Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - To the average person, the spinning wheel is an obscure relic, relegated to glass-fronted museum cabinets and renditions of "Sleeping Beauty". To Waitsburg native Ronda Bell, however, it's much more than that. Bell has been spinning wool for nearly 18 years now. "Until you do it, you don't understand," she said as she described the "peaceful feeling" of pressing a spinning wheels treadle and listening to the mechanism make a gentle thunk noise as the wooden wheel rotates. Her first...
WAITSBURG - Picture a tent city of 10,000 inhabitants. People from all walks of life set up camp en masse, eating and showering in hastily erected temporary facilities, crowding into huge evening concerts that shake the ground long into the night. This isn't Woodstock. This is the Creation Festival. And eight young members of Waitsburg's Christian Youth Group were there. The event, which took place at the Benton County Fairgrounds in Kennewick, began July 30 and ended August 2. "Creation...
DAYTON - Dayton High School has a new Principal for the 2014-15 school year. Kate Wenzl comes to Dayton from Port Angeles, where she has been a school administrator for eight years. Dayton Schools Superintendent Doug Johnson said that Wenzl was hired on an interim basis for the upcoming school year. She replaces Andy Maheras, who resigned in July. Wenzl grew up in Davenport, Wash. She is a Washington State University graduate. After teaching for several years in Port Angeles, she worked as an...
DAYTON - About five minutes into her interview with a reporter on a recent morning, Carolyn Suffield, owner and operator of Carolyn's Café, had to excuse herself to help another customer. That customer was looking to buy a dryer. Such is the life of a café owner whose family is longtime owner of Suffield's Furniture and Appliance Store. Early this year, Suffield, and her husband, Al, decided to convert the west side of Suffield's furniture store, one of Dayton's oldest businesses, into a s...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Arts Commission heard presentations from four artists last week, each of whom shared his vision for one of two public art pieces the city is commissioning for downtown. The projects are being funded by a $125,000 grant the city received from the Sherwood Trust, in Walla Walla. The presentations, on August 13, were made at jimgermanbar. Jeffrey Hill and Squire Broel, both well-known Walla Walla artists, presented their concepts for a piece honoring three of Waitsburg's...
[Editor's note: Non football fans may want to move on to the next page, because we now bring you now a selection of news from around the web about the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, and some of the challenges they (and their fans) face during the upcoming season.] Will The Niners be Too Strong? It's Colin Kaepernick and the passing game that has (the San Francisco 49ers) on the brink. It's also what can make them better, against the Seahawks' secondary or otherwisehellip; hellip;The reigning champion will be the hunted, and will find out...
There's a part of me that finds a certain measure of comfort in consistency. It enjoys falling back into the same familiar patterns, doing the same things in the same way I've always done them. That part of me hasn't had a very good week. Case in point - this column. I'm typing it on a Windows 7 computer running Windows 8 software while some fancy internet modem blinks up a storm on the shelf next to me. Just a week ago today, Word and the computer it ran on were the XP version, and the dial-up...
WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA- 05) released the following statement earlier this month after introducing H.R. 5303, the 21st Century Classroom Innovation Act, which encourages the use of blended learning in the classroom. "In the past few years we've seen an increase in the number of classrooms integrating technology - and these personalized learning tools are leading to tremendous academic performance. As the mom of three, I see firsthand how technology in the classroom...
August 23: Babs Cerna, Coleen Langlo, Dan Donavan, Brian Hopkins. August 24: Zach Bartlow, Cathy Lambert, Audeana Ritter, Bryan Harris, Denise Reid, Matt Everett, Taelor Carter. August 25: Michaela Nordheim, Marion Spear, Roland LeVasseur, Alan Stephens, Anne Hubbard, Bryan St. Clair and Monroe McCaw. August 26: Ann Barr, Betty Mason, Beverly Harper, Jackie Savage, Darin Mayer, Jeff Katsel, Steven Lybecker. August 27: Brian Richards, Bonnie Brookshire, Amy Farley, Tom Mock, Kippy Counts, Steve Gusse, Shannon Bloor, Justin Gagnon, Ashley Witt,...
Waitsburg August 17 Subject arrested on Preston Ave. for violation of protection order and extortion. Violations happened via text messages. Dayton August 11 Civil issue on S. 6th Street. Trespassing on S. Willow Street. Citizen assist on E. Main Street. Drugs paraphernalia reported on S. 2nd Street. Injury accident on N. 6th Street. Agency assist on S. 5th Street. Theft on N. 1st Street. Fires on Patit Rd at about milepost 7 as well as on Turner Road just as the pavement turns to gravel; deputies assisted with traffic control and...
3 Dayton Senior Round Table Senior Center (403 E. Patit St.) Tuesdays and Thursdays. Meals are $4 for those over 60 and $7 for those under 60. Enjoy a hot meal in a social setting. Play pool, cards or spend time visiting. Call 382-2836 to RSVP by the day prior. 22 **Waitsburg Summer Food Program Final Day** Late Night Swim Prescott Swimming Pool Open until 10 p.m. Wildhorse Backyard Party Wildhorse Casino Lawn 5:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Free & open to the public. Everyone is invited to a backyard party on the lawn with live music, fun and giveaways....
Ten Years Ago August 26, 2004 Life-long Waitsburg resident Randy Hinchliffe has been hired as the new City Clerk for the city of Waitsburg, announced Mayor Marty Dunn at the August 18 city council meeting. He will start in the position on August 30. Republicans in the September 14 Primary Election race are incumbent David G. Carey, Walla Walla; Chuck Carruthers, Prescott; and Waitsburg native Rod Estes of Prescott. Democrat Jim Leid of Waitsburg awaits the top Republican finisher in the November 2 General Election. Twenty-Five Years Ago August...
PRESCOTT - "Being out of balance - everyone has their own version of what that is," Melissa Lee told the group that gathered last week at Prescott's Lions Hall. "But they're usually uncomfortable." Lee, owner of Walla Walla based Melissa Lee Acupuncture, gave a presentation and workshop on "The Science of Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine" in Prescott last Monday night. The free event began with a brief presentation on acupuncture, its history, and its benefits. Acupuncture, Lee said, was...
DAYTON - The Columbia County Sheriff's Office arrested 31-year-old Dayton resident Brandon John on Monday following two suspicious fires reported early that morning on Pettyjohn Grade Road and Robinette Mountain. Columbia County deputies have been investigating a series of suspicious fires over the last few months, according to court documents. John became the primary suspect after deputies and fire fighters noted the presence of his girlfriend's car near the scene of the Pettyjohn Grade fire,...
DAYTON - The Columbia County Auditor's Office announced Tuesday that Randy O. Lewis's name will be added to the general election ballot this year as a challenger to County Prosecutor Rea Culwell. Lewis, who challenged Culwell in her 2010 reelection bid and lost, received 18 write-in votes in this year's primary election. Culwell was running unopposed. According to Washington State law, if a write-in candidate receives at least one percent of the total votes cast in a race, he or she is eligible...
