Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Remember what Preston Park looked like during Cycle Oregon? There were vendors selling everything from veggies to T-shirts. There was a beer garden and live music. There were cyclers getting their picture taken with Izzy the camel. It was a fun, festive sight that made you want to stop and pull over on your way through town on Highway 12 or 124. Now a small group of local organizers wants to create such an attraction at the park every Friday evening and may get some help from the city for its goal to create a permanent seasonal farm...
WAITSBURG - Track and field may not be a team sport, but the Waitsburg Prescott Cardinals do have a team goal for the season: hang on to their status as district champions, which they've held six of the last seven years. New head coach Jeff Bartlow said that from what he has seen of the 2011 team after nine practices, he believes the Cardinals can do it. "I think we can defend our title," Bartlow said this weekend, as he was putting the finishing touches on this year's roster of athletes. "The t... Full story
DAYTON - Golf is a whole different ball game for fall and winter sports players like Dayton senior Dain Henderson and freshman Kale Sunderland, both fresh off the basketball court. ""It's a chance to work on my own," Henderson said. "Whatever I put into it is what I get out of it." Henderson, though a varsity starter in football and basketball, confessed that golf is actually his "favorite sport by far." Coach Mike McGhan said Henderson is one of his top golfers, most likely to practice until dark nearly every day. "I'm with the kids," Mc-...
PRESCOTT - Spring is creeping up and the WP Lady Tigers are on the prowl for a return trip to the 2B softball state tournament. The Tigers finished second in district rankings in 2010, suffering heartbreaking state tournament losses to Colfax and DeSales that ended their run for the title. Head coach Angie Potts returns for her ninth season with the Tigers and will have her hands full with the 38 players that have turned out to compete. Assistant Marvin Eng, JV coach Nicole Riggs, and volunteer...
DAYTON - With a core group of veteran athletes, the Lady Bulldogs softball team is concentrating this year on their mental game. "We're doing new things this year like focusing on base running, signs, and knowing where to throw the ball," said junior Nikki Lambert. "If we can get those things down, we'll be one step ahead." The Lady Bulldogs are already a tough team. They were third in the league last season and lost just one senior, a veteran catcher. They lucked out, however, in Brazilian exchange student Miwa Umeda, who plays full-time...
DAYTON - The Bulldogs baseball team may be small, but they mean to make some big noise this spring. Having lost just one senior and gained one newbie, junior Garett Turner, the boys are a tight-knit team of 13 this year. " We don't have many kids, but we have some good ones," said assistant coach Dean Bickelhaupt. "They're all good athletes." Many of the team's juniors have moved together from the football field to the basketball court and now join again on the diamond for another season of...
PRESCOTT - The snow has melted, grass is growing, and it's time to play ball. Veteran head coach Dustin Snedigar begins his third season with the WP Tigers, bringing with him 12 years of coaching experience that began at Eastern Washington University, where he guided the freshman squad. He has been playing this game since he was 5 years old and is enjoying the time that he has with this program. Alongside him for another season is assistant/pitching coach TJ Scott. The WP Tigers are coming off... Full story
WAITS- BURG - Bette Burgoyne's idea of doing a drawing 11 inches wide and 10 feet long had several sources of inspiration. There was M.C. Escher's "Metamorphosis," the mindbending left-to-right journey of a crossword like text that changes into blocks, lizards, a beehive, fish, a flock of birds, a mountain town, a chess game and finally back to a text. There were the Chinese landscape paintings that unroll from top to bottom and are so long they could only be displayed in a very high stairwell....
Longtime Dayton resident Susan Dickinson, 85, died March 11, 2011, at Booker Rest Home. A memorial service will be held at the Dayton First Congregational Church at 2 p.m. Friday, March 18, followed by a reception. Susan Emily Harris Dickinson was born July 22, 1925, in Greer County, Oklahoma, to Oliver Wendell and Olive Avery Harris. She moved with her family during the dust bowl, stopping in New Mexico, California, and Washington along the way, picking fruit to make ends meet. She spoke of picking cotton with her siblings as a child. Her...
Ten Years Ago March 22, 2001 Waitsburg Commercial Club honored two special Waitsburg residents as co-recipients of the 200 Commercial Club Community Service Award, surprising Mabel Wood and Terry Jacoy at the club's Annual Banquet Tuesday night. With the close of winter sports, Waitsburg School District turned the Waitsburg Gym over to construction workers, who were soon tearing into the foyer to make way for an extended gym and storage spaces. Twenty-Five Years Ago March 21, 1986 Gary Lentz, ranger at the Lewis and Clark Trail State Park,...
Wine Guy and I have been discussing real estate lately. It seems housing in the bay area has met an all-time low, and if funds provide, the time to buy is now. I asked a realtor girlfriend what's happening in Columbia and Walla Walla counties, and she said we are experiencing the same phenomena due to "folk's economic re-evaluation of their needs." Isn't that the truth! In today's market, the kitchen still rates as the most important room in the house, with the master bedroom a close second. It would seem the purchaser of today's home wants gra... Full story
3-14: Theft. Theft of fence panels reported on Highway 261 near Dayton. Threats. Phone threats reported on E. Spring Street, Dayton. 3-13: Criminal Trespass. A suspect reportedly jumped a fence on N. B Street in Prescott clearly marked "No Trespassing" and asked the resident for prescription drugs. Collision. A one-vehicle rollover 1.2 miles north of Lower Waitsburg on Hart Road, Prescott, was reported. The driver said he swerved to miss a deer but later admitted he'd dropped his cell phone, according to the police report. His vehicle...
LIBRARY SEEKS BOARD MEMBER WAITSBURG - The Weller Public Library Board of Directors has an opening for a board member. This is a governing board and applicants must be able to attend board meetings the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the library. Candidates can pick up applications at Waitsburg City Hall or the library. AA MEETINGS ANNOUNCED DAYTON - Alcoholics Anonymous in Dayton meets Tuesday and Thursday nights at 7 p.m. and Wednesdays at noon. All meetings take place in the basement of the Congregational Church, located at 214...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg voters have another choice for city council. Grocery clerk and volunteer fire fighter Greg McVey put his name on the ballot for a seat on the five-member body, saying he wants to throw his weight behind Bart Baxter's bid for mayor. "I would like to see this town grow," said McVey, who has not held an elected position before and was asked by Baxter to run for council. "I think Bart has a lot of great ideas." At a caucus at Deanne and Larry Johnson's home in Waitsburg last... Full story
The Times is pleased to announced that longtime photographer, sports enthusiast and local resident Tracy Daniel has joined the newspaper as its first dedicated sports writer and photographer. Together with Publisher Imbert Matthee and Managing Editor Dian McClurg, Daniel will help cover high school sports in the Touchet Valley and beyond, focusing on the Cardinals, Tigers and Bulldogs. "We are thrilled to have Tracy on our team," Matthee said. "Her photography is very creative and she's a...
The water crests and curls before it pounds the beach. Its foam spreads across the sand before the effervescent edge of the Pacifi c, rolls back by a few feet and another wave roughly takes its place. This is Shi Shi. This is La Push. This is Long Beach. One day in the early part of the 19th century this was Cape Flattery, and not far from this extreme Northwest point of the continental United States, three shipwrecked Japanese sailors found their way ashore after 14 months adrift at sea. One...
There's something in the air in the Touchet Valley and it's not just spring. It's an awakening to the importance and potential of tourism as a catalyst for growth. Consider the following: At least a dozen businesses have embraced the newly formed Touchet Valley Tourism Alliance, which is considering a number of initiatives to put this area more firmly on the travel map. Dozens of businesses signed up to be in the new "Destination Touchet Valley" visitor's guide, a collaborative project of the Times, the Blue Mountain News and the Dayton Chamber...
WAITSBURG - Charles Smith's idea for the former American Legion hall on Waitsburg's Main Street is simple: turn it back into the kind of bar the town needs. Expected to be called the "Anchor," the planned new drinking establishment in the building just south of the Whoop Em Up Hollow Cafe will serve light beer, "comfort" snacks, standard cocktails, have a big-screen TV, a country music jukebox, and feature games like pinball and fuss ball. In other words, it will be everything the jimgermanbar... Full story
WAITSBURG - What began with instruments, plenty of talent and a dream has developed into so much more for six Waitsburg kids. "We wanted to follow in the footsteps of the Troublemakers," said 12-year-old Emily Adams of Waitsburg. And without hesitation, that's what they are doing. The Blue Mountain Troublemakers started in January 2003 with a group of Waitsburg Elementary kids who wanted to play bluegrass like they'd seen in the hit movie, "O, Brother Where Art Thou?" These young musicians...
