Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago-September 18, 2008 It is the quintessential American story, told and retold in thousands of towns and villages across the country of covered wagons, sturdy pioneers, immigrants from over the sea, financial hardships, moving, settling down, raising families. Yet with each retelling with different faces and facts, locations and circumstances, and points –in- time, come, like an heirloom family quilt, new textures to the fabric of the American Saga. Jack and Laurette McCaw are the m...
Ten Years Ago-September11, 2018 Why a person would undertake the training, discipline, and dedication to enter a race which will take over 16 hours to complete and involving a 2.4 mile swim, bicycling 112 miles, and running a full marathon of 26.2 miles, is a question Waitsburg High grad Tammy (Otterson) Wood and her husband, Scott, get asked regularly. Scott and Tammy have been doing triathlons about 10 years. Among triathletes, the ultimate is to do an ironman, she said. “It’s a goal that takes a few years to arrive at." Over 45,000 mar...
Ten Years Ago-September 4, 2008 Progress on the “Paint the Town” Project has built some momentum with pledges of paint, discounts and cash. Project volunteers met with building owners to make color decisions this week, so painting can begin in earnest this weekend. Buildings that are planned for painting this weekend are the EZ Way, Farmers Café’, and the Weller Library. Prep work will be done on the Whoopem Up Hollow Café, jimgermanbar, AMO Art and the Cenex Station over the next week so they will be ready for painting the following weekend...
Ten Years Ago-August 28, 2008 Organizers of the first Huntsville School Reunion held last weekend at Lewis & Clark State Park were ecstatic with the response to and attendance at the event. Photo caption: Front row: Kay Huwe Baker, Peggy Fisk Lightfoot, Carol Coy Dill, Seated: Larry Huwe, Hazel Allmon Brown, Carolyn Shanander Spalinger, Jo Mays Polumsky, Zeller Fuller Powers. Front standing row: Jeannie Huwe Fuhr, Betsy Hunt Samson, Carol Nick Sexton, Mary Liebermann Phillips, Virginia hunt Travers, Marion Allmon Anderson, Mona Groom Waliser,...
Ten Years Ago-August 21, 2008 Waitsburg native Joan (Land) Miller, M. D. of Columbia Falls, Mont was recognized with the 2008 Spirit of Planetree Caregiver Award by North Valley Hospital in Columbia Falls. Dr. Miller, a 1966 graduate of Waitsburg High School, received the honor May at an award banquet sponsored by North Valley Hospital A sentimental journey into the genuine American village of Huntsville is set for this Saturday, August 23, at Lewis and Clark Trail State Park. Exhibits of Huntsville mementoes and artifacts will be open to the p...
Ten Years Ago-August 14, 2008 Huntsville Memories from the late Margaret Ganguet: “I remember all our walks to Huntsville school (about 1923). I started there in the Fourth Grade after Pendleton and Walla Walla boarding schools. Now the kids wouldn’t think of walking two miles to school. We used to get disgusted when a car passed by and didn’t offer us a ride! Nowadays we wouldn’t dare get in a car if we didn’t know the people. In winter when we had snow, my father hitched up the team and took us to school in the sled.” Originally called the Wa...
Ten Years Ago-August 7, 2008 Nearly 30 volunteers gathered at Ye Town Hall to talk plans to “Paint the Town” and more volunteers will be needed, say project directors Leroy Cunningham and Jim German. The project entails giving every building in the business core of Waitsburg a fresh paint, Cunningham said. The informal organization has already procured a donation of paint from Columbia Paint in Walla Walla, he told the group. Lydia Roberts, a member of the Waitsburg International Order of the Rainbow for Girs, journeyed to Chicago in July to...
Ten Years Ago-July 24, 2008 Buyers of U. S. wheat have helped made 2007-2008 a most remarkable marketing year, reports the U. S. Wheat Associates in its July 10 newsletter. In the end, sales of all U. S. wheat classes exceeded 2006-2007 by 43% Deere & Company will invest approximately $35 million to increase manufacturing capacity by 30% for combine harvesting systems produced at the John Deere Harvester Works in East Moline, Illinois, the company announced in late May. Washington State University has released four new wheat varieties for...
Ten Years Ago-July 24, 2008 No history of Columbia County could be told without including the Broughton family, now known for their large, well-managed parcels of land, but in the beginning the story was much smaller, focused upon one young man who left his home in Maryland in 1872 at the age of 17 to travel west. Charles J. Broughton, who was born in Somerset County, Maryland in 1854 accompanied his Uncle Buck Broughton West. Working for his uncle’s packing company, riding the bell mare and cooking for the packers on the trail between M...
Ten Years Ago- July 17, 2008 A few local wheat producers have dipped their toes into the 2008 harvest this week, and harvest start-ups within the next week or so are likely to be delayed by the effects of the cool spring the region experienced. Start ups will likely be “a little later due to the cool spring” says J. E. McCaw, manager of the local branch of Northwest Grain Growers. Mc Caw expects “full swing” to be going late next week. “It’s about a week behind normal”, he said. Grain harvest in the Whetstone area started Monday with Jack Mille...
Ten Years Ago-July 10, 2008 Photo Caption: Jeremy Nichols, son of Jeff and Dawn Nichols of Waitsburg, is the recipient of a $500 scholarship from the Zonta Club of Walla Walla. Nichols, center, was honored by Maryann Reinhardt, left, and Zonta Club president Betty Jane Seide, right, at a luncheon held at the Elks Club on July 2, 2008. He will continue his education at the University of Idaho in August, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Attending the luncheon with Nichols were his parents. The Touchet Valley 11-12 Little League All Stars...
Ten Years Ago-July 3, 2008 A proposed Flood Emergency Action Plan was explored by Mayor Markeeta Little Wolf and councilmen Larry Johnson, Larry Clinton and Leroy Cunningham at a council workshop June 25. Reviewing a Corps of Engineers-developed plan of attack in event of flooding from Coppei Creek, the Touchet River, or both were also Alan Schroeder, representing the City’s engineering firm Anderson-Perry, and Dan Katsel, Director of Public Works. Photo caption: The Waitsburg participants in the Weller Library Summer Reading program enjoyed a...
Ten Years Ago-June 26, 2008 Organizers have mobilized and are calling all former students of the Huntsville School or Huntsville residents to gather for a reunion in August. Photo caption: The Huntsville Grade School students for the 1946-47 school year. Front Row: Unknown Sutter, Unknown Sutter, Bobby Leroue, Dell Groom, Bud Groom, Bill Kendall. Second row: Darlene Tubra, Betsy Hunt, Kay Huwe, Rosella Koch, Merry Joyce Brown, Mary Liebermann, Eden Brown, Mona Groom. Third row: Teacher Dorothy Hatley, John Libermann, Eugene Tubra, Pete Huwe,...
Ten Years Ago-June 19, 2008 Students of the Month of May include Ben Brown, (5th grade), Tristan Newman (4th Grade) Devon Watts (4th Grade) Austin Hamann (5th grade). Teachers in grades 4 and 5 select students based on citizenship, respectful behavior, effort and attendance. When students and staff of Prescott High School arrived for classes on June 6, they discovered that the gremlins had been working overtime. A small car was moved carefully into the hallway and surrounded by straw bales. Seniors then went on a scavenger mission, lifting...
Ten Years Ago - June 12, 2008 A local team, Broughton Land Company, captured the top trophy at last year’s Lion’s Club Softball Bash and they’ll be defending their championship in the 2008 Lions Club Softball Bash this weekend in Waitsburg. Another local team, Cole Construction, will mix play with teams from Pendleton, Hermiston, Enterprise, Wasco County, and Yakima, says Tournament Director JE McCaw Sheep dog handlers from the Northwest and Canada will compete Friday through Saturday, June 13-15 at the Tenth Annual Wessels Dirt Blowing Sheep...
Ten Years Ago-June 5, 2008 Photo Caption: Fuel prices posted at the Walla Walla Depot pretty much tell the story. The average price of regular gasoline, news services report, is over $4 a gallon. The situation has spawned a new word in today’s lexicon: staycation. You guessed it, it’s a vacation spent close to home. Photo shows unleaded gas-ARM, premium gas, LEG, and Diesel ,FIRST BORN. At noon on May 10, 2008, David H. Flathers passed to his nephew, Andy McDonald of Clatskanie, Ore, a family heirloom, the Dunlap Bible. “This family heirloom ca...
Ten Years Ago-May 29. 2008 If you’re a lucky golfer, really lucky, there’ll be a chance to win ten thousand clams at the 8th annual Quarterback Club golf tournament. A new feature of the Quarterback Club golf tourney is a Hole In One Prize of $10,000, which has the potential to greatly enliven the annual event planned for 1pm, Sunday, June 8, at the Touchet Valley Golf Course. Spring Sports Dessert and awards night was held May 14th in the Waitsburg Auditorium with Jack Smiley welcoming parents, students, and athletes. Angie Potts, coach, ass...
Ten Years Ago - May 22, 2008 The dedication of 10 additional names to the Veterans Memorial Wall and an address by David Morback of Waitsburg will high light the 2008 Memorial Day Program will be held at the Wall at 11am on Monday 26 at the Waitsburg City Cemetery. During the ceremony, recognition of the addition of the following deceased verteran’ names to the Vertern Memorial will be made: WWI-Rulon McCullock:, WW II, Dorothy E. Gilhus, Walter G. Harris, Glen D. Hofer, Charles “Bud” Phillips, Kenneth G. Smigh, Bruce W. Wilson, Vietnam: James...
Ten Years Ago - May 15, 2008 On this 95th year of the Days of Real Sport, the Parade Marshals are Erma Lee Smith, her son Glen and Erma Lee;s grandson and Glen’s son, Greg, all in the honor of the Smith family’s long history of involvement and support of the annual race weekend. The annual community celebration plans to entertain its friends and neighbors from near and far with a parade and two days of Quarter horse and thoroughbred horse racing and plenty of after-hours fun. Photo caption: A Walla Walla couple believes they had a close enc...
Ten Years Ago - May 8, 2008 Jerry Baker hit hole in one on the 180 yard fourth hole of Waitsburg’s private golf course at Martin Baker’s. Martin is Jerry’s dad. Witnessing the shot was Kit Lane, who reports it was made at 4:27 p.m. on May 1. Emily L. Hogan was awarded a $3000 Claude and Kathleen Irwin Regents Scholarship at Washington State University. She is the daughter of Carrie Graham and Robin Hogan from Waitsburg. It’s a natural. Kimberly Smith loves history and will be a perfect fit for the 2008 Days of Real Sport this year, emphasi...
Ten Years Ago - May 1 2008 Photo Caption-The largest tank of its kind ever manufactured by the Waitsburg Welding Works was delivered two weeks ago to the Walla Walla Concrete & Pipe Co, reads the story along with this photo from the April 11, 1947 edition. It took a crew of men two weeks to build, two hours to load on a truck, and three hours to haul the 20 miles to Walla Walla. Because of its immense size, it was too high to go under the railroad underpass on the main highway, and a slow trip was necessary on the country road with lead cars...
Ten Years Ago - April 24, 2008 After operating as a Green Giant label vegetable processing center since 1934, the Senica Foods processing plant in Dayton is ready for a new tenant. Friday the Port of Columbia opens the doors to welcome interested businesses, entrepreneurs and residents to tour the former home to tour the former house of the largest asparagus cannery in the world. Ad reads---Grand Opening-Waitsburg Clinic , May 5th, Ribbon cutting, Refreshments, Tours of the Clinic. Meet your Partners in Health , Roy Myers, MD, Dawn Meicher,...
Ten Years Ago - April 17, 2008 “Bull in a China Shop”, a quaint whodunit, opens Friday at the Liberty Theater in Dayton. Proceeds from the “Touchet Valley Arts Council (TVAC) production will benefit the “Open the Door” campaign for new building restoration. The Blue Mountain Heritage Society’s Smith Hollow Schoolhouse Restoration Project received a $2500 donation from Columbia Rural Electric and its employees recently. Eight students from Waitsburg Elementary and Preston Hall will be competing in the Blue Mountain Regional Speech Contest ton...
1 Years Ago - April 10, 2008 Whatddya gotta do to be the Touchet Valley’s Top Farmhand? First contestants had to cram a hay bale into a too-right gap between other bales, the load and unload a nail gun. Next was to saddle a “horse” and rope a hay-bale doggie, followed by the bale toss. After that, contestants were to give their best critter call, then pitch a busted section of bob wire fence. Checking a chainsaw for correct chain installation and putting a link in a drive chain correctly followed. Clint Atteberry jumped into first place with...
Ten Years Ago - April 3, 2008 Morgan, Naylor win for the Bluewood Blazers. The Bluewood Blazers ski team was spread all over the Pacific Northwest the weekend of March 22-23. Four athletes were at the Lookout Pass for the Emerald Empire Youth Ski League Finals, a pair at Mission Ridge for the Hampton Cup USSA race and ten were at Anthony Lakes for the Broadway Blast. At Anthony Lakes in a Super G, J3 racers Breanna Morgan and Alex Naylor each won in their events. Waitsburg-Prescott boys scored in every event and notched seven firsts and seven...
