Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Local veterans, family and friends gathered to honor Jared Brown in a muster ceremony at the Feb. 18 Commercial Club meeting. Brown is a 2013 Waitsburg graduate and son to April and Frank Gould. The send-off was a departure celebration for the Army enlistee who is leaving for Boot Camp Feb. 24. Brown will be training for Wheeled Vehicle Training with the US Army Airborne in Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. After nine weeks of Basic training Brown will transfer to Ft. Lee in Virginia... Full story
DAYTON - The Winter Sports Awards Banquet will be held in the elementary Multipurpose room on March 13 at 6:30 p.m. Athletes participating in basketball and cheer will be honored....
WAITSBURG - Athletes who participated in basketball and wrestling will be honored at an awards ceremony at the Waitsburg High School auditorium on Tuesday, March 11 at 7p.m. Please assist by bringing desserts to share after the presentations. Punch will be provided....
WAITSBURG - To Waitsburg-Prescott Cross Country Coach Joanna Lanning, giving back to a supportive community is as important as performing well in competition. WP X-C athletes recently concluded a fundraiser in which the seven-person team raised $300 for the Providence St. Mary Regional Cancer Center in Walla Walla. For several months, the athletes sold black and pink wrist bands embossed with the slogan, "Got Pink?" The group voted on both the color and the slogan. A check for $300 will soon... Full story
WAITSBURG - I choked back tears more than once as Carrie Graham described her family's experience with Special Olympics Washington. I don't think she noticed - at least I hope not. But then again, she may not have cared. I'm pretty sure I saw some sparkly eyes on her side of the table as well. Carrie and her husband Brad Graham returned from Wenatchee late Sunday night where they had coached their athletes in the 2014 Washington State Olympic Winter Games. The Special Olympics is a family... Full story
WAITSBURG - The WHS gymnasium was quite literally the most "hopping" place in town last week. On the afternoon of Feb. 26, Waitsburg elementary students filled the court -- jumping, shooting, swiveling and twirling, to raise funds for the American Heart Association (AHA) as part of the annual Hoops for Heart fundraiser. "Our goal was to raise $2,500 said Event Coordinator and First Grade Teacher Dinah Lindsey. "We ended up raising $3,320.30!" Preparation for the event began with a "kick of...
DAYTON - The Relay For Life of the Blue Mountains Kickoff Rally will be held on Tuesday, March 25 at 5:45 p.m. in the Tucannon River Room at the Best Western Inn and Suites. The public is welcome to attend and hear about the new ideas and innovations planned for this year. The Rally will also be an opportunity for participants to register their teams and team members without paying the $10.00 registration donation. There will also be an opportunity for participants to sign up to serve as Relay volunteers. Refreshments and prizes will be o...
DAYTON - The Dayton Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Brix & Brew Festival and Benefit Auction on March 14. The dinner and auction will be held at Running T Ranch, eight miles south of Dayton on North Touchet Road. The beer, wine and hors d'oeuvres social, along with silent auction, begins at 5:30 p.m. The live auction gets underway at 7. This is the Chamber's biggest fundraiser of the year. Auction items include a 3 day, 2 night trip to San Francisco, jewelry, original artwork, magnums of special wine and much more. A live auction p... Full story
WAITSBURG - Team RELAY will be holding their annual Shamrock Bingo event to raise funds for the American Cancer Society on March 15 at 5 p.m. in the Waitsburg Elementary School Multi-purpose room. Doors will open at 4:30 with Bingo beginning at 5 p.m. There will be 20 games with great prizes awarded for each. Prizes include gift certificates from Coppei Coffee, the Tuxedo, McGregors, Wilbur-Ellis, Puget Sound Energy, Kenya's Etched Glass and more. Games are $1 each, which includes three Bingo cards for each game. Attendees may purchase a...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg's Gayle Broom would like to share her garden with children interested in growing giant pumpkins. Broom grew her own great pumpkin last year and took first place in the weight class at the Walla Walla County Fair. Broom would love to share her knowledge and have area youngsters join her in this year's competition. Broom is limiting the size of the group to the first eight children who sign up. The first meeting will take place Saturday, March 15 at 1 p.m. The group will then start seeds indoors on Saturday, April 5 at 2...
PRESCOTT -- Prescott School District is hosting a First Aid/CPR class at 6 p.m. on March 12 in the Prescott School Library. Advanced Emergency Medical Technician Sharon Brooks will teach the class, which will cover basic first aid, automated external defibrillator (AED) and CPR skills. The class is expected to run approximately three hours and students passing the written and performance exams at the end of the night will earn a Medic First Aid AED/CPR/ First Aid card. The class is open to the public and the cost is $30. Contact Sharon Br... Full story
WAITSBURG - It seems there's no shortage of talent - or civic mindedness, for that matter - in the family of Doris Huffman (Ruff), of Waitsburg. Huffman recently used her artistic talents to create a painting for Waitsburg's Town Hall. Daughter Deanna Tipton - an accomplished singer and actress who was recently an extra on the remake of Dallas - performed at the Plaza Theater in 2012. Her stand-up comedy/music routine raised $1,600 for Town Hall maintenance. And most recently, Huff... Full story
Ten Years Ago March 11, 2004 A small group of Waitsburg citizens has held the first caucus of the eligibility period Sunday at the home of H. V. "Bill" and Jan Zuger, nominating three-year councilman Marty Dunn as mayor and former Waitsburg City Clerk Nancy Parker to join incumbents Mark Shively, Bettie Chase, Debara Whitmore and Markeeta Little Wolf. Jean Hinchliffe was nominated as City Treasurer. Whitney White, 18-year-old daughter of Pepper White and Becky Martin, Dayton, was named queen of the 2004 Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days at th... Full story
OLYMPIA--A new economic forecast predicts recreational-marijuana businesses will bring millions to the state, and the fight is underway for how the proceeds will be spent, with cities vying for a share. Recreational-marijuana business is expected to bring in $51 million in state revenue during 2015-2017, according to a recent financial report released by the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council. During 2017-2019, marijuana tax revenue is projected at $138.5 million. The new source of revenue represents a fracti...
It was a gorgeous room. The walls were glossily white, wainscoted in pale hardwood. The floor was carpeted in earthtones, a troddable quilt of loops and whorls and geometric flowers that somehow managed to look both formal and organic. Huge chandeliers hung from the ceiling, gigantic disks of crazed glass from which dangled dozens of white and gold bubbles on wires too thin to see from the floor, as though they were floating beneath the huge lights. It was stuffed with chairs, black vinyl-cov... Full story
On the front page of Last week's Times we ran a story about a crime that was particularly awful. A man in Dayton is alleged to have repeatedly raped his stepdaughter over a period of years. (That story ran next to an unrelated story about another awful crime: Another man in Dayton is accused of severely injuring an 11-month-old baby.) We got a lot of reaction from the rape story. Some people told us we were wrong to make the story so prominent and include as much detail as we did. They were g...
6 Kiwanis Delaney Building (Dayton) 12 p.m. First Thursday Concert St. Paul's EpiscopalChurch (323 CatherineStreet, Walla Walla) 12:15 p.m. The concert will featureDoug Scarborough, trombone; Michael Simon, bass;Michael LeFever, guitar andJason Morrison, piano. Theprogram will begin at 12:15and last about 40 minutes.The concert is free but donations are gratefully acceptedand sent to Friends of Children of Walla Walla. ContactTanya at 529-1083 for moreinformation. 7 Open Mic Night Coppei Café (137 Main,Waitsburg) 6:30 to 9:30 Three song...
March 7: Renee Adams, Jayce Dunleavy. March 8: Donovan Smith, Tanaa Maib and Scott Mason. March 9: Larry Johnson, Robert Langdon, Steve Pierson, Jennifer Bennett, Kay Baker. March 10: Bill Gluck, Win Deanna Anderson, Frank Reser and Casey Worth. March 11: Bettie Chase, Jacqueline Klaas, Catherine Donnelly, Kelly Lodato, Aaron DeFord, James Kenworthy and Adraine Michels. March 12: Cherie Kurth, David Donnelly, Ben and Bill Brown, Susan Webber, Jimmie Young, Walt Warehime, Elizabeth Abbey, Teresa Johnson and Lory Duckworth. March 13: Corey... Full story
Waitsburg March 1 Barking dog complaint on Morrow Street; dog owner contacted. March 2 Abandoned vehicle left in the middle of Taggart road for unknown reasons. Vehicle towed. Dayton Feb. 21 Juvenile refusing to go to school. Citation for speeding on Highway 261. Juvenile truancy reported. Shop burglarized at Courtney Road. Feb. 22 Report of stolen iPod on N. Front street; complainant says iPod was stolen about a year ago and thinks he knows who took it. Abandoned vehicle on S. 2nd Street. Feb. 23 Vehicle stuck on closed road on Payne Hollow... Full story
The futures markets are always keen to respond to dramatic events and ideas, usually exaggerating the effects, occasionally well beyond any conceivable reality. Still, at this point the markets have so far reacted to the drama in the Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in a relatively orderly fashion, although the discussion about the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin is dominant at the coffee shop. It is quite clear that President Putin desires to control the seaport at Sebastopol, which is a big deal for the short-run with regard to exports... Full story
William Jameson Folsom arrived on February 26 (his uncle's birthday). He was 21 inches long and weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. William was born to Tony and Jennifer Folsom at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Lewiston, Idaho. He joins his big brother, Weylan, at home. His grandparents are Tom and Mary Mathews of Waitsburg, Wash., Stan and Rose Folsom of Sangerville, Maine and the late Robert Jameson... Full story
