Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG -- As clear as day, Craig Funabashi remembers the first time he saw his grandmother's Story & Clark Victorian pump organ. He was six and visiting the Seattle area with his parents from Long Beach. As they would for many years to come, he and his family traveled up to Whidbey Island for his grandmother's Sept. 5 birthday and family reunion. They would meet at the cabin where Vangee Johnston kept the ornate wooden instrument and played many old- time Ragtime favorites for her grand kids... Full story
KELLOGG, IDAHO -- Alex Naylor skied to victory in the second heat of his Skier Cross race at Silver Mountain, on Jan. 7. Second place, National Women's SkiCross Champion Sarah Koehler is right on his heels. The WOO CREW from the Touchet Valley, Walla Walla and Tri-Cities competed at the first of four United States of American Snowboard Association (USASA) sanctioned races this past weekend at Silver Mountain in Kellogg, Idaho. Snow conditions were challenging with less than 50 percent of the... Full story
PRESCOTT - The Prescott School District will hold community meetings about a replacement levy. On each of two evenings next week Dr. Bill Jordan, the district superintendent, will provide information on the levy. Meetings will be held in Vista Hermosa Community Chapel Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m., and at the Prescott School District Library on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. The district board of directors approved a resolution for a Special Levy Election to be held Feb. 14. The Levy of $585,000 would be for the 2013 and 2014 tax years and replace...
Under the new redistricting plan, Walla Walla and Columbia counties will remain in District 16, represented by Rep. Maureen Walsh, Rep. Terry Nealey and Sen. Mike Hewitt, all Republicans. However, District 16 did lose a portion of Franklin County and gained some of Benton County. Also, Walla Walla County was split in half into the Fourth and Fifth Districts. This means Touchet and Burbank will be in the Fourth District and College Place, Walla Walla, Waitsburg, Prescott and Dixie will be in the Fifth District. The districts were recently...
January 12: Scott Reese, Alice Davey, Ron Miller, Yvonne Gusse, Nicholas Leid and Molly Payne. January 13: Stan Pearson, Jr., Wes Romine, Janine John, Megan Withers, Kevin House. January 14: Maxine Cecil, Janice Davis and Greg Smith. January 15: Kayla Turner, Allene Severtsen, Glenn Baker, Wade Done, Melinda Lambert, Justin Kirk, Jesse Archer and Jack Sherlock. January 16: Colleen Mc- Coy, Patty White and Rueben Stokes. January 17: Anna and Anthony Reese, Bret and Bethany Moser, Kimmie Hamann, Zane Johnson, Dan Beckley, John Janovich, Tyler...
A youth basketball camp will be held three Saturdays in a row starting Jan. 14 at the Waitsburg High School gym. The camp is open to fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grade boys and girls. Each camp will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. and is free for participants.WHS student Zach Bartlow is the camp's director and the members of the WP basketball teams and their coaches will help run the camp. Jeff Bartlow will also supervise. Kids need to wear shorts, a t-shirt and clean tennis shoes. To sign up, call 509-337- 9474....
DAYTON -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs chalked up another "W" last Saturday night defeating the Liberty Christian Patriots, 53-31. The Bulldogs took a bite out of their competition forcing 17 steals and only turning the ball over 13 times while forcing 21 turnovers from the Patriots. The Bulldogs grabbed the tipoff and it was game on from there. Bul ldog Mal ia Frame snagged a half-court pass from the Patriots and took it all the way for two. Shelby Smith drew a Patriot offensive foul and Nicole...
Wheat producers or owners please read with caution and especially not before bedtime. Wheat exports from the U.S. are lagging. Several familiar factors lead to this, including recent dollar strength against other currencies, adequate to abundant production from competing sources, and weak or confused demand among normally strong buyers. Exports are the key fundamental variable for wheat prices. This is especially true for white-wheat producers in the Pacific Northwest, as some 80 percent of the regional wheat crop is consumed overseas. The...
DAYTON -- The Dayton Bulldogs put a hurtin' on Liberty Christian last Saturday night with a 90-43 beating of the Patriots. The Bulldogs scored 30 first-quarter points to put this game out of reach early on. Hayden Fullerton led the Bulldogs in the first quarter, nailing two three-point buckets and totaled 10 first-quarter points. Kroft Sunderland was beating them up inside posting strong offensively and rebounding like a Dog. The Bulldogs made it look like an easy playground game for them until...
DAYTON - For the second game in a row, officials applied the mercy rule to speed up a game in which the undefeated Dayton Bulldogs took a runaway lead over its opponent. The team in white almost shut out the TOR Nighthawks, 79-13, with head coach Roy Ramirez rotating his bench onto the court midway through the third quarter. The Nighthawks barely managed to score 6 points in the first quarter, 3 points in the second quarter, none in the third and 4 points in the fourth, while the Dogs kept sinking it through the hoop for one of their...
WALLA WALLA -- The recent downshift in weight classes for the four WP wrestlers saw an immediate payoff during the Tigers' meet last week at Walla Walla High School. Meeting opponents from Wa Hi, Mac Hi and Pomeroy, the boys brought back three wins. Dalton Larue won two of those, including one pin. " It's starting to come along," head coach Lanny Adams said in between his students' matches. "They're getting exposure to some bigger schools with more competition for them." Larue, who switched to...
ASOTIN -- The WP Lady Cardinals were defeated by the Asotin Panthers, 59-43, last Friday night in Asotin. Although the Cardinals held Asotin stand-out JaLisa Jose to just 11 points, it was the team's lack of boxing out and crashing the boards that was their demise. Jose brought down 26 rebounds for the night, many of those under the Cardinal hoop. WP's Ronnie Hulce and Hailey Goenen got the defense started with half-court steals from the Panthers, but the Cardinals had trouble executing their fa...
PULLMAN -- Former Bulldogs running back Dain Henderson once had a dream to join the football team of a small to medium-sized college . He didn't exactly fulfill his dream the way he had originally envisioned: as a player. But he did join one of the best-known teams on the West Coast. Since he graduated from Dayton High School last year, he has been on the PAC 12 Cougars football team as a manager. "I've played football since second grade -- 12 straight years and I still have the itch to play,"... Full story
ASOTIN -- The WP Cardinals battled against the Asotin Panthers last Friday night, but came up short in the final minutes once again, ending the game, 45-49. WP's Billy Brown won the tip off once and lit up the board for the Cards with a baseline bank shot. WP's Justin Zuger found Brown under the hoop for two more and Dustin Wooderchak got his hands on the next Panther shot denying his opponent a basket. Wooderchak then went three-for-four from the line as the Panthers couldn't beat him to the...
DAYTON - It was almost as though time stood still when Nicole Lambert got ready to release the basketball for a trey attempt with less than a minute to go in the game at the TOR Nighthawks on Tuesday night. It was a gutsy move. The seconds were flying off the clock and the Lady Bulldogs were behind, 53-48. They needed a minor miracle to keep their three-game winning streak going. With all eyes on the ball as it arced towards the bucket, the Dayton High School gym exploded in cheers as the perfec...
The group No Kids Hungry was formed by a group of Hollywood actors who got tired of money and donations being misappropriated and not getting to the people they were intended for. Today, the group goes so far as to deliver the foods and money themselves. For small well worth affiliations like this, use your Google bar and type: "food donation groups." Speaking of starving mammals; today, I delivered a 20-pound bag of cat food to the Walla Walla SPCA, one of my yearly donations to those who cannot speak for themselves. I love this donation and...
Waitsburg 1-4 Vehicle stopped for failure to yield at Coppei and Preston avenues, driver cited for driving while suspended and ticketed for failing to yield. 1-5 Possible vehicle prowl on West Fifth Street, vehicle door found open, nothing appeared to have been taken. 1-6 Minor in possession and furnishing liquor to minors at Preston Hall, subject arrested. Subject arrested at North Main Street and Bolles Road for possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and an outstanding warrant from Yakima County. 1-9 Subject arrested at Murphy and Maple... Full story
Ten Years Ago January 17, 2002 A picture of Preston Hall illustrates the article, which cites the people of Waitsburg and the Waitsburg School District as role models of communication and cooperation in this month's District Administration magazine, published for public schools. This week the war Afghanistan took on a personal note as Eastern Washington lost a native son, Sgt. Nathan P. Hays was among the seven marines who perished in the crash of a KC-130 Hercules refueling plane in Pakistan. Word reached The Times this week that Greg Nysoe,... Full story
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Knowledge Bowl team didn't know the answer to the question "What branch of mathematics was pioneered by the Islamic mathematician al- Khwarizmi?" To score the point in round three of Monday's Knowledge Bowl meet at the Waitsburg Christian Church they didn't really need to know the exact response. They just needed to be fast on the buzzer and take the 15 seconds they had to use logic and the process of elimination to figure out that it might algebra, derived from the...
PUBLIC HEARING ON CITY FEES WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council is holding a public hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 18 to discuss rate increases. The city staff and council members will discuss raising rates for residents for water and sewer. Also, to help improve city roads, the city will be discussing increasing local sales tax or charging residents a car tab fee of up to $20. For more information, call City Hall at 509-337-6371. TOUCHET VALLEY CALL TO PRAYER WAITSBURG -- The first Touchet Valley Call to Prayer, sponsored by the Touchet Valley... Full story
In a Dec. 22 story about the WP football team's awards banquet, we misidentifi ed the hometown of player Greg Stearns who won the Coaches' Award. He lives in Waitsburg....
A sincere thank you to all who helped to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary by attending the reception following the Cantata and by cards and letters with welcome messages and newspaper clippings. Your thoughtfulness is appreciated. Good thing about our years together is that we have spent 48 of them right here in Waitsburg. We were adoptees and you have always made us feel welcome. Anita and Tom Baker... Full story
To the Editor: Concerned Citizens: $20 license fees, $18 Garbage fees, and .02 percent sales tax. I would like to think that I do not have to tell the city council, Mayor and administrator the fi- nancial problems we have in this world. The Waitsburg city residents are struggling to live in the middle of four surrounding counties and cities that have unemployment at 13.5 percent. We got a surprise on our utility bills this month for garbage pickup-we now have to pay a fuel surcharge. This charge will be a forever thing if garbage companies... Full story
DAYTON -- Imagine the concrete staircase in a bigcity office building. Now picture walking up one flight to a landing and another flight to the second floor in full bunker gear - 75 pounds of boots, pants, a coat, a helmet and an air tank. Repeat this 69 times, seeing the red hand railing, red utility lines and a black sign with white letters showing the floor number. At least three times, your ears will pop from going from sea level to 788 feet. Occasionally, you might run into other firefighte... Full story
You could call it a dilemma, perhaps a challenge or maybe it's nothing more than a transition. It all depends on your perspective. For the last few years, some of Waitsburg's clubs and organizations have seen in a reduction in ranks and/or participation among their members and volunteers, many of whom are getting on in age. As a result of that, and as a result of developments outside the community, the future of some of their hallmark events is in question and we feel it's important to share news of this trend to inspire new and younger people...
