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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago November 1, 2007 It has come to our attention that we do not have any birthdays listed for October 28. We are hoping to find someone with a birthday on that day. For the first person that calls The Times office, 337-6631, with a name to put on our birthday list for October 28, we will provide a cake mix, frosting and birthday candles. Towne Hall will be the beneficiary of funds raised by the Waitsburg Commercial Club at the 50th Salmon Barbeque in September. At a recent board meeting, Club leaders approved submitting up to $5,000...
Ten Years Ago October 18, 2007 Ceremonies held statewide on October 10 recognized schools, including Waitsburg High School, for their achievements in improving WASL scores over the past six years. W.H.S. Principal Ken Beasley, Liv Leid, English teacher and Superintendent Carol Clarke accepted the trophy . . . denoting the school’s achievement . . . The Waitsburg Elementary Fifth Grade, putting elements of its reading curriculum into practice, placed and replaced birdhouses along Jasper Mountain Road in the Blue Mountains on Sept. 30, then g...
Ten Years Ago October 11, 2007 Dick Garbe of Touchet reports it rained .13 in September. Kimberly Bly of Waitsburg placed third in the Powder Puff Derby at the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days’ Demolition Derby. Questions, predictions, opinions, concerns, comments, fears, facts and conjecture. All these and more were part of the public hearing on the annexation proposal being sought by Andy McIlhinney and the Paloma Valley Land Retirement Plan Trust of Wildomar, Calif. The hearing was part of the City Council’s October 3 meeting. About 18...
Ten Years Ago October 4, 2007 Wheat producers and the grain industry saw another historic wheat price set Monday when soft white wheat closed at $10.02. As of press deadline Tuesday afternoon, wheat had closed at $9.87. “It still hasn’t rained in Australia,” said J.E. McCaw, local manager of the Northwest Grain Growers Waitsburg branch. “There is continued world-wide demand for wheat.” After sustaining a $250 loss during the 2006 Salmon Barbecue, the Waitsburg Commercial Club redoubled its marketing efforts and planning, and netted nearly $9...
Ten Years Ago September 20, 2007 Another beautiful – albeit breezy – September Sunday played host to the Pioneer Fall Festival at the Bruce Memorial Museum. The corn on the cob was lip-smackin’ good and smiling folks were abundantly welcoming to the well-attended fall classic. The case of the missing Lewis and Clark Silhouette has been solved. The Silhouette of the two famous explorers, positioned in the parking strip near the Main Street Bridge was discovered missing Monday morning by local citizens. By Tuesday the iron silhouette, craft...
Ten Years Ago September 13, 2007 Marguerite Anna (Heinen) Ganguet, who dies August 20, 2007, was to have been the honored Pioneer of the Year at the 35th annual Pioneer Fall Festival, slated for Sunday, September 16 at the Bruce Memorial Museum in Waitsburg. She will be honored posthumously in a brief ceremony at about noon. First quarters are usually spent as each team sees what the other is made of and more often than not, both teams have the jitters or are fairly equally matched and they grind and toil back and forth a few possessions. Not...
Ten Years Ago September 6, 2007 Seventeen-year-old Daniel Wies, the son of Joe and Kathy Weis of Waitsburg, was one of 26 individuals from the Spokane Dioceses to make an early August sojourn to Mississippi to contribute to Katrina relief efforts. With fingers crossed that a forest fire won’t break out in the next couple of weeks, plans for the 50th Annual Commercial Club Salmon Bake are coming together for the event on Saturday, September 22. Last year the feed moved to McGregor Co. because firefighters were using the DRS grounds as base c...
Ten Years Ago August 30, 2007 The City of Waitsburg’s official flag has been flying beneath the stars and stripes on the downtown flagpole for the past week or so. The City Council approved of the design in early June and accepted the offer of reimbursement for the flags from Bettie Chase, Bert Baxter and Mayor Markeeta Little Wolf. When the gun goes off to start the 2007 Cross Country season, Waitsburg High School looks to be a favorite to earn a berth in the State Meet later this fall. Maya Garcia, now a sophomore, is favored to be in the t...
Ten Years Ago August 23, 2007 Photo caption: Slowly the mule-drawn wagon carrying the casket of Kenneth G. Smith climbed the gently sloping hill at the Waitsburg City Cemetery, conveying the prominent wheat rancher and Quarterhorse enthusiast to his final resting place. Friends and Family attended the graveside service last Wednesday, officiated by Rev. Bret Moser, to bid farewell to Smith who, after military service in World War II, assumed management of the family farm at a young age. His hand in guiding and supporting the Days of Real Sport...
Ten Years Ago August 16, 2007 Grain prices have been ratcheting up each day, jumping 15¢ on Tuesday, August 14, said J.E. McCaw, local manager of Northwest Grain Growers, as harvest operations in the Touchet Valley and surrounding area begin to curtail activities. Soft white wheat closed Tuesday at an all-time record high of $6.47, McCaw said. Sparks from an electrical tool are suspected as the cause of a fire which destroyed a pleasure boat and caused minor burns to the boat owner’s hands and arms last Thursday. Casey paul, no age available, 8...
Ten Years Ago August 9, 2007 Wheat harvest in the Touchet Valley and surrounding is well past commodity prices are uncharacteristically on the rise. “These are the highest prices I’ve ever seen,” said J.E. McCaw, local manager of the Waitsburg branch of Northwest Grain Growers. The last time wheat was in the $6 range, McCaw said, was the spring following the 1973 harvest, when prices reached the $6.20 range. “Here we are at $6.17 and we’re still in harvest,” he said. Photo caption: Ted and Lavonne Bren of Waitsburg recently ventured to...
Ten Years Ago July 26, 2007 After going 7-3 during the regular season, the Windermere Girls Softball Team, won the 13-18U championship tournament by winning two games to capture the top trophy. The team consists of Morgan Beckman, Loren Eng, Mayra Ezpinoza, Kaz Grende, Alisha Marshall, Jackie Matson, Taylor Moon, Carissa Murphy, Kristin Ruffcorn, Ashley Wilson, and Megan Withers. Coaches are Angie Potts, Marvin Eng and Allen Wilson. Construction of the new Waitsburg Clinic is expected to break ground in October. A sign to publicize the...
Ten Years Ago July 19, 2007 Grain growers in the Touchet Valley and surrounding countryside should be harvesting in full swing by this weekend. Throughout this week, local farmers started cutting to get the 2007 harvest under way, said J.E. McCaw, manager of the local branch of Northwest Grain Growers. An early sense of this year’s crop indicate that yield ranges from fair to excellent, McCaw said, though reports of yields have shown a wide range. Less than 20 years after the first settlers came to the Touchet Valley in 1859, the forebears o...
Ten Years Ago July 12, 2007 Shubi Broom, a talking Budgie Parakeet that was immortalized in a children’s book written and illustrated by Kathelene’ Joyce of Milton-Freewater, escaped and is lost somewhere around Waitsburg and environs. Shubi is about seven inches from hedt to tail, bright sky blue in color with royal blue spots on the neck and is precocious. The unique bird has been a member of Jeff and Gayle Broom’s household for a couple years and escaped when the cage door accidentally opened while being carried into the broom home on 10th...
Ten Years Ago July 5, 2007 Waitsburg native Bob Collins has announced his candidacy for Port of Walla Walla Commissioner, District No. 1. The position is currently held by Paul H. Schneidmiller. Candidates who have also filed are Cory Henson and Jim Bear. The Times received a note from Dan Leathers, a Dixie area resident who is a charter fisherman in Ketchikan, Alaska, during the summer. Leathers’ son Alex is with him this summer and he writes that they had last Saturday morning off, so they went fishing and caught five nice King salmon in a...
Ten Years Ago June 28, 2007 Aryn Davis, 18, the daughter of Kevin and Rene Davis of Klickitat, Wash., granddaughter of Glynn Davis of Waitsburg, and the late Donna Davis, has received an appointment to be a member of the Class of 2011 at The Military Academy at West Point. The 55 Plus Club is pleased to invite the public to a potluck luncheon at Preston Park on July 6, beginning at noon. The Blue Mountain Troublemakers will be entertaining during the events. A development that will add 29 residential lots on the eastern edge of Waitsburg was...
Ten Years Ago June 21, 2007 Giving back to the community that has blessed them is the thought behind Waitsburg’s newest gift and variety shop, Etceteras. Marilyn and Robbie Johnson moved to Waitsburg in 2000 when Robbie was hired as superintendent of the Waitsburg School District. Marilyn continued in her nursing career. Photo caption: For 23 years local teams playing in the Waitsburg Lions Club’s Softball Bash have come close to winning, but just haven’t done it. Until this year. Broughton Land Co.’s softball team won six games in a row and...
Ten Years Ago June 14, 2007 Last year a local team, Cole Construction, finished with some hardware, and they will return to the diamond at the 2007 Lions Club Softball Bash to take another shot at the championship. They will be among the approximately 20 softball teams from around the region that will compete in the 23rd Annual Waitsburg Lions Softball Bash this weekend. On June 6, the Waitsburg Elementary Fourth Grade placed a Persian Witchhazel tree in the center court yard in memory of their deceased classmate, Rodrigo Espana. At a time...
Ten Years Ago June 7, 2007 Local small grain producers are smiling broadly thanks to steady and widespread rainfall which arrived in the area Monday evening after several scorching days at the end of May and first part of June. About three-quarters or an inch of rain fell on the area Tuesday breaking a dry month of May and about a week of hot weather. “This rain will definitely help,” said Heath Druffel, area manager for McGregor Co., in Waitsburg. “This is money falling out of the sky,” said Gary Hofer, a local wheat trader and analyst...
Ten Years Ago May 31, 2007 Twenty three members of the Waitsburg High School Class of 2007 are set to participate in commencement exercises on June 8. Valedictorian of the class is Danielle Coila, daughter of Gloria and Richard Lybecker, Waitsburg, and Curtis Coila, Waitsburg. Co-salutatorians are Melissia Sharpe, daughter of Susie Sharpe of Walla Walla, and Jeremy Nichols, son of Jeff and Dawn Nichols of Waitsburg. Honor speaker will be Courtney Gritman, daughter of Fred Gritman and Jamie Young, Waitsburg, and Carla Rowe of Dayton. Photo...
Ten Years Ago Thursday, May 24, 2007 People playing the ponies last weekend at the 94th Annual Days of Real Sport bet a total of $48,275 during the two-day race meet. It was another long and enjoyable Days of Real Sport Parade. Heading the parade was 2007 Queen Brittany Prince and her royalty, Princess Brandi Toomey. Riding as Parade Marshal was 1950 DRS Princess Meredith Huwe. Former Waitsburg Schools superintendent and downtown business owner Robbie Johnson was the unanimous selection to fill the City Council vacancy created by the resignatio...
Ten Years Ago May 17, 2007 Hey pard, folks around Waitsburg are as pleased as a pup with two tails that the 94th running of the Days of Real Sport is this weekend. Town is spruced up and ready to entertain friends and neighbors from near and far with the parade and the two days of Quarterhorse and thoroughbred horse racing, and plenty of after-hours fun is planned. But wait! Things don’t get really rollin’ until Friday night at the DRS Kick Off Dinner and Dance, with music by Little McKay Creek Band. That’s when the queen is chosen from the t...
Ten Years Ago May 10, 2007 The site of the former John Smith Implement and Hardware, known locally as “The Hole,” is in the process of being “renovated” for new uses. About two-thirds of it has been leveled and seeded to grass and the other one third may soon be outdoor dining for customers of the Whoop ‘Em Up Hollow Café. John and Marilyn Stellwagen, owners of the larger segment, are interested in hearing what might be done with the wall on the south side. John Stellwagen envisions a mural of some kind on it and is asking the community...
Ten Years Ago April 26, 2007 When the movie “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” was released in 2000, the country witnessed a revival in true American music-bluegrass. It also inspired a group of young people from Waitsburg to learn to play that type of music. Today, those young people have established their own bluegrass band: The Blue Mountain Troublemakers.. . Chris Carpenter, Zach Beasley, Nick Carpenter, Austin Beasley, John Hockersmith, and Will Garcia make up the band, which will leave October 3 for Sasayama. Photo caption: All of you mus...
Ten Years Ago April 19, 2007 W.H.S. graduate Laura (Lybecker) Tarp, daughter of Carolyn Lybecker of Waitsburg and the late Norman “Gus” Lybecker, was awarded the 2007 ProStart Teacher of the Year award by the Washington Education Foundation in early April. Driving tractor last Monday, Waitsburg farmer Bruce Abbey heard the news of the Virginia Tech shootings and his “heart jumped.” Beth Abbey, Bruce and Barbara Abbey’s daughter and a 1999 graduate of Waitsburg High School, is pursuing her Ph.D. in exercise nutrition at Virginia Tech, and the go...
