Etcetera - 3/20/13
Students from Walla Walla University social work and sociology programs attended Lobby Day in Olympia on Presidents Day, according to Hilary Nieland with WWU relations.
Cowboys cousins rein in on Crohn's disease awareness
Most experts believe that Crohn’s is an abnormal bowel disease that inflames the lining of the digestive system and can lead to flare-ups. The Crohn’s Online website, www.crohnsoline.com/, also reports that inflammation is at the root of symptoms for more than 500,000 American men and women who have this diagnosis.
Etcetera - 3/21/13
On the eve of the two-year anniversary of the great East Japan earthquake, Robert Keatts, chairman of the Walla Walla-Sasayama Sister City Committee heard from sister city colleague Bud Bard.
Wa-Hi Debate Team contestant a state champ
Walla Walla High School Debate Team sophomore Anna Apostoldis-Morefield garnered the Washington State Individual Events Tournament championship in 4A expository speaking in mid-March.
Etcetera - 3/25/13
Children will be able to access the wonders of Fort Walla Walla Museum, 755 Myra Road, at no charge. This is courtesy of a $5,000 gift from Boise Cascade’s Wallula Mill, which continues to support the admission-free school tour program.
Wa-Hi Debate Team contestant a state champ
Walla Walla High School Debate Team sophomore Anna Apostoldis-Morefield garnered the Washington State Individual Events Tournament championship in 4A expository speaking in mid-March. This is Anna’s second year in a row in finals at state, said her coach, Jean Tobin. In expository speaking, students must write and memorize an 8-minute informative speech. Anna’s topic, addressing the origins of the English language, has received rave reviews all year, Jean said. This even
Etcetera - 3/22/13
The Walla Walla High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Blue Devils Cadet Battalion selected Gabrielle Niebel as its Cadet of the Month for February.
Etcetera 3/21/13
On the eve of the two-year anniversary of the great East Japan earthquake, Robert Keatts, chairman of the Walla Walla-Sasayama Sister City Committee heard from sister city colleague Bud Bard.
Etcetera 3/20/13
Students from Walla Walla University social work and sociology programs attended Lobby Day in Olympia on Presidents Day, according to Hilary Nieland with WWU relations.
Cowboys cousins rein in on Crohn’s disease awareness
Most experts believe that Crohn’s is an abnormal bowel disease that inflames the lining of the digestive system and can lead to flare-ups. The Crohn’s Online website, www.crohnsoline.com/, also reports that inflammation is at the root of symptoms for more than 500,000 American men and women who have this diagnosis.
Etcetera 3/18/13
Zonta Club of Walla Walla will host a free informative meeting for the community about activities carried out by the local American Red Cross chapter.
‘Fun-dip’ SPARKS kids’ benefit for scholarships
While noshing on popcorn and talking about things they’d like to invent, children in the YMCA SPARKS after-school program raised $53.50 for the Youth Sustaining Campaign.
Etcetera 3/15/13
Debora S. “Deb” Rossi’s mother, Mildred “Millie” Rising, was wrenched from her father, James Rising, and their farm as a 5-year-old.
Etcetera 3/14/13
It’s almost baseball and softball season, which is when the community of Adams steps up to the plate with its annual Adams Day celebration.
Etcetera 3/13/13
Manufacturing a big ol’ dress worthy of a Victorian-era ball is a time investment, to be sure. Take it from me. In my spare time, I worked a solid 11/2 months on one that could have graced the set of “Gone with the Wind.”
Father-daughter ball: Moves upon which memories are made
For the 10th year running, the Walla Walla Parks & Recreation Department, under the auspices of event coordinator Angela Potts, pulled off the annual Father-Daughter Ball at Garrison Middle School in February, reported event creator Beth Rowlette, who also served as DJ.
Etcetera 3/11/13
Walla Walla Country Club’s 18 Hole Lady Golfers enjoy the dickens out of the competitive season on the green.
Etcetera 3-8-13
Altrusa International of Walla Walla is readying for its sixth children’s spelling bee, which will cause a buzz from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 11 in the Walla Walla Fairgrounds Community Center during the Walla Walla Balloon Stampede.
Etcetera 3-7-13
More than 70 Walla Walla High School singers will participate in the Columbia Basin Music Educators Regional Solo-Ensemble Contest Saturday at Pasco High School.
Etcetera 3-6-13
Get ready to bust out the green, because St. Patrick’s Day is almost upon us. Being so fun and inclusive, it must be the yin to being wary of the Ides of March’s yang.
Etcetera 3-4-13
Dan Calzaretta is quite pleased with area middle-schoolers whose works have been accepted by the National Film Festival for Talented Youth, one of the world’s largest youth film festivals.
Rotary polio eradication program nearly 100% effective 3-10-13
Should you espy empty gallon jugs stationed at local middle and elementary schools, they serve a purpose on an international scale.
Starbuck resident recalls dam-building boom times
Look up Columbia County and there are just two towns sited there — Dayton, the county seat, and Starbuck. Wikipedia also lists Alto, Turner, Huntsville and Marengo, but little if any information is provided about these. I passed through the areas of three of them, and they’re just spots in the road now.
New ‘spokesduck,’ website feather aviary nest Etcetera 3-3-13
Friends of Pioneer Park Aviary’s new website — friendsofpioneerparkaviary.com — went live Thursday. “It is wonderful with lots of great info and photos (mine!),” said Joanna Lanning, primary aviary caretaker.
Etcetera 2-28-13
Focusing on “Leadership in Interesting Times: Dangers and Opportunities,” business leaders convened Feb. 23 at Wildhorse Resort & Casino for a Cay-Uma-Wa Toastmasters leadership workshop. The idea is that tough times are great times to reinvent and revitalize businesses.
Dive, dive, dive! Creek once hosted swimming pool
Unfortunately, there aren’t any photos floating around to support this item, so deploy your imagination to fathom what this must have looked like when idea man F.D. Applegate with the YMCA, the local Rotary Club, area businesses and others conceived to build a swimmin’ hole in our own Mill Creek.
Etcetera - 2/22/13
Seventh- and eighth-grade band and orchestra students from Garrison and Pioneer Middle schools were well represented and did marvelously at the Feb. 9 Washington Music Educators Association Middle School Solo & Ensemble contest.
Etcetera - 2/20/13
An enchanting collection of dolls, bears and “bearaphernalia” will be on hand during the sixth annual Teddy Bear Show and Tea.
Annual Pinewood Derby flags Cub Scout pack winners
Racing was fast and furious when members of Cub Scout Pack 311 ran their cars at their annual Pinewood Derby Jan. 29 at College Place Presbyterian Church.
AAUW women's scholarship applications available
Up to eight scholarships of at least $1,500 each will be awarded this year by the Walla Walla Branch American Association of University women, according to co-chairwomen Jeanne Beirne and Debbie Dumont.
Etcetera - 2/15/13
Walla Walla High School junior Sonia Calzaretta received the highest award — a gold key — and three honorable mentions in the 2013 Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, according to her father, Dan Calzaretta.
Young patients slipped bit of cheer with handmade pillowcases
“She is a wonderful child care provider, loving wife, mother and grandmother — an amazing lady — plus her quilts are wonderful,” said John Eaton who called to commend friend Sylvia Hernandez Demaris as prime column material.
From sketch to canvas, Jeannette Murphy’s paintings span half century
Sketchbook almost perennially in hand, Walla Walla artist Jeannette Jackson Murphy, 80, first draws the people, buildings, houses and landscapes that later form the foundation and inspiration for her paintings.
Changes in eating, activity habits boost woman’s health
Baby weight Walla Wallan Lisa Eng gained during her second pregnancy — all 50 pounds of it — remained stubbornly present for years after her daughters left babyhood.
Preschoolers grow through art via collaboration, respect
WALLA WALLA — Taking philisophical inspiration from Italian preschools in Reggio Emilia, the staff at The Kids’ Place work with their young charges’ interests and consider art one of the many languages of children, said Kathy McConnell, co-director, in a release.
Identities of subjects in vintage photos a mystery to Walla Walla Woman
The importance of identifying subjects in photos is never more evident than when those possibly able do so are no longer around. As a result, countless images become identity orphans.
BMH2H ramps up for Mary Hanna Memorial walk/run benefit
Hints of sunshine in the midst of sheet ice coating the Valley is a good harbinger of spring and nicer weather. What better way to prepare for it than warm up for a walk-run?
Emergency Services - 01/25/13
Members of the Walla Walla Valley Lioness Club will be at Super 1 Grocery, 10 S. Ninth Ave., from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 2 to accept non-perishable food items for the Blue Mountain Action Council Food Bank.
Wa-Hi debate students place at UPS tournament
wo dozen Walla Walla High School students competed at the University of Puget Sound Debate Tournament in Tacoma on Jan. 12-13.
Etcetera - 1/18/13
‘Young people who are on the pathway to recovery should not have to walk the road alone — they need the support of family and community,” according to the local Trilogy Recovery Community website. It includes eight support groups such as for youth recovery support, family support and education.
Student hopes to attend national youth leaders conference
Nominee Emily Stone received an invitation to attend a Congressional Junior National Youth Leaders Conference this summer. CJNYLC is based in Vienna, Va.
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Walla Walla Area Crime Watch will host a volunteer recognition reception at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Fulton Community Room at the Walla Walla Police Department, 54 E. Main St.
Etcetera Jan. 14
Walla Walla County Traffic Safety Task Force will honor its 2013 Safety Awards Recipients during its annual recognition luncheon.
Program for inmate musical in WWII emerges from lockup
It pays to examine the contents of one's safe once in a while because an interesting artifact or two can surface.
Tradition: Marine takes prayer book into battle
Abook of prayers passed down from family member to family member from World War II is now in the hands of native Walla Wallan U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Stephen Cook, 21, currently stationed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Wa-Hi singers serenade WW Noon Rotary with holiday tunes
Norb Rossi, Walla Walla High School director of music education, brought his award-winning singers to the Dec. 13 meeting of the Walla Walla Noon Rotary Club.
WMS updates mascot, uniforms via enthusiastic team work
In the midst of economic hard times, the enthusiasm of students, efforts of a committee and generosity of a corporate group came together to fund new uniforms for Weston Middle School students.
DJ remembered as character on the airwaves, in life
Dave Herbert Cochran, who died in late November, was once ‘Rockin’ Cochran.’
Flames of friendship fan into a full-fledged union
It was rainy, windy and cold the day former Walla Wallan Brian Pribilsky and sweetheart Lisbeth Guthe exchanged vows in Ski, Norway, but it didn’t dampen their spirits. said his mother Karen Pribilsky of Walla Walla.
Etcetera - 12/13/12
A four-hour interactive training for high and middle school students interested in serving as peer mentors for students with disabilities will be hosted by Parent-to-Parent at the YMCA, 340 S. Park St.
