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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Members of the Penpals FFA group from Waitsbrg (dressed in white shirts) showed pigs at the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days over the weekend....
WAITSBURG—The 46th annual Pioneer Fall Festival is coming to Waitsburg Sept. 16. Hosted at the Bruce Mansion Museum Complex located at 314 Main St., this all-day event features an activity for every sensibility. The festival begins at 11 a.m. with a non-denominational Cowboy Church service officiated by First Presbyterian Church of Waitsburg Pastor Brett Moser. This year’s Pioneer of the Year, Mary Grant Thompkins, whose family farmed a large spread near Prescott, will be honored following the service at noon by Waitsburg Historical Society pre...
DAYTON-The mural on the west side of the Broughton Land Co. has received a much-needed restoration, which included repair to the wall and repainting to brighten the mural images. Kennewick mural artist Don Brown is almost finished with the work. He was selected by the Dayton Development Task Force, which raised nearly $10,000 for the project. Much of the funding came from donors to the Task Force's B&O tax incentive program. Brown repaired the stucco and bricks on the lower part of the wall in e...
Ten Years Ago-September11, 2018 Why a person would undertake the training, discipline, and dedication to enter a race which will take over 16 hours to complete and involving a 2.4 mile swim, bicycling 112 miles, and running a full marathon of 26.2 miles, is a question Waitsburg High grad Tammy (Otterson) Wood and her husband, Scott, get asked regularly. Scott and Tammy have been doing triathlons about 10 years. Among triathletes, the ultimate is to do an ironman, she said. “It’s a goal that takes a few years to arrive at." Over 45,000 mar...
DAYTON-The Touchet Valley Ladies Golf Club hosted their annual Nine Hole Invitational on Aug. 22 at the Touchet Valley Golf Course. Six golf clubs from the area attended the event: Walla Walla Country Club, La Grande Country Club, Meadow Springs Country Club (Kennewick), Buckskin Golf Club (Richland), Willow Creek Golf Club (Heppner, OR), Zintel Creek Country Club, Kennewick. Winners of the nine-hole scramble, with a team score of 35, were Carol Sohn, Meadow Springs; Cherie Hinchliff, Touchet...
WALLA WALLA—The 17th Annual Pond & Garden Tour on Saturday is a fundraising event benefiting Walla Walla Community Hospice. This is a self-guided tour of 10 unique and creative gardens in the Walla Walla Valley. Tickets for this event include entrance to all 10 gardens. Vendors selling garden art and products will be found at eight properties. Five properties will host local musicians and three properties will host working local artists. WSU Master Gardeners will be available for brief tutorials and information. Proceeds support the work and s...
Sept. 6: Summer Wood, Caris Cole, Ed Larson, Jeanette Hansen, Robert Henze, Nancy Wittman, Orrin Anderson. Sept. 7: Scott Rarick, Nancy Crowe, Maxine Mercer, Kristi Kiefel, Bob Danforth, Chris Pearson, Jeff Pierson, Justin Reedy, Joy Lindsey. Sept. 8: Gus Senter, Erma Lee Smith, Jo Gouge, Amy Branson, Patty Mantz, George Lloyd III, Esther Cox, Carol White, Patsy Gouge, Ronda Eastwood, Claire Lyman. Sept. 9: Cadman Donovan, Trevor Johnson, Terry Ferguson, Melissa Christensen, Bob Rea, Amie Green. Sept. 10: Bill Stonecipher, Lorna Zajac, Lana...
I want to first take the opportunity to assure City of Waitsburg residents that our current situation with the wastewater treatment plant is not something to panic about. Yes, the pressing system needs to be replaced, but no, we will not be dumping directly into the river; in fact, that would never be an option. Nor are you going to have to stop flushing your toilets anytime soon. We have reached a point with our pressing system where we are looking at an emergency-type situation IF we do not get it replaced, but we are currently working on...
Dear Editor, Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers has many noteworthy achievements. She has had 10 bills passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives, five of which have cleared the Senate and been signed into law by the President. Did you know she fought for and passed the Faster Care for Veterans act, authored major new laws to help people with disabilities to become independent, helped pass legislation to protect our Columbia and Snake River dams, won expanded support for the Spokane Teaching Health Center and community clinics to bring more...
Last April, Washington wheat, apple and cherry growers hoped U.S. and China trade negotiators would resolve differences and prevent imposition of damaging tariffs on our state’s leading crops. Unfortunately, that did not happen, and the costs are adding up. Thousands of Washington farmers now find themselves on the front lines of a battle between the two largest economies in the world. Here’s what has happened so far. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on $34...
Things have changed a bit in the Old West over the last two centuries. While we don't ride horses as much as we did then, we still admire the life of the cowboy, the vast expanse of mountains and prairie, and the wildlife of the area. This is the New West, a subject close to the heart and hands of oil painter Tobias Sauer. Sauer has spent a major portion of his life residing near the route taken by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. "I paint scenes from the West because I love it," says the Coeur...
BURBANK—he Dayton-Waitsburg football team dropped its first game of the season Friday night on the road at Columbia-Burbank, 25-8 The Coyotes scored touchdowns in the first and second quarters to take a 13-0 lead going into the half. But the DW defense stiffened up in the third quarter and held CB scoreless. “We came out tentative and confused with the Columbia-Burbank Defense,” said DW Coach Troy Larsen. “At half time we were able to coach the kids up on what CB was doing and had a really good third quarter.” On the first play of the fourth qu...
DAYTON—New Dayton-Waitsburg volleyball coach Tara Brenner says she has high hopes for this season’s first-ever DW combine volleyball team. “We have a great turn out of athletic young ladies that are excited and hopeful for a successful combine Volleyball season,” Brenner said. “Playing in the State Championship this year is our number-one goal.” She added, “As League approaches we are working on creating an unstoppable defense and a quick offense.” DW’s varsity team includes eight Waitsburg girls and five from Dayton. Waiting in the wings are...
DAYTON—After last week’s paper went to press, we received a slight revision to this year’s Dayton-Waitsburg volleyball schedule. The match at Liberty Christian, originally scheduled for Sept. 13 has been rescheduled for Oct. 15. The JV game starts at 5 p.m. and the varsity game starts at 6 p.m. In addition, a match was added to the schedule for Wednesday of this week at Weston-Athena....
DAYTON—In last week’s issue of The Times we posted a soccer schedule for Dayton-Waitsburg for fall 2018. However, Dayton-Waitsburg will not be fielding a soccer team this year. We inadvertently published the schedule from 2017. We’re sorry for the error. DW will also not have a cross-country team this year, due to lack of participation....
WALLA WALLA-Waitsburg's own Grace Coulston won grand champion at the Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days held Aug 29-Sept 2. The winning goat, Grace's Red Princess is an example of a Boer Goat's stout frame. Coulston says working with the goats is fun, but her favorite part of showing livestock at the Fair is "all the people I get to meet and how much everyone's supported me in my passion. And how nice everyone has been." Coulston discovered raising livestock with the encouragement of a family...
Waitsburg-A blessing box has been installed in front of the Waitsburg Christian Church. In it, individuals in need will find food and hygiene products. This community resource is "open to all with no judgment or questions asked," said the church's Senior Pastor, Matthew Wyatt. For its inaugural run, the three-shelved pantry is stocked with dish soap, ramen soup, toilet paper and peanut butter. But in the future, contents will vary. Citizens are invited to donate items to the box as well. "If you...
Waitsburg High school faculty don sunglasses for a portrait....
I found this recipe in the Costco Connection and I liked that it used apple and cucumber. Remember the chicken poppy seed salad? It seems several chicken recipes have nuts and fruit. That one had pecans and grapes. I didn't make this one yet but will later. For me, this will be used as a salad. A few notes on cashews: Cashews are packed with antioxidants, vitamins E. K. and B6, and minerals such as copper, phosphorus, zinc, magnesium and iron. Many of these can be hard to find in other foods....
