Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - A historic barn on Bolles Road in Waitsburg burnt down mid day Saturday in the town's second major fire in less than a week. The barn owned by Patty Mantz and, at about 160 years old, believed to be one of the oldest in the state, caught fire shortly before noon. Two goats were rescued from the structure by Brian Seagraves, who operates a cabinet shop in the property. The fate of two other goats, both pregnant, belonging to Diane Dill and her son Alex was unknown at the time of this report. The cause of the fire is unknown as well,...
WAITSBURG - The Walla Walla County Sheriff's Office is requesting local residents' assistance in locating Adams Hermanns, whom they call "a potential witness" to Tuesday night's fire at his parents' residence on W. 2nd Street in Waitsburg. "We are attempting to locate Adam as a potential witness related to the fire," Undersheriff Eddie Freyer said in an interview Wednesday. Freyer, who came to the scene of the fire after midnight Tuesday and again on Wednesday morning, said his office is taking the incident very seriously, investigating it as...
January 27: Diane Estes, Micki Box, Gayle Broom, Casey Acevedo. January 28: Tana Lynch, Jack Cyr and Jennifer Thames. January 29: Dan McKinley, Carol James, Wm. Hoops and Marci Jo Lanning. January 30: Aaren Lindsey, Hudson Reser, Maxine Attebury, Bob Collins, Donald Want, Jill Ziegler, Michael Flanigan, Rachel Mercer, Kari Green and Travis Williams. January 31: David Hevel, Vicki White, Michael Watson and Ward Schacht. February 1: Bob Stewart, Tamara Doepker, Debbie Peck Russell and Adam Hermanns. February 2: Margaret Picton, Lacy Wood, Grant...
Army Pfc. Jeffery M. Hofer has graduated from the Fire Support Specialist Advanced Individual Training course at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. Hofer graduated in 2009 from Waitsburg High School. He is the son of Waitsburg residents Jeffrey T. Hofer and Lynda C. Stokes. The field artillery specialists serve in intelligence activities including target processing in field artillery, cannon battalions, division artillery, artillery and maneuver brigade and headquarters and fire support elements. The course is designed to train students to establish,...
Floyd T. McCauley, 95, died Jan. 18, 2011, at Booker Rest Home in Dayton. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, at United Methodist Church in Dayton. Pastor Bill will officiate. Floyd was born March 1, 1915, in Dayton to Charles H. and Beatrice (Tilson) Mc- Cauley. A lifelong resident, he attended schools in Dayton and was a Dayton High School Graduate. He married Frances Hubbard on January 25, 1952, in Pasco. For over 45 years he was a State Farm Agent in Dayton and had a television repair shop. He was a member of...
WAITSBURG - Saying they support Waitsburg's youths but couldn't see the viability of Tawnya and Greg McVey's BMX track concept, the city's council voted for a second time to deny the use of up to five acres of city land for the project last Wednesday. "I don't think it's fiscally responsible for this council," Councilman Orville Branson said . After a relatively short public hearing at which a handful of local residents (including Tawnya McVey) and a Walla Walla man formerly associated with the track there spoke about the pros and cons of the...
SPOKANE - The WOO Crew, an area Snowboard and Ski Cross team, took top honors at the Inland Northwest United States of America Snowboard Association race, led by veteran Sarah Kohler, 22, at Mt. Spokane last Saturday. Ski Cross and Border Cross debuted at the XXI Olympic Winter games in Vancouver, Canada, last February. Skiers compete against skiers and snowboarders compete against other snowboarders, only. The course (for both groups) is a series of gates, including jumps, banked turns, steps,...
DAYTON - The Tri-Cities Prep Jaguars proved no match for the Bulldogs Friday night as both of Dayton's men's and women's teams took top score in league match-ups. The Lady Bulldogs were triumphant after winning their second game of the season. "We needed a league win really bad," said junior Nicole Lambert, top scorer of the night with 17 points against the Jaguars. The Lady Bulldogs out matched TCP 46-32. The ladies got a quick jump on TCP. By the end of the second quarter, the Lady Bull- dogs...
WAITSBURG - The Cardinals were already looking ahead to Saturday's tough away game against Asotin. But first there were the Touchet Indians Tuesday night, by now a mere bump in the road to one of the two teams' best-ever basketball seasons. The Lady Cardinals demolished the Touchet team 53-18 with many younger Cardinals taking part in the victory against the Indians, who struggled from the getgo. The score was 27-8 at half time and 42-14 by the end of the third when Samantha Moss, Katie Hofer,...
WAITSBURG - Neither Cardinals basketball team had much trouble with the Liberty Christian Patriots, beating them handily at Kison Court Friday night. But the wins had their significance since they marked the end of the first round of league match ups with WP still undefeated in the league. The Lady Cardinal s topped the Patriots 64-34. The points spread was already large enough during the first half to allow head coach Jerry Baker to bring out some of his younger players. "That was our best...
The three brave ladies from Waitsburg did it. From left to right in the foreground (first shot), plungers Joanna Lanning, Patty Hazelwood and Vickie Hamann take the jump into the 38-degree water of the Columbia River with $1,000 in pledges for the Special Olympics of Washington at stake. About 300 undaunted souls from southeast Washington participated in the event Saturday and raised $77,000 for the cause. Sooner or later, recruiting will begin for 2012. But what are you waiting for? Sign up...
WAITSBURG - The Cardinals Booster Club needs to raise at least $19,000 if it wants to break ground for a new press box and equipment storage building in late spring, according to members of the Waits- burg sports community. But the good news is that they have a plan for their goal and support seems to be building in the rest of the community. The proposal is already backed by the Waitsburg Booster Club, the WP Quarterback Club and the Waitsburg Lions Club. A group of coaches, boosters and fans...
DAYTON - The big question in the Touchet Valley this weekend: Could the Bulldogs trip up the Cardinals' unbroken winning streak in round two of league match-ups? Try as it might, Dayton was unable to take away either WP varsity team's undefeated status. Both Bulldogs teams succumbed to a stronger WP combine that has dominated the league since the start of the season. In a closer game than their first encounter at Waitsburg, the Lady Bulldogs lost to the Lady Cardinals 58-37 on their home court....
WAITSBURG - Under the new mayor and city council, Waitsburg has continued to invest in its basic infrastructure and avoided the kind of budget woes other communities face. That was the message Mayor Walt Gobel shared with members of the Commercial Club in a speech at the group's evening meeting last Tuesday. Gobel gave credit to the previous mayor and city council, city clerk Randy Hinchliff and city staff for setting a steady course for the town that he and the new council could build on when they were elected last year. "We are so fortunate...
DAYTON - Some say that David and Jule Keller work magic in the kitchen. The Waitsburg couple once crafted a fire- breathing dragon with flour, water, eggs, sugar and butter. "The little birthday boy was so excited when he saw it, he was shaking," Jule Keller said. "He kept asking if he could touch it." The Kellers have created baked images of school buses, tractors, turkeys and Uncle Sam hats in their leased commercial kitchen in Dayton. Juda Specialty Cakes began on a whim, but it's become a...
PORT PREPARES TO BREAK GROUND DAYTON - The Port of Columbia's long-planned venture Blue Mountain Station will finally break ground on its 28 acres west of town along Highway 12 this spring, Port Manager Jennie Dickinson announced last week. Phase one creating infrastructure for the future Blue Mountain Station, called "the world's only food-tourism destination of its kind" in a brochure handed out at last Thursday's public meeting at the Liberty Theater, is scheduled to go out for public bids in late January or early February . Construction...
DAYTON - The trend in Columbia County's economy shows that nonfarm jobs continue to decline while the value of area farm production has suffered during most of the past decade, according to data presented last Thursday evening at the Liberty Theater by regional labor economist Arum Kone. Kone spoke for nearly an hour about Dayton's population, earning and spending trends to a crowded room at this Port of Columbia County-hosted event. According to Kone, Columbia County has one of the state's lowest averages in per capita retail sales at $2,639,...
Ten Years Ago February 8, 2001 Established in 1998 to fund salmon habitat restoration efforts, Washington's Salmon Recovery Funding Board authorized more than $1 million in grants for habitat restoration and protection projects in southeast Washington. Among the approved projects are in-stream and riparian improvements along the south Fork Coppei, Tumalum, Deadman, Hendrickson and George creeks, habitat restoration on Whiskey Creek and fish screens at the spawning reach of the Walla Walla watershed. The City prevails, and so 50,000 board feet o...
1-23: Theft. Several items taken from a yard on 4th Street, Dayton, over time including a pickup bed extension. Illegal Burn. Illegal brush pile burn reported on Patit Road, Dayton. Theft. Theft of a snowboard reported at Ski Bluewood. 1-22: Accident. Single vehicle rollover accident reported on Highway 12 near Dayton. Driver was not injured; some damage to fence reported. Illegal Burn. Juveniles started a small fire on Washington and 5th in Dayton; parents were advised and will handle discipline. Theft. Theft of a snowboard reported at Ski...
While visiting wineries along the North Coast this week, I had the fortune to dine with friends in Mendocino, who served a wonderful Chicken Tandoori. I love this dish and always thought I needed to have a Tandoori pot to make it in. I guess figuratively speaking, you do. But back home I experimented, and I am happy to say, a good Tandooristyled dish can be made using the correct spices and by keeping the chicken moist throughout the cooking time without the specialty pot. Back on the coast: While driving to my friend's home for dinner, I stopp...
COUNCIL RENEWS POWER DEALS DAYTON - The Dayton City Council did not take action Monday night regarding an application by Columbia Rural Electric Association for a right-of-way permit in town. During the city's public hearing, two or three of the two dozen citizens who attended the meeting spoke, each expressing concerns with the application and raising questions for council members to consider. REA has proposed new electrical distribution lines through rival utility company Pacificorp territory in Dayton to furnish power to its own offices in...
DAYTON - Former Columbia County District Judge Charles Thronson was vindicated Tuesday afternoon after he spent more than two years defending himself against a civil lawsuit filed by his neighbors Gale Acers and Robert Hollingsworth. In a verdict opposed by just one of 12 jurors, Thronson was found "not liable" for damages to commercial timber owned by Acers and Hollingsworth who claimed it was damaged in a backfire set by Thronson on his Cahill Mountain property in August 2006. The backfire,...
Dear Editor: Starbuck City Council members Ruth Shearer and Fred White have decided that I should have sewer rates raised on the three-space McNeil RV Park and Dump. Ruth leads you to believe that Darver put this RV park and dump in secretly or underhandedly. The facts are that former Mayor Dianne Lusk was working for Darver Tackle and was very much aware and informed on the progress of the McNeil Park, as was the council. Darver asked Clark Posey, Columbia County planner, to lead me through this step by step just so I wouldn't be doing...
