Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG – The 'Burg will be hopping this weekend as folks come from far and near to participate in Waitsburg Celebration Days. The three-day event, held the third weekend in May, was organized as a placeholder for the former popular Days of Real Sport which featured horse racing at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds. State spending cuts forced horse racing to fall by the wayside for smaller venues, but WCD organizers jumped in to offer another kind of ride. Karen's Ride, a poker run named in honor o...
WAITSBURG – The Bruce House Museum and adjoining Wilson-Phillips House, which features revolving displays, will be open to the public following the Waitsburg Celebration Days parade on Sat. May 19. Waitsburg Historical Society member, Mary Phillips, has been hard at work organizing a new display in the Wilson-Phillips House, featuring the history of the towns of Prescott and Lamar. Prescott native Mary Grant Tompkins, who donated several items in the display, will be on site at the museum to sha...
DAYTON—Vicki Zoller from the newly formed Friends of the Dayton Community Pool Committee was present at last week’s city council meeting to talk about efforts the committee is making to help raise funds for repairs at the Dayton City Pool. The city recently decided to close the pool because it has significant infrastructure problems. Zoller said the committee is working with the Columbia County Community Network to set up a 501c3 organization under their umbrella. “This will insure that all monies are used in proper accordance, and help to pr...
Ten Years Ago - May 22, 2008 The dedication of 10 additional names to the Veterans Memorial Wall and an address by David Morback of Waitsburg will high light the 2008 Memorial Day Program will be held at the Wall at 11am on Monday 26 at the Waitsburg City Cemetery. During the ceremony, recognition of the addition of the following deceased verteran’ names to the Vertern Memorial will be made: WWI-Rulon McCullock:, WW II, Dorothy E. Gilhus, Walter G. Harris, Glen D. Hofer, Charles “Bud” Phillips, Kenneth G. Smigh, Bruce W. Wilson, Vietnam: James...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg FFA will hold its annual banquet Monday evening at 6:30 p.m. in the Waitsburg Elementary School Multi-Purpose Room. This year’s attendees to the State FFA Convention will be honored....
WAITSBURG- The community is invited to honor veterans at the annual American Legion and Auxiliary’s Veteran’s Memorial Wall Program in the Waitsburg City Cemetery on Monday, May 28’ at 11 a.m. Family members who have received a flag for their deceased veteran and would like to donate it to be flown at the memorial may do so by contacting B. A. Keve at ikbakeve@charter.net or 337-6546. Their information will be added to the program. As in the past, the American Legion Auxiliary will host a baked potato luncheon at the Elementary School multi...
WALLA WALLA – Applications for grants from the Warren Community Action Fund will be accepted until May 25. They should be submitted online at Blue Mountain Community Foundation’s website, www.bluemountainfoundation.org. Applications for grants ranging from $500 to $20,000 will be considered Grants are available primarily to benefit the communities of Dayton, Columbia County and Waitsburg in a wide variety of fields and purposes. Applicants must be a charitable organization under IRC Section 501c3, nonprofit as a church or faith-based group or...
Patricia Darline Crewse, 74, of Lebanon, Oregon passed away Thursday, May 10, 2018 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, Oregon. She was born January 16, 1944 in Dayton, Washington, to Eugene Aleck and Darline Josephine (Walker) Winnett. Patricia grew up in the Walla Walla, Washington area and graduated from Dayton High School. She married Lonnie Crewse on October 27, 1961 in Dayton. They lived in Baker City, Oregon for a short time before moving to Toledo, Oregon, where they...
May 18: Becky Hodges, Dinah Lindsey, Virginia Reece, Vicki Ruley, Tessa Dutton, Tyler Knox, Sean Stonecipher-Sollars. May 19: Gerald Hawks, Tom Western, Gerald Collingwood, Terry John, Everett White, Walter Richard White, Joan Summers and Jimmy Crawford. May 20: Nektarios Reese, Wanda E. Johnson, Brandee Wheeler, Don Glover, Greg Reser, Judy Largent, Lyndsey Huwe and Vickie Hamann. May 21: Paul Powers, Johnathan Quigg and Jr. Eastwood. May 22: Nancy Startin, Victor Langdon, Kathryn Kirk and Reed Olsen. May 23: Allen Ford, Greg Bichsel, Kathy...
For many of us, our exposure to watercolor is limited to the plastic paint sets our parents picked up at the box store. In less than an hour, the neat little ovals of 12 separate colors turned into a mass of mess, and that's saying nothing about what the painting we worked on looked like. Lesson learned early: watercolor painting is not child's play. But done by the right hands – those of a skilled and competent artist with hundreds, or thousands, of hours of practice and experimentation -- w...
CHENEY - The Walla Walla Blue Mountain Stampeders participated in the Special Olympics East Region Track and Field events in Cheney on May 5. Several athletes from Waitsburg, Dayton and Prescott qualified to go onto the State Spring Games at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma on June 1,2,3. Rachel Gradwohl brought home four gold medals: softball throw, 100 meter run, 200 meter run and 4x100 relay. Craig Lockard placed first in three of the events he participated in and 2nd in the 200 meter...
PASCO – The Dayton-Waitsburg softball team got two lopsided wins here on Saturday to gain a number three seed going into the 2B District 5/6 Regional Tournament this weekend in Moses Lake. In the first game, against White Swan, DW knocked in 13 runs in the first inning on the way to a four-inning 16-1 win. DW had a total of 14 hits, including four by Hanna Becker and two by Elise Steinhoff. Scully Castorena allowed one run in four innings pitched, while giving up no hits. The DW girls played Tri-Cities Prep in the second game, and shut out t...
WAITSBURG – Luke Chavez and John Avery are hoping to celebrate in a big way over Waitsburg Celebration Days weekend: with the opening of their brand-new coffee shop. Ten Ton Coffee, located in the Ten Ton Press building on Waitsburg's Main Street, is slated to open this weekend. Renovating the building has involved a lot of blood and sweat (if not tears), and has been a true family endeavor. Chavez' mother, Lane Hill, allowed the partners to transform half of her building's first level into a w...
DAYTON—At last week’s city council meeting, City Administrator Trina Cole said the public works staff was to meet with the Washington Dept. of Ecology on May 15 to talk about the wastewater treatment plant and the financing for it. Planning Director Meagan Bailey discussed successes with code compliance enforcement, particularly yard debris at a house on Clay Street which has been cleaned up. “Just this week we had 15-16 grass letters go out and about half of them have called to tell us they have mowed the grass,” she said. Bailey assured the c...
DAYTON--Mule Mania begins its Class list schedule of events for mules and donkeys, on Saturday, May 26, at 8 a.m., at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. The Mule and Donkey show features riding and driving competitions throughout the day, and on Sunday, from 7:30 a.m. until sometime in the afternoon, said Bev Rising, Mule Mania president and show manager. Rising said there should be a great show this year. “Bobbie Jo and Barney Chambers are bringing a lot of mules, and lot of people with them, to compete,” she said. Rising is also expecting som...
I saw a recipe for Pecan Sandies in the Whitman County Gazette under My Favorite Recipes. Different people submit recipes. My first thought when I saw the name was of the packaged Pecan Sandies that were always a favorite, so I figured I couldn't go wrong. I thought everyone knew what Pecan Sandies were, but I found one person (in my household) that hadn't heard of them. These are a winner, trust me. I thought maybe they would be a lot like shortbread – dense – but with the cream of tartar, the...
