Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW WAITSBURG -- The 4-H Waitsburg Corral Wranglers Club will be participating in the Waitsburg Junior Livestock Show on June 9 and 10. On Saturday, there will only be sheep, goats, pigs and streers. At 9 a.m. that day, there will be livestock judging. The public is welcome. The Corral Wranglers Club is open to service project ideas. The next 4-H meeting will be July 2 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Waitsburg park. CAR SHOW THANK YOU WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg "One Of A Kind" Classic Auto Show Group would like to thank all...
DAYTON - Columbia County Prosecutor Rea Culwell said Daniel Baxter, a transient man facing 28 burglary-related charges, does not want to go forward with a plea agreement after all. Baxter was arrested last February and charged with crimes including squatting in vacant homes in the Dayton city limits and stealing items from those homes from last summer through February. Baxter, who has ties to Pennsylvania, Montana and California, faces from 0 days to 70 years in prison if convicted. Baxter...
DAYTON -- Two Dayton High School seniors were recognized Thursday, May 17, for their commitment to the community with the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Citizenship Award. Colleen Delp and Joey Schlachter are both active at Dayton High School as well as in the community. Delp and Schlachter are both members of the Associated Student Body (ASB), Delp as public relations officer and Schlachter as the president. Both students are active in multiple sports, National Honors Society...
In spite of the big, $1 per bushel spike in Chicago wheat prices May 15 through 21, the trend for wheat remains in a broad downward slope. It is very tough for wheat to advance directly into the teeth of harvest, even with the weather stories about dryness in Russia and frost on tender young North Dakota hard red spring wheat. We do not yet have the combination of factors that could allow wheat to rise beyond the upper edge of the 15-monthold downward price channel. The market played one of its best positive price cards in the mid-May jump, as...
2 Waitsburg Community Yard Sale All Day City of Waitsburg See the map on page 6 of this Times edition for locations of local yard sales. Hours of operation vary and are set by each yard sale host. Dayton High School Graduation 1 p.m. High school gym DNA, Live Coppei Café 7 p.m. Daniel Fitzsimmons and Ann Lehman, AKA DNA, return to Waitsburg for an evening of folk and Americana at Coppei Café. 8 Waitsburg High School Graduation 8 p.m. High school gym Prescott High School Graduation 7 p.m. High s...
The Adventure: I was in Napa Valley this week and although I enjoyed my time away, I looked forward to getting home and kicking off my shoes. When friends arrived to pick me up from the airport, they whisked me off to Mannina Cellars, 760 C. St., Walla Walla, for a tasting of winemaker Don Redman's 2010 Sangiovese red wine. I didn't resist because this winemaker is one of Walla Walla's most gifted. The Winery: Mannina Cellars is owned and operated by Don and Nicole Redman, two people I recommend you get out and meet if you have any doubt about...
Ten Years Ago May 30, 2002 Waitsburg is pot of gold for 500 Rainbow girls honoring Menino here Saturday. Waitsburg will be a funfilled day from the crack of dawn to the dance, as five hundred - count 'em- five hundred Rainbow Girls and advisers, led by Grand Worthy Adviser Holly Menino, come to meet and play. Twenty-Five Years Ago June 4, 1987 School Board discusses teacher's arrest in executive session. The Waitsburg School Board reviewed and approved several funding programs, made a change in the Kindergarten schedule and then went into...
DAYTON -- Local businesses in Dayton received certificates May 16 for meeting requirements meant to decrease underage drinking. The businesses, evaluated by the Dayton Junior High's Students Helping Each Other (SHEO) club, were rewarded with certificates for helping reduce underage drinking by meeting seven of 10 requirements for SHEO's Let's Draw the Line campaign. Ten Dayton stores were recognized. Those businesses are The General Store, Chevron PDQ, Steve's Grocery, Shell Service and Food...
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. For locations, please see the yard sale map in this issue on page 6. 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, shrub and tree trimmings....
DAYTON -- Come out and visit rodeo royalty during the 94th annual Dayton Days Parade Saturday morning, May 26, starting along Main Street, which is sponsored by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce this year. This year the Dayton Days Parade committee decided not to host the event, so the Chamber of Commerce stepped up to sponsor it because it has been part of the annual agenda for so many years, Acting Chamber Director Linze Purcell said. The big parade will be prefaced with a kiddie parade that...
DAYTON - The Future Business Leaders of America in Dayton are studying and competing to become the cream of the crop in the business world and the practical job interview and parliamentary procedure skills they earn will help them in their future careers. Dayton High School teacher Rob Moore said FBLA is one of the fastest-growing clubs in America for high school students. The club has been in Dayton for many years. Moore said when he began teaching at the school in 1987, it was already...
May 23: Allen Ford, Jeannie Gagnon, Greg Bichsel, Kathy Maioli, Bill Thompson, Elizabeth Hermanns and Bill Box. May 24: Bob Patton, Guy McCaw, Amanda Short, Amanda Higgins and Alexander LeClerc. May 25: Joe Abbey, Bill Hinchliffe, Holly Foster, Jason Payne, Wes Leid, George J. Robinson, Greg Leid and Iris Reed. May 26: Hannah Perry, Pam Hermanns, Rob John and Pamela Gluck. May 27: Betty Maxwell, Sherrie Erikson, Michelle Anderson, Floyd Strohmaier, Mathew Conrath, Allen Robertson and Laisha Archer. May 28: Roy Phillips, Mike Snyder, Jo Wolfe,...
Waitsburg 5-15 Slashed tires on a vehicle were reported on Sixth Street. 5-18 Assistance to Child Protective Services with removing children from a residence was reported on Maple Street. Dayton 5-15 Animal mistreatment was reported at Horseshow Lane. Vandalism was reported on First Street. A stray animal was reported on Third Street. 5-16 A stray dog was taken in and reported on Second Street. 5-17 Harassment reported on Lower Hogeye Road. A citizen dispute reported on Dayton Avenue. Fraud reported on Main Street. 5-19 A stolen vehicle reporte...
If unexpected guests arrive at your door and you need a couple of great bottles of wine, you might try the Weinhard Hotel's new wine for sale, just inside the Dayton hotel's gift shop. The McLeod's carry a beautiful collection of regional wines; Leonetti to L'Ecole, Long Shadow's to Dumas Station, from Helms Road to Couvillion. Wines are priced at $16 to $102 a bottle and they have a few bottles chilled in back -- just ask. This Week's Wine: The 2011 Poet's Leap Semi-Dry (meaning less sweet) Riesling, a Long Shadows bottle. The recipe,...
Katarina Edie and McKenzie Dobbs are Starbuck Students of the Month for May. McKenzie Dobbs has been at the school for four years now. She started in first grade, and is now finishing her fourth grade year. McKenzie is a great student and citizen of our community. McKenzie is an excellent mathematician. She has worked hard this year to master her multiplication facts, and is now conquering long division and fractions. She writes in cursive, and can write a story with multiple paragraphs very...
Ten Years Ago May 23, 2002 Voters give City M&O levy an overwhelming thumbs down. Sixty-seven percent of the voters in Waitsburg appear to have resoundingly turned down a one-year taxation request by the city of Waitsburg. Of the ballots received by mail or delivered to the Walla Walla County Auditors's office as of 8 p.m. Twenty-Five Years Ago May 28, 1987 A drug raid nets two from Waitsburg. Travis Weedman is placed under arrest early Friday morning as the result of the cooperative drug enforcement program in Walla Walla, Columbia and...
A lister and Sarah Torrens are delighted to announce the birth of their son, Thaddaeus Phillip Torrens. He was born April 28, 2012, in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, weighing in at seven pounds and 20-inches long. Proud grandparents are Phillip and Jeanetta Monfort, Waitsburg, Ron and Alison Torrens, Kilrea, Northern Ireland, and greatgrandfather, Samuel Torrens, Kilrea, N.I. He joins an older sister, Saphira....
WAITSBURG - Two new additions to the Times staff will improve the weekly publication for readers and advertisers. NEW REPORTER Morgan Smith, our new Dayton reporter, started her position with the Times Family last week. She had been working intermittently as a freelancer for the Times since February. Smith, a recent Washington State University graduate, is focused on covering news, community events and sports in Dayton and Columbia County. Smith, who turns 23 in July, brings a bright...
DAYTON - Touchet Valley Arts Council Productions, the team that has produced many musicals for Dayton's Liberty Theater stage, is staging the family favorite "Annie" this fall. Elizabeth Arabelos Jagelski will direct the hit musical, based on Harold Gray's comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" that debuted in the New York Daily News in 1924. An informational meeting will be held at the theater on May 22 at 6:15 p.m. to cover the audition process and schedule. Anyone interested in performing onstage or helping out behind the scenes is welcome to...
