The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON - Wear comfortable shoes and be prepared for weather shifts on Saturday for a short excursion with the Columbia Basin Chapter of the Washington State Native Plant Society for field identification.

Darcy Dauble will guide attendees through the identification of local plants and discuss the work that WSNPS is doing tohelp preserve native populations.

Participants will meet at the library at 9 a.m. for a presentation before carpooling to a nearby location to perform in-the-field plant identification..

Also this month, the Friends of the Library will hold its meeting on May 17 at 4 p.m. in the Delany Room.

Book Chat is May 20 at the library at 6 p.m.

Hollie Maconnell, Branch Manager of Umpqua Bank, will be speak about fraud, and fraud detection at the Dayton Senior Center on May 25 at noon.