By Imbert Matthee
The Times 

Waitsburg To Get ‘50s Diner

 

April 14, 2011

Bart Baxter, Tiffany Laposi and her daughter Alex in front of the space on Preston Avenue that will become "Betty's Diner."

WAITSBURG - Give Bart Baxter and Tiffany Laposi a few months to work on the Whetstone Pub building and you'll be able to dine with James Dean.

By summer, he may well be giving you his cool gaze from the wall of the couple's planned new 1950s style restaurant that will be called "Betty's Diner."

Baxter, a local contractor and soccer coach, and Laposi, a real estate appraiser for Walla Walla County, signed a three-year lease this weekend for the building on Preston Avenue that has been quiet since the pub closed last year.

The new diner means downtown Waitsburg will have a third restaurant an...



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