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Elementary Principal’s Report: The fifth grade ski program is underway and the costs are being offset by sales of a K-12 School Cookbook. Proceeds will support students for this year and future year. Elementary students held their Jump/Shoot for Heart fundraiser kick-off. The actual Jump/Shoot event will be held Feb. 22. The Home and School association Father-Daughter dance was a huge success. The HASA is raffling a trout carving that will be raffled at the annual school carnival on April 21. S...
WAITSBURG – Book purchases for the Weller Public Library for the months of March and April are now covered. Anita baker donated $200 in memory of Tom Baker for March and Susan Donegan donated $200 for April. Anyone wishing to sponsor a month’s worth of book purchases for the library can contact Friends of the Library president Karen Huwe at (509) 386-6960. All are welcome to attend the next Friends of the Library meeting at 7 p.m. on Thurs., Feb. 16 at the Weller Public Library on Main Street....
WAITSBURG – Sheriff's Office officials were on the scene to retrieve a dead body found in Preston Park at about 2:30 p.m. on the afternoon of Tues., Feb. 21. Walla Walla Sheriff's Office Chief Matt Brown said the death was an apparent suicide and the victim's name will not be released until the family has been notified. No further information is available at this time....
WAITSBURG – For 80 years, the International Order of Rainbow, Waitsburg Chapter #68, has been installing a new slate of officers every six months. On Sat., Feb. 4, community members were invited to attend as the newest slate of officers took their pledges. The position of Worthy Advisor, similar to that of a club president, was assumed by Kendra Smith. The 17 year-old junior attends Wa-Hi, but joined Rainbow in Waitsburg as a sixth grader. She has remained a member of the Waitsburg chapter even...
At Saturday's home game against Colton, Waitsburg Booster Club President Ross Hamann was named 2016 Booster of the Year. Hamann was recognized for his many hours of volunteer service to the Waitsburg community, students, and staff of the Waitsburg School District. Some of Hamann's volunteer efforts include: building the pressbox at the football field, designing the Cardinal on the gym floor, serving 16 years as Booster Club president, serving 13 years on the Waitsburg School Board where he is...
WAITSBURG – During its Jan. 25 Annual Meeting, Walla Walla Conservation District Manager Renee Hadley spoke about the direction the district will be taking in 2017 and beyond. Hadley said that, over the past decade or more, the district was able to install a significant number of on-ground projects involving irrigation efficiency and projects related to fish passage. The majority of those large projects have been completed. She said the district will be shifting away from the larger e...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg High School National Honor Society raised over $1,000 this school year by hosting potato bars during basketball and volleyball games. "We are very happy with that!" said NHS advisor Liv Leid. Last month, the group donated $500 to the Waitsburg Resource Center. NHS members also take turns serving at the resource center on a monthly basis. "This is a substantial donation. We are very grateful for their help and donations," said Resource Center board chair Pam Conover....
PRESCOTT – The Prescott School Board spent much of Fri. Jan. 27 planning for the future of the district. A morning work session was followed by a lunchtime board meeting. According to District Superintendent Brett Cox, several issues were discussed during the work session. “We heard ideas for long-term goals for the district and looked at the possibility and costs of running a preschool. We also discussed possible facility needs such as a separate lunch room, which would allow the use of the...
WAITSBURG – Last week The Times wrote about the new fundraiser organized by the Waitsburg Friends of the Library. The Friends are soliciting donations from individuals, groups, and clubs to sponsor one month’s worth of library book purchases at $200. Thanks to generous donors the months of January and February have already been sponsored. Friends of the Library president Karen Huwe asked for someone to match her initial $100 donation to cover the month of January and Laurie Richardson ste...
WAITSBURG – It was a last-minute, whirlwind weekend to say the least, but Tiernan Pearson says attending the 2017 presidential inauguration with his wife, Sarah (Henze) Pearson, was an experience he couldn't pass up. Tiernan said he had read online that people could request inauguration invitations and he sent a request to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers's office shortly after the presidential election. However, he didn't learn that he would receive an invitation until about a week-and-a-half before...
Rivers swelled, but there was no significant flooding as feared, last week. Foot thick "icebergs" blocked Coppei Creek and found a home in the pasture owned by Kyle and Margaret Terry on the south end of Waitsburg. The icebergs looked even more out of place once the water receeded. See photo on Page 5....
WAITSBURG – Thanks to plenty of cooperation and helping hands, roads, walks, and lots in Waitsburg stayed relatively safe during the recent weeks of icy, snowy weather. At December’s Waitsburg School Board meeting Transportation Supervisor Colter Mohney expressed concern that the district didn’t have the manpower or equipment necessary to move and then deal with the unexpected amount of snow and ice that had already covered the school lots and sidewalks. Mohney explained that more care is neces...
WAITSBURG – Last spring, city council member Karen Gregutt organized the Waitsburg Windows of Art program, which filled empty downtown buildings with works by featured artists. But those aren't the only art-filled windows in town. Kazmira Grende has been putting her artistic skills to work celebrating holidays and events with paintings on the windows of the Waitsburg Grocery store for years. And Hanna Peterson, who regularly creates event and special sign boards at Whiskey Canyon Sports Bar & Gr...
WELLER PUBLIC LIBRARY 212 Main Street, Waitsburg Hours: Mon. and Thurs. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Storytime: Mon. 10:30 a.m. “The Bear and the Nightingale,” by Katherine Arden (adult fiction) – At the edge of the Russian wilderness Vasilisa spends long winter nights listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. After her mother dies, her father brings home a new wife from Moscow. The fiercely devout, city-bred stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family agrees, but Vasilisa is frightened and senses that more hinges on their rit...
A group of elementary school boys took advantage of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to enjoy some sledding fun just west of the Main Street Bridge on Monday morning. With warmer temps and rain in the forecast these boys may be wise to get their sledding in while they can....
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg residents will notice a slight increase in their utility bill in the near future, but the exact amount of the increase is still up in the air. Facing concerns over needed repairs to aging infrastructure, the Waitsburg City Council agreed to consider a five percent increase in water and sewer rates at their Jan. 11 council meeting. However, a suggested decrease in the monthly water allotment from 1000 cubic feet to 500 cubic feet, combined with a reduction in overage charges...
WAITSBURG – January is National School Board Appreciation Month, but board members weren't the only ones receiving recognition at the Jan. 11 Waitsburg School Board meeting. District Superintendent Dr. Carol Clarke announced that Stephanie Wooderchak has been selected as the 2016-17 Three Rivers Region Middle Level Principal of the Year. Wooderchak will be acknowledged on the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP) website and in AWSP publications. She is now eligible to apply as W...
WAITSBURG – Last April, a group of veterans stood outside the Waitsburg Hardware store and proudly saluted as they raised brand new United States and Waitsburg flags on the pole on the corner of Main Street and Preston Avenue. Today, the flagpole stands bare due to a defective light fixure. American Legion Post #35 Finance Officer Cindy Standring said the flags had to be removed, because the light fixture, which is located in the sidewalk is no longer working. According to the US Flag Code, A...
School Board Appreciation: School board members were recognized by NHS and the kindergarten class. See story on the Last Page. Athletic Director Report: Athletic Director Stephanie Wooderchak suggested that fans communicate closely with coaches or call the school or visit the Waitsburg High School Facebook page to keep updated on game changes due to weather. A Athletic directors are still working to find a venue to host the 1B district basketball tournament. Senior night for basketball and cheer will be Feb. 3. Spring sports will begin Feb....
WAITSBURG – The Home and School Association Father-Daughter dance Saturday was a great success, according to those who attended. HASA president Jaimee Knudson said she was a bit nervous about how the evening would turn out, because not only was it a new event, but the weather was cold and the roads were nasty. Knudson said many moms and community members pitched in to make the dance a success, raising $744, which will be used to purchase school supplies for Waitsburg students. "We had roughly 5...
WAITSBURG – As is the tradition in Waitsburg, school board members are honored at the January school board meeting each year during School Board Appreciation Month. This year, high school National Honor Society members, accompanied by advisor Liv Leid, provided cookies and refreshments, awarded board members with certificates, and thanked them for their service. Kindergarten teacher Pam Beasley told the board she had talked with her students about the role of the school board and asked them t...
WAITSBURG – It took the City of Waitsburg the better part of a decade to secure funding to replace the 90-year-old Main Street Bridge, which is designed in such a way that it creates a flood hazard. Since the state legislature awarded $1.7 million toward the bridge’s replacement in June of 2015, the city has been busy checking off the many requirements that have to be in place before the bridge can be replaced this summer. At their December meeting the city council checked off another box by...
DIXIE – Bob Brock is on a mission of healing, though he's going about it in an unconventional means. On May 15, he will depart Walla Walla and travel to Washington, D.C., in his Your Patriots Jeep, thanking and honoring veterans and law enforcement all along the way. Once in Washington, he will drive before the White House in the National Memorial Day parade. Brock lives with his wife, Jacque, on a small farm on Biscuit Ridge outside Dixie. He is a member of the Waitsburg American Legion and s...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Christian Church hopes to be a light in the darkness by offering a new Celebrate Recovery group, beginning Wed., Jan. 14. The group, facilitated by Pastor Matt Wyatt, will meet at the Waitsburg Christian Church (604 Main) from 7-8 p.m. each Wednesday night, and is focused on helping people deal with “any hurt, habit, or hang up” in their lives, including addictions, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors. “As an individual that let drugs and alcohol control my life for...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg elementary students will have their artwork displayed with that of other area students at the Carnegie Picture Show exhibit at the Walla Walla Library from Jan. 10-21. Waitsburg artist Lane Hill will offer a portraiture demonstration as part of the closing celebration at 11 a.m. on Jan. 21. Waitsburg was added to the Carnegie Picture Lab area of service last fall, allowing students to experience art history and art creation lessons. Waitsburg artist Suze Wood is the W...
