Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA COUNTY - The County has up to five openings on the Human Services Advisory Board (HSAB) which is responsible for assisting the Dept. of Human Services (DHS) in determining needs and setting priorities for services. HSAB members should have some background or personal experience in areas of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency and or Developmental Disability. Time commitments include one afternoon board meeting per month. At least one-quarter of the advisory board must be made up of persons who have recovered from chemical or alcohol d...
WAITSBURG - Chloe Pearson sang the National Anthem as local veterans and WP football players displayed the colors to kick off the 2014 Waitsburg Celebration Days Parade. This year's parade was the largest Waitsburg parade seen in several years, boasting an impressive 61 entries as opposed to last year's 45. Winners were: - Buggy/Hitch: AJ Carriages of Walla Walla, Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days Stage Coach, Mini Friends - Commercial: Dragon's Gate Brewery, Copei Coffee Co. Scooter Team, R&D Creations - Individual: Jamie Galbraith - Teddy...
Dayton FFA Classification: Red ribbons - Cruz Ramirez, Lexie Ramirez, Bonnie Laib, Zane Patton. Blue ribbon - Josilyn Fullerton; Fitting and Showing: Blue ribbons - Cruz Ramirez, Lexie Ramirez, Zane Patton. Purple ribbons - Bonnie Laib, Josilyn Fullterton. Reserve Champion - Bonnie Laib. Waitsburg FFA Mikala DeRuwe placed 4th and 5th in her Market class. Waitsburg had teams competing in Meats (Tristan Newman, Jared Farley, Timber Frohreich, Trenton Kitsleman, Tyler Brooks) and Livestock Judging...
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WP Mens Results 100 Meters 5. Kevin Aquino 12.26a 6. Al Sessay 12.33a 9. Travis Crocket 12.49a 13. Joe Leamy 12.78a 200 Meters...
ASOTIN - WP's softball team fell 5-1 against the Asotin Panthers in a May 13 loser-out league play game. The Lady Tigers improved greatly over their 10-1 and 10-2 double header loss games to the Panthers just days earlier, but not enough to take a win and extend their season. WP scored in the third inning on a base hit by Lexi Brannock who made it to second on an Asotin throwing error. Brannock moved to third on a sacrifice hit by Analise Salazar and was brought in on a base hit by Caitlin Mohne...
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs softball team ended season play in a May 13 loser-out home game against Garfield-Palouse/Tekoa- Oakesdale, dropping the game 8-9. Dayton took the lead in the first three innings, but GPTO tied the score at 3-all in inning four. GPTO made four runs in innings five and six, to Dayton's two. Neither team scored in the final inning, earning GPTO the win. "We had a few bad throws that allowed some runs to score that shouldn't have, but we really just didn't get that opportu...
PRESCOTT - The Waitsburg Prescott baseball team advanced in the playoffs after beating Dayton on a two-run rally in the sixth inning in their first round game last week. Dayton pitcher Lowden Smith was unhittable for the first three innings, though the Tigers got an unearned run in the second without a hit, after a two-base throwing error. In the fourth, Kyle Gradwohl homered, for WP's first hit, putting the Tigers up 2-0. The Bulldogs evened the score in the fourth inning. After loading the bases, Dayton got two unearned runs of their own on...
WALLA WALLA - Dayton's Oscar Teixeira picked up an impressive win in the 110 meter hurdles last week in the District 9 2B Sub-district meet here. He also placed second in the 100 meter dash. Teixeira's 110 time of 16.85 seconds was barely a tenth of a second faster than the second and third place finishers, WP's Owen Lanning and Kobie Brown. Teixeira, an exchange student from Finland, advanced to this week's District meet in Moscow, Ida., and has an excellent shot at two births at the state...
WALLA WALLA - WP's Owen Lanning won two events and took two second places last week at the Southeast 2B Sub-district meet here last week. Lanning's 42-foot triple jump attempt was nearly three feet longer than the second place finisher. Lanning also won the 300 meter hurdles and was second in the 110 meter hurdles. In addition, he anchored the second place WP 4X400 meter relay team. Lanning advanced in all four events to the District 9 championship meet this weekend at the University of Idaho. W...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg's Friends of the Library (FOL) will be hosting a fundraiser yard sale during the Waitsburg Community Yard Sale on Saturday, June 7 and are looking for yard sale item donations from the community. All proceeds benefit the library. FOL is willing to pick up donations if necessary. Whatever is unsold will be donated to St. Vincent de Paul in Dayton. If you have items you are willing to donate, please contact Elizabeth Wright at (509) 540-9653 or Karen Huwe at (509) 386-6960....
WAITSBURG - The American Legion Memorial Day Program will be held Monday, May 26 at 11 a.m. at the Waitsburg City Cemetery. Two names will be added to the Veterans Memorial Wall: Andrew Cook, WWII and Robert Danforth, Korea. Guest speakers will be TSgt. James Crawford and his sister SSgt. Amanda (Crawford) Anderson and their spouses. TSgt. James Crawford, son of Sonia (Crawford) and Brian Segraves of Waitsburg, Wash. and Jim and Cindy Crawford of Sequim, Wash. is stationed at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. He is a Lead Propulsion Technician and has...
WAITSBURG - Two new programs were approved last week, which will help make summer even more enjoyable for Waitsburg youth. Waitsburg's School Board approved a summer food program that will provide both breakfast and lunch to students, while the Waitsburg Resource Center (WRC) mapped out a "Knock Out Boredom" Summer Fun program for the month of July. Because over 50% of Waitsburg students - 55% in the elementary school and 51% in the middle school -- receive free or reduced lunches, Waitsburg...
WAITSBURG - Dayton High School graduate Miles Lytle won't get much of a summer break after graduating from WSU on May 10, but he's far from disappointed. Instead, he'll be leaving for Guam- all expenses paid -- on May 29, where he'll be working as a construction manager on the Tiyan Parkway project for IMCO Construction. Lytle is the grandson of Betty and Terry Hofer of Waitsburg and son of Winton and Karen Lytle, of Texas. Betty graduated from Waitsburg High School and Terry was a Prescott...
DAYTON - The Dayton Downtown Farmer's Market, featuring craft, produce and food vendors from the Touchet Valley, will hold its grand opening this Saturday, May 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Market will take place on the beautiful, shady courtyard of the Dayton Historic Depot Museum (222 E. Commercial Street, Dayton) every Saturday from Memorial Day through the first weekend of October. The grand opening will have live music and hot food. Bring the family and picnic on the grass while children enjoy the new downtown playground. Enjoy the Dayton...
DAYTON - The Dayton School Facilities Committee met last week to take stock after the overwhelming defeat last month of a $20 million bond levy measure and to consider what next moves should be. About a dozen people, including staff, board members and members of the public attended. The bond levy measure, which would have provided funding for a major renovation of Dayton High School, systems replacement in the elementary school and construction of a new commons building, was rejected by about...
DAYTON - The 2014 Dayton Days parade will roll down Main Street Saturday morning, starting at 10 a.m. Though most of the traditional Dayton Days events are no longer being held, the parade is expected to be as large as ever. The parade is again being organized by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. Chamber Events Coordinator Linze Purcell said that several fair courts from southeast Washington and northeast Oregon are signed up to be part of the parade. The parade will also feature a special lineup...
Dear Editor, I am amazed by how many people seem to think that being born/raised, or simply working in a department in Walla Walla makes you qualified to lead. You certainly would not pick, a doctor to do surgery, or a mechanic to work on your car, or your investment advisor, with only those criteria in mind. You also would not pick the coach of the Seahawks just on the fact that he had grown up in Seattle or played on the team. Yet, that seems like what many want to do when they choose a Sheriff for Walla Walla. Membership in a community is...
Ten Years Ago May 27, 2004 On Memorial Day, among those we remember are those who made the supreme sacrifice, lake Waitsburg boys Norman B. Estes, Merle Eaton, Tony Lloyd and Bobby Pettichord. But every April 28 for the past 60 years has been a memorial day for retired Waitsburg-area farmer Dick Ferguson. Ferguson, 81, is the last of t27 survivors from the tragic sinking of a fully loaded LST (landing ship, thank) during practice exercises prior to D-Day. Ferguson spent six hours in the water on that date before being rescued by a U.S. ship....
Christmas may be long past, but the weather outside is still frightful. As heat and humidity insidiously sneak their way into Waitsburg's forecasts, it's becoming increasingly unbearable to stay outside for long periods. In elementary school around this time of year, my classmates and I would try to save ourselves from the un-air-conditioned torment of math class by waving paper fans folded from old assignments. In middle school, we would all flock to the desks near open windows or electric...
Shortly after the Civil War, communities throughout both the northern and southern states began holding commemorations remembering and honoring the soldiers who died in the war. It soon became a tradition to hold a holiday in the spring called Decoration Day. People throughout the country visited cemeteries and memorials to place flags and flowers at the graves of fallen soldiers of the war. In the decades after the civil war, the holiday's name became known as Memorial Day, and it was a day to...
