Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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A group of about a dozen businesses based in Waitsburg and Dayton are creating a new organization to help promote tourism in the Touchet Valley. Named the Touchet Valley Tourism Alliance, the diverse group that includes the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, Ski Bluewood and a number of hospitality and retail businesses in both communities, plans to launch a number of initiatives to strengthen the area as a travel destination in the coming years. Waitsburg's Commercial Club has been invited to participate as well. "This is the first time a...
Ian Tozer Withers of Waitsburg passed away Jan. 28, 2011, at the age of 58, according to an obituary published in the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. Memorial services were held Tuesday at the Waitsburg Presbyterian Church. Dayton resident Kenneth Crawford, 63, died Jan. 30 in Spokane VA Medical Center. Services will be held in April. Norma Louise Kucera Evers, 87 passed away in Bishop Place Retirement Community in Pullman, Wash. on Feb. 1 Kimball Funeral home is caring for the family. Full obituary will be available next week....
February 3: Melissa Pietila, Ryan Neal, Norman Hansen, Robert Weller, Eric Rohde, Mike Gauch, Joe Watson and Chris Walker. February 4: Morgan Baker, Chelsey Murdock, Meredith Huwe, Stacey Bennett, Mathew Akers, Renee Bailey, Robert Bailey, Matthew Lyons, and Kimberly Bloor. February 5: Tim Abel, Andrea Tuttle, Mary Phillips, Loretta Hunt, Janet Hart, Jack and Jim Hubbard, Helia Richardson, Chad and Nicholas Pearson. February 6: Aidan Larsen, Jena Worth, Lorene Wood, Sueann Neace, Crystal Werner, Teresa Luders, George C. Robinson, Shawn Davis,...
BELLEVUE - Puget Sound Energy is offering public schools and other educational institutions an opportunity to bring renewable energy into the classroom - or perhaps onto the classroom. The utility opened the grant-application period this week for organizations seeking to install small-scale solar arrays or wind power turbines. Schools and nonprofit institutions with a renewable-energy education focus are eligible to apply for a PSE grant, which can range from $5,000 to $20,000. Successful applicants will receive grants to fund renewable energy...
"The Poultry Plungers" really appreciate all the pledges we received. Everyone was very supportive. We had a great time at the Plunge sporting our chic outfits, which were a big hit! We'll be back next year, and we hope to recruit more team members and get more creative with our costumes. Look for us late this year when we'll come "cheeping for your change!" Words cannot express the love and concern we felt during Owen's recent illness and surgery. We appreciate our friends, church family, Owen's teachers and classmates, and this community so...
1-31: Assault. Assault reported on E. Richmond Ave., Dayton. 1-29: Theft. Sometime in the last 10 days, an unknown suspect broke the lock on a storage unit on Preston Avenue, in Waitsburg, and stole several items including a red floor jack, a rigid snake sewer drain, Snap-On tools and tool box, miscellaneous tool bag, air hose and tools, and a McCulloch leaf blower, for a total value over $1,400. No other units were tampered with. 1-27: Shoplifting. Shoplifter reported on E. Main Street, Dayton. Deputy responded and arrested the subject on...
"The Poultry Plungers" in The Times photos two weeks ago were not identified in correct order. Vickie Hamann was the woman jumping into the water holding her nose. Joanna Lanning was third in line next to Patty Hazelwood. The Times apologizes for its error....
DAYTON - The Bulldogs were cautiously optimistic Friday evening after defeating both Walla Walla Valley Academy teams on Thursday - including a much-needed victory for the Lady Bulldogs - but their high spirits weren't enough to earn them a win against the tough Asotin Panthers. Though Dayton's young men and women went head to head on their own court against Asotin, the Panthers were victorious on both counts, at 50-64 against the men and 51-63 against the ladies. In the men's match, the...
ASOTIN - It wasn't until the final buzzer of the men's game sounded that WP players and a big contingent of fans knew for sure the Cardinals had passed one of the biggest tests of the season: beating the Panthers in their own den. It was neither easy nor particularly pretty, especially in the end. The physical game reflected both rivals' appetite to win with composure and smart ball handling, giving the Cardinals just enough of an advantage. With 45 seconds to go and both teams fouling like it...
1-28 Be My Valentine The Boldman House Museum, owned and managed by the Dayton Historical Depot Society. Tours and located at 410 North First Street in Dayton, will be having a special exhibit for the month of February. The museum will have a large collection of Valentine's Day cards from the Boldman family on display. The cards will range from the year 1900 to 1970. There is a large variety of colors, shapes and designs. Feel free to stop by during regular hours. Call the Depot Museum at 509-382-2026 for more information. Cowboy Poetry...
February 5, 1976 Touchet Valley Grain Growers will be breaking ground shortly on a new grain storage facility 8 miles north and east of Prescott at the intersection of Smith Springs Road and Jensen Corner. A preliminary discussion of a Waitsburg Community Center Building was held Thursday evening in City Hall. Some twenty-two persons attended and were in agreement. The old Legion Hall is under consideration as a possible site. Kirk Huwe is the top rebounder on the Cardinal squad this year. He was instrumental in the defeat of DeSales Friday...
A rriving in Park City, Utah, I was met by staff of the Washington School Inn Bed and Breakfast who drove me to the B & B where I was booked to stay for the week of the Sundance Film Festival. I'd been hired to cook by a private group of guests who booked the entire B & B for the week long Festival. This was my third year working the annual winter event, and it promised to be interesting with a house full of celebrities, a well-known producer/director and me, the chef. Among the exclusive food and beverage requests were the cigar, wine and bran...
Ten Years Ago February 15, 2001 Renovation work on Waitsburg High School and the vo-ag shop is approaching the half-way point. Responding to a statement from a group of kids, "We don't have any place to go," the Waitsburg Lions Club has completed the first two steps of a process to a BMX track being built on the City of Waitsburg's flood mitigation project ground along West First Street. Rose Engelbrite and Jake Long are the newest members on the board of Days of Real Sport, Inc. Other board members include Terry Hofer, Dan McKinley and Terry...
WAITSBURG - Diane Dill and her son Alex didn't lose everything Saturday. Their horses were outside when the fire in the barn on Bolles Road started just before noon, and two of their four goats were saved by Brian Seagraves, who runs the cabinet shop next door. Still, Alex Dill lost Raffle, the pregnant goat he has owned since he joined 4-H in fourth grade, and Frosty, another pregnant goat he got a year and a half ago. "I was pretty sad," said the 16-year-old Waitsburg High School sophomore...
MISSION BANQUET FEB. 12 DAYTON - You're invited to the "Sharing Your Hearts Banquet," a fundraiser for a Baby Feeding Program in Africa and a Women's Mission Team to Nicaragua Saturday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. at the Seneca Building in Dayton. Tickets are $15 per person and $25 for couples and will feature "Nifty Fiftys" songs presented by Cougar Henderson. For more information, call Donnie Henderson at 509- 337-6569. FREE TAX HELP WALLA WALLA - AARP announces free tax help for taxpayers with low and moderate income with special attention to those...
I n response to the letter to the editor submitted last week by Darver Tackle owner Verna Foley, I would like to point out a few important facts that she does not appear to fully understand. I am aware the city council approved an RV park built on McNeil Street, but the RV dump on this property is what is in question. It was not approved by city council, and we have found no documentation in the city minutes that it was ever discussed. The dump was put in after the RV Park was built and, to my knowledge, was not inspected by any approved...
The first time we drove into Waitsburg, I knew there was something missing on Main Street. Someone in Walla Walla had recommended the Whoop ' Em Up Hollow Café for dinner, and once downtown, we discovered Waitsburg also had a charming hardware store, a great bar, a friendly pub and even a homegrown brewery. But we could find no place to get espresso. Other than John and Marilyn Stellwagen's table at the Waitsburg Hardware and Mercantile, there was no place to get together during the day, there...
Since we took over the Times in late 2009, we've made a number of changes to your newspaper. We hope you enjoy the new look, content and services we provide. Soon, our offerings will include reproduction services and retail office supplies in our renovated historic office on Main Street in Waitsburg. As a newspaper team, we truly enjoy putting together the Times every week because we get lots of encouragement from you, our readers. This is one of the reasons why it saddens us to bring you some bad news with regards to the long-term future of th...
When longtime Waitsburg resident Bert Aylward and his wife Linda were getting ready for his family reunion at Fort Walla Walla last summer, they rummaged through a trunk full of old photographs. The couple had stored the keepsakes after his parents passed away but had not gone through all the old pictures yet. Every one of the 88 Witt descendants coming from across the country to Walla Walla was supposed to present or recite an item of family history. As Aylward went through the photos, it...
DAYTON - Some major parts of Dayton's wastewater treatment system have been around since 1938, but Public Works Director Jim Costello believes they'd still work fine "if the state hadn't changed the rules on us," he said. More than 40 concerned citizens attended a special meeting last Monday night to hear from the horse's mouth why Dayton is faced with costly changes to its wastewater treatment plant by 2018. "The short answer is, the city's wastewater treatment plant is discharging too many nutrients and other pollutants into the (Touchet)...
WAITSBURG - The Walla Walla County Sheriff's Office is requesting local residents' assistance in locating Adam Hermanns, whom they call "a potential witness" to last Tuesday night's fire at his parents' residence on West 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 last Tuesday and again on Wednesday morning, said his office...
