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DAYTON–The All Wheels Weekend 2021 Car Show is full-speed ahead with events taking place on Main Street here on Father's Day weekend, June 18, 19, and 20. Early registration of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event is located at the corner of 1st and Main Streets on Friday, June 18 at 4–7 p.m. Dayton All Wheels Weekend line-up of action is packed with activity and fun starting with the Friday Night Cruise at 6–9 p.m., accompanied by Friday Night Music by Cruise Control in the Courthouse...
DAYTON–Eagles Aerie No. 2618 members will meet next week to discuss the fate of their fire-ravaged building following a flurry of work last weekend that succeeded in allowing Main Street traffic to move once again, and use of the sidewalk to resume. The membership will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 24, at the Fairgrounds' Youth Building, said Lupe Benavides, Aerie Trustee. The meeting location may be subject to change, he added. Benavides said Tuesday that no decisions have been made on t...
DAYTON–The Dayton Eagles Arie 2618 plan an “All Wheels Weekend Breakfast”, Eagles Building Brick fundraiser and a membership drive all available at the Breakfast at the American Legion Hall on 211 E. Clay St., on Father’s Day Sunday, June 20 at 6:30–11 a.m. The Eagles Arie 2618 took a big hit recently, when the club’s building caught on fire while readying it for inspection to reopen this weekend. Now, the regular and auxiliary members are rallying to open for business, in a different way until the club can establish a new or temporary h...
STARBUCK–Columbia Pulp has begun the re-start process of its wheat straw pulp mill in Lyons Ferry, Wash., June 1. The facility began to introduce wheat straw into the system June 1, 2021 after the prolonged COVID-19 shutdown in April 2020. The Mill will begin processing with running 20 ton of wheat straw per day slowly increasing tonnage to 50, then 75 finally up to full capacity of 100 ton per day over the next year with planned shutdowns for maintenance and cleaning. Columbia Pulp has a...
“I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.’” – Paul Walker...
By Elizabeth Hovde An investment subcommittee working on the WA Cares Fund–the state’s new long-term care entitlement program that comes with a payroll tax on workers beginning in January–met today. The meeting offered confirmation that the 2020 ballot-box defeat of a constitutional amendment set this program up for long-term failure. The constitutional amendment would have allowed the state to invest the program’s dollars into stocks and other methods of investment. Without such investment, the fund appears doomed, despite a payroll tax of...
A.F. Branco...
Mother gave me a small box of old pocket watches and a book entitled “A Practical Course in Horology.” It was a Christmas gift. A family heirloom, of sorts. “I don’t know if you’ve got anything of your father’s,” she said. “Fixing watches was his hobby. I thought you might enjoy these.” A wave of emotion swept through me. Although the sensation lasted only seconds, I felt the complete awareness of how much of me was him. “Did I get anything of my father’s?” I should say so. Agriculture, for la...
Summit Atlas charter school in West Seattle is celebrating its first graduating class. The popular parent-backed school is showing what access to a great public education can accomplish – 90% of its first group of 33 graduates are headed for college. Local news site West Seattle Blog reported on the graduation ceremony with photos of students in cap-and-gown and happy families gathering to celebrate their success. Refreshingly, the story is reported as straight news, without the usual n...
To the editor, I would like to show my support for Johnny Watts as he has announced his candidacy for Columbia County Port Commissioner. Although this is Johnny’s first time running for public office, he is no stranger to serving his community. Johnny has served as an Elder for his local church, was a volunteer fire fighter for Walla Walla/Columbia County District No. 2, coached our very own Dayton/Waitsburg football and baseball teams, and built a playground in Dayton for our local children. Anyone who knows Johnny knows of his love for his c...
DAYTON-The City Council met June 9, a day after the Eagles Club was on fire acknowledging the collaboration of city, county and outside departments. Mayor Zac Weatherford allowed those who put in long hours dealing with the emergency to go first and leave the meeting to get some rest. Ashley Strickland of Columbia County Emergency Management updated on the most current expectation at that time that Main Street would be open for All Wheels Weekend this weekend. "Hopefully by All Wheels Weekend...
DAYTON–Port of Columbia Executive Director Jennie Dickinson and the board of Commissioners reviewed the 2018 approved plans for Lyons Ferry Marina RV Park as part of the Comprehensive plan acknowledging Lyons Ferry has come a long way since the time she took her position with the Port 14 years ago. According to Dickinson, "The Corps of Engineers told me on Monday that this is the best facility that they inspect every year." The Port leases the property from the Corps and in turn, the Port s...
Spirit Untamed: An epic adventure, with a star-studded cast doing the voices, about a headstrong girl longing for a place to belong who discovers a kindred spirit when her life intersects with a wild horse. This film is the next chapter in the beloved story from DreamWorks Animation, which started with the 2002 film "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron", and has continued in the Netflix series "Spirit Riding Free." Lucky Prescott (Isabela Merced) never really knew her late mother, Milagro Navarro...
DAYTON–The Dayton/Columbia County Washington Fund 2021 grant totaling $50,700 to support local organizations serving the area were awarded as follows. • Blue Mountain Heritage Society received $2,000.00 to Relocate the Palus Museum/Columbia County Veterans display to a new structure; • Blue Mountain Heritage Society received $1,000.00 for Green Giant maintenance and upkeep; • Blue Mountain Resource Conservation & Development Council received $4,000.00 for Starbuck City Hall; • Columbia County Community Network received $3,000.00 for an exhaus...
Thur, Jun 17: BBQ Chicken, Baked Beans, Carrots, Coleslaw, Cornbread, Brownie, Juice, Milk Tue, Jun 22: Hamburgers, All the fixings, Potato Chips, Watermelon, Cookies, Milk Thur, Jun 24: Goulash, Green Beans, Salad, Garlic Bread, Peaches and Pears, Milk Tue, Jun 29: Chili Dog, Coleslaw, Spiced Apples, Milk Thur, Jul 1: Fish Sandwich, Potato Chips, Pickled Beets, Salad, Crisp, Milk Tue, Jul 6: Alicesprings Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Roll, Stewed Tomatoes, Oranges, Milk...
Paul Rundell April 24, 1932–June 6, 2021 On June 6, 2021, Paul Rundell finished his race, called home to receive the victory granted to him in Jesus Christ. Paul was born in Elfrida, Ariz.to Marion and Ione (Blalack) Rundell on April 24, 1932. At an early age, Paul's parents took their family to the Pacific Northwest, planting churches in communities still being pioneered by miners, ranchers, farmers, and loggers. Many of those years were spent in a community outside of Elgin, Ore., known as C...
DAYTON–Two games at the end of Dayton-Waitsburg Lady Wolfpack's basketball season, TriCities Prep and Columbia, were canceled after a member of the team tested positive for COVID-19. "The players are quarantined," said Head Coach Tamira Culley, "and unable to attend Senior Night. They were told that morning that we had to be in quarantine." Culley said she had talked to only a couple of players who had been contacted by Public Health regarind contact tracing. "We have been quarantining o...
Ten Years Ago June 15, 2011 Releasing “Hera the Hawk” was a bittersweet good-bye. Dayton resident and apprentice falconer Anne Dowdy will be returning Hera, a Red-tailed hawk, back into the wild. The hawk was hit by a semi-truck outside of Pendleton in December, 2009. During this time, Dowdy had just passed the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife test to become an apprentice falconer. Adam Strohbehn coordinates free soccer camp for senior project. The Dayton High School Soccer team will once again be hosting a summer youth soccer c...
DAYTON–Four Dayton-Waitsburg boys basketball players and one DW Cheer Squad cheerleader were applauded by those attending the final home basketball game here June 11, and the four senior boys represented the two Lady Wolfpack seniors in absentia due to a COVID-19 detection on the girls team that resulted in the final two games of the season being canceled. Girls basketball players were in quarantine following one member of the team testing positive. Rules established when the season was set r...
DAYTON–DW Wolfpack Boys Basketball finished the season 6-4 and in second place in the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference East Division, following Columbia-Burbank, East No. 1, which defeated DW 80-44 in the final game of the covid-shortened season last Friday. Dayton-Waitsburg faced West No. 3 Kittitas on the D.H.S. court in the 2021 EWAC District Tournament Wednesday, June 16. The tournament specifies that all teams will play a minimum of two games with winners of the first round playing t...
Wesley C. Welch Wesley C. Welch, 85, died Sunday, June 13, 2021, at home in Dayton, surrounded by family. Services will be at 11 a.m. June 26, 2021, at the United Brethren Church....
DAYTON–The DW Wolfpack defeated Kittitas 50-38 here Wednesday night to advance to a second-round game Thursday, June 17. As of this posting of breaking news at daytonchronicle.com, Dayton-Waitsburg's opponent and subsequently, the team's travel plans, depend on the outcome of the Cle Elum-Mabton game being played in Cle Elum tonight. A win by Cle Elum, the EWAC West's No. 1 team, would mean Dayton-Waitsburg would travel there for a 6 p.m. game. If Mabton, EWAC East's No. 4, beats Cle Elum, t...
