High School students, including many in the Students Helping Each Other (SHEO) club, helped clean the alleys and other out-of-the-way places near Steve's Grocery, around the high school and along the Touchet River dike in April. . ....
