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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Over 100 people attended Waitsburg's first Free Family Swim Day on Saturday. Free swimming and lunch were provided by the Waitsburg Resource Center. The Friends of the Waitsburg Pool will sponsor a Free Family Swim Day on July 22 and the Waitsburg Lions will sponsor another on August 19....
DAYTON--On June 22, Chief Financial Officer Cheryl Skiffington presented the Columbia County Health System Board of Commissioners with the American Hospital Association and the Washington State Hospital Association positions regarding the U.S. Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, which is the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The CCHS pays dues to both hospital associations, Skiffington said. “This is not partisan,” she clarified. Skiffington read...
POMEROY—Sharing emergency management services, as a cost-reduction measure, was the topic of discussion when the Columbia County Commissioners and Columbia County Emergency Management Director Lisa Caldwell met with commissioners from Garfield and Asotin counties, the Garfield County Emergency Management Director, two Greater Spokane Area emergency management deputy directors, as well as a representative from the Washington State Military Department, on June 13. The major area of concern for C...
WAITSBURG – Following nearly two years of planning and preparation, Waitsburg’s Main Street Bridge will finally close on July 5. Demolition and replacement will follow, with the expectation that a new bridge will be ready for use this fall, City Manager Randy Hinchliffe told city council members at their June 21 meeting. Environmental regulations require that work in the river takes place during the low fish window which, unfortunately, coincides with harvest. Hinchliffe said that in-stream wor...
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Ten Years Ago July 5, 2007 Waitsburg native Bob Collins has announced his candidacy for Port of Walla Walla Commissioner, District No. 1. The position is currently held by Paul H. Schneidmiller. Candidates who have also filed are Cory Henson and Jim Bear. The Times received a note from Dan Leathers, a Dixie area resident who is a charter fisherman in Ketchikan, Alaska, during the summer. Leathers’ son Alex is with him this summer and he writes that they had last Saturday morning off, so they went fishing and caught five nice King salmon in a...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg School District Board of Directors will have a work session on Wed., July 12 from 6-7:30 p.m. for the purpose of discussing the proposed field house with the architect. Discussion will include where on the athletic field the building will be located and the scope of the facilities. The meeting will begin at the athletic field, then move to the elementary school library. The regularly scheduled July 12 board meeting will begin at 7:30, which is 30 minutes later than usual. Dr. Jon Mishra will officially take over as s...
WALLA WALLA – The Fort Walla Walla Museum will welcome home the Blue Mountain locomotive at a special after-hours event on June 29 at 5 p.m. The train will be set down, via crane, on its new display track on the north side of the museum. The homecoming event is free and open to the public. The locomotive, the only surviving narrow gauge locomotive, was ordered by Dr. Dorsey Baker in 1877 for the Walla Walla & Columbia River Railroad that ran between Wallula and Walla Walla....
DAYTON – The Liberty Theater (334 E. Main, Dayton) will once again host its Summer Film Series from June 27 – July 28. All movies are rated PG and admission is just $1. This year’s movies, which are popular with audiences of all ages are Trolls (June 27,30), The Peanuts Movie (July 5,7), The Book of Life (July 11,14), Shrek (July 18,21), and Matilda (July 24, 28).. Each movie, with the exception of The Peanuts Movie, will play at 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and 12:30 p.m. on Fridays. Due to the Fourth of July holiday, The Peanuts Movie will play at 3...
WAITSBURG – Community members of all ages are invited to grab a United States flag and join local veterans to ride or walk in the 6th annual Parade of Patriots on Waitsburg’s Main Street at noon on July 4th. The parade will depart from the fire station promptly at noon, led by veterans carrying military flags. Local veterans are strongly encouraged to be a part of the celebration. The parade will make the short jaunt to the flagpole in front of the Waitsburg Hardware Store where there will be a very short patriotic ceremony. The cel...
WAITSBURG – All Waitsburg children can receive free, nutritious lunches and breakfasts through Waitsburg school district’s participation in the Simplified Summer Food Program for children. Breakfast is served from 8-8:30 a.m. and lunch from 11:30 a.m.- noon at the Waitsburg Elementary School multipurpose room, at 184 Academy. Meals are available, free of change, to all children 18 years of age or younger. There are no income requirements to receive the meals. Meals will be served Monday through Friday, through August 25. There will be no mea...
June 30: Jeff Bartlow, Pete Kinder, Ralph Jones and Erin Mellish. July 1: Gary Hofer, Ellen Atteberry, Scott Clayton and Lynn McCaw. July 2: Marc Zuger, Jeannie Hurd, Corlene Scoggin, Patrick McConnell and Christianna Scudder. July 3: Edna Ruley, Dorothy Lambert, Sara Leid Heggen. July 4: Tucker Alleman, Kelly Rice, Dona Jean Smith, Suzanne Robert, James White, John McCaw. July 5: Gina Wilson, Karen Gilson, Neil Carpenter, Sierra Segraves. July 6: Roger Beckel, Leo Cobb, Donna Groom, Milt Priggee....
Republicans said they wanted to repeal and replace Obamacare because the exchanges were “broken.” By that they meant deductibles and premiums were too high and insurers were pulling out, leaving fewer choices and less price containment via competition. The Senate bill makes those things worse - taken the minimum actuarial value of the plans from 70 to 58 percent (i.e., the insurer has to pick up less and you have to pick up more of the cost), phasing out subsidies at a lower income point (350 percent vs. 400 percent of the poverty line) and...
The Senate health-care legislative draft - officially titled the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 - will, if passed, represent the greatest policy achievement by a Republican Congress in generations. Given that Democrats have filled the airwaves with wild claims that the bill amounts to mass murder, it may feel jarring to think of the bill as a historic achievement. But it is. For decades, free-market health-reform advocates have argued that the single best idea for improving U.S. health care is to maximize the number of Americans who...
CAMP WOOTEN – "You can almost tell a kid in 4-H from one who is not," said Bi-County 4-H Camp Director Deb Hays on her fourth day overseeing the 2017 4-H Camp activities at Camp Wooten. Hays said youth who participate in 4-H club activities are more responsible and more respectful, and make for better adults. Camp Administrator Sheree Ledgerwood agreed. Ledgerwood recalled one 4-Her, who seemed an "odd man out," but who has turned out to be a "great guy," in large part because of his i...
DAYTON – Kids in Dayton are spending their weekdays having fun with their friends, while also learning, at Blue Mountain Counseling's Summer Recreation Program. The program, headed by Prevention Coordinators Laura Tolman and Jennifer Price, has signed up 85 kids so far, and more parents have asked about signing their kids up in the coming weeks, according to Tolman. The day starts at 7:30 a.m., when kids can attend free breakfast in the Dayton Elementary School Multipurpose Room. The meal, w...
DAYTON – Dayton Elementary School Principal Pam Lindsley has accepted a job in the Spokane School District, which is closer to her home and family, Superintendent Doug Johnson said at last week’s school board meeting. She has resigned as of June 30. Johnson said, “I’m going to miss her. She’s done an outstanding job.” Job postings have gone out, and Johnson said he hopes to have a qualified applicant hired by July 10. “I hope I get as lucky, as I did with her,” Johnson said about Lindsley’s cred...
DAYTON – The Dayton Memorial Library has a lot going on in July: *The Kid’s Adventure Program takes place every Wednesday at 2 p.m. Creating an insect aquarium for the library will take place on July 5. Make windsocks at HomeStreet Bank and enjoy a parking lot party on July 12. *Story Time with Miss Carolyn takes place every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. *Create or improve professional resumes and cover letters with local writer Dian Ver Valen on Tuesdays, beginning July 11 through August 1, from 3:00-4:30 pm. *Preregister at the library, or...
Volunteers got started putting up the fence at Dayton's new dog park, located at the south end of Pietryzycki City Park,...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg Christian Church pastor Matthew Wyatt is excited to finally be planning a long-anticipated service trip with Carl Robanske, founder of Embracing Orphans. The Waitsburg Christian Church will host a Race for Grace 5K run/walk on Sunday, July 30, to raise funds for the trip, which will take place during spring break in 2018. "The idea of this mission trip is a culmination of many years of friendship," Wyatt said. Robanske graduated from high school in Dayton in 1997 while Wyat...
WAITSBURG – There's rarely a day goes by that at least one passerby doesn't stop in front of The Times to have a photo taken with Jeffrey Hill's Founding Fathers sculpture. Now, that sculpture, along with Wayne Chabre's interactive Fanny Weller bronze and Squire Broel's The Waitsburg Monument obelisk, are receiving statewide recognition as subjects of a feature story in the May/June 2017 Cityvision Magazine. The Association for Washington Cities, publisher of Cityvision Magazine, got the h...
Teeny is on vacation so I (Dena) am filling in for her. She's asked repeatedly if I have any good recipes and I've told her that my grandma's bean recipe is a favorite. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting to send it to her. (She even made a subtle reference to that in her column a couple of weeks ago.) Anyway, I told her I'd handle things while she's on vacation. I think she's still skeptical since she sent in a "repeat" recipe "in case of emergency." (At least she's polite about it!) My recipe...
