Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Our Neighboring Countryside: Fall came over the week- end, the sound of leaves being raked was deafening. Maybe you've noticed recently the neighborhood turkey clutch is nowhere in sight. I was told by one old timer that after the turkeys see humans wearing camouflage they high tail it to the Whetstone to hide in their caves. With this thought I get a mental picture: a clutch of modern-day raptors running like the Road Runner with Wylie Coyote wearing camouflage running close behind, "meep-meep!" The Wine: When Master Sommelier, Franco Rossi...
Ten Years Ago September 26, 2002 It was a good summer for Waitsburg Lions Club, with several fundraising projects bolstering the club's bank accounts. The income offset some ex- penses the club paid out for maintenance around the softball fields over the summer. The Walla Walla Fair ice project delivered 45,000 pounds of ice over four days of the fair. Gross revenues for ice sales amounted to $6,925, netting the club $2,359 after the concession permit and ice bill were paid. The Softball Bash was full with 26 teams, and unfortu- nately had to...
Wheat prices along with many other markets this week are waiting for a push from any domi- nant factor that will allow a direction. Chicago wheat managed to gain about 15 cents per bushel since last week at this time, but in this environment that is a mere wiggle. White wheat prices for Portland delivery also gained about 14 cents in the same week with current levels near $8.78 per bushel. Few are willing to take major positions ahead of this Friday's USDA Grain Stocks as of Sept. 1 and Small Grains Summary Reports. The trade, including analyst...
When a person leaves this world, you can always tell how loved and special they were by the people who miss themhellip; Jack Himmelberger was such a person. Thank you so much for the Gifts, Plants, Flowers, and delicious food. The beauti- ful cards with such caring notes inside have been a wonderful reminder of our great friends and family. The Family is truly grateful for everything that everyone has done. Thank you to the Columbia REA for the use of their courtyard, to the funeral home for your compassion, and especially the Booker Annex and...
BERYL WITT RETIRES WAITSBURG - Beryl Witt, who has worked at the Waits- burg Grocery for more than 40 years, is retiring this Friday. The community is invited to the grocery store on Main Street to celebrate her years of service with cake from 9 to 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 28. POOL FUNDING PROPOSAL WAITSBURG - City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe said at the October council meeting a pool funding option would be on the agenda. Hinchliffe says it would not be a pool tax. The idea is for the council to adopt what is known as Real Estate Excise 2...
It's hard to miss the giant rolls and bundles of hay dotting the countryside today. For the small rancher, the no. 1 step to success- fully storing hay is to first lay a layer of rock to support the hay weight and help in drainage. Stacking hay bundles into a pyramid helps air flow freely, keeping hay rot at bay. The crush is on! Wineries across the valley are busy with harvest. I stopped at Tertulia Cellars, 1564 Whiteley Road, Walla Walla, to sample a rose wine, so perfect with fall foods. The Wine: Tertulia Cellars 2011 Rose, a luscious...
Ten Years Ago September 19, 2002 Just more than 800 hungry people helped the Waitsburg Commercial Club, in its primary fundraiser of the year, consume about 1, 100 pounds of Copper River salmon at the annual salmon barbecue held Sept. 12 in Waitsburg. Some 805 people paid to get a plate of the succulent seafood dinner, up from 782 in 2001, according to Ivan Keve, one of the chairmen of the event. Keve didn't have all the figures in by press time, but he did know that beverage sales were $170 higher than last year. Patrons of the fall classic...
A rmelia J. Zaharevich and Mathew Rupp were united in marriage on August 24, 2012 at St. Mark's Catholic Church in Waitsburg, with Rev. Robert Turner officiating. This bride is the daughter of Marci and Lyle Perkins, of Waits- burg and John J. Zaharevich of Seattle. Armelia is a graduate from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor of Science in Psy- chology. She is currently a Certified Professional Guardian with OmniGuardianship Services, Waitsburg, and an agency affiliated counselor with Lour...
The trend in wheat has not been positive for nine weeks, although depending on what week you chose, it was either at the high end or the low end of an 88-cent range that was defined right at the beginning of the period since the last two weeks of July, with the upper end around $9.44 and the lower about $8.56. 88 cents per bushel is a lot of money. A single futures contract, or "one-lot", is 5,000 bushels. Around here that might represent all of the production of 45 to 65 acres of good wheat ground. In the Midwest it reaches 100 acres or more....
SEASONAL FLU SHOTS DAYTON -- A Flu Clinic will be held at the Co- lumbia County Senior Center, 403 East Patit Street, Dayton, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Adults (19 & over) only $30. Medicare, Medicaid and Private Pay accepted. Questions: contact Columbia County Public Health at (509) 382-2181. SKATE PARK DISCUSSION CONTINUES DAYTON - Mayor Craig George encourages all parents or guardians of children and young adults us- ing the skate park in Dayton to attend the city council meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 24, at the Catholic church parish hall...
The weekend brought a surprise; my gardening neighbor and a bag full of Dutch bulbs from her garden. She and I trade seeds and bulbs -- a sustainable practice for gardeners. I have a prolific sunflower and sugar pumpkin patch each year. I move the patch, rotating from one end of the yard to the other, giving the earth a good mulching before each long winter's nap. Last year, my neighbor admired my rows of baby sunflower plants and asked where I had purchased such hardy fall starters. Starters? I had no starters, these plants germinated from...
Ten Years Ago September 12, 2002 The 29th annual Pioneer Fall Festival sponsored by the Waitsburg Historical Society, will be held Sunday, Sept. 15, at the Bruce Memorial Museum, located on Main Street in Waitsburg. The event will get under way with non-denominational church services at 11 a.m., followed by the introduction of the 2002 Pioneers of the Year, Ed and Gloria Lawrence, long-time Waitsburg wheat produc- ers. The Bruce House will open at noon, and at that time the Waitsburg Lions Club will start serving the pioneer dinner of...
This just in from the Department of Redundancy Department: The wheat market is in a sideways pattern, with a range of just under 90 cents per bushel in Chicago soft red winter wheat, slightly more for Kansas City hard red winter, $1.23 from high to low in Minneapolis hard red spring wheat. White wheat prices in Portland have swung from about $8.30 to about $9.05, settling early this week at about $8.76, just over the center of the 75-cent high-low range since late July. Global import buyers have been active in the usual Northern hemisphere...
WAITSBURG - In a rural community, it's easy to feel like helping and making changes for the better are impossible as a single person. The Community Council understands that feeling, which is why they put together a non- profit organization to help people connect to their community. The five-year old organization prides itself on bringing individu- als together to help strengthen communities by focusing on different topics to discuss for lengths of time in order to come up with a way to improve on each issue and you can help them out this...
COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Commercial Club's first speaker and featured business for the meeting will be Claudia Abel, LMT of the Waitsburg Business Center. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, in Waitsburg's Town Hall FREE SHOOTING DAYS DAYTON - The Columbia County Shooting Association will be offering free days to sight in your rifles in preparation for the coming hunting season at no cost to the public. Free days will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 15, from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 16, from 9 a.m. to 5...
Ten Years Ago September 5, 2002 Pat Mohney will represent Walla Walla County in 9/11 ceremony in Seattle. Next week on September 11, he will be in a special place of honor, joining 38 other "everyday heroes" from Washington's 39 counties, carrying the Walla Walla county flag in a memorial ceremony in Seattle on the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Pat is recognized for his actions on April 21, 2001. That Saturday in April 2001, Mohney came upon the scene of two Rott- weiler dogs attacking a toddler as her mother attempte...
With the promise of a new day and a new wine, partnered with friend and cookbook test kitchen gourmet, Desi Kitchens, we happily ushered in Labor Day Weekend visiting wineries of the region. The Wine: Vine crawling and leaf-peeping through the Southern end of Walla Walla County, we came upon Bunch- grass Winery. This well-established Walla Walla winery produced its first vintage in 1997 and continues to produce a scrumptious line of white and red wines. On this particular tasting, the 2009...
There are corn shipments from Brazil unloading on the East coast for feeders in the mid-coastal region. The price of corn has arrived at a tipping point that is the market must seek a price for United States corn that does not destroy demand any further than it has already. On the other hand too much relaxation of prices could kick demand up enough to over-run available supplies being harvested now. The price range for corn is thus de- fined loosely between about $8.50 and $7.50 for a while. The recent range for December corn is between $8.49 o...
CAR SHOW DONATION WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Classic Auto Show donated $200 to the Waitsburg Resource Center last Thursday. The show has donated money to the center for the past four years, said orga- nizer Ken Lenhart. This year's auto show has been scheduled for May 17-18, 2013. SENIOR CENTER OFFERS LUNCH DAYTON - The Columbia County Senior Center will contin- ue to offer lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. for $4 per senior and $7 for non-seniors. Before lunch, the center offers music and games and the lunches consist of good...
1 Library Card Signup Month Sept. 1-30 Dayton Memorial Library September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! Residents of Dayton or outlying areas in Columbia County, stop by the library to get your free library card. Walla Walla County Fair And Frontier Days Sept. 1-2 Walla Walla County Fairgrounds Enjoy all of the tradi- tional fair events for just $3 to $7 per person, depending on age. Special events this year are con- certs by the Frog Hollow Band, wool busting and tractor pulls. For more...
