PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

July 12, 2012

Waitsburg’s own eight-year-old Mya Wood is heading to Tacoma this August for a chance to represent Washington State in the National American Miss pageant. The state competition for her age group, seven-to-nine-year-olds, will be Aug. 9 though 12 at the Murano Hotel in Tacoma, Wood said. “I’m kind of nervous but I’m excited about the competition,” she said. Wood’s first grade teacher Dinah Lindsey said she thinks Wood has a real possibility of becoming the next Miss Washington.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 17, 1997

Pat Horlacher of Waitsburg has an affinity for horses...