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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Last week, Columbia County Hearings Examiner Andrew Kottkamp approved the conditional use permit application from Columbia Pulp LLC, for the straw pulp facility it is planning to build on State Highway 261 near Lyons Ferry. Kottkamp, a Wenatchee attorney who serves as hearings examiner for several local governments, ruled that facility met all county zoning requirements and that no undue adverse impact was found. Columbia County Planning Director Kim Lyonnais said that the on...
WALLA WALLA - Three candidates filed for election last week to replace outgoing Walla Walla County Commissioner Greg Thompkins. Stephen Ames and Jim Duncan both stated a preference for the Republican Party, while Dale Johnson filed as an independent. Ames is a former Walla Walla County Coroner, and Duncan is currently the County's Emergency Management Director. Johnson is a former College Place and Walla Walla County planning commissioner. Walla Walla County Sheriff John Turner will also be in...
DAYTON - Two Dayton natives, who returned to town to retire after careers away, will face off in the race to replace retiring Columbia County Commissioner Chuck Reeves. Merle Jackson and Dain Nysoe both filed for the position last week, Jackson preferring the Republican party and Nysoe, the Democrats. Jackson worked as a nuclear engineer for many years, based in both Richland and Idaho Falla, Ida. He is currently manager of his family's farm operations in Columbia County. Nysoe worked as a...
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ASOTIN - Washington Governor Jay Inslee last week appointed Clarkston attorney Scott D. Gallina to replace Superior Court Judge William Acey, who resigned in April. Inslee attended Gallina's swearing-in ceremony here on Friday. Gallina, 50, is currently a member of the Clark and Feeney law firm in Lewiston, Ida. In his new position, he will serve the Hells Canyon Circuit, which covers Asotin, Garfield and Columbia Counties. Gallina will have to stand for re-election this year for the remaining...
DAYTON - Columbia Pulp LLC has announced that it will open an office on Main Street in Dayton later this year. The firm has entered into agreement to rent the former Betzler Chiropractic office at 164 E. Main Street, beginning in June. "We will be working to get the office ready, and hope to open sometime in the summer," said Columbia Pulp President John Begley. Columbia Pulp has acquired 450 acres of land on Highway 261 in northwestern Columbia County near Lyons Ferry Marina. On a 40 acre...
DAYTON - Candidates around Washington State will file for elective office next week. The state's official filing period runs from May 12 through 16. Walla Walla and Columbia Counties both have a large number of offices open this year. In both counties, the auditor, assessor, clerk, treasurer, sheriff and prosecutor positions are open this year. Walla Walla County also has a separate elected coroner position open. All are for four-year terms. In Walla Walla County, Sheriff John Turner has...
BENTON CITY - The WP Cardinal track team traveled to Kiona Benton High School here last week to compete against four division 1A teams. Several athletes improved their best times here. Freshman Emily Adams won the 800 meter and 1,600 meter races. She placed third in the long jump and second in the triple jump. In all four events, Adams had personal best times or distances. "We are working with her on what she can do at districts and hopefully we make the right choices," said WP Coach Jeff...
DAYTON - The upstairs gallery of the Dayton Historic Depot is lined with quilts. There's no heating problem. The quilts are part of a special display called Our Old Quilts: Patterns of Love and Memory. The display opened in February, and will run through September. It consists of 20 quilts from the permanent collections of the Dayton Depot and the Boldman House Museum. An evening reception to introduce the quilt exhibit will be held Wednesday, May 7 at the Depot from 6 to 8 p.m. Included are 17...
DAYTON - Ian Smay said he was more than surprised when he learned he took first place at the FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) state conference a couple of weeks ago in the Computer Applications competition. "I had no idea I'd do that well," the Dayton High School junior said. Smay was one of eleven members of Dayton's FBLA team who received ten topfive finishes at the conference. Some were individual competitions and some were in teams. The Computer Applications event, which Smay won,...
DAYTON - Members of the Dayton schools' Facilities Committee will meet later this month to decide how to move forward after the school improvement bond levy that was put before voters last week went down to a big defeat. The preliminary results posted on election night showed that 993 voters cast votes to reject the measure, compared to 381 voting in favor. 56.52% of registered voters in the district cast ballots in the special election. The county web site says 46 ballots are yet to be counted....
MILTON-FREEWATER - Several WP track athletes had strong showings at the District 9 Track and Field Meet here on April 16. Emily Adams won the 3,200 meter race by default, as she was the only competitor. But she still had a great run and took more than 40 seconds off her best time. "She kind of got into a rhythm, and Coach (Huntington) worked with her on a set time per lap and she was disciplined and followed up with a great time," said Head Track & Field Coach Jeff Bartlow. "She ran it by...
DAYTON - Members of Dayton High School's FBLA Club traveled to Seattle last weekend and made a very strong showing at 2014 State Business Leadership Conference. Ian Smay captured first place in the state in his event - Computer Applications. Angie Dedloff and Angela Mascall took second in Desktop Publishing, and Keelin Hovrud also got a second place for her Partnership with Business project. In addition, the DHS chapter received the Gold Seal Chapter Award of Merit. Two Dayton chapter members...
DAYTON - Major changes are underway at the restaurant next to the first green at the Dayton golf course. Chase Hudson and his mother, Louann Truesdale, opened the new LC at the Green on April 1. "We got the keys two weeks before we opened," said Hudson. "We were in here late every night working on it." During a visit by The Times, Hudson described the changes already made to the restaurant. A new counter was added onto the existing front counter. The floors were stripped to the concrete, which...
WAITSBURG - The rural roads of Walla Walla and Columbia Counties will again host hundreds of competitive cyclists this weekend during the 18th annual Tour of Walla Walla Bicycle race. Races will start and finish at Waitsburg on Friday afternoon and Sunday. Race organizers point out that the road race portions of the Tour are primarily participant events, but spectators are invited to watch from a safe vantage point. Support vehicles will accompany the racers, and sections of highway will be...
DAYTON - The Port of Columbia will "launch" the first building at Blue Mountain Station, its new artisan food center, on April 25. The Friday event will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. "Food is the focus of Blue Mountain Station," said Port Manager Jennie Dickinson, "and the grand opening will focus on food as well." The public is invited to tour the facilities of the four artisan food and drink producers in the new building, as well as well as the center's commercial Kitchen. Visitors will get...
DAYTON - The Dayton Chamber of Commerce has named Andrew Holt as its new Executive Director. Holt started on April 7th. He replaces Brad McMasters, who resigned in January. Holt previously served as tourism services manager for Tourism Walla Walla from 2010 to 2012. There, he oversaw social media, the visitor's center, and worked on several projects, including the performing arts comm ittee and the regional signage project. Last year he worked as sports information director for Whitman College....
MILTON- FREEWATER - Dayton's' Kaitlyn Andrews continued her dominance of the javelin competition at each event she attends - even against competitors from much larger schools. Last week's Carnival of Speed track and field meet here featured athletes from schools of all sizes from northeast Oregon and southeast Washington. Andrews' winning throw of 112 feet, 10 inches was sub-par for her, but she easily outdistanced the competition from schools like Pendleton, Umatilla and Wa-Hi. Andrews, a...
Next Door to The Times's office in Waitsburg is a lovely coffee shop called the Coppei Café. We have a door directly into it - we don't even have to go outside. Last Thursday I ordered a tall latte and sat down in a comfortable chair in the café, along with all of the members of the Washington State Legislature who represent our 16th district. They were there to talk about the recent legislative session. The three of them - Senator Mike Hewitt, Representative Maureen Walsh and Representative Ter...
DAYTON - Carl Robanske has a love of travel, a desire to serve God and compassion for people less fortunate than himself. He has put those passions to work as founder and chairman of the Walla Walla-based nonprofit organization Embracing Orphans. Over the past five years, Robanske and Embracing Orphans have made a real difference in the lives of many young people in the Caribbean Island nation of Jamaica. The organization has bought new cribs and built two playgrounds for a government owned...
DAYTON - Voters in the Dayton School District will decide this month whether to approve a bond levy to provide funding to complete a major renovation of the school facilities here. The bond of $19.955 million would fund the majority of the project, which is projected to cost $24.254 million. The project would be the first major renovation at Dayton Schools in 30 years. The Dayton School Board created a facilities committee more than a year ago, made up of teachers, school administrators, sc...
DAYTON - Dayton High School's Kaitlyn Andrews won the girls' 100 meter dash, shot put and javelin events at the year's first track and field meet on March 16. The meet at Hanford High School in Richland, featured teams from Dayton, WP, River View, Sunnyside, Prosser and Hanford High Schools. WP's Owen Lanning won the boys' 300 meter hurdles finals and was second in the triple jump. Andrews, a junior, dominated in the javelin with a winning throw of 119 feet, six inches. Her closest c...
DAYTON - The Juvenile fish pond in Dayton is ready for fishing this spring. According to Steve Martin of the Snake River Salmon Recovery Board, the pond in the Dayton City Park was stocked earlier this month with rainbow trout. It also receives hatchery steelhead diverted from the Touchet River. The pond is open for fishing by kids 16 and under and disabled adults. The pond is fed during the spring and early summer months by a feed pipe and pump system that brings fresh water from the a...
Best Western Hotel sponsors Earth Day recycling challenge DAYTON - Recycling has been an option in Dayton for years for many materials, including cardboard, paper, cans and bottles. Even motor oil and old appliances can be dropped off at the Dayton transfer station. But plastic bottles and other containers have never been on that list, until now. For the next month, Daytonites are being challenged to show their earth-friendliness by filling a 15-yard disposal bin for plastic recycling bin th...
DAYTON - From Beach Blanket Bingo to the Summer of Love, the decade all of us old folks can't forget will come to life again next weekend in TVAC Production's Spring Variety Show. "The Groovy 60s" will be presented March 21-23 at the Liberty Theater in Dayton. The show will feature music, dance and skits from movies, TV shows and all those hit singles we can't get enough of. "I'm surprised how much the younger cast members have connected to these songs," said Variety Show Director Bev S...
