Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Come early, is the advice for those planning to attend the 28th annual Dayton Kiwanis Turkey Bingo on Saturday. Doors to the Dayton Elementary School Multi-Purpose Room open at 3 p.m., but people begin lining up by 9 a.m., according to event chair Ted Paterson. The first person in line receives a free turkey, but don't worry if you can't get there before the 4 p.m. game start time, because Kiwanis plans to give away at least 130 turkeys to Bingo winners this year before the event ends...
DAYTON - Physicians Kim Abernethy and Marek Marcinkiewicz have resigned from their positions with Columbia County Health System, effective Dec. 29, according to interim Chief Executive Officer Jon Smiley. Smiley did not comment on the reasons for their resignations, both tendered in September. "We wish them well in their future practices, though," he said. Smiley and the hospital district board are actively recruiting new physicians to fill the vacancies, but this is a challenging task. "It's a...
PRESCOTT - Local crafters and commercial vendors will be selling their wares at a Holiday Bazaar located in the Prescott Community Building (Hwy 124 and "D" Street) on Saturday, Nov. 22 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Frog Hollow Band will be selling their latest CD and wearables at the bazaar and will play a show at the Tuxedo Bar & Grill at 8 p.m. that evening....
WAITSBURG - This year's Hometown Christmas will be a two-day event, beginning on Saturday, Dec. 6 with a Town Hall breakfast prepared by the Waitsburg Celebration Days Committee. Vendors will be selling their wares all day in Town Hall as well. Sunday will kick off with another morning breakfast followed by vendors, music and entertainment in Town Hall. Santa and Mrs. Claus will pose for photos and hand out treats from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Plaza Theater. The 5 p.m. Main Street parade will be followed by an all-you-can-eat chili feed in Town...
DAYTON - It's budget season, and Dayton residents are invited to the second of three budget hearings for the city of Dayton scheduled for Monday, Nov. 24, at 7 p.m. During the first hearing, on Nov. 10, city council members approved the 1 percent property tax increase allowed annually in support of the city's budget. The third and final public hearing scheduled before the council votes to approve the 2015 budget will take place on Monday, Dec. 1. Also on the agenda for this Monday's meeting is...
DAYTON - Lael Loyd works with artists every day. As manager and custom framer at Dayton's Wenaha Gallery, on Main Street, Loyd is a professional art appreciator. "One question I'm asked often is, 'Do you have any work in here? Are you an artist?'" Loyd had always responded to this question with, "No, unfortunately not. I just work with framing the art." But one day a conversation with an artist helped her define her role in the art community. "She said, 'There are those who create and those who...
WAITSBURG - Dan Katsel has only held two fulltime jobs in his adult life. The first was working at an orchard that was once located between Waitsburg and Dayton, where he worked the first four years following his 1969 graduation from Touchet High School. He'll retire from the second -- as a member of the Waitsburg city crew -- on December 1, after spending an eventful forty years on the job. Katsel grew up in Touchet and recalls feeling "kinda jealous" as a child, when he came to visit his...
SPOKANE - The WP Tigers soccer team got a huge win Friday, beating St. George's, 2-0, in a state quarterfinals game. The Tigers travel to Sumner, Wash. this week to play Friday Harbor in their semifinals game Friday. A win would put them in the state championship game Saturday. Against St. George's, the Tigers got an unassisted goal from Jonny Escalante in the 30th minute. In the 75th minute, Ivan Figueroa scored WPs second goal with an assist from Alberto mendez. Tiger goalkeeper had two saves on the game....
PASCO - On Friday night, the Waitsburg Prescott football team took a big step toward their goal of reaching the state championship game by beating Tonasket, 27-6. They face a much bigger challenge this week. This Friday, the Cardinals face a team with a 37-game winning streak, two-time defending state champions Lind-Ritzville- Sprague. The last time L-R-S lost a game was in the 2011 playoffs, to WP, 42-7. The Cardinals were on their way to the state title. Against Tonasket, the Cardinals' defens...
PRESCOTT - Preliminary results from the Nov. 4 General Election show the Prescott Pool Maintenance and Operations levy passing easily with 69.04% of Walla Walla and Columbia County voters approving the levy. A 60% super majority is required to approve the pool's annual $110,000 levy, which translates to about 37 cents per $1,000 of evaluation, down slightly from 40 cents per $1,000 last year and 45 cents per $1,000 in 2012. "I'm delighted that the 2015 levy results show a 69.04% yes vote. It will be great to continue our excellent programs for...
WAITSBURG - The first knowledge bowl meet between the eastern small schools of ESD 123 took place at the Waitsburg Christian and First Presbyterian churches on Tuesday. Students from Waitsburg, De- Sales, Prescott, Dayton, Clarkston and Pomeroy faced off in the intellectual sparring match. Waitsburg Knowledge Bowl coach Brad Green said that, unlike football and basketball, where crowds of spectators follow the action and celebrate the heroes, Knowledge Bowl teams play unnoticed for the most...
DAYTON - The Touchet Valley was touched by early snows this past week and temperatures plummeted into the teens over the weekend, but the long-range forecast for our area doesn't look much like the weather we've had since Thursday. In fact, temperatures are predicted to warm into the 40s later this week. Before Wednesday's cold spell settled in, the weather station at the Dayton Middle School registered temperatures in the 60s and very low 70s in the first week of November. "This pattern looks...
[Editor's Note: November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, and the Columbia County Health System is reaching out to Touchet Valley residents to help them understand the disease, and measures available for prevention and treatment.] What is diabetes? As many people know, diabetes is a group of disorders that characteristically involves the body either not making enough insulin or not using its own insulin efficiently. As we take in food for energy use in the body, most of it is turned into glucose, or sugar for our later use. Our pancreas...
Waitsburg High School gets its graduation caps, gowns, and stoles (flat silky scarf things) through a company called Herff-Jones. The seniors buy their graduation gear this time of year and receive it sometime in the spring. It costs $41 to rent the gown and purchase the cap and stole (the cap being a potential stomping ground for head lice and the stole, due to the fact that it's imprinted with a school and a date, being highly un-reusable). That's all we're required to purchase. (Technically,...
On Sunday morning I got up, put a couple of logs in the wood stove and then walked across the cold wood floor in my bare feet to the kitchen to fill the kettle and make my morning pot of coffee. When I turned on the tap, the water barely trickled out. And then it stopped. I stood there and stared at it in disbelief for about a minute. I turned the faucet back and forth several times. Nothing. I stared at it some more. I'm not normally someone who wallows in self pity, but at this particular...
November 20: Lyle Harshman, Lorianne Donovan. November 21: Stacia Deal, Colleen Berry, Buster Katsel, Dana Simmons. November 22: Betsy Harkins, Connie Creswell, Tanya Vargas. November 23: Miles Reese, Bill Johnson, Robbie Johnson, Cecile Carpenter, Heather O'Brien, Jennifer Wheeler, Alice Clifton, Jean Lawrence. November 24: Orville Branson, Clay Lindsey, Betsy Beck, Lisa Gosney, Brian Newbury, Melissa DeCoria. November 25: Brandon Leroue, Kelly Maib, Lucas Olona, Jody Lehr, Carey Demaris, Tyler Green. November 26: Devon Harshman, Donna Lee...
Waitsburg Nothing reported. Dayton Nov. 11 Reckless driver reported on the corner of E. Clay and S 3rd streets. Assault reported on E. Jackson Street. Two reports of residential burglary: one at Valley View Courts and the other on E. Patit Avenue. Disturbance reported on S. 3rd Street, no crime committed. Nov. 12 Harassment reported on E. Washington Avenue regarding a collection agency calling repeatedly for a person who doesn't live there. Vandalism reported on S. 1st Street where a window in a car was broken out, may be weather-related but...
2 Dayton Senior Round Table Senior Center (403 E. Patit St.) 12 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Meals are $4 for those over 60 and $7 for those under 60. Enjoy a hot meal in a social setting. Play pool, cards or spend time visiting. Call 382-2836 to RSVP by the day prior. Dayton Kiwanis Delaney Building 12 p.m. Waitsburg Resource Center 106 Preston Avenue 2-4 p.m. The Center provides food and resources to families in the Waitsburg and Prescott School Districts. 22 Waitsburg Resource Center 106 Preston Avenue 9-11 a.m. The Center provides food...
Ten Years Ago November 25, 2004 "The First Feast" is an annual tradition for Waitsburg Elementary First Graders, part of the curriculum that includes American History and the story of the Pilgrims at this time of year. Mrs. Lindsey's students prepare for the feast by creating costumes like those worn by the Pilgrims, then at the appointed time, they follow turkey tracks to Mrs. Bickelhaupt's room in the high school where students have prepared a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. This year, the seniors in Bickelhaupt's class noted theirs was the...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg's school board, at their Nov. 12, 2014 meeting, approved a collective bargaining agreement between the Waitsburg School District and the Waitsburg Education Association. The agreement, which was to be signed and posted on the District's website on Nov. 17, enumerates the rights of both the district and the association with respect to wages, hours and terms and conditions of employment. According to Waitsburg Education Association Co-president Jim Leid, Waitsburg was one of...
DAYTON - Kris Takemura, of Dayton, was honored as the 2014 citizen of the year by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce at their annual awards banquet last week. Takemura is a Dayton native and has been active in many community groups. The Banquet was held on a snowy Thursday evening, but a nearly full house was on hand to enjoy a dinner catered by The Country Gentleman. Other category award winners named at the banquet included and McKenzie Delp as Youth Citizen of the Year, Diana Ashley, of State...
