Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - The Columbia County Fair Board will hold a Kickoff Dinner and Auction on April 26 in the Pavilion at the Fairgrounds. Festivities will begin at 6:30 p.m. The event will include live and silent auctions and music by Rich and Nancy Monacelli. Tickets for the fundraising event will be $10 for adults and youth, and $5 for children 7 and under. The evening will include a pie/desert auction and a variety of silent auction items. On May 31, the fair board will present a BRN4D Barrel Racing event at the fairgrounds arena. Riders from ar...
DAYTON - In a special Monday meeting this week, the Columbia County Board of Commissioners approved a measure to allow emergency repairs to the ceiling and carpet in the courtroom of the Columbia County Courthouse, after accidental damage caused by a contractor. The measure allows courthouse Maintenance Supervisor Dave Finney to hire a local contractor for the repairs without going through the normal bidding process. In January, a worker with Pringles Power Vac of Walla Walla was cleaning d...
DAYTON - Three public hearings will be held next week to allow public input on a new Cooperative Park Master Plan for Columbia County. The plan is a joint effort of Columbia County, the City of Dayton and the Port of Columbia. The City will hold its hearing on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall board room. The county will hold its hearing on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Columbia County Planning office. The Port's hearing will be Thursday at 10 a.m. in the board room at the Port office. Comments may also be submitted in writing to the...
DAYTON - TVAC Productions is hosting a special event Saturday at the Liberty Theater called "Ebony and Ivories." Music begins at 7 p.m. with a collection of classical and contemporary musical pieces performed on piano by local musicians Jim Thorn and Randy Pearson with accompaniment provided by the Pearson family. After the music, the fun continues in the Liberty Annex where chocolate desserts will be served with champagne and/or sparkling cider. The event is being held to raise funds to purchase a piano for the Liberty Annex, which is u...
DAYTON - The Dayton City Council on Monday voted to reject a proposed ordinance to establish a special events permit for Dayton. The 6-1 decision came after the council heard several public comments in opposition to the measure and after considerable debate among council members. Councilman Dain Nysoe cast the lone dissenting vote on the motion to reject the ordinance. The ordinance was proposed by the council's Public Safety Committee, of which Nysoe is chair. It was a scaled-back version...
DAYTON - It's time for the Liberty Theater's annual Casino Night! From 6 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, February 8, games of chance - including blackjack, poker and roulette - will be packed with players at the Seneca Community Center, on the east edge of Dayton. Even those who aren't into gambling will find plenty of fun. Jim Thorn, Heather Sterns, Deb Fortner and Tammy Weppler are just a few familiar names providing the musical entertainment throughout the evening. A dinner of pulled pork sandwiches will be available along with a fully s...
DAYTON - The Dayton High School Future Business Leaders of America club is preparing for the regional Winter FBLA Conference, scheduled for Feb. 12. The conference is in Kennewick. Twenty-six FBLA members will attend the conference. Most have already completed projects, reports and/or team tests for the event. At the conference, itself, members will take individual tests, make a variety of oral presentations, and participate in workshops. Taylor Frame, local chapter president and state chapter vice president for the local region will con...
DAYTON - As a young man living near San Francisco in the 1960s, Bill Freeman worked as a machinist and trained horses on the side. In 1965, he got a job helping build Little Goose Dam. He lived in Dayton for a year and continued to train horses on the side - this time, at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Nearly 50 years later, Freeman has returned to Dayton, along with his son Dan, and their families. Bill and Dan run Bill Feeman Bits, which they've relocated from Rainier, Wash., so...
DAYTON - Jill Andrews' clients range from modest Dayton families to investors from Seattle and as far away as Missouri. But they share one thing - a love of Arabian horses. Andrews is a Dayton horse trainer who helps bring the best out of her clients' horses at regional and national shows. In February, Andrews and her husband, Dan, along with a group of her local clients, will travel to Scottsdale, Ariz. for the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show. "They expect about 2,400 horses there," she said....
Dayton students in grades six through 12 can win $200 by creating a video for Columbia County Health System's anti-smoking campaign. The top ten videos will be posted on the Health System's Facebook page and the video with the most likes will win. Guidelines: Contains an anti-smoking message One minute in length No profanity or nudity Submitted by Dayton students (grades 6-12) to Cheryls@ cchd-wa.org (Columbia County Clinic) by January 31. Video permission from parents required (forms are in the High School office)...
DAYTON - The folks who work in the healthcare field in Columbia County know that having a well-run hospital and clinic here is an important part of keeping our community healthy. But access to health professionals is only part of what's needed to improve the health of residents of our community. "Wellness and prevention are equally important," says Cheryl Skiffington, who is clinic manager for the Columbia County Health System. It's her job to make sure the Columbia Family clinic in Dayton a...
DAYTON - A new grief support group will begin January 28, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m at the First Congregational Church (214 S. 3rd Street, Dayton). The group will work through the book Understanding Your Grief and follow the format used by Hospice in Walla Walla. Books are $10 and a few used books are available. The group will meet for ten weeks, covering one chapter a week. Please call Teeny McMunn at 509-386-5287 with questions....
DAYTON - The Dayton Development Task Force announced that it has received $64,8xx in December through its newly implemented B&O tax incentive program. The money will be used to for a variety of projects and programs in Downtown Dayton. According to Task Force board member Marcene Hendrickson, who was instrumental in getting the group qualified for the state program, the total amount included a $50,000 contribution from Columbia REA. Other donors in 2013 included Elk Drug, Banner Bank, Dayton Mercantile, Crothers State Farm Insurance and...
DAYTON - The Washington State Parks Commission is planning a major change to the way it manages its parks in our area. The commission intends to form a "Mega Area," in which one manager will oversee a group of eight park facilities in southeast Washington. Gary Vierra will serve as Area Manager for the Blue Mountain Area. He will serve as manager for the following park facilities: Field Springs Camp Wooten Lewis and Clark Trail andCampground Lyons Ferry (to be open by2015) Palouse Falls Colum...
DAYTON - The Blue Mountain Station Co-Op Market (700 Artisan Way, Dayton) will hold their first Winter Farm- er's Market on February 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The winter market will feature locally produced foods, crafts, music, and more. Biker B's soaps, Wood Therapy Creations, and Nick Page Photography are just a few of the slated vendors. Locati Cellars will be offering wine tasting, Terrisa Churchill will offer homemade soups and Granny's Tamales will be serv- ing their secret-recipe tamales. Local musicians will provide entertainment. "I...
The Coalition for Youth and Families and Columbia REA are sponsoring a First Night Party on December 31 at 7 p.m. This is a night of fun for the whole family from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Seneca Activity Center. There will be games, food, music and prizes. Admission is free, but children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult....
The Liberty Theater is once again ushering in the New Year with a Black and White East Coast New Year's Eve Party. This year's classic comedy, Some Like it Hot, stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as two Chicago musicians who disguise themselves as women to avoid being rubbed out by the mob after they wit- ness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. During their flight they meet up with a singer in a band, played by Marilyn Monroe, who dreams of marrying a millionaire. The movie begins at 6:55 and is followed by a champagne toast and reception at 9...
DAYTON - The Dayton School District is struggling to engage citizens in a discussion of the $19.5 mil- lion bond levy measure the district is considering for the April 2014 ballot. Last Thursday was the second of three public fo- rums planned on the topic of the proposed facilities up- grade, but just nine citizens attended (more than half in attendance were employees of the district, sit on the school board, or are members of the committee that worked on the project plan). Though few voices wer...
DAYTON - A survey is available online in which Columbia County residents can weigh in on their preferences regarding future development of parks and recreation facilities in Dayton, Starbuck and Columbia County. The survey is available at www.surveymonkey.com/ s/2RM86PD. For more information, contact Zam DeShields, of the Eastern Washington University Graduate School of Planning, at (208) 771-4585....
The Columbia County Rural Library District is pleased to announce that they have been selected as a World Book Night distribution site. World Book Night U.S. is part of an ambitious campaign to encourage reading and giving. A half million free paperbacks will be handed out across America all on one day - April 23, 2014 - by enlisting 25,000 volunteer book lovers to promote reading by personally giving specially printed books to light or non-readers and to those without the means or access to them. The 35 World Book Night U.S. titles for...
