Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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The first time Mike Stephenson went skiing he hated it. The prospective new co-owner of Ski Bluewood was 18 then and up on Mission Ridge with other members of a church group. He found himself at the top of the hill with no experience and only cold, wet, downhill trauma standing in the way of lunch. "It was horrible, and I was done," he said. "They had to force me to come back and try it again." Eventually, Stephenson, a 53-year-old Kennewick entrepreneur, began to enjoy it. Skiing became such a...
A wave of burglaries has hit Walla Walla, Columbia and Garfield counties in the past few months, prompting some local law enforcement officials and citizens groups to get better organized. They're asking for help from residents and hunters to be on the lookout for suspicious activities, hoping citizens' tips will lead to arrests. During the past several months, cabin owners, businesses and residential households alike in the mountains and down in the valley have experienced a spike in break-ins and vandalism. In Columbia County alone, 16...
DAYTON - The eight-mile trip home must have seemed like an eternity for the Cardinals volleyball team Tuesday night after they lost in three games against the Bulldogs. It was WP's second loss of the season against their cross-valley rivals. Despite a sizeable Waitsburg crowd that showed up to rally its players about as hard and loud as their Dayton counterparts, the Cardinals lost 22-25, 19-25 and 19-25. "I had a good feeling going into it, and I was happy with the first game," Ca...
DAYTON - The last time the Bulldogs won a football game, Hayden Fullerton was a freshman. Now a junior and strong safety for the Bulldogs, Fullerton is relishing his team's first victory since Dayton defeated Tekeo-Oakesdale during Homecoming 2008. Friday's 13-3 win over Tri Cities Prep is particularly sweet as it comes a week before this year's Bulldogs Homecoming and ends one of the longest winless spells in the high school's football history. Dayton squares off against the undefeated WP Card...
WAITSBURG - The win wasn't quite as sweet as last year. The crowd didn't take the field after the whistle, and the final score of 27-14 didn't seem as unbelievable as WP's last-minute 2009 victory over DeSales. But that's precisely why WP head coach Jeff Bartlow said the team has even more reason to celebrate last Thursday's defeat of the Irish than the one the year before. "Last year, we felt we could beat them but knew it would be close," he said. "This year, we came out with a swagger. It...
LOWDEN - The descendants of the Frenchtown settlers listened to their ancestors with bated breath. LThe voices they heard from the 19th century - echoed by historical interpreters from the Fort Walla Walla Museum - belonged to William McBean, chief fur trader for the Hudson Bay Co., and Suzanne Dauphin Cayouse, who married a settler in the Whitman party. They belonged to Father J.B.A. Brouillet and to Father Eugene Chirouse, Catholic priests who lived among the Metis, the mixed-race French-India...
WAITSBURG- For the second year in a row, the WP Cardinals subdued their arch rivals DeSales Thursday night, beating the Irish 27-14. The Cardinals are still undefeated at 6-0 and have passed one of the biggest hurdles of the season in their league line-up. "It was a great football game," head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "It was very sweet." Although it wasn't last year's edge-of-your-seat nailbiting victory that ended nine years of defeats against the Walla Walla team, Thursday's win did not come easy. Yet the Cardinals dominated for most of the g...
WAITSBURG - In an impressive hometown season opener, the Waitsburg-Prescott Mustangs last Wednesday took Liberty Christian to the wood shed for a punishing 20-0 victory that bodes well for the rest of the middle school football season. "I was proud of the kids," head coach Jim Leid said. "They did well." In the opening minutes, with the Patriots in possession, Luke Alexenko brought down a Patriot running back for a loss of two yards. His tackle was followed by two more tackles from Alex B...
SPOKANE - The Waitsburg Prescott Tigers are 2nd in the state after defeating the next-to-best team in Washington - St. George - 3-2 Saturday. "It was a very interesting game," assistant coach Bart Baxter said. "They're definitely the toughest team we've faced. It was a very physical game. We're the toughest team they've faced. We've never been that close." WP, the brand-new team in the 2B league from the Touchet Valley, has now beaten the top two teams, Riverside Christian and St. George, t...
RICHLAND - The Waitsburg Prescott Cardinals won their second match in a row Tuesday night against Tri-Cities Prep to improve their league record to 2-3 going into Wednesday's game against the tough Liberty Christian Patriots at home. On Thursday, the Cardinals beat DeSales in three games 25-13, 26-24 and 25-12. Tuesday night, WP beat TCP 25-21, 25-17 and 25-15, a game that saw many subs in warm-up to Wednesday's key game against LC. "We came out really strong, ready to play," head coach Je...
PASCO - Just how important is Kris Cady to the Cardinals' offense and defense? Well, try sitting him out for half a game as head coach Jeff Bartlow did because Cady breached team rules last week. The difference was night and day. During the first half of the WP game Thursday against the Chiawana Riverhawks' JV team, the Cardinals trailed 6-7. As soon as Cady, who is a running back on offense and a strong safety on defense, and running back Justin Armstrong were back in the lineup, the Ca...
WAITSBURG - Those who were there last year will never forget the scene. When the final whistle blew, sealing WP's 35-28 victory over DeSales, the home crowd in the bleachers and on the sideline swarmed the field in jubilation. It was the first time in nine years that the Cardinals had beat the Irish, and it seemed to matter more than the outcome of any other game that season except for the playoffs. The two teams are gearing up for another showdown Thursday at 7 p.m. in Waitsburg. Both c...
DAYTON - Already known on the West Coast for All Wheels, there is a good chance that by next year Dayton will become known far and wide for a brand new summer event: Mule Mania. Get ready for mule barrel racing, mule wagon pulling, mule pole bending, mule team penning, mule team roping, "Pony Express" relays and perhaps even some serious chuck wagon cook offs. Dayton will be "All Mules" on the weekend of July 15 - 17, 2011. The Chamber of Commerce and the Columbia County Fairgrounds are n...
PASCO - After being behind at halftime, the WP Cardinals rallied for a 24-point second half and beat Chiawana 30-7 last night to go 4-0 for the season so far. quot;We came out in the second half played with a lot of heart,quot; head coach Jeff Bartlow said after the game. quot;We picked it up and took care of business.quot; The Cardinals played the much-bigger high school's JV team, which was endowed with plenty of talented players and put WP to the test, particularly in the first half. WP was the first to score with Zach Bartlow running for a...
STARBUCK - Starting at dawn on Tuesday, three teams from Idaho Mountain Search Rescue made one final attempt to find Bob Bulota, the 64-year-old Starbuck resident who has been missing from his home since March. Using three cadaver dogs specially trained to pick up the scent of humans, dead or alive, the teams of two volunteer rescuers each fanned out along the bushy Tucannon River west of Starbuck with one team starting at Bulota's cabin on First Street. Columbia County Sheriff's officials, who...
ASOTIN - WP became the second area team in a row to lose against the Asotin Panthers by two points Thursday. In a cliffhanger of a series of five games, the Cardinals lost the first two 19-25 and 31-33, won the second two 25-20 and 26-24, then lost the last 13-15. "I was frustrated that we didn't win it, but happy about the way the girls played," head coach Jesse Buehler said. "It was our hardest-fought match. There was an urgency that hasn't been there in other games." Game two in particular s...
RICHLAND - The Dayton Bulldogs fell to the Liberty Christian Patriots Tuesday night, losing their match in three games 25-21, 27-25 and 25-21. "We just lacked motivation, made too many errors and weren't consistent," head coach Shannon Turner said. "We did not play our game." The team, she said, "will learn from it and move on." After this second loss in a week, the Bulldogs are 1-2 in league competition, but it hasn't been a bad season so far at all. The Bulldogs played a close match against the Asotin Panthers last Tuesday night only...
ATHENA - It seemed so close, yet it remained so far away. The End Zone became an obsession for the Bulldogs in their game against the Weston McEwen TigerScots Thursday night. Several times, they came within yards of it but never made it across the goal line for an official score. When the Bulldogs did break the plane, the play was called back because of an offensive holding penalty. Dayton's struggle in the Red Zone was one of the reasons the Bulldogs lost 25-2. But those numbers didn...
PRESCOTT - Just few weeks into the season, the brand new Waitsburg-Prescott Tigers are already ranked third among the state's 25 B2 teams, and perhaps they should be even higher. "We beat the number one-ranked team twice," head coach Rickie Hamilton reWP under his breath during Tuesday afternoon's rout of the Dayton Bulldogs 19-0. "But I'd rather be at the bottom so we don't have a target on our backs." The team Hamilton referred to is Yakima's Riverside Christian Cougars, which the Tige...
When you follow the Touchet River along Bolles Road west of Waitsburg, you'll spot a tall pine towering above the other trees along the banks. It may be one of the few reminders of the first people who traveled this valley between the Snake and Columbia rivers. According to legend, Native American traders planted the pines because the species' height made them visible from great distances thus marking their trail. Celebrated explorers Lewis Clark were the first white men to document the area on...
WAI T SBURG - On an early spring weekend five years ago, the Tour of Walla Walla made its usual no-stop route through Waitsburg. Just as the racers were starting up the grueling Middle Waitsburg Road through the fields south of town, a thunder and lightening storm of biblical dimensions descended on them and tour organizers quickly realized they better cancel the event for the rest of the day lest riders get hurt. So, out of the blue, hundreds of cyclists were stranded in the little town of Wait...
DAYTON - Josh Frame's 10-yard running touchdown seemed to set the pace for the Bulldogs' season opener against the Stanfield Tigers, giving Dayton a 6 - 0 lead. But it wasn't until well into the fourth quarter and seven Stanfield touchdowns later before the dawgs regained their footing and began to put together a more solid offense. Even then, however, they were unable to erase any part of their 7-48 deficit and could only take comfort in the fact that the Stanfield Tigers have been picked to...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs lost their season opener against Stanfield tonight 7 - 48, but the home team knew they had a tough opponent in a team that's destined to top their league this fall. Despite a game-opening running touchdown by Josh Frame in the first quarter, the Stanfield Tigers drilled through the Bulldogs' defense for much of the game until the Dayton boys finally caught the spirit and stopped them in their tracks. By then, however, the Tigers had scored seven touchdowns due in part to an uncomfortable Bulldogs defense and a...
KAMIAH - Senior T.J. Hofer made and saved the day for the Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals in their 6-0 victory over the Kamiah Kubs tonight. In an intensily defensive game on both sides, Hofer scored the game's only touchdown during the third quarter, then made a game-winning interception during the Kubs' last drive of the fourth quarter that could have resulted in an equalizer and extra-point victory for the home team. Cardinals Zach Bartlow and Kris Cady each had impressive runs in a game in which both teams struggled to make yardage. More...
WALLA WALLA - A Walla Walla man who took up residence in Waitsburg this summer was charged today with first-degree rape, sexual exploitation of a minor and first-degree possession of images depicting a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. If convicted of the charges, 31-year-old Carl Grayson Bell Jr. could reportedly be sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. The maximum sentence for first-degree rape of a child is life in prison. Bell was charged with three counts of first-degree rape of a child, two counts of sexual exploitation of...
