The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

COLLEGE PLACE - It has been 43 years since 17-year-old Julie Stonecipher, a farmer's daughter from Waitsburg, won the Washington State American Junior Miss competition and was runner-up at the national American Junior Miss competition.

The Touchet Valley held parades in her honor, signs bearing her name sat at the entrances to Waitsburg and she even received a key to the city of Walla Walla.

After many years away from the largest and oldest national scholarship program for high school girls, Julie Stonecipher, now Julie Yokel, is sitting in the judge's seat and helping out behind the scenes...