Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA - How did they do it? One word: Belief. Belief in themselves, belief in their teammates, belief in their coaches, belief in their community, belief in victory. Belief was a recurring theme in comments from everyone interviewed about the 2011 Cardinals basketball teams' success in the past two weeks. That belief, combined with a hunger to win and a depth of physical talent, lined up for something that has never happened before in history. Both Cardinals teams - the women still...
SPOKANE - The WP men beat Brewster 63-50 in their first state playoff round and are in the final eight, returning to Spokane to play at the Arena on Thursday. The WP women made it to the final 12 before getting knocked out by White Swan on Friday and Lake Roosevelt on Saturday. They lost 75-53 against a rough Cougars team, then succumbed 43-34 to the Lake Roosevelt Raiders....
February 24: Susan Segraves, Jason Wheeler, Helen Porter, Eric Nunn, Wanda Gales, Dane Henze, Misty Reid, Andy Maib, Martha Kenney, David Danforth, and David Baker. February 25: Diane Dill, LeAnne Piersol, Lana Herrera. February 26: Dena Wood, Alisha Marshall, Dorothy Hall, Wayne Emerson, Walter White, Emilie Baker, Jeff Jameson, Sally Harmon and John Garrett. February 27: Rylan Lybecker, Jerry Baker, Larry Land, Bill Broadhead, Jane Schulke, Katy Pearson Zemke. February 28: Jill McConnell, Brock Winegar, Cindy Hiatt, Sharon McDaniel, Jean...
DAYTON - The WOO Crew, a racing team competing under the Inland Northwest series of the United States of America Snowboard Association, had several members clean up the competition on February 13 at Whitefish Mountain, Montana. This was the team's fourth competition of 2011. Sarah Koehler, 23, of Cheney, and BreAnna Morgan, 18, of Kennewick, easily won their respective age groups, women's Open Class Skier and Women's 16-18. Both women qualify for USASA National races held at Copper Mountain, Col...
NORTH POWDER, OR - The Bluewood Alpine Race Team youth skiers attended their only nonleague event this past weekend, February 19- 20, at Anthony Lakes Ski Area. Bluewood skiers captured 12 podium spots over the weekend, which didn't surprise their coach. "I saw a lot of our skiers make their best runs so far this season" said head coach Hal White, who hopes they will carry new confidence back to league racing next weekend at Mt. Spokane. Hosted by the Anthony Lakes Ski Racing Association, last w...
TWELVE MAKE ALL DISTRICT WAITSBURG - Twelve Touchet Valley basketball players made All District. From the Waitsburg Prescott men's team, they are: junior Zach Bartlow and senior Kris Cady on All District First team. Senior Matt Hamilton made Honorable Mention. From the Lady Cardinals, they are: senior Genesis Pearson, senior Megan Withers, junior Ronnie Hulce and junior Kristin Potter on All District First Team. Junior Dionna Baker received Honorable Mention. From the Dayton men's team, junior Garett Turner, junior Hayden Fullerton and junior K...
WALLA WALLA - Dayton brought plenty of spirit, plenty of fans and plenty of energy to George Ball Court on Saturday night, but they didn't bring enough net to carry them on to state. The Bulldogs put up a good fight against the Asotin Panthers in the final game of the Southeast 2B District 9 boys basketball championship at Whitman College, but Asotin took the 60-53 victory and ended Dayton's 10-11 basketball season. "Asotin just got an early jump on us, and we weren't able to come back quickly...
WALLA WALLA - The Cardinals and the Irish traded the lead in their district tournament game nine times, indicating how close the game was until the final minute or so. That's when DeSales' fouls finally caught up with the WP opponent and senior Cardinals Genesis Pearson, Megan Withers plus junior Krystal Harris put the game away 40-36. "That was exciting," head coach Jerry Baker said with more than a hint of the understated. "I knew it was going to be a tough game. But we played good defense...
WALLA WALLA - A field shot from Bulldog Garett Turner circled the hoop and spun out instead of going in. Minutes later, on the other side of the court, Cardinal Matt Hamilton battled for the ball time and again until he finally had the rebound. His efforts, among others, won him applause when he was subbed at the end of the game. In the end, it was a mixture of luck and a margin of superiority that gave WP its district tournament win over Dayton Friday. But the Bulldogs, who were on fire from...
WALLA WALLA - Business entities from the Touchet Valley attended a presentation of a "way finding" initiative Thursday that would use road signs to brand the 30-mile travel corridor from Dayton to Milton Freewater. Representatives from the Port of Columbia and the newly formed Touchet Valley Tourism Alliance joined others from Walla Walla-area businesses and organizations to offer feedback to the first phase of a long-term signage overhaul program for the region proposed by Tourism Walla Walla....
GROBIZ SHOW MARCH 18-19 WALLA WALLA - GroBiz 2011, the Walla Walla area's newest premier business event, is just around the corner March 18 and 19 at Walla Walla Community College. The two days will include a business conference on Friday, March 18, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., and a trade show on Saturday, March 19, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sponsored by the college and the Walla Walla Chamber of Commerce, the conference offers business strategies entrepreneurial success, branding, use of social media, technology tools for companies and growing global markets. A...
PRESCOTT - In a tradition beginning with his Oregon pioneer ancestors, Prescott businessman Larry Pitcher has taken to pioneering in cyberspace. He and his family have settled down on a small farm just outside Prescott, but not to work the land - Pitcher is a website developer. "He's very knowledgeable and creative," says Dayton's Judith Henderson, whose website www.chefjudithhenderson.com is hosted by Pitcher. "But he's also a country boy at heart, so he's laidback and not intimidating like...
2-21: Abandoned Vehicle. Abandoned vehicle reported on McKay/Alto Road near Dayton. Upon investigation it was found to be a stolen vehicle from Walla Walla. 2-20: Accident. A vehicle on Patit Road outside Dayton was involved in a non-injury accident. The vehicle's tire blew out and the vehicle went into the ditch. Civil. Report of a person on E. Dayton Ave., Dayton, in someone's yard scaring a neighbor's dog with a loud horn. Vandalism. Fence reportedly knocked down on Creamery Street, Dayton. 2-19: Theft. Suspect cut lock on storage unit on...
This afternoon, Wild Bill of Wild Bill's Organic Patit Street Garden, Dayton, and I had our seasonal over-the-fence-visit. Bill's in the planning stages of his 2011 organic summer garden. In a couple of months he'll plant various leafy greens, corn, potatoes, cucumbers, green beans, beets, carrots and culinary herbs. I love having a big garden like Bill's in the neighborhood; it's an eco-friendly kind of thing. Even Bill and my bees, butterflies and dragonfly kanoodle over the fence. In the summer, we share a family of Dayton bats that pay a...
Lyle L. Luellen passed away on February 19, 2011, in St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield, Missouri. He was 72 years, 4 months, and 23 days of age. Services were arranged by Craig-Hurtt Funeral Home in Mtn. Grove, Missouri, on February 23. Lyle was born on September 27, 1938, to the late Sam and Elzada (Ferguson) Luellen in Bertha, Missouri. Lyle attended school at Bertha, Hickory Flats, and Mountain Grove before moving to Dayton, Washington, in 1955. He graduated from Dayton High School in 1957. While living in Dayton, Lyle worked...
Shelly Jones passed away February 10, 2011, in Lakeway Harbor, Texas. Memorial services will be announced at a later date. Shelly was born to Kermit D. and Delores L. (Belanger) Jones. She grew up in Waitsburg, Wash. After graduating with the Waitsburg class of 1969, she attended Walla Walla Community College. Shelly's passions in life were animals and music. She spent many years working with thoroughbred horses at various tracks and breeding farms in the Pacific Northwest and California. She enjoyed playing music with her friends and...
Ten Years Ago March 1, 2001 Edna Thomas was named Most Inspirational Citizen by the City of Prescott at a dinner in the Prescott School this week. About 190 friends gathered to participate in the recognition. Citizens of Waitsburg gear up for the annual City Caucus. While Columbia County Hospital District strives to hold costs and provide the highest service possible, their tax levy would compensate for tax and Medicare shortfalls. Twenty-Five Years Ago Feb. 27, 1986 Waitsburg City Council meeting Feb. 19 heard concerns of some local...
DAYTON - When the Bulldogs cheerleaders get together to raise spirits, they mean business - on the field, on the court or in matters of the heart. Next Tuesday, March 1, the 12 young women will show Dayton what community support looks like as they hold a spaghetti feed fundraiser for the family of 6-year-old Jayden Dedloff. Jayden was diagnosed last year with intractable epilepsy, a rare seizure disorder. He suffers from four different generalized seizure types, making the syndrome difficult to...
COUNCIL DENIES DEVELOPERS WAITSBURG - Waitsburg City Councilors denied a reprieve request by Walla Walla area developers David Corbett and Mark Jones last Wednesday. Three years ago, city councilors approved a subdivision plan, Waitsburg Estates, proposed by Corbett and Jones for several acres on Wood Street, just north of the old Jackpot gas station (now Midway Food Mart) on Highway 12. The men had until this spring to begin work on improvements to the 27 lots, including water, septic and roads. To date, no work has been done. Corbett stated...
Wai t sburg has always had a "thing" about horses ever since it was first settled in the 1850s. Horses supplied the power, which has made this a successful farming community. The difference now is that the horse power is mechanical. City authorities purchased about 15 acres of land just south of town in 1893 and designated it a city park. A race track was developed in 1901 for the use of the Waitsburg Driving Association, allowing a time for early morning testing of favorite trotting horses. Horse shows were held primarily on Main Street until...
Lindseys Embark On Adventure From The Heart WAITSBURG- Not quite a quarter century on the planet, Cole and Brittany Lindsey found themselves at a crossroads late last year. Cole, now 25, had worked as a Department of Ecology contract biologist doing environmental impact assessments at Hanford for three years, while Brittany, 24, was working as an emergency room nurse at Kadlec in the Tri Cities. The lease on their rental came up, and they needed a change. Plus, they were ready to give in to a...
The Cardinals are going to Spokane, where we wish them the very best of luck. We hope they go far, very far. But even if they don't come back with a single win, their historic double district championship is already a huge victory - not just for the teams, the players' parents and the coaches, but for the Waitsburg and Prescott school districts. And in the case of Waitsburg, it is the second victory in a single week. Before the Cardinals basketball squads even set foot in the Sherwood Athletics Center at Whitman College Friday night, the...
DAYTON - Dayton Days will not "go dark" this year, thanks in part to the Columbia County Fair Board, but it will not likely offer any horse racing. The Washington State Horseracing Commission decided earlier this month to give only six days of racing to the four-track Class C "Bush" circuit, with all of those days going to Sun Downs in Kennewick. This news hit the Touchet Valley hard, with its tradition of horse racing every spring at Dayton Days and Days of Real Sport in Waitsburg. Last week Waitsburg's Days of Real Sport board decided not to...
WAI T SBURG - Trenton Kitselman started wrestling when he was 12. He was still living in Forks at the time. Then his family moved to Waitsburg about three years ago and he joined the Matbirds. For several years, he immersed himself in the sport, attending practices three days a week and going to winter tournaments. It quickly turned into his favorite pass time. But after the 2010 season, his competition in the sport came to an abrupt end. The problem? He is too old . Matbirds, which gratefully...
