Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON—This year’s Memorial Weekend Dayton Days celebration, put on by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, will kick off on Saturday, May 26, at 10 a.m. with the Dayton Days Main Street Parade. The crowd lining Main Street will enjoy another great parade, including fair courts, historic floats, classic cars and many other entrants. In the spirit of western history, additional activities are planned for Dayton Days this year, according to event chair Ginny Butler. “We wanted to get more families and kids downtown,” she explained. Immediately followi...
WAITSBURG – Three candidates have filed in Walla Walla County to replace outgoing Sheriff, John Turner, who is not running for reelection. The Sheriff position was the only county-wide race to receive more than one candidate filing during the week-long filing period that ended Friday. Former deputy Tom Cooper, who ran against Turner in 2014, has filed to run again this year. He will face Whitman College director of security Matthew Stroe and recently appointed Undersheriff Mark Crider. All three filed as Republicans. Cooper is currently a p...
Dayton—Dayton Middle and High School Principal Paul Shaber has announced that he will resign at the end of this school year to take a job in Richland. “Paul has been an important part of our team here in Dayton,” said Superintendent Doug Johnson. “Using Paul’s leadership skills, the Middle and High School staff continued their growth as a team, and as educators. “Paul worked well with students and was a strong advocate for them in the classroom, and in activities,” Johnson added. “He was willing to step in where needed and provide leaders...
Ten Years Ago-May 29. 2008 If you’re a lucky golfer, really lucky, there’ll be a chance to win ten thousand clams at the 8th annual Quarterback Club golf tournament. A new feature of the Quarterback Club golf tourney is a Hole In One Prize of $10,000, which has the potential to greatly enliven the annual event planned for 1pm, Sunday, June 8, at the Touchet Valley Golf Course. Spring Sports Dessert and awards night was held May 14th in the Waitsburg Auditorium with Jack Smiley welcoming parents, students, and athletes. Angie Potts, coach, ass...
Arthur (Art) M. Sunderland, 97, passed away in Vancouver, WA on May 13, 2018. He was born in Cheney, Washington December 17, 1920, to Samuel and Beulah Sunderland. Art grew up on a farm, helping milk dairy cows and the many other chores of farm life that included being a 4-H club member. He attended schools in Cheney through High School. For a period, Art worked in home construction in the Cheney area. He graduated from Washington State University (W.S.U.) with a B.S. in Animal Science and was...
PRESCOTT – Prescott Parks and Recreation has announced that the Prescott swimming pool will open for the season on Saturday, weather permitting. The pool will operate from noon to 7 p.m. through Monday. Gate fees this year will be $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and youth aged 6 – 17. Children five and under are free with a paying adult. Family/grandparent passes are $130 for the season. Individual passes are $60. Due to the closing of the Dayton pool, the Prescott Pool will offer exercise/lap swim at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mor...
WAITSBURG –Pastors Bret Moser, of the Waitsburg Presbyterian Church, and Matthew Wyatt, of the Waitsburg Christian Church will park a flatbed truck in front of Waitsburg Grocery, on Main Street, at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. The pair plan to sit with the truck until it is filled with food donations, no matter how long it takes. The food will be donated to the Waitsburg Resource Center. Help Bret and Matt get a good night’s sleep Tuesday night by bringing your generous donations to (or from) Waitsburg Grocery early and often. For more information, con...
May 25: Bill Hinchliffe, Holly Foster, Jason Payne, Wes Leid, George J. Robinson, Greg Leid, Abby Grende and Iris Reed. May 26: Hannah Perry, Pam Hermanns, Rob John and Pamela Gluck. May 27: Betty Maxwell, Sherrie Erikson, Michelle Anderson, Floyd Strohmaier, Mathew Conrath, Allen Robertson and Laisha Archer. May 28: Roy Phillips, Mike Snyder, Jo Wolfe, James Wright, Andrea Miller and Jessie Duckworth. May 29: David Moser, Geraine Hansen, Harry Seaton, Randall Johnson, Betty Wood, James Angell, Andrea Estes, Cody Nordheim and Nick Stroobants....
DAYTON – During their regular meeting last week, the Port of Columbia commissioners adopted a greenhouse emissions policy, as requested by the Washington State Department of Transportation. DOT has requested the policy as part of the grant application process to obtain $330,000 for the design of the $3.5 million Dayton to Waitsburg non-motorized trail. According to Port Manager Jennie Dickinson, The policy takes into account improved energy efficiency through the Port’s support of wind energy and installation of three electric car charging sta...
YAKIMA – The Dayton-Waitsburg softball team grabbed the third seed from District 5/6 in the state tournament this weekend, after going 2-1 at the regional tournament here last weekend. They are scheduled to begin the tournament Friday at 9 a.m. against Adna. In the first regional playoff game Saturday, DW overpowered Liberty Bell, 9-1. The team built a 3-1 lead after four innings, before bringing in four more in the fifth and two in the seventh. Megan Robins, Ariel Sandau and Neylan Bryan led their team with three hits apiece. On the mound, R...
LEWISTON – Former Waitsburg High athlete Owen Lanning, now a junior at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, has qualified for the NAIA National outdoor track and field finals this week in the decathlon event. The meet will begin Thursday in Gulf Shores, Ala. The decathlon includes ten separate events held over two days – Thursday and Friday. Lanning will compete in the 100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meter run on Thursday, and the 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, Javelin and 1500-meter run on Friday. This wil...
May 16, 2018 Members: KC Kuykendall, Terry Jacoy, Kevin House, Jim Romine, Kate Hockersmith and Mayor Marty Dunn were all present. Public Comment: - Danielle Carpenter let the council know that she was willing to serve on a Parks and Recreation board if the board was resurrected. - Jim Davison said that it is time for a deadline to be set for making a decision regarding the fate of the fairgrounds grandstands. -Waitsburg Commercial Club President Joy Smith gave an update on the upcoming Waitsburg Celebration Days. Unfinished Business: -The...
DAYTON-- During the Show and Tell portion of the May 16 school board meeting, Youth and Government Advisor Shayna Hutchens and four of her students talked about their experience at the state capital in Olympia. The students were also able to explore Seattle, including the waterfront, Pike Place Market and the Seattle Library, before their moving on to Olympia on May 2. Dayton was the largest high school delegation from eastern Washington, with 18 students attending the youth legislation...
First, before I start on this recipe, let me share a story, well, not sure it's a story, more like a "really?" Those yummy cookies I made last week, that by themselves were very good, but "J" and "K" thought they were better by dunking them into another flavor. "J" dunked them into Hershey's chocolate syrup and "K" dunked them coffee. Great cookies they both said. I ask,-isn't it a bit like telling someone "great dinner" while piling catsup on everything? I am smiling;) and I can be bribed to...
