Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
COWBOY COWGIRL WIN AWARDS DAYTON - Dayton's Kellyo Gallaher competed in 20 days of Northwest Senior Timed Event Rodeo this summer to win Sombrero Arena All Around Champion Saddle, Butch Wise Memorial All Around Cowboy Winter Horse Blanket, 50-59 All Around Cowboy Silver Buckle, 50-59 Tie-Down Roping Champion Buckle, 50-59 Breakaway Roper Champion Buckle, 50-59 Ribbon Roper Champion Buckle, and 50-59 Heeler Champion Buckle. Rosie Gallaher won the Butch Wise Memorial All Around Cowgirl Winter Horse Blanket, 50-59 Ladies Barrel Racing Resident Champion, 50-59 Ribbon Running (partner Kellyo Gallaher) Champion Buckle, and 50-59 All Around Cowgirl Champion Buckle. These Senior Timed Event Rodeos offer age groups 40-49, 50-59 and 60 plus with engagements in Prosser, Benton City and Sunnyside. Along with these jackpots, the rodeos offer a variety of social activities throughout the summer. For more information, call Kellyo or Rosie at 509-337-6366.
CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS TAX HIKE
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council on Wednesday is conducting a public hearing to consider a proposed increase of tax revenues for fiscal 2011. The proposed increase is one percent of tax revenues collected in 2010.
The meeting is at 7 p.m. at Fairgrounds Lions Club Memorial Building at 349 E. St. Copies of the 2011 preliminary budget will be available to the public Nov. 15. Contact city hall at 509-337-6371.
PROGRAM TO CUT FOREST FIRE RISK DAYTON - The Blue Mountain Resource Conservation and Development Council forestry cost share program is available now. It is targeted to help landowners pay for forest management costs to improve forest health through thinning or to reduce the wildfire threat to forest property, homes and recreational sites.
The program, funded through a National Fire Plan grant directed through the Washington Department of Natural Resources, will provide cost share funds to small and large landowners, including cabin owners and subdivisions. The RCD Council will reimburse 50 percent and up to 75 percent of actual costs with a per acre not to exceed rate. Cost share approvals between $500 and $10,000 will be reimbursed at 75 percent of cost. Cost share approvals between $10,001 and $30,000 will be reimbursed at a 50 percent rate. Please contact the RCD Council office at (509) 382-8968 for help in getting set up in the program. Information packets available at the Blue Mountain RCD Council in Dayton include general specificationsfor forestry cost share practices and the rates the RCD Council will reimburse.
DON'T FOGET TO 'FALL BACK!' Remember that daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 7. Don't forget to set your clocks back an hour beginning at 2 a.m. According to the present schedule-determined by the Energy Policy Act of 2005-we spring forward at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, and fall back to Standard Time at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November
FIREWOOD CUTTING SEASON CLOSES UMATILLA NATIONAL FOREST - Personal-use firewood cutting areas on the Umatilla National Forest will close for the season on Monday, Nov. 15. Firewood permits can be purchased up until Nov. 15 at any Umatilla National Forest office or at several local businesses in the community. Permits cost $5 per cord with a minimum purchase of four cords for $20. A maximum purchase of 12 cords total, per household, is allowed from National Forest lands during the calendar year. For more information on the firewood program or to findout where to obtain a permit, please contact the Umatilla National Forest Supervisor's Office in Pendleton, Ore., at 541-278-3716 or visit the website at www.fs.fed.us/r6/uma/.
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