Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Waitsburg's annual elections were delayed two weeks when city council candidate filings fell one short of a full slate of five members. The filing period for council seats was reopened from March 27 - 29, with the voting deadline extended to April 17. Ballots are expected to be mailed at the end of the month. As The Times went to press on Tuesday, David Paxton, Matt Spring, and Jim Romine had added thier names to the slate of candidates that includes incumbents KC Kuykendall, Karen...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Celebration Days parade committee is currently accepting nominations for 2017 parade marshal(s). To nominate an individual or family that has made significant contributions to Waitsburg, send a letter of nomination, explaining why you think they should receive the honor, to: Walt and Gwen Gobel, PO Box 127, Waitsburg, WA 99361, or email it to waltandgwen@charter.net. Waitsburg Celebration Days falls on the third weekend in May, and will take place May 19-21 this year. The family-friendly, fun-filled weekend will i...
DAYTON – On March 21, the Dayton-Waitsburg baseball team opened their season in the wind, rain and cold, with a 12-2 home win over non-league opponent Riverside. DW started the first inning with a bang, with Jacob Dunn striking out two and catcher Kyle Gradwohl making a throw-out at second base, as the first three batters were retired for Riverside. On the offensive side, DW scored early in the game, taking advantage of several Riverside errors, ending the first inning with six runs scored. "Dun...
COLFAX – Waitsburg’s Landon Callas won both the 110 and 300 meter hurdles at the McDougall Invitational track meet here last week, with times of 15.40 and 40.91 respectively. On the girls’ side for Waitsburg, Emily Adams came away with a win in the 1600 meter run with a time of 6:45.64, a second-place finish in the 800 meters at 2:29.84 and a fourth-place finish in the long jump with 32-08.50. Both Dayton and Waitsburg competed at the meet, which consisted of all sized schools, including 4A schools Clarkston and Pullman. For Dayton, Hayden Wool...
KENNEWICK –Dayton Senior Zech Brayan came away with wins in the 1600 and 3200 meter races at the Riverside Invite meet on March 21. Bryan ‘s time for the 1600 was 5:54.49, and he finished at 12:38.37 in the 3200. Teammate Wyatt Johnson took second behind Bryan in the 3200, with a time of 12:53.93. Cal Martin also had a big day, winning in the javelin with a hurl of 141-11’, and taking second in the shot put 38-00’. Martin was also part of the 4x100 relay which took third place with a time of 51 seconds flat. Jennifer Warren won the Triple...
WAITSBURG – Last week, the Waitsburg girls' softball team took on Riverside and Mac-Hi JV. Though the Cards lost both games, they are showing improvement, primarily in the consistency of their pitching, and they have been settling in on defense, decreasing their errors. The Cardinals hosted the Riverside Pirates on March 20, with Riverside coming out on top, 23-2, in a game stopped after five innings. Riverside had the hot bats and scored 11 in the third inning, while Waitsburg struggled with t...
DAYTON - Last week, the Dayton girls’ softball team started their season by beating Riverside 12-7, but then dropping both ends of a double-header against Colton, 6-4 and 20-10. At Riverside (Boardman, Ore.), on March 21, Hannah Becker hit a two-run homer in her first at-bat to help her team jump on top with six runs in the first inning. The offense slowed considerably after the second inning as both teams settled in with solid defense. Destiny Brincken had four RBIs for the day for Dayton. Dayton 6 4 1 0 0 1 0 – 12 runs 11 hits 2 errors Riv...
PENDLETON – Waitsburg’s Landon Callas and Emily Adams come away with wins Thursday at the Buck Classic track meet here. Callas topped the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 40.91, and placed third in the 110 hurdles in 16.64. Adams took first in the triple jump, with a distance of 31-11, and second in the 1500 meters, clocking in at 5:06. The Buck Classic featured teams from Oregon and Washington, and schools of all size designations....
There is a story behind this recipe that is more of a “here is what you start with” recipe. My friend, we shall call him Fred, and his wife, we will call her Shirley, shared this over conversation. For reasons we won’t get into, their real names can’t be used in the newspaper. Fred was eating lunch one day, and after a comment from me, told me what was in his lunch (that he could remember). In the conversation, he told me Shirley roasted the beans, except for the kidney beans. That had me intrigued, as I had not heard of roasting garbanz...
