Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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COMMUNITY YARD SALE WAITSBURG - Waitsburg's community yard sale will be held on Saturday, June 2. This 15th annual event is sponsored by the Commercial Club. There are no time limits - start early or on your own time. Sales will take place all over town. Call the Times at 337-6631 to add your yard sale to the map that will appear in the May 31 issue. SPRING CLEANUP BEGINS DAYTON - The Dayton spring alley cleanup will begin June 14 on the north end of town. Materials put out for pick up must be compostable and may include garden wastes, vines,...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg FFA capped off another year with dessert and awards Thursday, May 3 at the annual banquet with plenty of pomp and circumstance. Opening ceremonies included the officers recitation of their job duties and the symbolism of their organization. Award Winners and Honorees: Parents and Community Members: Dean Wass, Pam Alexenko, Veronica Deal, Micah Winnett, Jim Wilson, Deven Desalvo, Jerry and Peggy Hall Businesses: Odako Club, Wilbur-Ellis (Todd Scott helped write a grant...
Lately, I've been talking about the rose wine because this easy-to-drink, semi-dry (meaning less than sweet) wine is making a big resurgence on the American wine scene. The rose is a beautifully hued wine, rolling in spicy tart nuances and it would seem the wineries of our region are aware of the rose's new popularity. This year, 90 percent of our local wineries have produced either a very dry or the familiar pink semi-sweet rose wine to their portfolios and sales are brisk. The wine: Walla Walla's Cavu Cellars produces a 2010 Barbera Rose...
Ten Years Ago May 16, 2002 The Will James Society gives a collection to Waitsburg Elementary School Library. The library at Waitsburg Elementary is the recipient of a 17-book collection of the works of noted Western author and artist Will James. Twenty-Five Years Ago May 21, 1987 The Vandal Booster Club prompts board to propose a total 9-12 sports cooperative. A letter from the Waitsburg School Directors to Prescott Schools proposing joint cooperation between Prescott and Waitsburg for athletic programs in grades 9-12, academics, physical...
WAITSBURG -- Long before the popularity of the Buena Vista Social Club, Eddie Manzanares was in Cuba soaking up its music. Born in 1963 in Vera Cruz on the Mexican Gulf Coast, Manzanares would join other youths from his community on cultural exchanges to the Caribbean Islands. His group would show off Mexican dances and songs, while bringing home the Son Montuno, a uniquely Cuban musical genre that blends the Spanish guitar and lyrical traditions with the spice of Afro-Cuban percussion and...
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OPENING WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Historical Society will have a grand opening of the Wilson-Phillips House from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 19, at the Wilson-Phillips House. The addition to the Bruce House campus was the result of a generous donation by Mary Phillips. The home was a contemporary of the Bruce House, built in 1884 by Silas and Alice Wilson. The builders had family connections to Velma Auer, Elizabeth Abbey, Dorothy Lloyd and Jan Eastman. The Wilsons were responsible for the stained glass windows in the...
WAITSBURG - Described as a Texas Troubadour with a great future, 30-something singer and songwriter Quincy Harper will bring his unique voice, style and acoustic guitar playing to the Coppei Café this Saturday. The performance starts around 7 p.m. Harper was raised in a musical family. His grandfather, James Victor "Vic" Harper, from Harper, Texas, played several instruments including fiddle. The elder Harper played with the Light Crust Doughboys and with other legendary Texas musicians and bands. His love of music was passed down to the...
WALLA WALLA -- Richard G. Wernette, a Superior Court Commissioner, Municipal Court Judge and local attorney announced his candidacy Monday for the Walla Walla County Superior Court, Department II. The current judge Donald W. Schacht recently announced his plan to retire at the end of his term in 2012. Mr. Wernette has served as a Municipal Court Judge for nine years as well as a Superior Court Commissioner for seven years. He has been a District Court Judge pro tem since 1991 upon the request of all three District Court judges during that...
5 Spring Release: This weekend, wineries across the state participated in showing the year's newest red and white wine releases. Reports are in: 2012 broke all attendance and wine sales records over previous years. The one surprise was the 2009 Couvillion Merlot, a juicy ruby red, one of the only merlots released this year. Pronounced, Coo- Vee-Yon, this Walla Walla winery opened its doors in 2006 and quietly racked up an impressive line of awards including Best Walla Walla Wine Made By A Woman, Top 50 Wines of Washington State and Best New...
A bigail Rose Corey-Boulet was born April 16, 2012, at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash. She weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Her parents are Makaela and Warren Corey-Boulet of Spokane. Maternal grandparents are Kris and Jay Takemura of Dayton. Paternal grandparents are Barbara Corey of University Place and Frank and Judy Boulet of Munich, Germany. Maternal great-grandparents are Mary Ellen and Dick Juris of Dayton....
ARMED FORCES DAY PARADE WAITSBURG - American Legion Auxiliaries are honoring all veterans by asking them to be in the Armed Forces Day Parade on May 19 in Waitsburg. The theme is Fly Our Flag. Please meet at Main and First Streets by 9:15 a.m. for judging of the float. Letters of invitation have been sent to area Legion and V.F.W. members, but all Veterans are welcome. Some veterans are planning to ride motorcycles. Please let B. A. know before May 15, so plans can be made for any extra transportation besides the float, ikba...
The City of Waitsburg sincerely thanks its voters for approving the recent sales tax increase request as it will go a long way to ensure our streets are kept up....
DAYTON -- The Dayton High School Robotics Team came home from the World Championship Robotics Competition in St. Louis, Mo., with a trophy. From among 100 robotics entries in the Bulldogs' division, the Dayton team with its "Skid Steer" robot placed as the "highest-seeded rookie team" and placed 15th overall in a tournament that drew teams from countries like Israel, Mexico, Greece, Japan and Canada. As agriculture and shop teacher Steve McLean put it, the trip "was a wonderful, amazing experience. The kids were a pleasure to take and learned...
DAYTON - Dayton and Waitsburg students dove into Shakespeare's writings head first recently by working with professional actors in the classroom and even seeing some of the famous playwright's work onstage at the Liberty Theater. Mary Pryor, a teacher at Dayton High School, said her students had a blast learning iambic pentameter and stage dancing during the week her ninth grade class was visited by teaching artists from Shakespeare Walla Walla. Reading or acting out "Romeo and Juliet" is part...
WAITSBURG - The Weller Public Library in Waitsburg now boasts about 70 new books to entertain children of all ages through the summer months. Library Manager Rosie Warehime said the addition of the books to the library is just in time for the summer reading program, which will begin June 21. "It's huge," Warehime said with a laugh. The new books are in the library thanks to a matching grant from the Libri Foundation, called the Books For Children grant. The grant primarily focuses on getting...
DAYTON - Suzanne Shuba was always a talkative member of the Crazy Crafters, a group of about a dozen Dayton ladies who get together on Thursdays to try out new craft techniques from painting on rocks to making corn husk dolls. Shuba, who joined the group about a year ago, loved creating new objects and bringing out old ones she found at the South Third Street home passed down by a late relative, who left behind antique dolls and quilts. She liked to take designs from books and magazines, then try making them herself, said Lois Hemphill, one of...
One of the oldest wineries in the region, Leonetti Cellars has produced a marvelous '09 merlot wine. Winemaker Gary Figgins expresses his winemaking philosophy: "Quality without Compromise." His hard work shows in this merlot, the Leonetti Cabernet Sauvignon and sangiovese red wines. All three wines produced from entrusted regional vineyards: Mill Creek Upland, Loess and Seven Hills Old Block; the vines grown and tended in a most sustainable manner. About the merlot wine: The Leonetti '09 Merlot has an exquisite temperament. At a whopping 78...
Ten Years Ago May 3, 2002 Waitsburgites: Sign up for block watch and Citizens' Patrol. City Crew Supervisor Dan Katsel read the list from a notebook he keeps in his pocket. Caused members of the city crew to spend time serving their community. Twenty-Five Years Ago May 7, 1987 Charles E. Hermanns, 28, who was injured in a two-car collision on the Harvey Shaw road April 28, has improved from serious to satisfactory condition at St. Mary Medical Center. Fifty Years Ago May 4, 1962 Freda Kay Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harris, was...
Gene and Mickie Winnett are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristen Z. Davidson to Phillip Chad Bratelie. Chad is the son of Dan and Ronda Bratlie of Stanfield. Kristen is a 2002 graduate of Weston-McEwen High School in Athena, Oregon. She attended Blue Mt. Community College in Pendleton and is now working in the Day Surgery Center at Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermiston. Chad is a 2003 graduate of Stanfield High School in Stanfi eld, Oregon. He attended Blue Mt. Community...
DAYTON - As the Columbia County Health System prepares to say goodbye to its CEO Charlie Button on May 9, it is making progress on finding his successor. About one month ago, Button announced he was moving on to take a new job at Star Valley Medical Center in Afton, Wyo. And when Button leaves next week, Jon Smiley, a former hospital CEO from Sunnyside, will fill in as the interim CEO until Button's replacement arrives, said health system board member Lisa Naylor. Smiley was appointed as the...
