Good Morning Quincy WA Daily Brief - Friday, Jan 16 2026

Good Morning Quincy, WA – Friday, January 16, 2026

Your daily local update for Quincy, George, Winchester & Crescent Bar.

Today’s highlights:

• 🌫️ Weather: Dense freezing fog this morning before 10 AM; cloudy early, gradually clearing. High near 39°, north winds 3–5 mph. Expect slick spots—give yourself extra time.
• 🤼 Quincy Jacks Wrestling: Lady Jacks varsity win big over Ellensburg (66–12). Men’s varsity falls to Ellensburg (48–31).
• 🎉 National Days: It’s National Nothing Day (no celebrating required) and National Fig Newton Day—choose wisely.
• 😂 Dad Joke of the Day: When does a joke become a dad joke? When it becomes apparent.
• 🍕 Tonight in Quincy: Monkey Around Pizza fundraiser raffle with live music, 5–9 PM. Great food, local fun, possible dancing.
• 🏐 Adult Volleyball: Open gym tonight from 5:30–7:30 PM at Monument Elementary—get active and have fun.
• 🎶 George: Third Friday Beginner’s Jam at George Community Hall, 7:00 PM. Bring an instrument, a smile, and learn together.
• 💃 Upcoming – Junior Jacks Dance Camp: Friday, January 23. K–6 camp (9 AM–12 PM) & 7–8 workshop (12:30–3:30 PM) with halftime performances. Registration closes January 20.
• 🎶 Fundraiser: Bagpipe Bash for Quincy Choir, Saturday, January 26, 6–9 PM at the Quincy Valley Historical Society Museum.
• 🇺🇸 Community Support Needed: Quincy Valley Veterans Recognition Wall meeting Saturday, January 31, 10 AM at the Senior Center. Multiple ways to help.
• 🛒 Local Business News: Aikens Market partnering with ACE Sushi—fresh daily sushi rolls starting soon, including $6 rolls on Wednesdays.
• ⛪ Church Event: Quincy Free Methodist Church Men’s Breakfast, Saturday, January 17 at 8:00 AM.
• 🏛 City & School Updates: City offices and schools closed Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
• 🏀 Sports Preview: Lady Jacks & Jacks basketball and wrestling in action this weekend—check schedules and support our teams.
• ❤️ ARC Challenge: Perform an Act of Random Kindness today—small gestures make Quincy stronger.

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”— Coretta Scott King

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Good Morning Quincy WA Daily Brief - Friday, Jan 16 2026

Speaker: [00:00:00] Good morning, Quincy. Welcome to the Special Friday edition of Good Morning Quincy Law. Today is Friday, January 16th, 2026. This is your Daily Oak local update for Quincy, George Winchester and Crescent Bar if it matters to our community. We're talking about it here in the next few minutes, we're gonna cover today's weather, what's happening around town, school, sports, and activities, school, city police, fire church, and local business news.

Whether you're heading to work, getting the kids out the door, or just easing into the day, we're here to help you stay connected to what's happening in our community. Grab your cup of coffee, get ready for the day, and let's start with today's forecast. Areas of dense freezing fog this morning before 10:00 AM otherwise cloudy throughout mid-morning.

The gradually clearing, it's a bit of a colder day out there, Quincy. It's currently about. 30 degrees, 29 degrees at [00:01:00] four 30 this morning with a high near 39, late this afternoon. North winds at three to five miles. Give yourself a little extra time to defrost your car this morning and a little cushion on that travel time.

Expect some slick spots on our road as the freezing fog tends to leave. A little little slip out there. So be careful this morning. Give yourself a little extra time so there's a little less stress as you start this Friday. Big congratulations to our Quincy Ladies, varsity Jacks wrestling team who won 66 12 last night against Ellensburg.

Go Jacks, the men's varsity wrestling team. Lost Ellensburg 48 31 last night. That's okay. Get up next time guys, if you need a reason to celebrate today is national Nothing Day where you don't have to celebrate anything. That's right. National Nothing Day was created as a day to provide Americans with one [00:02:00] National Day when they can just sit around without celebrating, observing, or honoring anything, just a day for nothing.

It's been around since 1973 and so, hey, enjoy some nothing, but don't do that while you're at work. Today is also National Fig Newton Day. If you do need something to celebrate. Or you can combine the two and enjoy a fig Newton while you sit around and do absolutely nothing. Now I know your day isn't complete without a bad dad joke.

So here we go. When does a joke become a dad joke? When it becomes apparent a.

In area happenings around town tonight, monkey Around Pizza is hosting a fundraiser raffle with prizes. This event is five to 9:00 PM tonight, featuring live music. Guys, I talked to Cheryl and Dave last night. It's gonna be a great time tonight at Monkey Around Pizza. Go get [00:03:00] some great food support, a great local business, and have a lot of fun listening to live music.

I even heard rumors of possible dancing. It's gonna be a good time if that's not your thing. Adult volleyball opens up tonight at five 30 to seven 30 at the Monument Elementary Gym. Go get your volleyball on, get off the couch this Friday night and go play some volleyball with some other adults. Just have some fun, make some new friends, get active.

It'll be a good time. Tonight in George the Third Friday, beginner's jam For less experienced musicians who want to learn to play nicely with others. Bring your own instrument, a music stand if you have one lyrics, chords, or whatever songs you wanna learn, you want the group to learn and a smile. They begin at 7:00 PM It's every third Friday.

More experienced musicians are invited as well, but be prepared to help someone learn something new with their instrument or their voice. An audience is always welcome at the Jam. It's gonna be at George Community Hall tonight at [00:04:00] 7:00 PM. In upcoming events on Friday, January 23rd, the Quincy High School Dance Team is hosting the K through six grade Junior Jacks dance camp from 9:00 AM to 12 with halftime performance of the girls' varsity basketball game at 5:30 PM seventh and eighth grade.

Dance and Palm Workshop will be from 1230 to 3:30 PM with a halftime performance of the Boys Varsity basketball game at 7:00 PM at the Quincy High School. Registration closes Tuesday, January 20th. Costs us $35 per answer and includes a t-shirt. KK through six grade can also add on a Jax Tutu for $20.

Sign up online. Go look for these guys on Facebook. I don't have a like website you can sign up at. I would love to give you that, but there is a flyer on Facebook. Go check it out. The Quincy Booster Club is presenting the bagpipe Bash a fest. Winner fundraiser for the Quincy Choir on Saturday, January 26th from six to 9:00 [00:05:00] PM at the Quincy Valley Historical Society Museum.

There'll be great food baskets have been on most likely as they do it like they did last time. And guys, if you haven't been benefited from listening to our choir that you have missed out, the Quincy High School Choir is incredible, and this is a great way to give back to them. The Quincy Valley Veterans Recognition Wall needs our community support as we've been talking about this week.

As our nation prepares to celebrate America's 250th 250th anniversary. This is a powerful monument to honor veterans who protected our freedoms and shaped Quincy's story. Right now, Mark Owens is carrying the entire project alone, and we need more hands and hearts to keep this thing going. Join Mark for the next meeting at the Quincy Valley Senior Center Saturday, January 31st at 10:00 AM Contact mark is 7 5 0 0 9 3 8.

There are a lot of ways you can help. You can sponsor the Memorial Day in Veterans Day newspaper pages at [00:06:00] $25 a pledge by May 6th. That's the limited time offer, or you can support the K through 12 kids artwork program. Volunteer for tile repair, flag maintenance, or help replace. Flags and powder coated branch flag poles.

Your support ensures this tribute continues for future generations. In exciting news for our local market, Aikens is stretching again and they have announced that they are partnering with ACE Sushi franchises and will start offering fresh daily rolled sushi with sushi offerings beginning as early as next week.

I think when I read that it might be like this coming week, so pay attention to that. All the roll will be made fresh daily with sustainable fresh sushi grade fish. They'll be also featuring $6 rolls every Wednesday tomorrow. The American Legion and Sons of American Legion meaning will happen me in Quincy Senior Center.

Quincy Free Methodist [00:07:00] Church, monthly Men's Breakfast. Saturday, January 17th, fast. Tomorrow at eight o'clock. Faith Fellowship and Connection. In church, Vince, the Quincy Free Methodist Church has this monthly men's breakfast, Saturday, January 17th at 8:00 AM Faith Fellowship and Connection. Check it out.

As we continue, guys, I wanna remind you of my ARC challenge for you. I was going back through my old movies and found E Almighty, and if you're not familiar with arc, the term there, it's acts of random kindness. So do something nice today for someone just because you can't absolutely no reason at all, other than it's just a good thing to do.

Smile at people. Ease please, and thank you. Buy a stranger's coffee for no reason at all. Don't even tell 'em you're buying it for them, and let's make Quincy a better place. Now, before we jump into the Quincy Jacks life, we're going to co be covering upcoming city events and [00:08:00] administration and announcements, and then we'll jump into Quincy Jack sports and events.

The city would like you to know that the city offices will be closed Monday the 19th for observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Along those lines in school news, remember, there's no school this Monday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Even if you have to go to work, if your kid is in public school system, there's no school Monday.

So make sure you've updated your calendar and your schedule to. Cover for that today. Our La Jacks and our Lady Jacks basketball teams are playing in Sila tomorrow. Our Jacks wrestling team competes in Ellensburg, and our Jacks and Lady Jacks basketball team are playing in Othello for home games tomorrow.

Our Lady Jacks wrestling team faces off here in Quincy against Gu Luca High School at 10:00 AM at the Quincy High School. Let's go support our jacks now as we round out the news for this Friday. Remember this quote. The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Coretta [00:09:00] Scott King.

And that wraps up our week here on Good Morning, Quincy, Washington. Thanks for starting your morning with Good Morning, Quincy, Washington. If you have an event announcement, school activity, church gathering, or community update you'd like to share, we'd love to hear from you because this show is about our town told by our people.

Email us at info@thefallibleman.com. Make sure to subscribe and follow the show, share it with a friend as we're trying to make sure that everybody is getting the news and all the goings on that we have in this amazing town. Good morning. Quincy is brought to you by the Fallible man, LLC. Be sure and check out some of our other great podcasts like the Dad Hatch Shena podcast, the Driven to Thrive broadcast, or the Read Me a Story Dad podcast.

We'll be back Monday with everything you need to know coming outta the weekend. But until then. Enjoy what our community has to offer. Get involved, support local events, and get outside if the weather cooperates. Thanks for being part of the Quincy community. Have a great [00:10:00] weekend. Take care of each other and we'll see you Monday.

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