PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

August 17, 2000

The Washington Conservation Crew workers com­pleted beautification of the entrance to the camping side of Lewis Clark Trail State Park last Thursday in preparation of the re-opening of the campsites for the first time since the 1996 floods. Area farmers should be wrapping up grain harvest in about a week, if the weather holds, according to J.E. McCaw, branch manager of Northwest Grain Growers in Waitsburg. Several people got a chuckle out of the noon whistle on Tuesday, Aug. 1. Waitsburg Fire Chief Brandt Kleist was in the Touchet Valley Hardware and heard the com...