PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

August 5, 2004

Waitsburg teacher Becky Wilson has been awarded a week in Montpelier, Virginia, as one of 20 teachers from Washington state chosen to attend a week-long, all-expensepaid Summer Institute at James Madison's Montpelier Estate.

A severe thunderstorm system moving across northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington last Monday night knocked out power to some 3,350 households in Walla Walla, Waitsburg and Prescott. The strong easterly winds caused a tree on Orchard Street to fall, bringing down a powerline and transformer which threatened the home of Elmer and Joan H...