Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago January 25, 2011 The Waitsburg Lions Club members discussed building a bicycle motocross course for young people as a community project. The roof project on Towne Hall is complete. Board members learned that Gillespie Roofing, Inc. of Walla Walla finished the reroofing of the72-yearold building at 121 Main. Twenty-Five Years Ago January 16, 1986 The Waitsburg School Board accepted a bid from Jerry Smith for a bus garage; Smith construction got the bid at $17,560 for the building only. The building on Main Street which housed the...
WAITSBURG - Al - though Cindy Hofer loves the beavers who visit the family farm on the banks of Coppei Creek, she gets nervous when they settle in. Last week, she and her husband, Gary, asked an expert to come take a look at one beaver dam clogging the creek behind their more than 100-year-old house. Ice coated the logs and branches where the half-frozen creek tried to move over, under and around the beavermade barrier. The dam hasn't been a problem yet, but the Hofers are worried about what...
FOOD BANK CENTER MEETING WAITSBURG - At 4:30 p.m. on Friday, organizers of the Waitsburg Food Bank will meet to discuss its relocation and expansion at its planned new AmericanWest Bank location. The new center's board had its first meeting on Dec. 28 with pastors Mike Ferrians and Bret Moser, Pam Conover and Christy House. Friday's meeting is open to anyone who wants to see the new space, help think through its layout and clean. A user agreement between the Food Bank and AmericanWest Bank is pending but seen as a formality. The new center is...
he Pomeroy/ Dayton Junior Gun Club is sponsoring a youth trap-shooting series beginning Saturday, Jan. 8, at 8 a.m. The series will continue every Saturday for 10 weeks at the Pomeroy Gun Range located in Pataha, Washington, for a one-time $10 fee. A downtown "Meet & Greet" to benefit the Pioneer Park Aviary in Walla Walla is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 8, at the Land Title Plaza. 10 The Dayton Chamber of Commerce presents its monthly Business After Hours event at home...
January 6: Maddie Callahan, Kurtis Reser. January 7: Cecil Webber, Erma Gilbertson, Patrick Donnelly, Jim Hofer, Alice Webber and Kristyn Scott. January 8: Steven Price, Esther Presler and Todd Larsen. January 9: Jennifer Nichols, Neil Henze, Angela Crawford, Tim Estes, Nicholas Carpenter, Gail Thames, Gerri Glover, Trevor McGee and Jarod Gagnon. January 10: Caden McCaw, Todd Harris, Cynthia Graham, Roddy Krause, Andy Hermanns, Kimberly Neal, Melissa Harting, Kyle Huwe, Amanda and Ashley Danforth, Kelly Zuger and Denise Winnett. January 11:...
Greetings from another winter food and wine event, in glorious Aspen, Colorado! Yesterday it was demonstrations in Agra-Agra, the vegetarian red ocean algae made into a gelatin used in making liquid-dessert molds. Tonight I cooked dinner for 16 private diners, my fifth year doing so, and tomorrow I am teaching a class in making flatbread and chutney. This evening, I lugged a case of Walla Walla wines with me to show off at dinner. At this all wine and food officials' appetizer-dinner, I was particularly happy to hear an exceptional response to...
Ten Years Ago January 18, 2001 State wheat growers honored Jay Penner of Waitsburg for his work with government and citizen's groups toward the goal of retaining wheat stubble burning as a production tool for farmers. Local 16th District Senator Mike Hewitt took the oath of office during opening ceremonies of the 57th Legislature on Jan. 8. Twenty-Five Years Ago January 2, 1986 Waitsburg's new postmaster, Venice Lee, will officially take over Jan. 17. Lee, a postal service employee of 22 ½ years, comes to Waitsburg from Eltopia. Workers...
WALLA WALLA - While he grew up in Southern California, John Turner remembers coming up for harvest and for Christmas to the Touchet Valley. It is, after all, whence his family hails. Turner's grandmother was Juanita Hofer, daughter of Friedrich Hofer, one of the area's homesteaders north of Prescott and also great-grandfather of Waitsburg's Gary Hofer, who taught Turner how to drive a tractor in the summers. As the newly sworn-in Sheriff of Walla Walla County, Turner comes full circle to these...
WAITSBURG WOMAN CHARGED WALLA WALLA - A Waitsburg woman charged last month with first-degree theft in Walla Walla County Superior Court will make her first appearance on the charge Jan. 10. Michelle M. Paul, 36, of 810 Walnut Street, Waitsburg, has not been arrested, but she was charged with stealing more than $9,145.13 in June from the Eastgate branch of Community Bank where she worked in Walla Walla, according to the Walla Walla police report. Paul, who was operations supervisor and a teller prior to being fired June 22, is accused of...
In its Nov. 18 suspension letter to the three volleyball coaches and its Dec. 17 ruling upholding the suspension decision, the Waitsburg School District charges that Jessie Buehler, Katie Buehler and Tressa Robbins purposely placed an athlete in a position of being harassed, intimidated and bullied by her teammates. But the statements from team players on which the district's charges were based give a much more complex picture of the controversial team meeting of Nov. 13. It's much less clear...
While attending a champagne tasting last week in Manhattan, New York, I was blown away by the exceptional differences in tastes and styles of the all-French tasting. After a visit and dinner with associates, I returned to my room with the nagging thought: What about bubbly here in Washington state? As soon as I landed at the airport, I met with Chad Diltz, owner/winemaker at Tru Cellars, the only producer of sparkling wine in Walla Walla. I sampled his Blanc de Blanc Me'thode Champenoise NV, and I was stunned. No wine at the New York tasting co...
Ten Years Ago January 11, 2001 Frank Thomas, Jim Burres and Frank Thomas, members of the local Lewis Clark Bicentennial Committee, presented their banner to the Commercial Club for consideration to raise awareness of the Lewis Clark Bicentennial in 2006. The yellow Goretex banner with gold fringe depicts the design familiar from road signs with "Waitsburg, Washington" below the graphic of the two explorers. The overlying layer of haze over the valley recently broke Tuesday. Tuesday was bright and sunny but temperatures were brisk. Thanks to...
WAITSBURG - New library manager Su Alexander has plenty of new ideas in store for the Weller Public Library, in downtown Waitsburg. Alexander, who took over as manager after Jan Cronkhite retired in October, has plans to make the library new and improved while retaining its historical aspects. Taking a page from her own personality, Alexander would like to make the library a nice, laid back place, where people of all ages can come, get cozy, read and relax. Her first line of action will be to mo...
HIV/AIDS PROGRAM FOR PARENTS WAITSBURG - Parents with children in grades 5-12 are invited to attend the Waitsburg School District HIV/AIDS Parent Preview Night on Thursday, Jan. 6, from 7-8 p.m. in the school library located in the Waitsburg Elementary Building at 184 Academy Street. Following a preview of the materials, parents who wish to have their child excluded from participation in the HIV/ AIDS Prevention Program may sign a release form. State law requires that parents or guardians attend such a meeting before they can have their child...
3-20: Malicious Mischief. An unknown suspect over the weekend smeared feces and threw eggs on the east doors of the Waitsburg High School hallway between the school and the gym. Suspicious. Vehicle tracks on Touchet Valley Golf Course, Pine Street, Dayton. 12-19: Juvenile Problem. Kids throwing snowballs at passing cars on S. 4th Street, Dayton. Vehicle Theft. A resident on Valley Grove Road, Waitsburg, reported his dark green Buick Sentry stolen. The keys were left lying on the vehicle's floorboard. 12-18: Burglary. Residential burglary repor...
December 23: Tyler Hofer, Joyce Beckley, Claire Raven, Alta Daniel, Larry Bickelhaupt, Lorene Brown, Kim Douglas, Carl Smith, Richard Bessey, Karen Lambert. D ecember 24: Shirley Kitterman, Carolyn O'Brien, Ed Lawrence, Shane Hilton, Mary Conner, Barbara Wagener, Tracey Harper, Karen Stroobants. December 25: Solon Pietila, Donna Manley, Les Richardson, Sonia Borrowdale, Annette Becker, Carol Hevel, Dalton Carlisle, and Neil Maxwell. December 26: Sandra Farley, Sydney Claire Brookshire, Dr. Mel Laidlaw, Jennifer Nielsen, Margie Douglas....
Fo rec ast for e Washington: - National Weather Service Wednesday: Rain and snow likely, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Wednesday Night: Rain and snow likely before 10pm, then a slight chance of snow. Cloudy, with a steady temperature around 32. Southwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a...
I am a pear lover! That's right. I love a good winter pear, and what constitutes a good pear is simple: ripeness without bruising. I was in Andy's earlier today, and the produce clerk came around the corner with a box of beautiful Washington State Organic Pears unblemished! I was heading back to the barn to create a catering order for a customer who had ordered, "Salad for a Crowd," an item from the Flying Aprons Catering Menu, made of pears and other wintery foods. This salad is simply made. On four salad plates, line each in composed lettuces...
Ten Years Ago January 4, 2001 While the Booster Club is asking for the community's contributions of pictures and stories in their process of publishing a book on the last 100 years of football at Waitsburg High School, a Walla Walla man, Earl Roberge, has paired up with the retired former owner of Tidewater Barge Lines, Ray Hickey, to pen a book about dams. While Washington's unemployment rate jumped four-tenths of one percent to a 4.9 percent for the fourth November in a row, a budgeted 6 percent increase on personal and property taxes for...
