Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Waitsburg photographer Bill Rodgers captures a secret gulch....
WAITSBURG—Help your friends and neighbors celebrate the holiday season this year by getting in on a fun new tradition proposed by the Waitsburg Resource Center. For the first twelve days of December place one of the items listed on page seven into a sturdy box or reusable bag. Make it easy on yourself by picking up extras of these typical groceries when you shop, so that you can easily make your “12 Days Box” complete. Once your box is complete, drop it off at the Resource Center at the Preston street entrance of Waitsburg’s Banner Bank, o...
DAYTON-On Monday, Columbia County Commissioners Mike Talbott, Ryan Rundell and Chuck Amerein had the opportunity to visit with Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, topics under discussion included the Southern border wall, healthy forests, breeching dams, and other topics of interest. McMorris Rodgers said during the first two years of the Trump Administration, $5.6 billion was appropriated and signed into law for construction of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. "So that is now unde...
preliminary 2019 Election Results* City of Dayton Mayor Zac Weatherford................................................490 Delphine Bailey.................................................179 Write in...............................................................68 City of Dayton Council Member #4 Dain Nysoe........................................................415 Cara James.........................................................256 Write in...............................................................13 City of Dayton Council Member #6...
Town Hall got spooky Tuesday night, at the Which Witch Dinner and Hat Competition. Witches from all around came for the fun... and some warlocks, too! The dinner, hosted by the Waitsburg Commercial Club, featured local pop-up boutique Country Chic, and Tupperware by Deb Callahan. A beef bourguignon dinner was rounded out by fresh apple pies, games, and live music by Kavin Kuykendall. Kelly Aaron Trop won the Creative Hat Award....
Ten Years Ago November 12, 2009 Headlines: Five Cardinals Make All-League; Bartlow named Coach of the Year. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson is slated for staging at the Little Theater of Walla Walla beginning November 20. Local actors include: Topher Murphy, Sauna Lilly Bogley, Gil Alden, Cassidy Meliah, Joyful Opara, Taiko Cantil, Broday and Pepper Bonds, Phyllis Bonds, Cody Hoffman, Dana Crist, Jessica Barkl, Sierra Tinhof, Bailee Butler, Taya Lovejoy, Nattie Castillo, Kaysie Clayton, Lauren Llewellyn, Daisy Schoen, Erin Swift, and...
Thurs. Nov. 7: B: Breakfast pizza. L: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes & gravy, salad. Fri. Nov. 8: B: French toast. L: Straw hats, cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices and grapes. Mon. Nov. 11: B: NO SCHOOL! Tue. Nov. 12: B: Biscuit & gravy. L: Chicken Cordon bleu, baby bakers, broccoli, and grapes. Wed. Nov. 13: B: Long John. L: pizza, baby carrots, garden salad and pineapple. Thurs. Nov. 14: B: Breakfast pizza. L: Hot ham & cheese, baked beans cucumbers, and apples....
Dayton Senior Round Table Lunch Menu Dayton Senior Center 403 E. Patit St. 12 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 7 Meatloaf & Gravy Au Gratin potatoes Baby carrots Salad & Roll Banana & Milk Tues., Nov. 12 Roast Beef Mashed potatoes & gravy Waitsburg Senior Lunch Menu Waitsburg Senior Center 504 Main Street Tues., Nov. 12 Mashed potatoes Meatloaf Salad bar Cookie & Bread...
Our state’s economy and way of life hinges on low cost and reliable electricity. Since Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams were completed in the early 1940s, Washington has enjoyed both. We are accustomed to flipping a switch and our lights illuminate. Our state’s electricity supply is abundant and our transmission system is dependable. Washington is heavily reliant on hydroelectric generators----many of which are located in powerhouses on the Columbia and Snake rivers. Only during the severe dro...
Correction: In “A report from the Dayton City Council for October,” (October 24, 2019) Michele Smith wrote, “the city has also been working with the Sheriff’s Office, public health services, and the city’s Public Safety Committee to resolve a situation on S. 4th St. around a garbage collection semi-truck parked on that street, he said.” The owner of the vehicle states the correct designation for the truck is an “organic recycling truck....
WALLA WALLA—The Downtown Walla Walla Foundation is proud to partner with the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial AMVETS Post #1111 to present The Veterans Day Parade on Monday, November 11, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. This year’s Veteran’s Day Parade is sponsored by Nelson Construction Corp, City of Walla Walla and the City of College Place. The Parade Marshall this year is Newton Zanes, who is a United States Marine Corps, World War II and Korean War Veteran. Newton enlisted in the service July 1940 and was discharged 1952. Newton is 97 years old. Mr. Z...
October 5 An adult male in the 300 block of Erdman Lane reported a burglary he discovered after reviewing security cameras from earlier that day, Burbank. October 26 Report of an unwanted subject/ disturbance at the Walla Walla Corn Maze. 800 block of Five Mile Road, Walla Walla. October 28 A burglary was reported in the 600 block of B Street. Items were stolen from one of the shops on the property, Walla Walla. October 29 An indecent exposure was reported at the Walla Walla County Jail. An adult male reported his 2007 Honda CRV was stolen...
WALLA WALLA—Leapin’ Louie (aka “The Roping Fool”) is a comedy cowboy entertainer who performs lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. His high-energy brand of cowboy entertainment hits the Gesa Power House Theater on Sunday, November 10 at 2:oo p.m. This performance is part of the Little Watts Children’s Series of Family Entertainment sponsored by Walla Walla Valley Honday and is appropriate for all ages. Leapin’ Louie has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world....
DAYTON—Basin Disposal will be picking up bagged leaves. The leaf pick up will not be part of the regular garbage route, it will be a different truck on a separate route. Tentative dates: Mondays: November 18, November 25, and December 2nd. Dates are subject to change for whatever reason. Leaves in bags only, no garbage, rocks, bricks, sticks, roofing, etc. Do not overload the bags, 40 pounds is plenty. If you have an alley, place the bags in the alley, if you do not have an alley, place the bagged leaves next to the curb or edge of the s...
DAYTON—Members of the community are invited to a dedication celebration for the Green Giant Pullout on Hwy. 12 west of Dayton, on Friday, November 15, at 11 a.m. A bus will depart from the Blue Mountain Station at 11 a.m. to take people out to the pullout for the ceremony. Refreshments will be served and the public will be able to see a collection of Green Giant memorabilia. A brief presentation on the history of the Green Giant Cannery in the Touchet Valley will be given at the Blue Mountain Station Co-op and Nursery, following the c...
WAITSBURG—The Waitsburg Town Hall Association will hold their annual election event on Thursday, November 14 at Waitsburg Town Hall. A dinner of soup, salad, garlic bread and desert will be provided at 6:30 p.m. Waitsburg community members are encouraged to attend. An election of three directors for the organization will follow. Any adult living in the 99361 ZIP code is eligible to be a director and to vote in the election. Current officers are Jim Romine-President, Ron Griffin-Vice President, Ron Standring- Treasurer, Jim D...
November 7: Robin Hilton, Stan Mock, Roberta Collingwood, Desiree Zuger, Maybelle Leinbach, Elizabeth Xaudaro, Kelsey Tarp. November 8: Bruce Gentry, Melvin Keiser, Jennifer Harwood, Kristen Baker, Dana Weir. November 9: Frances Scott, Robert Hawks, Jodee Liebermann, Alan Jackson Jr., Corrie Cozier, Lillian Carpenter. November 10: Kaitlin Vaughn, Ruby Potter, Stephanie Zuger, Nathan Stroobants. November 11: Wes Moors, Judy Annabel, Dick Beck, Freda Kay Price, Nadine Branson, Sherill Roberts, Kathy Carpenter, Barb Knopp, Herb Bessey. November...
WALLA WALLA—Gesa Power House Theatre will present America’s Sweethearts in concert on Sunday, November 10 at 7:00 p.m. America has loved the swinging sounds of female close-harmony groups even before The Andrews Sisters hit the airwaves with “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön” in 1937, but audiences will hear those great vintage songs with fresh ears when America’s Sweethearts take the stage in their fresh and vibrant show! These New York City-based musicians have performed across the United States at iconic spaces honoring our veterans (the Intrepid A...
WALLA WALLA-Bluewood Alpine Race Team (BART) will host a screening of Warren Miller's Timeless - the 70th annual ski and snowboard film by Warren Miller Entertainment - at Gesa Power House Theatre on Friday, November 8. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. for a prefunk party (food truck, silent auction, giveaways). The film screening begins at 7:30 p.m. Much of the world has changed since Warren Miller started making ski films in 1949, but the passion of snowriders across the globe has stayed the same....
Waitsburg School District Superintendent Mark Pickel welcomed a small group of parents to a coffee hour this past Friday at the Waitsburg Elementary music room. With chocolate donuts, and fresh hot coffee, he shared recent test data from the district with the five mothers who attended. Four of the mothers had elementary and pre-school aged children, and one was a mom to a seventh grade student. The pre-schoolers in attendance added a level of industry and volume to the gathering as they...
DAYTON—The Friends of the Community Center’s President Vicki Zoller said their group should hear by mid-November whether, or not they will be awarded a $20,000 grant from the Wildhorse Foundation. If so there will be money enough to pay for the first phase of the pool feasibility study, she said. She said the organization has been working with architects from Schemata Workshop in Seattle, and they have agreed the $60,000 feasibility study can be done in phases. Zoller said in the first pha...
WAITSBURG-Tom House set a goal in his freshman year of high school; he wanted to earn every FFA degree available. After five years of diligent record keeping, showing hogs at the local fairs, and a hefty amount of volunteering, House has earned the American FFA Degree; an honor awarded to less than 1% of FFA members. "Once I earned my Greenhand Degree my freshman year, I wanted to go all the way through to my American. It was kind of a personal challenge," House said. "I'm the first in my...
DAYTON-The Touchet Valley Arts Council's 2019 fall musical Mary Poppins promises to be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Director Elizabeth Arebalos-Jagelsi said, "It's epic and different than any other we've done on this stage." Mary Poppins is based on the stories of P. L. Travers. It tells the story of the Banks family who are rescued from their emotionally stunted father when a musical, magical nanny, named Mary Poppins, drops into their lives at Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London. This...
Gone are the days of the tinker tinker buzz from the egg timer. More often than not, at a friend’s house for dinner I’ll hear, “Alexa, set a timer for ten minutes,” but it is in more ways that one that technology is making itself at home in the kitchen. In general, big ticket appliances like refrigerators are updated only as need arises. It’s at some crucial juncture when one must decide if a refrigerator needs something as full service as a camera, Wifi, bluetooth and digital display....
The month of November is a special month. Not only because it's like an extension of October in the Walla Walla Valley, or that the late season big game hunts are open. Rather, November offers a time of reflection as winter approaches and we gather with friends and family to give thanks. Given my love for fall, I spend many cool evenings reflecting on the outdoor opportunities I have been afforded over the years, and the magnificence of our nation's natural resources. One extraordinary September...
