Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON—Speaking at the June Dayton City Council meeting last week, Planning Director Meagan Bailey said dividing the city into eight zones has made code enforcement easier. Vehicles and RVs parked in the right of way is the biggest current problem, she said. Council member Matt Wiens said enforcing obstruction on sidewalks from RV tip outs is problematic for the Sheriff’s Department. He said RCWs and WACs exist, but there is no penalty attached. This issue will be referred on to the city planning commission for correction, Mayor Craig Geo...
DAYTON – Columbia Pulp is now well on the way to having the employment impact in the area that community leaders have been hoping for for nearly five years. In an interview with The Times last week, Columbia Pulp CEO John Begley said that his firm received about 100 resumes during a job fair in Dayton earlier this month. Hiring fairs have also been held in Walla Walla and Pomeroy. “We will begin making offers in about three weeks,” Begley said. He said that most jobs at the company’s main facility near Starbuck will start in mid-to-...
DAYTON-There is now a two-way race for the District 3 Columbia County Commissioner seat in this year's November election. The winner will replace retiring commissioner Merle Jackson beginning in January. Dayton native Dain Nysoe, who currently serves on the Dayton City Council, has filed to run against Chuck Amerein, who announced his candidacy earlier this year. Nysoe filed as a Democrat, and Amerein, as a Republican. Nysoe said economic development is at the top of his list of priorities. "Our...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Commercial Club and the Waitsburg Town Hall board of directors will host a candidates’ forum on Wednesday, June 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Town Hall. Candidates for Walla Walla County Sheriff and for two state representative positions from Legislative District 16 are expected to be in attendance. Walla Walla County Sheriff Candidates include former sheriff’s deputy Tom Cooper, current Undersheriff Mark Crider and Matthew Stroe, director of security at Whitman College. State representative Position 1 candidates are Repub...
Since 2019, neither rain nor sleet nor snow has prevented the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail to people living along the Snake River in the remote and rugged regions of Hells Canyon. Last Wednesday was no different, when 20 of us boarded the mail boat in Clarkston for the 160-mile round trip. We pushed off the dock at the Port of Clarkston on a beautiful, sunny day, and were expertly guided through some of the most rugged and scenic landscape the country has to offer, by Riverboat...
Generally, at the doctor's office, the last thing most of us think about are gently flowing brooks, rippling grass in a mountain meadow, and the most fragile of butterflies poised on a flower. At the time he is treating patients, urgent care physician Kirk Campaña isn't thinking about these things either, but after hours, when he is at home on his property in Eagle, Ida., the doctor who is also an artist focuses on the world's beauty. "I find nature and the natural world beautiful, complex,...
By Tanya Patton I have always admired families who open their homes to host international exchange students, but I never imagined that my family would be one of them! Now, I look back on the last 10 months spent hosting one, and then TWO teenagers from Asia and know that we will be forever changed and blessed by the experience. Our road to hosting began with a friendship forged between our daughter, Katie, and Hazel Tu, an exchange student from Taiwan living in Dayton during the 2016-17 school...
WAITSBURG – While the Dayton city pool is closed for this summer, facilities in Waitsburg and Prescott are stepping up to meet the area’s demand for chlorinated summer fun. Both the Waitsburg pool (across Coppei Avenue from Preston Park, open Monday through Friday) and its Prescott counterpart (at 303 West 2nd Street, open every day) have begun operations for the season. The Waitsburg pool offers open swim periods from 1 to 5 in the afternoon and from 6 to 8 in the evening on the days it is open. Additionally, an adults-only lap swim time is...
DAYTON - Touchet Valley Arts Council and the Liberty Theater are hosting cowboy poet and musician Joel Eliot to the Liberty Stage on Saturday, June 30, from 7 - 9 p.m. Eliot, a working ranch horseman, clinician and trainer in Sonoita, Ariz., is renowned for his expertise and love of horses. He brings the same level of craft and care to the stage as a singer and songwriter. Eliot appears in conjunction with the Buck Brannaman horse clinic which, will be held in Dayton June 29 through July 1....
DAYTON – A selection committee appointed by the Dayton School Board will interview four candidates on Thursday for the Dayton Middle School/High School principal position. Two applicants will be selected from that pool for a final interview process which will take place on Thursday June 28. Parents, students and community members are invited to participate in the process. Parents and community members are scheduled to meet with the two finalists on the 28th at 5:45 and 6:30 in the high school auditorium. Students will have an opportunity to m...
DAYTON--Family and friends crowded the Dayton High School gymnasium on Saturday to hear the Class of 2018 Salutatorian Morgan Riley and Class Valedictorian Emma Sierra deliver their speeches and grant well wishes to the graduating seniors. Salutatorian Riley thanked the parents, community members and teachers of DHS for supporting the Class of 2018. Riley said that if her feelings are any indication, graduating and going out into the world is probably the most terrifying thing for all the new...
WAITSBURG – On June 5, the Waitsburg Lions Club wrapped up their season with a Lady's Night dinner, award ceremony and induction of new officers. Following a thank-you dinner for the ladies for their behind-the-scenes help and support, Jesse Smit was named 2017 Lion of the Year, and Dan McKinley received the club's Melvin Jones Award. Outgoing President Randy Farley announced Smit's award. Smit has been a Waitsburg club member for only three years, but has shown great commitment. He is an a...
DAYTON – Anybody wandering into downtown Dayton Friday evening will be excused if they think they’ve entered a small-town time warp and jumped backward 50 years. Classic cars cruising Main Street and ‘50s and ‘60s music in the air will engulf visitors to downtown, as Dayton’s All Wheels Weekend revs up. Friday afternoon, cars will begin rolling into town for the weekend-long event. Registration starts at 4 p.m. in front of Bette Lou Crothers’ State Farm office at First and Main. This is Crothers’ 24th year leading the committee that puts on...
BRANDON BOUDRIEAU DAVE NICHOLAS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP $500 WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY $3,200 BRANDON WILL ATTEND WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. CADE BRANSON DAVE NICHOLAS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP $500 CADE WILL ATTEND THE NORTHWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY INSTITUTE IN VACOUVER, WASH. THOMAS HOUSE DAVE NICHOLAS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP $500 THE MCGREGOR COMPANY SCHOLARSHIP $500 TOM WILL ATTEND WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE. TAYLER JONES ALDER FAMILY DENTAL SCHOLARSHIP $500 WAITSBURG AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY SCHOLARSHIP $500 WAITSBURG EDUCATION ASSOCIATION...
Cole John Ben & Sue Dickinson Memorial $500 Brandon Barton Memorial $300 Dayton High School Booster Club $500 Gailord & Jean Nelson $1,000 John Israel $500 Kay Preston Cochran Memorial $450 Ken & Shirley Golliher $500 Walla Walla Elks Vocational $500 Washington State Elks Association $1,000 WWCC Rasty & Nona Ketcherside Declan Russell WWCC Rasty & Nona Ketcherside Drake LaMere Blue Mountain Aerie #2618 Eagles $500 Emma Sandoval Sierra American Association of University Women $300 Blue Mountain Aerie #2618 Eagles $500 Columbia County Fund $1,500...
DAYTON—Former Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputy Don Foley appeared before the Columbia County Civil Service Commission on Monday to discuss his termination by Sheriff Rocky Miller last month. At the meeting, Foley requested a continuance in the matter to allow his attorney, David Rose, adequate time to prepare for a hearing. The Commission agreed, and a date for the hearing will be set between August 6 and August 23. Foley was terminated “for cause” by Miller on May 15, 2018, according to County Prosecuting Attorney Rea Culwell. That same we...
DAYTON— Columbia County Commissioner Merle Jackson has said it before, and he said it again last week, “How do we ever dig ourselves out of the hole if everybody keeps giving away our money?” The county has only two principle sources of tax revenue – property taxes and sales taxes – and the county commissioners have been seeking adequate revenue to cover the cost of essential services and pay for special projects. The commissioners had been anticipating a one-time bump in sales and use tax from construction of Columbia Pulp’s new straw pulp mil...
WAITSBURG – Rainy weather didn't put a damper on Waitsburg's 64th-Annual Waitsburg Livestock Show and Fair on June 9. A longstanding Waitsburg tradition, the event was well-attended by competitors and spectators alike. It was once known as the Waitsburg Livestock Show, and open only to 4-H and FFA members. However, the name was changed a few years ago to be more inclusive, and now welcomes open class entries. Walla Walla County youth and adults of all ages compete in a variety of animal c...
Showmanship 4-H goats: Bethany Bennett Champion Kate Kuykendall Reserve Champion 4-H beef: Amy Farley Champion Griffin Hinchliffe Reserve Champion 4-H hogs: Jasper Morrow Champion Hagen Taylor Reserve Champion FFA beef: Drew Farley Champion FFA hogs: Devin Harshman Champion Tom House Reserve Champion Round Robin Overall Showman Grand Champion 4-H : Amy Farley Reserve Grand Champion 4-H: Bethany Bennett Grand Champion FFA: Devon Harshman Reserve Grand Champion FFA: Drew Farley Market 4-H goats: Kate Kuykendall Champion Kate Kuykendall Reserve...
