Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON--Drug Free Grant Coordinator Peggy Guiterrez, and ASB SHEO Club Advisor Jennifer Price accompanied students in Dayton's SHEO Club to Olympia on Feb. 20 for Prevention Policy Day. Representative Terry Nealey took them on a tour of House Chambers and showed them how the electronic voting system works. He also talked about the progress of three pieces of legislation concerning substance abuse and violence prevention. "That part of the trip was great," Guiterrez said. The next day, the...
DAYTON - "January was a bang-up month," Columbia County Health System CEO Shane McGuire told the Board of Commissioners at last week's meeting. McGuire was referring to the $1.7 million growth revenue for January, before accounting treatments. "Revenue for all of 2016 averaged only about $1.43 million per month, including the months before our rate increases were applied," said Hospital Controller Tom Meyers in his report to the commissioners. "This is a good start!" he added. In his picture of...
DAYTON – Internationally acclaimed musician Lauren Pelon will appear in concert at Dayton Memorial Library (111 S. 3rd St.) on Thursday, March 16 at 6 p.m. In a unique concert titled The Living Roots of Music, Pelon traces the story of music and performs music from around the world on archlute, guitar, lute-guitar, lyre, recorders, gemshorns, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, rackett, pennywhistles, concertina, ocarina. hurdy-gurdy, bowed psaltery, Kiowa courting flute, eagle bone f...
The weather was sunny and bright for the second annual Heart & Sole 5K Run & Walk, sponsored by the Columbia County Health System and the Backroads Club on Sunday. About 37 people turned out for the event. Left: Christy House (l) and Lori Dyer smile and wave as pass by the camera....
DAYTON - Benjamin Smith, 33, was arrested outside his Dayton home on Jan. 23 and charged with rape of a child in the third degree, second-degree child molestation, and third-degree child molestation. After interviewing the victims, both known to Smith, court documents were amended to include four more charges. The charges were amended because prosecutors now believe the crimes took place over a much longer period of time, beginning when the first victim was 11-years-old. Smith is now charges with rape of a child in the third degree, two counts...
Fairgrounds Facilities and Code Enforcement are also discussed DAYTON-The Board of County Commissioners had a busy week last week. Recycling When they met on Mon., Feb. 13, the board heard a proposal from Public Works Director Andrew Woods concerning plans to establish a new recycling station, to be located at an unused portion of property at the county transfer station. The plan will consolidate all the recycling bins in the county, including those behind Dingle's Hardware Store, and at the...
DAYTON-Last week, Superintendent Doug Johnson impressed upon those in attendance at the "Show and Tell" portion of the regular school board meeting the importance of high school business teacher Bob Cummings' work with students he teaches. As part of his curricula, Cummings has incorporated the Visual Arts and Economics into studies for the students, and those subjects are related to life skills, which was listed as an important component of the District's Strategic Plan, going forward, Johnson...
DAYTON – February is Heart Health Awareness Month and there are many activities and promotions taking place in Dayton. Columbia County Health System is asking businesses to spread the message of heart health by decorating their windows. Take the time to check out the many windows around town that have been decorated. Supporters are asked to wear red on Fridays in February and bright red "Rock the Beat" t-shirts are available for purchase at the Dayton General Hospital for $10. Blue Mountain S...
DAYTON-Take a tour of a new exhibit at the Dayton Historic Depot Museum, beginning on March 1, to see some gadgets that made the lives of women "easier" in the years from the early 1900s to the 1950s. "We're looking at the intersection of consumerism, changing women's roles, and rural electrification," said Museum Director Tamara Fritze about the idea behind the exhibit. Most of the appliances on loan to the museum are electric, with the exception of a display of hand tools for mixing, and some...
DAYTON-Good things have been happening at the Dayton Memorial Library, including a recent honor bestowed on the library by the American Library Association, for the Family Dinner and Story Program, which will be featured on the ALA website "Future Trends of Libraries". Since Dusty Waltner hired on as the Library Director in March of 2015 there have been many visible improvements at the Dayton Memorial Library. "My goal has been to increase programming and services, and boost awareness in the com...
DAYTON – Thirty-two year old snowboarder, Able Cortinas, of Richland was reported missing at Ski Bluewood at 6 p.m. on Fri., Feb. 11 when he failed to arrive at the car of the group he was traveling with. He was found safe the following morning. Ski Bluewood partnered with the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, LifeFlight, U.S. Forest Service, Walla Walla County Sheriff's Office, and local volunteers and initiated a search Friday evening. Cortinas had last been seen at 4:30 p.m. in an area k...
Arraignments: -Benjamin Glen Smith, 33, Dayton; charged with rape of a child in the third degree, second degree child molestation, and third degree child molestation. Smith, a Washington State Penitentiary corrections officer, was arrested outside his home on Jan. 23. Court documents allege that Smith had ongoing sexual relations with a child between 14 and 15 years old and had sexual contact with that same child and another child between the ages of 12 and 13. Smith is being held in Benton Franklin County Jail on $100,000 bond. He entered a...
DAYTON – When radiochemist, Jane Holly Estrada, hangs up her lab jacket for the day, she enjoys relaxing by capturing moments in nature and transforming them into a state of permanence. The Richland, Wash. artist creates jewelry and shaped dishes inspired by freshly fallen leaves. Estrada presses a real leaf into the clay, shapes it into a unique dish, and paints them with a watercolor style underglaze, before firing multiple times and adding her signature gold accents. Estrada also paints m...
DAYTON—After weighing the pros and cons of reapplying for an additional five years of the Drug Free Communities Grant, the Coalition for Youth and Families decided not to do so at this time. “Basically, the extra requirements of the grant are so huge, and we don’t have enough people who have the time to dedicate to the application,” said Peggy Guiterrez, the grant coordinator, about the decision not to apply. “We also don’t have the technical assistance we had when we wrote the original fi...
DAYTON - February is National Library Lovers Month, and the Dayton Memorial Library is celebrating that, as well as Valentine's Day, with "Blind Date with a Book." New books for men, women, young adults and children are wrapped in plain brown paper, with brief descriptions, or clues, as to what is inside, and are available for check-out. Many of the Blind Date with a Book picks are suggestions by well-known Seattle librarian and author, Nancy Pearl. Family story time is on Feb. 7, and begins at...
DAYTON-Last week, the conference room at the Best Western Hotel in Dayton was packed, for the first of a series of public workshops hosted by the Blue Mountain Regional Trails – Ridges, Towns, and Rivers organization. Work is underway to establish a non-motorized trails plan for walking, biking, hiking, and horseback riding, that would include all of Columbia and Walla Walla counties, and northeast Umatilla County. Representatives from the City of Dayton and Columbia County Planning D...
DAYTON— In her report to the Dayton School Board, Elementary Principal Pam Lindsley said the students have been hard at work making posters to advertise the Candy Gram Sale, which will take place between Feb. 6 and 13. The students will sell the candy grams before school, during lunch, and after school. The curriculum committee will meet on Feb. 6 to look at several different curricula. The committee has found an on-line site with a tool to evaluate and score them, Lindsley said. Lindsley s...
DAYTON – More than 100 people crowded into a meeting room at Dayton’s Best Western Hotel Monday evening to hear about a regional trails-planning process that has begun, and to provide their own ideas about where non-motorized transportation improvements are needed. The Blue Mountain Region Trails, Bike Routes, Sidewalks Plan is a joint effort of several agencies in Columbia, Walla Walla and Umatilla Counties. Local planning agencies in the three counties have joined with the National Park Ser...
DAYTON – At their regular meeting on Jan. 23, the city council adopted a formal proposal from the Friends of the Dayton Dog Park for the Dayton Dog Park, which is situated on a 0.6 acre site, south of the fish pond, in the Pietryzycki City Park. The site has been leveled, dirt has been delivered, and the irrigation has been completed, Dayton Dog Park Co-chair Carol Rahn told the council. Rahn said that the next step for the FDDP is to identify the money needed to install a four-foot chain l...
DAYTON—A special meeting of the Dayton City Council was called last Thursday to approve a resolution allowing Mayor Craig George to contract with local law firm Gravis Law, PLLC, to provide the city with prosecutorial services. The agreement is for a one year. Gravis will provide all municipal prosecutorial services, with the exception of domestic abuse and DUI cases, Mayor George said....
Four starting seniors on the Dayton Lady Bulldogs' Basketball team posed for a happy photo after coming out of the game late in their team's win over Tri-Cities Prep Friday night....
DAYTON—At the outset of last week’s meeting of the Columbia County Health System Commissioners, Bob Hutchens, President of the Commission, reported on the board’s recent performance evaluation of CEO Shane McGuire. Hutchens said the commissioners concluded, by consensus, that CEO McGuire’s accomplishments in 2016 were good and the board was pleased with his progress, both as an individual and as an administrator.” “The board looks forward to continued progress in the administrative management...
WALLA WALLA—In January the Columbia County Commissioners signed a contract with Blue Mountain Action Council of Walla Walla to provide low-income homeowners with the opportunity to have small repairs made to their homes. “There are people in Columbia County who need the help,” said Commissioner Merle Jackson about the BMAC Home Repair Program. The commissioners are testing the waters in 2017, with an initial $20,000 investment, according to Jackson. “That was just seed money,” he said. “We...
DAYTON-What will be the last product you ever use? You are on the right track if you are thinking about a container to hold your remains after death. Local business owner Vicky Beckmeyer, of Snapdragon Floral and Gifts in Dayton, has found a niche in the more affordable range, for the cremation urns she has been turning out since 2007. Last summer, Beckmeyer and her daughter, Cara Watts, attended a seminar for funeral directors in Marysville, Wash. They received kudos from the funeral directors...
DAYTON-A year and a half later, the dream is still true for Manila Bay Café owners Christina and Jon Betts. "I still love doing what I do," said Chef Jon Betts. "I love creating stuff. We use local produce from vendors like Hidden Garden Farms, Frog Hollow Farm, Rey's Roast Coffee, Hayshaker Farm, Little Dipper Dairy and Mary's Candies, to create specialty items." Christina Betts said she thinks Dayton is a great place to raise their three children. "This is a nice, quiet town. We're settled....
