Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - In Waitsburg and many other cities in Washington State, homeowners are responsible for any trouble in the sewer line between their home and the sewer main. When the line gets blocked and needs to be dug up, residents are required to hire a contractor or pay the city to do the work. Not so in Dayton, at least not until the city passes a proposed new ordinance that takes away the current "gray" area in the law still holding the city for repairs in the city right of way. The Dayton City Council on Monday passed the first three readings...
DAYTON - One look at the Asotin roster and it's easy to see why its volleyball team had at least one advantage in their threegame victory over the Bulldogs on Tuesday night. Senior Panthers JaLisa Jose and McKayla Swearingen are both 5' 11" and they were both hitting hard and shielding their own court at the net like ramparts on a fort. But that wasn't the only drive behind the Asotin's tough trouncing of Dayton's otherwise well-composed 2011 team. "Last year, they were league champs and we...
DAYTON- The sultry heat outside was no comparison to the heat inside the Dayton gym last Wednesday night as the WP Cardinals and the Dayton Bulldogs went head-to-head battling point-for-point in their season opener. Dayton came out on top, winning the match in five games. Waitsburg scored first in the opener and kept the lead until Dayton went on a scoring spree and tied the game up at 14. Dayton rode that momentum to a 17-14 lead. After a series of long vollies the Cardinals got the serve back...
DAYTON - The WP Tigers won the seasonopening soccer jamboree in Dayton last Wednesday, but not as convincingly as last year. The friendly late-summer competition between the teams from Dayton, Waitsburg-Prescott and Walla Walla Valley Academy saw improved performances from the other two teams, though neither one managed to score against the 2011 Tigers in the 95-degree heat. The Tigers beat WWVA 3-0 and went 6-0 against Dayton, a team they beat 19-0 last season. The WWVA Knights beat Dayton 2-1...
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals took its first league victory at home Tuesday night as they defeated the Walla Walla Valley Acedemy Knights in three games. It was a faced- paced match with the teams battling point for point in the first game. With Waitsburg up 11-10, the Knights called the first time out in hopes of breaking WP's momentum and take control of the game. A combination of a solo block by Dionna Baker, a Jennifer Nichols serving ace and a Ronnie Hulce kill would contribute to a...
PILOT ROCK-The WP Cardinals were at it again last Friday night in Pilot Rock blasting the Rockets with a 60-14 non-league victory. It took a little more than the 65 seconds it took last week to get the Cardinals up and going, but once they started, they didn't stop. The Cardinals offense ended the night with 583 yards, with the defense holding the Rockets to just four first downs and 124 yards total offense. "We started out kind of flat footed for whatever reason," said WP head coach Jeff...
DAYTON - With 11 minutes to go in the third quarter, it began to dawn on the players on the Bulldogs sideline that a second victory of the season might be possible. Garrett Turner had just caught a Dean Bickelhaupt pass on the 2-yard line and running back Hayden Fullerton punched it in for the touchdown, 19-14. It wasn't just that the Bulldogs were ahead. It had as much to do with the fact that Dayton scored less than one minute after the visiting Enterprise Outlaws made a breakthrough running...
DAYTON - Tucked away behind a barn and a race track at the Columbia County Fairgrounds, whiskers, floppy ears and cold noses were making kids and judges smile. Kittens meowed loudly from their cages, not wanting to be at the fair at all, while dogs rolled in the grass, sniffed other dogs and left "presents" for their owners to clean up. Dayton's 121st fair that ran Friday through Sunday incorporated traditional elements like 4-H and FFA kids showing sheep, cows and hogs, a long line at noon Satu...
WAITSBURG - Suzanne Fletcher, executive director of the newly formed Washington Tourism Alliance, will visit Waitsburg and Dayton on Friday afternoon. Her visit here is part of Fletcher's tour of the greater Walla Walla area that starts with a meeting with local tourism and hospitality industry leaders at the Walla Walla Regional Airport 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. that day. She is scheduled to meet with members of the Touchet Valley Tourism Alliance and other local business owners and government officials at 3 p.m. at the Coppei Coffee Co. on Main...
Sept. 16: Lois Mettler, Kevin Steffanson, Bruce Harris, Jerry Mock, Pam Davis, Dan Bickelhaupt. Sept. 17: Gustavo Reese, Tom Duckworth, Elizabeth Alleman, Mindy Eaton, Nathan Hansen, Nathan Hamann. Sept. 18: Ashley Wilson, Jeff Pietila, Rob McKinney, Naomi Davis, Eric Laughery, Clinton Davidson, Annika Garbe. Sept. 19: Teighan Anderson, Tom Wagner, Kelly Price, Robbie Ezell, Marina Huff, Paul Hall. Sept. 20: Owen Senter, Rhonda Newbury, Monte Duncan . Sept. 21: Bob Rabern, Kenneth Crawford, Fred R. Gritman, Diana Larsen. Sept. 22: Marty Dunn,...
A rriving home from a weekend away isn't always so happy. I found my neighbor had lost her beloved "Pearl," The Coon Cat. As the week progressed, I'd hear Sally outside calling randomly for her kitty, her best friend, and it became unnerving, bringing back memories of when my kitty, Shoes The Creek Kitty, disappeared. In the country, you have to realize there are all sorts of predators out and about, and it just might be that the Barn Owl's coo isn't as friendly as we thought! People who don't have pets or know what it is like to lose your...
Dayton/Columbia County 9-6 Stray animal on Main Street. Hit and run on Main Street reported for insurance purposes. Syringe found alongside the road. Civil dispute. Injury accident at Eckler Mountain Road. Illegal burning on South 3rd Street. 9-7 Threats reported. Disabled vehicle on Highway 12. Drugs paraphernalia. Accidental 9-1-1 dial. Stray horse on Bulk Plant Road. Traffic hazard on Highway 12. Civil dispute. Injured deer. School bus left lights on. Bad check reported. Traffic stop, infraction for speed. Theft reported on East Washington....
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Kovach of Bellevue, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beaudry of Post Falls, Idaho, announce the engagement of their daughter Jillian Evona Beaudry to Dane C. Henze, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Henze of Aberdeen, Wash. Beaudry is a graduate of Linfield College and is employed as the managing editor for the Waitsburg Times. Henze is a graduate of Saint Martin's University and is employed by the Washington Conservation Corps. The couple will make their home in Waitsburg. A wedding is...
Ten Years Ago September 20, 2001 Local firefighters spent more than 12 hours Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning on a controlled burn that went out of control on the North Coppei. The fire fueled by brisk southwest winds, moved to Rocky Point-Jasper Mountain, across Whiskey Creek and was headed for the Bundy Hollow area. While rescuers dug in perilous rubble 2,700 miles away, worshippers attending the service on the lawn of the Bruce House dug into their pockets and gave $1,350 for the victims of the terrorist attack on New York. These dona...
HALLOWEEN AT SHERIFF'S OFFICE DAYTON - On Halloween Day from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., the Columbia County Sheriff's Office will be offering bags of treats at no charge. Costumes are encouraged. The staff is bringing back this Halloween tradition for the first time since 1992. This year's goodie bags will include tasty treats, 9-1-1 educational materials, coloring books and stickers. RELAY FOR LIFE DAYTON -- Twenty-one teams and 300 participants are expected at Dayton's Relay for Life that benefits the American Cancer Society. The event will be help...
First Phone System Installed Here In 1903 I t was 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell's invention was first installed as a commercial venture. The first successful demonstrations device was in Havana Cuba in 1849! In Waitsburg, the first telephone was installed in 1887. The first rural telephone system was installed in 1903, 4 W. Morgan was Central (John White's Paper). I couldn't believe there were telephones that early in Waitsburg! Laidlaw's book monitor the telephone office located between Mae Combes and the bank -operated by Tina, one of...
A few weeks ago, some 20 plus members of the local PEO chapter came in to have lunch at the Coppei Coffee shop. They enjoyed coffee, sandwiches and drinks from the shop's ever-growing menu, then lingered around their tables in the space behind the Times front office that functions as Waitsburg's community living room. Anita Baker, PEO member and wife of former Times publisher Tom Baker, was on hand to explain some of the equipment on display in the space: the Linotype machine from the 1920s,...
I t was a brief but awkward moment in council chambers Monday night. Council members were in the midst of discussing a proposed amendment to the city's municipal code that shifts the burden of repairing and maintaining the public-right-ofway portion of local homeowners' sewer connection to the city's main line. The first, second and third readings of the amendment had already passed unanimously and the council was getting ready to vote on the ordinance itself when councilman Merle Jackson noted that the proposal represents a significant...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg resident Jane Butler, age 90, has deep family roots in the Touchet Valley through her husband Bob. Butler has lived in town about 50 years, non-consecutively, and is being honored for her family history with the Pioneer of the Year award from the Waitsburg Historical Society. "I feel honored," Butler said of the award. She learned she was to be the honoree at the upcoming Pioneer Fall Festival on Sept. 18 through a letter from Bettie Chase, a member of the historical...
WALLA WALLA - The man charged with killing a Seattle cyclist on Middle Waitsburg Road in May appeared in Walla Walla County Superior Court Monday for the first time. Melvin Bohleen, 73, of Dayton, dressed in blue jean overalls and a brown t-shirt, signed paperwork and listened to Judge Donald Schacht describe possible sentencing and release. Bohleen is charged with vehicular homicide for striking a cyclist with his vehicle on May 21. The cyclist, Sarah Eustis, 61, of Seattle, died as a result of...
DAYTON - In the early hours of the morning last Thursday, Tia Gore was making her five-year-old daughter a birthday cake. Together with her eightyear old son, Gore and her daughter were planning to mark the occasion of her birth later that day. It was an easy day for the family to remember because it came shortly after they moved into their rental home at 1013 South Third just before the girl was born. As she was working on the cake, Gore suddenly heard a loud pop in the kitchen and the wall...
