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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON -- To help make Dayton's Main Street between First and Third streets even more of a party block, Dayton Wine Works announced it plans to set up a second venue in the old Jitters coffee shop space. The company took over the old Patit Creek Winery space on Main Street just above Fourth Street about a year ago. It reports in summer traffic in particular has been strong and the company plans to offer a lot more space at the 232 E. Main Street location for tasting, food service, an art gallery...
Just to get an idea how rare Tim Fuller's cancer is -- one only needs to do the math. About one in every 200 Americans each year is diagnosed with some form of cancer. The kind of cancer Fuller has only afflicts one in every 10,000 Americans. But what's worse for the 45-year-old Dayton man and his family than knowing his disease is rare is knowing that there's no way to figure out what kind it is, where it came from and where it's going. This makes Fuller's oncology treatment a moving target, to...
DAYTON -- Each at the top of their league, the Bulldogs and Tigerscots clashed Tuesday in a match that was more playoff preparation than victory for the Dayton team. The Bulldogs, who fell victim to its own inconsistent focus, lost in four against the Weston-McEwen team. "We had a lot of highs and lows," Bulldogs head coach Shannon Turner said. "They need to learn to focus. But this was good competition. I think the last time we beat them was in 2006 and that was the year they were state...
DAYTON - Coming off of a narrow defeat against the Cardinals, the Bulldogs didn't necessarily need a confidence booster going into Friday night's game against Tekoa/Oasksdale/Rosalia. With good reason, they took pride in their performance that nearly knocked WP off its top undefeated position in the league. The Bulldogs were ready for anything. But they got another shot in the arm anyway, handily beating the Nighthawks, 26-6, with a defense that squeezed almost every TOR ground and air campaign...
PRESCOTT -- The Tigers and the Bulldogs measured their progress quite differently in Tuesday's matchup at Prescott. Superficially, the score would put them light years apart. WP swept Dayton away, 12-1. But the fully expected lopsided result masked underlying fundamental improvements for each team as they march toward the end of the soccer season. The Tigers are now 9-1- 2, having recently lost its first regular-season game. The goal is to sharpen its team skills to ready themselves for the...
WALLA WALLA -- The set never changes throughout the play. We're always just a breath away from Marilyn Monroe in her sanctum: in her bedroom, in her dressing room, at her makeup table, eavesdropping on her telephone conversations and listening to her innermost thoughts about fame, relationships, sex and acting. From a seat in the Powerhouse Theater balcony watching "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" is like being a fly on the wall in the "sex goddess'" home, while her life flashes before our eyes from...
DAYTON - Despite efforts by the Columbia County prosecutor to get all three pot-growing suspects half a decade in jail each, only one of the Mexican nationals arrested this summer faces such a term in federal prison. The other two are expected to serve only half a year in county jail before facing deportation by federal immigration authorities. Santiago Orozco Contreras was the first of three Mexican nationals taken into custody after a raid on federal land in mid-July and charged with manufacturing marijuana and being in possession of a...
WAITSBURG - The Henze hunting party got its first deer of the season Monday morning. The five men from Waitsburg and Aberdeen flushed out the 4-point white tail buck by spreading out around the brush on privately owned wheat lands north of town after walking the fields for more than a mile from the nearest road. It was a cool dewy morning, the sun barely up to illuminate the gently sloping landscape around them. It didn't take them long to spot the buck, to make sure it was large enough to...
DAYTON -- If the number of questions Dayton Chamber of Commerce Director Claudia Nysoe has been getting lately are any indication, there's quite a bit of excitement and anticipation in the valley about a new addition to Dayton's restaurant community. "I've had two or three people a week asking me when's that new place going to open," Nysoe said. "Everyone here in Dayton is really excited about having a new place to eat." The place in question is the Asian Grill and the answer to the much-asked...
DAYTON - The Dayton City Council Monday decided to table a proposed ordinance amendment that would have made homeowners responsible for repairs to sewer lines that connect their houses to the main. After holding a public hearing on the ordinance and receiving comments from two concerned Dayton residents, the council voted to explore a new idea that would add a small fee to residents' utility bill to create a reserve for such repairs in the future. "It's a possibility I hadn't considered," Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Merle Jackson said about...
WAITSBURG - To say Sunny Thompson was nervous when she first performed the role of Marilyn Monroe in "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" may be an understatement. After all, one of the first audiences to see her new show in Los Angeles was made up of die-hard fans of the late "American Goddess," including some of the producers, cast and stylists from the original "Some Like It Hot." These were people who knew Monroe personally or at least knew her style, body language and mannerisms intimately. At least a...
WAITSBURG - The WP Tigers rolled to easy victories in their last two games, beating Walla Walla Valley Academy 11-0 last Wednesday and Riverside Christian 11-1 on Saturday. The Tigers were scheduled to play Riverside Christian in Yakima on Tuesday, but no results could be obtained before this newspaper's deadline. In Wednesday's match against the Knights, WP's Enrique scored the most goals with three, followed by Lino Diaz, Francisco Gonzalez and Aldair Escalante each with two. Luis Torres and Jesse Albarran had one goal. In the same game,...
WAITSBURG - The Cardinals Booster Club has reached its goal of raising at least $25,000 for the construction of a press box and equipment storage building behind the bleachers on Cardinal Field. With last week's grant of $2,000 by Pacific Power and the recent press box sponsorship of $2,500 from Sterling Savings Bank, the club has hit its target for the fundraising that started very early this year after it received a $5,000 donation from the Oregon Community Foundation, the charitable arm of Cy...
DAYTON - Despite two back-to-back losses against Yakima's Riverside Christian, the Dayton Bulldogs believed they made progress as a team against a tough opponent. The WP Tigers meanwhile easily outmaneuvered and outscored Oregon-based Trout Lake to remain undefeated since tying with Spokane's St. George earlier in the season. Riverside Christian beat Dayton 5-0 Tuesday night, the same margin of victory they took away during the two team's first encounter of the season in Yakima Saturday that...
DAYTON - A group of four specialists has been selected to help-Dayton's Development Task Force come up with a comprehensive plan for Dayton's Commercial Street corridor from the Touchet River to the Seneca plant. And as local coordinators of the effort, the task force is eager to get input from the public and from historical preservation groups as part of the first phase to shape the future of Dayton's historic corridor, which some say has the "pearls" waiting to be "strung together." To receive public input for the development planning effort,...
DAYTON - Federal authorities have asked a grand jury to indict the first of three suspected marijuana growers arrested earlier this summer in the Umatilla National Forest, according to the Columbia County Prosecutor's Office. If successful, the grand jury request would take the case against Mexican national Santiago Orozco Contreras out of the state court system and place it on a federal docket, possibly leading to a much longer sentence for the suspect arrested during a raid on federal land in...
WAITSBURG - Sometime during the past school year, a student approached Dr. Carol Clarke about an offensive text message the girl received on her cell phone. Clarke asked if the student recognized the number. She did not, so Clarke asked her permission to try the number and when she did, another student answered his phone in class and the mystery was solved. Clarke called in the caller's parents, informed them about the incident and the parents took the phone away. If the Waitsburg School Board adopts a proposed new policy regarding the use of...
STARBUCK - Lyons Ferry Marina will host the first annual Snake River Walleye Classic, a new catch-and-release contest put by two walleye fishing clubs in Walla Walla and the Tri Cities the first weekend of October. The two-day event will bring a dedicated group of fishermen to Columbia County's portion of the Snake River who have a strong interest in fresh-water fish. "It's a wonderful place to fish walleye," said Tom Moore, president of the Walla Walla Walleye Club and Walleye Anglers Unlimited based in the Tri Cities. "The numbers are big,...
DAYTON - Conventional wisdom holds that nonleague football games don't matter. But they do matter when an official penalizes a key starter so he has to sit out the next game, and that next game is a league game. That's what happened to starting Bulldogs running back/wide receiver Hayden Fullerton during Thursday's game against the Weston- McEwen Tigerscots. In a highly controversial ruling that first went in favor of the Bulldogs, only to be reversed to go against the Dayton team after the head...
DAYTON -- It was a historic week for the two Touchet Valley high school soccer teams. WP had its first tie against a league team since becoming an official program last year. St. George tied the Tigers 2-2 in Spokane on Saturday. The same day, Dayton won a doubleheader against Northport, winning for the first time in its five-year history against another varsity team. The Bulldogs only beat St. George's junior varsity team last year. Dayton beat Northport 2-1 in the first game, then 5-2 in the s...
WAITSBURG - The first few weeks of WP's cross country running season have gone well for the Cardinals, particularly for Waitsburg High School junior Seth Deal. Deal won the Seaport Invite hosted by Clarkston High School at Beachview Park this weekend, finishing the 5,000-meter course in 15:43. That's an improvement over last year, when he placed second with a time of 16:29. "Seth took a commanding lead in the first part of the race and never looked back," head cross country running coach Joanna...
DAYTON - Erin Gibson got her start as a pet groomer when she worked as a receptionist at a veterinarian clinic in a suburb of Portland. She'd always been an animal lover, growing up in a household that bred Labradors, so she couldn't resist sneaking to the back of the clinic where the kennels were. "I fell into it by chance," said Gibson, 28. "I started by helping out giving them baths, clipping their nails, drying them." After about a year, she was busy as a full-fledged groomer at the store...
DAYTON - In Waitsburg and many other cities in Washington State, homeowners are responsible for any trouble in the sewer line between their home and the sewer main. When the line gets blocked and needs to be dug up, residents are required to hire a contractor or pay the city to do the work. Not so in Dayton, at least not until the city passes a proposed new ordinance that takes away the current "gray" area in the law still holding the city for repairs in the city right of way. The Dayton City Council on Monday passed the first three readings...
WAITSBURG - It took a while for Pastor Mike Ferrians of the Waitsburg First Christian Church to figure out who had just made a very large bequest to the congregation. Few at the church had heard of Charlene Buroker. But after some asking around, it became clear who she was - the widow of the late Fred Buroker, who grew up in Waitsburg before World War II. The gift of $40,810 from Charlene Buroker of Colville was announced during regular church service on Sunday. She also made a large bequest to...
WAITSBURG - It may be another week or so before the Waitsburg-Prescott sports community will see him on the sidelines, but the two school districts have made their choice for their new joint athletics director. JP Thew, a former assistant coach for the Cardinals and the Tigers, who has just wrapped a second tour of Iraq with his National Guard unit from Oregon, will become the new sports programs coordinator for WP. Thew is expected to start his new job when he returns to southeast Washington by mid-September, school officials said. He arrived...
