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

 Only 3 1/2 weeks until the Wahkiakum County Fair Board’s Easter Bingo! Circle March 22nd on your calendar as the night to be at the J A Wendt Multi-purpose room by 6 p.m. and ready to play “Easter Bingo.” The grand raffle prize will be a Samsu...

 The first raffle ticket for the Valentine Diamond Dinner grand prize was drawn and set to the side to keep everyone in suspense! Kay Chamberlain and Phil Vik then announced and drew the winners of the other multiple raffle prizes we had for...

 A noisy delightful crowd filled the Skamokawa Grange Hall last Saturday night as the Wahkiakum County Fair Board members and volunteers served a very nice dinner to over 100 guests. The Valentine Diamond Dinner is the Fair Board’s biggest f...

 Just two days until February 9. On this special day we will be preparing the Valentine Diamond Dinner for our guests. There’s still time to get your tickets. Tickets are only $25 per dinner and the dinner starts at 6 p.m. We have three nice pri...

  My project for the Wahkiakum County Fair this week was shifting through a big pile of paperwork. It is time to turn in the application for state funding for our fair. Every exhibitor that participated in our 2012 Fair is counted and all...

The Wahkiakum County Fair is only seven months away! Fair Board committees are starting to meet and discuss new ideas to help promote, fundraise for and advertise our Fair. The Royalty Program committee met last week to look over a new program. The...

The volunteer positions for the Wahkiakum County Fair Board have been filled! We welcome to the board Kathy Durrah and Jason Rainey. We have a full board again and lots of fundraising to do this year! In February we host a Valentine Dinner, March is...

We have in our approved Wahkiakum County Fair budget for 2013, $13,500 to pay out to adult and youth exhibitors. Adults will be receiving the same dollar per point as youth exhibitors again. The premium point payment has been reinstated in our...

Working outside in this cold weather isn’t much fun, yet wintertime projects at the Fairgrounds continue to be planned and completed. One of our projects is to fix all the little problems some of our buildings have acquired over the years. The h...

5 has been a very busy year with a long list of projects completed by a wonderful crew of volunteers and employees. I look forward to the new projects planned for completion in 2013 and wish everyone in our community a Happy New Year! If you...

 Last week, the Wahkiakum County Fair Board elected new officers. Taking office in 2013: President Bill Chamberlain, Vice-President Phil Vik, Treasurer Rick Damitio, Secretary Maureen Zacker-Bockius. Congratulations to all and I look forward to...

  The bright colored lights decorating the fairgrounds and Skamokawa Grange Hall were beautiful, the free holiday dinner was delicious and the huge crowd of people attending had a great time. Last weekend’s Skamokawa Grange and Fire D...

 Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner! I was very thankful that the high tides, big gusts of wind and inches of rain predicted did not cause severe flooding at the Fairgrounds. Earlier in the week I had asked some local volunteers,...

The Wahkiakum County Fair Board would like to say thank you to the many bingo players who attended Turkey Bingo last Friday night. The winning card holders received a big turkey or a ham for their bingo. During one game, there were four bingos at the...

Attention all bingo players! On November 16, at 6 p.m., the Wahkiakum County Fair Board’s Turkey Bingo, held at the J. A. Wendt multi-purpose room, will begin! There will be two fund raising raffle drawings at the event. One raffle drawing is for m...

The Washington State Fairs Convention held in Yakima was a great place to share ideas with fair managers and fair board members. I spent three days attending fair workshops and meeting numerous talented entertainers and am bringing home stacks of...

The Two Island Farmers Market was a great place to sell the Wahkiakum County Fair Board's last packages of smoked Salmon last Friday. We completely sold out and the fund raiser was a success. Thanks again to Art Pedersen, Mike Clark of C&H Classic...

Even as the rains pour down the admission ticket booth continues to be a work in progress each day at the fairgrounds. Ben Vasion and his crew are working each night after school to complete an Eagle Scout project. With the old ticket booth removed,...

The weather was very wet and rainy last Saturday, but that did not stop Boy Scout Troop #883 from meeting at the fairgrounds to start an Eagle Scout project. Scout Ben Vasion needed to complete a project and asked me for project ideas a few weeks...

Fair Premium checks are in the mail and will be delivered to your mail box in the next few days. Please cash your check as soon as you receive it! All checks need to be cashed by November 10. We are always looking for new ways to bring in funding to...

Fair Premium checks will be issued this week and delivered to your mail box soon. Please cash your check as soon as you receive it! Missing some eye glasses? Could you have left them at the fairgrounds during Fair time? As we were straightening up...

Many people attended the Wahkiakum County Fair this year, but on the last day, people came from our county and beyond to stand in line and be served a plate of barbecued Alaskan caught salmon. We enjoy preparing this delicious dinner for our fair vis...

Visitors and friends attending the fair had a wonderful group of people to welcome them through our Wahkiakum County Fair gates. Our admission booths were staffed with some of the nicest people from our local area. I heard some comments back about...

My adding machine has been working overtime this week as I total up the points on the exhibitor cards for our Youth Exhibitors. The 4-H, Open Youth and FFA exhibitors were very busy creating items to enter into the Fair! The Youth building was...

How many people attended our Fair this year? After totaling all the figures, we had 3,524 people come through our gates! Hope you enjoyed the entertainment, livestock shows, good food and visiting with friends each day. See you at the 2013 Wahkiakum...