Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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8 Dayton School Board Meeting 609 S. Second Street 6:30 p.m. Meeting will be a work session to work on the Su- perintendent evaluation. 9 Columbia County Planning Commission Columbia County Planning Office, 114 S. 2nd, Dayton 7 p.m. Prescott Joint Park & Rec. Board Meeting PJPRD Activity Center, 101 S. D St. #A, Prescott 7 p.m. Set up strategic planning session, discuss 2014 fees, set computer use protocol. 10 Toddler and Preschool Story Time Dayton Memorial Library 10:30 a.m. Toddlers; 11:00 a.m. Babies Lego Night Dayton Memorial Library 7...
Construction of Blue Mountain Station's Building 1, at Dayton's west end, began in April and was completed in December. Three tenants will be up and running in the new Artisan Food Center by January: Gypsy Girl Granola, Little Dipper Dairy and Mace Mead Works. Space is available for two more tenants. The building will also house a central retail space and commercial kitchen. Port Manager Jennie Dickinson began planning for the new artisan food center in 2007. In 2009, the Port received a $1...
Dayton's new Best Western Plus Hotel and Suites opened in May. It is an important addition to the Touchet Valley's business and tourism. The Hotel, developed by Dr. Derek Duke, has 50 rooms, conference space for up to 100 people and an indoor pool....
In May, the Columbia County Commissioners appointed former Washington State Trooper Rocky Miller as new Sheriff of Columbia County. Miller replaced Walt Hessler, who resigned about half way through his second term. Miller Took office July 1 and will be up for re- election in November 2014....
The loss of horse racing, which had been the centerpiece of the "Days of Real Sport" event for over a century, inspired Waitsburg to create a new event. The first Waitsburg Celebration Days, May 17 through 19, was a big success, thanks to many volunteers throughout the community. Weekend events included a Cowboy/Cowgirl Ball, Cowgirl Ranch Horse Racing, live music featuring Frog Hollow Band, classic car show and goat tail tying (shown)....
In late May, Portland General Electric Company announced that it would purchase a portion of the development rights for the Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project in Columbia County from Puget Sound Energy. The new project, now called the Tucannon River Wind Farm, will include 116 wind turbines, and have a “nameplate capacity” of 267 megawatts. The sale closed in early August and PGE began construction of roads and other infrastructure in September. PGE opened a new office in Downtown Dayton...
Ten Years Ago January 8, 2004 A severe winter storm began pounding the region on New Year's Day, bringing sub-zero temperatures, blow- ing snow and wreaking havoc with a number of scheduled events. In Waitsburg, the January 6 gathering of Commercial Club was canceled, along with weekend basketball games. Temperatures dipped into the -20s, according to local sourc- es early Monday morning, then warmed up to a few degrees above zero on Tuesday. Cole Lindsey and Bertha Poirier, both seniors at Waits- burg High School, were named the Walla Walla...
Ten Years Ago January 1, 2004 Congressional Candidate Cathy McMorris will speak at Commercial Club on Tuesday, January 6. McMorris is seeking the fifth District seat currently held by Rep. George Nethercutt Jr., a Republican, who will oppose Sen. Patty Murray in the 2004 elections. Nathan Hamann enlisted in the U. S. Navy, completed Basic Training at Great Lakes, Illinois in September of 2003. He is now serving on the U.S.S. Camden in Bremerton, WA. Nathan is the son of Fred Hamann, Waitsburg and Diana Bicker, Seattle. What a Christmas present...
I only have last minute shopping to do for Christmas. And keeping my shopping as local as possible, I visited The Winehard Hotel's lobby and it's "Wall of Wine," as I call it, for a bottle of Poet's Leap off-dry Riesling. In keeping with our cold winter nights, serving a white bean chili sounds yummy. Now, to find that original blue cheese cornbread recipe I developed in the kitchen of my Haight Ashbury flat in 1967. At the time of the recipe, California was just awakening to an early Napa Valley wine scene, and several "Cooking with Wine"...
End-of-year position adjustments coming up? Most very large futures traders are holding onto extremely heavy net short-sold positions in Chicago wheat. The other major wheat contracts in Kansas City hard red winter and Minneapolis spring also reflect net short speculative po- sitions, although less ponderous than Chicago. Since this category of traders is known for rapidly shifting from one side of the ledger to the other periodically, this big bulge in net-sold positions will ultimately lead to a run to the upside for wheat prices, probably...
Ten Years Ago December 25, 2003 Gabe Kiefel had a double-double - 12 rebounds and 10 points - against the Prescott Tigers last weekend, helping the Cards to a 59-32 win. Waitsburg opened league play on the road, winning at Jubilee Christian 65-46 Dec. 18 and now holds a 2-0 record. The Counterfeit Santa Claus, "a musical melodrama, was performed by members of Waitsburg Elementary Grades K - 5 in the Waitsburg High School Auditorium on December 18. The old-fashioned melodrama, in which the audience helps boo and hiss the bad guy and cheer the...
To coin the 1949 Christmas tune by Frank Losser, "Baby, its Cold Outside." I do hope you have plenty of wood chopped and stacked! Old timers I've talked to say they haven't seen it this cold for forty years! I visited Tucannon Meats today in Dayton. I bought four beautifully marbled grass fed clean beef steaks for dinner. As I drove out to Dumas Station winery for a bottle of Cow- catcher Red, I couldn't decide what to do with the steaks, except I knew I wanted the most beef flavor. Usually this would call for just salt and pepper, but in winte...
I f you find yourself waking down the centerline of a busy street, it is very useful to be aware of where the cars and trucks are (in both directions). And every once in a while it is good to look a couple of blocks ahead to be prepared for that big semi. For wheat owners and traders, it is an occupational haz- ard to lose perspective; to become caught up in the smaller, day-to-day information and action flow and to forget that the price range of the last several months is only a very small part of the whole picture. The market always tells us...
The Coalition for Youth and Families and Columbia REA are sponsoring a First Night Party on December 31 at 7 p.m. This is a night of fun for the whole family from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Seneca Activity Center. There will be games, food, music and prizes. Admission is free, but children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult....
The Liberty Theater is one again ushering in the New Year with a Black and White East Coast New Year's Eve Party. This year's clas- sic comedy, Some Like it Hot, stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as two Chi- cago musicians who disguise themselves as women to avoid being rubbed out by the mob after they witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. During their flight they meet up with a singer in a band, played by Marilyn Monroe, who dreams of marrying a millionaire. The movie be- gins at 6:55 and is followed by a champagne toast and reception at...
WAITSBURG -Turkey Bingo will take place at Town Hall at 4 p.m. on December 7. Doors open at 3 p.m. Turkey Bingo is a fundraiser sponsored by the Waitsburg American Legion Auxiliary Unit #35....
WAITSBURG - Waits- burg's Annual Kid's Night to Shop will take place Wednes- day, Dec. 11 at Town Hall from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Kids can receive help shopping for gifts -- most priced at under $10. Rainbow Girls, Waits- burg FFA and Waitsburg LEO Club members will be on hand to help children select gifts and to offer free gift wrapping. No parents are allowed, though they are welcome to wait for their children in the Fireside Room. Refreshments will be available. Those interested in having a table at Kid's Night to Shop should contact Rose...
WAITSBURG -Waits- burg School's Christmas Concert, featuring all four school bands will take place Monday, December 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Waitsburg High School auditorium. The 5th graders will perform their first concert ever with versions of Jingle Bells, Good King Wenceslas, and other favorites. The 6th grade band will present Jingle Jolly Christmas, Up On the Housetop, and a mysterious piece called Ancient Hunt- ers. Preston Hall's middle schoolers will perform New World Symphony, Wynd- ham Festival Overture, the beautiful African Drum...
PRESCOTT - A new meeting date and time has been set for the Sheriff's Round Table Community Meetings for Prescott, Waits- burg and surrounding areas. The December 5 meeting has been moved to Monday, December 9 at 3 p.m. at the Prescott School District office, 207 S. "A" Street in Prescott. This will be a meeting with the Port of Walla Walla and the WA Dept. of Trans- portation regarding traf- fic safety issues. Directly following the meeting, the Sheriff will be available for questions and comments. Each quarter, the Sher- iff and/or a member...
WALLA WALLA - Cam- eo Heights Mansion and Saviah Cellars are joining together in a No Room at the Inn campaign to raise funds to support victims of domestic violence this holiday season and to ensure that there IS room at the inn. The fundraiser that includes giveaways of room stays, gift certificates and magnum bottles of Estate Syrah hopes to generate over $4375 in funds for the STEP Walla Walla Women's Shelter. Beginning December 3 from noon to 1 p.m., for seven consecutive days, lo- cal selected businesses will have envelopes to hand out...
REDMOND, Wash. - Gov. Jay Inslee and leaders from Washington's business and education communities called Monday for continued improvement and coordi- nation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education for all students. Speaking at Washing- ton STEM's annual STEM Summit on Microsoft's Red- mond campus, Inslee pointed to the unmet need for STEM workers in the state's many technology-dependent businesses, from established companies like McKinstry and Microsoft to biotech startups working on innova- tive new medicines. " We've...
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