Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Approximately 390 cars registered this year for All Wheels Weekend in Downtown Dayton. Committee chair Bette Lou Crothers called the show a “blowout success.” Perfect mid-80s weather greeted the thousands of visitors who watched cruising cars and the band LeadFoot that played on Second Street on Friday night and at the Show-‘n’-Shine on Saturday. The only blemish on this year’s show, according to Crothers, was an abbreviated fireworks show on Friday night. She said the cost of the spe...
DAYTON - The Dayton Spring Sports Awards Banquet took place in the Dayton Elementary multi-purpose room the evening of June 30. Head softball coach Terry Robins, accompanied by assistant coach Desirae Jones, congratulated the Lady Bulldogs on an outstanding season and their excellent performance at the state playoffs in Yakima, where they placed fourth. The duo shared career stats and bid an emotional farewell to the senior players they first began working with as sixth graders. Head b...
CHENEY - Dayton sophomore Kaitlyn Andrews was the only local girl competing at the state track meet in Cheney last week. Andrews placed fifth in the javelin, with a throw of 118 feet, 5 inches. Her longest throw of the season was 122 feet 9 inches, in March. Andrews also competed in the 100 meter dash on Saturday. She placed ninth in the preliminary heat, missing the finals by one place. Andrews is shown at left, throwing the javelin during a meet in Dayton in April. (Times file p...
DAYTON – Pam Lindsley, of Spokane, will be Dayton Elementary School’s new principal next year, according to Dayton Superintendent Doug Johnson. She replaces Katie Leid, who resigned this year. Lindsley has been a kindergarten and fifth-grade teacher at Spokane’s Cooper Elementary School for 16 years. She recently completed training to become an administrator. A committee from the Dayton schools inter- viewed three candidates earlier this month before selecting Lindsley. Last week, Johnson also confirmed the hiring of two new elementary teach...
DAYTON - The regular week-long candidate filing period for local elections ended Friday, with most po- sitions receiving one filer. Five positions in Colum- bia County went unfiled and will be subject to a special filing period. They are: CITY OF DAYTON COUNCIL MEMBER #5 4-year term COUNCIL MEMBER #6 2-year unexpired term DAYTON SCHOOL DISTRICT DIRECTOR #5 4-year term COLUMBIA COFIRE DISTRICT 2 COMMISSIONER #1 6-year term COMMISSIONER #1 2-year unexpired term A special filing period will be held June 3-5. Filing closes June 5 at 4 p.m....
The WP softball team earned a trip to the four-team district tournament Saturday, after splitting a doubleheader with Asotin. In the first game, WP took a 4-2 lead early and held on for a 7-5 win. The Tigers had seven hits and committed 3 errors, while giving up 9 hits to Asotin. In the second game, WP coach Angie Potts played some of her younger players, knowing that the playoff berth was clinched. WP lost that game 17-10. On Friday, the Lady Tigers swept a doubleheader against Colfax, wi...
The SE 2B softball league ended last week with the Waitsburg and Dayton teams finishing a strong second and third behind the undefeated DeSales Irish. The Lady Bulldogs began their playoff march Tuesday with a victory at home. They play the WP girls Friday in Walla Walla. The Dayton boys finished their season tied for sixth place, at 1-11, while the WP boys had a strong 7-5 season, to finish tied for third. The Tigers lost thier loser-out game Tuesday....
Softball: DeSales over WP 8-1 / 8-0 PRESCOTT - DeSales knocked the WP softball team out of first place in league standings Tuesday, with an 8-1 victory over the Tigers in the first game of a double-header. Sam Moss scored the only Tiger run with a solo home run. "We started light, but went on to play well," said WP coach Angie Potts. "DeSales is a good team. They hit the ball well and run aggressively. We need to be ready for that." Potts said she still felt good about the game. "I'm not...
ROSALIA - The Dayton Bulldogs baseball team may have played its last two games of the season Tuesday night, but they're still in the running for the playoffs. They will likely end up in sixth. The young Dogs lost both games in their doubleheader against the Tekoa-Oakesdale- Rosalia 5-2 and 13-1 in the final five-inning game. They ended the season 2-10 in league and 5-12 overall. The losses were disappointing, head coach Sal Benavides said, but the team hasn't given up hope to get its act together for the playoffs starting Tuesday. "We can b...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs scored three runs in the second inning of game one to take a 3-2 lead, but struggled the rest of the afternoon Tuesday against an overpowering WP Tiger baseball team. Dayton pitcher Lowden Smith struck out 13 tigers in the first game, but the Bulldogs committed four errors as the Tigers cruised to a 10-4 victory. Dalton Estes also pitched an outstanding game for WP, striking out nine. The Tigers scored four runs in the fifth inning and two each in the sixth and...
PRESCOTT - The WP Tigers made a huge comeback in the bottom of the seventh inning during the first game of a double- header against the Lady Bulldogs, scoring five runs to take a 9-8 walk-off victory. In game two, the Tigers shut out Dayton 7-0. The Bulldogs held the lead the entire first game, but lost control in the final inning. The Bulldogs scored their first run in the second inning, then batted around the third inning, scoring four more runs. They held steady through the fourth in...
WAITSBURG - Organizers of the Tour of Walla Walla bicycle race report that more than 500 riders will compete this year. The first stage is set to begin Friday afternoon, with Pro 1 and 2 men starting their 64 mile race at 3:45 p.m. Riders will climb the Middle Waitsburg Road hill and head south before turning onto Ferris Road and then heading north on Lower Waitsburg Road. After a short stint on Highway 124, the course heads east on Bolles road, returning to downtown Waitsburg. The Pro 1 a...
BOARDMAN, Ore. - The WP Lady Tigers rolled over Riverside Tuesday night in a 14-2 victory that triggered the mercy rule in the sixth inning. "Everyone got into the game in some capacity," head coach Angie Potts said. "After having a week and a half off due to spring break, we played really well, hit the ball well, ran aggressively." Chelsey Brannock and Samantha Moss scored triples, while Katie Hofer pounded out a double and Heidi Miller, Samantha Fedderson, Jessica Foxe and Jadah Stansell each had singles. Jennifer Nichols had five...
POMEROY - While the Lady Bulldogs varsity softball team was off Tuesday, the Bulldogs baseball team pounded out two wins against non-league opponent Pomeroy Tuesday. "They feel pretty good about themselves and it's fun to watch that," head coach Sal Benavides said. "Those kids are coming around." The Bulldogs are now 5-5 overall and 2-2 in league. In the Dayton boys' first game against the Pirates, the longest of the two at 2.5 hours, virtually all players' bats came alive, producing 16 hits and eight out of nine batters connecting with the bal...
The Carnival of Speed at Milton- Freewater's McLaughlin High Friday featured nearly 1,000 athletes from more than 20 schools in northeast Oregon and Southeast Washington. WP's James Thompkins swept the sprint events, winning the 100, 200 and 400 meter finals. The only disappointment for Thompkins thisdaycameinthe4x100 relay. He anchored a WP squad that finished fourth. Deal was the dominant male distance runner at the event, winning the 1500 and 3000 meter races. WP fielded a large co...
DAYTON - The Columbia County Commis- sioners have scheduled a special meeting Thurs- day evening to interview and allow the public to meet the two candidates being considered to replace to replace retiring sheriff Walt Hessler. Rocky Miller and Jeffrey Jenkins will take questions from the commissioners and the public at 7 p.m. in the main courtroom on the second floor of the Columbia County Courthouse. Miller has been a trooper with the Washing- ton State Patrol for more than 25 years. He has lived in Columbia County and Served in South- east W...
COLTON - The Dayton Bulldogs pulled off their third win of the season in the second game of a doubleheader against the Colton Wildcats on Tuesday. The boys lost their first game against the Wildcats 10-0, but came to life in the fifth inning of their second game against the non-league opponent on a triple from Lowden Smith that scored him and batters Spencer Conwell and Guy Spallinger. The team kept loading the bases with singles and scored three more times to win their second game against Colton 6-3. "We had a lot of timely hits from...
DAYTON- An Ohio man was apprehended March 20 by FBI agents after an exten- sive investigation into bomb threats to county courthouses in five states. One of the threats was to the Columbia County Courthouse last November 15. Lonnie Lee Bristow was arrested in Mansfield, Ohio without incident after inves- tigators linked him to pre- paid telephone calling cards purchased at Wal-Mart that were used to call in bomb threats to 19 Tennessee courthouses in November. As a result of further investigation by federal agents, it was determined that...
The Columbia County Board of Commissioners received the names of two candidates to replace outgoing Columbia County Sheriff Walt Hessler. The names were presented by the Columbia County Republican Party. Rocky Miller, who is a Washington State Pa- trol officer and Dayton resident was listed by the party as its "first preferred candidate". The party's "second preferred candidate" is Jeffrey Jenkins, who serves as a Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy. In a letter to the commissioners, party chair Tom Bensel said, "The committee believes they have...
ASOTIN - The Dayton Bulldogs baseball team struggled Saturday, losing both ends of a double-header to the Asotin Panthers. The inexperienced bulldogs were shut out in first game, 10-0, as Asotin's pitchers combined for a two-hitter. Lowden Smith and Logan Hays had the teams only hits. Smith pitched a complete game, but the bulldogs gave up 10 runs to the Panthers, while committing 12 errors. In the second game, the Bulldogs scored two runs in the top of the first inning, but ended up with a...
ASOTIN - Dayton's softball team is off to a strong start after taking two victories against Asotin in Saturday's double-header. In the first game, the bulldogs rode a four-run second inning to edge the Lady Panthers 6-5. Pitcher Sam Harting gave up five runs on three hits, with the Dayton girls committing three errors. The Lady Bulldogs had six runs on six hits, with Courtney Mings collecting two hits and Sarah Phillips, Jessica Tate, Lexus Ward and Kellie Moore, each with one. In the second game, Dayton came out strong, scoring three...
WAITSBURG -- The annual Shamrock Bingo fundraiser returns this year. The classic game will be hosted on Saturday, March 9. The doors will open at 4:30 p.m. and games will begin at 5 p.m. The event will run until 8 p.m. in the Waitsburg Elemen- tary School multi-purpose room. There will be 20 games during the evening at $1 per game for Bingo cards and prizes for the winners. There will also be a chili feed for $3 per person. The event is hosted to rais money for the annual Relay for Life event held locally in two locations. The event will take...
The Dayton Chamber of Commerce’s biggest fund- raiser of the year is coming March 15. This year’s organizers say the auc- tion items are better than ever. The premier package is a week stay in a beautiful five-bed- room farmhouse in Provence, France. Oth- er items up for auction include WSU Cou- gar football packages, romantic getaways, golf packages, Seattle Mariners baseball packages, jet boat trips, original artwork and wine packages. A special silent auction table will feature many ite...
Caucuses for city elections must be held no ear- lier than 35 days prior to the election, Tuesday, Feb. 26. The caucus window is open for 10 days and ends on March 7. All caucus results must be filed with the City Clerk by the end of business the day after they are held. Declarations of candidacy are open on March 1 and run for 10 days for anyone who wishes to run separately from a caucus. For any ques- tions, call city hall....
The Columbia County Fair Board has announced its theme for the 2013 Colum- bia County Fair: "SEW IT, GROW IT, SHOW IT". The fair will be held September 6, 7 and 8. During a recent meeting, three new board members were introduced. They are Tim Quade, Lee Ann Litteral and Richard Jones. They join Dave Molesh, who was elected board President, Debbie Bailey and Jeremy Cox. The 2013 Fair Kick-Off event will be held at the Fair- grounds Pavilion April 20, at 6 p.m. with dinner starting at 6:30. Dinner will be the 4-H BBQ made and served by the 4-H...
