Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - The last time Jay Penner saw the potential for stripe rust to cut yields at his farm in half was 50 years ago . That was right around the time of his high school graduation, when his family grew the club variety of a wheat called Omar on the household's farm northwest of Dayton. "The red (from the rust fungus) was so bad you couldn't tell the combine from the field," Penner recalled. Penner and many other farmers in the Touchet Valley are working hard to avoid such catastrophic losses this year, but they're on edge because weather...
DAYTON --The Dayton softball team held its second annual alumni game Saturday, with the varsity softball team facing off against their "bitter" rivals, the alumni from years past. The day included not only an actual league game, but a barbecue and a second slow- pitch game for some of the older players and spectators in attendance. It was also senior day for the Bulldogs, with Kayla Turner, Rowene Huwe, Claire Lyman and Taylor DeRuwe being recognized prior to the game. Although the game counted...
CLARKSTON - It hasn't happened before that anyone can remember, but there is a good chance WP will end up with two track and field Triple Crowns at this week's big district championship meet in Walla Walla. Eshom Estes and Kristin Potter each are stars in three events and may end up winning them, track and field head coach Jeff Bartlow said. And that isn't because the competitive field in the district is weak. Both Cardinals rank in the top 10 for their events statewide. Estes, a thrower,...
WALLA WALLA - Now that the baseball season is over for the Tigers and Bulldogs, Touchet Valley fans of the sport can turn their attention to a professional season full of games and events. Locally, it starts this week with the appearance in Walla Walla of Marvin Benard, the retired major league outfielder who now lives in Kennewick, where he teaches batting and supports youth baseball activities. The former San Francisco Giant will speak at the 29th annual Walla Walla Valley Youth Baseball...
The Times extends congratulations and best wishes to the following whose birthday anniversaries fall on this week: May 19: Gerald Hawks, Jordan Demaris, Jim Hansen, 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, Jeannie...
Tiernan and Sarah (Henze) Pearson are the proud parents of a seven pound, 10-ounce daughter, Stella Lucille Pearson, born Monday, May 9, 2011 at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. Proud grandparents are Neil & Linda Henze of Waitsburg and Kenneth & Grace Pearson of Liberty Lake, Washington. Greatgrandmothers are Donnarae Smith and Ardath Henze, both of Waitsburg and Margene Dickinson of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho....
SPOKANE - For more than eight decades, several Dayton and Waitsburg families with FFA (Future Farmers of America) and 4-H have made the annual trek the first full week in May to the Spokane Fairgrounds to compete in the Junior Livestock Show of Spokane May 3 - 7. This year was the organization's 76th year. The Farley children - Jared, Drew and Amy - represented Waitsburg. They brought four steers, two of which sold, the others being prospect steers. The first day they received reds, then blue ri...
RODEO A GO AT DAYTON DAYS DAYTON - Dayton Days promoters have found an insurance policy within their financial reach, so plans are moving forward to hold the Memorial Day weekend event with rodeo and parade, Columbia County Fair manager Shane Laib said recently. Events May 28-29 will include a jackpot rodeo at 1 p.m. Saturday, a parade Saturday morning, queen's luncheon to follow the parade, and Pro West rodeo at 7 p.m. Sunday events will include a 10 a.m.slack timed events, and Pro West rodeo at 7 p.m. POIRIER IS FFA SENTINEL WAITSBURG -...
Eugene Morrow "Red" Mohney L ong-time Waitsburg resident, Eugene Mor row " Red" Mohney died at Booker Rest Home in Dayton on May 11. Funeral services were held May 16th at Waitsburg Presbyterian Church with Herring Groseclose Funeral Home caring for the family....
Waitsburg/Walla Walla & Dayton, Columbia County 5-10 DUI. Possible DUI reported at store Main in Dayton . Fraud. Telephone scam reported in Dayton. Animal Sick/Injured. Report of a deer hung up in fence on Highway 12, Dayton. Animal Stray. Two cows reportedly out on Little Goose Dam Road. 5-11 Reckless. Reckless driver on Millrace Road, Huntsville. Juvenille Problem. Juvenile problem reported 1st St., Dayton. Hazmat. Report of the smell of ammonia reported on S Cottonwood Street, W Cameron Street, Dayton. Suspicious. Suspicious female reported...
Today, I received word about a food contest I'd entered and won. This was a bet I took from a friend who said I was too good to send a recipe into Tony Tantillo, Safeway Stores fresh produce representative. The truth is I am neither too smart nor too old to think I am too good at anything. So, I took the challenge and won. You can pick up the recipe in Safeway's "Fresh Start Magazine," a free-bee located in the produce departments of Safeway, distributed across America for the month of May. I received a call this afternoon from Tony Tantillo...
From the pages of The Times Ten Years Ago May 24, 2001 After a blustery Saturday, those in attendance enjoyed horse racing at its finest at the 88th running of the Days of Real Sport. The handle was off by about $7,000 compared to 2000. A captivating photo of Coppei Falls reminds readers of the beauty of our area at this time of year while the popular series of interpretive programs centered around the Lewis & Clark Expedition at the state park this summer promises participants hands-on experiences with the scientific instruments, weapons used...
FROMAGERIE PLANT SALE DAYTON - Nourish Gardens presents "Spring 2011 Heirloom & Heritage Plant Sale, Friday and Saturday, May 20-21, noon - 5 p.m., and Fri-Sat, May 27-28, noon - 5 p.m. Sale will feature tomatoes, peppers, melons, squash, cucumbers and much more. 109 Ward Road, Highway 12, west of Dayton at Monteillet Fromagerie. QUARTERBACK CLUB GOLF WAITSBURG - The Quarterback Club will hold its annual golf tournament to raise money for the Cardinals football and basketball programs on Sunday, June 6, at 1 p.m. at the Touchet Valley Golf Cour...
DAYTON - Why were Dayton High School seniors Molly Payne and Davy Phillips selected as the 2011 recipients of the Philanthropic Education Association's Citizenship Award? Kris Takamura, president of the Dayton's Chapter BJ, put it this way: "To win this award," she said during a Thursday night presentation at the Delaney Building, "requires honesty, courtesy, amiability, morality, punctuality and character. You guys are very good examples of that." Payne and Phillips are the 81st recipients of...
Cowboy Breakfast 7 - 9:30 a.m. Town Hall. Parade lineup/setup 7 - 10 a.m. North end Main Street. Parade 10 - 10:30 a.m. Main Street Wait's Market 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Preston Park Rezonators Blue Grass 11 - 11:30 am Preston Park Troublemakers Blue Grass 11:30 - noon Preston Park Carnival Games 11:30 - 12:30 Preston Park Field Games 12:30 - 4 p.m. Preston Park Ryegrass String Band 1 - 2 p.m. Preston Park Dennis Sedam 2-3 p.m. Preston Park Heather Stearns 3 - 4 p.m. Preston Park Paul Gregutt & Joe Abrams 4 - 6 p.m. Preston Park Chicken Dinner &...
DAYTON - I let Trent Hafen catch his breath after he ran the 800 meters during the season's last Middle School track meet Thursday in Dayton. He pretty much blew everybody out of the field. But that's to be expected for an eighth grader who ranks as 13th in the nation for his age group in the 1,500 meters. I asked him how he did it. Having been a runner myself since I was 18, I had a hunch what he was going to say. "It's hard to explain," he said. "It feels natural to me. It feels like I have...
Commercial Club President Robbie Johnson grew up in a tiny western Washington town called Rosburg, about 20 miles north of the Astoria, Oregon. Drawing from a far-flung population of about 2,500, Rosburg had only one grocery store/gas station not much bigger than Waitsburg's Jackpot and it was better known for the things it didn't have than the things it did. A parade was one of those things Rosburg didn't have. And the proud hometown tradition here is one of the reasons Johnson, who moved to town 11 years ago, appreciates being in Waitsburg....
WAITSBURG - Proudly bearing the Stars & Stripes behind the Veterans' Color Guard this coming Saturday morning, 12-year-old Emily Adams will do more than spearhead Waitsburg's annual parade. She will help kick off events season in the Touchet Valley. Waitsburg's nonagenarians Bettie Chase and Jane Butler will not be far behind as the parade's Marshalls this year. Saturday's Waitsburg Parade day, which will keep visitors busy from breakfast through dinner, will be followed Memorial Day weekend by...
WAITSBURG - The way Stanley Heller describes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' proposed new flood control project for Coppei Creek certainly sounds enticing: protection against a 100-year flood, a possible reduction in home owner's insurance rates and requirements, and possible implementation before the area sees too many more cold wet winters with high snow packs and lots of rain. "It's hard to know when that big (flood) event is going to happen," said Heller, the Corps' project manager based in Walla Walla. "This is a good year to consider...
WAITSBURG - City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe has the approvals in place and now it's up to the City Council to decide at their regular monthly meeting Wednesday night whether to allow Fire District No. 2 to use the old apple warehouse or "bunk house" east of the McGregor plant to for a training exercise - a firefighting training exercise. That would mean the 90-year-old building, which was deemed by a Portlandbased engineer several years ago to have good "bones," to be burned to the ground, its...
