Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - In the arid summer back country of the Blue Mountains, Gary Lommasson had come across bones before - animal bones parching in the sun. As an elk hunter, Lommasson often hikes deep into the steep and rugged terrain of the Umatilla National Forest in search of a prized bull, which he hunts with a special tag using bow and arrow. But he knew what he saw during an elk scouting trip in the Deduct Pond area off Tiger Canyon on the morning of July 22 was different, very different. At the...
Helen Hendrickson Duckworth and Frederick Allen (Sam) Samuelson, were married in a lovely summer ceremony on Vashon Island on June 18th. Helen was given away by her two sons, Tom Duckworth from Dayton and Mike from Port Orchard. Helen's daughter, Susan Duckworth Behnke from University Place, Wash. served as Matron of Honor with Sam's son Benjamin, Port Orchard being best man. Helen's granddaughter was the flower girl and my twin grandsons were the ring bearers (pulled in a wagon). The couple...
This weekend's winery happening occurred at Three Rivers Winery's Celebrity Crab and Salmon Feed. Three Rivers' Amy Locati and staff organized the event and yours truly, Chef Judith Henderson of Flying Aprons Catering of Dayton catered the colossal feed. During the sold-out event, the celebrity was none other than Captain Scott Campbell of the famous "Sea Brooke" fishing vessel, featured on the television program titled, The Deadliest Catch. He also netted the steamed king crab legs and claws and salmon for the feed from the deep waters of...
WAITSBURG - The third reunion of the Joseph and Ebby Breeze Hays family was held July 8-10 in Waitsburg and Walla Walla. In 1899, the family migrated west when Joseph and Ebby Hays brought three of their children from Jefferson County, Illinois, to Hood River, Oregon. Going back eight months later to the Ebby's farm in Illinois, the family was destined to return to the West, settling in Waitsburg as cousin Elmer Stonecipher started growing wheat. With a need for workers, he brought out the...
WALLA WALLA - Before William Shakespeare became a wellknown playwright, he was an actor with Pembroke's Men about a decade before the end of the 16th century. Perhaps more than anyone, the English bard knew that actors feed off their audience. A silent, immovable crowd can kill a good play. A responsive one can inspire actors and lift their performance. So, when it came time to design their own theater in the heart of Elizabethan London, Shakespeare and his friends from the world of drama knew...
WAITSBURG - We'd almost forgotten about the Classic Car Show Cruise when we heard the car horns down on Main Street. We were having a barbeque on the patio behind the house. My friend Michael Bryant Brown, visiting from Bainbridge Island along with my father in law and his girl friend - all here for the grand opening of the coffee shop - noticed it first. He thought it was a freight train coming down the track by the Touchet River. We knew better. We peered between our home and our neighbor's,...
CENTRALIA-Waitsburg senior softball standout Hailey Goenen participated in a three-day invitational softball tournament beginning last Monday July 25. Sponsored by Fast Pitch Northwest, the tournament is in its second year running. Selection process for the tournament began back in June. WP softball head coach Angie Potts nominated players for the first round S.P.A.R.Q. testing at Columbia Basin College's softball day camp. Here, the players are scored on their speed, agility, and core...
DAYTON-When the students of Dayton Elementary School achieved their reading goal, Principal Katie Leid spent the day on the roof. "The kids brought me lunch up there," she says. "It was so much fun." Fun is part of Leid's agenda at Dayton Elementary, and also as President of the Elementary School Principals Association of Washington (ESPAW). Leid's yearlong term as president began in April. She will preside over four board meetings throughout Washington state. During board meetings, Leid and...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg "One-of-A- Kind" Auto Show & Swap Meet is quickly approaching, scheduled for Friday night, Aug.5 and Sat., Aug. 6.. The Friday night cruise from Preston Park to Prescott and back is from 7-to-8 p.m. An ice cream social follows at 8 p.m. On Saturday, the car shop and swap meet run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with live music and entertainment for part of this time. Food vendors will be set up in park. Coffee is available from the newly opened Coppei Coffee Co. on Main Street....
DAYTON- Madison, a black quarter horse, is doing a slow square dance beside Robert Phinney. She moves her hind end to the left, takes two steps back, and bows her head. Phinney has hardly moved. "It's an energy thing," says Phinney. "And it's a presence thing. I think that's one of the things that's a little difficult for people." Phinney says he believes we all had that energy and presence as children, but we lose it as we grow up. He smiles, and the corners of his graying moustache lift....
DAYTON - It isn't too often that you can sit at a fine-linen banquet table outdoors enjoying the farm-fresh cuisine of a Whitehouse Crawford chef one day and get your paper plate piled high with some of the best chuck wagon chuck in the west the next. Yet, that was my culinary journey two weeks ago. I attended the four-course natural gourmet dinner hosted by the international Outstanding In The Field group at the Monteillet Fromagerie on Wednes- day. On Friday, we were in line for the chuck...
DAYTON - The Bul ldogs ma y have won the first Touchet Valley Ryder Cup, but the stage is set for a new tradition in a longstanding rivalry with the ball in the court of Waitsburg and Prescott. Dayton beat the "WP" contingent of community golfers 27.5 to 23.5 after three days of golf one player said "made for a very interesting format." The event featured players from Waitsburg/Walla Walla County against Dayton/ Columbia County in a European-style men's golf tournament. Three formats were used...
DAYTON - Jackie Penner believes God put her on earth to care for the animals that cross her path. A few years ago, Penner adopted a newborn starling and taught it to whistle Yankee Doodle Dandy. The starling also learned to say "be nice" just before it stopped coming back to the farm. She cried when it didn't return. "Imagine that," she says. "Sixty years old and I'm bawling because my bird is gone." Animals are one of Penner's two biggest passions. The other is art. Painting is where she...
WALLA WALLA - On a trip to the south of France in the late 1990s, Marvin Wood saw Petanque played for the first time. In the late afternoon, the men would come out to the sun-splashed gravel courts under shade trees in the parks or along the boulevards in the villages near Marseille and toss their boules after a little pilot ball, or jack, then compete fiercely to make their steel balls cozy up to it. The game seemed social and leisurely yet fascinating because of its demand on hand-eye...
DAYTON- Art enthusiasts from across the Touchet Valley visited the historic Boldman House on a sunny but breezy Saturday afternoon in Dayton. They gazed at newly-painted water-color paintings, took a home tour and munched on tasty refreshments. The art displayed on the grounds of the more than 100-year-old Queen Anne Victorian style Boldman home featured paintings of several local artists that depicted flora from the early 1900s. The home is on local, state and national historic registers. Mary...
DAYTON- An assortment of antique and classic cars ranging from a 1902 Oldsmobile to a 1970 Dodge Super Bee muscle car were just a few of the eye-catching autos on display at the All Wheels Car Show last weekend . Two other cars highlighting the show were Klova Beck's light yellow 1951 Lincoln Convertible Cosmopolitan and Donald Keen's 1955 sage green Chevy pickup. Beck and Keen, two Walla Walla residents, remember the "good old days" when gas was only 35 cents a gallon and when fuel was...
DIXIE - The illustration is typical for its day: a primitive rendition of the rolling landscape just south of Dixie during the second half of the 19th century, presumably after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The scene shows an estate with wheat fields, fruit trees, vegetable plots, fences, young trees, horse drawn wagons, a large barn and a proud farm house with a steam train and cattle on the hills in the background. Underneath the detailed undated drawing, it reads "Farm Residence Of...
I mentioned in last week's column, that after returning from my East Coast trip, I would let you know how the people of the East Coast are thinking about food and wine today: ORGANICALLY! Yes, even in the underbelly of wicked old Manhattan, roots tangled in every conceivable nationality, you'll see all natural, whole foods and regional seasonal everything. While recording a food and wine segment for CBS radio, a few of us took a break and ran across the street to grab a little bite from a "closet" cafeacute;. What is a closet cafeacute;? It's...
From the pages of The Times Ten Years Ago June 28, 2001 Does your dog pass the Good Citizen Test is the question around town. The Waitsburg City Council recently adopted a new animal ordinance in which your dog must demonstrate his obedience, confidence and control. Waitsburg High School teacher Brad Green has become an intern for the Waitsburg Times. For the next three weeks, Mr. Green will learn the ropes of newspaper publishing. Brad will take this new knowledge to Waitsburg High School where he teaches publications (the Cardinal student new...
WALLA WALLA - Babe Ruth baseball is back and for the first time, Waitsburg and Prescott athletes have a dedicated team in the developmental summer league. Walla Walla Transmission is the sponsor and name for the team. The kids from Waitsburg and Prescott, aged 13-16, are playing in a league of eight teams from Walla Walla, Milton-Freewater, Weston- McEwen and the Touchet Valley. The program has started up again in Waitsburg and Prescott for two reasons, team coach Dustin Snedigar said. "There...
PRESCOTT - Amanda Beckman plans to study pre-law. Iris Batalla wants to become a dental hygienist. Nora Almanzar may enroll in a police academy and become a professional sniper. Cesar Munguia will attend WSU to study business and accounting. Joe Purdin and David Brock plan to enroll in Walla Walla Community College's welding program. The Tigers in the Class of 2011 all have a vision of their future which began at their commencement on Friday night, capping high school careers as athletes, honor...
Today, I boarded an airplane coming home from the annual Seattle Green Festival where 2,400 people attended. I spoke in the afternoon to a packed room of people who share a common interest in the way we eat and think about food today, a theme that currently runs through my webpage, cookbooks, and food and wine columns. Previous to climbing on stage, I'd been in a yoga class promoted in the festival's brochure, wearing a pair of leggings and festival sweat shirt and in my state of yogi bliss, I almost missed my introduction on stage. Backstage,...
5 May 5 - 14 Fiddler on the Roof- Walla Walla High School The Wal la Wal la High School's Performing Arts Auditorium has been transformed into a small village in Russia as the WA-Hi Drama department presents Fiddler on the Roof, whose cast includes Dayton's Cougar Henderson. Theater goers will be immersed in the family life of Anatevka, Tevye, a poor dairyman, as he tries to instill in his five daughters the traditions of his tight-knit Jewish community in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich i...
