Herald staff
WALLA WALLA — William "Kenneth" McCandless, one of few surviving World War I veterans in Washington state, died Sunday. He was 102.
McCandless was an avid bowler until the age of 100. Late-night talk show host David Letterman once made a request to have McCandless on his show, but the centenarian wasn’t interested.
McCandless was born on March 23, 1898, in Horton, Kan.
He was a young man studying journalism at the University of Nebraska when the United States declared war in 1917. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
McCandless was an editor at the Omaha World Herald for 11 years. He moved to Walla Walla in 1945 to work for the Pacific Northwest Cooperator, a regional farming publication.
He is survived by a daughter, Sylvia Inoue of Falmouth Mass.; a son, Michael Wever McCandless of Hastings, England; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Zoning ordinance OK’s doggy day care: Doggy day care, a growth industry across the country, is OK in some residential areas, the city council has decided. The council unanimously approved an ordinance opening medium-density and high-density residential areas to canine day care. City planners who researched the question said they couldn’t find an example of another city that permits dog day care in residential neighborhoods. Local proponents said there is an increasing need for the service in urban areas. While other cities restrict such day cares to rural and commercial areas, city planner Azam Babar said, "We are really on the cutting edge here by at least allowing them in certain residential districts."
Estuary programs to get $30 million for habitat restoration: The Columbia River and Tillamook Bay estuaries will benefit from $30 million in federal funding under the Water Resources Development Act 2000. President Clinton signed a bill Monday that will fund a restoration program for endangered salmon and steelhead habitat and protect 200,000 waterfowl and shore birds that winter in the estuaries.
