Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

March 31, 2011

Sheriff John Turner doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. The Walla Walla County’s new top law-enforcement official is thrilled he can make adjustments to the patrol schedule that provides 24/7 coverage is his jurisdiction. He’s pleased some members of his new team bring many years of law enforcement experience they can use to offer in-house training to his deputies. At the same time, Turner is deeply concerned that his budget is being cut.

[Photo caption] Leroy Cunningham, founder of Rural Green Youth Enterprises talk to construction worker Carmen Castaldo outside the first-ever space for the socio-economic youth program: the former Nothing New Antiques store on Waitsburg’s Main Street.

American Freestyle and extreme sports celebrity Glens Plake visited Ski Bluewood Sunday on his way to be inducted at the U. S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame in Sun Valley, Idaho. Plake signed autographs and taught Bluewood’s instructors some new tricks.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 23, 1995

Tony Hulce of Waitsburg says he has seen the light and doesn’t like it. Hulce, who lives near a mini-storage warehouse off Preston Avenue, has complained that the lights from the storage yard shine into a bedroom at his home.

“This could only happen in a small town.” Waitsburg resident Bill Thompson was saying; he was probably right. Thompson held an envelope that had been mailed to him from Tucson, Ariz. by some friends. The address on the envelope was simple enough. It just said, “Waitsburg, Wash.” But instead of Thompson’s name and postal box number, his friends had pasted a photo of Thompson’s face, which had appeared a week ago in the Times, on the envelope.The “address” was sufficient to get the mail delivered to Thompson. Don’t try that in Walla Walla.

Amanda McKinley of Waitsburg was among 40 students selected for the honors recital after the chapter auditions music competition at Walla Walla College, in College Place.

Fifty Years Ago

March 26, 1970

[Photo caption] Queen of the Prom was Miss Jani Keve, while Martin Huffman was voted as King. The happy couple is shown here shortly after being crowned. The theme of the Prom was “Three Coins in the Fountain.”

Science has been taking great strides forward. Now its only 50 years behind the comic books.

Los Angeles has both the Dodgers and the Angels. Considering the traffic out there, you are, in fact, either one or the other.

Mrs. Jim Davison of Waitsburg was involved in a freak accident in Walla Walla last Tuesday afternoon in which her car was severely damaged but she escaped serious injury.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 30, 1945

H. D. Conover was honored Tuesday night on his 86th birthday by friends who went to his home. Birthday cake, coffee and tea was served. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Kinder and daughter of Seattle were present.

Mrs. Fred Harris was elected president of DeNova club when the group met March 15.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vennum are the parents of a son, Michael Loren, born in Seattle, March 17.

The annual Easter egg hunt for grade school and pre-school children will be held at 10 o’clock this Saturday morning at the city park. War stamps will be given as prizes.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 2, 1920

John Starr, horseshoer who has a shop in the old livery barn near the Main Street bridge, was kicked by a mare last Thursday afternoon at the Henry Vollmer farm, breaking two ribs.

Waitsburg seems to have had things her own way at the annual county spelling contest held in Walla Walla Saturday. Three of the four winners were from the Waitsburg schools; Mary V. Philips, Roland Allen, Jr. and Jack Allen. Other Waitsburg contestants were Frederick Zuger, Inez Danielson, Vera Woodworth, Nora Bryan, Ivan Starr, Fred McConnell, Martha Philips, and Elsie Klatt.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 5, 1895

25 lb. wire nails for $1.00 at Macomber and McCanns.

Ben Camp believes in “higher education” therefore he is teaching at a school on the mountain.

Why is it that a woman can jab a mile and a half of hatpin into her head without either injuring her head or the pin? Is it because her mind is deeper?

R. M. Horner and A. Mikkelsen are each planting several acres of potatoes this spring.

Tomorrow (Saturday) night Grand Double Entertainment and Concert given by the Kickapoo Indian Med. Co. Two and a half hours of solid fun and amusement. Admission 25 cents to all.