Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG – According to Wikipedia, mortgage burning parties – once a popular rite of passage – are now considered a "gauche" form of bragging, since such payoffs are so rare these days. That said, the Waitsburg Ambulance Service is happy to "brag" that, with the help of the Waitsburg Lions Club, they now own their building on Preston Avenue free and clear. The Waitsburg Ambulance Service (WAS) – a nonprofit 501c3 dependent largely on volunteer effort – was organized in 1970 and just celebrate...
DAYTON – The search for two overdue hikers from Portland ended happily last week after search groups spent two days in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness, near Panjab Trailhead south of Dayton, attempting to locate the men. Chris Warden, 20, and Harrison Salton, 23, both students of Portland's Reed College, found their own way out of the woods late Wednesday morning, March 25; they left Portland on Saturday and had been expected home on Monday, March 23. Warden and Salton, though experienced h...
DAYTON – More than 26 residents sat – or stood when they ran out of chairs – in the small space for audience members at Dayton City Council Chambers March 25, at a Dayton Historic Preservation Commission meeting that lasted late into the evening. For more than three hours, members of the commission, along with city planning director Karen Scharer, listened and responded to a stream of negative public comments regarding Dayton’s two locally registered residential historic districts – Washingto...
Waitsburg High School 2015 Prom Court ......
Dayton High School 2015 Prom Court......
WAITSBURG -- The Annual Meeting of the Waitsburg Commercial Club will be on Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m. at Waitsburg Town Hall. The announcement of the Community Service Award and the 1st annual Business of the Year Award will be that evening. The new slate of officers will also be announced. Dinner is $12 per person; no charge for meeting only. RSVP to ikbakeve@charter.net or (509) 337-6546....
Ten Years Ago April 7, 2005 Behind seven firsts, the Waitsburg Cardinal Boys Track squad scored 136.5 points to take first place in the seven-team Dayton Alumni Relay Invitational, held Thursday, March 31 at Dayton. Matt Baker notched a trio of firsts, Wade Bennett won two in the pit jump events, and Gabe Kiefel and Jeremy Nichols won the javelin and 400 m, run, respectively, to lead the Cards to the win. Brandon Tate of Waitsburg was named the Offensive Player of the Week for the semi-pro football team, the Walla Walla Stars. Tate scored two...
WAITSBURG/DAYTON -- Several Easter egg hunts will take place on Saturday, April 4. The Waitsburg Grange and Commercial Club will host their annual hunt, complete with prizes and a visit from the Easter Bunny, at 10 a.m. at the Waitsburg City Park. Washington Federal Bank and the Dayton Kiwanis are sponsoring a hunt in the Dayton City Park at 10 a.m., also. The hunt is for ages 1-10 and there will be candy eggs as well as eight golden eggs with prizes for each. The Blue Mountain Station in Dayton is also hosting a hunt at 12 p.m. at the Station...
Waitsburg Nothing reported. Dayton Mar. 23 Fraudulent phone call reported on S. Touchet Road; someone posing as an IRS worker. Caller reported an ATV driving through a private field on E. Dayton Avenue; vehicle was gone when deputies arrived. Open door reported on S. Cottonwood Street; deputies checked the area and secured the booth at the football field. Mar. 24 Suspicious male staring into houses reported on W. Main Street; deputies contacted a male and transported him to a local hotel. Deputies assisted Fire District 3 EMTs on a medical call...
PRESCOTT -- Waitsburg Commercial Club has a limited number of seats reserved courtesy of Prescott Library and the Walla Walla County Rural Library District. Limited seating is available for those who would like to learn more about Excel. Basic (beginner) class is Wed. April 7 from 4-7 p.m. and Advanced Excel Class is Fri. April 10 from 4-7 p.m. Call Joy at (509) 539-8773 or email joyofantiques@msn.comto make a reservation for one or both sessions....
April 3: Donna Knotts, Deanna Huffman Tipton, Terry McCoy and Mary Beth Reese. April 4: Tanner Patton, Carly Mary Jean Pearson, Frank Wood, Dan Hofer, Jack Murphy, and Tarah McCaw. April 5: David Smith, Ray Jeremiah, Frank Williams, Frances Allion, Susan Syferd, Jessica Meier and Rob Fry. April 6: Dane Kiefel. April 7: Griffen Hinchliffe, J. W. Clayton, Carla Gritman and Jo Polumsky. April 8: Rita Green, Harlan Hulce, Lori Holmes, Carol Groom, Kris Griffin, Kassi Nix and Alan Kysar. April 9: Harold A. Oliver, Becky Huwe, Josh Stewart, Amanda...
There is a partisan disagreement in the grain markets. Wheat called for a low and reversal to the upside on March 6. Some observers commented that it was too early in the spring debate season to make such a decisive point. Corn and soybeans, opposing the point with many negative pledges coming in from Latin members, briefly filibustered, then moved to push lower in direct opposition to wheat. Argentine corn was seen in the lobby at $8 per metric ton below U.S. offerings in the export markets. Soybeans were seen to be organizing a massive...
Washington, What a State! Jeff Foxworthy is best known for his “Redneck” jokes, but he actually wrote several “Washington” jokes as well. One of them was: “If you sometimes switch the thermostat from ‘Heat’ to ‘AC’ and back again on the same day, you live in Washington.” This is accurate. I’m one of those naturally cold-blooded people. My baseline temperature is closer to hypothermia than it is to the standard 98.6 degrees. I am somewhat notorious in the Waitsburg school system for wearing a large silver coat every day between the start of...
DAYTON – Installation has already begun on eight solar panel systems that will adorn the roof of the Port of Columbia's Blue Mountain Station just west of Dayton city limits. The panels should be in place and operational by the end of this month. The Port of Columbia, which owns the 6,912-square-foot building, has partnered with Walla Walla Flat Roof Educational Energy (WW-FREE) to install the panels. The solar array should generate 35.4 kilowatts of energy and provide Blue Mountain Station w...
Dave Finney, Columbia County Courthouse maintenance supervisor, planted all new roses on the courthouse grounds on March 16. Seven-year-old Dayton resident Moriah Hagg and her family helped Finney install the 20 plants where roses have been tended on the grounds for many years......
DAYTON – Columbia County has not yet moved forward in its plan to switch power providers for the courthouse and county public works office from Pacific Power & Light to Columbia Rural Electric Association. The county commissioners, on former Commissioner Chuck Reeves’s last day on the board, voted unanimously Dec. 31 to “begin the process” of changing power providers for these two county buildings for reasons of reliability, better quality of power, and the potential for lower utility rates....
WAITSBURG – Substitute teacher Gene Wilkes completed his student teaching at Waitsburg High School and jumped at the chance to cover for Ag Teacher Nicole Abel while she was on maternity leave. Wilkes, who covered for Abel from the first of the year until last Friday, March 27, made the most of his time working with students in the shop. Wilkes designed several projects that will continue to be used and appreciated by the students of WHS in the years to come. Wilkes is trained as a social s...
PRESCOTT – A $5,000 donation from the Yancey P. Winans Testamentary Trust to the Prescott Joint Parks and Recreation District (PJPRD) will help provide much-needed playground equipment in the Prescott Park. PJPRD co-manager and administrative assistant Yvonne Jackson said the district applied for the grant last year and received $1,000 to upgrade its park and play equipment. She said those funds were used to purchase pool noodles, water pogo sticks and to put a new water basketball backstop a...
WAITSBURG – After more than a year spent researching the best and most affordable solution, the leaking liner on the Waitsburg City Pool will finally be replaced. At its March 26 meeting, Waitsburg's City Council voted to replace the current liner with a special, high-build epoxy pool paint that will save tens of thousands over installing a new vinyl liner. City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe said that there has been a slow leak in the shallow end of the pool for about two years. He said the l...
LAPWAI, Ida. – The Waitsburg-Prescott boys’ track team easily won the first Southeast District 9 1B/2B track meet this year, which was held here last week. The Cardinals outpointed a strong Asotin boys’ team, 191 to 174. Senior Owen Lanning and sophomore Travis Crockett each tallied three individual wins at the meet. Lanning captured both the 110 meter and 300 meter hurdles events. He also won the triple jump and took third in the long jump. Crockett won the 100 meter and 200 meter races and t...
DAYTON – On a beautiful sunny Saturday here, the Dayton girls' softball team lost a heartbreaker to River View, 15-10, in ten innings. The Lady Bulldogs scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the score at seven and send the game into extra innings. Those runs came on a clutch two-RBI single by Kellie Moore. Taylor Frame and Madison Mings had started off that inning with doubles. Moore was 4-for-4 on the game. River View scored three runs in the top of the ninth, but Dayton m...
WP Boys’ Results Place Grade Name Time/Dist. 100 Meters - Varsity - Finals 1. 10 Travis Crocket 11.95 9. 10 Joe Leamy 12.88 11. 10 Daelon Davis 12.98 16. 11 Alex Pietrzyk 13.34 17. 11 Austin Hopkins 13.98 200 Meters - Varsity - Finals 1. 10 Travis Crocket 24.39 5. 10 Daelon Davis 25.95 8. 10 Joe Leamy 26.35 400 Meters - Varsity - Finals 1. 12 Tyler Shafer 58.03 4. 11 Alex Pietrzyk 1:01.40 5. 12 Paulo Martinez 1:04.14 800 Meters - Varsity - Finals 3. 11 Tewedros McDowell 2:13.97 1600 Meters - Varsity - Finals 13. 10 Skyler Wood 5:46.00 16. 10 R...
WP third-basemanHannah Grant (#19) and catcher Jade Alleman try to pick of a Mac-Hi runner during a home game last week. WP lost 15-5 against Mac-Hi but put up a good fight on Friday, losing 13-12 in an away game against Pomeroy......
POMEROY – The WP baseball team was 2-1 for the week last week, beating Mac-Hi Thursday, 7-2 at home, and then splitting a double header here Friday against Pomeroy, 13-7 and 5-6. On Friday, the Tigers started got a rough start in both games, giving up four runs in each of the first innings. After falling behind 6-2, in the first game, WP rallied for 11 runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings, to put the game away. Sophomore pitcher Tyler Fedderson relieved Jacob Dunn in the third inning a...
