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Ten Years Ago

December 21, 2011

“Dayton’s Food Bank appreciates community generosity all year and is very supportive,” expressed Aleta Shockley, a driving force behind Dayton’s Food Bank. Currently, the food bank is serving approximately 160 families each month.

Railroad line usage main topic at Port of Columbia meeting. The Port Commission learned the Northwest Grain Growers represents 91% of the transports on the Blue Mountain railroad, according to Dave Gordon from NWGG.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 18, 1996

Val Kiefer, President of Coyote Engineering Inc., an Export Management company, has received the prestigious 1996 “Chairman’s Award of Appreciation” given by JETRO, the Japan External Trade organization. The award is given to companies that are remarkably successful at promoting exports to Japan. Kiefer is the only U.S. citizen to win the award this year and the first Washington State resident to receive the honor.

Phase 1 of the Liberty Theater restoration project is near completion. New roof trusses were ordered through City Lumber, the metal brackets were fabricated by Bob Gemmell which fit into the brick walls to form a slot for the trusses.

Melanie Simmons, Darci Bruegman and Jennifer Korsberg were the top award winners for Dayton’s volleyball team.

Fifty Years Ago

December 23, 1971

Airman First Class Thomas D. Hutchens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hutchins, has arrived for duty at McConnell AFB, Kansas. Airman Hutchens, a law-enforcement specialist, is assigned to the Tactical Air Command, which provides combat air support for combat ground forces, serving in Cam Ranh Bay AB, Vietnam.

Marine Cpl. Bill L. Segraves, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Segraves, was promoted to his present rank during ceremonies at the Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Ana, Calif.

.Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 19, 1946

A group of Columbia County women met in the courthouse Monday afternoon to discuss ways and means of maintaining the community cannery. For the past two seasons, it has been housed in the farm shop and garage at the school, requiring the buses to be parked in the weather.

City Clerk Kenneth Crossler announced Wednesday morning that the fuel situation in Dayton promises to be sufficient and that the crisis is considered at an end and the restrictions on the purchase of coal have been removed.

The American Legion Hall at Waitsburg was filled to overflowing with an estimated crowd of over 250 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, leaders and parents.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 21, 1921

John Hoelscher, a veteran of the World War, who has been employed at the Frank Thompson ranch, left Monday for Europe, where he will revisit the scenes of some of the great battles in which he participated.

London: Nearly $28,000,000 worth of bullion has been recovered from the liner Laurentic which was sunk in January, 1917, off the north coast of Ireland by a German submarine.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 19, 1896

Millions In The Patent. A Rotary Engine Which Does Away Entirely With Crank Motion.

Sleepy Eye, Minn. Nov. 27-Hundreds of men have made steam and steam engineering a life study, but it has remained for a Sleepy Eye man to put into a practical working machine an idea so new, that none of the thousands who have experimented with it have been able to work it. Grant Brambel has recently received letters patent on a rotary engine which does away entirely with the crank motion of the steam engine.