Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Goats Lightweight: Grand Champion - Kate Kuykendall Reserve Grand Champion -Jessie Atteberry 3rd - Megan Forney 4th - Morgan Forney 5th - Makenzie Forney Heavyweight: Grand Champion - GraceCoulston Reserve Grand Champion -Devon Harsman 3rd - Taylor Spoonemore Overall 4-H Market Goats: Grand Champion - Kate Kuykendall Reserve Grand Champion -Grace Coulston Non-Market Goat: 1st - Grace Coulston 2nd - Jessie Atteberry Fitting and Showing - Inter- mediate: Grand Champion - Sydney Fobley Reserve Grand Champion -Taylor Spoonemore 3rd - Devon...
Columbia County Fair Hogs Grand Champion Market - Luke Alexenko Champion Advanced F&S - Tristan Newman Reserve Advanced F&S - Hannah Grant Champion Novice F&S - BrandonPenner Reserve Novice F&S - Levi Hatfield Sheep Grand Champion Market - Kim- mie Hamann Reserve Champion Market - Trenton Kitselman Champion F&S - Kimmie Hamann Reserve Champion F&S - Tren- ton Kitselman Goats: Grand Champion Market - Kas- sidy Kuykendall Reserve Champion Market- Loegan Harshman Champion F&S - Loegan Harsh- man...
Ten Years Ago September 18, 2003 Brad Huffman bested a field of 20 to lead the Waitsburg Cardinals Cross Country team to its first win in four or five years. Marci Jo Lanning finished fourth in the girl's com- petition. "It was a great day," said Coach Ron Huntington. "These kids are going to be pretty competitive," he said. Waitsburg runners held the top four spots and dominated runners from Colfax and Pomeroy. The Cards scored 23, Colfax 38 and Pomeroy 64. Runners' placement equals their points scored; lowest score wins. Huffman crossed the...
Now that this part of the country has been deemed Washington State's wine country, you might try your hand at growing a wine grape vine or two in your own back yard. One place you can purchase wine grape root stock is at the historical Waitsburg Hardware store in downtown Waitsburg. The proprietors of this classic old-time hardware store carry just a few varieties of stock; ask to be put on the waiting list if they are out of the particular grape you wish to experiment with. A clue however, is that the white grape does better than a red vine...
The mind of the wheat market is pondering a seasonal low. $6.35 - $6.38 - $6.36hellip;The last three lows printed by the Chicago December futures contract, all within the last three weeks and all within three cents of the lowest the contract has traded in its existence. Following each low, the price has rebounded at least 15 cents within a few days. The pattern suggests that each time wheat gets down to the mid-$6.30's there is some buying support discovered and/or the selling pressure weakens, but there is not enough upward demand to carry...
Waitsburg's 4-H livestock club, the Corral Wranglers, placed well at the Walla Walla County Fair last weekend. Club members earned top awards with Champion and Reserve Champion placing in beef, swine and goat categories. Waitsburg Corral Wrangler Beef won the Dan Oliver Memorial Herdsmanship Award and the club placed 3rd in Livestock Judging. Grace Coulston won the Superintendent Sportsmanship award and the Joan Arbini Memorial, "I Gave it My All" Award. Waitsburg Corral Wrangler Live...
While I doubt I'll ever completely do away with my paper planner/calendar, I have to admit that I love Google's web-based Calendar! It's certainly not the new kid on the block when it comes to online event tracking, but it's still my favorite, simply because it can be used in so many ways. The first, and most obvious use, is as a basic calendar. The neat thing here is that you can set up a variety of different calendars and choose who you want to share them with. For example, I assign a di...
I confess - I like junk food, especially salty, crunchy, fat-laden potato chips. An open bag is an empty bag. Of course potato chips don't provide anything positive in the way of nutrition but they sure taste great in the moment. Some books are like junk food. They offer a tasty high- calorie reading experience but lack " nutrition" to stimulate the reader's emotional or intellectual growth - and sometimes that's just okay. This summer, I've been on a junk-food book binge because my life circumstances are a bit overwhelming and my stress meter...
Ten Years Ago September 11, 2003 In her first major dressage competition, Maya Garcia of Waitsburg earned first place in the intro A division and re- ceived high point overall. She competed August 22-24 in a regional show of the United States Dressage Federation held in Boring, Oregon which included competitors from Idaho, Washington and Oregon. She is the daughter of Maria and Roger Garcia, and great granddaughter of Betty Land and the late Albert Land, all of Waitsburg. Garcia, who is a sixth grader this year, trains with Kate Sullivan at...
A s with every autumn, our summer flower and vegeta- ble gardens fade and the job of turning and replenish- ing the soil with fresh, rich, crumbly-as-chocolatecake organic compost takes place. Hopefully, you'll be using your own homemade compost. If you haven't created homemade compost before, first you need a compost bin. There are many kinds of bins avail- able in gardening catalogs and your garden supply, but you can build your own compost bin like I did using five "free" wooden pallets from your local hardware store. Simply bolt four...
A cross the US and now into Canada, combines are be- ing air-blown off and carefully parked, to await win- ter overhaul and prep for yet another harvest season. Wheat producers have their calculators warmed up and have begun to sell off or ship previously sold grain to pay the sum- mer bills. The buyers of wheat are also watching the markets a bit more closely now. On Tuesday, Chicago wheat prices opened almost a dime higher following the three-day Labor Day weekend, but there was not enough power for warp-drive, so we fell back onto impulse...
Wednesday, August 28 11 a.m. Frontier Days Officially Opens (Free gate until 3 p.m.) Davis Shows & Carnival (all day, Wed. through Sun.) 7 p.m. Craig Morgan Concert & Royalty Introduc- tions Thursday, August 29 6:00 p.m. Demolition Derby Friday, August 30 2 p.m. Kid's Day (Children ages 6-13, $2; children 5 and under FREE) 7 p.m. PRCA Approved Rodeo (Special kids pricing of $6 for ages 3-13) Saturday, August 31 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Cowboy Breakfast at VFW Down- town (102 N. Colville) 10 a.m....
August 31 Dayton Farmer's Mar- ket (Every Saturday) 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Depot Courtyard Enjoy fresh produce, hotfood, artisan breads and much more. Starbuck Swap Meet &Redneck Games 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Starbuck, WADon't miss out on theswap meet full of vegeta- bles, fruit, crafts, household goods, woodworking andmore. Call the Rawhide Caféat 509-399-2222 to sign up for the Oversized CoverallThree Legged Race, Out- house Races and Toilet SeatHorseshoes. 2 Preschool Story Time(every Tuesday) Prescott Library 2:30 p.m. Wii Gaming Night (firsttwo...
Ten Years Ago September 4, 2003 Guests from Elgin, Oregon will get plenty of high school sports action Friday as the Cardinal Volleyball team hosts the HuskiesofElginina3p.m.game.Theeveningwillconclude witha7p.m.footballgameattheWaitsburgfield.First-year coach Christine Pearson is looking to a handful of returning players to lead the squad in its 16-game 2003 schedule. "The six returning letterers will give the team a solid foun- dation," Pearson said. "I've got a good core of girls." Senior Corinne McKinley is expected to provide leadership, s...
Years ago I grew Pacific broccoli in the vegetable garden. It was during these early family years that my son, only four years old at the time, could be found at the dinner table playing with his food and his dad and I encouraged his sticking broccoli spears in mounds of mashed potato and giggling as he declared, "Look Mommy, trees!" At the time we thought having fun eating together was more important than manners, and in the end our son loved vegetables and ate everything on his plate! As years passed, I was introduced to the sweeter broc- col...
Judging the wheat market, or any active market, is a continuous process. Those engaged in such a risky busi- ness know that guessing right about the future price is the Holy Grail of research. Of course there is a multi-billion dollar industry built around providing the "secret" of where prices will be in the future, but there is a common miscon- ception. Many observers make the mistake of focusing on fore- casts or predictions of the future course of prices, when they would be much better served to concentrate on the underly- ing causes of...
Dayton Elementary School 302 E. Park Street Dayton, WA 99328 509-382-2507 Open House Meet & Greet August 26 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. This is an op- portunity to meet new staff and enjoy a hot dog dinner. K-5 First day of school is August 27. School begins at 8:10 a.m. and ends at 3p.m. Wednesday dismissal is 3 p.m. Breakfast is served at 7:45 a.m. Dayton Jr. High/ High School 614 South Third Street Dayton, WA 99328 509-382-4775 School begins August 27. Enrollment and consent forms can be found online at www.daytonsd.org. Waitsburg High School 420...
WAITSBURG – For those who are familiar with Markeeta Little Wolf’s unique personal style, the way she views her garden should come as no surprise. “It’s like the way I dress,” she said during a recent interview at her home on Fourth Street. “Cowboy boots and a silk dress. Not everyone would dress like that. But I know what looks good on me.” As part of their monthly meeting Saturday, 20 members of the Waitsburg Garden Club toured the former entertainer’s lush landscape a few doors down from t...
DAYTON -- While the idiomatic silver lining in the cloud isn't always immediately evident, Nick Page is testament to the fact that a bit of effort and the right attitude can make the difference between darkness and light. While bedridden for seven weeks with a herniated disc, Page chose to focus his energies on learning a new skill -- one that has resulted in a burgeoning photography business. Page grew up in Dayton and graduated from Dayton High School before spreading his wings to experience l...
I love beets - every inch of the earthen orb in every con- ceivable beet recipe ever concocted, beginning in late summer through the long winter months. I even love the frilly green beet tops stir-fried in sesame oil sided with clean grass-fed beef patties smothered in garlicky mushrooms de- glazed in pan-juices and a splash of sweet vermouth. Over the weekend I got down and dirty in the garden, scooting along a row of beets freeing four firm burgundy beauties from their earthen womb. Even the twist and "squeak "the beet makes when it's freed...
Th e Amtrak train pulled out of the Spokane station right on time: 1:30 a.m. sharp. I dragged my bags through two dark train cars nearly full of mostly sleeping passengers. Finally I nodded toward an empty seat next to a guy wearing a hoodie over his baseball cap. He nodded back and then looked away. He looked out the window all the way to Sandpoint in the darkness, completely ignoring me, and then slinked off the train. It was nearly three. Thank goodness. Now maybe I could get a little sh...
Larry Davidson: On Music How many of you have a guitar in your closet that you used to play, or that you thought you'd put time in learning to play someday? That's a lot of hands that just went up! I thought as much. Waitsburg's newest artisan business - Joe's Guitar Repair Shop - can work miracles on that dusty old gem hiding in the shadows behind your old winter coat. You know which one I'm talking about - the one that you haven't worn for the last 10 years. Resurrecting that old guitar is...
