Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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STARBUCK - Recent burglaries in Starbuck and Dayton are creating a feeling of insecurity in Columbia County. According to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, it has taken 13 reports of residential burglary and 13 reports of commercial burglary in 2012 as of March 15. Two of these commercial burglaries occurred in Starbuck. This number is high so early in the year compared to the annual numbers of burglaries reported in 2011 and 2010. In 2011, the sheriff's office received a total of 34 reports of residential burglary and 13 reports of...
DAYTON - Columbia County Health Systems Chair Ted Paterson fully expected the hospital board's retreat this Thursday to be about budgets, the recent rural hospital conference in Spokane and .CEO Charlie Button's contract renewal. But Paterson and other board members set the retreat agenda before Button resigned from his post on March 10, so now the five-member body that governs the public health district for Dayton and Waitsburg will have a new priority to discuss: finding Button's replacement. "It's not going to happen overnight," said...
DAYTON -- The Boldman House Museum of Dayton is collecting items to assemble a time capsule to capture a snapshot of life in 2012 to preserve for 50 years. The Dayton Historical Depot Society is taking in any items community members are willing to donate that capture any aspect of life in the present day to contrast life in 2062 when the capsule is opened. "Mostly (the items) will be paper, but other small items will be included as well," Dayton Historical Depot Society volunteer Sue Rittenhouse said. "(We are collecting) menus, hobbies,... Full story
MEAD, WA - Mt. Spokane hosted two EEYSL events this season. The second, March 10 and 11, was the final event of the EEYSL points season. The standard format event included a Giant Slalom race on Saturday and a Slalom race on March 11. BART finishes were led by one of their youngest competitors. Mackenzie Davis of Milton Freewater entered the weekend 20 points out of the lead for the J6 class. By the end of the GS event, she was 20 points in the lead and she never looked back, finishing the season as the leading Girl's J6 competitor. Trevor Trim... Full story
WAITSBURG - Last week, the families and players on the 2011-12 WP boys basketball team gathered to share awards and honor the Cardinals' hard work. The boys basketball team had a great season, handing Dayton its only loss in regular season and playing hard in the district tournament. "It was successful," said head coach TJ Scott. This was the third year in a row that the Cardinals made it to the Final 16, he added. The team competed well, taking into account the tough teams in the league this year, Scott said. The Cardinals were matched up with...
DAYTON - Successful basketball and cheerleading winter sports seasons were highlighted last Monday at Dayton High School's awards banquet. Head boys basketball coach Roy Ramirez was choked up with emotion Monday night as he said goodbye and thank you to five of his senior players who have been with them since they were in fifth grade. "It was a heck of a year guys," Ramirez said. The Bulldog boys went 23-1 in the regular season and made it to the state tournament in Spokane for the first time...
WALLA WALLA - The Waitsburg Track and Field Team competed in its first meet of the season last Thursday against some big, competitive teams, but the Cardinals came out to shine even if the sun did not. It was a big day for the Cardinals in Walla Walla. They were up against Hermiston, Pendleton, Walla Walla Valley Academy, Columbia-Burbank and Walla Walla high schools. "We had some pretty stiff competition," said distance coach Joanna Lanning. "We had a fantastic meet. The kids really came... Full story
WAITSBURG - A Waitsburg Prescottt middle school level basketball team competed against some of the best from Oregon, Idaho and Washington last weekend and came out on top. Head Coa ch Travi s Trenndon put together this successful team of eight boys from Waitsburg, Prescott, Touchet, Walla Walla and College Place and practiced six or seven times before the Pine Eagle Junior High Tournament in Halfway, Ore., last weekend. This was the first year the tournament has been held and Trenndon said as... Full story
PRESCOTT-The WP Tigers kicked off their 2012 season with a 5-4 victory over the Pilot Rock Rockets last Saturday afternoon. The Rockets wasted no time putting runs on the board capitalizing on a Tiger error to score their first run in the top of the first with one out. A sacrifice bunt from the Rockets left them with two outs and one runner on, but the Rockets followed that up with a line drive down the first base line to score once more to put the Tigers down, 0-2 . With two outs and one...
DAYTON - For Jill Andrews, it has always been her calling to train horses and riders. "I used to sit in class as a kid and all I would think about was training techniques," she said with a laugh. "I never wanted anything else." Andrews, of Dayton, has been riding horses since she was 10 and training since she was 14. Now, she is the owner and trainer of Graycyn Farms in Dayton and has earned the Union-Bulletin's Best of The Best Award for her business two years in a row. But until seven years...
March 22: Garrett Buffington, Kenneth Lewis, Mary Hamblen, Gia Fluharty, Amy Morrow and Cole Janovich. March 23: Jayce Bayer, Sally Baker, Mary Hunziker, Beryl Witt, Ron Bishop, Seth Straayer, Jennifer Pierson, Sandy Baker. March 24: Michael Smith, Fred Hamann, Chloe Pearson, Kim Iverson, Randy Sorick, Jeff Harper, John Dodson and Lacey Maki. March 25: Marilyn Johnson, Lee Brannock and Richard Basel. March 26: Whitney Baker, Rod Estes, Emma Brookshire, Dottie Frohreich, Chet Bond, Jim Kessler, Dawn Nichols and Kris Lytle. March 27: Bill... Full story
WAITSBURG - Ladies, get ready to be pampered! Belinda Cook has planned an evening of pampering from 5 to 7 p.m. on March 24 at Town Hall. Cook, who is re-launching her Mary Kay retail business, is joined by Melodie Fitzhugh, in this endeavor. The goals of the evening are to pamper women, give back to the community and show off a new line of botanical products. Cook said it will be an event that indulges the senses with candles, coffee and wine. Both women live in Waitsburg. Cook left her...
The 2012 Spring Release Weekend is planned for May 4 through May 6. Everyone in the wine business is currently maneuvering barrels, hiring musicians and ordering food to be offered to winery club members as well as the general public, invited to attend the yearly wine event. Besides being an infectious personality, Walla Walla winemaker Tray Bush of Sleight of Hand Cellars, is a winemaker to watch during Release Weekend. His take on the magic of wine may be evident in the name of the winery, wine bottle labels and advertising copy, but this... Full story
Waitsburg 3-14 Juvenile student arrested for possession of marijuana at school on Main Street. Subject in violation of a protection order was arrest for the violation on Warren Street, subject was also arrested for resisting arrest after trying to flee from deputy after being told he was under arrest for the protection order violation. 3-16 Vehicle stopped for speeding on Highway 12 at Lewiston Road, driver's driving status was suspended, driver was issued a citation for Driving While License Suspended in the 3rd degree and an infraction for...
Ten Years Ago March 28, 2002 City awaiting Gov. Locke's signature on bill for I-696 backfill funds. A bill, if signed would help the City of Waitsburg with its budget woes to the tune of $35,000. Twenty-Five Years Ago April 2, 1987 Jenni Magill to reign over DRS. Jenni Magill, Queen of the 1986 Days of Real Sports, will return to reign for the 1987 version of the community celebration Fifty Years Ago April 6, 1962 Harlan Hulce, Sam Wills and Jack Cyr spent March 31 in Walla Walla at the John Gossot Lumber yard where they prepared stringers and...
SALES TAX FORUM WAITSBURG - The City of Waitsburg will hold a forum at 7 p.m. on March 29 at the Lions Club building to discuss the proposed 1/10 percent sales tax increase that is going to be on the upcoming special election ballot. The forum will give citizens a chance to hear about our maintenance program and what the city plans on doing with the money should the tax increase be approved. Anyone who has questions and can't attend can always call City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe at City Hall. KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION WAITSBURG -- All... Full story
Waitsburg Memorial Scholarship Fund In memory of: Andrew Groom, Luanna Kalahele, Neil Witt and Sara Leid Heggen From: Bill & Roseann Groom...
In the Times edition on May 13, 2010, I wrote about my experience playing the piano for patients at Booker Annex, many of whom are dementia patients. A March 9, 2012, edition of the Union-Bulletin featured a story on its health and fitness page that read: "Dr. Brent Bauer, professor of medicine and director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., says research is beginning to catch up with the value of music in promoting healing." He credits the Natural Institute of Health with the changing...
After a Friday night of happy hour and late-night drinking, many fail to consider the repercussions of driving while impaired, but legislators have. Various changes to the driving- under- theinfl uence law have unanimously passed the Legislature and become effective upon the governor's signature. The reform puts more stringent penalties on those convicted of drunk driving including increased fees and facial recognition systems on ignition-interlock devices. Rep. Roger Goodman, D-Kirkland,... Full story
With the imminent departure of Charlie Button, CEO of Columbia County Health System, the hospital district that serves Dayton and Waitsburg is at a crossroads. For a number of reasons, staff, patients and the community that supports the small rural health care district through their taxes have had their share of challenges in recent years: plenty of turnover, employee burnout, state inspection citations, emotional public meetings, billing trouble, state funding cuts and so on. Calm, order and predictability have returned to some degree since... Full story
PRESCOTT -- Deb Tiedemann was so young at the time, she doesn't even remember exactly when she first started singing songs. The household she grew up in Livingston, Mont., in the late 1960s was always filled with her parents' favorite tunes. Her dad, who was a trucker, would play Jim Reeves, Tammy Wynette, Hank Snow, Hank Williams and Dolly Parton at the house. Tiedemann herself was partial to Mel Tillis. "There was just something about his voice," she said. "I just loved to hear him sing."...
