Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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ASIA TO GET TASTE OF WAITSBURG WAITSBURG - This "One of a Kind" town will get another shot at fame and acclaim as Main Street goes international on Discovery Channel's Fun Taiwan early next year. Camera crews, producers and the show's host, Janet Hsieh, were in Waitsburg late Tuesday afternoon with winemaker and downtown building owner Charles Smith. The show, part of the Asian Discovery Channel's Fun Washington series, will air sometime around February of next year on Asia's Discovery Travel and Living Channel. The show is aired in E...
Columbia County department heads will present their 2011 budget proposals to commissioners this week in a series of budget review workshops beginning Wednesday at 9 a.m. and continuing through Friday. These workshops are open to the public. Commissioners will not adopt the final 2011 budget until later this year....
DAYTON - Columbia County Commissioners will convene Friday at 10:30 a.m. for a special meeting to adopt an ordinance raising excises taxes in the county. The new ordinance will increase what's known as the E911 Excise Tax from 50 cents to 70 cents on the use of all taxable switched access lines, radio access lines and interconnected voice-over Internet protocol services lines in Columbia County. W h a t this means for taxpayers is simple. All phones in the county that had previously charged users a 50-cent excise tax each month will see th...
DAYTON - Landowners like to experiment when it comes to problem solving. Should we leave a field in summer fallow this year? Do we mow or burn the wheat stubble? Several property owners in Columbia County are now looking at old ways to solve a persistent problem - bringing back grazing to control invasive, unwanted grasses and brush. "You might say we've come around in a circle," said Doug Warnock, a Walla Walla grazing management consultant who worked for many years in the county's WSU...
ORV LAW BACK ON TABLE DAYTON - The ORV ordinance that went down on a split vote last month will be back on the Dayton City Council's agenda for a revote Monday night. Ordinance proponent Jeff Turner said he approached the city about the way the first vote was taken in the absence of Mayor Craig George, which meant Merle Jackson served as Mayor pro tem and abstained from voting. Turner argued that Jackson still should have voted in his capacity as a member of the council. To avoid getting into a legal debate about process, George said he decided...
I was invited to a local organic grower's harvest party this weekend. She invited several familiar faces, and we all got down on our knees, picking and pulling the last of summer's bounty. We then grilled our lunch of thick-sliced, colorful vegetables piled high on fresh Chapata bread slathered in garlicky aioli. We poured bottles of chilled Castillo De Feliciana 2007 Semillon, a local winery fairly new to the scene. Feliciana winemaker Ryan Raber's ability to stretch the wine drinker's imagination is evident in this wine. Ryan's nine months...
DAYTON - Columbia County Commissioners fired Public Health Director David Riggs last week in an effort to fix a budgetary crisis in the department that's been escalating since the spring. In March, one of the county's half dozen public health employees was "stricken ill and has yet to return to work," according to Commissioner Chuck Reeves. The department's budget took several hard hits with this loss - first when the employee tapped into a sick-leave bank, then when the county hired a replacement and finally when the department dis...
Ten Years Ago October 19, 2000 Toga Day is just one of many events for Homecoming week at Waitsburg High. The week includes volleyball against Touchet and football versus Pomeroy, concluding with the Homecoming Dance Saturday night. A flurry of donations from individuals has moved Ye Towne Hall Roof fund to within $500 of reaching its goal before the $15,000 project starts on Oct. 23. Twenty-Five Years Ago October 3, 1985 An attempted break-in was reported to the marshal on October 1 at a local tavern. Someone entered the grocery store in...
A wave of burglaries has hit Walla Walla, Columbia and Garfield counties in the past few months, prompting some local law enforcement officials and citizens groups to get better organized. They're asking for help from residents and hunters to be on the lookout for suspicious activities, hoping citizens' tips will lead to arrests. During the past several months, cabin owners, businesses and residential households alike in the mountains and down in the valley have experienced a spike in break-ins and vandalism. In Columbia County alone, 16...
STUDENT/PARENT NIGHT WAITSBURG - Parents will receive their first opportunity to meet with Waitsburg High School teachers to review student progress this Wednesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. This conference is arena style - no appointments will be set, and all teachers will be located in the gym. Parents are invited to come meet and eat chili and chips with the teacher and students. The next conferences will be March 9 and 10. These conferences are parent- and teacher-requested conferences. The last conferences of the 2011 school year are s...
Andria Marie Maxwell and David James Bridgett, PhD, were united in marriage on August 7, 2010. The ceremony was held at the home of Tony and Melanie Maxwell Bachart. The bride's brother, James Maxwell, officiated the ceremony and acted as the reception chef. The bride is the daughter of Ike and Joann Maxwell of Dayton. The groom is the son of Jim and Leanna Bridgett of Friendswood, Texas. The bride is a 1994 graduate of Dayton High School, attended Walla Walla Community College and will...
I recently stopped at Harvest Foods for a few lemons and then headed for home. As I turned the corner, I saw my 88-year-old father standing at my door. He had just driven all the way from Bethel Island, California, out in the Sacramento Delta, to visit me in Dayton. There he stood, in his familiar khaki pants and red Hawaiian shirt, sporting a goatee and giving me the peace sign. Dad was a Merchant Marine during World War II. He sailed the Pacific from San Francisco to Hawaii, barely escaping the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and he loves to c...
Ten Years Ago October 12, 2000 The American Legion and Auxiliary hosted a dinner to honor local girls and boys state representatives on October 9. Reports by Billie Jo Curtis and Juan Flores of Prescott and Mans Hofer of Waitsburg were enjoyed by the group. Ninety youngsters attended the two hours of festivities at the Waitsburg Elementary School celebrating National Children's Day October 8. Children enjoyed a bike rodeo, face painting, silly snacks, touring the Waitsburg Ambulance and seeing a fireengine, creating bookmarks, recycling a...
WALLA WALLA - The county and city of Walla Walla are considering formation of a joint permit processing agency which would be governed by a three-member board. One board member will be selected by the County Commissioners, one by the Walla Walla City Council, and the last will be jointly selected by the County Commissioners and City Council. The county and city continue to seek input upon whether to form the agency, and they also seek applications from persons who may be interested in serving on the agency governing board. This is a vo...
DAYTON - Two positions are open on the Dayton City Planning Commission. The city is looking for two or three people who are interested in seeing how the city develops in the next few years. The commission meets once a month on the third Monday of the month at 6 p.m. in city hall. Anyone interested may send a letter to the city indicating their interest: City of Dayton, 111 S. 1st Street, Dayton, WA 99328....
WAITSBURG - Adults or students interested in getting their Food Handlers' Permit are invited to attend a training session at the Waitsburg School District Library on Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 2:40 - 4:15 p.m. The cost of the training will be $10 and will be provided by the Columbia County Health Department. Each person who completes the training will have a Food Handlers' Permit that same day....
DAYTON - The image of the Green Giant laid out in pavers on a hillside south of Highway 12 will undergo some cleaning and retouching this weekend. The image symbolizes the history of Waitsburg and Dayton as historic Green Giant towns when the company's canning plants were still in operation in the Touchet Valley. Owner and creator Gary Lowe says he can use a hand with the replacement of the patio pavers that form the large image and is hoping high schoolers will volunteer to refresh the Green Giant's shape. Volunteers will gather at the city...
STARBUCK - After a two-day search of the area around Starbuck last week, three dog teams from Idaho Mountain Rescue were unable to located Bob Bulota, the 64-year-old bachelor who has been missing from Starbuck since March and its presumed to have ended his own life. Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy Don Foley, who has been leading the missing person's investigation, said no sign of Bulota or his remains turned up in the last-ditch effort to findhim. Foley said the only hope now is that someone will find him during the upcoming hunting season,...
I ran into a fellow chef at the farmer's market this weekend who grows big, voluptuous red chili peppers. We talked of food trends and what's in and out for the approaching fall season. As we parted, he handed me a pinch of chili pepper flakes. This got me thinking, "How could I use these pepper flakes best in tonight's dinner menu?" Before leaving Walla Walla, I swung by the supermarket for a bottle of inexpensive cooking sherry and a pound of Andouille sausage. Driving along U.S. Highway 12, I saw winemakers Jay and Doug standing outside...
DAYTON - The local co-ed pool league will meet Monday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Dayton Eagles. Everyone is welcome, four people per team. The pool league meets once per week. Even occasional players are encouraged as the group is always looking for extras to fillin for absent team members. For information, call Ian at 509-386-8401....
DAYTON - Two young Dayton boys and their families will be on the minds of those in the community who meet Friday night after the Junior High football game in Dayton. The public is invited to this candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. on the football field to pray for and support 5-year-old Jayden Dedloff, who is in Children's Hospital with seizures, and 7-year-old Gio Gonzalez, who will be placed on the liver transplant list this week. Those attending should bring their own candles....
