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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Lifetime Waitsburg resident, Elmer Hays, 86, passed away Oct. 1, 2012, at his home. One of 10 children, Elmer was born Nov. 7, 1928, in Waitsburg, to Robert and Elsie Sieckman Hays. He graduated from Waits- burg High School in 1943. He served in the U.S. Navy as a frogman during WWII and was called back to serve in the Korean War. He worked on sea-go- ing tug boats in the Pacific Ocean, between the Bering Sea, Alaska and down to California. He returned to the Waits- burg area where he did farm work. On November 8, 1963, he and Joan Raymond...
MILITARY TRAINING GRADUATE WAITSBURG -- Air Force Airman First Class Ryan A. Mason graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The air- man completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic train- ing earn four credits toward an associate in applied sci- ence degree through the community college of the Air Force. Mason is the son of Gerald and...
A photo that ran in the Oct. 4 edition of the Times with the story "Dayton Spikes Cardinals in Four" the Dayton player was misiden- tified. She is Madison Mings....
The summers of my junior high and high school years, my father would take me to work and pay me to file bills of lading and, tentatively, I would practice my newly learned typing skills on judiciously selected correspondence. The highlight of these workdays with my father, were lunches with the Chamber of Commerce and committee meetings, where I witnessed local business owners and managers of businesses networking. I learned to ap- preciate the salesmanship and stewardship involved in many businesses When I started my own business, I used much...
You've heard the term "job creator" bandied about a lot. Rich Cowan, who is running for the 5th Congressional District seat, is a real job creator. After working in TV for some years, in 1990 he mortgaged his house, attracted other investors and started the company North x Northwest Productions which has produced over 40 feature films and now has five divisions. Since founding the company he has brought millions of dollars and hundreds of good jobs to the region. Have the millionaires and billionaires been taking advan- tage of the healthy tax...
Our founding fathers en- visioned a Congress where citizens, steeped in local val- ues and rooted in real life ex- perience, served with focus and commitment. Today, too many of the people we send to Washington are career politicians more interested in playing politics than actually fixing what is wrong. The result is an economy mired in a sluggish recovery, families suffering to make ends meet and cuts to education, Medicare and veterans' benefits while Wall Street rewards its own failure with our money. I am running for Congress because I...
Editor's Note: After The Times ran a story in our Sept. 20 edition titled "Parents Air Frustration Over Class Size" about the fourth grade class in Dayton, Reporter Morgan Smith wanted to sit in on this fourth grade class to see for herself the pros and cons of such a large class. On Sept. 18, The Times informally emailed Super- intendent Doug Johnson to see if Smith could sit in on the fourth grade class for one day. That request was denied by Johnson. How- ever, he said parents were more than welcome to sit in on the class. On Sept. 26, The...
Ritzville, Port Townsend, Omak, Twisp, Camano Island, Liberty Lake, Waitsburg. The newspaper publishers who came to the round table session at the 125th Washington Newspaper Publishers Association convention in Yakima the weekend before last were from all over the state and from both sides of the mountains. The round table was the last meeting at the convention that Sat- urday morning. It gave publishers from small weekly newspapers like The Times a chance to compare notes on businesses and our challenges. Towards the end of our meeting, the...
WAITSBURG - The WP cross country team is raising money for breast cancer pa- tients by selling wristbands. All cross country team members will be selling breast cancer awareness wristbands through Oct. 12 for $2 each. Coach Joanna Lanning said if all of the bands are sold, the team will be able to donate $600 to the Breast Cancer Special Needs Fund at Providence St. Mary's in Walla Walla. The idea for the fundraiser was Lanning's. She said she liked how NFL teams and the Walla Walla Rodeo par-...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Clinic's new Ad- vanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Kortney Killgore- Smith brings emergency room experience to the Columbia County Health System and is ready to take on new family practice patients. Even though she is new to the health system, she's not new to the Waitsburg Clinic. Killgore-Smith spent 30 days working with Advanced Reg- istered Nurse Practitioner Dawn Meicher to learn the ropes of family practice. Meicher had months ago asked the health system to...
DAYTON - Goats were the main event at the ninth annual OctoBoer Fall Finale Boer Goat Show & Buck Futurity show at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. The show brought breeders, exhibitors and owners out to show and see Boer goats Satur- day, Oct. 6, and Sunday, Oct. 7. Show Secretary and Host Terry Brown said she was happy with how the event went. "It was good," Brown said. "We had a lot of new people." Brown said she has been in- volved with the festival since its inception. The event is usually...
