Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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 - The Green Giant has only been gone from Dayton since 2005, but people in town have already forgotten what a force it used to be in the community, says Dayton booster Ginny Butler. "Growing up in Dayton, I knew it was the major employer for many years," Butler said. "I remember in the '60s, you could work all summer long and earn enough to pay for a whole year of college, at $3,000. There is no job a kid can get today that will pay for a year of college in just three months." To remind...
BEWARE OF SCAMS DAYTON - The Columbia County Sheriff's Office is warning residents of mail scams. Deputies have received several recent reports from local citizens regarding attempted scams through the mail. One of the scams involved the receipt of a check in the mail reportedly to help the recipient pay for the taxes on their prize winnings. Another involved winning a lottery or contest involving a large sum of money. To collect the award, the recipient was requested to mail in a check as a "processing fee." The old adage holds true that "if...
BOSTON, Mass. - Waitsburg resident Sydney Arbelbide, a Northeastern University student majoring in Business Administration, was recently named to the university's dean's list for the fall semester 2010, which ended in December 2010. To achieve the dean's list distinction, students must carry a full program of at least four courses, have a quality point average of 3.5 or greater out of a possible 4.0 and carry no single grade lower than a C- during the course of their college career. Each student receives a letter of commendation and...
I found it very comforting to be home this weekend to answer letters from you, readers, to re-pot house plants and do a little cooking of all things. Last week, I had such an incredible wine tasting while visiting Livermore, California, wine country, that all the way home I knew I needed to get into the kitchen and revamp an old 1960s Haight Ashbury Chicken Mole recipe ,to pair with the one wine that "blew my cork in Livermore." But first, a discussion about the Livermore Valley AVA. As a child I remember driving through this part of Northern...
Ten Years Ago February 22, 2001 The largest change order in the high school renovation project came to light this week, inadequate footing of soil and wood in the basement. This situation was remedied by additional contractors working at an additional cost of $73,461 but will lead to an early completion date. The importance Corbett Mill in Huntsville played in the settling of the community is highlighted in this paper. The grist mill was built in December 1881 and January 1882. In 1955, Orville Fullerton sold the mill and water rights to the...
DAYTON - The following, stuff-of-legends account, which has intrigued history buffs for almost 100 years, ran in a local newspaper in 1920: Dayton, April 8. - Frank Finkel, a pioneer resident of Columbia county, was the chief speaker at the Thursday luncheon of the Dayton Kiwanis Club this week. He was eye witness to the Custer Massacre and gave to the club the account of his thrilling escape and the circumstances which prevented the knowledge of his survival from reaching the government at the...
MAYOR PLEADS NOT GUILTY DAYTON - Starbuck Mayor Darcy Linklater pleaded not guilty in Columbia County District Court last week to DUI charges filed against him after his Jan. 25 arrest on McKay-Alto Road. Columbia County Sheriff's records indicate Linklater was stopped at 11:20 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, as he headed toward Waitsburg after a possible DUI tip was called in to dispatch. Linklater refused to take the breath test for blood alcohol content, according to county prosecutor Rea Culwell. He was arrested, issued a criminal citation...
February 3: Melissa Pietila, Ryan Neal, Norman Hansen, Robert Weller, Eric Rohde, Mike Gauch, Joe Watson and Chris Walker. February 4: Morgan Baker, Chelsey Murdock, Meredith Huwe, Stacey Bennett, Mathew Akers, Renee Bailey, Robert Bailey, Matthew Lyons, and Kimberly Bloor. February 5: Tim Abel, Andrea Tuttle, Mary Phillips, Loretta Hunt, Janet Hart, Jack and Jim Hubbard, Helia Richardson, Chad and Nicholas Pearson. February 6: Aidan Larsen, Jena Worth, Lorene Wood, Sueann Neace, Crystal Werner, Teresa Luders, George C. Robinson, Shawn Davis,...
BELLEVUE - Puget Sound Energy is offering public schools and other educational institutions an opportunity to bring renewable energy into the classroom - or perhaps onto the classroom. The utility opened the grant-application period this week for organizations seeking to install small-scale solar arrays or wind power turbines. Schools and nonprofit institutions with a renewable-energy education focus are eligible to apply for a PSE grant, which can range from $5,000 to $20,000. Successful applicants will receive grants to fund renewable energy...
"The Poultry Plungers" really appreciate all the pledges we received. Everyone was very supportive. We had a great time at the Plunge sporting our chic outfits, which were a big hit! We'll be back next year, and we hope to recruit more team members and get more creative with our costumes. Look for us late this year when we'll come "cheeping for your change!" Words cannot express the love and concern we felt during Owen's recent illness and surgery. We appreciate our friends, church family, Owen's teachers and classmates, and this community so...
1-31: Assault. Assault reported on E. Richmond Ave., Dayton. 1-29: Theft. Sometime in the last 10 days, an unknown suspect broke the lock on a storage unit on Preston Avenue, in Waitsburg, and stole several items including a red floor jack, a rigid snake sewer drain, Snap-On tools and tool box, miscellaneous tool bag, air hose and tools, and a McCulloch leaf blower, for a total value over $1,400. No other units were tampered with. 1-27: Shoplifting. Shoplifter reported on E. Main Street, Dayton. Deputy responded and arrested the subject on...
February 5, 1976 Touchet Valley Grain Growers will be breaking ground shortly on a new grain storage facility 8 miles north and east of Prescott at the intersection of Smith Springs Road and Jensen Corner. A preliminary discussion of a Waitsburg Community Center Building was held Thursday evening in City Hall. Some twenty-two persons attended and were in agreement. The old Legion Hall is under consideration as a possible site. Kirk Huwe is the top rebounder on the Cardinal squad this year. He was instrumental in the defeat of DeSales Friday...
A rriving in Park City, Utah, I was met by staff of the Washington School Inn Bed and Breakfast who drove me to the B & B where I was booked to stay for the week of the Sundance Film Festival. I'd been hired to cook by a private group of guests who booked the entire B & B for the week long Festival. This was my third year working the annual winter event, and it promised to be interesting with a house full of celebrities, a well-known producer/director and me, the chef. Among the exclusive food and beverage requests were the cigar, wine and bran...
Ten Years Ago February 15, 2001 Renovation work on Waitsburg High School and the vo-ag shop is approaching the half-way point. Responding to a statement from a group of kids, "We don't have any place to go," the Waitsburg Lions Club has completed the first two steps of a process to a BMX track being built on the City of Waitsburg's flood mitigation project ground along West First Street. Rose Engelbrite and Jake Long are the newest members on the board of Days of Real Sport, Inc. Other board members include Terry Hofer, Dan McKinley and Terry...
WAITSBURG - Diane Dill and her son Alex didn't lose everything Saturday. Their horses were outside when the fire in the barn on Bolles Road started just before noon, and two of their four goats were saved by Brian Seagraves, who runs the cabinet shop next door. Still, Alex Dill lost Raffle, the pregnant goat he has owned since he joined 4-H in fourth grade, and Frosty, another pregnant goat he got a year and a half ago. "I was pretty sad," said the 16-year-old Waitsburg High School sophomore...
MISSION BANQUET FEB. 12 DAYTON - You're invited to the "Sharing Your Hearts Banquet," a fundraiser for a Baby Feeding Program in Africa and a Women's Mission Team to Nicaragua Saturday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. at the Seneca Building in Dayton. Tickets are $15 per person and $25 for couples and will feature "Nifty Fiftys" songs presented by Cougar Henderson. For more information, call Donnie Henderson at 509- 337-6569. FREE TAX HELP WALLA WALLA - AARP announces free tax help for taxpayers with low and moderate income with special attention to those...
Ten Years Ago February 8, 2001 Established in 1998 to fund salmon habitat restoration efforts, Washington's Salmon Recovery Funding Board authorized more than $1 million in grants for habitat restoration and protection projects in southeast Washington. Among the approved projects are in-stream and riparian improvements along the south Fork Coppei, Tumalum, Deadman, Hendrickson and George creeks, habitat restoration on Whiskey Creek and fish screens at the spawning reach of the Walla Walla watershed. The City prevails, and so 50,000 board feet o...
School districts in the state are taking a hard look at their policies prohibiting bullying and harassment. New state rules will make it mandatory for school boards to adopt revisions to current policies by August of this year. New requirements will mean tougher rules on reporting instances of harassment and bullying, a community outreach component, changes in the definition of bullying and harassment, and more specific requirements for prevention and intervention . Andy Maheras, the "new guy on the block," as he puts it, hopes to get a jump...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburgers experienced a real, live car chase in town Monday. It began as a routine patrol late in the morning as Walla Walla County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Bush made his rounds. On Murphy Street Bush noticed a white Honda Civic parked in front of a home where residents have given deputies trouble in the past. "This residence has had known gang members in residence and suspected drug activity," according to Bush's report. The deputy ran the plates on the Honda and got a hit. The car had been reported as stolen in Walla Walla. Bush...
DAYTON - When Columbia and Walla Walla counties receive $1.8 million in grants already approved this year to fix damaged rivers and streams, replace failing culverts and replant riverbanks with the goal of helping bring local salmon populations from the brink of extinction, Steve Martin will breathe a sigh of relief. Since 2006 the Snake River Salmon Recovery Board, headquartered in Dayton, has counted on that budget to fund projects within the entire southeast corner of the state including the Snake, Grande Ronde, Tucannon, Touchet, and Walla...
