Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
While visiting wineries along the North Coast this week, I had the fortune to dine with friends in Mendocino, who served a wonderful Chicken Tandoori. I love this dish and always thought I needed to have a Tandoori pot to make it in. I guess figuratively speaking, you do. But back home I experimented, and I am happy to say, a good Tandooristyled dish can be made using the correct spices and by keeping the chicken moist throughout the cooking time without the specialty pot. Back on the coast: While driving to my friend's home for dinner, I stopp...
COUNCIL RENEWS POWER DEALS DAYTON - The Dayton City Council did not take action Monday night regarding an application by Columbia Rural Electric Association for a right-of-way permit in town. During the city's public hearing, two or three of the two dozen citizens who attended the meeting spoke, each expressing concerns with the application and raising questions for council members to consider. REA has proposed new electrical distribution lines through rival utility company Pacificorp territory in Dayton to furnish power to its own offices in...
DAYTON - Former Columbia County District Judge Charles Thronson was vindicated Tuesday afternoon after he spent more than two years defending himself against a civil lawsuit filed by his neighbors Gale Acers and Robert Hollingsworth. In a verdict opposed by just one of 12 jurors, Thronson was found "not liable" for damages to commercial timber owned by Acers and Hollingsworth who claimed it was damaged in a backfire set by Thronson on his Cahill Mountain property in August 2006. The backfire,...
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 - After 37 years with Columbia Rural Electric Association, Glenn Hagfeldt will retired on January 31. He started with the rural energy cooperative on February 1, 1974. "I'm an engineer and I like book ends - nice even starts and stops," Hagfeldt said in explaining the precise date of retirement. And as he will be 63 this year, he'd like to get busy with projects and traveling plans. "I restore cars," he said. "It keeps me busy and broke. I must be the only guy from Montana who doesn't...
This morning I watched a gaggle of snow geese honk their way over the house, flying north. I looked up between their feathered underbellies, little orange legs tucked tightly under their bodies, and caught a glimpse of the lavender sky, dappled in violet hues against a backdrop of waving silvertip spruce and 40-foot dancing pines. It just took my breath away. It's this kind of subtle beauty that reminds us why we live here in Touchet Valley. By late afternoon, I'd baked an old-fashioned gingerbread, a request granted to my Wine Guy. The house s...
Ten Years Ago February 1, 2001 Recycling is catching on-use of recycling facilities in Waitsburg increased 62 percent in 2000. Some 35,320 lbs. of newsprint, 5, 180 lbs. of clear glass, 2,700 lbs. of aluminum, 4, 920 lbs. of brown glass and 10,720 lbs. of mixed paper, were recycled in 2000. City council members are investigating an RV park near the old mill for the upcoming Lewis & Clark tourism boom in three years. Twenty-Five Years Ago January 30, 1986 Waitsburg Lions voted to make vests available to new members and decided to smoke some...
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...
DAYTON - The contract for the fairgrounds has been signed, the chuck wagons have been lined up, the judges have been booked, a title sponsor has been found and the schedule for four days of activities has been set. Get ready for Mule Mania. The show "is a go," the event's initiator says. Bobbi Chambers of the Coyote Mule Company in Cottonwood, Idaho, was in Dayton Monday to meet with local organizers, government agencies and businesses in preparation of this first-ofits kind summer festival for...
Boaz Josiah Green, son of Paul and Carley Green, was born Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, at Walla Walla General Hospital. Boaz weighed 7 lbs. 9 ounces and measured 20.5 inches. Proud grandparents include Kraig and CJ Horlacher of Waitsburg and Brad and Amie Green, also of Waitsburg....
January 13: Wes Romine, Janine John, Megan Withers, Kevin House. January 14: Maxine Cecil, Janice Davis and Greg Smith. January 15: Kayla Turner, Allene Severtsen, Glenn Baker, Wade Done, Melinda Lambert, Justin Kirk, Jesse Archer and Jack Sherlock. January 16: Colleen Mc- Coy, Patty White and Rueben Stokes. January 17: Anna and Anthony Reese, Bret and Bethany Moser, Kimmie Hamann, Zane Johnson, Dan Beckley, John Janovich, Tyler Woodworth, Eric Rich, Sheena Henze, Jeff Schulke, Jim Davison, Robert Maib and Jon Jensen. January 18: Kelley...
DAYTON - In December, business leaders, elected offi cials and citizens gathered at the Dayton Memorial Library for the annual Community Economic Development Strategy meeting. This group created a list of Columbia County projects successfully completed and organized a list of projects to focus on in the new year. 2010 Successes: -Port created master plan for Blue Mountain Station, including a marketing plan, pre-engineering study, and five potential start ups. -Permit granted for Lower Snake River Wind project -Beautification of the west...
