Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago September 23, 2014 There were miles of smiles last week during the Commercial Club Salmon Barbecue, which saw an increase of attendance over the previous year. According to Co-chairman Ivan Keve, 709 paid to enjoy the famous plate of salmon, up 26 from 2003. Total ticket sales amounted to $10,630, Keve said. Thankfully the weather forecasts were inaccurate and the predicted chance of showers yielded to blue skies and puffy white clouds for the 31st annual Pioneer Fall Festival. Pioneers of the Year Ivan and B.A. Keve recounted a...
SCHEDULE 11:00 Community church service on the Bruce House lawn - Bret Moser officiating 12:00 Pioneer of the Year presentation 12:15 - 3:00 Buffalo burgers with the Q Wood-Fired Grill 2:15 Vintage style show Front lawn musicians: 12:15 - 12:40 Grandma & The Boys 12:45 - 1:10 The Turner Clan 1:15 - 1:40 Switchgrass 1:45 - 2:10 Big Font 3:00 - 3:15 Waitsburg Quartet 3:15 - 4:00 Women's Trio Parlor music:...
WAITSBURG - Jim and Geraine Hansen, Waitsburg's 2014 Pioneers of the Year, reside on a picturesque plot near the top of what their daughter Mary calls "the Hansen version of Walton Mountain." Mary lives just a half-mile up the road; daughter Karen Yager is three miles up; and son Norman lives in the original family homestead on top of Coppei Mountain. In addition to the mountain-dwellers, the immediate Hansen clan includes daughters Cheryl in Pullman, Jeanette inWalla Walla, and son John in...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg School Superintendent Carol Clarke announced at the Sept. 10 school board meeting that the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) will recover $38,708 from the district's September apportionment due to the district's "failure to maintain effort in the special education program". Clarke said the unexpected financial ding is "a tough one." Clarke explained that the recovery comes as a result of staff reductions that took place in 2009 and...
DAYTON - Attorney Abbie Broughton Marsh joined the Columbia County Prosecutor's Office this month as deputy prosecutor. She fills the position left vacant when former deputy prosecutor June Riley left to take a position with the City of Walla Walla. Marsh moved to Dayton with her family in 2013 after working nine years in the Riverside County, Calif. District Attorney's Office. She has worked for the past two years for the Nealey and Marinella Law Office here. "Abbie will be a great asset for...
