The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Waitsburg Commercial Club is holding its Annual Awards Dinner at the new restaurant on April 12.

WAITSBURG-A pizza maker and a Bloody Mary mix master walk into a bar. No joke, the bar was the empty Anchor Bar located in the American Legion, post 35, building on Main Street in Waitsburg.

Tom and Judy Bennett have embraced the building's history and want to incorporate the essence of the American Legion post and what it once was; good company and good food to their new business American 35.

The couple relocated to the Walla Walla Valley in 2016. Tom relocated for his work as a business mana...