Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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When you follow the Touchet River along Bolles Road west of Waitsburg, you'll spot a tall pine towering above the other trees along the banks. It may be one of the few reminders of the first people who traveled this valley between the Snake and Columbia rivers. According to legend, Native American traders planted the pines because the species' height made them visible from great distances thus marking their trail. Celebrated explorers Lewis Clark were the first white men to document the area on...
It gives me great pleasure to welcome our "Cycle Oregon" guests to the wonderful little City of Waitsburg. We are honored to have you spend time here on your weeklong tour. Our history of hosting travelers and visitors goes back to our roots as a territorial settlement and includes the annual Tour of Walla Walla, which brings hundreds of cyclists to town. As Waitsburg's Mayor, I want to thank community members and leaders for working many hundreds of volunteer hours to make your visit here a...
WAI T SBURG - On an early spring weekend five years ago, the Tour of Walla Walla made its usual no-stop route through Waitsburg. Just as the racers were starting up the grueling Middle Waitsburg Road through the fields south of town, a thunder and lightening storm of biblical dimensions descended on them and tour organizers quickly realized they better cancel the event for the rest of the day lest riders get hurt. So, out of the blue, hundreds of cyclists were stranded in the little town of Wait...
Barney Fife, the real Barney Fife, lives in Milton Freewater, did you know that? Yeah, and he's the spitting-image of old Barney without the Mayberry police car. He's a grower of green beans and says there hasn't been enough heat this summer for all of his Kentucky Blue Beans to climb the garden poles. Nevertheless, old Barn sold me a sack of his young, bright-green beans at the Farmers Market. Arriving home, I made a quick, cold-processed refrigerator green bean pickle for the dinner table. At 6 p.m., I put together a charcoal grill, and...
KAMIAH, Idaho - Senior T.J. Hofer made and saved the day for the Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals in their 6-0 victory over the Kamiah Kubs Friday night. In an intensely defensive game for both sides, Hofer scored the game's only touchdown during the third quarter and then made a game-winning interception during the Kubs' last drive of the fourth quarter that could have resulted in an equalizer and extra-point victory for the home team. "Anytime you can win a game 6-0 you have done a few thi...
MILTON FREEWATER - The Waitsburg-Prescott varsity volleyball squad warmed up for the season this Saturday in their match against McLoughlin High School (Mac-Hi), easily winning the first three games to take top score 25 - 12, 25 - 17 and 25 - 22. Coach Jesse Buehler, while excited to have her team win its first game of the season, reported that player stats were uncommonly low. Only Waitsburg senior Genesis Pearson had enough kills to note, making five during the evening's games, she sai...
DAYTON - The untested Waitsburg-Prescott Tigers swept the field defeating both Dayton and Walla Walla Valley Academy at the league's soccer jamboree in Dayton Tuesday evening. "We take our hats off to the WP team," said Dayton assistant coach Jerry Dedloff after the game. "They live it and love it. They're at the level we hope to be at." Though the scores at Tuesday night's jamboree don't count toward the three teams' overall rankings, Tigers head coach Rick Hamilton was pleased at the r...
DAYTON - Josh Frame's 10-yard running touchdown seemed to set the pace for the Bulldogs' season opener against the Stanfield Tigers, giving Dayton a 6 - 0 lead. But it wasn't until well into the fourth quarter and seven Stanfield touchdowns later before the dawgs regained their footing and began to put together a more solid offense. Even then, however, they were unable to erase any part of their 7-48 deficit and could only take comfort in the fact that the Stanfield Tigers have been picked to...
Waitsburg/Walla Walla County Dayton/ Columbia County 9-6: Prowler. Possible prowler reported on 3rd St., Dayton. Found Property. Bicycle found at the United Methodist Church, 3rd St., Dayton. 9-5: Suspicious salesman reported in the Spring Street neighborhood, Dayton. 9-4: Burglary. A cabin on Lewis Peak Road, Waitsburg, was broken into and miscellaneous tools are reported gone. Vandalism. A patrol car was vandalized on 3rd St., Dayton. Burglary. Cabin burglary reported, multiple items stolen, on Payne Hollow Rd., Dayton. Disturbance. V...
Dear Editor: I would like to voice my support for Mark Franklin for sheriff. I do so for two reasons. First, I believe Mark is the best qualified by a mile. He has the background, education, experience and professionalism needed going into the second decade of a very dangerous and complicated world. Columbia County may be a small, rural county now, but it is going to grow by leaps and bounds. There is an immeasurable push from the south to the north that will bring many people and many problems. When the recession winds down there will be...
Dear Editor: I am writing today to invite everyone in our area to join me at the upcoming American Cancer Society Blue Mountain Relay For Life, which is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18-19, at the Dayton Sports Complex. The Blue Mountain Relay For Life will once again raise funds for the American Cancer Society, while also raising awareness of a disease that will be diagnosed in more than 34,000 men, women and children in our state before the end of this year. One of the most moving and emotional times during the Relay is the l...
With Concept In Hand, City Can Now Approach Sponsors To Help Build A Museum Gathering Place Where Historic Flour Mill Stood As you may remember, following the fire that destroyed Wait's Mill last September, the Mayor and City Council commissioned the Waitsburg Community Revitalization Committee (WCRC) to explore alternatives for re-use of the mill site. A public meeting was held at which several suggestions were made. A primary theme among these suggestions was to do something to comme...
On Tuesday, Sept. 14, the population of Waitsburg will triple in size, at least for a few days. Normally around 1,250, the addition of about 2,500 bicyclists and support personnel from Cycle Oregon means there will be almost 4,000 people in town. Waitsburg is used to having lots of visitors. The annual Lions' Rib Fest and Days of Real Sport horse racing event in May, and the Commercial Club's salmon barbeque and the Pioneer Fall Festival in September usually bring hundreds, sometimes more than 1,000 folks to town but never this many. Not even...
Musical Entertainment Preston Park, Waitsburg Tuesday, Sept. 14 4-5 p.m. Paul Gregutt 5-5:30 p.m. Azure Dance Troupe 5:30-6 p.m. Sweet Adelines 8-9:30 p.m. Frog Hollow Band Wednesday, Sept. 15 2-2:30 p.m. Abby Molly 2:30-3 p.m. Tammy Weppler 3-4 p.m. Soul Status 4-4:30 p.m. WHS Pep Band 4:30-5:30 p.m. Rye Grass String Band 5:30-6 p.m. Waitsburg Quartet 6-6:30 p.m. Salt Light 8-8:30 p.m. BIKE RODEO presented by the Bike Gallery 8:30-9:30 p.m. The Slooches Information Booth Stop by the...
WAITSBURG - If you've ever watched the Tour de France, you know race supporters and local residents can be stretched out for miles along the route to cheer on the riders. No need to do so for the two-wheeled visitors from Cycle Oregon next week. Their "cowbell" moment through town will come between 1 - 2 p.m. on Tuesday when they pass through town coming in from Starbuck on Bolles Road south down Main Street to 8th and east down 8th to Caroline. Local Cycle Oregon organizers hope Waitsburgers will turn out to ring in the visitors, if nothing...
DAYTON - The top-ofthe hill Main Street building that was once home of Patit Creek Cellars will be entirely devoted to wine again this fall, giving Dayton two winetasting venues by the end of the year. Owners Paul and Marcene Hendrickson have leased the 1,100-square-foot building at 507 E. Main to Abacus Wine Llc of Pasco, which will operate the location as "Dayton Wine Works" and targets casual wine drinkers and travelers. In May, Dayton resident and former winemaker Reggie Mace announced he...
DAYTON - Expect the unexpected this year at the Columbia County Fair. That's the advice fair manager Shane Laib has for the roughly 5,000 people he predicts will attend this year's 120th anniversary event. "Assume nothing," Laib said Monday, as he and dozens of others began work to prepare the fairgrounds for opening this Friday. "Some c omp o - nent of virtually every part of the fair will be different this year." This is Laib's first year as fair manager, but he's been busy. Together with a...
WAITSBURG - Few Waitsburgers will forget how on Sunday, Sept. 6 last year, the town sirens wailed in the predawn hours and the sky north of Main Street was lit up with the orange glow of a huge fire. Many gathered on the bridge to see how the town's largest historic structure and once its economic heartbeat, the abandoned Wait's four mill, was engulfed in flames so big firefighters could only contain the blaze and watch its stories collapse one by one. Within hours, the 145-year-old building...
WAITSBURG - In their first home game of the season, the Cardinals beat the Pilot Rock Rockets 34 - 14 Friday night. WP is now 2-0 after having won against the Kamiah Kubs in a tough defensive away game last week. Although there were still plenty of missed and dropped passes on the part of the Cardinals, the evening showed a team getting more comfortable in its skin, particularly on defense. "We struggled connecting the dots," head coach Jeff Bartlow said about the offense after the game. "But we've made a lot of improvements. I'm proud of...
ENTERPRISE - In their first away game of the season, the Bulldogs fell to the Enterprise Outlaws 34 - 0 last night. Dayton came close to the end zone several times, thanks to big individual plays by such veterans as Colton Bickelhaupt and Dain Henderson. But each time, a fumble or an interception cost them the opportunity to score. "We just need to learn how to finish," head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said. Bickelhaupt said the long bus ride wore down the team. The dawgs came out dragging during the first quarter with two immediate touchdowns from...
WAITSBURG - After 5' 8" middle blocker Sarah Mascall went out with a tweaked ankle during the first game against Waitsburg Prescott, the young Bulldogs looked like the underdogs as they found themselves up against the much taller Cardinals. But in the end, Dayton won the two teams' first league match Wednesday night, beating WP in four games. The Bulldogs won three of the games 25 - 23, 25 - 16 and 25 - 12. WP won one 25 - 17. "It was a good win," said Dayton head coach Shannon Turner, who has only four returning varsity players this year. "I...
DAYTON - Columbia County officials agreed Tuesday morning to look into the possibility of taking over the easement of about seven miles of U.S. Forest Service road leading to Ski Bluewood, including two miles of road on privately owned property. Following a presentation given by Marcene Hendrickson, a member of the county's Economic Steering Committee, county commissioners tasked Drew Woods, county public works director, with completing a quick, but in-depth, study into the feasibility of such an action. The need for immediate resu...
LOWDEN - The Frenchtown Rendezvous, on Oct. 2, starts at 3 p.m. at Frenchtown Hall in Lowden, 10 miles west of Walla Walla. Frenchtown is the site of the 1855 Battle of Walla Walla as well as the St. Rose Mission and Cemetery. The celebration will include a salmon feast cooked by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, talks by members of the Frenchtown Historical Foundation and local tribes, entertainment including tribal drummers and dancers, a French Canadian fiddle band, dancing, an auction and displays. The requested donation...
