Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Number of spectators and car entries drops as Dayton's biggest event of the year is hit with rainy days DAYTON – Dayton usually plays host to a large number of excited tourists and car owners who come to town to see some classics of the automobile industry during the town's All Wheels Weekend festivities. While many people made the trip this year, as in previous years, the turnout for the Friday evening cruise and the various events that took place all day on Saturday was noticeably smaller t...
WAITSBURG – At the June 8 Waitsburg School Board meeting, Waitsburg Athletic Director Stephanie Wooderchak received approval to pursue discussions about possible high school baseball, and middle school baseball and softball combines with Dayton beginning with the 2017 season. Both schools, which recently formed high school and middle school football combines, are now looking more closely at the proposals. Waitsburg track coach Jeff Bartlow said end-of-year spring sports sign ups returned with 1...
DAYTON—Last week the City of Dayton Historic Preservation Commission tallied the final advisory vote from property owners in the South Side and Washington Street Historic Districts. The outcome of that vote will guide the City in its quest to determine outcomes for the future of the districts and related historic preservation code amendments, according to DHPC chairman Mike Smith. The second ballot count for the Washington Street Historic District was nine to dissolve the district and four to r...
WAITSBURG – Just Another Chance Ranch is kicking of their summer youth mentor program, Hands-On-Horses, with a Family Fun Day from 4-7 p.m. on Sat. June 25. The ranch is located at 14224 E. Highway 12, halfway between Dixie and Waitsburg. The event promises some good old-fashioned fun with a western dress-up photo booth, face painting, arts and crafts, snacks, sno cones and water balloons. Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet the ranch horses. “This is a great time for people to meet us, learn about what we do at our nonprofit, and...
Glen and Adelle Smith were married on June 19, 1976 at the Christian Church in Waitsburg. Since then they have enjoyed living in Waitsburg with annual trips taking them to Priest Lake, Mexico, and the National Finals Rodeo most years. They have raised two kids Greg (Kortney) and Angela (Jake), and now have two grandchildren Oaklee and Cooper. Glen is still happily raising wheat with his son and Adelle is now retired from her career as school librarian and enjoys riding horses, gardening and...
Ten Years Ago June 29, 2016 The Waitsburg Lions Club honored members at its recent year-ending gathering at the DRS grounds, with spouses as special guests. Outgoing president Marty Dunn presented Bill Thompson, with a Rubber Chicken Award, “for doing nothing;” John Payne was named Lion of the Year and Glynn Davis received the Melvin Jones Fellow; Dunn received a Past President’s plaque. Bertha Joann Poirier, a 2004 graduate of Waitsburg High School, was recently honored by the WSU Department of Political Science. The daughter of Roy and Abelin...
June 24: Kathleen Seaton, Donna Surry, Rod Bailey, Fritz Zuger, 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 Collins, Travis Eaton. June 28: Kendra Roberts, Terry Dunn, Kathleen Walborn, Heather Ferguson, Jordyn Prince. June 29: Wanda Mattice, Linda Herbert, Gina Fluharty. June 30: Jeff...
Summer Meal Program Breakfast 8-8:30 a.m. Lunch 11:30-12 p.m. All children 18 & under receive meals free of charge....
During the first half of this month I got to take my first real vacation from being publisher of The Times. I traveled to Virginia to attend a reunion of my mother’s extended family (and sit on the beach for five days). On my way, I stopped in Washington D.C. to spend three days as a tourist. It’s something all Americans should do, and it seemed like a large proportion of them were there the same time I was. I did all of my sightseeing in and around the National Mall, which is a two...
Republicans need to start worrying about losing their majority in the House of Representatives. Republicans accept the conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton is favored to win the presidency, and they know that her election would probably end their majority in the Senate. But in a year that has upended political expectations, they have clung to one comforting assumption: Their hold on the House is secure. Their majority is protected by gerrymandering, the geographic distribution of Republican voters, the power of incumbency and its own sheer...
Dear Editor, As a lifelong Republican, I reject Donald Trump and what he stands for: racism, xenophobia, nativism, and contempt for women, the disabled and other groups. Rather than adhere to our party’s conservative principles and state a clear program, he offers a vague vision of “making America Great Again” and simplistic slogans about “building a wall” and deporting millions of undocumented workers. He is demagogue who most people thoughtful people will surely reject as President and Commander in Chief. At the minimum, who would want the...
Dear Editor, I have known Randal Son for several years. Just recently I have become aware of the depth and breadth of his experience as he campaigns for County Commissioner District 2. He has had formal training and then applied it professionally in developing Endowments, Agricultural Credit Analysis, and Community Development Finance. He has held the Certified Financial Planner Certificate and the National Association of Securities Dealers Broker’s Licenses. He was early to recognize the importance of developing clean and renewable energy, a...
Anyone who has ever watched children get on a school bus before the sun is up in the morning or teens walk into their first class clutching a jug of coffee knows that too many young people aren’t getting enough sleep. In fact, experts say that more than a third of the U.S. population doesn’t. Now, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine has just released, for the first time, its recommendations for how much sleep children and teens should get to avoid health risks. The academy also said that children and teens who do not sleep the recommended am...
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DAYTON—The Dayton City Council adopted a six-year Transportation Improvement Program for 2017 through 2022 at last week’s council meeting. Some of the projects slated for the 2017-2022 cycle include; North Front Street bridge replacement, install a pedestrian/bicycle crossing light on North Front Street, create a bicycle lane on South Fourth Street, reconstruct the Touchet River Dike/ Mustard Ditch bridge, reconstruct Commercial Street, Cameron Street, North Willow Street, and improve Syn...
DAYTON – After one teacher announced his retirement last month, the Dayton School District has lost two more of their own; one due to retirement with the other taking a job in Walla Walla. Mike McGhan decided to end his long teaching career earlier this year. All of his 39 years teaching took place at Dayton Elementary School, where he started in August 1977, after graduating from Washington State University in Pullman. McGhan began by teaching Title 1 programs at the school, before moving to t...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg Lions Ken Miller and Brian Richards were selected as recipients of the Melvin Jones award and Lion of the Year, respectively, at the club's annual year-end ceremony on May 31. Miller was nominated for the prestigious Melvin Jones Award by fellow Lion, close friend, and former award recipient Glynn Davis. Davis shared a brief history of the award, named after the founder of Lions Club International, and the highest award one can receive in Lions. Davis explained that the M...
WAITSBURG – Dayton-Waitsburg Head Football Coach Troy Larsen is enthusiastic about the 53 student athletes signed up for the newly formed DW football team. Larsen said the largest number dressed down on the field during spring football was 46 and 32 DW players attended spring camp in the Tri-Cities where the larger turnout allowed DW to schedule camp games for both a JV and varsity squad. "During the three weeks of spring football, coaches were able to coach a team that quickly came t...
Board members KC Kuykendall, Marty Dunn, Kevin House, Karl Newell, Kate Hockersmith and Mayor Walt Gobel were all present. -Community Input: Citizen Delores Nettles complained about the number of wrecked cars parked on Bruce Street. Citizen Carl Peck expressed frustration that a property owner, who keeps his property spotless, was asked to move a trailer from city property and yet boats and broken down cars are parked all along Kinnear Street. Following discussion, council agreed to review city ordinances, giving consideration to abandoned...
Board members Ross Hamann, Russ Knopp, Christy House, Marilyn Johnson, and Randy Pearson were all present. -Unanimously adopted Journeys (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) as the new elementary school English Language Arts curriculum. -Approved a 2016-17 athletic budget of $21,900 to include all sports except baseball and softball, which will be determined at a later date. The board rejected a request of $14,000 for new wrestling mats and asked the team to continue using the Mat Birds’ mats. -Approved a Collective Bargaining Agreement with t...
Area candidates met in Waitsburg for a Candidates Forum sponsored by the Waitsburg Commercial Club on June 9....
I confess I like to read recipes like some like to read a good book. If I find what I think is a good recipe, I can hardly wait to try it. Then I either “delete it” so as not to make the same mistake and bake it again, or “repeat it” with notes on the side. I had thought to copy images of recipe boxes, but I couldn’t decide which was legal to copy and which ones I would get into copyright trouble. So I took a picture of my recipe box, 70’s avocado green, no lid, not organized, and my favorites sticking up so I can find them. No, that is not...
Dayton Memorial Library 111 S. 3rd Street, Dayton Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri., 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Tues. & Thurs., 12-8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Storytime: Tues., 10 a.m. “The True Tails of Baker and Taylor,” by Jan Louch (Adult Non-Fiction) – Jan Louch and her coworker decide that their library needs two cats. They soon find a couple of Scottish Folds that they think are perfect for the role. The library’s patrons soon fall for the cats and their wild antics much like Jan quickly had. After being featured on a poster, they become cat celebrities...
