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Ten Years Ago December 4, 2013 Concert to provide canned goods for the Food Bank. Zella Powers, hoping to win a CD or other give away item, entered the contest for prizes by successfully calling into Ed Dailey's radio segment on KORD 102.7 FM. Dailey...

Ten Years Ago November 27, 2013 The Annual Kiwanis Turkey Bingo drew a huge crowd to win the many prizes and turkeys that were awarded for a Bingo. "An Old Fashioned Christmas" Kick-Off is scheduled for November 29 and 30 in Dayton "The Town that...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 m...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,"...

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 inte...