Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Ten Years Ago May 26, 2011 [Headline] Dayton Parade a Go, Rodeo a “No”: Fear of equine virus prompts cancellation, parade to be horseless. “Thank you to all our Veterans who keep us safe and free.” Those were the words of parade co-announcer Fred Hamann Saturday morning moments after Perry Dozier flew his twin-engine Cessna Golden Eagle low over Main Street in a salute to Waitsburg and those who served their country in conflicts since World War II. April Students of the Month for Waitsburg Elementary are Sierra Vezina (4th Grade), Taylor...
Ten Years Ago May 19, 2011 City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe has the approvals in place and now it’s up to the City Council to decide at their regular monthly meeting Wednesday night whether to allow Fire District No. 2 to use the old apple warehouse or “bunk house” east of the McGregor plant for a training exercise—a firefighting exercise. That would mean the 90-year-old building, which was deemed by a Portland-based engineer several years ago to have good “bones,” to be burned to the ground, its remains to be shoved into its own basement and filled...
Ten Years Ago May 12, 2011 A construction crew uncovered two murals painted inside the Legion Hall building in 1938. The works are being restored. Val Woodworth and fellow Lions Club members prepare ribs for the annual Rib Feed at the Don Thomas Pavillion on the edge of the Fairgrounds Saturday. The event drew a crowd of 700 this year, up slightly from last year. The club prepared more than 900 pounds of ribs for the evening, which coincided with Spring Release weekend in the Walla Walla area. Rain came and went during the day, but the sun...
Ten Years Ago May 5, 2011 Early Friday morning, Helm and a dozen Waitsburg-area ladies joined an estimated 2 billion people around the globe to watch one of the biggest wedding ceremonies of all time. “Everyone has a Super Bowl party, so why not a Royal Wedding party?” said Helm, who stayed for Charles and Diana in the 70s and remembers seeing the coronation of Queen Elizabeth on television when she was a young child. Martha Lanman, of Lewiston, is Columbia County’s new public health administrator. Waitsburg PE teacher Jeff Bartlow showe...
Ten Years Ago April 28, 2011 The largest circus to come to Dayton in more than a decade, the Carson & Barnes Circus has the second-largest herd of elephants in the country. Local residents will have free access to the circus grounds to witness the care and feeding of these and many other animals on the morning of Thursday, June 30. Wine critic Paul Gregutt and filmmaker Karen Stanton Gregutt are banking on the area’s popularity as a wine destination, and their own connections to make their new company, Waitsburg Cottages, Llc., a success. ...
Ten Years Ago April 21, 2011 Nearly 600 riders paid a visit to Waitsburg and its surrounding countryside, including this secluded spot on Bolles Road north of town, this past weekend during the 15th annual Tour of Walla Walla. This 3-day, 4-stage cycling race brought bicyclists from all over to Waitsburg’s downtown, its eateries, and its places of lodging. Say your good-byes to Reid Helford and welcome new Liberty Theater Manager Kirsten Schober at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 20. The celebration includes a free showing of My Life as a Dog f...
Ten Years Ago April 14, 2011 Bart Baxter and Tiffany Laposi are opening a 50s Diner in Waitsburg, give them a few months to work on the Whetstone Pub. Inserted in this week’s edition of The Times, you will find something new and special. It’s a tabloid newspaper that looks a bit like the Blue Mountain News, The cover shows Dayton’s Stationmaster statue and the clock in Waitsburg’s Main Street with rolling spring wheat fields behind them. This, we are proud to announce, is our first Touchet River Valley Visitors Guide. Prescott singer/...
Ten Years Ago April 7, 2011 The Walla Walla Union Bulletin and the Dayton Chamber of Commerce will offer a free Facebook Seminar on Monday, April 11, at 6 p.m. at the Dayton Library in the Delaney Room. Social media coordinator Jeremy Gonzalez will show guests how and why using social media like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to grow their businesses. Twenty-Five Years Ago April 11, 1996 The annual Junior Livestock Show in Waitsburg April 5-6 was a success, sponsors report. Participants included Millie the bulldog who put on her game face for...
Ten Years Ago March 31, 2011 Dubbed the Hee-haw Honeys, Columbia County Fair Board Vice President Debbie Bailey, Secretary Christine Broughton, volunteer LeeAnn Literal and President Miranda Bowen performed a skit during Saturday’s kickoff. While the wind and early spring rains still descend on the Touchet Valley more than rays of sun, Erin Horan is already busy planting this year’s garden at the Monteillet dairy farm. The Blue Mountain Chapter of Pheasants Forever reported a successful annual banquet in late February. The chapter reports it...
Ten Years Ago February 24, 2011 [Headline] From the Drug Front: Meth is Back: With Threat to Tri-County Drug Task Force, Sheriffs Fear Setback In Local War on Drugs It was like a scene from Sherwood Forest. Men, women and children tromped through the woods carrying bows and quivers full of arrows. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, hundreds of modern-day archers, with compound bows priced between $15-$1,200, wearing synthetic, camouflage fleece and hiking boots, swarmed the forest hills at Tucannon Campground for the annual 3-D target shooting...
March 8 Attempted fraud. Touchet Unwanted phone calls from an inmate at the Umatilla County Jail. Waitsburg Hit and run with property damage. Burbank March 9 Female subject reporting possible harassment at work and home by unknown individuals. Prescott March 12 Domestic Dispute between boyfriend and girlfriend where a vehicle was damaged. Waitsburg Computer fraud. Walla Walla County March 13 Unknown subject damaged locks on a gate at the entrance to a property in Walla Walla County. Walla Walla County. Warrant service, use of drug...
Ten Years Ago March 17, 2011 Seated on an original bar stool, project manager Jim German points to the first bay of the former American Legion building which owner Charles Smith is turning into a new “working man’s bar.” In the footsteps of The Troublemakers the Up-And-Coming band, Rezonators performed a benefit for the aviary. The Times is pleased to announce that longtime photographer, sports enthusiast, and local resident Tracy Daniel has joined the newspaper as its first dedicated sports writer and photographer. Together with Publi...
Ten Years Ago March 10, 2011 [Headline] All current council members renominated for the 2011 race It may not have brought quite as many people to town as Cycle Oregon did last year, but in the world of youth wrestling, Waitsburg hit the big time this weekend as host of a 17-team tournament that attracted close to 2,000 visitors on Saturday. Commerce along one of the state’s arteries will soon kick back into gear as major repairs to key locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers draws to completion this month. Ski Bluewood invites all guests on S...
Ten Years Ago February 24, 2011 Dayton Days will not “go dark” this year, thanks in part to the Columbia County Fair Board, but it will not likely offer any horse racing. The Washington State Horseracing Commission decided earlier this month to give only six days of racing to the four-track Class C “Bush” circuit, with all of those days going to Sun Downs in Kennewick. This news hit the Touchet Valley hard. A man who left his truck on Biscuit Ridge, near Blacksnake Road, Waitsburg, returned several weeks later to find the passenger side wi...
Ten Years Ago February 17, 2011 Following the announcement that there will be no pari-mutuel horse racing this year in Waitsburg, Dayton and Walla Walla, the board of the Days of Real Sport has cancelled its annual May racing event for 2011. The DRS director said they hope it will only be a temporary interruption of a near century-old Waitsburg tradition. At first I thought The Times building at 139 Main Street would be the best place for an espresso bar, but the more I considered it, the more...
Ten Years Ago February 10, 2011 Dayton farmers now have more options for their agronomy needs. The Walla Walla Farmers Co-Op has opened an office at 509 Cameron Street, right next door to Columbia County Transportation, on Port of Columbia property. Lee Ann Literal has been a racehorse owner and trainer for almost a quarter of a century. The stables on her 500-acre ranch on Smith Hollow Road are a living testament to that long "track" record. Members of the Waitsburg Ministerial Association met...
Ten Years Ago February 3, 2011 The Walla Walla Sheriff’s Office requests local residents’ assistance in locating Adam Hermanns, whom they call “a potential witness” to last Tuesday night’s fire at his parents’ residence on West 2nd Street. A group of about a dozen businesses based in Waitsburg and Dayton are creating a new organization to help promote tourism in the Touchet Valley. Diane Dill and her son Alex didn’t lose everything Saturday. Their horses were outside when the fire in the barn on Bolles Road started just before noon, and two...
Ten Years Ago January 27, 2011 Starbuck Mayor Darcy Linklater has been charged with driving under the influence and will appear in Columbia County District Court to enter his plea on Wednesday, Feb. 2. [Headline] Sheriff takes “Honker” into custody for his own safety, then releases him on his own recognizance [Photo caption] Pastor Bret Moser (left) and Pastor Mike Ferrians (right) with America West Bank’s Andie Holmberg in front of the food bank’s future home on Preston Avenue in the bank’s...
Ten Years Ago January 20, 2011 Reid Helford, the popular and award-winning manager of the Liberty Theater, has announced his resignation and will leave his position by the end of April. When a building grows to be as old as the First Christian Church in Dayton, it collects stories. The 125-year-old structure has stood on the corner of Third and Park Streets in Dayton, overlooking the schoolyard across the street for so long, it has seen generations of Columbia County residents come forth into the world, mature to adulthood, and sometimes move...
Ten Years Ago January 13, 2011 [Photo caption] Jeff Jenkins, a Columbia County Sheriff’s deputy, displays drug paraphernalia at Dayton schools last week. After Claudia Nysoe and her husband, Dain, moved back to Dayton two years ago, she told him the position of Chamber of Commerce director seemed like the most interesting job in town. So when Lisa Ronnberg announced in December that she would leave the chamber to join the Columbia County’s Public Works department, Nysoe applied for it, and lat...
Ten Years Ago January 6, 2011 When dozens of well-wishers gathered to celebrate Sarah Lyman’s birthday at Booker Rest Home in Dayton on Saturday, they came not only to honor this longtime Dayton resident’s 100th birthday but to commemorate a century of Columbia County history. Dayton graduate Garrett Bickelhaupt, 19, leaves this week for Army basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [Photo caption] American Legion Auxiliary #35 President Rose Engelbrite of Waitsburg hands a $1,000 donation che...
Ten Years Ago December 30, 2010 Walla Walla County passed its annual audit with no complications, according to a report released from the State Auditor’s office Monday. New library manager Su Alexander has plenty of new ideas in store for the Weller Public Library in downtown Waitsburg. Alexander, who took over as manager after Jan Cronkhite retired in October, has plans to make the library new and improved while retaining its historical aspects. Duane and Brenda Lowe will close shop on Brenda’s Discount and Antiques on the corner of 4th and Ma...
Ten Years Ago December 23, 2010 First responders from Waitsburg and Walla Walla help an injured driver from Oregon onto a stretcher after his pickup truck rolled off a Highway 12 embankment just north of Minnick Hill around 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The Cardinals are on a roll, winning their third matchup in a row Tuesday against the Mac-Hi Pioneers in a non-league game that ended with a score of 59-23. November was a great month in Starbuck, and the Starbuck Stars have been busy! Students are hard at work learning and growing, and no student...
Ten Years Ago December 16, 2010 Lisa Ronnberg, executive director of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce for the past three and half years, has announced she will leave her position to become the business manager for the Columbia County Public Works Department. The Port of Columbia will end its lease of Lyons Ferry Park with the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which means the recreational facility across the river from Lyons Ferry Marina will not reopen unless the Corps can find another tenant. The Times is moving back to its renovated historic building...
Ten Years Ago December 9, 2010 No one seems to know exactly how tall the Northwest Grain Growers elevator in Dixie is, but even those who work there say it’s no higher than 130 feet. Inland Cellular is set to build a 180-foot cell phone tower at 9970 East Highway 12 near the elevator this spring and is seeking public comment on its proposal under the National Preservation Act of 1966. Waitsburg first responders helped a middle-aged Walla Walla man into an ambulance after he crashed his car into the guideline of a utility pole near the Laht N...
