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WAITSBURG – The Q Wood-Fired Grill will be hosting a monthly Supper Club with the theme, "Around the World on Fire," featuring world cuisines that are cooked over an open flame. The first Supper Club event will be Nov. 21, featuring Argentine cuisine. The Q co-owner Sandy Kleck said the Supper Club meals will be more informal than the Winemaker Dinners currently hosted by The Q. "Each month we'll feature a meal from a country that cooks over an open flame such as Spain, Portugal, Korea, and B...
Pacific Power Regional Manager Bill Clemens (r) presented a check from $2,000 to Waitsburg City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe last week. The funds will be used toward the development of the new sports complex - including four Little League fields and a soccer field - at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds. Development of the first Little League field should begin this year, with the remaining fields, including backstops and dugouts, added in 2016....
WAITSBURG - Many Waitsburg groups are offering families a helping hand this holiday season. Several are listed below for those in need or those willing to donate or lend a helping had. Waitsburg Resource Center: The Resource Center provides food and resource referrals to members of the Waitsburg and Prescott school districts. Families may visit once-a-month to receive non-perishable food, meat, potatoes, and eggs. The center accepts both food and monetary donations. Christmas Basket Donor Program: Families, groups, individuals or businesses...
Jan Cronkhite's home is a favorite stop for Waitsburg trick-or-treaters who can always count on a performance by her skeleton marionette, Aloysius (pronounced al-u-wish-es). The 81-year-old former Waitsburg librarian has been entertaining with marionettes since she before she was a teen. She began her role as puppet master when her mother gifted her with a pair of boy and girl marionettes when she was twelve. Cronkhite would perform, joined on stage by her cat, before the 500 members of the...
Waitsburg Presbyterian Church Reverand Bret Moser was recently honored with a free flight in a WII trainer plane for his service to our country. The flight was provided through Amvets of Walla Walla. The pilot, local farmer Mark Small, owns the plane and has recently given rides to Waitsburg residents Jack McCaw and Dave Morbach, as well. Small’s plane, a 1942 PT17 Stearman, is dedicated to his father, who was a pilot in WWII....
WAITSBURG – As cooler temperatures settle in and the holidays draw near, the Waitsburg Resource Center (WRC) board is sending out a reminder that donations are always welcome. Recent emergencies have dramatically impacted national food assistance resources, which affects us locally and makes community support increasingly important. In a TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program) email update titled "pretty slim pickins," Blue Mountain Action Council (BMAC) Food Bank Director Jeff Mathias e...
In early September, The Times shared the story of Waitsburg Middle School teacher and high school football coach Gabe Kiefel and his experience as a potential bone marrow donor. After a fairly grueling screening process, Gabe was scheduled to donate, but the donation was postponed when the recipient, a 14-year-old boy with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), failed to meet the criteria for starting the procedure. As our Sept. 3 story ended, Gabe was unsure if he would actually donate, after all....
Waitsburg "givers" had just as much fun as trick-or-treaters this year as demonstrated by Jan Cronkhite on the front page and the folks shown here....
WAITSBURG – Employee compensation was a hot topic as it related to city budget planning at the Oct. 29 city council meeting. City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe sought council input on employee salaries, longevity compensation and insurance as he prepares to draft the city’s 2016 budget. Hinchliffe provided the council with summary information and job descriptions on the city’s current employment positions consisting of two staff positions and four public works positions. Council members also...
WAITSBURG – The City of Waitsburg has a new tool to help with future planning related to the city’s water system. Anderson-Perry Technical Manager Howard Boggs introduced the city’s newly developed water model at the Oct. 29 city council meeting. The city requested the water model earlier this year, initiated partly by the proposed Whoopemup Meadows housing development and also to help the city identify weaknesses in the current water system. “We always had a good idea of what the city’s...
Mayor Walt Gobel and council members Kevin House, Karl Newell, and Debra Callahan were present with Marty Dunn and K. C. Kuykendall absent. Howard Boggs from Anderson-Perry gave a review of the city’s recently completed water model. See story on page 5. Approved Main Street Bridge agreement with Anderson-Perry. Approved motion to give notice to terminate agreement with Waitsburg Ambulance Service. This will allow EMS funds that currently pass through the city, to go directly to Fire District #2. Approved WWVMPO amendment to include a...
WAITSBURG – From pumpkin producers to pool plungers, Rural Youth Enrichment Services (RYES) is intent on giving local kids a helping hand. RYES is a nonprofit organization, founded in 2009, with the goal of providing a wide variety of activities to youth of all ages, with a primary emphasis on entrepreneurial activities, self-sustaining gardening, green technologies, and bringing arts and music into the community. "The original view was that we would provide the programs ourselves, but that h...
WAITSBURG – Nearly 250 student musicians, from eleven area schools, joined together to perform at a mass band and choir concert held at the Waitsburg High School gymnasium on Wed., Oct. 21. The mass choir was directed by Kraig Scott, who teaches organ and directs the choral studies program at Walla Walla University. Scott has played organist recitals throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East. His most recent travels as a choral conductor took him to a choir festival in Kiev, Ukraine, w...
WAITSBURG – Preston Hall students in Lynn Martin's seventh and eighth-grade science classes have been studying the impact of humans on ecosystems. Those studies have focused largely on negative impacts, but last Tuesday the students visited the Pasco wastewater treatment plant and The REACH natural history museum in Richland, and learned that humans can have a positive impact as well. Martin said that former middle school teacher Russ Knopp arranged, and helped chaperone, the field trip, w...
WAITSBURG – In our Oct. 1 issue, The Times reported that Waitsburg artist Suze Wood had created a GoFundMe account to raise funds for surgery for her horse, Duke. Since then, Duke has been able to receive necessary medical care and is recovering nicely. Wood and Duke were struck from behind by a speeding pickup truck, while taking a leisurely ride down Gallaher Road in late August. Duke's only long-term physical injury was some bone chips that required surgical removal. However, Duke's t...
WAITSBURG – Fifteen years ago, Waitsburg teacher Sandy McCaw initiated the 'Leave Your Mark' fundraiser to raise money for the Waitsburg High School Alumni Association. Today, the alumni association is once again selling personalized brick plaques and making a push to send in a large order that will complete the project. For $50, graduates can have a bronze plaque placed on a brick, alongside original bricks, outside the east entry to the high school, in the area known as the link. There are c...
PRESCOTT – Due to a lack of qualified applicants Prescott will not be able to offer a preschool program after all. Prescott schools superintendent Brett Cox reported at the district’s Oct. 22 school board meeting, that the anticipated ECEAP program had been cut. “Unfortunately, the ESD was unable to follow through with the preschool program due to a lack of qualified applicants. They had four who qualified and they needed 20 to run the program,” Cox said. He explained that the initial predictions indicated 39 students in the district qualifi...
Tabled a decision on Policy #2255 Alternative Experience Courses until better information on cost is available to help determine a compensation package and make sure the program can be funded properly. Approved supplemental contract for hire of Denice Garrow at .2 FTE. Approved contract for flooring to finish remodel of district cottage capital improvement project which will then be completed under budget. Approved collective bargaining agreement for 2015-2018. Approved Eureka Match Curriculum for Vista Hermosa. Preliminary discussion of 2016...
Waitsburg first graders enjoyed the fall sunshine during the annual visit to pick pumpkins at their teacher, Dinah Lindsey's, pumpkin patch. Lindsey isn't sure just how long she's been taking students to pick pumpkins, but thinks it must be over 30 years....
WAITSBURG – Folding chairs replaced fire trucks in the bays of the Waitsburg City Fire Station during a well-attended open house on Wed., Oct. 14. Community members, fire officials, and city and county representatives discussed three issues: the annexation of the City of Waitsburg into Walla Walla Fire District No. 2, the EMS levy on the Columbia County portion of Fire District No. 2, and upcoming changes for ambulance service in Waitsburg. Annexation of Waitsburg into Walla Walla County Fire D...
WAITSBURG - After serving 24 years on the Waitsburg School Board, Greg Zuger will step down in November. Two candidates, Russ Knopp and Margaret Terry, are running for the School Director Position 5, being vacated by Zuger. Former Waitsburg Elementary principal and teacher, Russ Knopp, says his four decades as a teacher, principal, and school board member, along with his commitment to putting students first, make him a well-qualified as board member. Knopp attended Seattle Pacific University...
WAITSBURG - They say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and Waitsburg hair salon owner Teresa Hinchliffe will soon discover if that holds true for the other side of the street as well. Last week, Hinchliffe opened her hair salon, Tricho Cuts, in the building next to The Times on Waitsburg's Main Street. She had previously operated a salon by the same name, for many years, on the west side of Main next to the former Farmer's Café (Ginny's Grill, before that)....
WHS student, Kyle Martin, serves apples to a seemingly skeptical first grader at Waitsburg's second annual Taste of Washington event. Food Services Manager Susan Wildey said approximately 250 students and community members enjoyed the meal made from ingredients sourced from within 30 miles of Waitsburg....
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg community members are determined to make sure that no one goes without, or is left alone, this Thanksgiving holiday. In addition to the Thanksgiving baskets provided to needy families by parents and children who participate in the successful Kid's Big Give program, Gleason's Galley will open its doors to serve a hot Thanksgiving meal to anyone who doesn't want to be alone for the holiday. Jamie Gleason has coordinated the Kids' Big Give for the last several years, as a way...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg resident, Tysen R. Beckner, 26, was sentenced to serve three years and five months in prison for severely beating his girlfriend’s four-year-old son, last June. On Mon., Oct. 12, Walla Walla County Superior Court Judge John Lohrmann imposed the high end of the standard 31-to 41-month range for Beckner’s charge of second-degree assault. Beckner was originally charged with first-degree assault of a child – domestic violence when his girlfriend’s son was found to have been severely beaten while in his care. Beckner fled from...
