Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON-Dayton City Administrator Trina Cole had a number of items to share at the Dayton City Council last week. Cole said her office has been proactively working with Jim Nelson at D. A. Davison regarding pool financing, to see whether the Dayton Swimming Pool can be repaired and how financing can work. Cole said tree excavation will take place on the morning of Feb. 24 for some sections of the sidewalk including trees located at Banner Bank and at Home Street Bank. She said a public meeting...
The Waitsburg School Board met February 21 at 6 p.m. for a regularly scheduled meeting. Board members present were Ross Hamann, Christy House, Lisa Morrow, and Superintendent Mark Pickel. Secondary principal Stephanie Wooderchak reported that Mr. Kiefel has been planning an enrichment day for high school and middle school students. They will be taking a ski trip to Ski Bluewood. Middle school students will ski on Feb. 28, and high school students will ski on March 13. The high school will have a...
Thank you for letting me whine about my cold. Monday I woke up feeling much better, my energy is back, along with my appetite! So after my workout at the Y, I treated myself to breakfast at Bacon & Eggs in Walla Walla. I am convinced that spring is on the way, I see daffodils blooming, shades of green driving through the wheat fields and the sun is shining. Phooey on you Mr. Shakespeare, bring on the Ides of March. There are two big spring holidays (although not until April), that celebrate one...
The unusually warm 34 degrees greeted us under bluebird skies as we turned up Highway 153 toward Twisp. My last trip up this highway was five years prior in 2015; the last steelhead season open to the public on the Methow River as fish returns to the Columbia Basin continued to drop precipitously. Memories of that last trip flooded my mind as I rode shotgun with my buddy Chas Kyger, a fish biologist with Douglas County Public Utility District in Wenatchee. If ever a man was anointed with...
WALLA WALLA-Gesa Power House Theatre presents Mike Super - Magic & Illusion on Friday, April 10 at 7 p.m. As the winner of NBC's hit TV show Phenomenon, Mike Super is the only magician in history to win a live magic competition on prime-time US network television and was voted America's Favorite Mystifier! Through spectacular illusions and his own inimitable down-to-earth style and personality, Mike Super has pioneered a new form of magic that transcends the "trick." Super's ever-growing...
Baseball-Reference.com has been a favorite web site of mine to look up all things baseball. It went online in April of 2000 and has information on professional baseball players and teams going back to 1888. Several years ago it added box scores and complete play by play information for all MLB games dating back to 1956. Recently the site updated its data and now has this information going all the way back to 1918 so I’m betting it has your first major league baseball game as well. Years ago I u...
On Feb. 25 coaches, parents, athletes and administrators gathered in the Waitsburg high school auditorium to discuss procedures on how athletes can join teams and what paperwork the parents would need to sign to make that official. Participation packets were handed out and explained by Athletic Director Nicki Luper to a full crowd of high school and middle school athletes and their parents looking to get involved in baseball, softball, golf and track and field. Baseball will have two co-head...
Waitsburg-The Waitsburg Mat Birds Wrestling Team is back on the mat for another season, and all the athletes are working to secure a spot at the Jason Crawford Memorial Tournament. The Little Guy's wrestling team has a full schedule ahead, including hosting a tournament in Waitsburg again. The wrestling team has a full roster this year, with 37 athletes from Prescott, Dayton, Waitsburg and College Place turning out. The team practices on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings at Preston Hall...
I had lost my sew-jo. That's the urge to get in there, pick a quilt pattern, sort through your fabric stash, start ironing and cutting, get ready to piece it all together, all the steps to start a new quilt. Life stresses, motherhood, a couple of bouts of illness, and the weeks turned into months where I hadn't started a quilt project. I'd maybe take a spin or two through Pinterest, to see what quilt ideas I had liked in the past, admired them, remembered why I liked them, and then turn off the...
WALLA WALLA—The speed of sound for Walla Walla music Organization (WWMO) is about three years, give or take a few months. Three years is about how long it took founder Rodney Outlaw to build a substantial course load of audio production education and to find the students passionate about learning to populate it. Outlaw teaches students how to produce, record and manage music and sound. Audio engineering is a broad term for managing signal flow through channels. There is a science to it. The g...
WALLA WALLA-The Gesa Power House Live Cinema Series continues with an April 1 screening of The Royal Opera's current production of La bohème at 6 p.m. La bohème explores the love affair between the penniless poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì, contrasting it with a more lighthearted affair between the painter Marcello and the singer Musetta. Mimì is gravely ill with tuberculosis and she and Rodolfo decide to separate so that Mimì can find a wealthier lover to provide her with the care she...
WALLA WALLA-Fort Walla Walla Museum's upcoming special exhibit, Rhythm in the Blues: Music in the Walla Walla Valley, will explore some of the ways in which music has embedded itself into the culture of Walla Walla. Aside to being home to the longest operating symphony west of the Mississippi River, this city has seen musicians who made their way across the Oregon Trail, military bands stationed at Fort Walla Walla, several music schools teaching everything from voice to piano-even the...
WALLA WALLA-The Little Theatre of Walla Walla is in rehearsals for the musical celebration Godspell with performances March 27 through April 12. In this modern musical retelling of the Gospel of Matthew, a group of ordinary people are called by John the Baptist to give up their normal lives to follow Jesus Christ. Through parables, songs, and dance, the group spreads Christ's message of kindness, tolerance, and love, even as the story moves inevitably forward to The Last Supper and Crucifixion....
WALLA WALLA-The Sustainable Living Center's Farm to School Program Manager Beth Thiel will be taking the lead on a sustainable gardening practices workshop on Tuesday, April 7 from 6:30 - 8 p.m. This popular workshop explores the world of growing your own delicious and healthy produce. If you've always wanted your own garden but never knew where to start, then this is the workshop for you. Learn the basics of garden site selection, when to plant, considerations for what to plant and tips and...
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng This poignant and dramatic masterpiece shows what happens when the well-to-do Richardson family starts getting involved in the matters of the unconventional Warren family. Secrets get dug up when both families get tangled up in a moral dilemma turned huge political debate that shakes up the otherwise peaceful and rule-abiding town of Shaker Heights, Ohio. This novel is a masterclass in empathy, and one that I will joyfully return to time and time again....
Ten Years Ago Mar 10, 2011 [Headline] Baxter to challenge Gobel for Mayor [Photo caption] Members, parents, siblings, and coaches from 17 eastern Washington youth wrestling teams gathered in Waitsburg for the first tournament of the five-week Little Guys wrestling season. The 10 a.m. flag salute at Kison Court included an Honor Guard. Nearly 500 competitors participated in this first big tournament hosted by Waitsburg. Senior Bulldog Dain Henderson stood before a crowd of teammates, schoolmates, coaches, and family to read from the page, “I a...
First, a report on the Banana Breakfast Cookies. They are a winner. I used quick oats, instead of rolled oats, which I chose over old fashioned oats, but next time, I will buy the rolled oats. I added a tablespoon of peanut butter, (I could have added more!), and chopped almonds. My first batch I didn’t use parchment paper. They stuck a little bit as there is no oil in the batter. So use the parchment paper. I also added a half teaspoon of baking powder and a little bit of sugar (perhaps a f...
Poison hemlock can be deadly toxic to both people and animals. This deadly noxious weed is thick around Columbia County and is still young, the leaves are at a basal rosette stage, which is the best time to treat poison hemlock. Poison hemlock is an invasive species that rapidly colonizes streambanks, vacant lots, roadsides, pastures and meadows, especially where the soil is moist, outcompeting native plants and desirable species. It is a biennial plant, which means that it typically lives for...
