Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Waitsburg Memorial Scholarship Fund In Memory Of: Betty Webber From Howard & Marilou Smith...
The Weekend: I returned home from California to find the neighborhood Femme Fatale and her new kittens crawling over a month's worth of mail! Know anyone who might need to love a kitten? This week's Wine: Robison Ranch Cellars 2011 Viognier, $19 a bottle. Among this local winery's port- folio is a brightly "twisted" viognier, a white wine usu- ally known for its tropical fruit nuances. However, the Robison Viognier exhibit's a fall fruit profile wrapped in juicy pear and crisp apple nuances, striking to the cheek, smooth to the tongue, wrapped...
Bob and Barbara Danforth are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary on July 6 by attending their grandson's graduation from the United States Ma- rine Corps Officers Candidate School Boot Camp in Quan- tico, Virginia. The following week their entire family will be gathering in Sunriver, Oregon, to complete the celebration. Bob and Barbara were married in the First Presbyterian Church in Walla Walla on July 6, 1952. After farming north of Waitsburg for more than 50 years, they moved to Walla...
Ten Years Ago July 4, 2002 Pool to open on Monday! With around $27,000 in dona- tions paving the way, preparations to ready the Waitsburg City Pool for operation are underway and the facility is expected to open Monday, July 8. Officials expect operation to be from four to six weeks, depending on staffing, utiliza- tion of volunteers and availability of funds. Some $27,000 has been donated or pledged, said Tom Baker, Friends of the Pool chairman. There is a $16,000 in the bank account, Baker said, mainly from donations in memory of Pat Leid...
PRESCOTT - The Prescott School District grew by 132 students in the 2011-12 school year, and with the extra money from the state because of the higher enrollment, the district's 2012-13 budget remains solid. Superintendent Dr. Bill Jordan said the budget for next year will be very conservative because the district does not know how the enrollment in the district will continue to fluctu- ate. The school board unani- mously passed the new, status quo budget last Thursday. In 2012-13, revenues are projected to be $4,071,908, which is $3,272 more...
DISPOSE OF YOUR DEBRIS WAITSBURG -- The city of Waitsburg is offering a dispos- al service for city residents. Citizens can take any debris they may have from the recent wind storm to the waste water treat- ment plant for the next week during regular business hours, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. GOLF TOURNAMENT DAYTON -- The second annual Touchet Valley Ryder Cup golf tournament will be held July 6, 7 and 8 at the Touchet Val- ley Golf Course in Dayton. Last year, the Dayton/Columbia County players went home with the trophy. The event featured players from...
WAITSBURG - If you like con- temporary reggae music or simply can't keep your body from moving to a good beat, you don't have to wait for Ziggy Marley's Wild & Free tour to come to Walla Walla next month. The two-year-old Tri Cities band Fishbowl will be all too happy to sweep you off your feet with its unique mixture of reggae dub funk fusion at Coppei Café Saturday night, June 30, drummer/vocalist Geoff Bond said in a telephone interview. "There's no way not to move to this," the band's...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg is cel- ebrating July 4, rain or shine, by having a parade at noon that day beginning at the fire station. In addition to the lovely flags that are now on display at our Waitsburg Hardware Store, everyone is welcome to bring their own flag and join the parade. The parade will return to the Hardware Store, sing a couple of patriotic songs and then proceed to the park. The Hard- ware Store is providing the hot dogs and buns for everyone. Free choice if anyone wants to bring any additional food, you're certainly welcome to...
GOAT SHOWMANSHIP Junior 4-H Champion, MakenzieFrost Junior 4-H Reserve Champion,Devon Harshman Intermediate 4-H Champion, Michael Johnson Intermediate 4-H Reserve Champion, Erin Chapin Senior 4-H Champion, HeatherMcCoon FFA Champion, Loegan Harshman FFA Reserve Champion, MarandaCallahan Overall Grand Champion 4-HShowman, Makenzie Frost Overall Grand Reserve Champion4-H Showman, Erin Chapin Overall Grand Champion FFAShowman, Loegan Harshman Overall Grand Reserve ChampionFFA Showman, Maranda Callahan MARKET CLASS Champion 4-H Market W...
DAYTON - After half a decade of being a colorful literary presence on news- stands and in mail boxes around the Touchet Valley, the monthly Blue Mountain News has ceased to exist, the publisher of the popular news magazine recently con- firmed. "After five years, all three of us were ready to move on," owner and publisher Ken Graham said about himself, advertising representative Tanya Patton and designer/ graphic artist Vanessa Heim. Even before the maga- zine lost two of its anchor...
WAITSBURG - One of Waits- burg's best-kept secrets is on Arnold Lane, tucked back behind sweet, country houses. For the past four years, those who have driven down Arnold Lane have noticed or even stopped at the produce stand run by Ed and Cathy Lambert. And the Lambert's, though unseen from the street, have six gardens full of ripening produce fresh for the picking and selling every summer. Ed's family has lived in the house on Arnold his whole life. He and his wife Cathy raised their four...
DAYTON -- Four represen- tatives accepted Community Leadership Awards in honor of the Dayton Parent Teacher Stu- dent Organization and Winder- mere Realty on Thursday, June 14 in Dayton. The annually presented Community Leadership Award was accepted by Angie John and Ashley Kilts on behalf of the Dayton Parent Teacher Student Organization. "The organization has been really active in the last three years," Superintendent Doug Johnson said. Most recently the organiza- tion has been recognized for...
WAITSBURG - It has been nearly three full years since Wait's Mill burned to the ground and city staff members and the Waitsburg Historical Society are thinking it may be time to add something small to commemorate the significance of the mill. City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe said earlier this month he asked Jeff Broom, the presi- dent of the Waitsburg Historical Society and committee member of the Waitsburg Community Revitalization Committee, to begin looking into the cost and designs of...
American Indians apply a growing technique to their vegetable gardens, a technique today's organic growers call "permaculture." Permaculture is a gardening tech- nique based on following the natural ecological design nature intended for the space being used for planting a garden in a sustainable manner. "Uh?" they just call the technique, "Three Sisters," and in some cases it's as simple as this: plant corn and when 12 inches tall, plant green beans at base of the corn stalk allowing beans to climb corn stalk. At the same time, plant squash 4...
Ten Years Ago June 27, 2002 The Waitsburg City Council voted unanimously to priva- tize garbage collection, and will begin negotiations with Basin Disposal, Inc. (BDI) of Pasco, to collect garbage within the city limits. BDI was chosen due to being more city-oriented, providing assistance to senior citizens, and capacity for civic events, among other things. There will not be an increase in service price, and citizens should receive more service from BDI. This will be a two-year trial period for BDI. At the end of two years, the city could...
WAITSBURG - Change is never easy and some parents in the community are having difficulty wrapping their minds around the fact that the Waitsburg fourth, fifth and sixth graders will be in intermediate, mixed-grade level classes next year. However, combining grade levels is not a new concept for the district that has combined grade students in the past to handle enrollment fluctuations, district officials say. Forty-eight children will be in the fourth, fifth and sixth split starting in the fall. The split class will help the district reduce...
DAYTON -- The Liberty Theater in Dayton kicks off its Summer Film Series next Tuesday, June 26. Every summer the theater plays family friendly movies at 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays. This year's lineup in- cludes two of famed anima- tor Don Bluth's films - "An American Tail" and "The Land Before Time." A se- quel to An American Tail, "Fievel Goes West" is also included, along with recent favorites "Pirates! The Band of Misfits" and "Puss in Boots." Passes for all five films are just $10 and can be purchased at the theater box office. Visit...
5 Waitsburg Junior Live- stock Show Results: DOG SHOWMANSHIP Junior 4-H Champion, Devon Harshman Junior 4-H Reserve Champion, Cheyenne Gritman Intermediate 4-H Champion, Payton Dowdy Intermediate 4-H Reserve Champion, Samantha Sweetwood Senior 4-H Champion, Alexis Hughes Senior 4-H Reserve Champion, Rachel Heitstuman Overall Grand Champion Showman, Payton Dowdy Overall Reserve Grand Champion Showman, Alexis Hughs OBEDIENCE Grand Champion, Alexis Hughes Reserve Grand Champion, Cheyenne Gritman Blue Ribbons: 4-H Devon Harshman, Cheyenne...
WAITSBURG -- The Waitsburg School District fa- cilities were assessed recently and given average marks across the board in the school district study and survey. The study and survey was funded by the Office of Su- perintendant of Public Instruction and conducted by Design West, Waitsburg Su- perintendent and Elementary Principal Carol Clarke said. The Waitsburg School Board discussed the school district study and survey last Wednesday evening, June 13. "There was a long list of different needs for the district and really what it boiled down to...
DAYTON -- Booker Rest Home received some gratifying news that quality of living for residents and the standards of service in the hospital are better than in previous years, accord- ing to a state survey earlier this month. The surveys are used to de- termine the state of the health system's facilities and the quality of life of its customers. The results of the 2012 survey brought only five F-tags, a type of citation, which suggest quality of life improvements for the facility's residents, according to an email from Stephanie Carpenter, the...
