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Ten Years Ago November 20, 2013 The Port of Columbia has scheduled an Open House on December 11 for the public to get a close look at the Artisan Center at the Blue Mountain Station. The Dayton Cross Fit team members hosted their first competition at the Hammerdown Fitness. Steve Martin, organizer of the event, announced that representative teams from WSU, Walla Walla, Spokane, Lewiston and Dayton will be competing in our first competition for both men and women. Twenty-Five Years Ago November...
Ten Years Ago November 13, 2013 Chamber members and friends gathered at the Running T Ranch for the annual Dayton Chamber of Commerce awards banquet, honoring Citizen of the Year-Duane Dunlap. Dunlap has been a tireless volunteer his entire life. Dunlap coming back to Dayton as personnel manager for Green Giant and then Seneca Foods, has always been involved in many community activities and after retiring has volunteered thousands of hours researching, restoring, and maintaining many historic...
Ten Years Ago November 6, 2013 For his senior project, DHS graduate Kane Hackett, focused on learning the history of Honor Flights to promote the program locally, and personally handed applications to local veterans, encouraging then to take part. Local veterans Fred Gritman, Bob Budig, Jack McCaw, Brian Black, Owen Agenbroad and veterans from Walla Walla took part in Inland Northwest Honor Flight to view memorials honoring military service in Washington, D.C. To celebrate the culmination of...
Ten Years Ago October 30, 2013 Early in October Kaleigh White, daughter of Fred and Kelly White, gave her farewell speech at the Miss Rodeo Washington pageant held in Ellensburg. Kaleigh will continue to hold the title until the first of the year, at which time she will officially be stepping down. Halloween has a long history from the Celts and Christianity. The origins of what we celebrate as Halloween go back centuries to the enactment of All Saint's Day, a Christian holiday. Along the way, i...
Ten Years Ago October 23, 2013 Honor Flight coffee hour. The Lions and Kiwanis clubs of Dayton are sponsoring a coffee hour, to honor four local World War II veterans who recently traveled to Washington, D.C. The group journeyed to the nation's capital through Inland Northwest Honor Flight in order to view memorials honoring military service. The public is invited to come here the tales of their experiences, as stories are shared by veterans USMC Bob Budig, US Army Lowell Richter and Fred...
Ten Years Ago October 16, 2013 Concessionaires at KOA Lyons Ferry Marina Jim and Angela MacArthur provided an overview of the recreation season for Port of Columbia County Commissioners. The MacArthurs reported the facility is not meeting the minimum KOA standards including a laundromat and are asking the Commissioners to consider a 20- or 25-year lease. Investment in improvements such as cabins, playground and a laundry facility would then have enough time for a return on investment....
Ten Years Ago October 9, 2013 Water "banking" could impact junior water right users. A lease agreement for a water management program that is currently in process could have consequence for local junior water right holders. Recently, the Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership entered into an agreement with the Touchet Eastside Irrigation District and the Touchet Westside Irrigation District, both of Touchet, Washington, which will allow water to be reserved in trust and regulate in-stream...
Ten Years Ago Four local World War II veterans, USMC veteran Bob Budig, U.S. Army veterans Lowell Richter and Fred Gritman of Dayton, and US Navy veteran Jack McCaw of Waitsburg, flew to Washington D.C. through Inland Northwest Honor Flight to view memorials honoring their military service. The veterans and their caregivers met at the Spokane Airport to join Honor Flight which flew the 162 passengers to Washington D.C. and back home. Twenty-Five Years Ago September 30, 1998 The Confederated Trib...
Ten Years Ago September 25, 2013 Morgan Breland accepted a donation from President Gary Schroeder of the Kiwanis Organization, to help finance her dancing to London. Public comment was heard regarding a moratorium on the recreational use of marijuana in Columbia County. The Commissioners approved Ordinance 2013-02, establishing an immediate moratorium on the recreational use of marijuana for up to 12 months. Twenty-Five Years Ago September 23, 1998 Frank Jamison, who serves on the Chamber of...
Ten Years Ago September 18, 2013 A tour up the North Touchet will give visitors and locals the view of the Indian Head Shadow that is visible above the Warren Orchards for most of the year. Dayton's Mayor Craig George, Mule Mania chairman Les Teel deliver a Mule Mania donation to the Dayton Food Bank. Teel also announced that Columbia REA purchased a hog at the Fair's Livestock sale and it is being cut and wrapped as a donation to the Food Bank. Laura Thorn and Aleta Schockleyas accepted the...
Ten Years Ago September 11, 2013 Students at Dayton Elementary School have a new piece of equipment on the playground. To help purchase the piece of new play equipment, students participated in a Read-A-Thon fundraiser. Other financial assistance came from the PTSO, donations from Elk Drug, Rock Hill Concrete, Barker Inc. and Wind Works. PTSO also received a grant from the Blue Mountain Community Foundation. Several parents donated their labor to erect the structure. Twenty-Five Years Ago...
Ten Years Ago September 4, 2013 Hostesses Heidi Miller and Emma Philbrook invite you to the 2013 Columbia County Fair. New bleachers have been installed in the Dayton High School Gymnasium. Taxpayers approved a maintenance and operation levy during the fall of 2011 specifically for the replacement project. Twenty-Five Years Ago September 2, 1998 Christy Bell, program technician for the Columbia County Farm Service Agency, was presented a Certificate of Appreciation by County Committee Chairman...
Ten Years Ago August 28, 2013 Local officials learned of late approval of a state budget bill granting a sales and use tax exemption to wind energy. As a result, Columbia County will lose 75% of the projected sales tax revenue anticipated from construction of the Tucannon River Wind Farm. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 26, 1998 Two Dayton High School cheerleaders were recently chosen to attend an international cheerleading conference in London, England. Liz Schilling, a junior, and Jamie Savage,...
Ten Years Ago August 21, 2013 Port of Columbia commissioners awarded the sewer project for the Blue Mountain Station East Lift Station sewer project on the Artisan Food Center to ML Albright & Sons of Lewiston for $182,591.08. The construction of the Blue Mountain Station Artisan Food Center has workers finishing sheeting the roof and the interior wall studs to frame in the individual spaces. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 19, 1998 The latest fish habitat restoration project on the Tucannon...
Ten Years Ago August 14, 2013 Portland General Electric Company (PGE) renamed a portion of the Lower Snake River Wind Farm as The Tucannon River Wind Farm, located in the north area of Columbia County, spanning across an area of more the 20,000 acres. PGE officially purchased the development rights to Phase II of the Lower Snake River Wind Farm from Puget Sound Energy. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 12, 1998 Eight Dayton High School students, Cara Hudson, Claudia Martinez, Megan Jagelski, Makaela...
Ten Years Ago August 7, 2013 Wheat, The Economic lifeblood of Columbia County Agribusiness. Our rural population is currently in harvest, bringing in cereal grains to the local elevators. The largest variety grown in the area is soft white winter/spring wheat with a production of millions of bushels, with the acreage runs with 75% fall planted winter wheat and 25% spring planed wheat. Additional crops are hard red winter wheat, dark northern spring wheat, barley, garbanzos beans and dry peas....
Ten Years Ago July 31, 2013 How many communities can say that 100% of their banks are managed by women? All four Dayton banks currently have a lady at the helm. Barb Miller of Sterling Savings, Bev Rising of Banner Bank; Judi Brooks of Bank of America, and Andi Holmberg of American West Bank. Twenty-Five Years Ago July 29, 1998 Tribal ownership of the Rainwater Ranch on the South Touchet in Columbia County will have no negative effects on the county or its residents, according to Allen B....
Ten Years Ago July 24, 2013 Washington Federal, Inc. announced it has entered into agreements with Bank of America to acquire 51 retail branches, including the Dayton branch. Amy Schlenz, Jordan Saranto, Melissa McCowen, Nicole Abel and Dustin Rasmussen participated in the Run or Dye event that was held in Kennewick, WA. Sageyn Kilts also completed the 5k Run or Dye. Twenty-Five Years Ago July 22, 1998 FBLA team places second at the nationals. Sixteen members of the Dayton FBLA chapter went to...
Ten Years Ago July 3, 2013 Interviews were held for two vacant City Council positions with Mike Paris and Byron Kaczmarski. They both expressed support of employment opportunities for residents and the opportunity to give back to the community as reasons for their interest in the open positions. Both were appointed. Twenty-Five Years Ago July1, 1998 Lifelong Dayton resident, Maxine Knox Jackson, has been chosen by the Dayton Alumni Association to preside as Grand Marshal over this year's Depot...
Ten Years Ago July 17, 2013 Dayton General Hospital is upgrading its CT scanner. When Providence St. Mary's Hospital was upgrading, they arranged for Dayton General to get their retiring Seimens unit. The new installation is four times faster in its scanning operation and there are improved software capabilities. Twenty-Five Years Ago July 15, 1998 The Tri-Cities Classic Model Horse Show was held at the Masonic Temple in Dayton. Collectors gathered from Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Illinois and...
Ten Years Ago July 10, 2013 Parade Marshals graduated in the early to mid-1940s, giving honor to the Classes of 1944 and 1945, the Dayton Alumni Association selected two long-time Alumni supporters to be co-Parade Marshals for the 2013 Dayton Alumni Association. Robert Johnson and Elsie Robins shared the honor for the upcoming July 13 parade. Twenty-Five Years Ago July 8, 1998 The St. Mary Nursing School Alumnae Association donated the first $2,500 toward the establishment of a monument on the...
Ten Years Ago June 26, 2013 Wesley Hoskins, who graduated from Dayton High School in 1940, went off to college then served in the military in WWII, became a practicing physician and surgeon then retired. Hoskins wrote a book "An Organic Childhood," set in the roaring Twenties, the market crash and the Great Depression, describing how it was growing up before indoor plumbing, electric lights, and other modern conveniences and growing the majority of all foods on the Whetstone family farm....
Ten Years Ago June 17, 2013 Construction of the Artisan Food Center at Blue Mountain Station is underway with the foundation complete and the plumbing needs to be addressed. A receipt of $109,000 in grant funds and $109,000 in loan funds at 2.55 interest over 10 years from the Community Economic Revitalization Board. Dayton City Council learned 25,354 people visited the Dayton Memorial Library and Delany Room in 2012. The 19th All Wheels Weekend was enjoyed under sunny skies by a decent crowd an...
Ten Years Ago June 12, 2013 Portland General Electric Company has signed an asset purchase agreement with Puget Sound Energy to acquire the development rights to Phase II of the Lower Snake River Wind Farm. PGE plans to proceed with construction of 116 wind towers at a cost projected of between $520 million to $535 million, excluding allowance for funds used during construction. Chuck James got an extra special birthday surprise from his wife, Peggy, for his 70th birthday-a 1916 Model T Ford...
Ten Years Ago June 5, 2013 Jessica Tate, president of Dayton High School's chapter of National Honor Society, presented a check for $507 to Barbara Gibson for the Dayton Senior Center. Jessica appreciated all the community members that supported the Senior Center through Honor Society's "Flamingo Fundraiser." Twenty-Five Years Ago June 3, 1998 The Law Offices of Nealey and Marinella generously donated the Dayton Liberty Theater Building, including the balcony area to the Touchet Valley Arts...
