Calendar of Events
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Time Out for Tea
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Delany Room at the Dayton Memorial Library
111 S. 3rd Street
Ladies are invited to a deliciously fun Red Hot Valentine Tea. Come with a friend or make new friends while enjoying tea and lunch. There is no cost and childcare will be provided on site. Contact Annie Nelson at (509) 382-2248 for more information.
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Blue Mountain Station Presentation
6:30 p.m.
Seneca Activity Center, Dayton
Learn more about the planning progress of Blue Mountain Station a proposed natural and organic eco-food processing park to be located just west of Dayton. Contact the Port of Columbia at (509) 382-2577 for more information.
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LIVE MUSIC
Nevada Slim & Cimarron Sue
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Tuxedo Bar & Grill
Prescott, WA
Enjoy traditional cowboy and country music during the dinner hours. Call (509) 849-2244 for more information.
Live @ Sapolil
Papa Loves Mambo
8:00 – 11:00 p.m.
Sapolil Cellars
15 E. Main
Walla Walla
Limited Return Engagement - Enjoy Sapolil Cellars’ original own Latin Infused Jazz group. Mike Friedman on keyboard, Glen Ayers on congo and bongo drums, and John Holmes on electric guitar. Special No Cover Event.
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Evening of Elegance
6:00 p.m.
Marcus Whitman Hotel and Conference Center
Walla Walla
Enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres, elegant dining, and a live and silent auction. Proceeds from this event benefit the Walla Walla Community Hospice—a non-profit organization committed to providing quality hospice care to adults and children facing a limited life expectancy. No patient is ever denied hospice services for financial reasons. WWCH relies on the support of the community through donations and fundraisers to defray expenses. The full auction catalog will be available for preview on the hospice website www.wwhospice.org beginning February 3.
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CONCERT
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Bluegrass
4:30 p.m.
The Liberty Theater
Dayton
There’s more to life than football. Enjoy an evening of great bluegrass music, food and drink to benefit the Touchet Valley Arts Council. Tickets are $20 and available at the Liberty Theater, Skye Book & Brew in Dayton and Hot Poop on Main Street in Walla Walla. See article on page 10 for more complete information.
Family Friendly Superbowl Party
Starting at 3:00 p.m.
Harvest Christian Center
Hwy 12 (west edge of Dayton)
Bring the family and some kind of munchie food to share and watch the Superbowl on the biggest screen in town! Games and fun available for the kids and an extra TV in the fellowship hall means no one has to miss a single play or commercial! Contact Tanya at (509) 382-4458 for more information.
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Lunar (Chinese) New Year Celebration
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Dayton Memorial Library
Delany Room
111 S. Third Street
Bring the family to the library to experience traditional Chinese music, games, food and activities (including origami and paper lantern making) to help usher in the Year of the Tiger. For more information call the library at (509) 382-4131.
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Acoustic Jam Night
6:30 p.m.
Skye Book & Brew
148 E. Main Street
Dayton
Play an instrument? Grab it and enjoy an evening sharing your talent with fellow musicians and an appreciative audience. Contact Mike at (509) 382-4677 for more information.
Wine & Chocolate 101
6:30 p.m.
Le Chateau Winery
175 E. Aeronca Ave
(across from the airport terminal)
Walla Walla, WA
Warm up your palate with divinely delicious treats then enjoy Wine & Chocolate 101 with Lan from Petits Noirs, a chocolate boutique in Milton-Freewater. Sample six Le Chateau wines each paired with two hand-crafted chocolates. Have fun with your loved one, your best friend(s), colleagues or come to meet other wine and chocolate enthusiasts. A complimentary wine glass is included in the $30 per person cost. Visit www.lechateauwinery.com or call Angela at (509) 956-9311 for more information and reservations.
Live @ Sapolil
Dr. Mark Brown & Gary Romjue
8:00 – 11:00 p.m.
Sapolil Cellars
15 E. Main
Walla Walla
Dr. Mark Brown plays pure magic on the keyboard, throws in a little trumpet, blues harp and vocals. You’ll see why we call him the Good Doctor! Romjue brings to town his guitar and outstanding electric blue fiddle. $5 Cover.
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Karaoke Night
8:00 p.m. to midnight
Tuxedo Bar & Grill
Prescott
(509) 849-2244
LIVE MUSIC
Valentine’s Eve with
Bobby K & Mike
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Skye Book & Brew
148 E. Main Street
Dayton (509) 382-4677
Valentine’s Party
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Cougar Crest Estate Winery
50 Frenchtown Rd.
Walla Walla
Enjoy complimentary tasting for the ladies, truffles, roses all day long. Harpist Chelsea Spence will perform from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. For more information contact Karla Broughton at (509) 529-5980.
Valentine Banquet & Silent Auction
“Hearts for Africa”
6:00 p.m.
Seneca Community Building
Dayton
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a delicious ham dinner, music, entertainment and a silent auction to benefit the fundraising efforts of a local mission team bound for Zambia this spring. Tickets are $15 per person or $25 per couple and may be purchased at the Wenaha Gallery, 219 E. Main Street in Dayton. For more information contact CJ Horlacher at (509) 337-6717 or (509) 382-2124.
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AARP Safe Driving Class
Tuesday 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday 8:00 – noon
Dayton Senior Center
403 E. Patit
Washington State law requires an appropriate auto insurance discount for participants age 55 and older who complete the eight hour Drivers Safety program. The course instructor will be Don Palmer. Fee is $14.00, with a $2.00 discount for AARP members. Call (509) 382-2663 to register.
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Walla Walla Symphony Concert
“Sweet Land of Liberty”
7:30 p.m.
Cordiner Hall, Whitman College
Walla Walla
The Walla Walla Symphony presents an evening of favorites by American composers including Gould’s American Salute, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Copeland’s Lincoln Portrait and Dvorak’s New World Symphony under the baton of Maestro Yaacov Bergman. Parke Thomas will provide narration for Lincoln Portrait. All seating for the concert is reserved. Tickets are available online at www.wwsymphony.org, by calling the Symphony office at 509-529-8020, or at the Symphony office at 13-1/2 E. Main, Suite 201. Tickets are also available at the door.
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Christian Women’s Connection Luncheon
“Celebrating Life’s Sweet Moments”
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Seneca Community Building
Dayton
Cost: $9.00 – Catered by Judith Henderson’s Wildberries!
CAPTURING LIFE’S MOMENTS -- Candy Troutman, a Creative Memories Consultant, will talk about photo albums, photo organization, digital help, instruction and inspiration. There is hope for your pictures! Wonderful MUSIC FOR LIFE’S MOMENTS will be performed by Jim Edwards, from Dayton.
A BOX OF CHOCOLATES -- Our special speaker, Candy Troutman is married with two grown children and works in accounting for an engineering firm in Boise, Idaho. After believing she didn’t deserve the truffles and chocolate creams of life, Candy came to know that life’s chocolates were worth reaching for, and just how delicious the assortment could be.
Reservations are necessary. Please call Judy Jackson at 399-2005. Please honor your reservation, “gift” it to a friend, or call to cancel if your plans change. Childcare is available. Sponsored by Christian Women’s Connection and Stonecroft Ministries.
www.stonecroft.org
Learn About Area Artifacts
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. guided tour
Palus Artifact Museum
426 E. Main
Dayton
Officially, the Palus Artifact Museum is closed for the winter, but two one-hour guided tours in February will introduce the Musuem’s artifacts to interested participants. Learn about how the artifacts fit into our region’s history and gain an understanding and appreciation for how the Native People of the Palus area provided food, clothing and shelter for their families. An archaeologist who visited the museum last year said the collection of arrowheads and other relics is among the best he had ever seen. Come see for yourself! For more information contact Jacque Sonderman at (509) 382-8919.
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LIVE MUSIC
Nighthawks
8:00 p.m. to midnight
Tuxedo Bar & Grill
Prescott
(509) 849-2244
Learn About Area Artifacts
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. guided tour
Palus Artifact Museum
426 E. Main
Dayton
Please refer to the calendar entry on the 17th to learn more about this special guided tour of the museum’s impressive artifact collection.
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Sam Erwin Memorial Breakfast
8:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.
Prescott Community Center
All proceeds from this all-you-can-eat breakfast go to the Prescott High School Memorial Scholarship Fund in honor of Sam Erwin, a founding member of the Prescott Lion’s Club. Enjoy a hearty meal of pancakes, biscuits and gravy, bacon, hashbrowns, sausage, eggs, juice and coffee all for just $5.99.
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Live @ Sapolil
Roads Less Travelled
8:00 – 11:00 p.m.
Sapolil Cellars
15 E. Main
Walla Walla
This three-piece band provides great blues vocals, tight guitar work and exceptional percussion, all in all rounding out a fun, energetic, solid band. Ted Willey on guitar, Mike Borowski on djembe and drums and Dave Barber belting out the blues on harp. Special No Cover Event.
LIVE Celtic Music
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Skye Book & Brew
148 E. Main Street
Dayton
Whet your appetite for Under a Celtic Moon II with well known Celtic music performers, Eddie Parente and Thom Dudley.
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CONCERT: Under a Celtic Moon II
7:00 p.m.
Liberty Theater
344 E. Main
Dayton
The Desert Thistle Pipe Band, Skweez the Weezle, musician Eddie Parente alongside folksinger Thom Dudley and three members of the An Daire Irish Dancers will take the stage during an evening of music, food, drink and fun. Tickets are $25 per person and are available at Dayton’s Skye Book & Brew and Liberty Theater. www.libertytheater.org
Farm Bureau Annual Members’ Meeting
10:00 a.m.
Seneca Activity Center
Dayton
Anyone interested in the future of the Columbia County Farm Bureau is welcome to attend the meeting, but only members may vote on the proposed sale of the CCFB to Ag Link, Inc., a farm cooperative headquartered in Reardon, WA. Lunch will be served and RSVP’s are requested. For more information contact CCFB General Manager, Joe Bush, at (509) 382-4743.
Pheasants Forever Banquet
Blue Mountain WA
Chapter #258
Social Hour 4:00 p.m.
Dinner 6:00 p.m.
Walla Walla Fairgrounds Community Center
A delicious catered prime rib or salmon dinner, thousands of dollars worth of raffle prizes, fun for the entire family and the satisfaction of supporting a good cause, that’s what the annual Pheasants Forever banquet is all about. Last year’s banquet sold out, so don’t wait to purchase your tickets to this annual fundraising event for the local Blue Mountain WA Chapter #258.
Pheasants Forever is a national wildlife habitat conservation organization with a diverse membership of hunters, non-hunters, ranchers, farmers, landowners, conservation enthusiasts and wildlife officials.
Since 1991 the Blue Mountain Chapter of Pheasants Forever has completed over 50 habitat projects in Columbia and Walla Walla counties. Chapter members planted an estimated 15,700 trees and shrubs, financed the installation of seven “gallinaceous” bird guzzlers (buried 500-gallon cisterns covered with an apron for collecting rain and snow melt) and provided native grass seed for an estimated 50 acres of nesting cover. These projects benefit all upland wildlife species.
Every year since 2004, the chapter has provided fifty, 50-pound bags of seed to land owners wishing to establish food plots. The chapter also works with the Washington Department of Wildlife and the National Resources Conservation Service to establish habitat and food plots.
Contact Lori Fischer at (509) 540-9518 or lorifischer@ymail.com to purchase tickets.
This month at the
Dayton Memorial Library:
Preschool Storytime
Mondays
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Dayton Memorial Library
111 S. 3rd Street
Storytime and crafts for children ages 4-7. Call the library at (509) 382-4131 for more information.
Toddler Storytime
Tuesdays
11:00 -11:30 a.m.
Dayton Memorial Library
111 S. 3rd Street
Fun and developmentally-appropriate interactive activities for children ages 18 mo.-3 years led by Sue Hagfeldt. For more information call the library at (509) 382-4131.
Adult Basic Computer Class: Microsoft Powerpoint
Tuesdays
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Dayton Memorial Library
111 S. 3rd Street
Space is limited to 9 participants- come early. Call the library at (509) 382-4131 for more information.
Chinese New Year Celebration
February 11th
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Delany Room
Dayton Memorial Library
111 S. 3rd Street