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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago June 4, 2009 Photo Caption: 2009 Chess & Checker Sportsmanship award winners include:( L to R) Jade Alleman, Maurisa Hulce,, Morgan Forney, Laramie Pettichord-Mathews, Devon Watts. Not pictured: Taylor Spoonamore & Shandra Dallolio The Class of 2009 will have thirteen graduates on Friday, June 12, 7pm in the gym at Prescott High School. Scott Harris, former Superintendent will be the guess speaker. Morgan Beckman, daughter of Todd and Tami Beckman of Prescott will present one of...
Ten Years Ago May 28, 2009 Photo caption: The Waitsburg-Prescott Boys Track Team hoists its third straight District 9 Championship Trophy overhead at the conclusion of the two-day District 9 meet in Walla Walla last Friday evening. A clear favorite throughout the season WP scored 216 points to win by a 132 margin. Thirteen boys and five girls earned berths at the State Meet in Cheney Friday and Saturday. From Left: Nick Carpenter, Josh Smith, Wyatt Withers, Justin Armstrong, Ben Kiefel, Morgan Baker, James Lehr, Jace Zuger, Zac Alexenko,...
Ten Years Ago May 21, 2009 It was Hot N Sunny in the First Race…..and the second…and the third…all the way to Sunday’s Queen’s Derby, with Chilly Wind a long shot that never got out of the gate for both days of the 2009 running of Waitsburg’s Days of Real Sport. The 91st Annual Dayton Days kicks off Friday with something for everyone, old and young. Friday is Family Night-just $20 gets the entire family into Pro West Rodeo with a Mutton Bustin’ event. Dayton Days 2009 Queen Brittany Prince is th...
Ten Years Ago May 14, 2009 Morgan Baker, a senior at Waitsburg High School, has been named one of four finalists of Male Athlete of the Year at the 33rd Annual Blue Mountain Youth Awards, which will be presented at 7:00 tonight, Thursday, May 14,at the Walla Walla Elks Club. Another W, H, S. senior, Matt Leid, will be recognized with a Special Student Award. Rebecca Brown and Wyatt Withers, both juniors at Waitsburg high school, were honored by the Masonic Lodges of Eastern Washington as...
Ten Years Ago May 7, 2009 “The river always wins” said USFS Teams fisheries biologist Brian Bair, who with USFWS geomorphologist Dr. Janine Castro addressed 35 attendees at a public meeting held in Waitsburg last Wednesday, April 29 to discuss the results of the just completed assessment of the Touchet River in Waitsburg. The year-long study used Light Detection and Ranging (LIDARY) imagery, aerial photography, bank erosion measurements, and sediments analysis. Photo Caption: The 2009 Jun...
Ten Years Ago April 30, 2009 Des Witt, a long-time volunteer at the Days of Real Sport horse races, will be the 2009 DRS Parade Marshal. For about 20 years, Witt has served as timer, backing up the automatic system with a stop watch to precisely measure the time from when the gates open until the first nose crosses the finish line in each race. The former American Legion Samuel W. Southard Post No. 35 got a new look last weekend. On April 25, a 44 ½ foot United State flag, with black replacing the blue field of stars and red stripes, was...
Ten Years Ago April 23, 2009 Photo caption: A member of the Waitsburg HS FFA Austin Beasley , the son of Ken Beasley and Pam Nolan-Beasley of Waitsburg was selected to receive a Chore Time grant in the amount of $1000 to initiate or improve Austin’s career development experience known as a Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE). Austin was selected from hundreds of applicants nationwide. Photo caption: The court for the P.H.S. Sophomore Class dance on March 27 included, front row, left to r...
Ten Years Ago April 16, 2009 Waitsburg and the surrounding country roads will again play a big role in the 2009 Tour of Walla Walla bicycle stage race and some changes in play this year promise to boost the excitement level and foster strategizing in the final laps of the road race, organizers say. Two member Wheatland Wheelers Cycling Club, Clint Froke and Bryan Lubbers, are certified League Cycling Instructors (LCI;s) for this year’s bike race. They join two other LCI’s in the community, Pat...
Ten Years Ago April 9.2009 An interesting new exhibit at the Dayton Historic Depot presents photos of early Columbia County schools plus many artifacts and memorabilia from school days of the past. The Washington Rural Heritage Project provided grant money to the Dayton Memorial Library to gather photos and other data on the early schoolhouses of Columbia County. Photos of 42 schoolhouses were found, half of which are show in this exhibit. The Mat Bird Wrestling Team travel to Eastern State University in Cheney for the Washington Little Guy Wre...
Ten Years Ago April 2, 2009 Photo caption: Freshman Ronnie Hulce won the 100 High Hurdles to a second place finish and later won the 300 intermediate Hurdles in addition to winning the high jump and carrying the baton in the 4X200 Relay. “We crossed the prairies, as of old, the Pilgrims crossed the sea. To make the West, as they the East, the homestead of the Free” is one of the quotes in the yearbook of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington yearbook. A group of Dayton women are seeking to reform a Dayton chapter of the Daughters of the...
Ten Years Ago March 26, 2009 Photo caption: Pictured are some of the Waitsburg Mat Birds medalists from the Pomeroy wrestling tournament on March 21, 2009. Back row: Ryan Proctor, Dalton Janopoulos, Head Coach Travis Newman, Ben Brown, Trenton Kitselman, Jared Brown, Front row: Devin Newman, Nicolas Kitselman, Ryan Cowden, CJ Lute, Camrin Henzel, Gavin Gould A recent proclamation set a day to honor the local Order of Eastern Star chapter. Recently dedicated Members of Waitsburg Eastern Star chapter presented Mayor Markeeta Little Wolf with a...
Ten Years Ago March 19, 2009 A surprise phone call from Waitsburg to San Francisco was how 2008 Commercial Club Community Service Award winners Wayne and Ruth Peterson of Waitsburg were informed and congratulated for receiving the honor. Master of Ceremonies Tom Baker introduced the Community Service Award presentation with an odd reference to a “being similar to a marriage—except we’re only lacking a bride and groom.” With that Baker went on to announce the Peterson’s honor. After finishing second in the Alpine Slalom and third in both the Alp...
Ten Years Ago March 12, 2009 John Hockersmith of Waitsburg and Jacob Harold of Walla Walla were honored by Walla Walla’s Boy Scout Troop 305 on Saturday, Feb 28 for attaining the Eagle Scout rank. The two Scouts are good friends and both have mountain biked over 800 miles, crossing Washington State twice. Hockersmith is the son of Eric and Kate Hockersmith of Waitsburg. Harold is the son of Jim and Brends Harold of Walla Walla. Photo Caption: Tri-City Prep will be Waitsburg-Prescott’s first foes of the 2008 season there March 21 with these ret...
Ten Years Ago March 5, 2009 Anyone looking to get away won’t want to miss the 2009 edition of the Liberty’s annual variety show, “Passport to Paradise” Thirteen Waitsburg High School students are inaugurating a Youth and Government Program and are holding a fundraiser to earn their way to the state competition in Olympia come May .The thirteen students include Kourtney Foley, Matt Leid, Ben Kiefel, Allie Wooderchak, John Hockersmith, Ellie Bartlow, Philip Kock, Amber Morris, Christy Poirier, Nick Carpenter, David Smith and Fletcher Baker....
Ten Years Ago February 26, 2009 Two of Waitsburg-Prescott’s quick guards were honored as selections to the Blue Mountain Conference All conference First Team. Stacy Potter of the WP Lady Cardinals, and Jeff Hofer of the WP Cardinals were among the top five selections name b Blue Mountain Conference coaches recently. Crews were busy in the frigid cold last Friday, installing a new surface-bypass temporary spillway weir (TSW) in Spillway Bay 1 at Little Goose Lock and Dam. The modification to the spillway increases survival rates of anadromous f...
Ten Years Ago February 19, 2009 Waitsburg native Susan (Lawrence) Talbott and her family, on an airline flight recently espied familiar surroundings in the February 2009 edition of the Alaska Airline Magazine. Yep, there on page 25 was a brief tidbit about an exhibit at the Washington State History Museum that compares Washington state’s past with the present-and it captured the well-known1909 horse show photo from Waitsburg’s Main Street and the 2005 shot of townspeople on about the same spot nearly 100 years later. Photo caption: Winners of...
Ten Years Ago February 12, 2009 Photo caption: Becky and Randy Pearson were honored as Boosters of the Year by the Waitsburg Booster Club. The presentation by Booster Club President Ross Hamann was made during halftime of the girls basketball game last Frisday. The Pearsons generously give of their time, talents, and treasure to help numerous activities in Waitsburg, Hamann said. Scholars from Dayton and Waitsburg High again scored in the top echelon of schools at the All Schools Knowledge Bowl meet in Richland Monday, February 9. Dayton’s t...
Ten Years Ago February 5, 2009 Following final code inspection and acceptance, the new Lions Memorial building at the race track has been placed into service. “After spending a lot of time and money on this building, the Waitsburg Lions are very happy to have it completed,” said Lions Club President Ted Bren. Photo caption: While Waitsburgers and neighbors in the region shivered in the mid-January cold, this happy foursome was enjoying Acapulco , Mexico. Ron and Jo Wolfe of Dixie, and Deana and Brian Black of Dayton made the journey south of...
Ten Years Ago Jan 29, 2009 Photo caption: Brian Luders, son of David and Teresa (Keeney) Luders, received the Eagle Scout Award this past December 9. This achievement is the highest scout center at Long Lake in Nine Mile Falls, Wash. Brian is the grandson of Donna Keeney and the late O. D. Keeney of Waitsburg; and the nephew of Clint and Patricia Froke of Waitsburg. He is a sophomore a St. George’s School and a member of Assumption Parish of Spokane. With mixed emotions, Waitsburg fifth graders experienced Ski Bluewood and hopefully learned t...
Ten Years Ago January 22, 2019 Photo caption: The long familiar building at the southwest corner of the intersection of Coppei Avenue and Preston Avenue has been demolished and fill dirt was being placed this week. The Don Thomas Storage Building, a long time ago home to a number of businesses including auto parts stores and originally a lumber and coal yard, collapsed under heavy snow last December. Waitsburg High School’s Knowledge Bowl teams edged out the completion at January’s meet Tuesday at the Harvest Church in Dayton. Of 17 teams, DeSa...
Ten Years Ago-January 8, 2009 This week two important local charities working to serve those in greatest need are getting a little help from American West Bank. Bank branches in Waitsburg and Dayton presented the Waitsburg Food Bank with a $500 donation last Monday, January 5, and will present a $500 donation to Project Timothy in Dayton later this week. Accepting the donations were Waitsburg Food Bank representatives Betty Branson, Anita Baker, and Dona Jean Smith. Photo caption: Racing at Schweitzer recently were these members of the...
Ten Years Ago-January 1, 2009 Waitsburg Commercial Club, lthe City of Waitsburg and other community groups who regularly meet in Ye Towne Hall are either canceling or relocating their meetings following discovery this week of roof damage blamed on heavy snow. Photo caption: If you didn’t pick up a free calendar from Waitsburg Grocery, Inc, last month the “America the Beautiful” version, you will have missed this striking photo for January. It’s non other than Huntsville’s Dick Ferguson, wearing his “going to town” straw cowboy hat. Each month c...
Ten Years Ago-December 25 2008 Heavy snow deposited by several consecutive weather systems that have marched across Washington State in the past week and a half caused the collapse of the Thomas Building at the corner of Coppei and Preston avenues at about 6 pm last Sunday evening. The structure, originally the location of a Potlatch Lumber Co, lumber and coal yard, was Scott Lumber Yard for years in the 1950’s, 1960’s and early 1970’s, then was home to a succession of auto parts stores and other enterprises. It appears that at that the east...
Ten Years Ago-December 18, 2008 The recently renovated vaulted ceiling in the First Christian Church of Waitsburg was exposed or the first time in some 70 years last Saturday when congregation volunteers labored to dismantle scaffolding that permitted restoration work on the ceiling over the past six weeks. An appreciative crowd crunched through packed snow and couldn’t have agreed more with the Waitsburg School bands and choirs that, “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” The Waitsburg Schools’ Christmas...
Ten Years Ago-December 11, 2008 Photo caption: Waitsburg Prescott Alumni Women who took on the WP Cardinals last Friday included Kristy Scott, Tracy Daniels, Sharon Cunz, Kitzi Hazelbaker Brannock, Debra Wilbur Doering, Renee Scott. Standing: Leanne Peterson Branson, Ann Bickelhaupt, Wendy Davis Richards, Becky Daniels Harshman, Sandra Conover Farley, Jamie Williams, Kelly McCaw Steinhoff, Jessie Meier, Not pictured: Chelsea Spies. Coaches were Neil Henze and Todd Beckman. Photo caption: A copy...
