Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
