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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG – The cost of starting a neåw business in Waitsburg just got a little bit cheaper – at least for the next year. At their Feb. 7 meeting, the Waitsburg City Council voted unanimously to waive the requirement for new businesses to pay a $50 registration fee. The suspension is good for one year – through Feb. 6, 2018 – as a good faith gesture to encourage business owners to do business in the city. An extension of the waiver is not anticipated unless the suspension “is wildly successful...
DAYTON--Anne Higgins, Columbia County Emergency Management Homeland Security Assistant, introduced an updated 2008 Columbia County Community Wildfire Protection Plan to stakeholders and landowners at a meeting last week at Fire Station District No. 3. “Over time things change,” said Higgins about work that has been done on the CWP Plan. The biggest change has been the effort to coordinate all local, state, and federal agencies in firefighting efforts, she said. Higgins said a $9,000 grant fro...
Waitsburg Elementary students raised approximately $1,200 for the American Heart Association through their annual Jump/Hoops for Heart event on Feb. 22....
Ten Years Ago March 8, 2007 Waylon and Willie and the boys recently included a Waitsburg boy, Bill Stonecipher, who not too long ago was seen perusing his Waitsburg Times on the boardwalk at the Luckenbach, Texas, post office. Stonecipher and his wife Linda recently visited San Antonio, Texas, and visited Luckenback, population 3, the subject of a Waylon Jennings song and now a site for music festivals. Why are bank hours being cut at a profitable branch? is the question that seemed to hang in the air after a town hall meeting with an...
WAITSBURG – Caucus for the City of Waitsburg elections opened Mon., Feb. 27 and will run through March 9. Caucuses may be held between 35 and 25 days prior to the election which takes place the first Monday in April. Declarations of candidacy will be accepted at City Hall beginning on Mon., March 1 through Fri., March 10....
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Town Hall Association is hosting a St. Paddy’s Day dinner fundraiser on Sat., March 18 at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall. In order to accurately order food and supplies, tickets should be purchased by March 9. The main course will include a traditional cabbage, sausage, and potato dinner. Adult beverages will be available. The evening will also include a silent auction. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased from any Town Hall board member. Board members include: Jim Romine, Jim Davison, Larry Johnson, Ron Griffen, Karl New...
PRESCOTT – The Prescott Parks & Recreation District is planning to hold a lifeguard training class during the final two weeks of May. Class will take place on Sundays. Some classes will be held at the Prescott Pool and others will be held at the Walla Walla University Education facility in College Place. The class will cost approximately $180, which includes the cost of the book and Red Cross Certification Certificate. Those interested will need to buy the Lifeguard Training Manual 2017, which can be purchased on Amazon.com. There have been p...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg will honor winter athletes on Tues., March 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the WHS auditorium. Athletes in cheerleading, wrestling, boys and girls basketball will be recognized. Dessert and punch will be provided following the awards ceremony....
DAYTON - All third, fourth, fifth, and sixth graders living in the Dayton school district, including those who are homeschooled, are invited to participate in the spring session of the After School Program, which takes place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3:00-4:30 p.m. Spring session will begin on Tues., March 21, and end on Thurs., May 25. Adults with skills in gardening, photography, theater, sports, cooking, and art (especially painting and collage), are invited to participate. For further information contact Program...
DAYTON – The Dayton Celebrate Recovery group has changed its meeting date from Wednesdays to Mondays. The group meets weekly at Catalyst Church, located at 311 S. 4th Street in Dayton. Dinner is at 6 p.m. followed by a meeting at 7 p.m. Sam Korslund facilitates the group that has been meeting in Dayton for nearly a year. Korslund said everyone is welcome and people should feel free to join at any time. Celebrate Recovery is a biblical program that helps individuals overcome “hurts, hang-ups, and habits.” The group is helpful for those strug...
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that he expects states to be subject to “greater enforcement” of federal laws against marijuana use, a move that could undercut the growing number of jurisdictions moving to legalize the drug for recreational purposes. Spicer, speaking at a White House press briefing, said that President Donald Trump sees “a big difference” between use of marijuana for medical purposes and for recreational purposes. “The president understands the pain and suffering that many people go through who are facin...
In 1960, when John Kennedy was elected president, America’s population was 180 million and it had approximately 1.8 million federal bureaucrats (not counting uniformed military personnel and postal workers). Fifty-seven years later, with seven new Cabinet agencies, and myriad new sub-Cabinet agencies (e.g., the Environmental Protection Agency), and a slew of matters on the federal policy agenda that were virtually absent in 1960 (health care insurance, primary and secondary school quality, crime, drug abuse, campaign finance, gun control, o...
President Donald Trump just can’t get his story straight. At the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, he accused the news media of widespread fabrication, claiming without evidence that “they have no sources; they just make ‘em up when there are none.” It is a charge Trump has leveled before. Yet it is wholly incompatible with his assertions, at other times (or on the same day), that U.S. intelligence officials are leaking classified information to reporters - and must be ferreted out. Friday morning, he tweeted: “The FBI is tota...
DAYTON – Directors Jae Nichols and Tracy Barron said the audience at this year's TVAC Spring Variety Show should expect the unexpected. "A Spectacle of Miscellany" is a departure from the past tradition of choreographed numbers, and is a true variety show. "There's so much amazing talent in the community. There is much more talent than just singing and dancing that we haven't been able to showcase with the prior variety shows. Doing a true variety show has allowed more people to be part of t...
DAYTON--Drug Free Grant Coordinator Peggy Guiterrez, and ASB SHEO Club Advisor Jennifer Price accompanied students in Dayton's SHEO Club to Olympia on Feb. 20 for Prevention Policy Day. Representative Terry Nealey took them on a tour of House Chambers and showed them how the electronic voting system works. He also talked about the progress of three pieces of legislation concerning substance abuse and violence prevention. "That part of the trip was great," Guiterrez said. The next day, the...
DAYTON - "January was a bang-up month," Columbia County Health System CEO Shane McGuire told the Board of Commissioners at last week's meeting. McGuire was referring to the $1.7 million growth revenue for January, before accounting treatments. "Revenue for all of 2016 averaged only about $1.43 million per month, including the months before our rate increases were applied," said Hospital Controller Tom Meyers in his report to the commissioners. "This is a good start!" he added. In his picture of...
DAYTON – Internationally acclaimed musician Lauren Pelon will appear in concert at Dayton Memorial Library (111 S. 3rd St.) on Thursday, March 16 at 6 p.m. In a unique concert titled The Living Roots of Music, Pelon traces the story of music and performs music from around the world on archlute, guitar, lute-guitar, lyre, recorders, gemshorns, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, rackett, pennywhistles, concertina, ocarina. hurdy-gurdy, bowed psaltery, Kiowa courting flute, eagle bone f...
It was a full house in Waitsburg's Town Hall on Friday night at the coronation dinner for 2017 Waitsburg Celebration Days Queen Cheyanne Shoun. Court advisor Ann Adams said approximately $2,300 was raised between the spaghetti dinner, dessert auction, and silent auction....
PRESCOTT – In September, long time music teacher Rebecca Wilson moved from the band room to the classroom and began teaching fourth grade at Prescott Elementary School. Jeremy Irland was hired as her replacement and is very much enjoying his gig as the district's new K-12 music teacher. Irland's down-to-earth attitude and contagious enthusiasm belie his impressive resume. The Canadian-born opera singer lived in California and Seattle before moving to our area in junior high, but says he c...
WAITSBURG – The death of a man whose body was found in Preston Park on the afternoon of Tues., Feb. 2 has officially been ruled a suicide. Sheriff’s deputies found the body of William Joseph Irving, who operated Irving’s Leather in Waitsburg, with a note and a handgun. The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, according to coroner Richard Greenwood. Eyewitnesses to the event immediately contacted officials and were able to redirect traffic and pedestrians until Walla Walla County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene....
FFA members voted on 2017 Harvest Ball court members who then competed in "ag olympics" events to earn the title of king and queen. The titles were won by seniors Jade Alleman and Devin Newman....
The weather was sunny and bright for the second annual Heart & Sole 5K Run & Walk, sponsored by the Columbia County Health System and the Backroads Club on Sunday. About 37 people turned out for the event. Left: Christy House (l) and Lori Dyer smile and wave as pass by the camera....
Richland – A cold third quarter sunk the Dayton Lady Bulldogs against the Colfax Bulldogs Saturday in Regional 2B playoff action, as the Dayton girls fell, 57-48. However, Dayton is not out of the hunt for the state title. With the #1 RPI ranking, the girls will advance to the round of 12 and play Mabton Wednesday night at 9 p.m. in Spokane. Colfax will receive a bye in the first round and play in the quarter-finals Thursday. Going into halftime, the Dayton girls trailed 21-18, but after the thi...
COLFAX – After the Waitsburg boys’ basketball team lost a tough district championship game to Pomeroy on Feb. 17, they had to return to the court the next night to face Colton in a loser-out playoff game. The Cardinals couldn’t keep up on this Saturday night, and fell, 68-51. Colton was hot out of the gate and built a 21-7 first quarter lead, which the cardinals couldn’t overcome. The score was 36-21 at the half. For the game, Jordan Garrity led the scoring with 20 points, including five three-pointers. Kyle Gradwohl had 13, and Jacob Dunn fi...
March 3: Sarah Moser, Mike Vennum, Michelle Miller, Cameron Pearson and Kristy and Kelly Hays. March 4: Bill Poirier, Marilyn White, Kathy Jansen, Ryan Jacoy and Nicholas Newbury. March 5: Dick Baker, Jean Miller, Larry Wayne Bunton, Paul Fischer and Kristen Danielson. March 6: Marianne Newell, John P. Janovich, Shane Johnson, Trulie Griffin, Michael Jantz, Ryan and Scott Downing, Del Benson, Larry Olson and Kevin Jones. March 7: Renee Adams, Jayce Dunleavy. March 8: Donovan Smith, Tanaa Maib and Scott Mason. March 9: Larry Johnson, Robert...
