The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Way back in the last century, my father, a teacher at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA, let me know that I could go to any college I wanted to: as long as it was located in Washington state and was a public institution. With an older brother and sister already attending the University of Washington, we simply didn't have the funds for any other type of choice.

I remember briefly considering The Evergreen State College, but having visited my siblings in Seattle, I was pretty excited about moving to a big city and experiencing all that it had to offer. So, off to the University of...