BRIEFS

NO CEMETERY SLEDDING

WAITSBURG - The City of Waitsburg would like to re­mind residents and visitors not to sled on the hill at the City Cemetery. Sledding on these slopes damages the underlining vegetation and material installed by the city for beautificationpurposes, said City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe.

COUNTY MULLS HEALTH BUDGET

DAYTON - The Board of Columbia County Commis­sioners has scheduled a workshop open to the public for Friday, Dec. 3, at 2 p.m. in the commissioners' office to dis­cuss

the county's public health budget. Commissioners fired Public Health Director David Riggs in October in an effort to fixa budgetary crisis in the department that had been escalat­ing since the spring. The commissioners' office is located on the second floor of the county courthouse at 341 E Main Street in Dayton. For more information, visit the county website at www.columbiaco.com.

REA SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE DAYTON - Application packets are available now for the Columbia REA scholarship program. The program will provide scholarship funding for the school term beginning in the fall of 2011. The scholarship program is available to members or dependents of members with an active account served by Columbia REA. Four scholarships will be awarded on a competitive basis to eligible applicants. Three are academic scholarships. The top scholarship of $1,500, awarded to the highest scoring applicant, is the Clark A. Brewington Memorial Scholarship. The remaining two scholarships are $1,000 each. A fourth scholarship is available for eligible applicants wishing to pursue a career in the electric industry as a jour­ney lineman. This one-year-only scholarship for $1,000 was established in remembrance of Jeff Meredith, a journeyman with CREA. Application packets are available at Columbia REA's offices in Dayton and Walla Walla and at all high schools within Columbia REA's service area. A complete applica­tion packet is also available on the Columbia REA website at www.columbiarea.coop. The deadline for submitting applications is Feb. 18, 2011. Recipients will be notified by March 31.

MUST SEE: NEW WINE MAP

WALLA WALLA - Just in time for this weekend's Holi­day Barrel Tasting, the industry's second-largest event of the year, Tourism Walla Walla this week announced the release of an innovative new wine map that is the most compre­hensive listing to date of wineries from Dayton to Milton-Freewater and west to Touchet. Using this new mapping system, visitors can obtain a map for the wine district in which they are interested instead of wrestling with a map of the entire area. The map is posted on the Tourism Walla Walla website in PDF form, http://www.walla­walla. org/vineyards.cfm, allowing any business or visitor to download the map and have it in their hands within minutes. Other features include a key with not only the addresses of the wineries but also their phone numbers so travelers can call regarding hours of operation and directions.

Initially, the wine maps will be available at the TWW Visi­tor Center, located at 26 E. Main Street, major hotels, Bed Breakfasts and the Chamber of Commerce. The first run will total 20,000 maps.

LOCAL TEEN'S WOOL WINS MOSES LAKE - Fifteen-year-old Waitsburg resident Michaela Nordheim is once again the junior winner at the state Make It With Wool competition held in November in Moses Lake.

This contest and fashion show, presented in conjunction with the annual convention of the Washington State Sheep Producers Association, involved 21 contestants who mod­eled garments they had sewn with fabric that was at least 60 percent wool. Nordheim, who was the junior winner in 2009 and 2008 as well, won in the junior category for a four-piece ensemble she designed and tailored including a skirt, shirt, vest and coat in rust and brown tones.

Nordheim will proceed to the national level of competi­tion in Reno, Nevada, in January.