Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON – Columbia Pulp is now well on the way to having the employment impact in the area that community leaders have been hoping for for nearly five years. In an interview with The Times last week, Columbia Pulp CEO John Begley said that his firm received about 100 resumes during a job fair in Dayton earlier this month. Hiring fairs have also been held in Walla Walla and Pomeroy. “We will begin making offers in about three weeks,” Begley said. He said that most jobs at the company’s main facility near Starbuck will start in mid-to-...
DAYTON-There is now a two-way race for the District 3 Columbia County Commissioner seat in this year's November election. The winner will replace retiring commissioner Merle Jackson beginning in January. Dayton native Dain Nysoe, who currently serves on the Dayton City Council, has filed to run against Chuck Amerein, who announced his candidacy earlier this year. Nysoe filed as a Democrat, and Amerein, as a Republican. Nysoe said economic development is at the top of his list of priorities. "Our...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Commercial Club and the Waitsburg Town Hall board of directors will host a candidates’ forum on Wednesday, June 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Town Hall. Candidates for Walla Walla County Sheriff and for two state representative positions from Legislative District 16 are expected to be in attendance. Walla Walla County Sheriff Candidates include former sheriff’s deputy Tom Cooper, current Undersheriff Mark Crider and Matthew Stroe, director of security at Whitman College. State representative Position 1 candidates are Repub...
Ten Years Ago-June 26, 2008 Organizers have mobilized and are calling all former students of the Huntsville School or Huntsville residents to gather for a reunion in August. Photo caption: The Huntsville Grade School students for the 1946-47 school year. Front Row: Unknown Sutter, Unknown Sutter, Bobby Leroue, Dell Groom, Bud Groom, Bill Kendall. Second row: Darlene Tubra, Betsy Hunt, Kay Huwe, Rosella Koch, Merry Joyce Brown, Mary Liebermann, Eden Brown, Mona Groom. Third row: Teacher Dorothy Hatley, John Libermann, Eugene Tubra, Pete Huwe,...
It is with great sadness the family of Aimee Harshman announces her passing on Thursday, June 7th, 2018 at the age of 42. Aimee will be lovingly remembered by her husband Dustin and her children Devin, De'ja, Daylan, and Axten, her mother and step-father, Lori (Rob) Hergenrader, by her brother and sister, Brady Lewis and Maisee (Anthony) Peralez and by her in-laws, Carla and Pat Fouste. Aimee was preceded in death by her father, Greg Lewis. Aimee will also be forever remembered by her numerous...
DAYTON - A large scale restoration project on the theater’s marquee and façade begins on Thursday, June 21, however the theater will remain open through the duration of the work. More information can be found at www.libertytheater.org....
DAYTON – The Sherwood Trust of Walla Walla announced that it has awarded a $65,000 grant to the Dayton Development Task Force. The funds will be used for development of a park in the area near the caboose and playground west of the Dayton Historic Depot. Plans for Caboose Park include lawn, trees and landscaping, as well as installation of additional playground equipment. Depending on funding availability, a splash pad may be added as well. Total budget for the project is expected to be approximately $120,000....
DAYTON – The Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival will hold a rehearsal, open to the public, on Monday at 10 a.m. at the Liberty Theater on Dayton’s Main Street. Monday’s rehearsal will feature Strauss’ Metamorphosen String Septet. The rehearsals are a free, informal, and informative way to hear classical music in a new way....
STARBUCK – The Starbuck Community Church is offering a vacation bible school Monday through Thursday next week at the church, on Main Street. Kids age 4 through 6th grade are invited to attend. The VBS will run from 9 to 11:45 each day. The theme for this year’s VBS is: “With God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26. A Grand Finale will be held for parents and kids on Thursday at 6 p.m. For transportation for morning sessions, or for more information, contact Pastor Dave at (509) 399-2259. Transportation is not available for the Grand F...
WALLA WALLA – The Frenchtown Historical Foundation will hold its seventh annual Saint-Jean Baptiste Day Celebration on Saturday. It will be held at the Frenchtown Historic Site on Old Highway 12, two miles west of the Whitman Mission. This year’s event will feature a historic tour of old Walla Walla, tours of the St. Rose of Lima Cemetery and prince’s cabin, gem and mineral displays, woodworking demonstrations, French-Canadian music and living history players. Tours and demonstrations will run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for more infor...
June 22: Andy Winnett, Michael Spidell and Paul Cook. June 23: James Lehr, Teresa McConnell, Debbie Shaeffer, Delbert Porter, Michelle Bergevin, Lynn Savage, Jon Gibson and Heather Havens. June 24: Kathleen Seaton, Donna Surry, Rod Bailey, Suzanne Stonecipher-Sollars and Darien Hulce. June 25: Randy Pearson, Pat Allmon, Dan Estes, Margaret Monfort Shultz and Craig Adams. June 26: Ava Jean Gagnon, Judy Mulhair, Michelle Benson Brooks, Norma Bessey, Toni Chavez and Shalyne Bentley. June 27: Lisa Christensen, Sarah Monfort Torrens and Cameron...
Dear Editor, In my ministry, I’ve always tried to stay out of politics and publicly voicing my personal political inclinations. Why? Because I feel that my main job is to bring people together and to share the love of Jesus. The political arena can be a divisive area and can lean more on the individualistic rather than the whole, and that’s a tough area to navigate as a pastor. However, my wife and I recently placed our first-ever political sign in our front yard, and we were asked the question “What is it about this person that you feel so pa...
Dear Editor, I’m writing to express my ardent support for Matt Stroe as a candidate for sheriff of Walla Walla County. I met Matt as a student at Whitman College while working for the Security Department in a work study position. Matt is an outstanding director of security. He found innovative ways to improve safety on campus and gained the trust of students in a way that facilitated a to-my-knowledge unprecedentedly positive relationship between the student body and security. Outside of his accomplishments for the Security Department, Matt w...
Since 2019, neither rain nor sleet nor snow has prevented the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail to people living along the Snake River in the remote and rugged regions of Hells Canyon. Last Wednesday was no different, when 20 of us boarded the mail boat in Clarkston for the 160-mile round trip. We pushed off the dock at the Port of Clarkston on a beautiful, sunny day, and were expertly guided through some of the most rugged and scenic landscape the country has to offer, by Riverboat...
Generally, at the doctor's office, the last thing most of us think about are gently flowing brooks, rippling grass in a mountain meadow, and the most fragile of butterflies poised on a flower. At the time he is treating patients, urgent care physician Kirk Campaña isn't thinking about these things either, but after hours, when he is at home on his property in Eagle, Ida., the doctor who is also an artist focuses on the world's beauty. "I find nature and the natural world beautiful, complex,...
By Tanya Patton I have always admired families who open their homes to host international exchange students, but I never imagined that my family would be one of them! Now, I look back on the last 10 months spent hosting one, and then TWO teenagers from Asia and know that we will be forever changed and blessed by the experience. Our road to hosting began with a friendship forged between our daughter, Katie, and Hazel Tu, an exchange student from Taiwan living in Dayton during the 2016-17 school...
WAITSBURG – While the Dayton city pool is closed for this summer, facilities in Waitsburg and Prescott are stepping up to meet the area’s demand for chlorinated summer fun. Both the Waitsburg pool (across Coppei Avenue from Preston Park, open Monday through Friday) and its Prescott counterpart (at 303 West 2nd Street, open every day) have begun operations for the season. The Waitsburg pool offers open swim periods from 1 to 5 in the afternoon and from 6 to 8 in the evening on the days it is open. Additionally, an adults-only lap swim time is...
DAYTON - Touchet Valley Arts Council and the Liberty Theater are hosting cowboy poet and musician Joel Eliot to the Liberty Stage on Saturday, June 30, from 7 - 9 p.m. Eliot, a working ranch horseman, clinician and trainer in Sonoita, Ariz., is renowned for his expertise and love of horses. He brings the same level of craft and care to the stage as a singer and songwriter. Eliot appears in conjunction with the Buck Brannaman horse clinic which, will be held in Dayton June 29 through July 1....
DAYTON – A selection committee appointed by the Dayton School Board will interview four candidates on Thursday for the Dayton Middle School/High School principal position. Two applicants will be selected from that pool for a final interview process which will take place on Thursday June 28. Parents, students and community members are invited to participate in the process. Parents and community members are scheduled to meet with the two finalists on the 28th at 5:45 and 6:30 in the high school auditorium. Students will have an opportunity to m...
This weekend I went to the bake sale at the Best Western Hotel – a fund raiser for needy families at Christmas. I bought several different items, one of which was these salted peanut bars. They were a pleasant mixture of taste and texture. I walked back to the bake sale to see if I could get the recipe. Jeannie Beardsley-Smith gladly pulled it up on her phone and sent it to my phone. (So long to the days of having to copy recipes😊). This comes from Taste of Home. I googled it and it shows it a...
