Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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The Jackson Family put together a festive float for the Starbuck Cattle Company in the Dayton Days Parade on Saturday....
Hearings examiner reminds attendees that marijuana businesses are legal in county DAYTON—Emotions ran high at last week’s public hearing on the application for a conditional use permit by Trailhead Cannabis Co. owner Kathy Sali of Yakima. Sali plans to operate a retail cannabis store at 36711 Hwy. 12, in Columbia County, just west of Dayton. Sali was not present at the meeting, and no testimony from her was taken. Nine local residents spoke before the Columbia County Hearings Examiner And...
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DAYTON – Columbia County Public Transportation will offer ride service on Saturdays starting June 3, both in Dayton and on a round-trip route from Dayton to Walla Walla. The decision to start this program was made in spite of CCPT not receiving a grant it had applied for to fund the service, according to Interim General Manager Dwight Robanske. Many people had requested the service to be available on Saturdays, as they are busy with work during the operating hours on weekdays. This will be the first summer that CCPT is offering this service. T...
GRAND MOUND, Wash. – Dayton High School SHEO (Students Helping Each Other) team was awarded the Impact Award from the Spring Youth Forum for spreading awareness and providing training about ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Resilience at Great Wolf Lodge on May 17. The students competed against 49 teams from across the state. The Impact Award is given to recognize leadership in implementing the team project reaching the largest audience and making the biggest difference in the c...
DAYTON-Paul Didelius, owner and commercial director of Frontier Rail, LLC, operator of the short line railroad between Dayton and Walla Walla, spoke about work progress and outreach to potential customers, at last week's meeting of the Port of Columbia Commissioners. Didelius said that 98% of a first rail bank grant has been used and the majority of the work repairing rails and bridges has been accomplished. He said that as soon as they receive the remaining two percent of the rail bank grant,...
DAYTON – Dayton's new XO Alambic distillery will be offering tours of their shop during Saturday's Blue Mountain Station Co-op Market, coinciding Mule Mania Weekend. The spirits distillery, which is expected to hold its grand opening later this summer, is located at Blue Mountain Station, west of Dayton. People taking part in the tour will be shown around the distillery and shown the various barrels, as well as the still and other equipment used in the making of the spirits. XO Alambic is run b...
Construction and maintenance projects are also on tap for this summer DAYTON – Eighth-grade math teacher Kristen Frankie gave a presentation at last week’s meeting of the Dayton School Board about a national middle-school math conference she recently attended. She said the purpose of the conference was to explore curriculum and support materials designed by MidSCHOOLmath, for middle school classroom use. Frankie demonstrated a sample lesson from the curriculum, which provides student-based lea...
DAYTON — At last week’s meeting of the Columbia County Commissioners, county department heads were asked by the commissioners to provide input into the discussion of raising revenue to pay for essential services in the county. Establishing a Park and Recreation District, raising the sales tax by three-tenths percent for law enforcement, and raising the levy lid, are ideas worth considering, according to the commissioners. Commissioner Merle Jackson said the number-one topic at meetings of the As...
On June 2, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival will provide a free concert for people of all ages at 3:30 pm, in the Delany Room. On June 8, the Summer Reading Program kick-off event for all ages, featuring Blue Mountain Wildlife and their rescue raptor program, will take place at 3 p.m. in the multi-purpose room at Dayton Elementary School. On June 17, Book Chat, the not a book club book club, will meet at 6 p.m. in the Delany Room. On June 21, the Friends of the Dayton Memorial Library monthly meeting will be held in the Delany Room, at 4...
DAYTON – Dayton will host its seventh annual Mule Mania, sponsored by Columbia REA, from May 26 – 28 at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. The events will begin on Friday at 8 a.m. in the fairgrounds outdoor arena. The mule showings and competitions are expected to conclude around 4 p.m. that day, giving spectators eight hours to watch a wide variety of classes. Friday will also see the first of two nights of the renowned chuckwagon feeds, which feature many traveling groups that cook food using only the materials in their old-fashioned chu...
DAYTON-On his second morning managing the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, Justin Nix was busy posting information about Azure Mountain Botanicals and a Mother's Day event at The Blue Mountain Station to Facebook, and hosing down the sidewalk in front of the chamber office. Nix, who is has replaced Andrew Holt at the Chamber, said he was hired by the Chamber board because of his skills in social media marketing. "I will be working to bridge the gap between the Baby Boomers and the Millennials, while...
DAYTON-Special guest Bette Lou Crothers spoke about progress for this year's All Wheels Weekend event at last week's Dayton City Council meeting. Crothers showed the council the All Wheel's Weekend T shirt design, which showcases the 1962 Ford Galaxie state patrol car, which won last year's Peoples' Choice Award, along with the 2016 Friday Night Coolest Cruiser winner, which is a 1931 Ford Victoria. Crothers said to expect the usual events at All Wheels Weekend, including the Poker Walk, and the...
DAYTON - "We are preparing for Dayton Days. We have an outdoor, old fashioned, fun activity for kids of all ages," said Boldman House Museum Director Sylvia Beuhler. Activities will include two favorites: doing laundry with a washtub and scrubbing board, and making butter in a hand crank jar. There will also be old fashioned tools available for grinding wheat, peeling apples, and shelling corn. Kids will also be invited to plant flower seeds in the garden, Beuhler said. Beuhler said tours of...
DAYTON – The Dayton School District has hired a K-12 school counselor, to start next fall. Susan Stege is a certified school counselor with experience in individual and group counseling, and in working with parents. Stege graduated from the University of Oregon, and Portland State University. She also holds a teaching certificate in Art. She worked in the Chandler Arizona School District from 2002-2015 and is a recent arrival to the Walla Walla Valley. Tracy Pearson is the new wood/ag teacher i...
DAYTON – The Boldman family's 1934 Chevrolet Master Deluxe, a six-cyclinder, four-door sedan, has returned to Dayton, and has been reunited with its original license plates, car inspection report, and registration paperwork. The car and some of its original items were separated when Gladys Boldman sold the car in 1977. The car was originally purchased on March 28, 1934, by S.A. Boldman, and was driven by him and members of his family, according to Sylvia Beuhler, the Boldman House Museum D...
DAYTON—Dayton school superintendent Doug Johnson gave a report at last week’s school board meeting about the Dayton School District’s community visioning strategic priorities. He said that all staff will meet in the auditorium after school on May 16 to discuss the strategic priorities, after which public meetings about the top three strategic priorities will be scheduled. Johnson also reported that the district is supporting a book study for all staff and school board members. Based on Carol...
Last week, the Columbia County Commissioners approved a plan to shift census block # 25, which is located in Commissioners' Voting Precinct No. 1, to Commissioners' Voting Precinct No. 3, in order to solve a state requirement that precinct boundaries for voting precincts run contiguously. There had been a break between Star and Mustard voting precincts....
DAYTON - Wear comfortable shoes and be prepared for weather shifts on Saturday for a short excursion with the Columbia Basin Chapter of the Washington State Native Plant Society for field identification. Darcy Dauble will guide attendees through the identification of local plants and discuss the work that WSNPS is doing tohelp preserve native populations. Participants will meet at the library at 9 a.m. for a presentation before carpooling to a nearby location to perform in-the-field plant identification.. Also this month, the Friends of the...
DAYTON—Tom Dingus, of DZA PLLC, Certified Public Accountants, presented highlights of his unmodified independent auditor’s report for 2016 and highlights from financial indicators to the CCHS Board of Commissioners at their April meeting. “You guys are off to a good start in 2017,” Dingus told the board. Dingus said patient accounts receivable revenue growth doubled in 2016. Net patient service revenue has increased 13% from the previous year, with more patient services provided. Also, purchase services went up 20%, he said. Bad debt and cha...
Arraignments: -Brandon Wayne John, 33, Dayton; charged with first degree unlawful possession of a firearm. Entered a pleas of not guilty. Released on $10,000 personal recognizance bond. Case is continued to May 3 for trial setting. A second case against him for two counts of escape in the first degree was also continued to May 3 for trial setting. Trials Set: -Travis Rogelio Garcia, 30, Dayton; charged with unlawful imprisonmet – dv, coercion – dv, 4th degree assault – dv, possession of methamphetamine and three counts of unlawful posse...
DAYTON-Dayton Historic Depot Museum Director Tamara Fritze has spent the last eight months researching the history of the 1881 Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Depot, better known as the Dayton Historic Depot, and looking into the significance of the depot to the local community, from the time it was built in 1881, until 1934, when passenger traffic to the depot ceased. "We as a community should know how important to our town the depot was. It changed the lives of people who lived here," sa...
DAYTON--At last week’s Dayton City Council meeting, Howard Boggs and Adam Schmidtgall, with Engineering Firm Anderson Perry & Associates, presented the council with an evaluation of potential design concepts, means of construction, cost estimates and funding sources for several street improvement projects in the city. The engineers discussed North Hill improvements for Whitman and Columbia Avenues, between Front and Willow streets, and Front St., between Whitman and Columbia, which are u...
DAYTON—PacifiCorp, a division of Pacific power, plans upgrades to its existing wind fleet by 2020. Upgrades will include installing larger blades and newer technology in order to increase power production by 20%. Tom Gauntt Communications Representative for PacifiCorp said plans are in the works to repower the wind turbines at two sites in Marengo, in 2018-19. Gauntt said the existing wind turbine blades have a 240 ft. span, and, due to the increased length of the new ones, even longer t...
DAYTON— City of Dayton Mayor Craig George and County Commissioner Merle Jackson are leading efforts to find out how to go about establishing a flood control district in Columbia County. Guest speaker Kirk Holmes, an engineer with consulting firm PERFEET, spoke to representatives from the city, county, WSDOT, Anderson Perry & Associates, the Army Corp of Engineers, and others at St. Joseph’s Parrish Hall, on April 20, about the steps Kittitas County took to form a Flood Control Zone District, in 2012. Holmes, who is a former Kittitas county eng...
