Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Fifteen Years Ago August 19, 2010 For several tense hours Monday, Teresa Price experienced a mother's worst nightmare. She and her husband Bruce were on one side of the fire along Harvey Saw Road while their 19-year-old son Kyle was inside the family home on the other side of the flames and smoke. "It's such a helpless feeling," said Price, who moved to the area four years ago and was at her job at Walla Walla General Hospital when she received the call about the fire. "We fear this (fire)...
Fifteen Years Ago August 12, 2010 [Photo caption] Seattle Premiere, June 8: from right, David Skinner, executive producer of Shadow Catcher Entertainment; Ginny Ruffner, subject of the film; Karen Stanton, local director; Cindy Sangster, film editor; and Tom Gorai, Skinner's partner and the producer of this film. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 10, 2000 Starting the City of Waitsburg on the first step to construct a flood drainage channel under Main Street and consideration of the 2001 contract...
Fifteen Years Ago August 5, 2010 [Photo caption] TRADE SECRETS: Nicole West, an EMT with the Waitsburg Ambulance Service, shares safety tips with 4-year-old Dayton resident Tazie Betzler during Tuesday's Community Night Out in the Dayton City Park. Betzler returned the favor by telling West all about her temporary tattoo. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 3, 2000 Grain harvest in the Waitsburg and Prescott area is in full swing and yields and quality are reported to be excellent. Several yield...
Fifteen Years Ago July 29, 2010 Dayton – When it comes to enjoying his work, Dain Henderson knows what he's doing. The 18-year-old Waitsburg resident who will be attending Dayton High School as a senior this fall knew he had his senior project coming up. So, he put his mind to planning and found a way to combine his favorite pastime with his project – helping organize the annual Young Life golf tournament at the Touchet Valley Golf Course in Dayton. Henderson, who has been golfing with the hig...
May, 1953 [Photo caption] Favorite float with young and old alike wherever it is shown is the "Reddy Kilowatt Circus," which will be entered by Pacific Power and Light Company in the parade here next Saturday. The colorful float with its moving figures was designed and build in the company's own display department. Real circus music from a make-believe steam calliope "played" by Reddy Kilowatt himself gives the final artistic touch to the float. Fifteen Years Ago July 22, 2010 Roses, a new...
Fifteen Years Ago July 15, 2010 [Photo caption] Renowned horse whisperer Buck Brannaman and his daughter, Reata, stand outside their mobile tack room at the Columbia County Fairgrounds on Monday. Brannaman has been conducting annual horsemanship clinics, drawing horse owners and trainers to the weekend-long classes in Dayton for almost 20 years. Twenty-Five Years Ago July 13, 2000 When members of the Washington State Parks Commission meet July 21 in Anacortes, they will be considering a budget t...
Fifteen Years Ago July 8, 2010 [Photo caption] The youths in Rural Green Enterprises are: (from left) Casey Cates, Chevy Tivey, Don Hensley, Andy Dingle, Kyle Zenk, Zoe Williams, and Wayne Cates with Leroy Cunningham. Endangered salmon need shady trees along the river, but the human residents of Touchet Valley want operational levees and flood-free living. It's Steve Martin's job to keep both happy. Friday, Martin, director of the Snake River Salmon Recovery Board, and representatives from many...
Fifteen Years Ago July 6, 2010 [Photo caption] The Touchet Valley All-Stars will represent the valley's Little League teams in the regional tournament in Yakima this weekend. Front row, from left: Marcus Mead, Dayton Chevron; Trey Cole, Chevron; Jordan Beckman, Prescott; Andrew Mings, Prescott; Joe Erwin, Prescott; John Thomas, Prescott. Standing: Coach Steve Erwin, Kris Oliver, Prescott; Michael Baird, Prescott; Andy Ledford, Prescott; Adam Hermanns, Dayton Lions; Nathan Luther, Lions; Asst....
Fifteen Years Ago June 15, 2010 [Photo caption] Whoop Em Up co-owner Leroy Cunningham with the tomato plants he and members of the nonprofit Rural Green Youth Enterprises planted on land owned by Maria and Roger Garcia for a natural vegetable garden recently. Fifty Years Ago June 26, 1975 Jimmy Young, Donny Abbey, Steve Sickles, Timmy Hulce, Brad Patton, and Lenny Lytle travelled to Cheney for the Inland Empire AAU track and field meet. The following week, Joanie Neal, Karen Huwe, Mary Hansen,...
Fifteen Years Ago July 1, 2010 [Photo caption] Summer's Here! With school out and temperatures in the 80s, the Waitsburg swimming pool has been a good place to cool off for kids, families, and adult lap swimmers this week. Fifty Years Ago June 19, 1975 Weekend guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Abbey following the graduation of their daughter-in-law, Barbara A. Abbey, cum laude with a B. S. in Home Economics from W.S.U., were Mrs. Sophie Fisher of Seattle, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hanson and...
Fifteen Years Ago June 10, 2010 [Photo caption] PSE Wind Farm Permit Appealed. Petersons not happy with hearing process and turbine setbacks. Fifty Years Ago June 19, 1975 Connie Smith, 1974 Waitsburg High School graduate, has been hired through the Educational Training Institution to work as Assistant Librarian in the Weller Library here for the summer. The Weller Library will be open all day five days per week, Saturday afternoons and Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Swimming lessons will start...
Fifteen Years Ago June 3, 2010 [Photo caption] Croquet anyone? Linda Herman of Waitsburg (right) and Khristina Hawks of Dayton enjoy a game of croquet on the lawn of the historic Bruce Mansion during the ice cream social fundraiser held there over the weekend. Fifty Years Ago June 5, 1975 One of the most public issues in our area is the possession of firearms. A bill recently introduced into the legislature by Rep Douthwait, King County, would have the State of Washington collect a yearly $20...
Fifteen Years Ago May 27, 2010 [Photo caption] Among the WHS students who participated in the Spokane Lilac Parade this year were Zac Brown on the bari sax (far left) and Chad Pearson (on the right) on the sousaphone used by his dad, Randy, who was in the WHS band. Fifty Years Ago May 29, 1975 Waitsburg City Council spent a great deal of time on details of ordinance 533, which sets up the bonding requirements for the new city water reservoir, and handled an assortment of other business in their...
Fifteen Years Ago May 20, 2010 [Photo caption] Moose on the loose. A female moose makes its way through a wheat field off Whoop Em Up Hollow Road in the direction of Waitsburg. Wildlife officials say the animals sometimes come down from the larger herds around Spokane in search of drinking water during the warmer months. Twenty-Five Years Ago May 25, 2000 The Waitsburg Lions Club is considering a deal that would enhance youth sports in Waitsburg with the addition of a second Little League field...
Fifteen Years Ago May 13, 2010 [Photo caption] In The Footsteps of a Giant. Twenty-Five Years Ago May 18, 2000 Mendoza and Romero Prom Royalty. The junior class held their prom Saturday evening beginning with dinner, and then the live music began the evening of dancing. The highlight of the evening was the crowning of the Queen Isela Mendoza and King Eric Romero. The theme for the evening was Truly, Madly, Deeply. It was a memorable evening. Washington winter wheat crop is good, but in need of...
Fifteen Years Ago May 6, 2010 [Photo caption] At 14, Beka Adams may be the youngest Queen ever to represent Days of Real Sport. She has the poise – not to mention the riding ability – that's rare even in older girls. "Beka is a court advisor's dream, quite honestly," said Sandra Farley, who has taken on that role for this year's races in Waitsburg. "I've been doing this five years and she is the most qualified girl we've had. She is a fabulous rider and has excellent speaking skills." Twe...
Fifteen Years Ago April 29, 2010 [Photo caption] Outgoing Waitsburg Mayor Markeeta Little Wolf gifts a gavel to new Mayor Walt Gobel. Twenty-Five Years Ago May 4, 2000 Sealed within a common glass gallon jug which was then embedded within a concrete monument for 55 years, 25 pieces of paper bearing the names of Waitsburg Schools students, teachers and other writings about Captain Lewis and Sacajawea, have held up remarkably well. The documents, retrieved April 22 from the time capsule buried...
Fifteen Years Ago April 22, 2010 [Photo caption] Phil Monfort tours his land – nearly four acres on the Touchet River – that he wants to let local residents use for a community garden. Behind him are some of the many fruit trees on the level property. Twenty-Five Years Ago April 20, 2000 The annual Mudd Tournament was held April 8, at Touchet Valley Golf Course with twelve teams participating. Tying for first place were the foursomes of Duane Startin, Gene Crothers, Cecil Bramhall, Jack Davis an...
Fifteen Years Ago April 15, 2010 [Photo caption] Todd Gallaher began his 2010 racing year with a 9–mile time trial in Snohomish in late February. He is one of almost 600 cyclists who will come to Waitsburg for the 14th Tour of Walla Walla this weekend. Twenty-Five Years Ago April 13, 2000 Waitsburg farmer Greg Zuger was one of 25 lucky sweepstakes winners from across the nation who had the experience of a lifetime driving a real, 630-horsepower NASCAR Winston Cup Stock Car recently. Zuger e...
Fifteen Years Ago April 8, 2010 [Photo caption] Brad West, a Whitman College student from Minnesota, tries his luck skimming the pond during Ski Bluewood's annual year-end bash that concluded the ski season with great new snow, a cookout and plenty of watery beer. West won the pond-skimming contest in the skiing category. His college mate David Wallace from Skagit Valley won it in the snowboard category but not before they both dunked in the ice-cold water. Twenty Five Years Ago April 6, 2000 Tw...
Fifteen Years Ago April 1, 2010 For decades, one of the first spring rituals in the Touchet Valley has been the Waitsburg Junior Livestock Show & Fair, where children enter their animals and art projects to be seen and judged. Not this year. Citing dwindling springtime attendance, the show's organizers have decided to try another time of year to host the event, which is now scheduled for the weekend of June 12-13. "We've been eliminating too many kids that didn't have projects by April," fair...
Fifteen Years Ago March 25, 2010 [Photo caption] Full Steam Ahead: Braving a rainy Sunday afternoon, members of the Pacific Railcar Operators (PRO) from as far away as Missoula and the San Francisco Bay Area come down the Blue Mountain railroad tracks near Bolles between Waitsburg and Prescott. Twenty-six of the "speeders" that are equipped with 16-inch steel wheels and powered by two-cylinder engines for speeds up to 25 miles per hour made the day trip back and forth between Walla Walla and Day...
Fifteen Years Ago March 18, 2010 [Photo caption] With temperatures in the 60s and the "fuzz" on the hills getting greener, it's beginning to look and feel a lot like spring these days. The Monteillet Fromagerie near Dayton is right on target when it comes to the new season. Cradled in owner Pierre Louis Monteillet's arms is one of the 120 kids and lambs born on the farm so far this year. Twenty-Five Years Ago March 16, 2000 Representative George Nethercutt was given the Wheat Champion award...
Fifteen Years Ago March 11, 2010 If Waitsburg had royalty, Bettie Lloyd Chase would be queen. A descendant of one of the original pioneer families, she is the go-to person for any questions having to do with the history of the town – much of which she herself has helped preserve. In fine weather, she reigns from a seat on her porch, granting passersby a congenial greeting or a wave. Other times, she's bound to make an appearance at the round table of the Waitsburg Hardware & Mercantile, hands r...
Ten Years Ago March 5, 2015 [Photo caption] Dejay Lalka and P.E. Teacher Jeff Bartlow try out ski bikes at Bluewood. Twenty-Five Years Ago March 2, 2000 Special levies in Walla Walla and Columbia counties passed save Walla Walla School District's two-year, $5.43 million levy, which was lagging at 58.27% approval in unofficial returns. Some 11,464 voters in Walla Walla County and 1,609 in Columbia County cast ballots. Three important issues in the Touchet Valley were overwhelmingly approved by...
