Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITAITSBURG - If you’ve been to Disneyland or the Cirque de Soleil, or have seen any of the super hero movies like Spider-Man, Iron Man or The Avengers, you’ve seen Scott Fisher’s work. He’s the guy that makes men fly. Or at least he was. For now at least, Fisher has left the business of building large-scale machinery and control systems for entertainment venues in his rear view mirror. The open road is his life, or roads rather—specifically back roads as he travels the country in his red 19...
Editor's Note: This is thesecond in an ocassional seriesabout the work of ClearPath International. KarenMatthee is the organization'scommunications director. In a country like Afghani stan, where many young adults find it tough to get work and disabled young adults find it tougher still, the best hope for landmine accident survivors is to be trained in a skill that generates income. Better yet is for them to use their new skill to help make Afghanistan's countryside safer for others who face... Full story
VIENTIANE - I am on a basketball court in the capital of Laos. The shouts of the players and the cheers from onlookers bounce off the walls of the brightly lit gym as we race between baskets, dribbling, passing, shooting - all from our wheelchairs. I am not disabled but the special sports chair I am strapped into levels the playing field for those among us who are physically impaired. In theory. In reality, the field is anything but level. The disabled players who have practiced and competed here at the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) a... Full story
WAITSBURG - You know it's that time of year again when you hear the continual pop-pop hellip; pop-pop of Harleys in low gear passing through town on their way to the Fairgrounds. Memorial Day weekend. Time for the annual Pig Roast when motorcycle riders (and not just on Harleys) come from far and wide to join in this annual three-day event that began 25 years ago in a Waitsburg backyard. Because it is governed by the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, it is a clean and sober event, one that has long since outgrown the backyard of its original...
Joel Dean Smith loved Waitsburg. It's where he spent many boyhood summers, visiting his grandparents - fishing, hunting, trapping and searching out morel mushrooms. And when he returned stateside from Vietnam in 1970, a double amputee at 22 years old, it was Waitsburg that welcomed him home. It was the local newspaper and the community who followed his progress as he was transferred from a field hospital in Saigon to one in Japan, and eventually to the U.S. For all those reasons, his wife,...
DAYTON - A state inspection of Booker Rest Home this spring turned up plenty of issues and potential problems that must be addressed, but none of them posed actual harm or were "life threatening" to residents. "There are some issues the facility needs to work on, that's quite obvious," said Shirlee Steiner, a regional administrator for Residential Care Services under the state Department of Social and Health Services, the agency that conducted the inspection. The survey of Booker Rest Home took place over a six-day period in mid-April and a...
