News for Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - Walla Walla has grand amount of talent

Where do those wonderful dancers and singers and acrobats hang out during the winter when they're not performing in Hairspray or one of the great musicals that Walla Walla gives birth to every summer? And the producers and the directors and the musicians

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - Tour of bomber tour was worthwhile

I took the tour of the restored B-25 bomber, "Maid in The Shade." I felt it was worthwhile.

PEA-PICKIN' WORK

Heat shimmers off a pea field on Foster Road, rippling a worker and the irrigation pipes atop his shoulder as he moves to lay the plumbing for a sprinkling of water late Tuesday afternoon.

Mules a passion for handlers at Dayton event

DAYTON -- Mules and their owners are gathering in Dayton this week for Mule Mania, a mule and donkey show, riding and driving competition and chuck wagon cook-off.

Action to clean up mall mess is welcome

The piles of debris and shells of buildings on the old Blue Mountain Mall property are a source of embarrassment.

City officials, like just about everybody else living in the Walla Walla Valley, have had enough when it comes to the rubble that was once the Blue Mountain Mall.

Walla Walla child-sex abuser gets long prison sentence

Carl Bell, 32, could be ordered to serve up to a life sentence.

WALLA WALLA -- A local man who pleaded guilty to five child-sex crimes that occurred last summer was sentenced Tuesday to more than two decades in prison.

Local meat processor wins national award

A Walla Walla meat processor's bacon won the hearts of the judges last month during the American Cured Meat Championships.

Emergency Services - 07/13/11

Information is compiled by the Union-Bulletin staff from the official logs and records of the agencies listed below. Readers with any information on these or other crimes should call the local police or county sheriff's department. By law, victims of crim

In the minutes - POMEROY CITY COUNCIL

Pomeroy City Council members are Dennis Gillis, James Fuchs, Stephanie Newberg, Paul Miller and Donna Hunt. Mayor is Alan Gould. With Hunt absent Tuesday:

Walla Walla family hopeful for new heart, renewed life

Dan Needham is waiting in Seattle for the possibility of getting a new heart.

WALLA WALLA -- Dan Needham has spent his adult life working with those who farm this land.

Death Notice - Eva Ayers

July 18, 1932 - July 12, 2011

Death Notice - Michael Anthony

Sept. 24, 1948 - July 11, 2011

William Crutcher

1930 - 2011

Buchan: Today reminds us why we love sports

WALLA WALLA — What if every day was like today?Major League Baseball stadiums all across the country sit empty during the final day of the mid-season All-Star break.The National Football League's first preseason games are still nearly a month away, and th