Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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STARBUCK - Commerce along one of the state's arteries will soon kick back into gear as major repairs to key locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers draws to completion this month. Close to 10 million tons of cargo including wheat, barley, petroleum products (like fuel), fertilizer, hay cubes, peas, lentils, milk carton stock and containers full of merchandise are shipped via the Columbia-Snake River system each year. Over 2 million tons are moved just through the Little Goose navigation lock...
SHOOT HOOPS FOR GOOD CAUSE WAITSBURG - Everyone gets busy, but too busy for a fun valley-wide alumni basketball tournament for a good sports cause? Team signups have been slower than organizers from the Cardinals Booster Club had hoped, so they are giving it until the end of this week before deciding whether to hold the firstof its-kind event at Kison Court on March 18 and 19. Proceeds will go to help fund a new press box and sports equipment facility behind the bleachers on Cardinal Field. Now that the 2011 Cardinals basketball teams are home...
OLYMPIA - Many in the Touchet Valley have seen 15-year-old Cougar Henderson on stage at Dayton's Liberty Theater. In fact, he's gearing up to appear with dozens of co-stars in the Spring Variety Show later this month. His voice has been heard at Salt & Light concerts in Waitsburg, where local youth minister to peers and others both here and around the region with contemporary Christian songs. And last week he could be seen at the state capital, serving as a page in the Washington State House of...
4 Collective Visions" at Willow March 4 through May 2, 2011, local artists Elizabeth Harris and Hans Matschukat will present their work "Collective Visions" at Willow, 2 E Rose Street, Walla Walla. The Opening Night Artists' Reception is Friday, March 4, from 5-8 p.m. Art talks begin at 6 p.m. There will also be an Artists' Reception on Friday, April 1, from 5-8 p.m. Demonstrations will begin at 6 p.m. For more information, visit willow-wallawalla.com. 5 Relay for Life Waitsburg Relay for Life t...
I n the food and wine business, the weather has everything to do with the harvest. The recent weeks of rain and snow flurries here in the Great Northwest are what make great grapes for crush and make next fall's late-harvest vegetables so abundant. But I am like many of you: bored to tears with butternut squash. How much is too much of a good thing? I am ready for more texture and more variety - something only spring can do for us, and she's a while off. This yearning for something brighter and lighter in food is what brought me into the...
Michael and Rebecca Townsend of Moses Lake are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Lorin Townsend to Bryan Harris of San Diego, Calif. Lorin is a graduate of Whitworth University, where she obtained her bachelor of arts in accounting and business management. Her grandparents are Frank and Hazel Brown of Waitsburg. Bryan is the son of Larry and Helena Harris of Waitsburg. The groom-elect is a 1997 graduate of Waitsburg High School. He is employed as the manager for Affordable...
Ten Years Ago March 8, 2001 Angela Smith, the 18-year-old daughter of Glen and Adele (Ford) Smith of Waitsburg, will join a select group of Walla Walla County families who have been involved in the fair from generation to generation. Her mother was a member of the court in 1975, her grandmother Erma Lee (Kessler) Smith, was a Farmette in 1950. Angela's grandfathers, Kenneth Smith of Waitsburg and Don Ford of Prescott, have both served on the board of the Walla Walla Fair, and her great-grandfather Merle Brown of Prescott was parade marshal in...
DAYTON - Twenty five Future Business Leaders of America from Dayton High School competed against Southeast Washington's best at the Regional FBLA tournament held in Richland earlier this month. The team took home 12 first-place finishes and cleaned up on the rest. About 200 students representing 12 schools squared off in the Southeast Region Winter Leadership Conference. Ten percent of Dayton's High School participates in the local chapter of FBLA. They have been a consistent powerhouse and a te...
CITY HALL CLOSED WAITSBURG - Waitsburg City Hall will be closed for part of Thursday and all of Friday as the city clerk travels to Spokane for a class related to completing the city's annual report. Anyone wishing to make a payment during those days may do so via the drop box located in front of City Hall on Main Street. HOLLYWOOD HOTEL IN DAYTON DAYTON - The Dayton Drama Club will present Hollywood Hotel on March 10, 11 and 12 at 7 p.m. in the High School Auditorium. Admission is $6. This is a comedy about three teenage girls from Missouri...
This afternoon, Wild Bill of Wild Bill's Organic Patit Street Garden, Dayton, and I had our seasonal over-the-fence-visit. Bill's in the planning stages of his 2011 organic summer garden. In a couple of months he'll plant various leafy greens, corn, potatoes, cucumbers, green beans, beets, carrots and culinary herbs. I love having a big garden like Bill's in the neighborhood; it's an eco-friendly kind of thing. Even Bill and my bees, butterflies and dragonfly kanoodle over the fence. In the summer, we share a family of Dayton bats that pay a...
Ten Years Ago March 1, 2001 Edna Thomas was named Most Inspirational Citizen by the City of Prescott at a dinner in the Prescott School this week. About 190 friends gathered to participate in the recognition. Citizens of Waitsburg gear up for the annual City Caucus. While Columbia County Hospital District strives to hold costs and provide the highest service possible, their tax levy would compensate for tax and Medicare shortfalls. Twenty-Five Years Ago Feb. 27, 1986 Waitsburg City Council meeting Feb. 19 heard concerns of some local...
DAYTON - When the Bulldogs cheerleaders get together to raise spirits, they mean business - on the field, on the court or in matters of the heart. Next Tuesday, March 1, the 12 young women will show Dayton what community support looks like as they hold a spaghetti feed fundraiser for the family of 6-year-old Jayden Dedloff. Jayden was diagnosed last year with intractable epilepsy, a rare seizure disorder. He suffers from four different generalized seizure types, making the syndrome difficult to...
COUNCIL DENIES DEVELOPERS WAITSBURG - Waitsburg City Councilors denied a reprieve request by Walla Walla area developers David Corbett and Mark Jones last Wednesday. Three years ago, city councilors approved a subdivision plan, Waitsburg Estates, proposed by Corbett and Jones for several acres on Wood Street, just north of the old Jackpot gas station (now Midway Food Mart) on Highway 12. The men had until this spring to begin work on improvements to the 27 lots, including water, septic and roads. To date, no work has been done. Corbett stated...
Trevor and Ashley Johnson are the proud parents of a baby boy, Robert Thomas Edgar Johnson, born at 2:16 p.m. on Feb. 10, 2011, at St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla. He weighed in at 8 lbs. 9 oz. and is 21.25 in. long. Grandparents are Jeff and Dawn Nichols of Waitsburg and Mark and Kathy Johnson of Arlington, Wash. Great-grandparents are Velma Sickles of Waitsburg, Glena Lee Nichols of College Place and Dale and Ann Johnson of Tonasket, Wash. He joins a sister, Adelaide....
WALLA WALLA - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are evaluating options for two parks on the lower Snake River. The current lessees at Lyons Ferry Park and Central Ferry Park recently notified the Corps' Walla Walla District of their desire to relinquish their leases prior to the 2011 summer recreation season, which traditionally starts in May. Therefore, both locations may be available for new leases in 2011. The current lessees' relinquishment notifications started a close-out and assessment process to evaluate how those properties will b...
STARBUCK - Mary-Jo Sanderlin may have just the right attitude to make it as a business owner in Starbuck, "45 miles from anything." She and her husband, Dan, were new in town just a few months ago when they arrived fresh from the construction business in Montana. She's enthusiastic about snowmobiles, ATVs, quads and motorcycles. And at 29 years old, she's owned and operated a bar in Moses Lake and a power sports retail outlet. Now she and Dan are opening Rawhide Bar N Grill on Baxter Street in...
FEDS ASSESS IDAHO WOLF PLAN IDAHO - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week the availability of a draft Environmental Assessment of Idaho Department of Fish and Game's request to manage gray wolves in the Lolo Elk Management Zone in north central Idaho in response to impacts of wolf predation on elk. The Idaho proposal, if approved, would allow the state to reduce (through lethal means) the wolf population in the Lolo Zone to a minimum of 20 to 30 wolves in three to five packs from a current estimated level of 60 to 80 wolves....
I n the wine business, there's nothing more apparent than one designated wine growing AVA compared to another. For those of you who may be new to wine lingo, AVA is short for American Viticulture Area, an official term designated to wine-grape growers by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Actually, the AVA serves as a point of reference defining the area's climate, soil, elevation and properties of the land in concern. This information is absolutely necessary for the grower, who, unlike a stock broker, will need to know what to...
Winter is just beginning to thaw, and with the end of January comes two Starbuck school district students of the month. In the elementary school, Karlee Summers is being rewarded for all her hard work this year! Karlee is a 2nd grader this year, and she is giving her best in and outside the classroom. Academically she has raised her reading and math scores considerably. She recently reached her reading goals for Accelerated Reader (AR) points, and received a special Valentines ice cream sundae...
Ten Years Ago February 26, 2001 Washington state again ranks top in the nation for management of state government, according to the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and Governing Magazine. The Mustangs finished their season with a 6-3 record and outbounded every team they played this year. "I believe this is a first for a Waitsburg girls' junior high team," commented Coach Karen Huwe. Twenty-Five Years Ago February 20, 1986 Patty Horney was named Waitsburg's Citizen of the Year at the Commercial Club...
DAYTON - Dayton City Council approved Columbia REA's application for rightof way use during its regular meeting Monday night. The meeting was moved up a week to accommodate councilors who will be absent for the usual second Monday of the month meeting. That meeting has been cancelled. The decision to grant CREA a permit to run three underground power lines to its own office on Main Street and a fiber optic line for Columbia County's use at the county courthouse through the city's right-of-way took councilors through weeks of research and many...
WAITSBURG - The National FFA Organization's motto is: Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve. This is also a motto practiced by Christy Poirier. Poirier is currently the Waitsburg FFA Chapter President and the District IV FFA Reporter. Aside from serving as an officer, Poirier is also dedicated to her personal activities in the FFA. This year she is competing in several CDE's (Career Development Event) including Job Interview, Agriculture Sales and Service, and Prepared...
DAYTON - Passersby in downtown Dayton may notice a new set of occupants on the corner of Main and Second streets across from the Bank of America. Christy's Realty, a longtime Dayton real estate agency, has moved to the building where Columbia County Title continues to operate. "We wanted to do business in our own building," said Christy's owner Garry Snyder. Christy's opened in its downtown location at the end of January. "It's the best location in Dayton, actually," Snyder said. The real estate office was formerly housed with Columbia County...
