Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - After its first year, Columbia County Parks & Recreation Pool District continues to move forward after voters approved the one-year excess levy requested by the district's board. Voters approved the creation of the unfunded pool-specific Parks & Recreation District on November 7, 2023. Since then, the elected board has worked to set up a functioning, legal municipal entity to pursue funding opportunities through grants, donations, and legislative support to revive the county's pool....
DAYTON —The Liberty Theater and TVAC Productions will present “Fiddler on the Roof” premiering on November 14 and running through December 7, 2024. The musical is based on “Tevye and his Daughters” and other stories by Sholem Aleichem. Tevye, a poor dairyman in the village of Anatevka, tries to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon his family’s lives. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his five daughters and instill them with traditional...
DAYTON — In the movie “White Bird,” kindness can save lives. Julian Albans, the bully who left Beecher Prep, is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. As a girl in Nazi-occupied France, the young Grandmère goes into hiding with the help of a schoolmate, a young man who risks everything to give her a chance to survive. Together, they find beauty and love in the secret world of their own creation. From Marc Forster (director of Finding Neverland and Christopher Robin) and based o...
Spokane — The Columbia County Children’s Fund at Innovia is awarding grants totaling $6,000 to organizations serving youth in Columbia County. The grantees selected were Touchet Valley Arts Council, Tri-State Steelheaders, and LaunchNW. “Ensuring that children have access to exceptional education and extracurricular activities is essential to creating vibrant and sustainable communities,” says Nolan Glueckert, Regional Engagement Manager of the Southern Region at Innovia Foundation. “Innovia is partnering with the Columbia County Children...
DAYTON — DreamWorks Animation “The Wild Robot” is a new original adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller. The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, ‘Roz’ for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. A powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of...
DAYTON — The story of photographer Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller (starring Kate Winslet), a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II. The Rotten Tomatoes website movie summary was that “Miller’s singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century’s most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler’s private bathtub. Miller had a profound understanding and empathy for women and the voiceless victims of war. Her images di...
COLUMBIA COUNTY—The Columbia Board of Commissioners is seeking proposals for the new Office of County Coroner. Currently, the state requires county prosecutors in counties with fewer than 40,000 to perform coroner services. Effective January 1, 2025, general statute prohibitions on coroners practicing law will preclude county prosecutors from acting as both coroner and prosecutor. The county is asking for proposals outlining the new coroner’s office’s structure, organization, and estimated budget. The candidate should show how they inten...
DAYTON — “Transformers One” is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but were once friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. In the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, “Transformers One” features a star-studded voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm. IMDb rated this movie 7.8 out of 10. Rotten Tomatoes rated this movie as 89% “fresh”, and audiences...
DAYTON — “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice” is the long-awaited sequel to the 1988 award-winning movie “Beetlejuice.” Director Tim Burton and stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara reunite in this dark comedy. After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic. The portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened, causi...
DAYTON — The 27th Annual Manhattan Shorts Film Festival begins at the Liberty Theater on September 27. The Liberty Theater is the only theater hosting this film festival in eastern Washington. There is no other hosting venue within hundreds of miles in northern Idaho or eastern Oregon. The top ten finalist short films come from the United Kingdom, France, Croatia, Australia, Ukraine, Ireland, Italy, and the U.S. will be shown at each screening of this annual film festival. The festival takes place internationally between September 26 and O...
DAYTON — From dusty, small-town roots, to the glitter of Hollywood, and then on to commanding the world stage, this is Reagan’s cinematic journey of overcoming the odds. Told through the voice of Viktor Petrovich, a former KGB agent whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan’s when Reagan first caught the Soviets’ attention as an actor in Hollywood, this film offers a perspective as unique as it is captivating. Dennis Quaid brings to life a story that transcends the boundaries of a traditional biopic, offering a profound explora...
DAYTON—In the movie “Trap,” a father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert and realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event. This horror-thriller movie, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan, follows a serial killer evading a police blockade while attending a concert with his daughter. Rotten Tomatoes critics and audiences rated this movie at 57% and 65 %, respectively. A consensus of the website’s critics is “An arch thriller given some grounding by Josh Hartnett’s committed performance, Shyamalan’s “Trap” will ens...
DAYTON — As a character in a book, adventurous Harold (Zachary Levi) can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up, Harold draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world. In “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” Harold learns much about real life and how his crayon can set off hilarious hijinks. He also realizes the crayon is a powerful source of unlimited imagination. If it falls into the wrong hands (it does,) it will take all of Harold and his friends’ creativity to save the real world and his imaginary one...
“My Penguin Friend” DAYTON —“My Penguin Friend” is inspired by an epic true story. This enchanting adventure is about a little lost penguin who - after being rescued from an oil spill - transforms the life and soul of a heartbroken fisherman. The penguin and the fisherman become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them. The Rotten Tomatoes website rated this movie as 86% and 97% favorable by critics and audiences, respectively. That website critics’ consensus is “Pairing the ever-reliable Jean Reno with a sc...
DAYTON — “Twisters” is a stand-alone chapter of the 1996 blockbuster “Twister.” The new movie stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Where the Crawdads Sing,” “Normal People”) and Glen Powell (“Anyone but You,” “Top Gun: Maverick”) as opposing forces who try to predict and possibly tame the immense power of tornadoes. Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her...
DAYTON — Columbia County Health System has received two 2024 American Heart achievement awards for its commitment to following AHA guidelines for treating heart disease and stroke. The guidelines were developed to help hospitals save more lives, shorten recovery times, and have fewer readmissions to the hospital. The CCHS received the American Heart Association’s “Get with the Guidelines” Rural Coronary Artery Disease Silver award. The silver award is presented to a rural hospital in recognition of its work with varied patient care dynamics for...
DAYTON — This local, live production by the Missoula Children’s Theatre is the results of a multiple day theater workshop at the Liberty Theater. This production is an original adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s epic novel, “Treasure Island.” Young Jim Hawkins, a mischievous lad, lives with his mother and six sisters in a seaside village on the coast of Maine. The year is 1782 and the American War for Revolution is in its last days. Longing for adventure, Jim comes under the hypnotic...
DAYTON — “One Life” tells the emotional story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (Johnny Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces two members of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue as many children as possible before Nazi occupation closes borders. Fifty years later, Nicky (Anthony Hopkins) is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to England. On the BBC show ‘That’s Life!’ he is re-introduced to some he helped rescue and he begins to come...
DAYTON — “Fly Me to the Moon” starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’ (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up and the countdown truly begins… Rotten Tomatoe...
DAYTON — “Thelma” is based on a real-life experience of writer/director Josh Margolin’s grandmother. When 93-year-old Thelma Post (Oscar nominee June Squibb) gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her. This is a story exploring aging, family, and autonomy (and uniquely inspired by action movies like “Mission: Impossible.” This marks June Squibb’s first leading film role of her 70+ year career. “Thelma” is highly rated by critics and audie...
DAYTON — “Inside Out 2” shows at the Liberty Theater for a second week. The movie returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety (voiced by Maya Hawke) shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone. This movie has been highly rated by critics and audiences (90% and 96%, respectivel...
DAYTON — “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety (voiced by Maya Hawke) shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone. This movie has been highly rated by critics and audiences (90% and 96%, respectively on the Rotten Tomatoes website). Critics at the Rotten Toma...
DAYTON — In “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an army of ghosts that casts a death chill upon the city, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age. This movie was rated highly by audiences (83%), but not by the Rott...
DAYTON — The Dayton/Columbia County Washington Fund awarded $53,500 in grants and scholarships. The following organizations were awarded grants: Blue Mountain Heritage Society-$600 for Veteran’s Memorial Wall maintenance, $2,000 towards concrete and ground improvements Blue Mountain Humane Society-$500 to support their rural pet wellness clinics Blue Mountain Resource Conservation Development Council-$400 to support the 2024 SWIM the SNAKE event Columbia County-$5,000 to support the Touchet Valley golf course irrigation project Columbia Cou...
DAYTON-"The Odd Couple" (female version), directed by Dave Campbell, will be performed live at the theater at 7 p.m. on June 21 and 22 and 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 23. Well-known local actors Elizabeth Arebalos-Jagelski and Deanna Tipton star. They turn the tablesular Neil Simon play on the ever-pop to create a highly enjoyable comedy rich in laughter and touching upon the bonds that create friendships. Our free summer movies for children start this week with the movie "Journey 2 the Mysterious Island," playing on June 18 and 21, at 1 pm. A...
