Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Heart BEAT WAITSBURG - The first thing you see is a pan of the wheat fields, followed by a drive through town: the stately early-century homes, campus-like sidewalks and the downtown Main Street core. Then suddenly, Paul Gregutt and Karen Stanton Gregutt are greeting you from the kitchen aisle of their new Three Maples Cottage on Third and West. "You," that is, if you happened to be among the hundreds of guests attending the Auction of Washington Wines' Gala at Chateau Ste. Michelle in...
DAYTON - Mead is wine made from honey instead of grapes. A new winery featuring the buzzing bee's nectar in its wine is opening on Main Street in Dayton soon, almost a year after it was first announced. The grand opening for Mace Meadworks is set for Friday and Saturday, August 19 -20th. Lots of live music will be featured at the opening . D aergan Guy, Quincy Harper, DJ Sailsworth and Table of Contents are all scheduled to perform. The full lineup of events is posted at www.macemeadworks.com....
DAYTON- Madison, a black quarter horse, is doing a slow square dance beside Robert Phinney. She moves her hind end to the left, takes two steps back, and bows her head. Phinney has hardly moved. "It's an energy thing," says Phinney. "And it's a presence thing. I think that's one of the things that's a little difficult for people." Phinney says he believes we all had that energy and presence as children, but we lose it as we grow up. He smiles, and the corners of his graying moustache lift....
DAYTON - For T.J. Hersey, running her father's grocery store in Dayton is a way for him to live on. Hersey is now a thirdgeneration grocer in the town. Her grandfather, H.W. Stephenson, came to Dayton in 1938 from Portland, Ore., and he opened up a grocery in 1944. Hersey's father, Gail Bennett, took over in 1961 and ran the neighborhood grocery on Fourth Street until he passed away last year. "He was a grocery man all his life in Dayton," Hersey said of her father. "(Keeping the store) is what...
HUNTSVILLE - Zooming by on Highway 12, it's easy to miss the unassuming signs that mark the county line. "Entering Columbia County" reads the one going east. "Entering Walla Walla County" greets drivers going west. Most motorists pay them scant attention. But not businessman John Palmer. The owner of the new Ace Landscaping nursery, who barely needs binoculars to read the Walla Walla county sign, says it spells unfair competition to him, at least until Columbia County officials amend their...
DAYTON - Jackie Penner believes God put her on earth to care for the animals that cross her path. A few years ago, Penner adopted a newborn starling and taught it to whistle Yankee Doodle Dandy. The starling also learned to say "be nice" just before it stopped coming back to the farm. She cried when it didn't return. "Imagine that," she says. "Sixty years old and I'm bawling because my bird is gone." Animals are one of Penner's two biggest passions. The other is art. Painting is where she...
Editor's Note: This is the second in an occasional series about Columbia County Health System serving patients in the Dayton and Waitsburg areas. The series will focus on changes and developments since last year's management study and review. WAITSBURG - The night after Jeff Monyak filed his elections paperwork to run for a seat on the health district board of commissioners, he cal led incumbent Jack Otterson on the phone at home. He didn't know Otterson personally, but knew the reputation of...
WAI T SBURG - One's a cow girl. One's a mother of two. One's a chef. One's a graduate wine maker. One's a journalist. Coppei Coffee's core team couldn't be more different or their paths to the town's new culinary crossroads more varied. Yet they have more than a few things in common when it comes to their vision and passion for Waitsburg's soon-to-open coffee house on Main Street. "I want it to be a place where you can come to soak in and enjoy the morning," said Marc Bru, Coppei Coffee's genera...
DAYTON - When Yance Yost asked his friend and gallery owner Claire Johnston if she might be interested in placing one of his pieces in the jimgermanbar, which she runs with her husband, the answer was "no." Yost dropped his head in disappointment. He didn't think that his piece, a wired collage of empty picture frames accompanied by a poem about the images that "used to lie inside," "sucked that bad." Then he realized Johnson hadn't finished answering his question. "But you can have two months...
Editor's Note: This is the first in an occasional series about Columbia County Health System serving patients in the Dayton and Waitsburg areas. The series will focus on changes and developments since last year's management study and review. D AYTON - More than a year after Columbia County Health System's board of commissioners called in a consultant to help the hospital district with its management issues, the controversy over staffing has largely blown over. In some departments, such as the...
WAITSBURG - Local 4H and FFA groups came to the Fairgrounds this last weekend for the annual Waitsburg Junior Livestock show as they have for more than half a century. Youths as young as six years old were out in force to strut their animals' stuff in the arena for the chance at the Grand Champion title. Blue and red ribbons were awarded in all classes and each division's reserve and grand champions competed for the overall Grand Champion honors that came with tack prizes, gift certificates and...
WALLA WALLA - As the sun angled in from the west, casting its golden evening warmth over Borleske Stadium, Sweets fans began to fill the bleachers, food courts and beer gardens for the first game of the 2011 season Friday. Waitsburg eighth grader Shayla Tsosie was there with her aunt Christina Record from Walla Walla and Record's boyfriend David Wahlstrom on leave from Iraq. " There's nothing like opening night in baseball," Wahlstrom said. "I don't care if it's the major league, the minor...
PRESCOTT - No one in the Prescott School District is in denial. Times are tough. Earlier this year, the Junior Senior High School was listed as one of 50 schools in the state with academic performance problems. The district has a year to fix it. Meanwhile, Prescott has lost 11 students, or 5 percent of its student body, so far in 2010 - 2011. And late last month, district officials announced they'll need to cut two teaching staff positions and eight hours of non-teaching staff time due to lower...
WALLA WALLA - Despite the most wishful fantasies about growing coffee in greenhouses somewhere in the hills around Waitsburg, it's obvious that sourcing one's coffee shop product here fresh isn't a possibility. The plants just won't grow well above or below the nice, warm, tropical band around the equator, just like grapes require certain conditions that seem to be ideal just seven miles from town in, say, Spring Valley. And traveling the world to buy individual batches of green beans, then...
Every girl deserves to be a princess on prom night, even those who can't afford the dress. So Dayton resident and Cinderella's Closet organizer Katherine Besst has decided to play fairy godmother. "It's something I've always wanted to do," she said. "I really want to let these girls know they're special and give them something they're always going to remember." The gift of glamour, freely given. It started with a wish of her own. "I remember reading an article somewhere about a group helping...
WAITSBURG - They may not perform their "sport" in front of a hometown crowd. They may not generate "edge-of-your-seat" excitement just before the clock runs out. They may not get a rousing sendoff when they leave town as would-be champions later this month. They may not even leave in a yellow bus. But all that aside, this team from Waitsburg High School is also going to the state "playoffs" in Spokane to test their academic knowhow against other competitors from around the state. The 2011 Knowle...
Lindseys Embark On Adventure From The Heart WAITSBURG- Not quite a quarter century on the planet, Cole and Brittany Lindsey found themselves at a crossroads late last year. Cole, now 25, had worked as a Department of Ecology contract biologist doing environmental impact assessments at Hanford for three years, while Brittany, 24, was working as an emergency room nurse at Kadlec in the Tri Cities. The lease on their rental came up, and they needed a change. Plus, they were ready to give in to a...
Editor's Note: The last names of students from Jubilee Youth Ranch were omitted at the request of Jubilee staff in order to comply with the school's policy of confidentiality. P RESCOTT - This is the story of a group of troubled young men and their often unrecognized contribution to the success of Waitsburg-Prescott sports. To be fair, it' s taken years for WP coaches and play- ers, together with staff at the private school where these youths live, to learn how to work with the boys of Jubilee...
DAYTON - After 37 years with Columbia Rural Electric Association, Glenn Hagfeldt will retired on January 31. He started with the rural energy cooperative on February 1, 1974. "I'm an engineer and I like book ends - nice even starts and stops," Hagfeldt said in explaining the precise date of retirement. And as he will be 63 this year, he'd like to get busy with projects and traveling plans. "I restore cars," he said. "It keeps me busy and broke. I must be the only guy from Montana who doesn't...
Editor's Note: This is the fifth and last installment about the work of Clear Path International. Imbert Matthee is one of the organization's co-founders. Its mission is to offer medical and socio-economic aid to survivors of land mine accidents. T he twenty men at the Care Villa may no longer be able to walk, see or eat their food without help. But they still have their voices and they are always eager to sing for any visitors to the Mae La refugee camp on the border between Thailand and...
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs may have lost against Liberty Christian Saturday, but they now know they can win games because they did so twice in a row: against WWVA 41-37 on Thursday and against Lacrosse Washtucna during the holiday tournament. "I know we can play with any of them," head coach Scott Hudson said after Thursday's game against the Knights. "It wasn't pretty, but it was a win." For the men, the picture is different. They're a skilled team, know how to stay in the game despite some...
When I first visited Vietnam more than a decade ago, it wasn't immediately obviously to me that this Southeast Asian nation was a war-ravaged country. Certainly, there were crater marks in the landscape as we flew into Hue City, and on our way to Dong Ha, Quang Tri Province, I saw a number of roadside bunkers and watchtowers that stood as a quiet testament to the conflict that had ended a quarter century before I first traveled there. But even the mostly rural province of Quang Tri looked like...
VISTA HERMOSA - The WP Tigers soccer team didn't break any of its own records this fall. After all, this was its first-ever season. But its tenacious performance set new benchmarks in the state, and its recognition around the league has been impressive, giving the boys and girls from the Broetje Orchards, Prescott and Waitsburg plenty to celebrate. "You started as the lowest-ranked, 23rd, and finished number one (in the 7/9 district)," head coach Rickie Hamilton told the team members, sibl...
Dear Editor: Your Dec. 2 edition incorrectly stated that the football team this year was the first Waitsburg team to have an undefeated season. In response, please let me tell you about the undefeated 1967 Waitsburg Cardinals. We not only had a perfect 9-0 record, but we were dominant. In eight of the nine games, the first-string defense shut out the opponent. The only game in which an opponent scored on the first-string defense was a 40-12 victory over DeSales. Our offense was not as good as our defense, but our offense was good. The first...
PASCO - Just how important is Kris Cady to the Cardinals' offense and defense? Well, try sitting him out for half a game as head coach Jeff Bartlow did because Cady breached team rules last week. The difference was night and day. During the first half of the WP game Thursday against the Chiawana Riverhawks' JV team, the Cardinals trailed 6-7. As soon as Cady, who is a running back on offense and a strong safety on defense, and running back Justin Armstrong were back in the lineup, the Ca...
