Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA-Visitors were welcome to tour the new Doughty Home for Veteran Women (DHVW) and browse literature at their grand opening Sun., June 23. The Doughty Home for Veteran Women is a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation whose mission is to provide a safe group home for women veterans who are homeless, struggling with legal issues, and/or have difficulties with drugs/alcohol. By providing education about money management, time management, self-care, and recovery-oriented issues, the group...
WALLA WALLA—The Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) will offer two free workshops at The Little Theatre of Walla Walla on June 25 and 26. First up is an Acting Workshop on Tuesday, Wednesday 26 from 2:45pm to 3:30pm. Participants will learn some basic tools of an actor's trade: observation, memorization, concentration, and imagination are presented and explored in an entertaining manner. Students participate in fun exercises, learning how to apply the tools to both performance and everyday life. Next is an Improvisation Workshop on Thursday, Jun...
WALLA WALLA—Outdoor enthusiasts looking for activities surrounding Walla Walla will do well to visit www.outsidewallawalla.com. Blue Mountain Land Trust member Gwen Dildine spent the last year and a half building the website that provides information on a multitude of activities in the Blue Mountains. The site provides information on hiking, biking/cycling, camping, fishing, water sports and snow sports in the area. Adventures can be filtered by proximity to Walla Walla and the level of d...
Walla Walla—The Walla Walla Symphony will present the 11th annual free Rock Camp, June 24-28, 2019. Rock Camp is designed to give area teens the full experience of preparing and producing a Rock n Roll concert. Participation in the camp is completely free and includes lunch provided by the Walla Walla Parks and Recreation Department. Camp activities run from 9:00a.m.-3:00p.m. daily, with a final, free concert for the commu- nity held at Washington Park on Fri., June 28 at 5:30p.m. Rock Camp is open to students going into grades 7– 2 and pro...
WALLA WALLA—Join the Blue Mountain Land Trust and the U.S. Forest Service for Walla Walla’s second annual BioBlitz on Sat., June 1 at Fort Walla Walla Museum and Natural Area. This will be a day of scientific exploration, observation and discovery right outside of city limits. The Walla Walla BioBlitz is a chance for the community and scientists to come together and celebrate the biodiversity that exists in the Walla Walla Valley. Participants will help local scientists and naturalists record as many species as possible around the Fort Wal...
WALLA WALLLA—Walla Walla Community Hospice (WWCH) believes it is important to empower individuals to take control of their health care, including their end-of-life care planning. In doing so, they have developed a free three-hour workshop on Saturday, June 22 from 1-4 p.m. The event is free to the public but an RSVP is appreciated. The workshop will take place in the Filipi Room at the WWCH office located at 1067 E. Isaacs in Walla Walla. Utilizing the 5 Wishes program as a guideline, the workshop will address topics such as: Choosing a p...
WALLA WALLA—Pacific Power presents the Off-Broadway touring production of Menopause The Musical at Gesa Power House Theatre with five performances August 1-4. Menopause The Musical is a joyous celebration of women who are on the brink of, in the middle of, or have survived “The Change.” Four women meet in a New York department store at a lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra...and memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, not enough sex, too much sex, and more! This hilarious musical parody is set to classic tunes from the ...
WALLA WALLA-Pioneer Park teemed with more life than usual as the Spring Fling got underway this weekend. Festivities began Friday evening with Fiddlesticks Stings and carried on through Mother's Day. Attendees were treated to a collection of rare and antique cars onsite beside the budding grounds. A wide selection of both food and wares vendors lined the path which lead to the Locati stages where live performances took place. The Walla Walla Spring Fling began six years ago when founders Liz...
WALLA WALLA-If life is an art, Ikune Sawada is a master. Sawada is a painter and collector of fine ceramics. For many years he has also practiced bonsai tree gardening. Through the gate and down a path flanked by lamprocapnos spectabilis, also known as bleeding hearts for their flower petals' shape, the garden unfolds. Sawada and his partner, Neil Meitzler, before his passing in 2009, created the garden from scratch. Meitzler was a landscape painter of the Northwest School and curator at the...
WALLA WALLA—Whitman College will present its annual Renaissance Faire on Sat., April 20, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Whitman College campus on the corner of Beyer Ave. and South Park Street. The festival includes Renaissance-themed costumes, performers, music and crafts. Admission is free and families are encouraged to attend....
Audiophiles rejoice, discount vinyl abounds WALLA WALLA-Hot Poop will join forces and lock tonearms in solidarity with independent record stores and worldwide music fans in celebrating the twelfth annual International Record Store Day this Sat., April 13 with an in-store performance by Diego and The Detonators at 2 p.m. Diego Romero studied music at McLoughlin High School in Milton-Freewater, Ore. and is a star graduate of the Walla Walla Symphony Free Rock Camp program. He provides vocals and...
WALLA WALLA-The Fort Walla Walla Museum will highlight the life of Washington florist, park-builder and poet Charles W. Phillips in a Living History presentation on Sun., April 7. The program begins at 2 p.m. in the museum's Pioneer Village, located at 755 Myra Road, Walla Walla. Phillips came to Walla Walla in 1861, along with his family, at age 6. He will discuss his involvement with the conception of two major Walla Walla parks, The City and Dreamland parks (now Pioneer and Jefferson parks)...
