Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DW COMBINE-The Wolfpack basketball team will take on the Lind-Ritzville-Sprague Broncos in the opening round of the State 2B basketball tournament. The loser-out game will take place at noon at Cheney High School on Saturday, February 25. The winner will play at 2:00 p.m. at the Spokane Arena on March 1. DW played against Mabton in a loser-out game in Granger on Thursday, February 16. In the first quarter, Ryland Kilts and Gage Holm hit three-point shots to tie the game at 6-6. Down 6-12,...
DAYTON – The Dayton School Board held its regular meeting at 6 p.m., on February 15, 2023, in the high school library. All members of the school board were present; Chair Jeffrey McCowen, Grant Griffen, Aneesha Dieu, Zac Fabian, and Korinda Wallace attended using Zoom. Also present were Superintendent Rich Stewart and Business Manager Jana Eaton. Dawn McGhan, Kristen Ramirez, and several of their students gave a presentation to the board. The students displayed work they created based on Inca a...
WAITSBURG—The Waitsburg City Council met for its regular meeting at City Hall on February 15, 2023. Council members Jillian Henze, Randy Charles, Kevin House, and Jim Romine were present. Also in attendance were Mayor Marty Dunn, City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe, and City Attorney Jared Hawkins. Court Ruppenthal was unavailable. The council passed Ordinance 1080, approving the City’s Shoreline Management Plan update. The council discussed possible changes to the nuisance ordinance for the city. The change would offer an additional step bef...
DAYTON- The Dayton City Council met on February 14, 2023 for its regular meeting. Mayor Zac Weatherford, council members Teeny McMunn, James Su’euga, Kyle Anderson, Dain Nysoe, Shannon McMillen, and Tiger Dieu were in attendance. Laura Aukerman was not present. Sheriff Joe Helm was unavailable and submitted a written report to the council, not included in the online public agenda and packet. Desirae Lockard from Columbia County Emergency Management presented its report on activity. January calls in the county consisted of 105 law, 10 EMS, a...
DAYTON—This story follows Maurice (voiced by Hugh Laurie), a goofy streetwise cat, who has the perfect money-making scam. He finds a dumb-looking kid who plays a pipe and has his very own horde of rats, who are strangely literate. Maurice’s approach provides the group’s livelihood from town to town, but one town is short of food and Maurice and his rats are enlisted to help discover the reason behind the city’s food shortage. This movie is based on the 2001 novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. Rotten Tomatoes rates this movie 7...
WALLA WALLA—On February 18th, 2023, the Walla Walla-based Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever (BMPF), Chapter #258, was awarded the 2022 “National Chapter of the Year.” The award recognized the chapter’s education and outreach efforts last year. It provided 23 conservation-related events and reached approximately 450 participants in Southeastern Washington – more than any other Pheasants Forever (PF) chapters. “Just being nominated for this national award was an honor, but to actually receive it – to stand out among over 800 chapters – left us spe...
"You light 'em, we fight 'em" and "Where I go, weeds don't grow". Two familiar slogans on the business cards of one memorable man. 'Tommy' as he was known to his oldest friends and 'Papa' to his grandchildren was a proud husband, father, grandfather, helicopter pilot and lifelong farmer. Tom was born to Richard & Dorothy Archer on October 22, 1952 in Oklahoma, before the family settled down on the Archer Family homestead near Waitsburg, Washington. At an early age, Tom was driving grain trucks...
WAITSBURG-Jake Winona has forty-one registered wrestlers in his fifth year as head coach of the Mat Birds wrestling team. Stef Parrish is in her first year as league rep and states that the Mat Birds have been operating under the Washington Little Guy Wrestling League since 2007. The league promotes youth athleticism and community involvement. The Mat Birds club is for boys and girls ages five to fourteen, with integrated practice as a group. Many wrestlers remain with the club after age...
WAITSBURG—Congratulations Preston Hall Students for the Month. The January theme was Kindness. (l to r) 6th grader Zane Riddle, 7th grader Gabe Segraves, and 8th grader Jasper Sweet February theme will be School Spirit....
WAITSBURG-Between 25 to 35 future basketball players have been practicing dribbling, passing, and shooting skills in the Waitsburg gym on Thursdays. Organizers Katelyn Stahl and Chelsie Abel started the practices for Pre-K to second-grade boys and girls on January 19. Children from Waitsburg, Prescott, and Dayton participate in warm-up exercises before breaking into age-appropriate groups to practice skills. With the help of parents, including Dane Henze, John Langford, and Ryan Stahl, leaders...
WAITSBURG—Flamenco guitarist Gustavo Alonso López will perform at the Royal Block in Waitsburg on Saturday, February 25. López recently moved to Walla Walla from Austin, Texas, and quickly found a home where he could continue his musical journey. He was born and grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho and received degrees in architecture and has worked in Texas and Washington as a registered architect. Music has been in his life since he was a child. Through his mother’s interests, he had access to recor...
David Gignac uncovered these red-nosed gents in what had been a basement shooting range at his building on Main Street in Waitsburg. Anyone who may know more about this artwork revealed beneath 1996 flood silt. Drop The Times an email at editor@waitsburgtimes.com....
This affordable Cabernet from the talented duo of Charles (Smith) & Charles (Bieler) is principally sourced from Goose Ridge Ranch. Goose Ridge is a stone’s throw from Red Mountain, where Cabernets can cost up to ten times as much. This splendid wine, loaded with flavors of espresso, black cherry, licorice, black olive, and dusty herbs, is a showcase for non-interventionist winemaking. It’s blended with a percentage of Syrah from the same location, the two grapes fermented separately and the...
Ten Years Ago February 14, 2013 Assuring people that they are loved, cared for and most of all not alone, is what the Waitsburg Prayer Shawl Ministry is all about. Initiated by Joan Helm and sponsored by the First Christian Church, the Prayer Shawl Ministry began in the fall of 2009. Helm, a retired teacher, had spent time each year instructing fifth graders in Pam Conover’s Waitsburg classroom in the fine art of knitting. After Conover’s retirement, Helm found her interest piqued by the Deb...
When I lived in Seattle, the last soggy, grey weeks of winter were the hardest to endure. One of my favorite ways to combat the dreary short days was to head to the International District for a comforting bowl of soup. From meaty Vietnamese pho, and spicy Sichuan hot pot, to bubbling bowls of Japanese nabeyaki udon, there were always plenty of choices to warm me up in this vibrant historic neighborhood. Back in Waitsburg, as our mild February has taken another turn towards the cold and windy, I...
