Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago January 24, 2008 Following four think-on-your-feet interviews and a short executive session, three members of the Waitsburg City Council couldn’t agree on a replacement appointee for the Council seat made vacant by the death of Councilman Jim Helm. Candidates Marty Dunn, Mark Shively, Sarah Groffman and Karen Gregutt will have to tap dance their way through another audition on February 6. The congregation of the First Christian Church of Waitsburg substantially voted approval of a $131,000 sanctuary renovation project, Pastor M...
Ten Years Ago January 17, 2008 Jack Cyr, Mr. Recycling around Waitsburg, will cease recycling newspaper and cardboard as of April 1, 2008, blaming high gas prices. Cyr informed The Times through a Letter to the Editor. “They say we’re going to have $4 gas by summertime,” Cyr said this week. The 82-year-old’s route is usually from Waitsburg, where he picks up cardboard at the blue box near the Waitsburg City Shop and other locations, through Dixie and to various stops along the way into Walla Walla. One of Waitsburg’s most notable landmarks...
Ten Years Ago January 10, 2008 The Waitsburg Fifth Grade Ski Program begins this week at Ski Bluewood and according to teacher Pam Conover, the students are “quite excited” about going skiing. Before they went, however, Deb Callahan brought two sewing machines to the classroom and with Stacia Deal as her dew-worthy assistant, made fleece neck warmers with the kids. A terrific wind storm pounded Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater last Friday, January 4, but Waitsburg and environs survived the windy onslaught with relatively minor damage. No dea...
Ten Years Ago January 3, 2008 With a skiff of snow and threatening skies, construction workers busy with the new Waitsburg Clinic at the corner of Third and Main were hard at work a couple of days after Christmas. Through mid December, concrete was poured and soon a floor was put down, then last week walls were up and indeed the Clinic is beginning to take shape. The structure if hoped to be roofed and ready for interior work by mid January. One man was arrested and Walla Walla County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating another suspect f...
Ten Years Ago December 27, 2017 Photo caption: The Cardinal Players took a curtain call, basking in the applause following their “reader’s theater” presentation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” at the Liberty Theater in Dayton last Saturday night. Isaac Huether played Ebenezer Scrooge and each member of the cast stepped into the many roles required for the production. From left: Fred Cunz, John Gertsch, Wesley Hilton, Isaac Huether, Felicia Brown, Colton Townsend, Nathan Moon, Shawny Ingle, Tyson Cole, Dakota Hopkins. Narrator Ro...
Ten Years Ago December 20, 2007 To get into the Christmas spirit, there’s nothing like the sights and sounds to be experienced at the Waitsburg Community Choir cantata. “Once upon a Miracle” - A Christmas Musical, by Marty Parks, was performed last Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church in Waitsburg, to a full house. The performance was directed by Melissa Ferrians and narrated by Chloe Pearson and her grandfather John Knowles, with her dad Randy Pearson as organist. Lacey Mayberry of Touchet will be the Queen of the 2008 Pendleton Round...
Ten Years Ago December 13, 2007 Waitsburg is shifting from an agricultural-based focus to wine and tourism, Perry Dozier of the Waitsburg Economic Development Committee told the Commercial Club at its December 4, 2007 at Ye Towne Hall. The 2007-08 ski season got started at Ski Bluewood Sunday, December 9, The Times was informed by Ski Bluewood officials last Friday. The Waitsburg Booster Club presented its “Cardinal Pride” Booster of the Year award to Bitzi and Bert Baxter during halftime of the Colton-Lady Cardinals game on December 4. Boo...
Ten Years Ago December 6, 2007 After about 18 months of discussion, some 50 acres east and north of the Waitsburg City Limits is now officially part of the city. The parcel is located between Mill Race Road and Taggart Road. The land, proposed for annexation by owners Andy and Camille Mc Elhinney of the Paloma Valley Land Retirement Plan Trust, Wildomar, Calif., was annexed by a 3-2 vote at the Waitsburg City Council meeting on November 28 at Ye Towne Hall. Dissenting on the decision were councilmen Leroy Cunningham and Larry Clinton. The...
Ten Years Ago November 29, 2007 Waitsburg’s Streetscape Renovation Project, beset by delays and setbacks, got a $140,000 boost this week. “This is a real shot in the arm for Waitsburg’s Main Street.” said Ross Hamann, chairman of the Waitsburg Community Revitalization Committee (WRC). Columbia County Health System CEO Bruce Grimshaw has resigned and will be leaving for a job as chief operating officer (COO) at a Victorville, Calif. hospital. His final day will be January 18, 2008. Tewnty-Five Years Ago November 26, 1992 In the sharing spirit...
Ten Years Ago November 22, 2007 Following the discovery of an underground storage tank and a week’s delay while the tank was removed and soil checked, contractors began working in earnest on the new Waitsburg Clinic at the corner of Third and Main. W.C. Construction of Elgin, Ore., is the general contractor, and in no time the lot was excavated down about three feet. Soil samples taken showed no contamination around the tank, said Bruce Grimshaw, CEO of the hospital district. The 12th annual Tour of Walla Walla bike race is schedule fro A...
Ten Years Ago November 15, 2007 Former Waitsburg mayor Tom Baker was honored with the 2007 Walla Walla Chamber of Commerce Award of Merit in a ceremony last week. Five Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals – three on defense and two on offense – were named to the District 9 All League Team for the Southeast 2B Football League, announced Coach Jeff Bartlow recently. Three senior players and two junior players from the combined team were honored. Senior receiver Colby Mayberry and junior offensive lineman Josh Wilson were tapped for their stand-out pla...
Ten Years Ago November 8, 2017 Senior Tyson Cole completed seven of 10 passes for 226 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions in leading the Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals to a 34-6 win over Pomeroy there last Friday. Photo caption: Construction of the new Waitsburg Clinic was kicked off by a Groundbreaking Ceremony last Monday morning. Columbia County Hospital District board members were joined by administration and staff members for the ceremony. From left: Nancy Otterson, Bill Hinchliffe, Marilou Smith, John Rodgers, M.D., Jill...
Ten Years Ago November 1, 2007 It has come to our attention that we do not have any birthdays listed for October 28. We are hoping to find someone with a birthday on that day. For the first person that calls The Times office, 337-6631, with a name to put on our birthday list for October 28, we will provide a cake mix, frosting and birthday candles. Towne Hall will be the beneficiary of funds raised by the Waitsburg Commercial Club at the 50th Salmon Barbeque in September. At a recent board meeting, Club leaders approved submitting up to $5,000...
Ten Years Ago October 18, 2007 Ceremonies held statewide on October 10 recognized schools, including Waitsburg High School, for their achievements in improving WASL scores over the past six years. W.H.S. Principal Ken Beasley, Liv Leid, English teacher and Superintendent Carol Clarke accepted the trophy . . . denoting the school’s achievement . . . The Waitsburg Elementary Fifth Grade, putting elements of its reading curriculum into practice, placed and replaced birdhouses along Jasper Mountain Road in the Blue Mountains on Sept. 30, then g...
Ten Years Ago October 11, 2007 Dick Garbe of Touchet reports it rained .13 in September. Kimberly Bly of Waitsburg placed third in the Powder Puff Derby at the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days’ Demolition Derby. Questions, predictions, opinions, concerns, comments, fears, facts and conjecture. All these and more were part of the public hearing on the annexation proposal being sought by Andy McIlhinney and the Paloma Valley Land Retirement Plan Trust of Wildomar, Calif. The hearing was part of the City Council’s October 3 meeting. About 18...
Ten Years Ago October 4, 2007 Wheat producers and the grain industry saw another historic wheat price set Monday when soft white wheat closed at $10.02. As of press deadline Tuesday afternoon, wheat had closed at $9.87. “It still hasn’t rained in Australia,” said J.E. McCaw, local manager of the Northwest Grain Growers Waitsburg branch. “There is continued world-wide demand for wheat.” After sustaining a $250 loss during the 2006 Salmon Barbecue, the Waitsburg Commercial Club redoubled its marketing efforts and planning, and netted nearly $9...
Ten Years Ago September 20, 2007 Another beautiful – albeit breezy – September Sunday played host to the Pioneer Fall Festival at the Bruce Memorial Museum. The corn on the cob was lip-smackin’ good and smiling folks were abundantly welcoming to the well-attended fall classic. The case of the missing Lewis and Clark Silhouette has been solved. The Silhouette of the two famous explorers, positioned in the parking strip near the Main Street Bridge was discovered missing Monday morning by local citizens. By Tuesday the iron silhouette, craft...
Ten Years Ago September 13, 2007 Marguerite Anna (Heinen) Ganguet, who dies August 20, 2007, was to have been the honored Pioneer of the Year at the 35th annual Pioneer Fall Festival, slated for Sunday, September 16 at the Bruce Memorial Museum in Waitsburg. She will be honored posthumously in a brief ceremony at about noon. First quarters are usually spent as each team sees what the other is made of and more often than not, both teams have the jitters or are fairly equally matched and they grind and toil back and forth a few possessions. Not...
Ten Years Ago September 6, 2007 Seventeen-year-old Daniel Wies, the son of Joe and Kathy Weis of Waitsburg, was one of 26 individuals from the Spokane Dioceses to make an early August sojourn to Mississippi to contribute to Katrina relief efforts. With fingers crossed that a forest fire won’t break out in the next couple of weeks, plans for the 50th Annual Commercial Club Salmon Bake are coming together for the event on Saturday, September 22. Last year the feed moved to McGregor Co. because firefighters were using the DRS grounds as base c...
Ten Years Ago August 30, 2007 The City of Waitsburg’s official flag has been flying beneath the stars and stripes on the downtown flagpole for the past week or so. The City Council approved of the design in early June and accepted the offer of reimbursement for the flags from Bettie Chase, Bert Baxter and Mayor Markeeta Little Wolf. When the gun goes off to start the 2007 Cross Country season, Waitsburg High School looks to be a favorite to earn a berth in the State Meet later this fall. Maya Garcia, now a sophomore, is favored to be in the t...
Ten Years Ago August 23, 2007 Photo caption: Slowly the mule-drawn wagon carrying the casket of Kenneth G. Smith climbed the gently sloping hill at the Waitsburg City Cemetery, conveying the prominent wheat rancher and Quarterhorse enthusiast to his final resting place. Friends and Family attended the graveside service last Wednesday, officiated by Rev. Bret Moser, to bid farewell to Smith who, after military service in World War II, assumed management of the family farm at a young age. His hand in guiding and supporting the Days of Real Sport...
Ten Years Ago August 16, 2007 Grain prices have been ratcheting up each day, jumping 15¢ on Tuesday, August 14, said J.E. McCaw, local manager of Northwest Grain Growers, as harvest operations in the Touchet Valley and surrounding area begin to curtail activities. Soft white wheat closed Tuesday at an all-time record high of $6.47, McCaw said. Sparks from an electrical tool are suspected as the cause of a fire which destroyed a pleasure boat and caused minor burns to the boat owner’s hands and arms last Thursday. Casey paul, no age available, 8...
Ten Years Ago August 9, 2007 Wheat harvest in the Touchet Valley and surrounding is well past commodity prices are uncharacteristically on the rise. “These are the highest prices I’ve ever seen,” said J.E. McCaw, local manager of the Waitsburg branch of Northwest Grain Growers. The last time wheat was in the $6 range, McCaw said, was the spring following the 1973 harvest, when prices reached the $6.20 range. “Here we are at $6.17 and we’re still in harvest,” he said. Photo caption: Ted and Lavonne Bren of Waitsburg recently ventured to...
Ten Years Ago July 26, 2007 After going 7-3 during the regular season, the Windermere Girls Softball Team, won the 13-18U championship tournament by winning two games to capture the top trophy. The team consists of Morgan Beckman, Loren Eng, Mayra Ezpinoza, Kaz Grende, Alisha Marshall, Jackie Matson, Taylor Moon, Carissa Murphy, Kristin Ruffcorn, Ashley Wilson, and Megan Withers. Coaches are Angie Potts, Marvin Eng and Allen Wilson. Construction of the new Waitsburg Clinic is expected to break ground in October. A sign to publicize the...
Ten Years Ago July 19, 2007 Grain growers in the Touchet Valley and surrounding countryside should be harvesting in full swing by this weekend. Throughout this week, local farmers started cutting to get the 2007 harvest under way, said J.E. McCaw, manager of the local branch of Northwest Grain Growers. An early sense of this year’s crop indicate that yield ranges from fair to excellent, McCaw said, though reports of yields have shown a wide range. Less than 20 years after the first settlers came to the Touchet Valley in 1859, the forebears o...
