Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago December 29, 2011 A group of Waitsburg residents wants to resurrect the town’s defunct flood control district, a prospect city officials say they welcome. “We want to keep Waitsburg safe and beautiful,” said Allison Bond, who spearheaded a recruiting effort that has yielded the required number of volunteers to serve on the district next year. “There are a lot of people willing to put the time in,” she said. “And they have great ideas.” Citing concerns about the stability of...
Ten Years Ago December 22, 2011 The WP Cardinals aren’t just the toast of Waitsburg, which honored the team with a special dinner sponsored by the Commercial Club at the Town Hall last Thursday – the 2011 2B state football champions are the toast of the entire state. Quarterback Zach Bartlow last week was named Player of the Year on the Washington Associated Press All-State football team as voted by writers and editors from around Washington. It’s the highest honor any football player can recei...
Ten Years Ago December 15, 2011 Waitsburg’s Town Hall was turned into a child’s Christmas-shopping paradise last Thursday night. For about 15 years, community volunteer Rose Englebrite said the hall has played host to vendors who set up tables and sell gifts for $10 and under for the community children to purchase as gifts for their families. “It’s just a night for the kids to come out and shop for what they want to,” Englebrite said. [Photo Caption] Friends and family are invited to share in...
Ten Years Ago December 8, 2011 [Photo Caption] The 2011 WP Cardinals hold aloft the coveted state 2B championship trophy after their 33-7 victory over the Morton/White Pass Timberwolves at the Tacoma Dome last Saturday. The students from Waitsburg became the first-ever football players to win the title on the high school’s behalf. It’s the second WP state sports title this fall. Twenty-Five Years Ago December 12, 1996 The Waitsburg Ambulance Service’s primary ambulance, a 1986 Ford which was exp...
Ten Years Ago December 1, 2011 This Saturday and Sunday Christmas comes to Waitsburg with Santa, a lighted parade and plenty of shopping and prizes during the town’s annual Hometown Christmas event. “Come to the Town Hall for vendors and gifts,” said Ruth Peterson, an organizer of the event. Held every first weekend in December, this annual tradition centered in Town Hall is sure to be a delight. This is the festival’s 26th year in Waitsburg, Peterson said. Cardinals head coach Jeff Bartlow...
Ten Years Ago November 24, 2011 The Waitsburg Resource Center, which opened in the American West Bank in December 2010, is being used by our neighbors more than ever. The city's food bank had been run out of the basement of the Presbyterian Church for 25 years until the bank offered up its space. The churches in town formed a board and its new visible spot and word of mouth is bringing more neighbors through the doors, said Bethany Moser, the chairwoman of the board. The Leos Club at Waitsburg H...
Ten Years Ago November 17, 2011 Last Wednesday night, a room in Preston Hall packed with school district employees and community members honored the closure of Terry Jacoy’s 23 years on the Waitsburg School Board. Jacoy has served on the board since 1988. School board Chairman ross Hamann said that in the time that Jacoy has been on the board, 590 kids have received their diplomas. “When you do something like this, you don’t do it with the idea of being remunerated,” Jacoy said. Twenty-...
Ten Years Ago November 10, 2011 For Bette Lou Crothers, who as a child moved every year, Dayton is her real hometown. Crothers attended Dayton High School her junior and senior years, married a local boy out of college and has been selling insurance on Main Street for 30 years. Crothers said her family moved often because her parents worked building dams along the Snake River. She attended Central Washington University and always thought she would be an accountant. Instead, she got a job...
Ten Years Ago November 3, 2011 Waitsburg Fire Department Captain Brian Callahan thought getting to the fire department five minutes before 5 p.m. would be just fine on Halloween last Monday. However, when he showed up, there were already parents waiting with their witches, monsters, ghosts, and princesses. This Halloween was the first year the Waitsburg Fire Department provided blinking safety flashers and candy for the local children as they donned costumes and went door to door for treats....
Ten Years Ago October 27, 2011 As Waitsburg becomes increasingly popular among travelers, more small-scale, down-home lodging is springing up around town to accommodate them, according to Karen Stanton-Gregutt, owner of Waitsburg Cottages. Together with the owners of several other lodging establishments, Stanton-Gregutt presented to members of the Commercial Club last week an overview of existing and new properties where quality accommodations are available for nightly and weekly stays. Based...
Ten Years Ago October 20, 2011 The Henze hunting party got its first deer of the season Monday morning. The five men from Waitsburg and Aberdeen flushed out the 4-point white tail buck by spreading out around the brush on privately owned wheat lands north of town after walking the fields for more than a mile from the nearest road. It was a cool dewy morning, the sun barely up to illuminate the gently sloping landscape around them. It didn’t take long to spot the buck, to make sure it was l...
Ten Years Ago October 13, 2011 It has been 25 years since Markeeta Little Wolf has belted out songs with her powerful voice to an audience. Little Wolf performed on TV, in club acts and even on the theater stage in musicals from age 12 to 28, when she gave it all up to sell real estate and have a different kind of life. Little Wolf realized about one yar ago that she still has one more show in her, she said. And she's been working since on songs, lighting, and costumes to give her friends in...
Ten Years Ago October 6, 2011 Dayton had its moment in the sun on Saturday as it displayed the best it has to offer including historic homes, flourishing businesses, and plenty of local art for its event Dayton on Tour. Visitors had a chance to pick up a guidebook and walk into historical homes in town that had recently been renovated. Jennie Dickinson, a volunteer for the Dayton Historic Depot, said the home tours are her favorite part of Dayton on Tour, especially the Broughton Mansion this ye...
Ten Years Ago September 29, 2011 The Waitsburg City Council last Wednesday night voted 4-1 in favor of enacting a new ordinance that will give the city the ability to shut off city utilities to citizens who don’t pay bills or violate the nuisance codes. This new way to handle violators should help the city enforce its rules better, said Randy Hinchliffe, the city’s clerk-treasurer. In the past, the city would give citizens a ticket if they didn’t follow the rules, but the Sheriff’s Office...
Ten Years Ago September 22, 2011 It was a day of Victorian fashion, museum tours, buffalo, corn on the cob and Butlers at Waitsburg’s Fall Festival on Sunday. The attendance was anything but sparse. The community filled benches and wooden chairs on the front lawn of the Bruce Memorial Museum for a church service. Pastor Mike Ferrians, dressed as though he were from the old west in a long black coat and hat, led the congregants in singing traditional hymns and spoke about an old-fashioned farm t...
Ten Years Ago September 15, 2011 Waitsburg resident Jane Butler, age 90, has deep family roots in the Touchet Valley through her husband Bob. Butler has lived in town about 50 years, non-consecutively, and is being honored for her family history with the Pioneer of the Year award from the Waitsburg Historical Society. “I feel honored,” Butler said of the award. She learned she was to be the honoree at the upcoming Pioneer Fall Festival on Sep. 18 through a letter from Bettie Chase, a member of...
Ten Years Ago September 8, 2011 The new face behind the counter at the Weller Public Library is likely one you have seen before. Rosie Warehime, the new library manager, has lived in Waitsburg for 44 years. Her husband Walt found his first teaching job in Waitsburg. “We planned to stay 2 years and we never left,” she said. Warehime hadn’t ever worked at a library before, but she had been employed at the Cenex station and at local grain growers, making her a recognizable face in the commu...
Ten Years Ago September 1, 2011 The Waitsburg-Prescott cheer squad will soar to new heights this football season because of a larger squad and lots of returning veterans. “We have a lot of athletic girls and a lot of experience,” Coach Vickie Hamann said. “The girls were vey enthusiastic.” The football cheer squad totals 13 girls this year, nine on varsity and four on junior varsity. Hamann is taking on her fifth year as coach and says she is thrilled by the larger turnout. [Photo Caption...
Ten Years Ago August 15, 2011 It was never Wyatt Withers' sole inspiration for going in the Navy, but once he had decided to join it certainly helped having a grandfather who had served in the same branch many decades ago. Choosing to be "seasick over digging a fox hole," longtime local farmer Jack McCaw went to amphibian training school in preparation of the Allied invasion of Japan when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He became part of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's...
Ten Years Ago August 18, 2011 Seattle-area residents who tuned into their local National Public Radio affiliate this week were introduced to none other than Waitsburg’s Bret Moser, Jim German, Claire Johnston and Jack Miller. Seattle-based KUOW focused on Waitsburg in a second segment about the so-called “Cascade Curtain,” a physical, and some would say cultural and political, divide between the west and east sides of the Cascade Mountains. In his show “Waitsburg: When East Meets West,” reporter...
Ten Years Ago August 11, 2011 The Green Giant has a hole, a giant hole. It’s squarely in the center of his tunic, which the jolly big guy dons with wreath and leafy boots on the steep hill overlooking the edge of Dayton like the town’s own “Hollywood” sign. Gary Lowe wants to fill the hole and if you’re a strapping high schooler, he’ll want your help late next month to complete the green tunic on the football field-sized figure, marking the last phase of a project that started almost two decades ago. “We’ll finally be done,” said Lowe, an opt...
Ten Years Ago August 4, 2011 Jillian Beaudry, an editor and reporter for the Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash., will become the new managing editor for the Times based in Waitsburg, the newspaper’s publisher announced on Monday. She will replace Dian McClurg, the previous managing editor who left the newspaper in May. “We are lucky to be able to welcome someone of Jillian’s caliber and enthusiasm to our small staff,” Times publisher Imbert Matthee said. “She is well regarded in our state’s n...
Ten Years Ago July 28, 2011 For T. J. Hersey, running her father's grocery store in Dayton is a way for him to live on. Hersey is now a third-generation grocer in the town. Her grandfather, H. W. Stephenson, came to Dayton in 1938 from Portland, Ore., and he opened up a grocery in 1944. Hersey's father, Gail Bennet, took over in 1961 and ran the neighborhood Steve's Grocery on Fourth Street until he passed away last year. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 1, 1996 Waitsburg's Days of Real Sports...
Ten Years Ago July 21, 2011 Susan Hosticka always wanted to do a "bee beard" to prove the hard-working insects are really quite gentle and harmless despite their reputation to the contrary. Late last month, during a field day for the state's beekeepers association at Washington Sate University, she finally had her Fear Factor moment when 4,000 bees crawled and buzzed around her shoulders, neck and head. "Not a single sting," said the co-owner of Octopus Garden Honey on South Touchet Road near...
Ten Years Ago July 14, 2011 When you hear Bobbi and Barney Chambers talk about Sophie, Cleo, Denny, Lone Star and Superdude, you'd think they're talking about a circus family of seven that's not getting enough quality time together. "We don't see them enough," Bobbi Jo Chambers says about her loved ones. "We're putting on too many of these shows." But the couple from Cottonwood, Idaho, a town about two and half hours from Dayton, is actually pining after more time with their show mules, some of...
