The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON—Last week, voters in Columbia County received a mailer produced by the Columbia County Conservatives. The local political group asked voters to vote against Proposition 1, which would create a Joint Metropolitan Park District (JMPD) to fund and operate a new pool for the county.

They also requested voters choose CCC endorsed candidates for the JMPD board of commissioners in case the proposition is approved.

Members of The Friends of the Dayton Pool, who have spent the last few years surveying residents, raising money, and developing designs for a new community pool, have voiced c...