Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - It was an exciting evening for Dayton's Colleen Sproul, a retired nurse who took a shot at running for a position as commissioner for the Columbia County Hospital District and found herself ahead of her incumbent by 61.03 percent on Tuesday night in the General Election. With the combined results of Walla Walla and Columbia counties, Sproul was ahead of incumbent Blaine Bickelhaupt by 61.03 percent, 1062 votes. Bickelhaupt had achieved 38.96 percent, 678 votes. "I think it's pretty exciting - I'm really surprised," Sproul said...
Phyllis Eaton passed from this world on Nov. 6, just a few days following the celebration of her 90th birthday. Her family and loved ones were gathered around her as she passed away. Phyllis was born in Dayton, Wash., an only child, to Frank and Maudie (Hinton) Danielson. She was raised on a wheat farm in nearby Waitsburg and went to Waitsburg High School. She was on the inaugural court of what was to become an annual event continuing today, the Waitsburg Days of Real Sport. While at Waitsburg...
WAITSBURG - An unexpected bout of the flu hit WP's star runner Seth Deal at the state competition on Saturday in Pasco and Deal placed 16th of 140 boys in the 5,000-meter race. Coach Joanna Lanning said Deal didn't know he was going to be ill and ended up vomiting and dry heaving during Saturday's race throughout the whole course. He finished in 17:08. "It's just amazing what he accomplished," Lanning said. "That's part of the way life is sometimes." Lucas Graham from Northwest Christian-Lacey placed first in the race with a time of 16:17....
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs lost two matches in a row last week and were eliminated from Blue Mountain District play. After finishing the regular season in first place with an11-1 record the Bulldogs fell to the WP Cardinals in three games last Wednesday night in Dayton. The Cardinals were first to score in game one, but Bulldogs Shelby Smith and McKayla Bickelhaupt fought back at the net throwing down kills to a 10-all tie. The two teams would take turns scoring on missed attacks...
RITZVILLE -- The Dayton Bulldogs were shut down by the Ritzville Broncos last Friday night 12-0. The loss prevented the Bulldogs from advancing to the state tournament finishing with a winning record of 5-4 for the 2011 season. The Bulldogs took the opening kick off and started their first drive on their own 35-yard line. Isaiah Lambert took the first handoff but was met at the line and tackled for a loss of two yards. Two incomplete passes had the Bulldogs deep in their own territory and they...
PRESCOTT - In the end, the Tigers' playoff game against Spokane's St. George Saturday wasn't all about winning or losing. After the teams tied each other twice this season, the seeding game was to determine who would continue the state playoffs as numbers one and two. WP has one more playoff game before the state championship tournament in Sumner in two weeks. But that game is against a team they beat handily earlier in the season. St. George won the match 2-1 after striker Erik Muelheims...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals took the first place seed into district play with a three game upset over the Dayton Bulldogs last Wednesday night. Missing many of their hometown fans who were at the concurrent Cardinals' football playoff game Saturday, the WP girls later team lost a tightly contested district playoff match against the home-courted Irish, ending the Cardinal players' hopes to go to state. On Wednesday, each game was a point-for-point battle that had serving aces from...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals clinched a first round 2B state tournament berth Saturday with a 54-21 elimination of the Kettle Falls Bulldogs. Two plays and 14 yards later, the Bulldogs found themselves on their own 39-yard line. Jesse Dodson took the handoff, slipped and bounced his way through Cardinal defenders, and the board read 0-7 Bulldogs with 10:21 left in the first. The Cardinals' opening drive was a Billy Brown-Zach Bartlow show as the two took turns pushing the ball up the field to r...
DAYTON - Dayton's Betty Ann Fletcher and Elaine Hudson were nearly speechless last Thursday night when they were announced as the 2011 Citizens of the Year by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. The women could barely squeak out that they were honored after being hugged and cheered on by their family and friends in the community who had attended the chamber's 65th banquet at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Roslyn Edwards, whose husband Steve won the award last year, presented on his behalf and...
WAITSBURG -- Call them the bone yards of the industrial age: old factories, warehouses, stock yards, substations, fabrication shops, foundries. You can find them everywhere, including in our towns right here in the Touchet Valley. Just think about Wait's Mill after it burned or the apple packing plant near the railroad tracks. These structures of the past aren't just empty buildings, hangars or basements. They have an economic biography and a body of work in the form of the products, tools,...
This weekend, the wineries in our region and around the entire United States, opened their doors, treating folks to wines recently readied by nature for our fall and winter pleasure. It was wonderful to see people bellied-up, eyes trans-fixed, trying to identify the flavor profiles with each swirl and sip. For the wineries, the sight of happy customers walking away, elongated paper wine bags held under their arms, could only mean one thing -- a job well done. Flying Aprons Catering, fortunate to cater Saturday evening's Harvest Luminary at...
A Note To Our Readers: For the past month or so, the local sheriff reports were not provided. Here are the police notes for Walla Walla County since the beginning of September. Those for Columbia County are up to date. Waitsburg 10-24 Identity theft reported on Main Street. Theft and trespass reported on city property near Whiskey Creek. 10-25 A possible sex offense reported on Wheatland Drive. 10-26 Information about threatening comments given to the Sheriff's Office. 10-28 Suspicious circumstance reported on Orchard Street, a broadhead-type...
Ten Years Ago November 18, 2001 America's Broadway musical "The Music Man" inaugurates the grand re-opening of the Dayton's renovated Liberty Theater next week. Many locals volunteered their time and talents to make this a success. Waitsburg City Council unanimously approved Paragon Construction's $2.48 million bid as the general contractor for the City's Wastewater Treatment Facility. Twenty-Five Years Ago November 13, 1986 Waitsburg Lions Tuesday heard a talk from Marne Lytle on her planned summer trip to New Zealand and Australia as a...
November 12: Randy Halley, Blaine Pasley, Terry Hofer . November 13: Delores Gohlman, Toni Jones-Riggs, Tom Manley, Anne Bickelhaupt, Reade Ferguson. November 14: Ellie Bartlow, Bert Aylward, Corrine McKinley, Wally Bird, Ariel Wood, Linda Henze, Willie Hobson, Randall Hinchliffe, Sydney Eng. November 15: Dorne Hall, Ellsworth Conover, Jan Eastman, Mike Duckworth, Jule Presler, Jonathon Lambert, Eric Maki, Mariann Baumann, Clarence Wiseman. November 16: Trina Cole, Dee DeVaney, Robert Hartwell, Ann Sehmel, Clifford Hermanns, Aaron Foster, Mans...
DAYTON - For Bette Lou Crothers, who as a child moved every year, Dayton is her real hometown. Crothers attended Dayton High School her junior and senior years, married a local boy out of college and has been selling insurance on Main Street for 30 years. Crothers said her family moved often because her parents worked building dams along the Snake River. She attended Central Washington University and always thought she would be an accountant. Instead, she got a job working as an insurance agent...
TERRY JACOY RECEPTION WAITSBURG - Nov. 9 marks the end of an era. Terry Jacoy will be completing 23 years of service to the Waitsburg School District as a member of the Board of Directors. To honor him there be a reception that evening and staff and the community are invited. The reception will be held at 7 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. when the Board meeting commences. During the reception, the Board of Directors will present Jacoy with a gift of appreciation for his service to the Waitsburg School District. TRAP SHOOTING TEAM RECEIVES GRANT...
Kitties Need Loving Homes WAITSBURG - In the Waitsburg Hardware and Mercantile store on Main Street, there's something furry lurking behind the shelves. John and Marilyn Stellwagen have owned and operated Black Dog Rescue out of their store for six years now and there are plenty of animals to be adopted - cats particularly. "This has been a busy year," Marilyn said. This year, the rescue program has facilitated the adoption of about 150 animals, including dogs, cats and ferrets. Typically, the...
This week we mark Veterans Day. We hope everyone in our community will take a moment to recognize, silently or in person, the sacrifices our local servicemen and women have made, and continue to make, on our behalf. In Dayton, the American Legion hosts its annual Veterans Day breakfast 7 - 10 a.m. Friday at the American legion Hall. In Waitsburg, author Karen Fisher-Alaniz will speak at the Veterans Day Assembly at Waitsburg High School at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. Her new book "Breaking The Code," recalls how her father, WHS graduate Murray...
PRESCOTT - Prescott Jr.-Sr. High School made the list of highest improving schools in the state recently, proving the hard work of the staff and students is paying off, Superintendent Bill Jordan said. Ninety-nine schools received the award for School of Distinction recently. The award is given by the Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE), the Association of Educational Service Districts (AESD), the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP), Phi Delta Kappa-Washington Chapter...
DAYTON - The Dayton School District is looking at asking taxpayers to pass a $1.3 million maintenance and operations levy in February that would help fund personnel, activities, athletics and other general maintenance costs for two years. Superintendent Doug Johnson said the levy would be on the Feb. 14, 2012 ballot. It is a replacement levy for a current M&O levy that will last collect in October 2012. The new taxes, if the levy is passed by voters, will be collected the following year. The district still has yet to make decisions on the...
WAITSBURG - The welcome many newcomers have received from Waitsburg residents over the years has inspired acts of gratitude in the past. Larry and Deanne Johnson's now-famous and well-attended summer gumbo party at their home on Fifth Street is a case in point. But this week was the first time newcomers ever lit up the entire downtown as a thank you for the way Waitsburgers brought them into their midst. Allison Bond and Bruce Donohue, who bought the former Lybacker home on Fourth Street almost...
