Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman, is a poignant story about an inept, wannabe bank robber who disappears into thin air, a father and son cop team, and a handful of folks who showed up to an apartment as prospective buyers and left as rescued hostages. The night before New Year’s Eve in a small Swedish town, a struggling parent attempts to rob a cashless bank for 6,500 kronor. After a solid ridiculing by the young bank teller, the would-be robber flees and das...
Barbara Carlton from Dayton sent this from Spring Break in South Florida. Or should we call her Lady Barbara?...
March 25 Suspicious activity at Columbia County Transfer Station. Cottonwood Street Citizen contact. Main Street Assault at Dayton High School. 3rd Street March 26 Animal call. Cameron Court Threats at Dayton High School. 3rd Street Theft at the General Store. Main Street March 27 Traffic stop. Main Street DUI Investigation. Main Street Welfare check at Classy Chassy Car Wash. Main Street March 28 Non-injury accident call. Bluewood 9-1-1 call. Country Village Hit and run reported. Cameron Street...
March 23 Informational report. Walla Walla A lock was cut to gain entry to a storage unit area, another lock was cut on a storage unit. Unknown if unit was entered, nothing reported missing at this time. Burbank March 25 A man conspired with another man to violate an order for protection. Walla Walla March 26 Report for information. Touchet March 28 Unknown suspect damaged personal land in Walla Walla County. Burbank March 29 A theft was reported. Waitsburg A jar of marijuana was found. Walla Walla County Male and female going through a...
Marie was born to Reginald Henry Belanger and Frances Katherine Beatty Belanger in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. The family moved to the United States when she was very young. Marie attended schools in Spokane WA and Dayton WA. Marie married D. Dean Shea in 1956 (divorced in 1980). Their family life started in Spokane as Dean was enlisted in the USAF. His career took them to many places around the world while they grew their family. They moved about every 2 years, being stationed in Spain, Nevada, Everett, WA, Germany, Colorado,...
Honestly, I have no legitimate excuse for not having returned. The experience still calls like a siren song playing softly in the background. Snow-capped peaks and glaciers. Expansive vistas of low-country lakes surrounded by ghostly granite, golden grasses, and solemn conifers. Hot springs and chaparral scrublands. Mountain quail. And honest-to-God golden trout. The jewel of California's Sierra Nevada Range. It was a bucket-list trip. One I had dreamed of for how many years, I am unsure. We had...
Ten Years Ago March 31, 2011 Dubbed the Hee-haw Honeys, Columbia County Fair Board Vice President Debbie Bailey, Secretary Christine Broughton, volunteer LeeAnn Literal and President Miranda Bowen performed a skit during Saturday’s kickoff. While the wind and early spring rains still descend on the Touchet Valley more than rays of sun, Erin Horan is already busy planting this year’s garden at the Monteillet dairy farm. The Blue Mountain Chapter of Pheasants Forever reported a successful annual banquet in late February. The chapter reports it...
Spring is here! Birds are chirping, daffodils have finally brought some color to our garden, and fresh local asparagus will soon come into season. While I often serve asparagus simply with just a drizzle of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon, I am always looking for new recipes to highlight this springtime delight. Here, I have tossed asparagus into a classic Roman pasta dish, making a decadent and quick weeknight dinner. Spaghetti alla Carbonara marries eggs, cured pork, and cheese, with plenty o...
March 18 on Clodius Road, Spring Valley Vineyards. The grapevines are trimmed and ready to start growing. It was sort of a surreal Daliesque day that morning...the only things missing is watching the snow melting from the tree branches....
Ginny passed away unexpectedly on March 17, 2021, at St. Mary's Medical Center. Ginny was born in Kenmore, New York on April 4, 1937. She attended Cleveland Hill High School in Buffalo, NY, Cortland State Teacher's College, majoring in Education, and received her Master's Degree in Education at Eastern Washington University. While attending Geneseo State, Ginny married her sweetheart, Joseph Just, on August 25, 1958. God blessed Ginny and Joe with 4 children: Mary J Hutsell (Randy), Joseph A...
Ronald Ernest North passed away on March 9, 2021 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ron was born in Vallejo, California on July 16, 1942 to Lyle and Thelma (Kinvig) North and grew up in Lakeview, Oregon. He joined the Air Force soon after high school and served until 1964. He later joined the Navy in 1967 and served until retirement in 1983. The Navy took him to Memphis, Tennessee where he met and married Brenda Burgess in June 1968. As an aviation electronics technician, he was stationed in San Diego,...
Velma Adeline Sickles, 93, passed away peacefully following an extended illness. Velma was born on July 15, 1927, in White Bluffs, WA to Denzil C. and Neoma R. Gluck Mock. The family moved to Waitsburg in 1933 and she graduated from Waitsburg High School in 1945. She attended the University of Washington where she majored in music. In 1948, she returned to Waitsburg where she met Bob Sickles while working in the cannery. The couple married on February 6, 1949. Velma worked at Maybac's until she...
DAYTON--"Congratulations to the students of Dayton Elementary for reading more than 3,000 pages during Dr. Seuss week," said Elementary Principal Guy Strot. Strot said "Spud" the bulldog, pictured here, handed out bite size cupcakes, "for being sweet", and Smarties for "being smart" to students in Grades K-3 after their reading success during Dr. Suess Week on Mar. 2. This week, Grades 4 and 5 will celebrate their reading success with a treat, and Principal Strot will be on the receiving end of...
March 15 Lost dog taken to pound. Stockton Road Animal call. Highway 12 Citizen contact at Ameristar. Main Street March 16 Wanted person located at Dayton City Park. 1st Street Citizen Contact at Blue Home. Main Street Domestic problem. Lower Hogeye Road March 17 Traffic call at General Store. Main Street Warrant service at Country Village. Citizen contact. Spring Street March 18 Civil problem. Stedman Road Animal call. Wagon Road Warrant confirmation. Main Street March 19 Threats at Dayton High School. 3rd Street Citizen Contact at Best...
March 15 A woman’s home was entered, paperwork stolen. Prescott March 16 A theft was reported. Burbank A domestic disturbance occurred, and a man was injured. Walla Walla County March 20 Adult male was arrested on three misdemeanor warrants. Walla Walla County March 21 Female arrested for assault, DV. Burbank Seized vehicle pending search warrant after the operator eluded Oregon State Patrol. Touchet Verbal domestic. Touchet DWLS 2nd degree. Touchet...
If you had asked me about shed hunting a few weeks ago, I would have assumed we were talking about rotting pieces of pioneer carpentry that folks love to photograph or scrap out for projects. I was disabused of that notion when I learned about one of Max Schmidt's favorite forms of recreation: scouting for cast-off deer antlers, called "sheds." It turns out it's not an uncommon thing to do, but I'd never met anyone who did it until I met Max. Dayton High School student Max Schmidt began shed...
Coming of age in the '90s, I had an unfair bias against the saxophone. The once-hip instrument of jazz and early rock and roll had become associated with cheesy 80's hits like "Careless Whisper," talk-show politicking, and forgettable, soporific elevator music. How wrong I was. Liberally employed by the band Destroyer in their widely acclaimed 2011 masterpiece, Kaputt, the saxophone imbued an album of cryptic synth-rock with cool, jazzy detachment. Destroyer's lyrics have always been poetic,...
Planty friends, this one's for you. My birthday was on Friday, and it presented my mom and me with the perfect excuse to pop over to the Tri-Cities and do some plant shopping. We joined the Tri-Cities Houseplant Lover's Facebook page, and members were constantly posting photos of their loot from C&M Nursery in West Richland. This was our first stop of the day, and we ended up falling in love with the little shop located at 2517 W Van Giesen Street. They have a huge outdoor plant spread which...
Ten Years Ago February 24, 2011 [Headline] From the Drug Front: Meth is Back: With Threat to Tri-County Drug Task Force, Sheriffs Fear Setback In Local War on Drugs It was like a scene from Sherwood Forest. Men, women and children tromped through the woods carrying bows and quivers full of arrows. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, hundreds of modern-day archers, with compound bows priced between $15-$1,200, wearing synthetic, camouflage fleece and hiking boots, swarmed the forest hills at Tucannon Campground for the annual 3-D target shooting...
Being the proper Anglophile that I am, my television viewing leans heavily towards programs from across the pond. A long favorite is The Great British Bake Off, which, with its charming pastoral setting and English pleasantries, feels refreshing compared to more aggressive American competition shows. Each episode provides a crash course in British culinary vocabulary and offers up endless inspiration for experimentation in the kitchen. This recipe, blending two British classics, Sticky Toffee...
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford Though this best-selling book was published in 2005, I didn't read it until 2009. Before then, my reading material rarely included invading empire-building conquerors. This was before Game of Thrones (GOT), both the books and HBO series, became an addiction in my household. What little I had learned about Genghis Khan was that he was a violent and ruthless invader, on horseback, wearing fabulous fur fashion. I especially loved...
Did you know that a moose can run as fast as 35 miles per hour? This young moose wasn’t worried about speed, however, as he soaked up the last few moments of daylight before bedding down on a hillside....
March 8 Citizen contact. Dayton High School, 3rd Street Assist at Valley View Trailer Park, Highway 12 Missing person reported at Dayton City Park, 1st Street March 9 Welfare check at football field/track. Cottonwood Street Assist at Blue Mountain Counseling. Washington Street Harassment reported, Shangri La RV Park. Rose Gulch March 10 Assist at Kyle’s Towing, Main Street Warrant confirmation at Columbia County Courthouse. Main Street March 11 Disturbance reported at Kyle’s Towing, Main Street 9-1-1 Call, Blue Mountain Insurance. Main Str...
March 8 Attempted fraud. Touchet Unwanted phone calls from an inmate at the Umatilla County Jail. Waitsburg Hit and run with property damage. Burbank March 9 Female subject reporting possible harassment at work and home by unknown individuals. Prescott March 12 Domestic Dispute between boyfriend and girlfriend where a vehicle was damaged. Waitsburg Computer fraud. Walla Walla County March 13 Unknown subject damaged locks on a gate at the entrance to a property in Walla Walla County. Walla Walla County. Warrant service, use of drug...
The bronze Stationmaster, which watches over the Historic Dayton Depot, was sculpted by Montana-based master sculptor Keith McMasters. The Stationmaster and Companion was dedicated and installed in 2010. McMasters was the featured guest during the March Kiwanis Club meeting, sharing words of inspiration and his journey through the world of fine art. McMasters was born and raised in Colfax, Wash., and the surrounding Palouse area. His love for art was nurtured from a young age. His grandmother...
