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Watch those Mules!
To The Eagle: How did it happen? Last Friday evening the Mules got off to a slow start, until about four minutes were left in the game. Then a second touchdown that made it 12 to 13. They got possession about the time for the two minute warning. It...
October is Disaster Preparedness Month
The Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s Office Department of Emergancy Management (DEM) is happy to announce that October is Washington State Disaster Preparedness Month. Each week in October I am discussing a different aspect of being prepared. This week...
Writer offers version of Sandy Hook killings
To The Eagle: Allow me to present a short list of things that indicate the ‘alleged’ Sandy Hook school shooting was no shooting at all, but an ‘enhanced’ FEMA drill that went viral on the national media. The school itself had been flooded...
Couple endorses Howie for sheriff
To The Eagle: We first met Mark Howie shortly after we bought our home. Mark and his wife, Deb, were on a leisurely drive in the country and pulled into our driveway to introduce themselves, welcome us to Cathlamet, and to thank us for putting so...
October is Disaster Preparedness Month
Submitted by Beau Renfro County Emergency Management Director The Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s Office Department of Emergancy Management (DEM) is happy to announce that October is Washington State Disaster Preparedness Month. There are three primary...
Ballots are coming for the general election
And so we have an election upon us with measures of utmost importance. Well, maybe. Two initiatives, I-594 and I-591, deal with gun control. I-594 would tighten rules on gun sale background checks in a state effort to keep guns out of the hands of...
Teacher asks for community support
To the Eagle: “It’s so quiet in here,” a student whispered in my Wahkiakum High School English classroom a few weeks ago. Students were so absorbed in reading and responding to each others’ essays on our classroom computers, the whisper...
Writer draws attention to "Voices Have Power" site
To The Eagle: Amid all the recent horrific domestic violence reports from the NFL, Verizon Wireless, one of the league’s biggest partners, has stepped up to reaffirm its stance on domestic violence: We must all band together to end domestic...
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
To The Eagle: October is here and once again The Charlotte House, a program of St. James Family Center, is raising awareness around the issues of domestic violence. We have placed purple ribbons up and down Main Street Cathlamet. Several individuals...
Superintendent asks support for levy
To The Eagle: In your August 7, 2014, issue of The Eagle, Diana Zimmerman did an excellent job of conveying accurate information regarding Wahkiakum School District’s upcoming levy election on November 4, 2014. Along with other local and state...
District 19 legislators will vote "no" on Initiative 594
By Sen. Brian Hatfield, Rep. Dean Takko and Rep. Brian Blake On this November’s ballot, Washington state voters will be asked to approve or reject ballot measure Initiative 594, which calls for expanded background checks on most firearms...
Gordon answers PDC complaint by Faubion
To The Eagle: I appeared before the State of WA Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) on Sept. 25 based on a complaint filed by Bill Faubion, District Court Judge, Wahkiakum County (WC). I failed to file a Candidate Registration and a Personal...
Fisherman endorses seine fishing
To The Eagle: I want to encourage the commercial gillnet fleet to embrace to switching of fishing gear from gill net to the beach seine/ purse seine systems. I have successfully fished for subsistence salmon here in Alaska. We have done it from a...
Food drive was a great success
To The Eagle: Thank you Wahkiakum County for your contributions to the 2014 Food For Friends food drive! 1,294 pounds of food were collected and monetary donations may continue to be made until September 30, 2014 at Bank of the Pacific! We had more w...
Expect declines in hatchery production
To The Eagle: I was interested to see the pictures of beach seining in last week’s Eagle. I was troubled, however, by the third caption which read, “Fishery managers hope the seines will be less lethal to endangered wild salmon than gillnets....
PTO president asks for volunteers
To The Eagle: Volunteers are needed for the J.A. Wendt Elementary School Parent Teachers Organization (PTO). We are hosting our first 2014-2015 school year PTO meeting on Sunday, September 21, at 4 p.m. The meeting will take place in the...
Cathlamet is number two
To The Eagle: Kudos to Cathlamet for being number two in the State of Washington for the safest places to live. Two reasons come to mind why Cathlamet ranked so high. 1. Great people live in our area. 2. Great police department that stays on top of...
Sheriff's dedication is appreciated
To The Eagle: We would like to thank Sheriff Mark Howie, Under-Sheriff Steve Marshall, Deputy Beau Renfro, and Mark’s wife, Deb Howie for their participation in our “National Night Out” get-together. It’s so nice to have a sheriff that gets...
Islander urges support for candidate Brady
Islander urges support for candidate Brady To The Eagle: Blair Brady was beginning his first term as Wahkiakum County Commissioner of District #3 just as my husband and I retired to Wahkiakum County in 2006. Blair made the transition from a newly...
Sheriff's Corner
This summer turned out to be a pretty safe one as far as crime is concerned. One particular con that cropped up again however was “theft by fraud” through persons acting as contractors promising services that were not rendered or completed. We...
On the Refuge
Counting wildlife may seem simple, but it can be one of the more difficult things that wildlife managers do. Simply counting what you see can be misleading, as animals can be missed, important areas...
Living Well in Our Region
Chris Hulings, Information and Assistance Specialist, for Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington, has provided the following about her role in Wahkiakum County. “I have an office space at Wahkiakum Health and Human Services...
Bigelow is running!
Prosecuting Attorney Dan Bigelow stopped in our office Monday morning to ask that we print something prominent that stated he is a candidate for office. In last week's edition, we accidentally omitted the name off a letter to the editor from Heidi...
Attorney not running
To the Eagle: While honored to have been written in by a number of Wahkiakum voters, I am not seeking the office of Wahkiakum County Prosecuting Attorney at this time. I loved working as Wahkiakum’s Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in the 1990s, and...
Former sheriff banned from office
To The Eagle: On August 6, 2014, I received a phone call from Sheriff Mark Howie. He told me he didn’t want me in the Sheriff’s office any more. I had stopped at the window (the day before) after dropping off my ballot at the Auditor’s office...