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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Waitsburg first graders posed with teacher Dinah Lindsey and parapro Carol White during Wacky Wednesday at Waitsburg Elementary School last week. Students went from classroom to classroom, listening to Dr. Suess stories and participating in different activities in each room, in honor of Dr. Suess. The pledge below was read by Supt. Carol Clarke during an end of the day assembly. The Readers’ Pledge I promise to read Each day and each night. I know it’s the key To growing up right. I’ll read...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg Mayor Walt Gobel was quick to let the public take over discussions about the Waitsburg Fairgounds at a March 3 public forum on the topic. After saying how "awesome" it was to see the more than 30 community members in attendance, Gobel said the first step in promoting use of the city's fairgrounds – even before beginning discussions – would be to form a Fairgrounds Advisory Committee. Waitsburg Commercial Club President Joy Smith said she would be willing to serve as tempo...
WAITSBURG – Filings to run for City Council opened Monday and several new contenders wasted no time tossing their hats into the ring. Current council member Debra Callahan is running for mayor while Karen Stanton-Gregutt and Kate Hockersmith will compete for first-time seats on the council. Mayor Walt Gobel has only been opposed once during his tenure as mayor. The Truth & Trust slate of candidates, then made up of Mayor Walt Gobel and council members Kevin House, Orville Branson, Marty Dunn, K...
DAYTON--In his report to the school board on March 2, Dayton School Superintendent Doug Johnson said he met with maintenance supervisor John Delp to develop a potential timeline to complete some of the items on the list of capital projects. Funding for those projects was approved by voters last month. It was decided by the school principals and the board that replacing the communication system should take priority over other projects on the list. Elementary school principal Pam Lindsley said...
Waitsburg's FFA team took fifth place, competing against 15 teams, in a Metal Art competition at Columbia Basin College last week. FFA Advisor Nicole Abel said this was Waitsburg's first time competing in the event. This year's competiton was done "Junkyard Wars style" with teams grabbing materials from a pile of scrap metal. Waitsburg team members chose an old bike frame and a piece of sheet metal as their construction materials. They had from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m to design and complete their art...
Ten Years Ago March 16, 2006 Dee and Margie Douglas were presented a special plaque recognizing them for their efforts with the game programs. Each athlete is pictured in uniform on the game-day programs, said the be “the best programs” in the region, if not the state, Athletic Director Chris Pearson said. This year, the 2006 Waitsburg City Elections will have a first: it will be the town’s first-ever vote-by-mail election . . . Incumbent Mayor Martin Dunn and Treasurer Jean M. Hinchliffe were selected on both the “Citizen’s Ticket” a...
OLYMPIA - Washington State Parks turn 103 years old on Sat., March 19, and visitors are invited to help celebraet by enjoying a state park for free that day. March 19 is the thirs of 12 State Parks “free days” in 2016 when visitors are not required to display the Discover Pass for day use visits tot he park. The next “free days” are March 26, April 22, May 8, and June 4....
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg City Council will meet Thurs., March 17 at 7 p.m. rather than on Wed., March 16. Meetings are held in the Lions Memorial Building at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds....
DAYTON – TVAC Productions latest variety show, Jingles, Themes, and All Fun Things, opens March 18 at Dayton’s Liberty Theater and runs through March 20. First-time director Julia Mead has assembled a fun grouping of songs that evoke memories because they are defining tunes form favorite hit television shows, movies, and commercials. Performances are at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $12-$15 and can be purchased at www.libertytheater.org and at the Liberty Theater box office during regular office hours, 2-5 p.m...
Arraignments Geovanni Sanchez, 22, Hermiston; Alex L. Ahumada, 30, Lewiston; Elijio A. Mendoza, 29, Hermiston; and Julia L. Richardson, 31, all entered not guilty pleas to possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver. Richardson also plead not guilty to attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle. (See story below.) Trial setting is scheduled for March 16. Lonnie Marick, 39, Waitsburg entered a not guilty plea to charges of second degree burglary, first degree theft, and first degree malicious mischief. See story on Page 7. Trial...
DAYTON – Four suspects arrested in a joint-agency drug bust at the Best Western Hotel in Dayton on Feb. 18 entered not guilty pleas in Columbia County Superior Court on March 2. According to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office press release, the incident began when a car associated with a man wanted in Lewiston on a felony warrant was spotted in the parking lot of the Best Western Hotel in Dayton Columbia County Sheriff personnel, joined by members of the Quad Cities Task Force, were watching when four people returned to the car and the off...
March 11: Jacqueline Klaas, Catherine Donnelly, Kelly Lodato, Aaron DeFord, James Kenworthy, Dan David Oliver and Adraine Michels. March 12: Cherie Kurth, David Donnelly, Ben and Bill Brown, Susan Webber, Jimmie Young, Walt Warehime, Elizabeth Abbey, Teresa Johnson and Lory Duckworth. March 13: Corey Puckett, Susan Watson, Kathy Logeman, Darla Fischer, Ryan Shweid, Dan Mortimore, Darin Groom, Louie Gagnon, Scott Hagerman, Mark Lanning and Larry Branson. March 14: Jim Wilson, Rhonda Perry, Kathy Rose, Luanna Kalahele, and William Adams. March...
We share widespread concern over the influence of money in politics. This is a far cry, however, from believing that the system has been permanently rigged by the “billionaire class.” Ironically, this year’s presidential campaign, fueled so powerfully by such accusations of total corruption, has done much to disprove the claim. We understand the distortion of policymaking that the symbiotic relationship between candidates and donors engenders. Those pernicious consequences are often most pronounced not at the presidential level, but in corne...
In 1948, when Diane Howard was 4, she was learning to play ring-around-the-rosie. In 2004, when Christian Magnuson was 4, he was teaching himself to install games on his dad's computer. On Wednesday, Howard, 71, sat in a classroom where Christian, 16, was the teacher. His class: an introduction to smartphones for residents of Westminster at Lake Ridge, a retirement community in Prince William County, Virginia. Christian began volunteering at the facility a year ago, helping at Tuesday night...
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Dear Editor, Allison Bond’s letter to the editor in the March 3 The Times shows she interpreted Mayor Gobel’s comment differently than me. I was at the same council meeting when he made the comment. My interpretation is that his comment was made in regard to a single topic—lack of suggestions as to uses for the fairgrounds/race track facility. Many people opposed the car race idea for various reasons. Mayor Gobel mentioned some of those folks made comments to the effect there are plenty of other ways to use the facility. Mayor Gobel’s comment...
DAYTON - The co-op-owned Artisan Food Market at Blue Mountain Station recently celebrated its two-year anniversary. It began as the “Winter Market,” was only open on Saturdays and consisted of a handful of vendors. As interest and attendance grew, so did the market. The market offers hundreds of products, including those of regional food and craft artisans, food producers and growers. In spring through fall, the market offers produce from local growers in the Touchet and Walla Walla valleys such as Deer Pond Gardens, Dixie Acres, Miles Awa...
DAYTON - On Wednesday March 16, members of the Dayton School Board will recognize classified employees for their service at a “potato bar” luncheon in the District Board room. Katie Leid, the board’s employee and community outreach representative brought up the idea at the board meeting held March 2. The luncheon will be one of the activities which are designed to show appreciation for all of the work done each day by classified employees. These individuals provide students with a bus ride to school, a book to check out, a clean build...
DAYTON – The local Democratic Party will hold the Columbia County caucus for all voter precincts at the Dayton First Congregational Church (214 S. 3rd) at 10 a.m. on Sat., March 26. The caucus will be held in the basement of the church, which can be accessed from E. Spring St. The purpose of the caucus is to elect delegates to represent Columbia County in a process which will lead to the selection of the Democratic ticket for 2016. The event is open to all registered voters who support the Democratic Party. Contact Cathy Lee-Haight at (509) 3...
DAYTON - The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of the Blue Mountain will take place on August 27, 2016 from noon to 11 p.m. at the Dayton Athletic Complex, S. Cottonwood St. Local volunteers and participants from the community will celebrate cancer survivors, remember those lost to the disease, and take action to save more lives from cancer. The opening ceremony, which includes a special Survivors and Caregivers Lap, will begin at noon. A Luminaria Ceremony to honor cancer survivors and remember those lost to cancer will take place at 9...
DAYTON – By the time David Frame was a freshman at Dayton High School, he knew he wanted to be a professional photographer. Six years after his 2010 graduation, he's well on his way. "I got my first digital camera when I was 10," he said. "I really got into it in high school." Frame's love of wildlife and the outdoors has fit perfectly with his love of photography. He has already had his work featured on the covers of two outdoor publications, as well as in a book featuring the natural history o...
DAYTON-Did you know the City of Dayton has two residential zones? Do you know what animals city residents can keep and house in each zone? The City of Dayton has a new code compliance department, staffed by a new code compliance officer, who is going to provide answers to those questions, and more, and who will make sure public nuisance, animal control, street, building and zoning ordinances are complied with inside city limits. Clint Atteberry was hired on Feb. 18, to tackle municipal code viol...
WAITSBURG – WHS seniors Megan Morrison and Stuart Walsh were honored at a Boys and Girls State Honor Night at Town Hall on Mon., March 7. The event was hosted by the Waitsburg American Legion Post #35 and the Legion Auxiliary, which sponsor Waitsburg and Prescott students each year. Megan Morrison attended the 2015 American Legion Auxiliary Evergreen Girls State at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash. last June. Morrison said she was initially unsure about applying to attend b...
WAITSBURG – One of the reasons the Waitsburg Resource Center doesn't refer to itself as a food bank is because its mission is to serve the community in as many ways as possible; not just by providing food, according to resource center treasurer Bret Moser. Most recently, the center added "emergency preparedness" to its resume of helpful endeavors. Last week the WRC received a shipment of 60 emergency blankets that will be stored by Columbia-Walla Walla Fire District No. 2. The blankets, which a...
WAITSBURG - A Waitsburg man entered not guilty pleas to charges of burglary, theft, and malicious mischief in Columbia County Superior Court last week. Lonnie Marick, 39, was arrested on Feb. 24, when a Columbia County search warrant resulted in the discovery of multiple stolen items at his residence. According to police reports, a warrant was requested following a burglary at commercial buildings located on Highway 12 in Columbia County. Walla Walla and Columbia County Sheriff's office...
