Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago December 12, 2002 T'is the season of giving and the Waitsburg Lions Club is conducting its annual smoked turkey fund raising event. For a modest donation of $25, gift givers have a quick and tasty answer to the question of what to give to their hard-to- give-to friends and relatives, and smoked turkey lovers have a quick, easy and affordable way to get the taste they crave. The Waitsburg Lions seek the public's help with this project, which helps numerous youth-oriented projects and causes in the Waitsburg community. The club's la...
Tuesday morning's USDA monthly reports on supply and demand balance sheets had a surprise for the wheat trade: world wheat stocks were increased by 3.4 million metric tons over last month's reported total. The trade had expected some increase, but the surveyed pre-report guesses from prominent analysts around the country were uniformly too low. Another negative statistic was dumped on the market Tuesday morning in the USDA's reduction of projected US 2012-13 wheat exports by an additional 50 million bushels, the second cut in as many months....
Waitsburg 12-05 An illegal burn was reported on Taggart Road. 12-06 A domestic violence assault was reported. Suspect wasarrested. A dog attack was reported on Fourth Street. Report- ing party's dog was attacked by a neighbor dog. Suspiciouscircumstances were reported on Fourth Street. A residentcame home and found the back door open. 12-08 A bag of marijuana found on the high school grounds and turned over to the sheriff's office was reported on CoppeiAvenue. 12-11 A burglary was reported on Lewis Peak Road. Nothingwas taken. Prescott 12-05 A...
TOBOGGAN RUN WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg School 6-12 musicians will present their annual Christmas Concert on Monday December 17 at 7pm in the WHS auditorium. The Sixth Grade Band will lead out with their latest pieces, capped by "Christmas in the Kitchen," played on pots, pans and glass bowls with ladles and spoons. Wear an apron! The Preston Hall (7-8th grade) band will play some of their favorite pep and concert pieces, including our title song "Toboggan Run," and "A Charlie Brown Christmas." It's sure to give you chills! The WHS Guitar Class...
TOUCHET - Chuck Car- ruthers remembers how doz- ens of residents of Prescott volunteered their time and resources to launch the city's library in a space donated by the Lions Club. "There were 66 people who donated their time and skills," said Carruthers, who was mayor of Prescott at the time. "The district provided the books. It was a coopera- tive effort." The year was 1999 and the space was 900 square feet. More than a dozen years later, the community has far outgrown its little library, so its residents are thrilled they will get a new one...
Editor's Note: Genie Crowe is a volunteer for the Blue Mountain Chapter of the American Red Cross H urricane Sandy made landfall in the mid-Atlantic on Monday, October 29, with particular damage to New York and New Jersey. Al- though it was only a category 1 hurricane, it was the largest Atlantic hurricane in history with winds covering 1,100 miles wide. Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine, and as far west as Michigan and Wisconsin. Superstorm...
Read this first, then turn to page 15 for your local shopping guide. It's no secret that this has been a tough year for local businesses. This time of year, it gets even tougher. At the same time, 2012 may go down in history as the most dif- ficult year yet in recent memory. In one respect, that might be a good thing as things can only go up from where they bottom out. But in other ways, it's bad news because some businesses may not be there for the upswing. They'll simply be shut- tered and become one more empty store front. As winter is...
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WAITSBURG - Waits- burg's American West Bank made a donation that will keep a lot of neighbors fed during the winter months, giving a whopping $1,600 to the Waitsburg Resource Cen- ter, the biggest donation the bank has given to the local resource center to date. American West Bank Branch Manager Andie Holmberg said the bank tries to make a donation to the food bank every year. At the corporate level, the American West Bank allocates funding as part of their community reinvest- ment act,...
PRESCOTT - The Walla Walla County Rural Library District has purchased an $85,000 property from the Prescott School District to build a new home for the Prescott Library as part of an effort to revamp its county wide branch system. Aletha Bonebrake, the district's interim director, said her organization district had been looking for a location in Prescott to build a new 2,600-square foot library, which would be nearly three times the size of the current 900-square-foot facility. The district, wh...
