Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago- July 17, 2008 A few local wheat producers have dipped their toes into the 2008 harvest this week, and harvest start-ups within the next week or so are likely to be delayed by the effects of the cool spring the region experienced. Start ups will likely be “a little later due to the cool spring” says J. E. McCaw, manager of the local branch of Northwest Grain Growers. Mc Caw expects “full swing” to be going late next week. “It’s about a week behind normal”, he said. Grain harvest in the Whetstone area started Monday with Jack Mille...
Ten Years Ago-July 10, 2008 Photo Caption: Jeremy Nichols, son of Jeff and Dawn Nichols of Waitsburg, is the recipient of a $500 scholarship from the Zonta Club of Walla Walla. Nichols, center, was honored by Maryann Reinhardt, left, and Zonta Club president Betty Jane Seide, right, at a luncheon held at the Elks Club on July 2, 2008. He will continue his education at the University of Idaho in August, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Attending the luncheon with Nichols were his parents. The Touchet Valley 11-12 Little League All Stars...
Ten Years Ago-July 3, 2008 A proposed Flood Emergency Action Plan was explored by Mayor Markeeta Little Wolf and councilmen Larry Johnson, Larry Clinton and Leroy Cunningham at a council workshop June 25. Reviewing a Corps of Engineers-developed plan of attack in event of flooding from Coppei Creek, the Touchet River, or both were also Alan Schroeder, representing the City’s engineering firm Anderson-Perry, and Dan Katsel, Director of Public Works. Photo caption: The Waitsburg participants in the Weller Library Summer Reading program enjoyed a...
Ten Years Ago-June 26, 2008 Organizers have mobilized and are calling all former students of the Huntsville School or Huntsville residents to gather for a reunion in August. Photo caption: The Huntsville Grade School students for the 1946-47 school year. Front Row: Unknown Sutter, Unknown Sutter, Bobby Leroue, Dell Groom, Bud Groom, Bill Kendall. Second row: Darlene Tubra, Betsy Hunt, Kay Huwe, Rosella Koch, Merry Joyce Brown, Mary Liebermann, Eden Brown, Mona Groom. Third row: Teacher Dorothy Hatley, John Libermann, Eugene Tubra, Pete Huwe,...
Ten Years Ago-June 19, 2008 Students of the Month of May include Ben Brown, (5th grade), Tristan Newman (4th Grade) Devon Watts (4th Grade) Austin Hamann (5th grade). Teachers in grades 4 and 5 select students based on citizenship, respectful behavior, effort and attendance. When students and staff of Prescott High School arrived for classes on June 6, they discovered that the gremlins had been working overtime. A small car was moved carefully into the hallway and surrounded by straw bales. Seniors then went on a scavenger mission, lifting...
Ten Years Ago - June 12, 2008 A local team, Broughton Land Company, captured the top trophy at last year’s Lion’s Club Softball Bash and they’ll be defending their championship in the 2008 Lions Club Softball Bash this weekend in Waitsburg. Another local team, Cole Construction, will mix play with teams from Pendleton, Hermiston, Enterprise, Wasco County, and Yakima, says Tournament Director JE McCaw Sheep dog handlers from the Northwest and Canada will compete Friday through Saturday, June 13-15 at the Tenth Annual Wessels Dirt Blowing Sheep...
Ten Years Ago-June 5, 2008 Photo Caption: Fuel prices posted at the Walla Walla Depot pretty much tell the story. The average price of regular gasoline, news services report, is over $4 a gallon. The situation has spawned a new word in today’s lexicon: staycation. You guessed it, it’s a vacation spent close to home. Photo shows unleaded gas-ARM, premium gas, LEG, and Diesel ,FIRST BORN. At noon on May 10, 2008, David H. Flathers passed to his nephew, Andy McDonald of Clatskanie, Ore, a family heirloom, the Dunlap Bible. “This family heirloom ca...
Ten Years Ago-May 29. 2008 If you’re a lucky golfer, really lucky, there’ll be a chance to win ten thousand clams at the 8th annual Quarterback Club golf tournament. A new feature of the Quarterback Club golf tourney is a Hole In One Prize of $10,000, which has the potential to greatly enliven the annual event planned for 1pm, Sunday, June 8, at the Touchet Valley Golf Course. Spring Sports Dessert and awards night was held May 14th in the Waitsburg Auditorium with Jack Smiley welcoming parents, students, and athletes. Angie Potts, coach, ass...
Ten Years Ago - May 22, 2008 The dedication of 10 additional names to the Veterans Memorial Wall and an address by David Morback of Waitsburg will high light the 2008 Memorial Day Program will be held at the Wall at 11am on Monday 26 at the Waitsburg City Cemetery. During the ceremony, recognition of the addition of the following deceased verteran’ names to the Vertern Memorial will be made: WWI-Rulon McCullock:, WW II, Dorothy E. Gilhus, Walter G. Harris, Glen D. Hofer, Charles “Bud” Phillips, Kenneth G. Smigh, Bruce W. Wilson, Vietnam: James...
Ten Years Ago - May 15, 2008 On this 95th year of the Days of Real Sport, the Parade Marshals are Erma Lee Smith, her son Glen and Erma Lee;s grandson and Glen’s son, Greg, all in the honor of the Smith family’s long history of involvement and support of the annual race weekend. The annual community celebration plans to entertain its friends and neighbors from near and far with a parade and two days of Quarter horse and thoroughbred horse racing and plenty of after-hours fun. Photo caption: A Walla Walla couple believes they had a close enc...
Ten Years Ago - May 8, 2008 Jerry Baker hit hole in one on the 180 yard fourth hole of Waitsburg’s private golf course at Martin Baker’s. Martin is Jerry’s dad. Witnessing the shot was Kit Lane, who reports it was made at 4:27 p.m. on May 1. Emily L. Hogan was awarded a $3000 Claude and Kathleen Irwin Regents Scholarship at Washington State University. She is the daughter of Carrie Graham and Robin Hogan from Waitsburg. It’s a natural. Kimberly Smith loves history and will be a perfect fit for the 2008 Days of Real Sport this year, emphasi...
Ten Years Ago - May 1 2008 Photo Caption-The largest tank of its kind ever manufactured by the Waitsburg Welding Works was delivered two weeks ago to the Walla Walla Concrete & Pipe Co, reads the story along with this photo from the April 11, 1947 edition. It took a crew of men two weeks to build, two hours to load on a truck, and three hours to haul the 20 miles to Walla Walla. Because of its immense size, it was too high to go under the railroad underpass on the main highway, and a slow trip was necessary on the country road with lead cars...
Ten Years Ago - April 24, 2008 After operating as a Green Giant label vegetable processing center since 1934, the Senica Foods processing plant in Dayton is ready for a new tenant. Friday the Port of Columbia opens the doors to welcome interested businesses, entrepreneurs and residents to tour the former home to tour the former house of the largest asparagus cannery in the world. Ad reads---Grand Opening-Waitsburg Clinic , May 5th, Ribbon cutting, Refreshments, Tours of the Clinic. Meet your Partners in Health , Roy Myers, MD, Dawn Meicher,...
Ten Years Ago - April 17, 2008 “Bull in a China Shop”, a quaint whodunit, opens Friday at the Liberty Theater in Dayton. Proceeds from the “Touchet Valley Arts Council (TVAC) production will benefit the “Open the Door” campaign for new building restoration. The Blue Mountain Heritage Society’s Smith Hollow Schoolhouse Restoration Project received a $2500 donation from Columbia Rural Electric and its employees recently. Eight students from Waitsburg Elementary and Preston Hall will be competing in the Blue Mountain Regional Speech Contest ton...
1 Years Ago - April 10, 2008 Whatddya gotta do to be the Touchet Valley’s Top Farmhand? First contestants had to cram a hay bale into a too-right gap between other bales, the load and unload a nail gun. Next was to saddle a “horse” and rope a hay-bale doggie, followed by the bale toss. After that, contestants were to give their best critter call, then pitch a busted section of bob wire fence. Checking a chainsaw for correct chain installation and putting a link in a drive chain correctly followed. Clint Atteberry jumped into first place with...
Ten Years Ago - April 3, 2008 Morgan, Naylor win for the Bluewood Blazers. The Bluewood Blazers ski team was spread all over the Pacific Northwest the weekend of March 22-23. Four athletes were at the Lookout Pass for the Emerald Empire Youth Ski League Finals, a pair at Mission Ridge for the Hampton Cup USSA race and ten were at Anthony Lakes for the Broadway Blast. At Anthony Lakes in a Super G, J3 racers Breanna Morgan and Alex Naylor each won in their events. Waitsburg-Prescott boys scored in every event and notched seven firsts and seven...
Ten Years Ago-March 27, 2008 Jack McCaw recently received a phone call from an old war buddy, Joe Plemons of Catoosa, OK. It has been decades since the two spoke. Jack had served on the USS LSM 268 during World War II, along with Plemone. The two reminisced and McCaw said it was surprising how many names the two of them could conjure up. The upper Touchet Valley Webelo’s and Cub Scouts from pack 332 of Dayton and Waitsburg competed in the Pioneer District Pinewood Derby races held in Walla Walla at Assumption Grade School Gym on Saturday, M...
Ten Years Ago March 20, 2008 Photo caption: These Mustang basketball players received special awards from their Coach, Karen Huwe. From left , Kyle Huxoll, Jessica Guay, Jessie Hopkins, Taylor Sams and Samantha Moss. Not pictured, Katy Hofer. Recipients of the 2007 Commercial Club Service Award are John and Marilyn Stellwagen, owners of the Waitsburg Hardware and Mercantile, and Robbie and Marilyn Johnson, owners of the Plaza Theater Building and home of Etctera’s. In addition to recognizing the foursome’s stewardship and renovation of the his...
Ten Years Ago - March 13, 2008 Photo caption: The Prescott-Waitsburg Softball team started workouts on February 25 and is bats first at Weston-McEwen on Friday, March 14. Returning letter winners are from left, Nicole Hall, Val Hamann, Sarah Paul, Kirstin Ruffcorn, Morgan Beckman, Alisha Marshall, Angelica Hermandez. Angie Potts will manage the team, assisted by Marvin Eng All Star Construction of the Tri=Cities has been awarded the contract for the Waitsburg Downtown Streetscape Renovation Project, the City Council decided at its March 5...
Ten Years Ago - March 8, 2008 Athletics from the boys, girls, and cheer squad programs at Waitsburg High School were recognized for their efforts at a Sports Awards Ceremony, held in the auditorium Tuesday, February 26. The event concluded with the group joining in the W.H.S. Fight song, followed by cookies and punch in The Cage. The Waitsburg Lions Club will host its annual Father, Daughter-Son Night on Tues March 11. The dinner meeting will begin at 7pm at Ye Town Hall and pizza is on the menu.After dinner, the youngsters will be treated to...
Ten Years Ago February 21, 2008 Waitsburg’s John Gertsch has been named to the Blue Mountain League, All –Conference first team BML officials announced recently. Cardinal teammate Kathy Weston was named to the All Conference Second Team Former Times publishers Tom and Anita Baker were among numerous Washington state community newspaper people honored by a fellow former editor and publisher with contributions in the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation. Turning a lifelong hobby into a viable business and escaping the rat rac...
Ten Years Ago February 14. 2008 A picture of a handsome young fella turning 50 on the 17th is none other than Loyal Baker Columbia County Health Systems is excited for their second speaker in the “We Can Do It, Get Fit, Get Well, Get Educated” series on Thursday, February 21 at the Liberty Theater from 6:30 to 7:30. Photo caption-front page The Whetstone Public House, owned by Travis and Deb Larson, and managed by Charleen Taylor, wants to reflect old-world neighborhood pub-charm as a gathering place for locals to enjoy. Twenty Five Years Ago F...
Ten Years Ago February 14, 2008 A desire to reconnect with Waitsburg, make a significant local investment in Waitsburg’s economic development and be close to family – no doubt – are what prompted Travis and Deb Larsen to become owners of the Whetstone Public House on Preston Avenue in Waitsburg. Former mayor and city councilman Marty Dunn was appointed to fill a vacant seat on the Waitsburg City Council. The seat was held by Jim Helm, who died in early December, 2007. Dunn has served as mayor and as a council man. He also served on the Plann...
Ten Years Ago February 7, 2008 Administrations at Waitsburg and Prescott school districts will now delve into the “nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty” of combining middle and high school athletics between the two schools following approval by the Waitsburg Schools Board of Directors last week. Prescott’s Board unanimously approved the idea on January 24. In the final game on Kison Court, Cardinals senior John Gertsch scorched the nets with seven treys and 25 points to lead the Waitsburg Cardinals to a 73-54 win over the Dayton Bulldogs. The w...
Ten Years Ago January 31, 2007 Breaking with a decades-long tradition, the Board of Directors of the Waitsburg Commercial Club voted unanimously to forgo sponsorship of a caucus for the 2008 City of Waitsburg at a special meeting on January 24. The caucus system was instituted by Commercial Club to put forth a slate of candidates in times of tepid interest among the citizenry. While Caris Cole, Shawny Ingle and Felicia Brown scored in the double figures to power the Lady Cardinals into contention against the Asotin Panthers, it was timely...
