Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
This meeting is open to the public and will take place Thursday, December 5 at 6 p.m. at the Wall Walla Community College Board Room, 500 Tausick Way. Agenda items include: EMS Director Report, EMS training, Emergency Manage- ment Report, Traffic Safety Report, Prevention Report, round table discussion and district announcements....
COLLEGE PLACE - Local communities are banding together in support of Waitsburg graduate Taryn (Thomas) Aguiar and her husband Jose as they fight for the life of their newborn child. In June of 2013 Taryn & Jose found out they were expecting their first chil- dren - twins. In October, they learned the babies were boys - Sebastion and Mateo. On November 4, during a routine ultrasound, the couple learned that Sebastian was no longer alive, though Mateo was doing well. On November 11, Taryn went into active labor and was flown to Sacred Hearth Chil...
DIXIE -- Dixie's Christ- mas Bazaar will take place December 6 and 7 from , 9 a.m.to 4 p.m. The Bazaar is located in the Dixie Fire Station off Highway 12 and also at Dixie First Christian Church off of Actor Street in Dixie. There will be a number of vendors with home baked goods, crafts, gift ideas as well as pictures with Santa. Please come and support this small community while enjoying a Hometown Christ- mas atmosphere....
WALLA WALLA - Walla Walla Symphony presents its annual Free Family Concert and Foodraiser Thursday, November 21 at 7 p.m. in Cordiner Hall. Admission is free with a non-perishable food donation. The concert will be conducted by Dr. Jeremy Mims. The evening's presentation includes: Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 3, Movement III: Allegro; Kyli Hum- phreys, Horn and Gregory Smith's - The Orchestra Games; narrated by Kevin Loomer....
8th grade: 4.0 Leighton Dorman 3.25 or better Anna Nerf Brandon Boudrieau Cade Branson Chloe Pearson Clarissa Espana Deja Williams Gillian Pope Iris Turnipseed Kyle Martin Robert Walsh Samuel McGowen Tayler Jones Thomas House Tyler Wood 7th grade: 4.0 Kelsey Alleman 3.25 or better Leena Baker Devon Harshman Brayden Miller Mackenzie Forney Carson Allessio Drew Farley Karrie Gould Chance Arnn Riley Witt Lexus Benson Ashleigh Hubbard...
WAITSBURG - At the November meeting of the Waitsburg Commercial Club, Coppei Coffee Owner Allison Bond presented Weller Public Library Manger Rosie Warehime with a check for $800.60 - the proceeds from a recent Haunted House Tour. "The sixty cents is important," said Bond. "My employees donated the tips they earned while working after the tour. That's where the odd amount comes in." The Haunted House Tour took place October 27 and was "well attended." Bond dreamed up the project to rai...
Bertie and Edna (Bitzi) Baxter are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary this Saturday November 9th, 2013. The couple met at Skagit Speedway in Alger, WA. Bert raced Super modifieds and Bitzi was a pit girl. The couple's first date was at the drive-in where they saw Lady and the Tramp. The couple was married on November 9, 1963, at the private home of a family friend in Snohomish, WA. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter have one child, Bart (Tiffany) Baxter of Waitsburg, WA. They have two grandchildren,...
1 Open Mic Night Coppei Café 6:30 to 9:30 Release your inner rockstar. Three song sets. Allages welcome. Halloween Costume Party Thresher's Bar & Grill Double Tap will be performing and there will be acostume contest. See theirFacebook page for moreinformation. 3 Harvest Festival Presbyterian Church Basement 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Children ages 3 through 5th grade are welcome to join the combined Sunday School kids from the Christian and Presbyterian churches in their annual Harvest Festival. Those attending will be divided into teams to accep...
WALLA WALLA - The Walla Walla County Rural Library District recently announced the appointment of Barbara (Bobbie) Morgan to be its new Executive Director. Morgan comes to Walla Walla from Putnam County Library District in Hennepin, Illinois, where she has been Director for the past year. Morgan received her BA in Textile Design in 1981 and Masters in Library Science in 1989 from the University of Washington. Morgan began her library career at Clermont County Public Library in Batavia Ohio where she served as Young Adult librarian before...
WALLA WALLA – The November First Thursday concert will be on November 7, 12:15 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 323 Catherine Street, Walla Walla. Featured will be Wa-Hi vocal ensembles, Chamber Singers and Belles Voix, directed by Norbert Rossi. The concert is free but donations are ac- cepted which will be given to the Christian Aid Center, the charity chosen by the performers. On November 14, Pianist Haskell Small will perform Federico Mompou’s com- plete Musica Callada as part of his nationwide Journeys in Silence tour. This free con-...
State Measures Initiative to the Legislature 517 Concerns initiative and referendum measures This measure would set penalties for interfering with or retaliating against signature-gatherers and petition-signers; require that all measures receiving sufficient sig- natures appear on the ballot; and extend time for gathering initiative petition signatures. Initiative to the Legislature 522 Concerns labeling of geneticallyengineered foods This measure would require most raw agricultural commodities, processed foods, and seeds and seed stocks, if...
Washington State Court of Appeals Judge George Fearing was appointed to his position in May to replace the retiring Judge Dennis Sweeney. He's been on the bench since July 1. Fearing is now running for re-election to complete the final three years of the unexpired six-year term of his Division III, Position 2 slot. He is being opposed by Kennewick defense attorney John Gary Metro. Until his appointment, Fearing was a partner in the law firm of Leavy, Schultz, Davis and Fearing, in Ken- newick,...
PRESCOTT - The Prescott Lions serves an all-you-can-eat breakfast the third weekend (Sat. and Sun.) of every month. This month's breakfast takes place Oct. 19 and 20 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The Lions Club will be serving pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns and juice and coffee. The cost is $6.00. Breakfast will be served at the Lions Community Building located on the corner of Highway 124 and D Street....
WAITSBURG - During homecoming week WP will be hosting an alumni volleyball match. This match will take place Thursday, October 24 at 6 p.m. Senior volleyball and cross-country athletes will be recognized at 5:50 p.m. that evening, just prior to the alumni match. Any Prescott-Waitsburg alumni interested in being on the alumni vs. WP alumni team, please contact Coach Dinah Lindsey at (509) 337- 6461. All alumni athletes are welcome to help us fill the team. Please plan to join us for a WP vs. Alumni volleyball match as part of our Homecoming C...
WAITSBURG -- HS MASS Band and Choir invades Waitsburg High School again on Wednesday, October 23! About 250 students from a dozen small schools from Touchet to Asotin to Oakesdale send bands and choruses to rehearse and play together for just one day. Their directors have chosen music in advance and rehearsed it with them since school started. The band will number about 150 students, which is much larger than these students normally get to play with. The choir will also be large. The music for this year's MASS is includes the choir singing...
