Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Meet Touchet Valley Golf Course's new pro on Saturday, August 27 DAYTON-The Dayton Valley Golf course has a new golf pro. Tyler Huff brings his experience working with novices to experts, golf pros, and college players to Dayton. Over the past five years, Huff has been a teaching professional and a nationally recognized club fitter at the Reserve Golf & Vineyards in Hillsboro, Oregon. He has taught top Pacific Northwest players, including Spencer Tibets and most of the former division-one...
Board discuss special education contract WAITSBURG–The Waitsburg School Board met Thursday, August 18, for a regularly scheduled meeting. After serving the district for 25 years, board members and attendees said ‘thank you’ one last time to Human Resources and Assistant Business Manager Linda Henze, who retired the following day. The district presented Henze with a plaque, and later she went out for a celebratory dinner with district employees and friends at Whiskey C’s. Teachers and staff a...
DAYTON—The Friends of the Pool (FotP) and the Focus Advisory Group seek volunteers to serve on the proposed Columbia County Metropolitan Park District. The proposed district would be a new, unfunded taxing district to support the construction, maintenance, and operation of a new aquatic facility and other recreational facilities in Dayton and Columbia County. Five volunteers from the community are needed to make up the Park District Board of Commissioners. The Board will initially guide the management of the new district, complete contracts f...
DAYTON—Thor: Love and Thunder - This film finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi) and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, t...
WAITSBURG-United States Senator Maria Cantwell visited Main Street in Waitsburg on Friday, August 19. She was in the area visiting friends and attending the Bonnie Raitt concert at the Wine Country Amphitheater Wednesday evening. After taking a tour of the rooms at The Royal Block, the Senator met several other Waitsburg business owners and health providors at Ten Ton Coffee for an informal discussion. Royal Block Wine Bar co-owner Joe Roberts and Plaza Theater owner Corben Ketelsen, were among...
To the Editor: Recently, the Walla Walla Union Bulletin published an article on Columbia County Undersheriff Robbie Patterson, and how he preaches sermons while wearing his sheriff-department uniform. The Freedom from Religion Foundation wrote to the sheriff’s office concerning this matter, claiming that this behavior is inappropriate, because such action violates the separation of church and state. “There are a startling number of instances where Undersheriff Patterson has published videos of himself, to both YouTube and Facebook, wearing an...
DAYTON— Comments made at the August Columbia County Rural Library Board of Trustees meeting has left many in the community unsettled. During the public comment period elected officials County Commissioner Chuck Amerien and Dayton City Councilmember Laura Aukerman joined others to challenge the board and ask for certain books to be removed from the library’s collection. Since the meeting, comments on social media, including the Facebook page “Dayton (WA) Uncesnsored”, have been critical and often generating anger directed at the library board a...
DW COMBINE-Coach Troy Larsen is in his 23rd year of coaching football; seven years coaching for the Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack. He is looking forward to a fun and energetic season and you can expect his team to compete every week. Gabe Kiefel is returning as an assistant coach and Waitsburg's new PE teacher, Dirk Hansen will also be an assistant coach. Greg Crenshaw is a volunteer coach when not coaching the middle school team. With 30 young men coming out for the team, there will be competition...
DW COMBINE—Sam Korslund, DW Combine Athletic Director, is gearing up for the athletic season. Middle School football and volleyball practices will begin on Wednesday, Sept 7. Football will practice in Dayton and Volleyball in Waitsburg. The practice bus will leave from behind the Dayton High School gym at 3:30 PM. After dropping off Dayton’s volleyball athletes at the Waitsburg gym, the bus will turn around to bring Waitsburg’s football athletes to Dayton around 3:45 p.m. Practices will last from 4-6p.m. If not yet registered, parents must...
WALLA WALLA—Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days presents the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) Rodeo on Friday, Sept. 2, Saturday, Sept. 3, and Sunday, Sept. 4, starting at 6:30 p.m. each night in the P1FCU Arena. Catch heart-pounding PRCA Rodeo bull riding, bronc riding, roping, steer wrestling, barrel racing, women’s breakaway roping, and more. Fireworks will light up the sky after each night’s rodeo. Country band Santa Poco will provide the music for our first “Dancin’ in the Dirt” in the P1FCU Arena on Sunday night. The Friday...
WAITSBURG-Waitsburg's business community has been growing. Empty buildings have found new owners, and the town has a hotel again. New ventures are joining established businesses to bring food, drink, hospitality, art, and unique products to town. On Thursday, September 1, new and old businesses will participate in a city-wide open house with special events, treats, and glimpses into what is available to residents and visitors. From 4 pm to 6:30 pm, The Royal Block Wine Bar and Hotel will...
I call this series "Just Vignettes" because that's what they are, just short snapshots of things that have happened to me or have been told to me. I can vouch the stories you read here are mostly true. A cluster of workers and volunteers were standing around under the Missouri Memorial's brow during a slack period, clustered in the small spot of shade to escape the Hawaiian sun. They were mostly young tour guides, most in their early twenties, filling their idle time with persiflage. Somehow the...
Walla Walla-Two legends performed last Tuesday at Walla Walla's newest music venue. Gospel singer Mavis Staples opened the show, followed by blues guitarist and singer Bonnie Raitt at the Wine Country Amphitheater. W3Concerts, with partners CMoore Concerts and Knitting Factory Entertainment is producing the first concert series on the driving range at the Walla Walla Golf Course. The gently sloped range is a natural amphitheater with excellent sound. The evening was hot, over 100 degrees; the cr...
Now that the pandemic is somewhat under control and travel has opened, the travel bug has bitten Daniel. Travel with Daniel can be challenging. Even before the pandemic, canceled flights, staffing shortages, delays, and missing luggage could result in a Daniel meltdown. He is not a “roll with punches” kind of traveler. This weekend we made a travel trial run. We drove to Portland for a weekend of food and wine. He drove my car, but since he has the patience of a flea, my rules were: we don...
Maybe it's all the hot weather we've been locked into, but my Wine of the Week choices keep flipping back and forth between Chardonnay and Riesling. Riesling – you're up again, this time from pioneering Oregon winery Ponzi Vineyards. This is not an estate wine – Alloro and Elk Cove provided the grapes for this new vintage. Nonetheless, this is an outstanding effort, dry and textured, with an immaculately fresh lime and grapefruit core backed with appealing minerality. It's a style def...
Ten Years Ago August 23, 2012 When community members in Waitsburg need help with a project, they typically know who to call. However, some volunteers in town simply show up offering to help. Jim Davison is one of those helpers. "He's a really great, silent volunteer," said Denise Winnett, who worked with Davison at Waitsburg High School. Winnett, who lives within viewing distance of the ongoing construction of the new press box at the Waitsburg High School football field, said she sees Davison... Full story
When people in other countries are asked to describe "American food", the most common response is usually the hamburger, and for good reason. From spendy foie gras stuffed wagyu burgers at posh urban restaurants, to perfectly grilled cheeseburgers topped with "the works" at iconic small-town drive-ins, the sheer variety of burgers available attests to our love affair of good things served on a round bun. Beyond the different topping choices, Americans have a wide range of patty options other...
Traveling is always an adventure. On our recent trip to Idaho, there wasn't time to nap or read. You are never bored traveling through small towns rather than taking the freeway. Out the window, you see beautiful scenery, hardworking farmers, wildlife, and workers out in the August heat constructing wider and better roads to travel on. We passed fire crews controlling the Riparia fire that spread to the edge of the road near Central Ferry. And passing through small towns like Tensed, Idaho, you...
