Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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A Rodeo With A Great Cause: Our Children WALLA WALLA - For 30 years, collegiate cowboys have been making a difference in children's lives. March 9 through 11 is the 30th anniversary of a partnership between the Walla Walla Community College, Exchange Club of Walla Walla and the Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse. Together they put on the WWCC Collegiate Rodeo, Riding Against Child Abuse, and have raised $300,000 for local child abuse prevention activities and college rodeo, said Dick...
ell, we may be a few weeks early for the official change of seasons on March 21. But with temperatures in the lower 60s by the end of the week, the time of crocuses, daffodils, tulips and spring cleaning is upon us. And the travel season isn't far behind, which means we want our town to looks its best for visitors. This year should be good for the Touchet River Valley as a tourist destination. Waitsburg has already been mentioned in "Sunset Magazine" and will soon be featured in "Seattle Magazine." Dayton's Main Street should see more activity... Full story
WAITSBURG -- To bud as a musician, it helps to have good mentors. Ann Lehman and Daniel FitzSimmons had them. For Lehman, it was Rye Grass String Band guitarist Jon St. Hilaire. For FitzSimmons, it was Nashville musician Skylar Wilson and Old Crow Medicine Show member Cory Younts. But mentors merely plant the seed. The rest comes from within, fed by life stories and audiences that appreciate what they hear, as they do when Lehman and FitzSimmons take the stage as the duo DNA (short for Daniel &... Full story
SPOKANE -- The Dayton Bulldogs themselves may not have registered how far they got into the Hardwood Classic Final 8 last weekend, but for their coach and hometown fans it certainly did register. After their 57-41 Saturday morning loss against the Wahkiakum Mules, the players were subdued and disappointed they didn't place higher. But their coaches and members of their community showed up in big numbers applauded them for being the best high school basketball team in a generation. They placed si...
WAITSBURG - An eyeopening forum on underage drinking and drug abuse in the Waitsburg community is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., March 12, at Waitsburg Elementary School. Peggy Gutierrez, a prevention specialist at Blue Mountain Counseling, and Dr. Carol Clarke, the Waitsburg School District superintendent, will give a one-hour presentation highlighting statistics from a Healthy Youth Survey taken by Waitsburg High School students in 2010. The survey was 100 percent confidential and really shows our kids' perceptions of drugs and alcohol, Clarke... Full story
