Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Sorted by date Results 1626 - 1650 of 1899
DAYTON - Kids in Dayton will descend on the City Park Saturday morning for the annual Easter Egg Hunt. The hunt starts at 11 a.m. Organizer Judi Brooks said that the hunt is open to toddlers through sixth grade. Prizes will be awarded by age group to the kids finding the golden eggs. Plastic eggs will be filled with candy by members of the Dayton High School Honor Society. Volunteers will arrive at the park early Saturday to hide the eggs - no kids allowed! The Dayton Easter Egg Hunt is being put on by the Dayton Kiwanis Club, Washington...
DAYTON - The Port of Columbia will "launch" the first building at Blue Mountain Station, its new artisan food center, on April 25. The Friday event will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. "Food is the focus of Blue Mountain Station," said Port Manager Jennie Dickinson, "and the grand opening will focus on food as well." The public is invited to tour the facilities of the four artisan food and drink producers in the new building, as well as well as the center's commercial Kitchen. Visitors will get...
DAYTON -- Private forest landowners are invited to participate in a series of forest management workshops to be held at the Columbia Fire District 3 meeting room (206 West Main, Dayton). Workshops will take place on Saturday, April 26 and Saturday, May 31 from 9 a.m. to noon. A brief field trip will follow each workshop. "Maintaining and Enhancing your Forest's Health" is the topic of the April 26 workshop. Forest professionals Steve McConnell and Mike Johnson will help landowners identify threats to the health of forest stands, including...
DAYTON - High School Senior Tanner Sousley has received permission from the county to host a clean-up day at Bundy Hollow Cemetery at noon on April 19, as a community service project. Tanner became interested in cleaning up the site because he has relatives buried in the cemetery. Volunteers will remove brush, repair headstones, weed and possibly plant some perennials that will withstand hot temperatures. All volunteers are welcome. Community members are encouraged to donate water for the laborers, flowers, soil, machines, tractors or tools...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg High School Band performed at a Band Festival in Clarkston on March 25 and scored a superior rating. "This is especially difficult at the high school level, and the band played very well," said Band Director Brad Green. The band played "Fanfare for a Celebration" and "Prairie Dance." Green said both are complicated songs with many solos. Seniors Meara Baker (flute) and Kimmie Hamann (trumpet) played important parts. "I was very proud and happy," said Green....
WAITSBURG -- Weller Library will be offering a Getting Started class on April 3 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Weller Library. The class will allow patrons to see what is available through the Microsoft IT Academy and will provide assistance in setting up an ITA account. Students may then work through lessons from home or they may access their ITA account through a library computer if they don't have access at home. The Academy provides over 400 self-paced, video- based courses covering a wide range of products and programs. A certificate o...
WAITSBURG - Cheryl Skiffington, manager of Columbia County Health Systems Dayton and Waitsburg Clinics, spoke at the March 18 Commercial Club Meeting to give an update on the Waitsburg Clinic. Providers at the Waitsburg Clinic include Dr. Kyle Terry and nurse practitioners Dawn Meicher and Kortney Killgore-Smith. Terry - also Chief-of-Staff at Dayton General Hospital - attended medical school in Utah and completed his internship and residency at the Kaiser Foundation in California. He ran a...
DAYTON - The Juvenile fish pond in Dayton is ready for fishing this spring. According to Steve Martin of the Snake River Salmon Recovery Board, the pond in the Dayton City Park was stocked earlier this month with rainbow trout. It also receives hatchery steelhead diverted from the Touchet River. The pond is open for fishing by kids 16 and under and disabled adults. The pond is fed during the spring and early summer months by a feed pipe and pump system that brings fresh water from the a...
DAYTON - Dayton Citizens for Education and the Dayton School District will be hosting two informational meetings to provide the public with information on the bond issue which has been placed on the April 22 ballot. The meetings will take place at the Delaney Building from 7p.m. to 8p.m. on Tuesday, April 1 at and from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 10. The $19,995,000 bond will cost local taxpayers $2.53 per thousand of assessed value for 20 years. Local dollars will be supplemented by $4,000,000 of state matching funds. The pro...
Best Western Hotel sponsors Earth Day recycling challenge DAYTON - Recycling has been an option in Dayton for years for many materials, including cardboard, paper, cans and bottles. Even motor oil and old appliances can be dropped off at the Dayton transfer station. But plastic bottles and other containers have never been on that list, until now. For the next month, Daytonites are being challenged to show their earth-friendliness by filling a 15-yard disposal bin for plastic recycling bin th...
Are all of you aware that spring has sprung? Well, maybe not weather-wise; I am referring to the time of year when we all 'spring ahead'. Did you remember to set your clocks ahead and also change the battery in your smoke alarm? It's not too late to do so now. It has been a busy time at Columbia County Senior Center. We had two speakers last week. Diane Ver Valen, who is with Columbia County Emergency Management, explained (or at least tried) the importance of registering our telephone numbers for the CodeRed program. Colleen Sproul,...
WALLA WALLA - The National Weather Service is seeking volunteers to participate in upcoming weather spotter training on April 1 in Dayton and April 9 in Walla Walla. Weather spotters trained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service assist meteorologists by providing up-to-date information about storm activity. The Skywarn Weather Spotter training is free. Dayton's training will be held at Fire District 3 (206 W. Main) at 6:30 p.m. on April 1. The Walla Walla training will take place at 10 a...
DAYTON -- The Dayton General Hospital Auxiliary will be holding their Easter Bake Sale fundraiser on Friday, April 11 from 9 a.m. to noon in the hospital lobby. Purchase baked goods for Easter dinner and support the hospital while doing so. Donations are welcome. Please have baked goods donations delivered to the hospital between 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on April 11....
DAYTON - Senior round table lunches take place every Tuesday and Thursday at noon at the Senior Center at 403 E. Patit Street. Meals are $4 for those over 60 and $7 for those under 60. There are no income criteria or membership fees. Enjoy a hot meal in a social setting. Play pool, cards or spend time visiting. Please call 382-2836 to RSVP by the day prior....
DAYTON - From Beach Blanket Bingo to the Summer of Love, the decade all of us old folks can't forget will come to life again next weekend in TVAC Production's Spring Variety Show. "The Groovy 60s" will be presented March 21-23 at the Liberty Theater in Dayton. The show will feature music, dance and skits from movies, TV shows and all those hit singles we can't get enough of. "I'm surprised how much the younger cast members have connected to these songs," said Variety Show Director Bev S...
DAYTON - The Relay For Life of the Blue Mountains Kickoff Rally will be held on Tuesday, March 25 at 5:45 p.m. in the Tucannon River Room at the Best Western Inn and Suites. The public is welcome to attend and hear about the new ideas and innovations planned for this year. The Rally will also be an opportunity for participants to register their teams and team members without paying the $10.00 registration donation. There will also be an opportunity for participants to sign up to serve as Relay volunteers. Refreshments and prizes will be o...
DAYTON - The Dayton Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Brix & Brew Festival and Benefit Auction on March 14. The dinner and auction will be held at Running T Ranch, eight miles south of Dayton on North Touchet Road. The beer, wine and hors d'oeuvres social, along with silent auction, begins at 5:30 p.m. The live auction gets underway at 7. This is the Chamber's biggest fundraiser of the year. Auction items include a 3 day, 2 night trip to San Francisco, jewelry, original artwork, magnums of special wine and much more. A live auction p...
DAYTON - Dayton High's Future Business Leaders of America club sent 26 students to the Southeast Regional Winter Business Conference in Kennewick on February 12. They were one of the two largest groups at the conference, and all 26 qualified to move on to the state competition in Seattle in April. The Kennewick conference included schools of all sizes from Southeast Washington, and it included competition in a wide variety of business-related categories. More than 100 competitive even...
DAYTON - Things seem to be going fairly well at Columbia County Senior Center. We were certainly surprised last week when we came for lunch to find there was a power outage. It didn't take too long to discover that some of us 'do not' cope when there is no coffee available! This didn't deter the guys playing pool. Any miscues (pardon the pun) were blamed on not seeing correctly. We had a good time reminiscing about yesteryear when we had no electricity, used kerosene lanterns, warmed up to a pot- bellied stove and the hand cranked wringer...
DAYTON - The next Christian Women's Connection Luncheon will take place at the Grain House Grill (232 S. Main Street, Dayton) on March 12 from 11:30 to 1:30. Janice Van Deist from Quincy, Wash. will share about organization, both daily and spiritually. Janice lives on a farm where she and her husband raise hay and grain. Special feature is Ruth Brush who grew up during the depression era and uses recycled materials to create beautiful things. Singer Maxine Larson from Lewiston, Idaho will entertain with song. The cost is $10. Call Judy Ja...
DAYTON - The Blue Mountain Station Co-op Market hosted its third weekly Indoor Market on Saturday and attracted an enthusiastic group of shoppers. The market is held in the center community section of the Port of Columbia's new artisan food center. When a Times reporter visited, camera in hand, several vendors were eager to show off their wares, and musician Heather Stearns was playing her guitar and singing. Soup was being provided by Little Dipper Dairy, a tenant at BMS. Gypsy Girl G...
