Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago November 27, 2001 As we observe Thanksgiving Day, Waitsburg's turkeys are featured in a Say Cheese profile. They have their favorite haunts around town, traveling in a flock that is well-known as a traffic-stopper. Highlights of the Dayton Holiday Kickoff this weekend include: winter fireworks and the first live performance in the newly restored Liberty Theater. Live performances of "The Music Man" will be held throughout the weekend. Waitsburg's greeting the holiday season will be held on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2001. Owners Mike and...
CITY LEAF BIN AVAILABLE TO CITIZENS WAITSBURG - The City of Waitsburg has a leaf bin available for citizens to put their leaves in down at the City Shop. It's available Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The city asks that people not push their leaves out into the street as it makes sweeping more time consuming for our public works crew. The city also notes that the railroad is going to be doing work on the crossing on Mill Race road, adjacent to the old mill site on Wednesday, Nov. 16, and the road will be closed that day. MEMORIAL...
To the Editor, Not surprisingly, the bond to fund the Coppei Creek levy improvements failed. You might wonder why with my being an owner of two properties in the designated flood zone of Waitsburg, I would vote against it. In short, because it was not a part of a comprehensive flood plan. I was one of only five community members who attended the meeting that the Army Corps of Engineers held to inform Waitsburg residents about the proposed Coppei levy improvements. The information I gleaned from this meeting was that while we could spend, with m...
DAYTON - Dayton's Betty Ann Fletcher and Elaine Hudson were nearly speechless last Thursday night when they were announced as the 2011 Citizens of the Year by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. The women could barely squeak out that they were honored after being hugged and cheered on by their family and friends in the community who had attended the chamber's 65th banquet at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Roslyn Edwards, whose husband Steve won the award last year, presented on his behalf and...
WAITSBURG -- Call them the bone yards of the industrial age: old factories, warehouses, stock yards, substations, fabrication shops, foundries. You can find them everywhere, including in our towns right here in the Touchet Valley. Just think about Wait's Mill after it burned or the apple packing plant near the railroad tracks. These structures of the past aren't just empty buildings, hangars or basements. They have an economic biography and a body of work in the form of the products, tools,...
This weekend, the wineries in our region and around the entire United States, opened their doors, treating folks to wines recently readied by nature for our fall and winter pleasure. It was wonderful to see people bellied-up, eyes trans-fixed, trying to identify the flavor profiles with each swirl and sip. For the wineries, the sight of happy customers walking away, elongated paper wine bags held under their arms, could only mean one thing -- a job well done. Flying Aprons Catering, fortunate to cater Saturday evening's Harvest Luminary at...
DAYTON - For Bette Lou Crothers, who as a child moved every year, Dayton is her real hometown. Crothers attended Dayton High School her junior and senior years, married a local boy out of college and has been selling insurance on Main Street for 30 years. Crothers said her family moved often because her parents worked building dams along the Snake River. She attended Central Washington University and always thought she would be an accountant. Instead, she got a job working as an insurance agent...
TERRY JACOY RECEPTION WAITSBURG - Nov. 9 marks the end of an era. Terry Jacoy will be completing 23 years of service to the Waitsburg School District as a member of the Board of Directors. To honor him there be a reception that evening and staff and the community are invited. The reception will be held at 7 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. when the Board meeting commences. During the reception, the Board of Directors will present Jacoy with a gift of appreciation for his service to the Waitsburg School District. TRAP SHOOTING TEAM RECEIVES GRANT...
1 Autumn Fanfare Concert Walla Walla Symphony 7:30 p.m. Whitman College This concert is the worldpremier performance by William Berry called "fantastic!: A Celebration of 25 Fantastic Years." It was composed in honor of Maestro Yaacov Bergman and his 25th anniversary with the symphony. Tickets are available online at www.wwsymphony.org and by calling the office at 509529-8020. The concert takes place in Cordiner Hall on the Whitman College campus. 2 Extended Performances, "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" Power House Theatre, Walla Walla Nov. 2...
Broadway in Waitsburg? Yes, and an art colony thrives! I was fortunate to have a front-row seat in the historical Waitsburg Plaza Theatre Saturday night for the Markeeta Little Wolf concert, "The Bitch is Back!" The house was sold-out and what a show it was. Markeeta, the former mayor of Waitsburg, gave all who attended, a musical review to be remembered. I walked away thinking Markeeta's job will never be done in Waitsburg. This woman has such community spirit and has now successfully opened the door to all who only dream of hitting the...
GARBAGE RATE INFORMATION We are hearing that there has been some confusion about the new garbage rates. Some people think that the $19.70 fee to remove a can is what it costs to have a second can dumped. This is not the case. The $19.70 fee is the fee to terminate service and have BDI physically take away the garbage can and take it back to their building in Pasco. It is not a fee to dump the can. If a customer has one or more cans, they get charged their monthly fee whether they have one can, no can, or multiple cans out. The rate is based on...
Ten Years Ago November 6, 2001 While many enjoyed the beautiful Sunday afternoon raking leaves, the community is looking for a missing Waitsburg business owner. Ted R. Brooks, owner of the Waitsburg Motel and the trailer court on West Second Street has been missing since Oct. 24. Gary Thomas of Waitsburg was recognized by the Walla Walla Fair for 30 years of volunteer service at the Fair's Appreciation Dinner. He has been a betting-booth volunteer all those years. Jim LaTour, sheriff of Columbia county for 20 years, announced he will be...
WAITSBURG LUMINARY EVENT WAITSBURG -- The Waitsburg Town Hall Board of Directors invites the community of Waitsburg to our Waitsburg Town Hall Open House during the Luminary on Nov. 8. Your Town Hall Directors will be serving cocoa and cookies in appreciation to the Waitsburg Community for supporting our Town Hall remodel. Check out Town Hall's blog at waitsburgluminaryevent.blogspot.com/ COLUMBIA REA VACANCY FILLED DAYTON -- Columbia REA announces its board of directors appointed Eric Johnson to fill the vacancy of DJ Frame for District 2. Thi...
Sitting in Vintage Cellars, Walla Walla, on a Wednesday evening among local merchants and wine makers, is an exciting event for anyone who wants easy conversation and loves good wine and wonderful brew. Right now, November's Fall Release is all the talk. Check out your newspapers for event happenings. For the Touchet Valley, Markeeta Little Wolf's concert is the talk; do you have your ticket? Friends and I are first meeting for a light dinner and cocktails at jimgermanbar and then attending the musical event. We'll scoot over to Anchor Bar...
Congratulations to Grady Hutchens! He has the honor of being the first Starbuck Elementary Student of the month this year! Grady is a second grader this year at Starbuck, and he is an excellent student. Grady has been in the Starbuck School for three years. Grady is an amazing student inside the classroom and out on the playground. In the classroom, he is working hard on doing three and four digit addition and subtraction, and is doing great. He is also learning to write summaries of what he is...
Ten Years Ago November 1, 2001 The Weinhard Hotel in Dayton has received one of Work- Soure Walla Walla's 2001 Employer of the Year Awards for Walla Walla and Columbia Counties. The true heart and devotion demonstrated towards the success of their business, employees, customers and community is the basis that the Weinhard Hotel of Dayton, Washington is deserving of recognition. The College Place Wal-Mart was the other recipient of the award. Waitsburg High Football seniors and their manager were honored and recognized their parents at their...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg has a new ballot dropoff box by City Hall so voters can save a stamp. Karen Martin, the Walla Walla County auditor, said at last week's council meeting the county would install a secure drop box in time for next month's general election. Eighteen days prior to the election, voters can fill out their ballot and drop it into the box for pickup, saving them the stamp it would take if it was dropped in the mail. The box was installed Friday afternoon. Martin said the drop box is a new alternative to staffing a poll site in...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council is starting to get documents prepared for the process of taking the idea of a transportation benefit district to the ballot. City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe said there is less and less money for roads and a transportation benefi t district, if approved by the voters, would give the council the ability to collect a small percentage of sales tax to raise money for street improvements. The other option would be for the council to pass a $20 car tab fee, but the council members did not support that idea. If...
WAITSBURG -- Walla Walla County residents will have one last chance to dispose of tires free of charge in 2011. The final event will be on Oct. 22 at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and all county residents can attend the event. Participants will be asked to provide proof of residency by showing a valid driver's license or property tax statement with an address in Walla Walla County. Residents will be able to dispose of up to 10 passenger car, light truck or motorcycle tires per household. No tractor, large truck, tires over 36...
WALLA WALLA -- The set never changes throughout the play. We're always just a breath away from Marilyn Monroe in her sanctum: in her bedroom, in her dressing room, at her makeup table, eavesdropping on her telephone conversations and listening to her innermost thoughts about fame, relationships, sex and acting. From a seat in the Powerhouse Theater balcony watching "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" is like being a fly on the wall in the "sex goddess'" home, while her life flashes before our eyes from...
I was in Berkeley, Calif., this weekend tasting wine in an unusual bottle shop; inside the Berkeley Municipal Utilities Pump House. Today, owner Peter Eastlake operates his, "Vintage Berkeley," inside the historical building. Vintage is a unique emporium, tacked with wines from around the world, all under $25 a bottle. The day I arrived at Vintage, Bay Area wine professional Eric Sothern of Breakaway Wine Company was giving visitors a taste of a Spanish Tempranillo. For the moment, anything imported goes against everything I stand for in the...
DAYTON - Fall cleanup in Dayton will begin a week sooner than usual, according to Public Works Director Jim Costello. Pickup from the alleys will get underway Nov. 7, starting on the north end of town and work south. All materials must be compostable with garden waste, vines, shrubs and tree and shrub trimmings no larger than 2.5 inches across at the largest end (about the diameter of a pop can). Grass clippings, sod with dirt, rocks, bricks, garbage, roofing, metal, etc. are not acceptable. "If we come by and your items are not out, we will...
