Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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. . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners are moving forward with repairs to the Columbia County Senior Center on E. Washington in Dayton. "This is a good, functional and well-used building," said Commissioner Merle Jackson. Jackson met Tuesday morning at the center with Zella Powers and Barbara Gibson, members of the Senior Center Board, as well as County Engineer Andrew Woods and Courthouse Maintenance Supervisor Dave Finney, to decide on maintenance projects. New flooring and a leaky roof w...
Friday, May 15 6:30 p.m. Antique Auto Cruise Cruise begins at Preston Park. Saturday, May 16 6:30 – 10:30 a.m. American Legion Breakfast Waitsburg Town Hall All-you-can-eat pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and juice for $5. Proceeds support American Legion projects. 9 a.m. - Noon Cancellation Stamps Waitsburg Post Office Purchase special Waitsburg Celebration Days envelopes for $1 and take them inside the post office to be stamped with a commemorative cancellation stamp. 9:30 a.m. Kiddie Parade Main Streeet Children in grades five and below l...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg resident Kevin Blair and longtime friend Paul Baumgart, of Hayden, Ida., have spent the last seven months working on a detailed replica of Wait's Mill. The partially completed model will be on display behind the Wilson-Phillips House museum following Saturday's Celebration Days parade. Blair (who wants no recognition and required major prodding before he would allow his name to be used) has traveled to Hayden regularly since November, to work with Baumgarten on the mill r...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Post Office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 16 to cancel stamped envelopes with a commemorative Waitsburg Celebration Days stamp. Stamped envelopes containing a double-sided document with the city ordinance approving the seal on one side and the Walla Walla County Commissioners' proclamation on the other will be sold in the post office lobby for $1. Those envelopes may then be addressed and taken into the post office where they will be stamped with t...
WAITSBURG – Campsites will be available at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday nights during Waitsburg Celebration Days weekend, May 15 and 16. Camping is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Bring an ATV and spend the night or enjoy the Burgers, Band and Brew without having to worry about driving home. Campers should enter the rear of the fairgrounds via College Street, the dirt road between the track and the City Cemetery, off East 8th Street. Travel past the pig barns to where the ATV’s will unload for the Poker Run...
Squire Broel's "Founding Fathers -- The Waitsburg Monument" was placed in front of Waitsburg's Town Hall this morning, May 13. Wayne Chabre's piece followed shortly after. Jeffrey Hill has expressed a desire to keep his piece under wraps until the dedication ceremony. A dedication for all three pieces will take place at noon on Saturday....
Superintendent wonders how to engage community in school-upkeep conversation DAYTON – The Columbia County Auditor's Office counted 61 additional ballots last Friday, but the new results don't show much change for the Dayton School District's $800,000 capital improvement levy. The proposal now trails by 23 votes out of 1,160 cast, a slightly larger difference than was reported after the initial count last Tuesday when results trailed by 21 votes. This election requires a simple majority, or 50 pe...
Gregutt recalls club's history, including giving daisies spot of honor as city flower WAITSBURG – A good-sized group of ladies from the Waitsburg Garden Club spent a recent sunny Saturday morning beautifying the town in preparation for Waitsburg's Celebration Days weekend. Club members filled planters with posies from one end of Main Street to the other. As they worked, Garden Club founder Karen Gregutt chatted with The Times about the club's history. Gregutt, who is celebrating her 10th anniver...
DAYTON – This little community was abuzz with activity Saturday, both at the annual street sale on South 3rd Street as well as all along Main Street and beyond, where Dayton sixth graders hollered and coaxed passersby to support their cause and buy a glass of lemonade. One grinning young man pedaled about in the Weinhard Hotel's surrey with a tray of full lemonade cups in the front basket, his digital device playing music and a sign on the back reading, "Musical Lemonade Taxi." In front of C...
Bargain hunters lined South 3rd Street in Dayton on Saturday morning . . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County road projects old and new were presented in April to county commissioners. To assist with one major new project, the county road department has hired two engineering interns for the summer to inventory and prioritize roads with clear-zone issues. The Federal Highway Administration defines a clear zone as the total roadside border area, starting at the edge of the traveled way, available for safe use by errant vehicles. This area may consist of a shoulder, a r...
DAYTON – Columbia County signed an interlocal agreement with the city of Walla Walla in April to share in the purchase and installation of a new computer-aided dispatch and records management system for the county dispatch center and sheriff’s office. The new system replaces an 18-year-old program that has reached “end of life,” according to Columbia County Emergency Manager Lisa Caldwell. For roughly $236,000 and a few thousand dollars per year in fees, Columbia County will gain access to a top...
WAITSBURG – For Pastor Mike Ferrians, ministry is as likely to take place around a schoolroom lunch table, while walking to get the mail at the post office or at the Waitsburg Hardware Store coffee klatch, as it is from the pulpit. A true pastor of the people, Ferrians' genuine and enthusiastic interest in the lives of others has had a positive impact on many – both churchgoers and non – in the Waitsburg community. On Sunday, May 17, the community is invited to a retirement celebration honor...
WAITSBURG – Karen Gleason took advantage of her recent medical retirement as an officer at the Washington State Penitentiary to follow her dream of starting an "old school" restaurant in Waitsburg. Gleason's Galley, a mini espresso bar and deli located on the AG- Link service station lot on the corner of Preston and Coppei is set to open on Sunday, for Mother's Day, if all goes as planned. Gleason was hired on at the penitentiary in 2002 but was recently forced into medical retirement. "When t...
Wait-Hi NHS members raised $539.50 in funds at a basketball season Taco Bar and presented it to Marilyn Stellwagon of Black Dog Rescue on Saturday morning. They also donated $401.75, raised from a basketball season potato bar, to the Waitsburg Resource Center. The Leo's Club and Honor Society are planning an all-school food drive for May 18th....
Dayton's horticulture class and members of FFA worked with the Columbia County Soil Conservation District in April taking . . ....
Dayton's FFA Agronomy Team placed 8th in the state this year and will be receiving recognition on stage at the state convention this month. In other Dayton FFA news, the robotics team did not rank high enough to compete in the Regional Event in Cheney, but FFA advisor Kristina Knebel said, "We were still very happy with how we did in the district events. Being placed 8th at Ellensburg was a high achievement for us!" At the state convention in May the following DHS seniors will be competing and...
DAYTON - Tuesday’s preliminary election results showed that the Dayton School District’s $800,000 capital improvement levy proposal was trailing by 21 votes out of 1,099 cast. The Columbia County Auditor’s Office said 29 ballots remained to be counted. Addition ballots mailed by Tuesday may be added to that total. The remaining ballots will be counted and the election certified on May 12. The Times will have more election coverage soon on its website: www.waitsburgtimes.com....
DAYTON – The Columbia County Health System Board of Directors agreed last week at their monthly meeting that they need to move forward with a decision on how to spend the $5.5 million hospital levy approved by voters last fall. “One way or another, we need to make a decision tonight or by the next meeting on how we’re going to move forward,” said Ted Patterson, board president. “We promised the community we were going to do something with this money and we need to do it.” In February the board h...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg's FFA chapter nabbed a $5,000 first-place check and a trip to the World Fertilizer Conference in San Francisco, Calif. last year, their first time competing in the Nutrients For Life Foundations Helping Communities Grow contest. The chapter culminated this year's contest submission with a Community Night at Waitsburg High School on April 20, where students shared what they had learned and done for this year's project. WHS Ag Science and Plant Science students welcomed c...
Dayton High School FFA students prepared last week for the annual FFA plant sale. The sale continues this weekend during the 12th annual 3rd Street Sale in Dayton on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Local churches and community organizations will participate in the blocks-long sale. Meanwhile Dayton sixth graders will sell lemonade at their own stands all along Main Street in Dayton on this day. The Blue Mountain Station Artisan Food Market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The FFA plant sale will...
DAYTON – Dayton man Andrew J. Churchill, 43, pleaded guilty to multiple domestic violence assault charges last Friday in Columbia County Superior Court and was sentenced to seven months in county jail. Churchill was arrested in January after witnesses at Blue Mountain Station stated he’d pulled a gun on an adult male family member in the back parking lot where he and his wife operated a business selling items at the Port of Columbia facility just west of Dayton. According to the arresting doc...
