PIONEER PORTRAITS

Fifteen Years Ago

March 31, 2011

Dubbed the "Hee-Haw Honies," Columbia County Fair Board Vice President Debbie Bailey, Secretary Christine Broughton, volunteer LeeAnn Literal and President Miranda Bowen perform a skit during Saturday's kickoff.

Leroy Cunningham, founder of Rural Green Youth Enterprises talks to contruction worker Carmen Castaldo outside the first-ever space for the socio-economic youth program: the former Nothing New Antiques store on Waitsburg's Main Street.

New Sheriff John Turner meets with Waitsburg area residents during last week's Roundtable at the elementary school's library.

Erin Horan plants seeds for the 2011 CSA season at the Monteillet farm near Dayton.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 5, 2001

Mike and Joanne Dunham received a Gold Medal for their 1998 Dunham Cabernet Sauvignon IV at the Dallas Morning News Wine Competition. Dunham Wine was one of 79 Gold Medals awarded out of 2,500 wines from 12 countries and 25 states within the U.S.

The annual Odako Spring Luncheon and Fashion Show was enjoyed by a number of women from Waitsburg and surrounding area last Sunday. Carol Weir models a lively spring outfit from Becky's Pendleton of Dayton while visiting with Olivia Leid.

Waitsburg schoolchildren are out of school for Spring Vacation and rose to snow flurries Monday and Tuesday morning this week. By Tuesday, late afternoon, clearing skies erased almost all traces of Mother Nature's springtime transgression.

Fifty Years Ago

April 1, 1976

Carl Sandburg said that little children can be more thankful for small things than grownups are for everything we have. And here is a case in point, Sandy Cox was really enjoying this helium-filled balloon at HASA Carnival here last Saturday night.

[Photo caption] Queen's Dance Saturday, April 3rd, 1976, at Waitsburg Legion Hall. Live music by "Pacific Trails" from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. Buy a ticket from your favorite Candidate – Admits you to the Dance. Admission: $1.00. Coronation at 11.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 6, 1951

May Day festivities have been cancelled this year except for a May Dance to be held in the gym. The hours spent by students and faculty takes them from class work which should be more important than the hour program presented each year.

Ernest Kison attended a meeting of the Silver Beavers in Pendleton Wednesday evening. This is an honorary group of Scouters who have done outstanding work in the Scout program.

Miss Jane Carson and Thomas B. Hobgood were married Saturday, March 3 at the Presbyterian church in Vancouver.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 9, 1926

H. P. Smith completed his summer fallow plowing Wednesday of 540 acres. He used three teams – two teams pulling 3-bottom gang plows and one team on a 2-bottom gang. The weather has been so favorable that but two half days have been lost since plowing began.

A surprise party was given in honor of Laurence Fullerton's 12th birthday last Thursday, April 1st. About 25 of his friends were present.

Miss Dorothy Harris entertained the girls of the senior class Saturday night at her house. There were fifteen present.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 12, 1901

The iron front for the Morgan brick arrived Monday morning so that the work is now progressing rapidly.

Jesse Duncan and Verne Hubbard returned home last Sunday from a trip to Harrison, Idaho where they went to secure work. They found about two feet of snow in that place.

It is reported that the fine team of Gustan Vollmer broke loose from a hitching rack on Preston Avenue Wednesday and ran away, damaging the hack to which they were hitched.