Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON-When the students of Dayton Elementary School achieved their reading goal, Principal Katie Leid spent the day on the roof. "The kids brought me lunch up there," she says. "It was so much fun." Fun is part of Leid's agenda at Dayton Elementary, and also as President of the Elementary School Principals Association of Washington (ESPAW). Leid's yearlong term as president began in April. She will preside over four board meetings throughout Washington state. During board meetings, Leid and...
DAYTON- Madison, a black quarter horse, is doing a slow square dance beside Robert Phinney. She moves her hind end to the left, takes two steps back, and bows her head. Phinney has hardly moved. "It's an energy thing," says Phinney. "And it's a presence thing. I think that's one of the things that's a little difficult for people." Phinney says he believes we all had that energy and presence as children, but we lose it as we grow up. He smiles, and the corners of his graying moustache lift....
DAYTON - Jackie Penner believes God put her on earth to care for the animals that cross her path. A few years ago, Penner adopted a newborn starling and taught it to whistle Yankee Doodle Dandy. The starling also learned to say "be nice" just before it stopped coming back to the farm. She cried when it didn't return. "Imagine that," she says. "Sixty years old and I'm bawling because my bird is gone." Animals are one of Penner's two biggest passions. The other is art. Painting is where she...
