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From the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin / September 28, 2009

CANDIDATE TO APPEAR WITH EX-GOVERNOR HOPEFUL IN AREA

The Committee to Elect Terry Nealey has scheduled a “whistle stop” tour on Thursday with guest Dino Rossi. The tour will stop at 10:45 a.m. at Country Cupboard in Dayton; at noon with Rotary, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. with downtown business owners and at 3 p.m. at campaign headquarters, 10 E. Main St. in Walla Walla; and at 4:30 p.m. at Applegate Orchards, 1024 Lake road in Burbank.

For more information, call Shane Laib at 509-629-1354 or go to www.terrynealey.com.

From the Tri-City Herald / September 25, 2009

STUDENTS TOUR CBC RESEARCH AREA, BURBANK FARM
By Drew Foster, Herald staff writer

…… Students from Kennewick and Kamiakin high schools touring CBC’s farms, agriculture mechanics building and campus halls. After visiting CBC, the students boarded the buses and headed to Burbank, where they checked out Gauntt Farm.

Chep Gauntt spoke to the students about farming, finishing school, opportunities in agriculture, the role technology plays in farming and how the industry isn’t all “back-breaking, get-out-the-shovel-type of work.”

“Agriculture is something most American people take for granted,” he said. “It’s something in the background. I think in a lot of ways it’s not very glamorous. This gives them a concept of the technology and the equipment.”

See the full article here.

The photo below accompanied the article and was captioned: “Tim Woodward, dean of Agriculture Education Research and Development at Columbia Basin College, leads a group of Kennewick High School students Thursday on a tour of CBC’s agriculture plots. About 85 students from Kennewick and Kamiakin high schools toured CBC and Gauntt Farms to learn about ag classes and related jobs.”

A few stories have slipped by me over the last few weeks, so I’m going to combine several different Burbank news items (some new, some older) into one post. Here goes:

• Back on September 2, 2009, KNDO-KNDU ran a preview of Columbia-Burbank’s football team.
• Congratulations to Seth Shelton of Columbia-Burbank who was named an Academic All Star. (I’m not sure what that means exactly and KNDU doesn’t elaborate. Can anyone help me out with this one?)
• The Tri-City Herald reports today (September 24, 2009) that Gen-X Energy Group, “which lost its Burbank biodiesel plant to a fire in early July”, has signed an agreement with a sister company of Tri-City & Olympia Railroad Co. “to build a new facility in Richland to make biofuel.” See our earlier post about the July fire at the Burbank site.
• The Herald also has an article in today’s paper (September 24, 2009) about the “likely presence” of swine flu (H1N1 virus) in some of the smaller Tri-City area schools. Columbia-Burbank Superintendent Lou Gates is quoted.

  Gates’ district — like other smaller districts in the area — has seen a recent increase in student absences. But the numbers have been under control.

  In Burbank, they’re already going down. For example, in the middle school there were a few students absent the first day of class, including one who reported being sick. By Sept. 11, there were 30 students absent, with 17 calling in sick. The number of absences now has dropped off and “we have settled out at this point in time,” Gates said.

• Here’s a photo from the front page of the Mid-Columbia section from the September 13, 2009 edition of the Tri-City Herald. The caption read, in part: “Floyd Rivas of Burbank tears up as the habanero salsa he and his wife Tonia are trying kicks in Saturday and the Fiery Foods Festival in Pasco.”

From the Tri-City Herald / September 13, 2009

LIBRARIES OFFER ONLINE LANGUAGE COURSES
By the Herald staff

The Walla Walla County Rural Library District is offering a new online language-learning resource to patrons called Mango Languages.

Mango is an online language learning system that focuses on teaching conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. Each lesson combines real-life situations and audio from native speakers with an easy-to-follow interface and simple, clear instructions.

Mango Languages currently offers 12 language courses: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Russian, English for Spanish speakers, English for Brazilian Portuguese speakers, and English for Polish speakers.

The Walla Walla County Rural Library District will provide drop-in demonstrations of the language program at several libraries. The schedule is as follows:

• Burbank Library, 875 Lake Road: Sept. 23, noon to 8 p.m. and Sept. 26, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Prescott Library, 103 S. D St.: Sept. 24, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Vista Hermosa Library, 76 Sarah Lynne Lane: Sept. 24, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Touchet Library, 161 Hanson Road: Sept. 30, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

For more information, contact the Burbank Library at 545-6549 or by e-mail at burbank@wwrurallibrary.com.

The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (September 21, 2009) also noted this:

Library patrons can access Mango Languages at the Walla Walla County Rural Library District Web site (www.wwrurallibary.com), clicking on “Mango Languages” and entering their library card number.

See the full Herald article here. See the full Union-Bulletin article here.

From the Walla Walla-Union Bulletin / September 8, 2009 (as reprinted in the Tri-City Herald)

BURBANK MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN STAGED SUN MART ROBBERY
By Terry McConn, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

WALLA WALLA — A man who stole more than $1,000 from the Burbank Sun Mart in April by helping stage a robbery there pleaded guilty in Walla Walla County Superior Court. Joseph D. Shackett, 22, of Burbank, entered the guilty plea last week to a charge of second-degree theft.

Shackett faces up to 60 days in jail when he’s sentenced later. But the prosecution is recommending no additional jail time. Authorities say Shackett and Aaron R. Weissenberger — who was working as a clerk in the store at the time — agreed among themselves to steal the money from the business by making it look like a robbery.

See the full article here.

From the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin / September 17, 2009

MAN SENTENCED TO TIME SERVED IN STAGED ROBBERY
By Terry McConn of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

WALLA WALLA — A man was sentenced this morning to time served for stealing more than $1,000 from the Burbank Sun Mart in April by helping stage a robbery there. Joseph D. Shackett, 22, of 18 Piper Road, Burbank, had served 16 days in the Walla Walla County Jail before being released pending disposition of his case.

In handing down the sentence today, Superior Court Judge Donald W. Schacht went along with a prosecution recommendation of no additional jail time. The standard sentencing range for second-degree theft — to which Shackett pleaded guilty Aug. 31 — is up to 60 days.

Schacht placed Shackett on a year of community custody, a form of probation. Shackett also will have to repay the money that was stolen. “I made some really bad decisions,” Shackett told Schacht before sentence was imposed. “I just don’t want to be that person anymore,” he said.

See the full article here.

From KNDO-KNDU / September 1, 2009

BURBANK WOMAN SHAKEN AFTER SOMEONE HITS HER CAR WITH ROCK

BURBANK, Wash. — It’s the last thing we want to think about on the drive home from work– the thought of someone throwing rocks onto your car. But a drive home for a Burbank woman turns into the scare of her life. It’s the second time in less than two weeks someone in our area has been hit by rocks thrown off an overpass. The latest incident happened at I-182 and the 395 overpass in Pasco.

“And it was the scariest thing ever,” she said. “The thing that actually kept me alive was my windshield and I’m very thankful the rock didn’t go all the way through.”

It’s a drive home Christina Trivett will never forget. As she was driving on Interstate 182 towards her home in Burbank, someone or some people threw a rock and destroyed her windshield. A day after and she’s still shaken up. ……

State Patrol says if you happen to get hit by any type of debris, try and remain calm and safely stop on the shoulder and call 911. And as for those responsible, police say it can be tough to catch the criminals responsible and they rely on tips from drivers who might have seen something. As for the people Who hit Christina’s car, State Patrol is still looking for those responsible.

See the full article (including video) here.

From the Tri-City Herald / August 25, 2009

BURBANK MAN FINDS A WINNING FAIR ROUTINE
Ingrid Stegemoeller, Herald staff writer

KENNEWICK — Blue ribbons, superintendent’s choice and other awards have become a routine part of Lyle Hatcher’s summers. The 73-year-old Burbank man has earned the honors for his giant apples, his embroidery and his macrame lawn chairs.

And even though his wife of more than 40 years recently died — the two often competed against each other for biggest apple — Hatcher’s entries will once again be on display at this year’s Benton Franklin Fair & Rodeo, which officially begins [August 25].

“If you see something that you’ve done that you like, maybe someone else will like it too,” Hatcher said as he stood in the sunshine beneath one of his nearly 800 apple trees.

See the full article here. The photo below accompanied the article and was captioned: “Lyle Hatcher of Burbank has won a slew of awards for his entries at the fair over the years. In addition to prize-winning apples, like these big red delicious apples in his orchard, Hatcher also embroiders shirts and makes macrame lawn chairs.”