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The Times presents our 2014 Christmas Special Edition, a longstanding Times tradition. As we do each year, we offer up the poems, stories and letters to Santa from students at Waitsburg Elementary School. A hearty thanks goes out to the Waitsburg staff and students for their help in making this issue possible. This special edition would also not be possible without the support of the many local businesses whose advertising helps make these pages possible. Please consider these companies, large...
Fifth Grade ~ Wenda Parr ~ Cinquain Poems Photo not available winter cold, sparkling freezing, falling, skiing hot chocolate warms me frost Tristian Cush Photo not available snowmen frosty, chilly melting, snowing, laughing snowmen are cold to the touch snowpeople Caleiha House...
WAITSBURG - The Lady Cards basketball team lost two non-conference road games last week, falling to Touchet, 22-68, on Dec. 9 and Pomeroy, 17-63, on Dec. 12. Despite the losses, coach JT Elsey is encouraged by the team's steady improvement in play and teamwork. Elsey said the team played hard in the Touchet game and made headway in working as a team. "What I expect for them to do game to game, is to improve little by little," he said. Leading scorers for the Touchet game were Paige Wood, with...
DAYTON - The Dayton girls' basketball team woke up at halftime and cruised to any easy win over Pomeroy at home on Dec. 9, 41-22. The win gives the Lady 'Dogs a 4-0 record with four more games to play before the Christmas break. After taking a 17-14 lead at the half, Dayton shut out the Pirates in the third quarter and outscored the opponents 24-8 in the second half. "I thought again our effort was really good," said Dayton coach Clayton Strong. "We had some lapses especially in the second quart...
SPANGLE - The WP wrestling team traveled to Spangle Saturday to compete against 14 teams in the Liberty Invite, their first meet of the season. Of the four WP wrestlers eligible to compete at the meet, three failed to make weight goals and were forced to compete in a higher class than expected. David Just, at 138 pounds, was forced to compete in the 145 pound class, giving up nearly nine pounds to his opponents. Just started out strong in his first match against Brock Higgins from Hanford. Just...
POMEROY - The WP boys basketball team took a hard-earned road win in overtime here Friday, 63-60. The victory gave the 2-1 Cardinals a split in their series with Pirates, after losing at home a week earlier. In Friday's game, WP fell behind the Pirates early, trailing by four after the first quarter. They were up by one at the half. "I don't think either team led by more than six the whole game," WP Coach Tavis Crittenden said. With the score tied at 54 after regulation play, the teams battled...
DAYTON - How many of us recall fondly the hot lunches of our early school days? Movies and television shows depicting lukewarm mystery meat and grayish slop dashed onto plastic trays might be a touch melodramatic, but the image is grounded in somebody's reality. Right? Well, Dayton School District has hired a new chef who appears to be dispelling those lunchroom myths, and Superintendent Doug Johnson says the numbers prove it. "Just today we served our highest lunch count of the year - 253 stude...
WAITSBURG - If you're in Waitsburg and in the mood for a great cup of coffee, a tri-tip steak breakfast burrito, a bowl of gourmet soup or a freshly-baked treat, there's just one place to look: The Q Wood Fired Grill. Owners Emry and Sandy Kleck, accomplished chef Jeff Davis and barista Nichole Wood combine their passion for food and drink with an appreciation for community and the individuals they serve. From the beginning, the Klecks's had a vision for the type of atmosphere they wanted to...
Dear Editor, I am writing to protest the shooting of candid photographs of local citizenry by the Times staff. A photo of me appeared in this week's issue and it has become an uncomfortable issue, indeed. The local heathen had, at some time past, issued an informal decree that whenever someone's picture appeared in the local paper, that person was required to furnish a dozen maple bars to the Waitsburg Hardware store. Obviously, this was intended as a form of punishment for having had one's picture in the paper. However, I am not responsible...
[Editor's note: Following is one of the most famous newspaper editorials ever written. It was written in response to a letter to the editor, and was published in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun.] We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear Editor- I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please...
Dear Santa. OK, so it's been a few years since I've written. And, yes, I know about the rising cost of reindeer feed due to the effect of an expanding ethanol market, and the detrimental effect that unnecessary gift weight has on any airborne object operating without the benefit of a major lift coefficient. And, yes, I know I'm a bit too old for this. But this year, there are extenuating circumstances. I really, really need this present. Really. I loved the model I grew up with. If they still...
This week we have the privilege of presenting the writing of nearly 150 young contributors. Students at Waitsburg Elementary School have written Christmas poems or stories, or even letters to Santa Claus, and they've submitted them to us for publication. (And we're not even paying them.) Last year in this space I said that, when you write for a living, it can sometimes feel like digging ditches with your fingertips. That's an example of an analogy, which is something we writers like to use,...
December 19: Lexus Ann Benson, Jack Maxwell, Shirley Cummings. December 20: Kellie Rarick, Margaret Naumann, Melanie Land, Jeff Gusse, Nathaniel Abel, Bitsey Harshman, Christy House. December 21: Jamie Kibler, Katy Hofer, Loren Davis, Jenny Devine, James Adkins. December 22: Micah Winnett, Kara Largent, Callie Dueñas, Forrest Mock, Gordon Bateman, Suzanne DeCoria. December 23: Tyler Hofer, Joyce Beckley, Claire Raven, Alta Daniel, Larry Bickelhaupt, Lorene Brown, Kim Douglas, Richard Bessey, Karen Lambert. December 24: Shirley Kitterman,...
Waitsburg Dec. 11 WWCSO deputies were dispatched to a report of a potential self-inflicted gunshot wound on Coppei Avenue at 11:51 p.m. Upon arriving at the scene they found the deceased body of Sonny J. Morrow. No indications of foul play have been discovered at this point in the ongoing investigation. Dec. 13 Vehicle stopped for speeding on Preston Avenue. Driver arrested for driving while license suspended 3rd degree and an outstanding warrant. Dec. 14 Arrest for Hit and Run and DUI on E. 8th Street. Suspect's vehicle passed the victim's...
9 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. 20 Saturday Market Blue Mountain Station, Dayton 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Karoake Night Tuxedo Bar & Grill, Prescott 8 p.m. - midnight 20-21 Lighted Home Tours Elk Drug Parking Lot, Dayton 7 p.m. Board a bus for a "Tour of Lights" and vote for your favorite. $1.50/ person; 60+ is $1. 21 Waitsburg Resource Center 106 Preston Avenue 9-11 a.m. The Center provides food and resources to families in the...
DAYTON - Dayton and Waitsburg American Legion members will join together to celebrate the holidays with a Christmas party at the Dayton American Legion building on Sunday, Dec. 28 at 3 p.m. The party is for Legion members and active duty service members that are home on leave, and their families. The catered meal will include pulled pork, beans and coleslaw. Please RSVP by Dec. 22 to Ron Standring at (509) 520-9350....
DAYTON - The Liberty Theater will host its annual Christmas Cookies & Classics event on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Enjoy Christmas carols with Jim Thorn, a live auction of Christmas cookies and treats and a free showing of the 1985 film Santa Claus starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow. Admission is free but contributions of non-perishable food for the Blue Mountain Food Bank are encouraged. For more info, go to www.libertytheater.org or call the theater at (509) 382-1380....
Ten Years Ago December 23, 2004 Gabe Kiefel, senior fullback for the Waitsburg Cardinals in 2004 and a Blue Mountain League All Conference runningback, has been named one of the top 11 Scholar-Athletesfor 2004 by the Inland Northwest Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. Keifel and a player from Ritzville were the only B league players named. Twenty-Five Years Ago December 21, 1989 Waitsburg Commercial Club hosted a Christmas party for spouses Tuesday night, and everyone enjoyed a traditional dinner prepared by...
WAITSBURG - At least 25 people gathered at the Lions Building in Waitsburg Monday evening to attend a public hearing on a planned new housing development in the city called Whoopemup Meadows. While many came to comment on the proposal, the hearing had to be cancelled because two members of the commission did not show up, and the group did not have a quorum. Commission Chair William Potolichio, was in attendance, along with board members K.C. Kuykendall and Karen Gregutt. However, the two other c...
