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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - The community is invited to hear a proposal by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation that would revive the salmon population to the Touchet River and provide fishing in the river in 10 to 15 years. The meeting will be at 7 p.m., March 15, at the Seneca Labor Camp Activities Building on Green Giant Camp Road, east of the Highway 12 overpass on the east end of Dayton. The meeting is being held to present a proposal by local fish biologists to return natural salmon...
The big USDA report last Friday brought only a little news for wheat markets. Ending stocks of all wheat in the U.S. are expected to total 825 million bushels, a downward revision of 20 million from the previous official monthly projection. This was considered mildly supportive for wheat prices, especially next to the lower global wheat supply estimate for the year, which was given to be 209.58 million metric tonnes, some 3.52 million tonnes lower than the previous month's figure, which was itself a record high 213.1 million. Although for many...
DAYTON -- Bulldog softball head coach Terry Robbins has a soft approach to starting the season with his team. "I don't push them too early in the season," he said. His group of girls includes a number of basketball players coming off a successful come-from-behind season that propelled them to second place in district. Instead, he wants his players to relax, have some fun and remember that softball is still only a game. "If success doesn't come, we can still say we had a great year," he said....
DAYTON - Community members reacted with mixed emotions to the announcement that Columbia County Health System CEO Charlie Button has resigned from his position for greener pastures in May. The district released a statement Monday saying Button, whose contract was up for renewal in early April, is moving on to take a top job at a larger and undisclosed critical access hospital in another state. Button, whose tenure as CEO has been controversial, has held the position for the past four years...
PRESCOTT -- The WP Tigers baseball season is in full swing with 28 players making their bid for some diamond action. The Tigers' season may look to be an unpredictable one, but head coach Dustin Snedigar isn't worried that he has only five returning players and only three who have seen major varsity innings. "We lost a lot of seniors in core positions, "said Snedigar. " But we've some younger players up from junior high and some surprises coming in from Jubilee. I think we'll be sitting pretty...
WAITSBURG -- In at least two ways, the 2012 Waitsburg Prescott winter sports season set a major milestone, coaches said at last Thursday's awards gathering for WP cheer squad, wrestling and girls basketball teams. The girls basketball team won the district title again and all of the four WP wrestlers made it to the regional tournament. "It was a tremendous season," head basketball coach Jerry Baker told his players and their parents at the high school auditorium. " The standard has been set pretty high for girls basketball." The basketball...
DAYTON -- The Dayton High School track coach has a small team this year, but he's dreaming big and hoping for two of his athletes to make it to state later this spring. The team has a new head coach, who has plenty of experience with the athletes. Shawn Magee was the assistant coach last year and stepped up to the plate when he heard the previous head coach Shannon Turner was not returning. Magee ran track in high school and at Concordia University. "I just like track and field and I knew they...
WAITSBURG - WP's track and field team has a big reputation to live up to this year. The men's team last year placed fifth in state, and was the second-highest placement in recent memory. The women's team placed 29th. This year, with a roster full of valuable returners, head coach Jeff Bartlow said he is setting the bar higher and hopes to pull in even bigger wins than last year. "We want to continue to improve on where we s tood a t state last year," Bartlow said. " We're pretty proud of our...
DAYTON -- Sal Benavides could be in a panic about the upcoming Bulldogs baseball season. His no. 1 pitcher, senior Colton Bickelhaupt, dislocated his shoulder during the basketball season. Bickelhaupt was throwing at speeds in the mid 70s (miles per hour) last year and he developed an effective curve ball . But the head coach isn't too stressed. The good news is that Bickelhaupt might be back on the mound in a few weeks, before the team has to play any league games that matter. And, Benavides...
PRESCOTT - The WP Lady Tigers 2012 softball team may have lost seven seniors who were the core of last year's team, but the remaining Tigers are no strangers to the field. Seniors Hailey Goenen, Dionna Baker and Taylor Doepker will step up to lead this group of ladies on their quest for a trip to the state tournament. It wouldn't be too far off to say Goenen will be a tremendous force both on the field and behind the plate this year for the Tigers. She is an all-conference outfielder in right fi...
WAITSBURG - Kate Hockersmith's annual St. Patty's Day party, which she started at her Waitsburg home some two decades ago, gave some of the former Blue Mountain Trouble Makers their debuts in front of friendly audiences. As young tikes, John Hockersmith, Chris and Nick Carpenter and their friends would gather up the courage to perform a joke, a song or a dance as part of the fun-filled evening. Now, Chris Carpenter, John Hockersmith and fellow Troublemaker Austin Beasley are continuing their youthful tradition with a performance at this Saturda...
Wilma Sharpe of Walla Walla, Washington, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and sister passed away March 4, 2012 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. She was born in Tupelo, Oklahoma on February 4, 1927 to Hiram and Zelma Turner and was the second of five children. She graduated from Grand Coulee High School in Grand Coulee, Washington. She then attended Kinman Business College in Spokane, Washington. While attending college, friends introduced her to Gilbert Sharpe from Pomeroy, Washington. They were married June 10,1950 and...
Luanna Louise Kalahele, 58, a resident of Nehalem, OR died Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the Providence St Vincent Medical Center in Portland. A celebration of life will be held on March 24, 2012. Please contact 503-357-8749 for more information. Luanna was born on March 14, 1953 in Oakland, CA She was one of five children born to Herman and Rosemarie (Hastings) Kalahele. She was raised and received her education in Portland. Luanna had most recently worked at the Nehalem Care Center in Nehalem,...
March 15: Drew Farley, Arvilla Cyr, Debra Olson, Sara Dimak, Stacey Mohney, Tom K. Baker, Gage Baker, Sharon Puckett, Sara Payne Dimak, and Lolita Clayton. March 16: Edna Clough, Mike Estes, Edith Largent, Carol Heilbrun, Michael Kerry, Guy Keeney, Chenae Dahlstrom, Megan Payne, and Carley Horlacher. March 17: Joan Ruble, John Butler, Winton Lytle, Brian Doering and Kristi Unholz. March 18: Sherrie Larsen, Ben Daniel and Marisa Hoops. March 19: Verna Allen, Elaine Reese, Norma Johnson, Terry Jacoy, Josh Mayberry and E. Neil Stephens. March 20:...
WAITSBURG - Mor e Waitsburg High School students are using tobacco and drinking alcohol than the state average of their peers, Dr. Carol Clarke said Monday night in a drug and alcohol town hall meeting. Clarke and members from other health organizations in the community listened to data from a Healthy Youth Survey and began the discussion of what now - what can we as a community do to change our teens' perceptions that drugs and alcohol are easy to obtain and OK in our society? "It's not just the responsibility of law enforcement," said Peggy...
Ash Hollow Winery of Walla Walla sits on 287 acres of high desert. At the time of land discovery, winemakers Spencer Sievers and Jennifer Gregory, both wine professionals of Walla Walla, toured the property on foot and the decision was made this would be where they would grow their estate grapes and establish the Ash Hollow Winery. That was 13 years ago. Today, Ash Hollow produces a line of well-known white and red wines. If I said a label successfully launched a winery, I wouldn't be wrong. The genius of Jennifer and her marketing background p...
Waitsburg 3-6 Theft of checks and forgery reported on West Fourth Street. Victim reported that several checks had been stolen and forged from August 2011 until February 2012, investigation continuing. 3-8 Theft of meat and trespassing reported on Stonecipher Road, reported for information and extra patrol. A property owner was issued a second infraction for an ongoing county code violation in East Highway 124. 3-9 A vehicle versus deer collision on McCowan Road, no injuries to driver, deer died at scene. 3-10 Deputy stopped a vehicle he...
Ten Years Ago March 14, 2002 Financial pressure will face new mayor and council. With city elections less than a month away, the financial struggles facing the City of Waitsburg and the possible impact and solutions were a topic of discussion at the city meeting March 6. But, with the Washington State Legislature still in session and no definitive, predictable legislation in the works, Mayor Wayne Peterson and the Waitsburg City Council did the only thing they could: postpone any decision on budgetary or financial matters until after the...
WAITSBURG - The Times is welcoming a new office administrator, Tawnya Richards, who will be in charge of accounting and paperwork to keep our operation running smoothly. Richards, 39, has resided in Waitsburg for the past 5 years. She has a background in office manager and supervisor positions in small businesses and hospitals and is the perfect person for the job. "We're very lucky to have someone of Tawnya's caliber to manage our office and provide the kind of customer service our readers and...
JIM GERMAN IN MAGAZINE WAITSBURG - Waitsburg's Jim German was honored by Wine Enthusiast Magazine as Mixologist of the Month. The magazine highlighted his Main Street business, jimgermanbar, and touted the atmosphere in "One-of-a-Kind" Waitsburg. DONATIONS SOUGHT FOR CAPSULE DAYTON -- Dayton's Boldman House Museum is currently seeking donations of items to be included in a 50-year time capsule. Items should be things from today that will be of interest to members of the community in 50 years. Photographs, pamphlets, billing statements, school...
In 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case called Citizens United v. FEC (federal election commission) that corporations and unions have the right to spend unlimited money influencing elections to ensure that their interests are the ones our politicians are concerned about. This comes at the expense of the interests of the American people. Now corporations are using hundreds of millions of dollars to buy our elections and, consequently, are drowning out the voices of average Americans. They don't even have to disclose their identities, hi...
Swimming Pools Offer Services For All Families WAITSBURG - The bout of warm, sunny weather in the Touchet River Valley made us long for summer days to come and the summertime recreation involved. The residents in the Touchet Valley are extremely lucky because we have three city pools our families can spend the day at all summer. They offer lap swim, swim lessons, water aerobics and simply a place we can cool off when the mercury rises. Even better is that our local pools offer free services to...
