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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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The Times presents our 2013 version of the Christmas Special Section, a long-standing tradition in Waitsburg. A special thanks goes out for the generous assistance and efforts of the staff and students of the Waitsburg School District. We again publish the children’s poems, stories and letters to Santa with the Christmas season as a backdrop. The special section would not be possible without the support of the many local businesses, whose advertising helps make these pages a community g...
WAITSBURG - City res- idents will see an increase in their water/sewer statements come January - but only about half of what was origi- nally proposed. At Monday night's City Council meeting the board approved a water/ sewer increase of 3% to begin with the January 2014 statement. City Administrator Ran- dy Hinchliffe proposed an increase of $4.90, either to be initiated with the January bill or phased in over time. The amount was arrived at by evaluating the rate of inflation over the last 10 years and determining what a rate increase would...
WAITSBURG - Dayton and Waitsburg students col- lected 1,093 pounds of food and nearly $600 in cash donations for local food banks this past weekend, during a new, joint-community event coined "The Battle Against Hunger." The two school districts were looking for an extra, non-league basketball game and hit upon the idea of a Cardinals-versus-Bulldogs match (boys and girls) and involving both communi- ties, according to Stephanie Wooderchak, Waitsburg High School athletic director and secondary...
Waitsburg Chapel (320 W. 2nd) will be holding a Christmas Eve service at 5:30 p.m. on December 24. The service will focus on the meaning of Christmas through readings, poems and song and end with a candle lighting....
The Blue Mountain Assembly of God Church (311 S. 4th St) will hold their Christmas program on December 22 at 10 a.m. Lo and Behold! Seeing is Believing is a three-act play, directed by Carrie Dawson. In this production, two bumbling angels get left behind after announcing the birth of Jesus. In their short time on earth they visit the stable in Bethlehem, interact with people who know the whole story and figure out how to get back to their angel homes in Heaven....
One Quiet Night: A Dramatic Musical for Christmas will be performed at Starbuck Community Church on December 22, 2013 at 6 p.m. Refreshments following performance...
Waitsburg's annual Community Christmas Cantata will take place at 7 p.m. on Dec. 22 and the Waitsburg Presbyterian Church (504 Main Street). All are welcome....
Grace Church (301 S. Third, Dayton) will be hosting a Blue Christmas Celebration on December 22 at 7 p.m. This is a joint service of Dayton's First Congregational Church and Grace Episcopal Church. Many cultures have different words for what it means to feel "blue" during the holidays, but as people of faith, we embrace a time to recognize those feelings instead of glossing them over with more joy than seems possible. "Our hope for this evening is to acknowledge and remember both the struggles and the joys that come to our lives duri...
The Liberty Theater is hosting their annual Christmas Cookies and Classics on Dec. 19. The fun starts with local bluegrass quartet The Barnstormers, who will play from 6:30 - 7 p.m. A live cookie auction will follow. Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, will begin at the conclusion of the auction. Admission is $3 and the doors open at 6:15 p.m....
WAITSBURG - Out of 15 area schools - large and small alike - Waitsburg's Knowledge Bowl team currently ranks third, only one point shy of second place. "I'm impressed," said Knowledge Bowl Coach Brad Green. "We held our own even against the mighty Hanford High School." Waitsburg took first place in their first two meets of the year - the first with a score of 88 and the second with a score of 100. The next meet will take place in Dayton against an unlimited number of teams. In February teams...
WALLA WALLA - The Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center (VAWW) in Walla Walla is offering free credit monitoring for up to 1,519 Veterans whose personal information, including social security numbers, was inadvertently emailed to an external education partner on November 1st. "VA places the highest priority on safeguarding the personal information of our Veterans," said Medical Center Director, Brian Westfield. "When an incident such as this is discovered, we will immediately take prompt remedial action such as notification to t...
DAYTON - A group of developers officially an- nounced plans this week to construct a large facility in Columbia County, near Starbuck, to produce pulp for paper products from wheat straw. Their company, called Columbia Pulp, hopes to have its pulp mill up and running in the fall of 2015. It would produce more than 400 tons of pulp per day and would likely employ more than 130 full-time workers. According to lead partner John Begley, Columbia Pulp has secured a 450-acre site along Highway 261 nea...
WAITSBURG - The Dayton jumped out to an early lead in Saturday night's game here, with nine quick points, and led 14-11 at the end of the first quarter. But the Bulldogs were unable to sustain their offence, as the WP Cardinals pulled out a 38-25 win. WP coach Tavis Crittenden said early foul trouble hurt his team in the first half and caused his team to switch from man-to-man to zone defense after the intermission. "With the zone we were able to hold them to one field goal and four points in t...
WAITSBURG - Saturday's pre-league girls' basketball game between Dayton and WP was a success for the Lady Bulldogs. Though the Cardinals were on their home court, Dayton girls won the game 37-22. The victory wasn't as sweet as it could have been for Bulldog Coach Clayton Strong, however. "The game did not have a lot of flow to it as neither team shot the ball well or took care of the ball," Strong said. "We are glad that we won a rivalry game away from home, but I don't think that we are sati...
DAYTON - A survey is available online in which Columbia County residents can weigh in on their preferences regarding future development of parks and recreation facilities in Dayton, Starbuck and Columbia County. The survey is available at www.surveymonkey.com/ s/2RM86PD. For more information, contact Zam DeShields, of the Eastern Washington University Graduate School of Planning, at (208) 771-4585....
The Columbia County Rural Library District is pleased to announce that they have been selected as a World Book Night distribution site. World Book Night U.S. is part of an ambitious campaign to encourage reading and giving. A half million free paperbacks will be handed out across America all on one day - April 23, 2014 - by enlisting 25,000 volunteer book lovers to promote reading by personally giving specially printed books to light or non-readers and to those without the means or access to them. The 35 World Book Night U.S. titles for...
DAYTON - During their November 25 meeting, the Dayton City Council adopted a budget for 2014 which included slight utility rate increases for water, sewer and garbage. Water rates increased two percent, sewer 2.5% and garbage 3%. Council member Dain Nysoe cast the lone dissenting vote on each increase, claiming he felt that existing reserve funds could cover any increased costs the city faces in delivering utilities to residents. In an interview this week, Dayton Mayor Craig George said he f...
DAYTON - The Dayton School District plans to introduce two new programs next year to enhance students' understanding of human rights and civil rights issues. These efforts come after two highly publicized incidents involving racial and ethnic slurs. In January, a program called "Living Voices," on the topic of civil rights, will be presented to Junior and Senior High School Students. The program is scheduled to coincide with the Martin Luther King holiday, according to School Superintendent...
December 19: Lexus Ann Benson, Jack Maxwell, Shirley Cummings. December 20: Kellie Rarick, Margaret Naumann, Mela- nie 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 Due- ñas, Forrest Mock, Gordon Bateman, Suzanne DeCoria. December 23: Tyler Hofer, Joyce Beckley, Claire Raven, Alta Daniel, Larry Bickelhaupt, Lorene Brown, Kim Doug- las, Richard Bessey, Karen Lambert. December 24: Shirley...
Ten Years Ago December 25, 2003 Gabe Kiefel had a double-double - 12 rebounds and 10 points - against the Prescott Tigers last weekend, helping the Cards to a 59-32 win. Waitsburg opened league play on the road, winning at Jubilee Christian 65-46 Dec. 18 and now holds a 2-0 record. The Counterfeit Santa Claus, "a musical melodrama, was performed by members of Waitsburg Elementary Grades K - 5 in the Waitsburg High School Auditorium on December 18. The old-fashioned melodrama, in which the audience helps boo and hiss the bad guy and cheer the...
To coin the 1949 Christmas tune by Frank Losser, "Baby, its Cold Outside." I do hope you have plenty of wood chopped and stacked! Old timers I've talked to say they haven't seen it this cold for forty years! I visited Tucannon Meats today in Dayton. I bought four beautifully marbled grass fed clean beef steaks for dinner. As I drove out to Dumas Station winery for a bottle of Cow- catcher Red, I couldn't decide what to do with the steaks, except I knew I wanted the most beef flavor. Usually this would call for just salt and pepper, but in winte...
I f you find yourself waking down the centerline of a busy street, it is very useful to be aware of where the cars and trucks are (in both directions). And every once in a while it is good to look a couple of blocks ahead to be prepared for that big semi. For wheat owners and traders, it is an occupational haz- ard to lose perspective; to become caught up in the smaller, day-to-day information and action flow and to forget that the price range of the last several months is only a very small part of the whole picture. The market always tells us...
The Coalition for Youth and Families and Columbia REA are sponsoring a First Night Party on December 31 at 7 p.m. This is a night of fun for the whole family from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Seneca Activity Center. There will be games, food, music and prizes. Admission is free, but children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult....
The Liberty Theater is one again ushering in the New Year with a Black and White East Coast New Year's Eve Party. This year's clas- sic comedy, Some Like it Hot, stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as two Chi- cago musicians who disguise themselves as women to avoid being rubbed out by the mob after they witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. During their flight they meet up with a singer in a band, played by Marilyn Monroe, who dreams of marrying a millionaire. The movie be- gins at 6:55 and is followed by a champagne toast and reception at...
