Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG-A whopping 85 kids participated in last week's Mega Sports Camp Vacation Bible School at the Waitsburg Christian Church. During the five-day event, children learned Bible stories while learning about different sports. More than 30 volunteers from the Waitsburg Christian Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Waitsburg Resource Center, The Bicycle Barn, the Christian Motorcyclist Association, and many others from five different communities, helped make the program a success, according to...
All board members present: Ross Hamann, Christy House, Lisa Morrow, Jason Kaehler, Randy Hinchliffe Waitsburg Superintendent Mark Pickel took the Oath of Office. Secondary Principal Report (Mark Pickel for Stephanie Wooderchak) Stephanie Hinchliffe, Deanna Coulston, Pam Beasley, Heather Ball and Roseann Groom traveled to a Six Traits + 1 Writing workshop on June 17-18. Stephanie Wooderchak, Groom, Ball, Gabe Kiefel, Kolby Starring, Matt Elder and Tabitha Jordan attended a Teaching for Excellence workshop on July 8-11. Staff thanked the board...
WAITSBURG—The Waitsburg Christian Church will host a Mega Sports Camp Vacation Bible School on July 22-26 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. VBS Registration forms are available for download at www.christianchurch.com and should be brought to the first day of VBS. Children will be collecting food and resources for the Waitsburg Resource Center. If attendees beat last year’s collection of 489 pounds, they will duct tape Pastor Matt to the wall! Volunteers are needed and welcome. Contact Andraya at (509) 540-4205 for more information. Bicycle Rodeo The eve...
Waitsburg's first Ladies Only Bunco Night was such a success that a second event is planned for Waitsburg Wednesday on Aug. 14, according to Commercial Club President Joy Smith. Eighteen ladies enjoyed dinner catered by Waitsburg Grocery, Pam McCauley Chapman run the Bunco games and Smith Craft, Country Chic Boutique and Pure Romance booths were on hand, along with a "well-stocked" bar....
Waitsburg founding father William Preston appears to be directing attention to Main Street's patriotic display of red, white and blue as local veterans carried the United States and military service flags in the annual Patriot's Parade on July 4....
WAITSBURG-Waitsburg's Patriot's Parade and community potluck is a nearly decade-old tradition, but many may not know how it originated. As the story goes, the whole thing began with a dare. In 2011, Anita Baker challenged her late husband, Tom, and Jack McCaw to walk down Waitsburg's Main Street, bearing the colors, on the 4th of July. The only hitch was that she required them to wear shorts while doing so. McCaw spoke for Tom, saying they would accept the challenge, for $100 each. Anita agreed...
WAITSBURG-Emergency response and firefighting personnel from multiple area agencies were on hand to present information and answer questions at a Firewise meeting held at the Lions Club Building at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds on Tues., June 25. The workshop was sponsored jointly by Blue Mountain Resource Conservation & Development (BMRC&D)and the Waitsburg Emergency Preparedness Committee. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Firewise USA Program teaches residents how to adapt to...
WAITSBURG—In the process of developing its long-term plan, and in response to public input, the Waitsburg Parks and Recreation District has changed its focus from taking over maintenance of public facilities to providing more community recreation opportunities. The District will kick things off with a Parks and Rec day on Sat., July 13 at Preston Park from 3-8 p.m. The evening will provide plenty of family fun, including lawn games such as horseshoes, ladder golf, lawn bowling and cornhole. The Granny’s Tamales food truck will be on site as...
WAITSBURG-Former Walla Walla resident Jackson E. Graham will be on hand to sign books at Ju's Traveling Pages bookstore in Waitsburg from 5-7 p.m. on Fri., July 12. Graham strives to write thought-provoking medieval fantasy novels that appeal to both young adult and adult readers. He will be promoting his third novel, Sword and Scion 03: The Reign of Delusion. Graham released his debut novel in December, 2017, at the age of 17, to positive reviews. The Reign of Delusion is the third installment...
Secondary Principal’s Report (Stephanie Wooderchak) Graduation went well with large scholarship awards. WHS ASB leadership and ACT held year-end reward parties. Mrs. Groom and the ASB led incoming freshman through orientation. Athletic Director’s Report (Stephanie Wooderchak) Summer programs are underway and going well. The boys were at the first of two basketball camps. Spring football numbers are low and the program was ended on June 14 due to low participation and safety concerns. Attendance ranged between five and 18 players. Athletes are...
WAITSBURG-Why did the salon owner cross the street? Bigger space, better opportunity, a building of her own and a location next door to a coffee shop. At least those were the reasons mentioned by Blush Salon & Spa owner Brooke Mikesell. "Last year I earned my Farouk Phd.; this is my achievement for this year," said Brooke, who is a highest-level educator for Farouk Systems. Last weekend Mikesell made the move from her former location at 141 Main to the other side of the street at 214 Main,...
WAITSBURG—The Prescott Joint Park and Recreation District received a $50,000 Sherwood Trust Core Grant to aid with pool repairs and facility improvements earlier this month. The District was one of 12 area organizations to receive grant distributions totaling $949,000. Prescott Joint Park and Recreation District Manager Yvonne Jackson applied for the grant in January and said the District is grateful to have been selected. “We were one of very few that received funding. My understanding is tha...
WAITSBURG-The Times got a little drive-through history lesson last week when a gentleman stopped in to check out the building and shared that he was following the trail his grandfather had taken while playing clarinet in a band in the early 1900s. Dennis Mulcahy, of San Jose, Calif., spoke with The Times advertising/office manager Teeny McMunn and shared photos and newspaper snippets about the band. His grandfather, Raymond Clow, was born in 1889 and came through Waitsburg in 1905, at the age of...
WAITSBURG-History buffs, or anyone interested in learning a little more about Waitsburg's past, need only walk to the north end of Main Street for a mini history lesson. Main Street Bridge While the recently replaced Main Street Bridge wasn't a historic structure in itself, the fact that it resided in a historic district meant its replacement came with some specific state requirements. Among those, was a mandate from the Historic Bridge Foundation requiring that, within two years of being...
WAITSBURG-June 21 may have been the official first day of summer, but for Waitsburg kids, Monday was the real summer kick-off with the opening of the City Pool, the first day of the Summer Reading Program and the first YWCA Fun Factory visit....
WAITSBURG-Facebook was filled with posts of multiple sightings of a mama bear and cub on the southeast end of Waitsburg on the evening of June 13. Residents lined the streets to get a look at the pair. Facebook posts, several with photos, caught the duo between Seventh and Ninth streets. At one point, the cub reclined near the porch inside a fenced yard on Seventh Street. Mama bear was also seen standing watch near the field house at the football field. Multiple residents reported the sightings...
WALLA WALLA COUNTY—The Washington State Legislature re-authorized the Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership, for two years, which will be a time of transition for the organization. The organization was also allocated $500,000 in funding, which will be used to develop a long-term plan and fund a new organizational structure for the Walla Walla Watershed. The partnership will report to the legislature in the fall of 2020 with reorganization recommendations as well as suggestions for activities that will best increase water flow to serve t...
Public Comment Parks & Recreation Board Chair Danielle Carpenter provided an update regarding the Parks & Recreation Board. Carpenter said the committee has decided to focus on events and engagements in the near future and will take over maintenance or recreation facilities slower than originally planned. Carpenter will attend the June 19 council meeting with more definitive plans. Meeting minutes and updates are available on the Waitsburg Parks and Rec. Facebook page. Louie Gagnon provided the council with a photo of why a “substantial d...
WAITSBURG-Licensed equine massage therapist, Suze Wood, recently returned from an educational expedition to western France. She traveled to attend practicum for certification as a master saddle fitting consultant. The learning took place in the picturesque Moutiers-Sous-Chantemerle, in the Deux-Sèvres region of France. The course offers a rigorous curriculum, 750 hours in total, which culminates in timed testing of saddle faults, conformation, gait analysis, testing the saddled areas for...
Waitsburg Elementary School students wrapped up the year with a well-earned field day on Friday, June 7....
WAITSBURG-It was a full house in the Lions Memorial Building as the Waitsburg Lions Club wrapped up its year with the annual Ladies Night dinner, award ceremony and induction of new officers. Following a thank you dinner of oysters and hamburgers, special awards were presented to Olson Brothers Exhaust Systems for its outstanding business partnership with the Waitsburg Lions, Kevin House was named Lion of the Year and Ken Cole Jr. received the distinguished Melvin Jones Award. Outgoing...
Winners from the selfie contest...
Muralist Don Brown, of Kennewick, recently completed this impressive mural on the side of Chief Spring's Brew Pub on Dayton's Main Street. The Times' Advertising Manager Teeny McMunn captures the process....
WAITSBURG—The Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever will host a free youth trap shoot on Sat., June 15 at the Waitsburg Gun Club. Dean Wass will present a firearms safety refresher beginning at 8 a.m. with the trap shoot immediately following. Youth age 18 and under are welcome to participate, including youth not yet a member of the Chapter. Participants not already a member of Pheasants Forever will receive chapter-sponsored membership enrollment. Clay targets and shotgun shells will be provided by Pheasants Forever. Adult family members or m...
WAITSBURG—The Huichica Music Festival will make its debut in the Walla Walla Valley this fall with a two-day festival at Stella’s Homestead, the former site of Jim and Geraine’s Hansen’s farm on the south fork of Coppei Creek. Located along the winding South Fork Coppei Creek and the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Walla Walla, Stella’s Homestead grew out of the historic Hansen wheat and cattle farm, established by Jim and Geraine Hansen in 1947. Today, their daughter Cheryl hosts eve...
