DAYTON - In the heat of the summer sun, it's easy in the Touchet Valley to take water for granted.

But Reverend Marj John- ston of Dayton's First Con- gregational Church knows that isn't the case in some other countries. So she focused the fundraising for this summer's Vacation Bible School, hosted by the First Congregational Church and the United Methodist Church in Dayton, on bringing water to orphans at the Quest for Happiness Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.

The participants went above and beyond collecting donations for a project for a rainwater collection barrel as well as collecting food...