Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Waitsburg Elementary School students wrapped up the year with a well-earned field day on Friday, June 7....
WAITSBURG-It was a full house in the Lions Memorial Building as the Waitsburg Lions Club wrapped up its year with the annual Ladies Night dinner, award ceremony and induction of new officers. Following a thank you dinner of oysters and hamburgers, special awards were presented to Olson Brothers Exhaust Systems for its outstanding business partnership with the Waitsburg Lions, Kevin House was named Lion of the Year and Ken Cole Jr. received the distinguished Melvin Jones Award. Outgoing...
DAYTON—Columbia County Prosecuting Attorney Dale Slack notified the public that the Benjamin Orozco murder trial has been re-set from July 8 to August 12, following a June 5 hearing. In his update, Slack said that Division II Court of Appeals Judge George B. Fearing, who sat by special appointment of the Supreme Court, made the decision based on a lack of disclosed evidence from the defense. Slack said that, prior to the afternoon of the hearing, the defense had not filed discovery, including witness lists, witness statements, expert witness r...
Winners from the selfie contest...
Muralist Don Brown, of Kennewick, recently completed this impressive mural on the side of Chief Spring's Brew Pub on Dayton's Main Street. The Times' Advertising Manager Teeny McMunn captures the process....
Ten Years Ago June 18, 2009 Photo Caption: Louie Gagnon and Larry Johnson were honored by the Waitsburg Lions Club as Lions of the Year at the club's final meeting last week. Presenting the honors was outgoing Lion President Ted Bren. Mark your calendar so you don't miss out on "Celebrate God's Creation," a musical program of contemporary Christian music, scripture and devotional pieces, will be presented by the "Salt & Light" Christian Youth Choir from the Touchet Valley when the group returns...
June 10 Deputies investigated a domestic assault in the 300 block of W. 4th Street in Prescott. June 5 Warrant Service: Leslie Gallardo was arrested in Prescott on a misdemeanor warrant....
DAYTON—The recently advertised TVGC Scramble Tournament has been renamed the 1st Annual Gene Crothers Memorial Golf Tournament in honor of Gene Crothers, who recently passed. The tournament format has changed slightly and the event, formerly a guest/member tournament, is now open to the public. It is still a two-person scramble, with three flights including men’s, ladies and Jack & Jill (mixed). The event is a kick-start fundraiser for a new sprinkler system for the golf course. Registrations will be accepted through June 19. Entry fees are...
WAITSBURG—The Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever will host a free youth trap shoot on Sat., June 15 at the Waitsburg Gun Club. Dean Wass will present a firearms safety refresher beginning at 8 a.m. with the trap shoot immediately following. Youth age 18 and under are welcome to participate, including youth not yet a member of the Chapter. Participants not already a member of Pheasants Forever will receive chapter-sponsored membership enrollment. Clay targets and shotgun shells will be provided by Pheasants Forever. Adult family members or m...
RICHLAND—Sample new foods and see live music and dancing at the Celebrate! Faith and Cultures Festival on June 16 (Father’s Day), from noon- 5:00 p.m. at Howard Amon Park (500 Lee Blvd.(in Richland, Wash. The free family-friendly festival includes an afternoon of festivities that celebrate the diverse roots of the area. A full afternoon of stage performances includes opening and closing ceremonies by the Nixya’awii Dance Group from Pendleton, Oregon and a special performance by visiting Canadian Rock and Soul Songstress Laura Cole. Local perfor...
June 14: Haly and Shawny Ingle, Aaron Moffitt and Anthony Kiefel. June 15: Jeff Hofer, John Segraves, Ryan Mason, Glen Smith, Nicholas and Jonathon Danforth, Ruth Fulton, Diane Conover, Susa Roberts, Darrell Syferd, Cheyenne Gritman and Maude Oberholtzer. June 16: Catherine and her Grandpa John Melvin Reese, Jon Hays and Courtney Streeter. June 17: Pat Davison and Gabriel Kiefel. June 18: Bernice Patrick, Linda Bode, Gertrude Brock and Ryan Leid. June 19: Barbara Johnson, Rollin Carpenter. June 20: Beau Marshall, Frank Loveall, Louis Donnelly,...
Position open in the Dayton School District for a custodian. For more information contact Jana Eaton at the District Office 382-2543. To apply submit a completed District Classified Employee application and resume to 609 S 2nd Street. Job Description available on-line at www.daytonsd.org. Closing date June 21, 2019. EOE _____ ROUTE BUS DRIVER Minimum qualifications: Class B CDL, air brake restriction lifted, student endorsement, passenger endorsement. Training may be available. For additional information please contact: Colter Mohney at (509)...
During World War II, the American GI earned the reputation for being innovative, adaptable and resilient. Nowhere was that more evident than the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. For example, Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, was assigned to drop paratroopers and land gliders behind the German lines on Normandy. They needed to secure roads and bridges for Allied tanks, artillery and supply trucks once the Nazi forces were dislodged from their beach fortifications. B...
Dear Editor, Saturday June 8th, I was in Waitsburg for a memorial service at the Catholic Church. I parked behind the church in front of the Richardson’s home. After the service, I was walking to my car and noticed 3 dogs, a Labrador, a German Shepherd, & a Pit Bull, in the fenced yard across the street at 270 W 6th Street. They started barking and running along the fence. I was ignoring them but wanted to be aware of them as well. The pit bull was at the side of the house and started running toward the fence, but instead of stopping, the d...
Last week's article on the DHS honor speakers Neylan Bryan and Tatumn Laughery was incorrectly attributed to Dena Martin. The story was written by Michele Smith....
WALLA WALLA—On May 29, the Department of Health issued its decision to approve Providence St. Mary Medical Center’s Certificate of Need to open a freestanding Ambulatory (outpatient) Surgery Center (ASC) at the Providence Southgate Medical Park on Second Avenue. The goal is to open an ASC, with two operating rooms and two endoscopy procedure rooms, in the former Walla Walla General Hospital surgical department. Because the area is in an older section of the building, facility renovations required to meet building code are estimated at $6.7 mil...
DAYTON-Organizers have been hard at work preparing for Dayton's 25th Anniversary All Wheels Weekend, June 14-16, with the theme American Graffiti. The event, which takes place each Father's Day weekend, originated in the 1990s to bring tourism to Dayton's newly renovated Main Street and has continued to grow in popularity. Friday The event will kick off at 6 p.m. on Friday evening with the Friday Night "Cruise for Gene. "Drivers will cruise through Dayton, stopping at checkpoints to collect...
WAITSBURG—The Huichica Music Festival will make its debut in the Walla Walla Valley this fall with a two-day festival at Stella’s Homestead, the former site of Jim and Geraine’s Hansen’s farm on the south fork of Coppei Creek. Located along the winding South Fork Coppei Creek and the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Walla Walla, Stella’s Homestead grew out of the historic Hansen wheat and cattle farm, established by Jim and Geraine Hansen in 1947. Today, their daughter Cheryl hosts eve...
DAYTON-Rolling Thunder, the Blue Mountain Rocketeer's (BMR) most popular event of the year, will take place over three days, June 21-23. Model rocketry enthusiasts from all over the Pacific Northwest are anticipated to attend the event that is open to all NAR/TRA and non-members as well as the general public. BMR was created in November of 1994, as a youth and family-oriented model rocketry club, and has consistently ranked among the five best rocketry groups in the nation during the annual...
Congratulations to Grace Coulston who won National Grand Champion and National Showmanship awards with her Sorghun Hollow Boer goats at the JABGA National Show in Grand Island, Nebraska. The JABGA National Show is one of the largest Junior Boer Goat shows in the country....
You have the power to decide which technologies are relevant to you. For example, you can just pass on Snapchat and Twitter. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life. And that consumer power has always been there. More than ten years ago, I decided paying for checks to write out and then pay for other things was a useless system I wanted to no part of. Since then, digital payment technologies have blossomed and there's no going back. I do, however, accept checks. [Please make them...
WALLA WALLA—Outdoor enthusiasts looking for activities surrounding Walla Walla will do well to visit www.outsidewallawalla.com. Blue Mountain Land Trust member Gwen Dildine spent the last year and a half building the website that provides information on a multitude of activities in the Blue Mountains. The site provides information on hiking, biking/cycling, camping, fishing, water sports and snow sports in the area. Adventures can be filtered by proximity to Walla Walla and the level of d...
WALLA WALLA—The Frenchtown Historical Foundation will host its 8th annual celebration of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day on Sat., June 22 at the Frenchtown Historic Site, located at 8364 W. Old Highway 12, two miles west of the Whitman Mission. The event is free and open to the public The feast day of Saint John the Baptist is the national holiday of Quebec and has been a midsummer festival in French-speaking countries for centuries. Join at the Frenchtown site to celebrate the heritage of French and French-Canadian immigrants to the Walla Walla V...
WAITSBURG-When the Girls Scouts of Waitsburg learned that the Lewis & Clark Trail State Park was the only park in the state without a flagpole, they set out to do something about it. The local service unit spent about a year-and-a-half raising approximately $2300 to purchase a pole for the park. For the last four years, troops from Dayton, Waitsburg and Walla Walla have camped out out at the state park. Last weekend's campout was made even more notable with the installation of the newly donated...
Waitsburg Elementary School's first annual Move Up Night was a big success with parents and students taking the opportunity to meet with next year's teachers and enjoying a meal together. Students were able to go home with a backpack donated by Walmart....
