Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA-Pioneer Park teemed with more life than usual as the Spring Fling got underway this weekend. Festivities began Friday evening with Fiddlesticks Stings and carried on through Mother's Day. Attendees were treated to a collection of rare and antique cars onsite beside the budding grounds. A wide selection of both food and wares vendors lined the path which lead to the Locati stages where live performances took place. The Walla Walla Spring Fling began six years ago when founders Liz...
DAYTON—Thanks to multiple funding sources, The Club’s summer program is fully funded and the endowment fund is being replenished. Summer Program In an email update to The Club board members, Ginny Butler said that, in addition to the $5,000 The Club had previously raised, Martha Lanman at Columbia County Health had applied for and received two grants and Blue Mountain Counseling unexpectedly donated $5,000 for the program. Butler said that the program already has commitments from the Prescott Pool, Friends of the Pool, Columbia County Tra...
PASCO, Wash.-The DW softball team played in the district playoffs in Pasco at the TRAC center on Fri. May 10, to secure a spot as second seed in the Regional playoffs on May 18. Game One vs. Liberty Christian In the first gam,e DW Liberty Christian, the same team they finished their regular season against last week. DW broke out right away with big innings in the bottom of the 1st and 3rd. Neylon Bryan once again had the big hit with an RBI triple in the 3rd inning. This was a team effort with...
DAYTON—Both Junior Kirsten Miller and Sophomore Mason Finney made personal records to qualify for District competition at the EWAC 2B Sub District meet in Dayton on May 17. Miller took second place in the 300m hurdles and took third place in the 100m hurdles as well as the 100m and 200m dashes, to advance to District in all four events. Miller PRd in all but the 100m dash which she ran in 13.85. Miller ran the 200m dash in 29.30, took the 100m hurdles in 17.56, and finished the 300m hurdles at 50.75. Other top ten girl finishers include f...
CARMEL, Calif-Waitsburg graduate Taelor Carter was on a trip to Maine with friends when she woke up unable to lift her foot. Little did she know then that the frightening experience would ultimately result in her running her first marathon, which she completed on April 28. Carter said she woke up with a case of drop foot about a year ago. Through physical therapy, and rest, the nerve eventually healed over a three-month period. "During that time, I thought about all the people that don't have...
BOISE, Ida.-Payback is a bummer! Christy House, who ran the Race to Robie Creek half marathon in Boise, Ida. side-by-side with her brother, Mitch Davis of Caldwell, Ida. on April 20, can testify to that. "When my brother turned 40, I thought it would be fun to do a 10K together so I signed him up. He thought it was terrible and has been looking for a way to get back at me. So, nine years later he signed me up for the Robie Creek Half Marathon. It's one of the toughest halfs ever. It is 8.5 miles...
Following a four-year battle with cancer, Eugene David (Gene) Crothers passed away at his home in Dayton, WA early Sunday Morning May 12, 2019. Gene was born in Bend, Oregon. At the age of five, his family moved to Dayton, Washington. He graduated from Dayton High School in 1966. He then served 3 years in the Army spending time in Vietnam and Germany. Throughout his life, he had several occupations including: Appraiser with Columbia County Assessor’s Office, Purchasing Agent at Green Giant, o...
WASHTUCNA-The Palouse River runs through a narrow cataract and drops 200 feet to a churning bowl. From there, the current moves swiftly, through a winding gorge of columnar basalt, to its southern end at the mighty Snake River. Carved more than 13,000 years ago, Palouse Falls is among the last active waterfalls on the Ice Age floods path. This natural wonder was named Washington's state waterfall in 2014, when the state Legislature passed a bill written by third, fourth and fifth graders of the...
OLYMPIA—Last year, there were 103 reported boating accidents with 21 fatalities and 57 injuries, with over 70 percent of those taking place between May and August, according to Washington’s recreational boating accident data. The Washington State Parks Boating Program recommends the following safety tips and resources. Many recreational boaters in Washington must complete an approved boating education course and carry a card. Even those not required to carry cards can take a safety course to increase their safety knowledge. Learn more at www...
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The reviews on this recipes spoke highly of it (4.5 stars out of 5) and that it is a keeper, with some revisions. I haven’t made it yet. For one, I don’t often eat or think of Mexican food but I’m trying to remember that many do. One of the commentssaid , and those of us who have cooked with stew meat know, that stew meat doesn’t cook in 10 minutes or so. If it is to get tender, it takes about an hour and half. In my opinion, this would work well in a crock pot or perhaps those with Instant...
WAITSBURG-Nancy's Dream Garden Center celebrated its Grand Opening this weekend with a raffle, tea, cookies and free samples of lotions. Susan Donegan, president of the Waitsburg Garden Club, has nothing but kind words for Nancy's. "I reached out to Doug and Janet at the beginning of March to discuss ordering plants from them for the Main Street Pots, which were planted on April 28th this year. They were easy to work with, were able to order almost everything we had planned to plant and once...
