The Wahkiakum County Eagle - Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891

News from Naselle:

No sports events are scheduled for this week for the Naselle Comet teams, however the track season will be starting up soon. Students will have a day off on Friday, the 6th for their winter break and will return to classes on Monday, the 9th.

Have you purchased your stash of Girl Scout Cookies yet? I got mine in the parking lot at Okie’s in Naselle last weekend, and I understand the girls will be there again this coming weekend. I also have information that girls will also be at Johnson’s One Stop in Naselle with cookies for sale. Let’s make this a great cookie sale year for our local Girl Scout troops.

Westend news:

Our 3rd Annual Spaghetti Feed fundraiser for the Grays River Valley Center at Johnson Park will be held on March 21, serving from 5-8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased from Johnson Park Advisory Board members for $12 per person. Board member include Trudy Fredrickson, Tim Virkkala, Amber Davis, Dee Nikkila, Shonda Ware and PJ Katims. The price of the ticket entitles you to one glass of wine with your meal which includes spaghetti with meatballs, salad, bread and dessert.

Only 100 tickets will be sold, and we would prefer that you purchase them prior to the event, as they are selling quite well. If tickets are still available on the day of the event we will sell them at the door. For more information or to order tickets please call 465-2960 or 465-2775.

The Second Annual Community In-Door Super Sale will be held as a fundraising event for the Grays River Valley Center at Johnson Park in Rosburg, on March 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. GRVC serves as a community center for learning and human development activities for Wahkiakum County and the wider area of the lower Columbia River. There are many free resources for the community at the center: a computer lab, an exercise room, an exchange and lending library, a gym that is maintained for area school use and aerobics, sewing classes, and most recently, the newly established Food Bank, which will be open for tours and information the day of the Sale as will the Library and Computer Center.

Contributions of non-perishables will be welcomed on sale day and at any other time during their open hours. For more information on center activities call 360-465-2960.

Hamburgers, hot dogs and beverages, prepared by the Center, will be available for purchase, as well as baked goods by the Grays River United Methodist Church Friendship Circle. Forty-five sellers are participating, along with an outdoor moving sale which will be held in the gym and the halls this year. This break-the-back-of-winter sale event will feature a diverse list of items offered by community and area participants: antiques or vintage items, collectibles, crafts, new and used or repurposed items, tools, and much more. For more information call 360-465-2740 or 360-465-2689, or email cddutch@wwest.net .

The Wahkiakum Lions Club has collection boxes for used eyeglasses and hearing aids placed in different areas throughout the county. The boxes are vital to their program of recycling and redistribution of refurbished glasses and hearing aids here and overseas. There is a collection box in the Grays River Valley Library at Johnson Park. If you have old glasses or hearing aids that you don’t know what to do with, please remember this program, it can mean help to see or hear for someone else.

This program accepts all glasses, lenses and frames. They are taken to the Lions Eyeglasses Recycling Center (LERC) in Longview where they are sorted and cleaned and sent on to Lacey for distribution. The hearing aids are sent on to be refurbished also.

For more information or questions call 360-795-3337.

The free Friday night movie for this week is a newly released show for the younger kids about a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they’ve built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town’s villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the inhabitants, Eggs decides to venture above ground, “into the light,” where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie, and together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs’s family.

The Rosburg Wednesday Senior Lunch Bunch meets each week at the Rosburg Hall for a delicious meal, prepared and served by Pat Potter and her volunteers. Pat puts together these lunches through donations, and the community certainly appreciates her efforts. Check this fun and social group out and enjoy a great meal.

On Thursdays, CAP also sponsors a senior lunch at the same location. Lunches are served at noon for both venues.

Happy Birthday to Melanie Bloom, Dustin Eaton, Walter Wirkkala, Matt Scrabeck, Bob Larson, Lorne Wirkkala, Anita Raistakka, Tucker Bennett, Ron Malerich, Arvid Ross, Daniel Forbes, Mary Wirkkala, Pat Rugg, Diane Pratt, Kari Johnson, Darlene Bjornsgard, Sandra Carlson, Baylee Clark, Wayne Blake, Brad Lanz, Chase Chapman, Amber Parker, Shane Green, Dee Tetz and Annette Dziados. Wishing you a perfectly wonderful day.

Happy Anniversary to Roy and Shirley Herrold, Rokey and Lori Scott and Joel and Stacey Strange. Wishing you many more celebrations.

We had quite a scare last Thursday morning and had to call the ambulance to transport my husband to the hospital. Our community is fortunate to have the volunteers that always respond so quickly to an emergency, and they could use a few more. Kevin Maki and Rick Ballif got my husband into the vehicle, and they were assisted by another neighbor, Susan Burkhalter and two of the sweetest young men you could ever want to meet in support of their mom. Gus and Bowen Burkhalter waited in the pickup while they stabilized my husband and got him on the gurney. Susan said that Gus had been very concerned on the trip to our house and asked her if they could say a prayer for the man who was sick. So I want to publicly thank our EMS folks and let Gus and Bowen know that their prayer was answered, and my husband is doing better. These two children will grow up to be great EMS candidates. Thank you boys, we certainly appreciated the prayer.