Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
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...
The group No Kids Hungry was formed by a group of Hollywood actors who got tired of money and donations being misappropriated and not getting to the people they were intended for. Today, the group goes so far as to deliver the foods and money themselves. For small well worth affiliations like this, use your Google bar and type: "food donation groups." Speaking of starving mammals; today, I delivered a 20-pound bag of cat food to the Walla Walla SPCA, one of my yearly donations to those who cannot speak for themselves. I love this donation and...
Ten Years Ago January 17, 2002 A picture of Preston Hall illustrates the article, which cites the people of Waitsburg and the Waitsburg School District as role models of communication and cooperation in this month's District Administration magazine, published for public schools. This week the war Afghanistan took on a personal note as Eastern Washington lost a native son, Sgt. Nathan P. Hays was among the seven marines who perished in the crash of a KC-130 Hercules refueling plane in Pakistan. Word reached The Times this week that Greg Nysoe,...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Knowledge Bowl team didn't know the answer to the question "What branch of mathematics was pioneered by the Islamic mathematician al- Khwarizmi?" To score the point in round three of Monday's Knowledge Bowl meet at the Waitsburg Christian Church they didn't really need to know the exact response. They just needed to be fast on the buzzer and take the 15 seconds they had to use logic and the process of elimination to figure out that it might algebra, derived from the...
PUBLIC HEARING ON CITY FEES WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council is holding a public hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 18 to discuss rate increases. The city staff and council members will discuss raising rates for residents for water and sewer. Also, to help improve city roads, the city will be discussing increasing local sales tax or charging residents a car tab fee of up to $20. For more information, call City Hall at 509-337-6371. TOUCHET VALLEY CALL TO PRAYER WAITSBURG -- The first Touchet Valley Call to Prayer, sponsored by the Touchet Valley...
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...
Once again, I had a frosted bottle of California Vintner, Randall Grahm's, 2007 Le Cigare Volant on the table in front of me and a first of the season, cracked crab. I was in heaven and hoped no one noticed my drooling. A friend joined me on the Santa Cruz Municipal Pier for the feast. Wine Guy missed my surprise visit, but that was OK, as we mumbled out loud, "good, more for us," and poured Le Cigare and nibbled on fresh cracked crab, admiring the Monterey Bay. This Grenache-styled wine with the funny name and label is a favorite of mine....
Waitsburg 1-1 Four garbage cans taken on Maple Street. Prescott 12-28 Found property at the Tuxedo, bumper and license plate that fell off a car, returned to owner in Walla Walla. Dayton 12-27 Parking problem on Main Street. Suspicious circumstances reported on East Dayton Avenue. Vehicle prowl reported on Eighth Street, call proved unfounded. Suspicious persons reported on East Washington. 12-28 Subject arrested on North Touchet Road for driving with a suspended license in the third degree. Found bike reported at golf course, unfounded. Hit...
Ten Years Ago January 10, 2002 The new year brings new restaurants and new faces to Waitsburg: Jennifer, Jordan and Craig French from Midloathian, Texas, will open the Flour Mill Bakery on Main Street. Across the street, Patricia Sanders offers Southern cuisine at the Silver Moon, which she opened on Dec. 14, 2001. Charges to earnings from the bankruptcy of Enron may be one of the factors in PPL Corporation's cancellation of a proposed 1,100 megawatt gas-fired power plant, which was being planned near Starbuck, a $535 million project. Twenty-Fi...
WAITSBURG -- The City of Waitsburg is coming by and picking up citizens Christmas trees. All that residents have to do is put them out in the street by the curb and public works crew will come by and pick up them up. Service will extend through the end of next week....
WAITSBURG - Joanna Lanning is getting ready to take the plunge. Last year, Lanning, and two Waitsburgers, Patty Hazelwood and Vicki Hamann, took a dip in the Columbia River to raise money for Special Olympics of Washington. Lanning is the WP cross country coach, Hazelwood is a special education teacher and cheerleading coach Hamann is a paraprofessional at the high school. Lanning raised $800 last year. This year her goal is $1,000. "The majority of the funds stay right here," Lanning said of th...
JANUARY BILL TO REFLECT SURCHARGE WAITSBURG - The city of Waitsburg would like to let the citizens know the fuel surcharge approved as a part of the new solid waste agreement with Basin Disposal will be present on the utility bills that will be arriving in January. For more information about your bill, call 509-337-6371. CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S LUNCHEON DAYTON - The Christian Women's Connection (CWC) Luncheon will be held at the Seneca Activity Center in Dayton on Wednesday, Jan. 11 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. The cost is $10.00 and will be catered...
