Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETS WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Historical Society will hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 22, at the WP (Annex) Building behind the Bruce Mansion on Fourth Street. Attendees are encouraged to bring their plans and ideas for this year's Pioneer Fall Festival. NEW FAIR ENTRY DEADLINE DAYTON - Tuesday, Sept. 6 is the new deadline for entering exhibits at the Columbia County Fair taking place at the county fairgrounds Sept. 9-11. The new deadline allows fair volunteers an additional day to set displays in the...
Greetings from California! Last night, a couple of friends and I met and dined at Henry's HI-Life in downtown San Jose. Henry's is an institution in Silicon Valley, known for its open pit grilled meats, friendly ambiance and the Italianate Board Commercial Building Henry's thrives in. We sat in the bar awaiting our table, sipping Margarita's from tall frozen pint glasses. Finally, our table was called and we were seated with our salads and appropriate dressings and ice waters with floating lemon, in front of us. The prime rib was good but the...
WAITSBURG - Standing over the engine of a 2012 Mustang with his young son Race, Reece Hubbard was melancholy for the car he was recently forced to sell. "It was a 2008 Mustang Bullitt, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the '68 version," he said, recalling the movie Bullitt with Steve Mc- Queen, who helped make the model famous. "They only made 5,800 and my mine was #5,780. " With his wife out of work for a year following an injury, he had no other choice, but he still pines after the car...
Ten Years Ago August 16, 2001 Pat McConnell displays the artifact he found in a newly graded field near Bolles Junction when he was a young boy. Consulting a military historian, Pat discovers the good-sized piece of metal he assumed was a belt buckle is a cartridge box plate, possibly dropped when Colonel E.J. Steptoe and one hundred and fifty men left Fort Walla Walla on the morning of May 1858 made their way north past what became known as Bolles Junction en route to the Snake and thence north to Fort Colville. Touchet Valley Communications...
DAYTON - Mead is wine made from honey instead of grapes. A new winery featuring the buzzing bee's nectar in its wine is opening on Main Street in Dayton soon, almost a year after it was first announced. The grand opening for Mace Meadworks is set for Friday and Saturday, August 19 -20th. Lots of live music will be featured at the opening . D aergan Guy, Quincy Harper, DJ Sailsworth and Table of Contents are all scheduled to perform. The full lineup of events is posted at www.macemeadworks.com....
NEW LIBRARY MANAGER WAITSBURG - Longtime Waitsburg resident Rosie Warehime has been hired by the City of Waitsburg to be the new manager of the Weller Public Library. Warehime, who succeeds Su Alexander after her departure in June, was selected from two candidates who applied for the position. The new manager held numerous clerical positions at companies in the area, including Touchet Valley Grain Growers, Green Giant and National Bank Of Commerce, which is now Sterling Savings. Most recently, she worked at the Cenex gas station on the corner...
3-7 Macbeth opens the Shakespeare Walla Walla Summer Festival playing August 3rd though August 7th. Thrill in the journey of a good man seduced by witchcraft, vaulting ambition, and a persuasive wife. Returning from battle, heroic Macbeth is met upon a heath by three "weird sisters" who prophesy that he will one day be King of Scotland. Not in line to the throne, Macbeth's bloody ascension cuts down all who rightfully stand in his way. Macbeth is a marvel of theatricality packed with blood, battles, and the supernatural. Director Tim Hyland's...
Ten Years Ago August 9, 2001 Was Robin Hood here? The discovery of an arrow in the Bull's Eye Tavern's sign on Main Street is the talk around town. The consensus is Robin Hood would've hit the bull's eye-not the second ring. The Walla Walla County Sheriff's deputies are investigating. Growing up in Prescott, Linda Flathers Parsley, began to research her family history. After hours of research she has compiled the information she has gathered about hundreds of families into a book, "Dancing With Mules, a history of Northern Walla Walla County",...
NEW WINE WORKS FORMAT DAYTON - Dayton Wine Works wants to try something new: the wine potluck. Manager Carl Cramer said he'll open the tasting room for guests who want to order or bring their food in from outside, listen to good music and drink his company's wine. "All through August, we'll do dinner at 6 p.m. and music at 7 p.m. on Fridays," he said. "Bring your families, bring your lawn chairs, bring your dinner." Attendees can bring their own home-cooked meals or order from any of Dayton's restaurants that do takeout: Ray's, Manila Bay...
A fter shopping at Klicker's for a bag of frozen Bing cherries, I decided to drive a bit further, out along Isaacs and visit Charles Smith Wines, home to the wine-marketing genius of Winemaker, Charles Smith. Over the summer, I attended a barbecue and shared a bottle of Smith's '08 Eve Chardonnay. Today, I was on a mission to find another bottle for a picnic with Wine Guy. This has become a summer event, to find a quiet spot on Wolf Fork Creek, Patit Valley, Dayton, for a picnic and share a bottle of "water-rapid" chilled wine. We just let...
Ten Years Ago August 2, 2001 The East Eighth Street Project featuring new sidewalks, a wider street and parking by the athletic fields, wrapped up last week. A definite improvement for the community. For the first time, the 2001 Days of Real Sport Court will be a special guest at the Emerald Downs Race Track in Federal Way on August 10. The four young women on the court - Queen Chelsey Murdock and princesses Corrine McKinley, Trista Flores and Amy Smith won't be "riding in," so the journey will be without their four-legged partners....
WAITSBURG - More than 100 family members and local friends of Dennis Nostrant showed up for a dinner and silent auction at the fairgrounds Saturday, hoping to give the father of two a "second chance" at life, as his sister Susan Skeeters put it. The event raised more than $6,000 for Nostrant's transplant fund. The engineer, once a bar owner in Dayton and a longtime former resident of Waitsburg, needs a liver transplant to survive his late 50s. About one year ago, he discovered he has cirrhosis a...
PLANNING COMMISSIONERS WANTED WAITSBURG - The City of Waitsburg Planning Commission has three vacancies it needs to fill, City Clerk Randy Ninchliffe said. The six-member commission, which helps the city decide on the dedication of streets and alleys, reviewsconditional use permits, variances and interprets zoning, meets the first Thursday of every month and when there is business to address. The commission also makes recommendations for changes in the comprehensive plan, building codes, subdivision codes, zoning codes, environment code, plat...
Dayton's Liberty Theater is bringi ng Buck, an award-winning documentary, to its screen this Friday. The film follows real-life " horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman on his life journey from an abusive childhood to his extraordinary approach to horses. Regular evening shows are at 7:30 on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday with 3:00 matinees on Saturday and Sunday. On Thursday, July 28, the theater will host a special Evening with Buck. Brannaman, who will be in town for a horse clinic at the Dayton Fairgrounds, will speak to the audience...
Projected ending stocks for 2011/12, at 670 million bushels, are down 191 million bushels from 2010/11 as supplies decrease more than use. Total wheat supplies for 2011/12 are projected down 217 million bushels because of both smaller carry- in stocks and production from 2010/11. Total projected uses are down 26 million bushels from 2010/11. Total production is projected at 2,106 million bushels, down 102 million bushels from 2010/11. Winter Wheat Production Estimates by Class Hard red winter (HRW) production is forecast to be 791 million...
DAYTON - Susan Hosticka always wanted to do a "bee beard" to prove the hard-working insects are really quite gentle and harmless despite their reputation to the contrary. Late last month, during a field day for the state's beekeepers association at Washington State University, she finally had her Fear Factor moment when 4,000 bees crawled and buzzed around her shoulders, neck and head. "Not a single sting," said the co-owner of Octopus Garden Honey on South Touchet Road near Dayton. "It kind of...
PRESCOTT - Last summer, a Canadian bicycle rider making her way across the country stopped in Waitsburg. Being from the wheat belt in the flat-as-a-pancake province of Saskatchewan, she remarked on the pitch of the wheat fields in the hills around the Touchet Valley. "Our farmers wouldn't know what to do with that," she said about the challenge of cultivating such steep terrain. Growing wheat in the rolling Palouse has never been easy. There's not enough rainfall for an annual crop on higher...
WAITSBURG - With prices on the high side, now is a good time to be a wheat or dry pea farmer in the Touchet Valley. And while unseasonably cool, wet weather is causing a few problems for wheat farmers, that isn't the case for those with fields planted with peas. Recent cool weather has slowed down the wheat maturation process, pushing back the start of harvest by 10 days to two weeks, McGregor agronomist Matt Weber said. "It has caused some of the wheat to dry slower and to fall down in some...
Ten Years Ago July 19, 2001 Honoring Ernest and Dorothy Kison's years of dedication to the community, Waitsburg's new gymnasium will be officially named Kison Court. A large crowd enjoyed a "One of a Kind" potluck picnic hosted by Andy, Denise, Jessie and Micah Winnett. With great food and great music, everyone had a great time! Twenty-Five Years Ago July 17. 1986 Darlene and Walt Norman of Prescott celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, enjoyed relatives visiting and a family reunion all in the month of June. Work is progressing...
STARBUCK- Homemade flower petal jellies and screen-printed Starbuck T-shirts resembling the coffee logo were just two of the unique items for sale in Starbuck's annual communitywide yard sale last Saturday. Motorcycles, old arcadestyle upright console video games, new boots, framed pictures, puzzles, household items, cookies and lemonade were also among the goodies for sale. The first yard sale greeting out-of-town visitors, located just off Highway 216, was at Zonia Dedloff's 40-year-old...
RESOURCE COUNCIL MOVES WAITSBURG - The Blue Mountain Resource Conservation & Development Council has moved from its office location in the Port of Columbia complex in Dayton to the Waitsburg Business Center, located at 111 Preston Avenue, Suite B., and our new phone number is 509-337-8968. According to Council board president Bruce G. Williams of Walla Walla, resource conservation and development councils across the county lost vital support when federal funding was abruptly cut-off on April 15th of this year when Congress passed the 2011...
