Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Dear Editor: It is said it takes a village to raise a child. It takes the ENTIRE TOUCHET VAL- LEY and extended area, to get the Hays Family to the MAYO CLINIC.We would like to THANK all of our friends, family, business, clubs, organizations, cor- porations and everyone in between, for all you have done for our family, whether it be purchasing tickets to the benefit dinner, financial gifts, food donations, items for the silent auction, baked food for the bake sale, chain- saw carvings, quilts, cards, hugs,...
Confession time: I don't do surveys. I have never agreed to answer questions for a phone survey, never partici- pated in an internet or news media survey, and never spent time on a product survey. I never fill out res- taurant or motel surveys. Come to think of it, I don't remember ever getting a call from Gallup or Barna or any big media pollsters. They only call a few thou- sand people at a time (with an error margin of plus or minus three percent, right?), so the odds would be low anyway....
The Washington State Legislature is now in its second special session of 2013. We feel like the time has come for them to pass a budget in Olympia, and we figured we weren't the only ones. Here are some excerpts from opinion pieces published in Washington newspapers in the past few days: State lawmakers have 231 million good reasons to agree on a new two-year state budget. Revenue forecasts predict an additional $231 mil- lion in revenue during this fiscal year and over the next two years. That money, plus $90 million in savings from fewer...
DAYTON - Karen Scha- rer spent 29 years working for the King County plan- ning department. During that time she worked in of- fices in downtown Seattle, Renton and Snoqualmie. More recently she worked as a city planner in Auburn and Sea-Tac. "This is the first time I've ever been able to walk to work," Scharer said of her ten-minute commute on foot to her new job at Dayton City Hall. "I love it." Scharer took over as Day- ton City Planner in late April. She replaces Kim Lyonnais, who was hired...
WAITSBURG - As of July 1, 25 of the empty horse stalls at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds will welcome equine tenants -- the first step in what is to become the Blue Mountain Equestrian Center. At Waitsburg's City Council meeting Wednesday night, council members vot- ed unanimously to enter into an agreement that transfers management of the horse facilities at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds to a 501c.3 or- ganization that will oversee the creation and develop- ment of the Blue Mountain Equestrian Center....
