Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG-Why did the salon owner cross the street? Bigger space, better opportunity, a building of her own and a location next door to a coffee shop. At least those were the reasons mentioned by Blush Salon & Spa owner Brooke Mikesell. "Last year I earned my Farouk Phd.; this is my achievement for this year," said Brooke, who is a highest-level educator for Farouk Systems. Last weekend Mikesell made the move from her former location at 141 Main to the other side of the street at 214 Main,...
WAITSBURG—The Prescott Joint Park and Recreation District received a $50,000 Sherwood Trust Core Grant to aid with pool repairs and facility improvements earlier this month. The District was one of 12 area organizations to receive grant distributions totaling $949,000. Prescott Joint Park and Recreation District Manager Yvonne Jackson applied for the grant in January and said the District is grateful to have been selected. “We were one of very few that received funding. My understanding is tha...
WAITSBURG-The Times got a little drive-through history lesson last week when a gentleman stopped in to check out the building and shared that he was following the trail his grandfather had taken while playing clarinet in a band in the early 1900s. Dennis Mulcahy, of San Jose, Calif., spoke with The Times advertising/office manager Teeny McMunn and shared photos and newspaper snippets about the band. His grandfather, Raymond Clow, was born in 1889 and came through Waitsburg in 1905, at the age of...
WAITSBURG-History buffs, or anyone interested in learning a little more about Waitsburg's past, need only walk to the north end of Main Street for a mini history lesson. Main Street Bridge While the recently replaced Main Street Bridge wasn't a historic structure in itself, the fact that it resided in a historic district meant its replacement came with some specific state requirements. Among those, was a mandate from the Historic Bridge Foundation requiring that, within two years of being...
WAITSBURG-June 21 may have been the official first day of summer, but for Waitsburg kids, Monday was the real summer kick-off with the opening of the City Pool, the first day of the Summer Reading Program and the first YWCA Fun Factory visit....
WAITSBURG-Facebook was filled with posts of multiple sightings of a mama bear and cub on the southeast end of Waitsburg on the evening of June 13. Residents lined the streets to get a look at the pair. Facebook posts, several with photos, caught the duo between Seventh and Ninth streets. At one point, the cub reclined near the porch inside a fenced yard on Seventh Street. Mama bear was also seen standing watch near the field house at the football field. Multiple residents reported the sightings...
WALLA WALLA COUNTY—The Washington State Legislature re-authorized the Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership, for two years, which will be a time of transition for the organization. The organization was also allocated $500,000 in funding, which will be used to develop a long-term plan and fund a new organizational structure for the Walla Walla Watershed. The partnership will report to the legislature in the fall of 2020 with reorganization recommendations as well as suggestions for activities that will best increase water flow to serve t...
Public Comment Parks & Recreation Board Chair Danielle Carpenter provided an update regarding the Parks & Recreation Board. Carpenter said the committee has decided to focus on events and engagements in the near future and will take over maintenance or recreation facilities slower than originally planned. Carpenter will attend the June 19 council meeting with more definitive plans. Meeting minutes and updates are available on the Waitsburg Parks and Rec. Facebook page. Louie Gagnon provided the council with a photo of why a “substantial d...
WAITSBURG-Licensed equine massage therapist, Suze Wood, recently returned from an educational expedition to western France. She traveled to attend practicum for certification as a master saddle fitting consultant. The learning took place in the picturesque Moutiers-Sous-Chantemerle, in the Deux-Sèvres region of France. The course offers a rigorous curriculum, 750 hours in total, which culminates in timed testing of saddle faults, conformation, gait analysis, testing the saddled areas for...
Waitsburg Elementary School students wrapped up the year with a well-earned field day on Friday, June 7....
WAITSBURG-It was a full house in the Lions Memorial Building as the Waitsburg Lions Club wrapped up its year with the annual Ladies Night dinner, award ceremony and induction of new officers. Following a thank you dinner of oysters and hamburgers, special awards were presented to Olson Brothers Exhaust Systems for its outstanding business partnership with the Waitsburg Lions, Kevin House was named Lion of the Year and Ken Cole Jr. received the distinguished Melvin Jones Award. Outgoing...
Winners from the selfie contest...
Muralist Don Brown, of Kennewick, recently completed this impressive mural on the side of Chief Spring's Brew Pub on Dayton's Main Street. The Times' Advertising Manager Teeny McMunn captures the process....
WAITSBURG—The Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever will host a free youth trap shoot on Sat., June 15 at the Waitsburg Gun Club. Dean Wass will present a firearms safety refresher beginning at 8 a.m. with the trap shoot immediately following. Youth age 18 and under are welcome to participate, including youth not yet a member of the Chapter. Participants not already a member of Pheasants Forever will receive chapter-sponsored membership enrollment. Clay targets and shotgun shells will be provided by Pheasants Forever. Adult family members or m...
WAITSBURG—The Huichica Music Festival will make its debut in the Walla Walla Valley this fall with a two-day festival at Stella’s Homestead, the former site of Jim and Geraine’s Hansen’s farm on the south fork of Coppei Creek. Located along the winding South Fork Coppei Creek and the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Walla Walla, Stella’s Homestead grew out of the historic Hansen wheat and cattle farm, established by Jim and Geraine Hansen in 1947. Today, their daughter Cheryl hosts eve...
WAITSBURG-When the Girls Scouts of Waitsburg learned that the Lewis & Clark Trail State Park was the only park in the state without a flagpole, they set out to do something about it. The local service unit spent about a year-and-a-half raising approximately $2300 to purchase a pole for the park. For the last four years, troops from Dayton, Waitsburg and Walla Walla have camped out out at the state park. Last weekend's campout was made even more notable with the installation of the newly donated...
Waitsburg Elementary School's first annual Move Up Night was a big success with parents and students taking the opportunity to meet with next year's teachers and enjoying a meal together. Students were able to go home with a backpack donated by Walmart....
Swine – Fitting & Showing 4-H: Jasper Morrow – Champion Makenna Barron – Reserve FFA Advanced Cason Nichols – Champion Seamus House – Reserve FFA Novice Nathalie Abel – Champion Violet Smith – Reserve Overall Cason Nichols –Champion Seamus House – Reserve Swine – Market 4-H Makenna Barron – Champion Jasper Morrow – Reserve FFA Seamus House – Champion Chloe Gleason – Reserve Beef – Fitting & Showing 4-H Preston Hinchliffe – Champion Griffin Hinchliffe – Reserve FFA Amy Farley – Champion Drew Farley – Reserve Beef – Market Amy Farley – Ch...
WAITSBURG-Sunny weather and bright skies prevailed for the Waitsburg Livestock Show and Fair this past Saturday. The fairgrounds were packed to the brim with pigs, ducks, chickens, goats, sheep, artists and, of course, cats. Festivities got underway shortly after 9 a.m. with the livestock judging contest, followed shortly thereafter by the FFA tractor driving exhibit and rabbit competition. Seamus House and Koby Harris from the Waitsburg FFA took first and second place in tractor driving for...
Waitsburg FFA members gathered in the Waitsburg Elementary School multipurpose room for the Chapter's annual award ceremony on June 5. WAITSBURG—The Waitsburg FFA Chapter held its annual banquet in the Waitsburg Elementary School Multipurpose on Wed., June 5. Below are the awards, degrees and past and future officers. 2018-2019 Chapter Officers President: Devon Harshman Vice President: Drew Farley Secretary: Seamus House Treasurer: Cason Nichols Reporter: Marley Ahler Sentinel: Anna Miller 2...
WAITSBURG-Seventeen members of the Class of 2019 made the traditional march down Kison Court to receive their diplo- mas at Waitsburg High School's 123rd commencement ceremony on Fri., May 30. Friends and family celebrate with the exiting seniors who spoke about shared experi- ences and future dreams as they proudly joined the ranks of WHS alumni. Strains of "Pomp and Circum- stance" filled the gymnasium as graduate siblings Megan Forney and Kirsten Miller served as flag marshals. Associated...
WAITSBURG—The Waitsburg City Council invites the public, and especially landowners, to attend a free Firewise meeting at the Lions Club Building at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds on Tues., June 25 at 7 p.m. Speakers from the Department of Natural Resourc- es, the Walla Walla County Conservation District, Fire Districts No. 2 and No. 3, emergency management and more will provide information on how commu- nities can work together to take action to prevent fu- ture losses. The Walla Walla County EMD will present a give a Power Point presentation p...
Waitsburg High School inducted three new members into National Honor Society in the WHS auditorium on Mon, June 4. High School Principal Stephanie Wooderchak and Guest Speaker Gabe Kiefel welcomed the new members....
WAITSBURG-The Touchet River is a 55-mile tributary of the Walla Walla River and in its valley sprawls endless hills and fields of wheat end-capped by barns and mills. Our local landscape boasts breath- taking views that draw tourists and gasps, but is also seemingly difficult to capture in photograph. Especially when taking pictures as passengers from the highway at speed rendering every shot at least a little blurry. Without specialist equipment such as a drone, one might think it is...
WAITSBURG-Students from Mrs. Stephanie Hinchliffe's first grade class released salmon into the Touchet River on May 22, concluding this season of the Salmon in Schools project. Waitsburg, Dixie and Touchet elementary schools are among the newest participating schools, bringing the program's total roster to twelve. Waitsburg first graders are pioneers and, indeed, prototypes for the potential success of this program among younger students. The journey to the release began on Oct. 17 when Andrew...
