Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago February 7, 2002 Addressing an issue of people using the cemetery as a playground for the 4x4 vehicles, it has become necessary to close, chain and padlock the gates at the City Cemetery. The grand opening of the Blue Mountain Bird Rand Emu Experience was held Saturday outside Waitsburg. With a gift drawing every hour and unique gifts, this experience was definitely one of a kind. Local equestrians receive national honors at the Annual USDF Convention in Orlando, Florida. Tammie Neve of Walla Walla and her gelding named John...
DAYTON - Dayton resident Tyler Glasby changed his plea on charges of theft and forgery in Walla Walla County to guilty Jan. 24 and is out of jail. Glasby was accused of passing counterfeit $20s at Walla Walla businesses in November and was arrested by police after a 21-hour standoff in a Walla Walla trailer home park. Police have identified Glasby as a known gang member. Glasby entered not guilty pleas to three counts of forgery and one count of thirddegree theft in Walla Walla in early December. The forgery charges were felonies and the theft...
WAITSBURG IN SUNSET MAGAZINE WAITSBURG - The town of Waitsburg was picked as one of five "Wine Country Dream Towns" by Sunset magazine. The monthly's February issue lists Waitsburg as the only Washington state location on the list that's topped by Mc- Minnville, Ore., followed by Geyserville, Calif., Ojai, Calif., and Paonia, Colo. "Twenty minutes north of Walla Walla, it (Waitsburg) has a tiny Main Street backed by golden hills," according to the magazine. "There's also a growing handful of businesses, like the jimgermanbar, a magnet for...
WAITSBURG - A utility rate study that evaluated the cost of operating Waitsburg's sewer and water systems showed the city needs to increase its rates, but the city council said no to a proposal that would have raised rates by $14 a month over two years. Last Wednesday night, The Waitsburg City Council heard public comment on the utility rate increases. Not many of the large group of citizens remarked on the rate increases, but the sentiment was that the increases were high elsewhere in sales tax or car tab fees. City council members said they...
DAYTON - The Dayton Historic Depot's upstairs art gallery is now displaying photos depicting the strong, industrial rail yard trains taken by Charlene Collins Freeman. The photo exhibit made its solo debut last Saturday at the depot and will run through Oct. 1. Freeman, age 47, studied art at Mills College and the University of Utah. Freeman was born in San Francisco to an American father and Italian mother and was raised between Italy and the United States. She began painting and photographing...
Waitsburg 1-21 Fraudulent check reported on West Second Street. 1-22 Vehicle versus mailbox collision on Seventh Street. 1-23 Aggressive dog reported on Wheatland Drive. Prescott 1-17 Vehicle prowl on May Street. Dayton 1-17 Civil dispute on East Main Street. Sick animal reported on South Second Street. 911 call on East Clay Street, investigation found child was playing with phone. Criminal mischief reported on North Third Street. Warrant service. Residential burglary reported on East Washington Avenue. Civil dispute over property line on West...
My passion for Chinese Stir-Fry cooking started as a young cook in San Francisco's China Town. As a student attending San Francisco State, I defrayed my expenses cooking in a North Beach Pasta shop, eventually joining a team of China Town chefs cooking Cantonese on Grant Street. My first task at the China cafe was sauce making. I fell in love with the magic and simplicity of Chinese sauce ingredients and how the squiggles made every dish different and defined. I was eventually accepted among the all men Chinese staff and given the nickname,...
Ten Years Ago January 31, 2002 The community celebrates on the completion of the Waitsburg High School Gym - Vo-Ag Shop Renovation project. A spectacular photo of Palouse Falls, taken by Gary Lentz, is featured in the paper this week's Touchet Valley Ramblings by Vance Orchard. The falls, pictured in its wintry garb of snow and ice has been the subject of many articles written by those who visit it. Describing their findings as they dig into the written history of the falls, Vance quotes from a 1967 story about the falls, written for the Union-...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council heard public comment on a transportation benefit district last Wednesday night and members said they would rather increase sales tax than add $10 to annual car tab fees . No action was taken on the taxing district Wednesday after more than one hour of public comment. The city is weighing two taxing options to boost the amount of funding to go to street improvement and repairs. The first option is to add $10 to annual car tab fees for city residents. The...
LEO'S PENNY DRIVE SUCCESS WAITSBURG - Waitsburg High School's Leo's Club recently ran a penny drive and brought in $156.99. Pennies were collected in December and it was a class competition. The freshmen won the overall competition. Seniors brought in $9.07; juniors brought in $43.60; sophomores brought in $11.90; freshman brought in $68.42. The Leo's club members chose to split the $156.99 between the Black Dog Rescue Program and the Waitsburg Resource Center. They will give the rescue program 30 percent of the money and the food bank 70...
WAITSBURG - Last week, the Waitsburg School Board voted unanimously to approve a new alternative learning program that will allow students to complete their education from the comfort of their home computers. Waitsburg Superintendent Dr. Carol Clarke said offering online learning is beneficial in two ways. One is to provide students who have dropped out of school an opportunity to continue their education, she said. The other is to provide families who home school their children another curriculum option. "It's one way to draw back students...
The overall wheat market is in a follower mode right now. Corn was the primary driver of last Thursday's 37-cent collapse in Chicago. The USDA statisticians found 166 million bushels more corn than the average grain analyst had expected. When corn went limit down, wheat was bound to follow, as a significant bit of recent demand for wheat had been for feed to animals instead of expensive corn. Now the math works better for corn feeding in many locations. The drop in Chicago wheat triggered a quick 20- to 30-cent negative white wheat price...
PRESCOTT - The Prescott School District is asking for $585,000 each year in 2013 and 2014 in a maintenance and operations levy to keep the district's buildings and programs up and running. The school board approved the levy amount for the Feb. 14 ballot that is expected to cost taxpayers $2.39 per $1,000 of assessed property value the first and second years of the levy. The current levy, passed in 2010, expires in December 2012. The current levy costs residents $2.60 per $1,000 assessed value. B...
WAITSBURG - Despite the long-standing sports rivalries in the Touchet Valley that provide competition and fun between our small towns, the local clergy are hoping to blur the lines and bring together members of the religious community in the quarterly Touchet Valley Call to Prayer. "We want to invite people of the (local) congregations to come together and realize their unity as Christians," said Greg Bye, the pastor of the Redeemer Lutheran Church of Dayton. The majority of churches from...
Today I drove out to Basel Cellars Estate Winery, Walla Walla. I was playing Private Chef to a customer who I prepare weekday dinners for and I wanted a good Claret red wine to pair with one of their weekly dinner choices. I know Basel Cellars has the best Claret in the valley and I love the picturesque drive out to this winery. Out along Old Milton Highway, the Basel Estate Winery and guest facility is housed in a two-story American Log Lodge, reminiscent of the Mt. Hood Timberline Lodge -- rustic but elegant. Everywhere you walk is slate and...
Ten Years Ago January 24, 2002 Waitsburg Elementary School received a $500 grant from ExxonMobil Educational Alliance to support technology program. Susan L. Mays of the Waitsburg Exxon station worked with Margie Douglas, fourth grade and technology teacher, to secure the grant. Former Times publisher Tom Baker donned the classic green eyeshade of an Intertype operator as he demonstrated the circa 1925 Intertype linecaster last week. Several visitors stopped by to see this machine in operation. Twenty-Five Years Ago January 29, 1987 Approximate...
DAYTON - A Dayton man faces more than seven years in prison if convicted of charges relating to theft of a motor vehicle, trespass and resisting arrest last spring. The charges are from Columbia County and the defendant, Edward W. Terry, 26, is being held in Columbia County Jail. Terry's trial for the charges, set for Feb. 23, will be his third trial since June. Last spring, he was convicted of forgery and third-degree theft and sentenced to 9 to 13 months in prison. During the June trial, Terry had posted bail and caused more trouble. He...
WP GETS ANOTHER WRESTLING COACH WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg School Board unanimously approved Jan. 11 the hiring of a new assistant wrestling coach, Jason Just. The WP wrestling program is in its first year and it has two female participants, Superintendent Dr. Carol Clarke said. The girls have not yet competed because there are not many female wrestlers in the area and it was recommended by Clarke that they have their own coach. PUBLIC HEARING ON CITY FEES WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council is holding a public hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 18 t...
PRESCOTT - The Prescott School District will hold community meetings about a replacement levy. On each of two evenings next week Dr. Bill Jordan, the district superintendent, will provide information on the levy. Meetings will be held in Vista Hermosa Community Chapel Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m., and at the Prescott School District Library on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. The district board of directors approved a resolution for a Special Levy Election to be held Feb. 14. The Levy of $585,000 would be for the 2013 and 2014 tax years and replace...
Under the new redistricting plan, Walla Walla and Columbia counties will remain in District 16, represented by Rep. Maureen Walsh, Rep. Terry Nealey and Sen. Mike Hewitt, all Republicans. However, District 16 did lose a portion of Franklin County and gained some of Benton County. Also, Walla Walla County was split in half into the Fourth and Fifth Districts. This means Touchet and Burbank will be in the Fourth District and College Place, Walla Walla, Waitsburg, Prescott and Dixie will be in the Fifth District. The districts were recently...
Wheat, gold and the U.S. Dollar -- all internationally visible, all affecting everyday life for most of us, even if we pay no attention at all. Wheat export prices are determined by competitive offers submitted to the requesting buyer, so the fluctuating value of the dollar relative to the buyer's native currency has a direct impact from Oka-san's shopping basket in Sasebo all the way back to the wallet of the guy sitting on the combine in Walla Walla County. If the dollar is weaker versus the...
