Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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It is with deep regret, the Community Club of Prescott will not be serving breakfast at the Lions Hall this summer. The Prescott Lions will serve through June and start again in September. The Community Club wishes to thank all of you who joined us and gave your support the past few years. It was a pleasure to serve you....
WALLA WALLA - Like most graduating seniors, Cougar Henderson is look- ing forward to starting a new chapter in his life. But not just yet...Henderson's last weeks of high school will certainly stand out from the rest. He is about to kick off his eighth theatrical production in the past calendar year, in Wa-Hi's production of "Bye Bye Birdie." A self-proclaimed "sixthgeneration Waitsburgite," Henderson was bitten by the theater bug early. He became determined to be on stage after seeing "The...
A re you planning a little get-together with friends sometime this spring? If you live in Dayton, you may need to get permission from the city first. City Council member Dain Nysoe is spearheading an effort to require city residents who are planning an event to submit a "Special Events Permit Application" first. The draft application that was reviewed by members of the council's public safety committee on Thursday (I got my grubby hands on a copy too) is 12 pages long, single spaced. It's a ligh...
Live Music Friday Morn- ing! The WHS Rock Band will play at Coppei Coffee Friday, April 19 at 10:30 a.m. Coppei Coffee, 137 Main Street, Waitsburg FREE Bluegrass Is For The Birds! A Fundraiser for Pioneer Park Aviary Plaza Theater, 208 Main St, Waitsburg Friday, April 19th at 6:30 Tickets : $10 at the door Prescott Library Cowboy Poetry Celebration When: April 23, 7:00 p.m. Where: Prescott Lions Hall Nevada Slim and Cimar- ron Sue, along with Prescott Librarian Lara Schnick will host the event - you are en- couraged to come and be entertained...
A 1948 dance program indicating that Mr. Dean Low, a Dayton High School senior should dance with Miss Beverly Roberts, a Waitsburg High School sophomore, was the instrument responsible for introducing the couple, who recently celebrated their 60th anniversary. This first dance initiated a 5-year courtship, the last three years mostly by mail while Dean was drafted into the army and Beverly at- tended Cottey Jr. College in Missouri, spent eight months recovering from hip surgery, and then...
Last week I sat down with Columbia County Prosecutor Rea Culwell to talk about mari- juana. Or, to be more precise, we talked about the new law legalizing small amounts of marijuana in Washington, and how it affects her job. It does so in a number of ways, she told me - includ- ing some I wouldn't have thought of. One of the effects I al- ready thought of was this: "I'm sure we'll see some in- crease in use among youth." Culwell said there was a slight uptick in youth mari- juana use after the...
Spend a Sunday afternoon with the Sweet Adelines at their 3rd annual Sweetie Pie Social. Sunday, April 14, 1:30 p.m. Plaza Theater in Waitsburg. Tickets $8.00 - children 5 and under FREE. Waitsburg's Friends of the Library will be hosting local authors and teachers who will share about the creative writing process. Introduction to Creative Writing discus- sions will take place at the Weller Public Library with dates, times and speakers as follows: April 15th at 6:30 p.m. Sue Matley April 26th at 7:00 p.m. Shanna Hatfield May 2nd at 6:30 p.m....
When work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When riding on a roadway, a cyclist has all the rights and responsibilities of a vehicle driver. - Washington State Law (RCW 46.61.755) I n the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin's Life- styles Magazine Sunday, there was an excellent ar- ticle about bicycling, and the rights and responsibilities of cyclists and automobile driv- ers toward each other. I've...
Bluegrass Is For The Birds! A Fundraiser for Pioneer Park Aviary Plaza Theater, 208 Main St,Waitsburg Friday, April 19th at 6:30 Tickets : $10 at the door The Christian Aid Cen- ter is serving senior meals every Tuesday at 11am at the Waitsburg Presbyterian Church at 504 Main St. There is a $4.00 suggested donation. For further information call 527-3775. Valley Girls Barrel Racing Association will be presenting the 35th Annual "Barrel Daze" at the Walla Walla Fairgrounds from April 12- 14. Competitors will come from every state west of the...
"So how are you feeling?" the doctor asked with a smile. My knees haven't felt this good in years, I wanted to tell her. But I didn't. About the only good part of getting a hernia fixed is the lack of physical activity, which does wonders for the old joints. I was visiting Dr. Alexis Driggs last week at her office at Walla Walla Clinic to discuss my progress since she performed hernia repair surgery on me the week before. She said everything looked good, and I told her I felt as good as on...
Th e group includes two Day- ton city council members and a hospital board member. There's a retired farmer, a retired mail- man and a retired minister. Most of them, I'm afraid to say, are even older than me. They begin wandering into Skye Book and Brew in Dayton each morning, except Sunday and Monday, at around 9 a.m. A tall carafe with a pump top stands in the middle of the table and dispenses drip coffee. A smaller silver pitcher of decaffe sits next to it. Some in the group are Dayton...
1 Dayton High School Library 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The high school library is having a book sake from 1/22/13 to 2/8/13. Books will be 25 cents each. 2 Blue Mountain Heritage Society 6th Annual Ground "Hog" Day Sausage Fest Dinner: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Program: 6:45 Youth Building at Colum- bia County Fairgrounds Individual - $12.50 Fam- ily - $35.00 Dinner is followed with a program by "William Mc- Bean" the last factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Walla Walla, who shares his experiences during the fur trade era in our area. Funds are...
DAYTON -- Dayton Washington has received $31,575.00 to reduce youth alcohol and other drug use, and create a healthier and safer community environment. The support includes funding for training, technical assistance, and community and school-based prevention services. Dayton is one of 35 communities statewide currently participating in a Prevention Redesign Initiative (PRI), funded by the state Department of Social and Health Services' Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR). PRI supports new or existing coalitions in pa...
If you love spicy aromatic red wines, you might try Northstar's 2009 Petit Verdot; a perfect wine for the season. Winemaker David Merfeld came to Northstar in 2006 and has successfully built a delicious red wine portfolio including the '09 Petit Verdot. David's sixth sense about when to pick the Verdot grape, his whole-berry fermentation and extracting of the juices at just the right time are legendary. Of course, a long barreling in American/French oak may have a something to do with the success of the vintage. The Verdot grape, usually g...
For wheat markets, with January in the books, we are looking at only a few weeks until the US winter wheat price begins the "silly season" of spring weather volatility. This year promises some extra spice as the relatively small planted acreage combines with weak subsoil moisture across wide stretches of plains wheat fields, which adds up to market sensitivity to short-term weather swings. The market tone of the last week has been pretty low and lazy as, for the moment, the trade has little kindling with which to start a price fire. Production...
WALLA WALLA - Paine Hamblen LLP, which has its headquarters in Spokane, Washington, recently opened a new regional office in Walla Walla, Washington. This new office is in addition to the other Paine Hamblen offices which are currently operating in Coeur d' Alene; Priest River and the Tri-Cities, respectively. In establishing this new office, Paine Hamblen also entered into a mutually cooperative relation- ship with the law firm, Virtual In-House Counsel, PLLC, also of Walla Walla. Paine Hamblen's new Walla Walla office ad- dress is 2225...
Herb and Norma Bessey announce the engagement of their son, Michael, to Genna Palmer, daughter of Larry and Jill Palmer of Gar- field, WA. The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Garfield-Palouse High School and graduated from Central Washington University in 2008 with a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and Law and Justice with a minor in Sociology. She also studied at Western Governors University where she received her elementary Teaching certificate in 2012. A 2004 graduate of Waitsburg...
Here are the clues: Across: 1. A member of the WPteam. 3. What I wish the weath- er would do. Down: 1. Topic of my columnlast week. 2. A member of the Day- ton team (slang). 4. Initials of the 31st president of the United States. (No, I'm not that old - I had to look it up too.) Special thanks go out to the Book and Game Company in Walla Walla who agreed to be the weekly sponsor for the new weekly crossword puzzle feature in The Times. Enjoy....
After the decision was already made to begin including a crossword puzzle in each issue of The Times (the first one appears this week on page 10), I did a little research and discovered that we’ve just begun the centennial anniversary year of the crossword puzzle. The first word puzzle in the form we know today as a crossword appeared in the New York World newspaper on December 21, 1913. So it’s about time we got on board. Believe it or not, crossword puzzles have endured their share of con...
Ten Years Ago January 23, 2003 Guy and Lynn McCaw will receive their new Stratford system built home January 24. The building will be delivered from Stratford's production warehouse in Rathdrum, Idaho and "Set" on its foundation, at the building site just off Bolles Road by an assembly crew beginning at about 8 a.m. Mountain Lakes construction of Post Falls will be setting the home on its foundation, with the finishing work to be completed by Dan Cole of Cole Construction. The home site overlooks the Touchet Valley near the Junction of B...
The great sages tell us that all things seek balance. "Seeking balance" implies at least some swinging back and forth across some "perfect" point, tracing a sinuous line as momentum rises and falls. With a little contemplation, the natural movement of the market becomes "intuitively obvious", as Professor Pyle, my old statistics instructor often said. It sure is easy to see a trend when one is looking backward in time. Thus a problem is created for us human beings, as we are all hard-wired to quickly identify patterns in things. The end...
Driving along Old County Highway, Walla Walla, you'll enter the community of "Frenchtown," where several original wineries reside that helped catapult Washington State's wine movement, including Cougar Crest Estate Winery. A well-received winery of the Inland Northwest, Cougar Crest's Frenchtown tasting room sits off the highway, up against a stunning backdrop of the rocky red cliffs prominent to this appellation. Cougar Crest owner/operators, David and Deborah Han- sen came to Walla Walla in 1995, first raising grapes and eventually taking on...
The best part of a new year is the promise of mystery that comes along with the toasts at midnight. Every year I find myself, along with many others, wondering what the new year will bring. Will the economy grow? Will there be changes in the office? Will I ever make it to the gym? Most importantly, if I wear yoga pants all year and never do any yoga, are they still yoga pants? It's all very overwhelming and exciting. I always like to start the year off feeling cultural - as if by at...
