Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Dayton business owners Jim and Connie Westergreen have big news for small ranchers in Columbia and Walla Walla counties. The couple will soon expand their meat processing operations to include a USDAinspected butchering facility in Dayton and a second retail shop in Walla Walla. The owners of Dayton Cut & Wrap, on Main Street, are working with the Port of Columbia to build a small slaughterhouse on Cameron Street in the empty, Portowned lot already zoned for industrial uses between...
DAYTON - Dayton and Tri-Cities Prep were scheduled for an 18-hole match at the Touchet Valley Golf Course in Dayton last Friday, but both teams were missing so many golfers the coaches decided to mix things up and put the kids into teams and play a scramble. "We have always wanted to try something different in Dayton," Dayton head coach Mike McGhan said. "This was a great opportunity to put a little twist in things. It came at a good time as the weather has been getting the kids down. The kids had fun but got soaked in the rainy weather." A...
WALLA WALLA - If Dayton's success last week against Tri-Cities Prep represented the perfect baseball games, Saturday's double- header defeat at the hands of the Irish in Walla Walla was a mirror opposite. "I told the kids going in - if we don't make any mistakes, we can beat these guys," said Dayton head coach Sal Benavides. But in game one, the Bulldogs committed five errors, costing them big. "We had one sequence with three errors," Benavides said. "I had to go out there and tell them, 'You gu...
PRESCOTT - Coming off a nearly three-week break since their last outing, the Waitsburg- Prescott Lady Tigers swept the TOR Nighthawks in a league double header. The Tigers took the first game 11-6 with Jennifer Nichols getting things started from the circle with a solid performance, striking out six Nighthawks and walking just three. "Limiting the amount of batters walked is the biggest thing," said head coach Angie Potts. "If you can take away the freebies and not just give runs away, you're go...
PRESCOTT - The WP Tigers dropped the ball here Saturday to lose another league double-header against the TOR Spartans. Zach Bartlow pitched six innings for the Tigers in the opener, throwing three strike outs. Dalton Estes seemed to get the Tigers started with his single to center and one runner on, but with two outs, Matt Hamilton's grounder beat him to the bag. The Tigers were left scoreless with two runners on. Joe Purdin made a diving catch for a line drive at second to spark up a little defense, but a bad hop at the plate from an outfield...
WALLA WALLA - Winter continues to hold Southeast Washington in its grasp, with snow flurries and hail bombarding the Touchet Valley early this week, but the rain held off and the sun peeked through just enough over the weekend for local teams to hit the fields. And a great weekend it was for the Lady Bulldogs, who took two wins from their DeSales rivals on their own home field in Walla Walla on Saturday. In the opener, Dayton played in fits and starts, scoring two runs in the second inning. The...
WALLA WALLA - The WP track team had a phenomenal day last Wednesday at Borleske Stadium. It was no wonder that the skies above opened up with a downpour during the event because these Cardinals were on fire. The lady Cards took home the second place title with 62 points losing out to Asotin. They missed out on scoring opportunities from a lack of normal races with unavailable team members due to injury and illness. "Kristen Potter and Ronnie Hulce both had outstanding days," said head coach...
WAITSBURG-The Waitsburg Booster club held a "Not So Silent Auction" and Spaghetti feed last Friday night to raise funds for a new press box on the football field. While attendance was a little lower than expected, approximately $4,000 was raised for the project. That brings the boosters closer to their $25,000 goal with a total of $10,000 raised to date. Items up for bid ranged from gardening goodies and barbecue gear, to a sevennight stay in a Matzatlan five-star resort. The truck load of...
FIRST THURSDAY CONCERT IN MAY WALLA WALLA - The May 5th First Thursday concert will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 323 Catherine Street, Walla Walla, beginning at 12:15 p.m. The Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla University will be playing a selection of Calypso, Soca, Samba, Cha-Cha, Classical and Rock music. Pack a lunch, bring a friend and enjoy the music. Donations will be given to the charity of the performers' choice. Contact information: 529-1083 DAM TRAFFIC STOPPED FOR NOW KAHLOTUS - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla...
4-18: Criminal Mischief. Pickup on S 2nd Street, Dayton, sustained damage to paint job. Property Damage. Mailbox on W Clay Street, Dayton, knocked over. 4-17: Fish & Game. Turkey hunter reportedly shooting on hillside behind E Dayton Ave., Dayton. Fish & Game. Person reportedly shooting at beaver in pond behind home on Blue Crane Lane, Dayton. 4-16: Vehicle Prowl. Vehicle prowl reported on E. Clay Street, Dayton. Juvenile Problem. Youngsters reportedly playing around the Dayton Memorial Library book drop. Accident. Non-injury accident reported...
April 21: Tracy Keve, Brooklyn Butler, Rebecca Dunn, Joyce Zingle, Dean and Deanna Keiser and Darrel Mock. April 22: Julie Yokel, Mary Cunningham, Marge Benson, Mary Mathews and Dawn Roberts. April 23: Claudia Cunningham, Juanita Gluck, Vera Webber, Sandra Cox, Caleb Durkee and Lisa Kysar. April 24: Betty Callahan, Julia Manyak, Rick Huwe, Bess Harter, Geneva Pettichord, Jason Sickles, Cheyenne Frohreich. April 25: Sharon Pauley, Nancy Meyers, Bernice Mock, Richele Heilburn and Randy Schuster, Michael Bessey April 26: Charlie Baker, Ernest...
A memorial for Travis Weedman will occur on Saturday, April 23, at the jimgerman bar on Main Street in Waitsburg from 3-5 p.m....
This week I visited my old friend and associate Chef/ Organic Activist Jesse Cool. Back in the early '90s, Jesse asked me to take her place as Executive Chef at her popular Flea Street Café in Menlo Park, California, while she wrote her first cookbook titled, "Tomatoes." Today, with five cookbooks and three restaurants to her credit, she invites me to dinner and picks my brain for cutesy titles for future recipes. This time however, I can't spit any off-the-cuff ideas to her because I have a cookbook on a publisher's table, and rules state it's...
Waitsburg and Starbuck schools this week announced March Students of the Month. Top: Jack Willis, a 4th grader at Starbuck. Below: Waitsburg Elementary students Riley Witt, 4th grade, and Joseph LaRue, 5th grade....
Ten Years Ago April 26, 2001 Pat Mohney was in the right place at the right time-to save a 2-year old girl from certain death when he happened upon two Rottweiler dogs that had suddenly turned vicious on Hogeye Road, east of Waitsburg. Several area youth received recognition at the Waitsburg Masonic Lodge Jr. Achievement Awards on Wednesday evening. Plaques were awarded to Melissa Pietila and James Richardson. Awards were also given to Patricia Madrigal and Shaun Hart of Prescott; Steffany McCowen and James Rinehart, Dayton High School; and...
Students of Waitsburg High School receiving a 4.0 for the third quarter of the 2010-2011 school year include seniors John Montgomery, Megan Withers and junior Kayla Huxoll. Earning an Honor Roll grade point of 3.25 or higher include the following students: Seniors: Christy Poirier, Timothy Hofer, Rachel Reedy, Eric Lienhard, Casey Cates, and Taylor Moon. Jeneffer Lyden, Ashley Wilson, Kasmira Grende, Rachelle Oseth, Genesis Pearson, Dru Somers, Katelinn Foley- Hutsell, and Sarah Wilson Juniors: Zachary Bartlow, Taylor Doepker, Fletcher Baker, A...
DAYTON - Creativity and determination has carried the Port of Columbia through several years of planning the Blue Mountain Station, and a little cold weather and rain couldn't keep them from celebrating the project's groundbreaking last Friday. Taking gold- colored shovel blades to potting soil spread out on canvas atop the carpeted sanctuary floor at Harvest Christian Center in Dayton, across Wagon Road from the future site of the Blue Mountain Station, Port Manager Jennie Dickinson together...
PARADE PLANS ANNOUNCED WAITSBURG - Parade Waitsburg, a day of family-fun activities, on Saturday, May 21, will kick off at 10 a.m. with a parade on Waitsburg's Main Street. Parade Grand Marshals will be announced next week. The Parade will honor our Armed Forces Veterans. The Lion's Club of Waitsburg will have a pancake breakfast in Waitsburg Town Hall starting at 7 a.m.; cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children. Wait's Market will have activities, games and music throughout the day in Preston Park. For Parade entry forms, contact Gail Wolfe at...
WALLA WALLA - Despite the most wishful fantasies about growing coffee in greenhouses somewhere in the hills around Waitsburg, it's obvious that sourcing one's coffee shop product here fresh isn't a possibility. The plants just won't grow well above or below the nice, warm, tropical band around the equator, just like grapes require certain conditions that seem to be ideal just seven miles from town in, say, Spring Valley. And traveling the world to buy individual batches of green beans, then...
Before the last votes for the recent city elections were in, Mayor Walt Gobel and the members of his caucus determined that the coming year would be different from their first. Waitsburg residents overwhelmingly voted Gobel and the current council back to office, preferring continuity over change. Challengers Bart Baxter and Greg McVey received support from some quarters, but overall, voters decided to give the incumbents another year to continue on their path. Many of them believe this council has paid attention to the right priorities:...
Many of us have enjoyed the Lewis and Clark Trail State Park off Highway 12 between Dayton and Waitsburg. Lewis and Clark Trail State Park is located on what is one of the first homestead sites in Washington Territory. James Bennett homesteaded the 160 acres in1854. In 1867, Bennett traded Mr. Bateman a team and a wagon for rights to the land. Driving onto their property with a wagon, the Batemans went right over the saplings which are now the stately pines growing in the park. The tops of the trees are still bent as a result of that early...
