Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago December 13, 2012 A standing room crowd packed the aisles of Waitsburg Hardware & Mercantile to listen to cowboy and western music, chat with neighbors and celebrate the Christmas season. The annual potluck and party put on by owners John and Marilyn Stelwagon drew around 200 community members this year between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Saturday. It all started five years ago when customers asked the Stelwagons if they were going to have a Christmas party. "What...
Ten Years Ago December 6, 2012 [Photo Caption] Kindergartner Jessika Lambert chooses just the right spot for her gingerbread man ornament last Thursday. The Waitsburg Elementary School students got to hang their handmade ornaments on the large tree on Main Street in front of the Plaza Theatre. Twenty-Five Years Ago December 11, 1997 Waitsburg City Council voted to begin the process with the Highway Department to make the intersection of Coppei and Preston Avenues a right turn only for vehicles...
Ten Years Ago November 29, 2012 Kathy Carpenter and her team at the Cardinal’s Nest in Waitsburg make sure kids have a place to go after school where they can get homework help and do fun projects. Carpenter, the director, said the Cardinal’s Nest was funded by a No Child Left Behind 21st Century Community Centers grant through the federal government. Educational Services District 123 helped facilitate the grant money and the funding allowed the Cardinal’s Nest, located at Waitsburg Elementary,...
Ten Years Ago November 22, 2012 [Photo Caption] Pictured above are the Preston Hall Middle School ASB officers and representatives. So far this school year the group has attended a leadership conference in Dayton, sponsored a Halloween dance and are currently conducting a food drive for the local food bank. (Left to right) Adviser Mrs. Karen Huwe, Vice-President – Chloe Pearson, 7th Grade Class Rep. – Clarissa Espana, Secretary – Emily Adams, 7th Grade Class Rep. – Tyler Wood, President – Jacob...
Ten Years Ago November 15, 2012 A lifelong dream has come true for Waitsburg High School student Beka Adams. Ever since she was a little girl, Adams said she dreamed of being part of the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days royalty Court and now, at age 16, she beat out the competition for a spot. Adams, the daughter of Ann and Lanny Adams, said her biggest influence in being on fair courts was her older cousin who was Miss Pro West in the 1990s. “She was my inspiration,” Adams said. Twe...
Ten Years Ago November 8, 2012 Local veteran Owen Agenbroad fought with the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a message carrier on the front lines at Iwo Jima. “I don’t consider myself a hero, I did what my country asked me to do,” Agenbroad said. “We left the heroes there.” Agenbroad recounted some of his time during WWII after he landed on the island on Feb. 19, 1945. His company was the fifth-wave assault battalion where they fought for 37 days. Agenbroad, who was 21 at the time, said his...
Ten Years Ago November 1, 2012 Dayton’s First Congregational Church bubbled with activity last Friday as community members and volunteers filed in for the annual Dayton General Hospital Auxiliary Luncheon. The Dining areas filled quickly as attendees greeted each other like old friends, making the entire event feel more like a family reunion than an annual fundraiser. The feeling is exactly what keeps luncheon organizer and auxiliary President Aleta Shockley coming back. “My favorite part (of th...
Ten Years Ago October 25, 2012 Coming off of two wins against Waitsburg-Prescott on Oct. 16 and DeSales on Oct. 18, the Dayton volleyball team was poised for attack on its senior night against the Walla Walla Valley Academy last Tuesday. However, the Bulldogs fell in a nail-biting finish after five sets against the WWVA Knights Tuesday. The game began by honoring Dayton seniors Jessica Tate and McKayla Bickelhaupt. The Bulldogs opening the first set keeping close to the Knight's scores. The scor...
Ten Years Ago October 18, 2012 Waitsburg-Prescott’s first-string defense held Mabton to minus 31 yards of rushing and minus 3 yards passing, en route to a 54-8 homecoming drubbing of the visiting Vikings here Friday. Mabton recorded no first downs versus WP’s no. 1 defense, fumbled twice and ran only four plays for positive yardage. WP’s starters played just half the game, and their dominant performance on both offense and defense forced the 40-point running clock rule for the entire secon...
Ten Years Ago October 11, 2022 WP runners kept up with the pack last Saturday in Richland at an invitational against 60 middle school and high school teams full of tough competition. The highlight of the day for WP cross country coach Joanna Lanning was seeing middle school runner Emily Adams blaze past the competition in the 2-mile middle school race with first place and a time of 13:06.75. Even suffering from a cold, Lanning said Adams was in it to win it. “Just before the finish line (...
Ten Years Ago October 4, 2012 After 40 years of working at the Waitsburg Grocery Store on Main Street, Beryl Witt is retiring. Witt, 74, also known lovingly in the store as "Beryl-ie Buns" and "Beryl-ie Bird" was showered with hugs, praise and memoires last Friday at the store. Grocery store patrons enjoyed cake and told Witt the store would be a different place without her. "The Waitsburg Grocery is not going to be the same," co-owner Trina Cole said. Witt said she moved to Waitsburg in 1948....
Ten Years Ago September 27, 2012 After four years as an FFA rock star at Waitsburg High School and touring the country as an agricultural representative for one year, Christy Poirier is now earing the highest honor in FFA – the American Degree. “I promised myself I would get an American Degree,” Poirier said. And she sure did. Poirier is off in Late October to the National FFA Convention in Indiana to receive her award. According to the FFA website, “the American FFA Degree is awarded to FFA...
Ten Years Ago September 20, 2012 [Photo Caption] About 545 people packed into the Don Thomas building at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds last Saturday night for the annual Lions club salmon barbecue. Jack McCaw and Dr. Kyle Terry helped feed hungry visitors last Saturday. Twenty-Five Years Ago September 25, 1997 A good-sized crowd numbering 946 attended the 37th Annual Commercial Club Salmon Bake last Thursday. Attendance was about 100 lower than 1996, according to Ivan Keve of the Commercial Club....
Ten Years Ago September 13, 2012 Erma Lee Smith will be honored this Sunday as Pioneer of the Year because her family history in Waitsburg is extensive – she hails from the Hales who date back to 1890 in the Waitsburg area. “I’m Pioneer of the Year and turning 80,” Smith said last week. “I’m flying high.” She learned last spring via a letter from the Waitsburg Historical Society that she would be receiving the award this year at the Pioneer Fall Festival. Smith will be honored on Sunday follow...
Ten Years Ago September 6, 2012 The City of Waitsburg is seeking grant funding for kiosks that would honor the memory and history of Wait’s Mill and the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery. The city, with the help of Jeff Broom, the president of the Waitsburg Historical Society, recently applied for a $13,000 grant from the state Community Economic Revitalization Board. Broom said the grant opportunity came across City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe’s desk and he decided to take a shot at it. “It sounded good,” Broom said. “It would be a real...
Ten Years Ago August 30, 2012 [Photo Caption] First grader Ryland Kiltz runs after a classmate during a game of freeze tag in the gym Tuesday on the first day back to school at Dayton Elementary School. Twenty-Five Years Ago September 4, 1997 Waitsburg FFA and 4-H exhibitors captured top honors in fitting and showing and market classes during the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days which finished its five-day run Monday. Jane Conover, as the show’s Grand Champion All-Around Showman, gave the W...
Ten Years Ago August 23, 2012 When community members in Waitsburg need help with a project, they typically know who to call. However, some volunteers in town simply show up offering to help. Jim Davison is one of those helpers. "He's a really great, silent volunteer," said Denise Winnett, who worked with Davison at Waitsburg High School. Winnett, who lives within viewing distance of the ongoing construction of the new press box at the Waitsburg High School football field, said she sees Davison...
Ten Years Ago August 9, 2012 [Photo Caption] Inspecting combine 2, David White walks along to make sure the settings are correct on farmland north of Walla Walla recently. Some farmers in the north are battling unripened wheat that is pushing back harvest even further. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 21, 1997 The 1997 grain harvest in the area should be about complete sometime this week, according to J. E. McCaw of the Touchet Valley Grain Growers. "I'd day we're about 95% done," he said. Yields...
Ten Years Ago August 9, 2012 The 1889 "Vollmer House" has finally come to be known as the "Davis House" after about 50 years of the family inhabiting it. Joyce Davis, who moved into the home on Highway 12 right outside of Waitsburg in the early 1970's, said everyone around town had always called it the Vollmer House because the Vollmer Family had built it in 1889 and owned it until it was sold to Bill and Joyce Davis. Joyce said she recently was about town and asked someone – "Do you call the h...
Ten Years Ago August 2, 2012 If Karen Mohney’s math is correct, the Rainbow Girls group has been active in Waitsburg for more than 75 years, and about 680 to 700 Waitsburg girls have been part of the organization. Mohney, the current mother advisor of the Waitsburg group, is no stranger to Rainbow herself. And there are many other volunteers and board members who have also spent many years of their lives involved in the organization. The women, older and younger, say they stay with Rainbow b...
Ten Years Ago July 26, 2012 While amber waves of grain may be a nice song lyric, they are often not the nicest object to stare at for an entire 13-hour workday. Veteran harvest employee Zach Beasley is more than familiar with endless fields of wheat. This summer, Beasley will be working his fifth harvest season for Waitsburg wheat farmer Rusty Lyons. Beasley, a senior mechanical engineering student at Washington State University, said while the wheat can get monotonous, he enjoys the crew...
Ten Years Ago July 19, 2012 When music teacher Rebecca Wilson was cleaning out some space in her closet, she came across Waitsburg Marching Band Uniforms that had been in retirement for nearly 30 years. Those red, cream and gold uniforms had been worn by hundreds of students from the 1950’s through the mid-1980’s when the polyester and nylon formalwear was traded in for matching polo shirts. Part of the reason the band students no longer wear fancy uniforms is because marching bands are...
Ten Years Ago July 12, 2012 Waitsburg’s own eight-year-old Mya Wood is heading to Tacoma this August for a chance to represent Washington State in the National American Miss pageant. The state competition for her age group, seven-to-nine-year-olds, will be Aug. 9 though 12 at the Murano Hotel in Tacoma, Wood said. “I’m kind of nervous but I’m excited about the competition,” she said. Wood’s first grade teacher Dinah Lindsey said she thinks Wood has a real possibility of becoming the next Miss W...
Ten Years Ago July 5, 2012 The City of Dayton and its leaders are getting frustrated. The city has just six years to solve a wastewater problem that seems unsolvable. Dayton's wastewater treatment plant, located at the west end of commercial Drive, was built in 1938 and has had several tune-ups since that time. Mayor Craig George said many people have a big misconception about the current treatment plant thinking it is a brand-new facility. "New things were added in 2000," George said. "But it...
Ten Years Ago June 28, 2012 One of Waitsburg’s best-kept secrets is on Arnold Lane, tucked back behind sweet, country houses. For the past four years, those who have driven down Arnold Lane have noticed or even stopped at the produce stand run by Ed and Cathy Lambert. And the Lambert’s, though unseen from the street, have six gardens full of ripening produce fresh for the picking and selling every summer. Ed’s family has lived in the house on Arnold his whole life. He and his wife Cathy raise...
