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The Wahkiakum Mule track and field team traveled to Napavine last Thursday for a Central 2B meet. The boys team scored eight points and took eighth place out of eight teams. The girls team scored 54 points and placed fourth out of eight teams. For the boys, Nevan Bingham continued to improve his time in the 100 meters, taking fourth place in 11.76. He also placed fifth in the 200 meters with a time of 24.93. The 4x400 meter relay team of Bingham, Thong Phan, Kai Yuan Chen and Ethan Cothren took...
The Wahkiakum Mule baseball team returned to play after spring break by winning both games in a double header against Onalaska on Saturday. The Lady Mules traveled to Seattle to play Onalaska at the University of Washington. They also played at home against Onalaska on Tuesday. The Eagle did not receive a report for either game. The Mules baseball team beat the Loggers in game one, 12-2 and took the nightcap 17-2. Zac Brown pitched all five innings of the first game, striking out nine and with...
Shannon Gildea of the Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce was introduced at April’s Wahkiakum Port District 1 meeting last Thursday before the commissioner’s tackled the day’s issues. Four bids for the Port’s dredging project were submitted, and Port Manager Jackie Lea said that she had been reading through them, asking questions and checking references. “I want to get the best fit for us,” Lea said. Lea also mentioned that she had spoken with Corky Wilson, a commissioner for the Port of Chinook, an...
Senior exchange student Bruna Rocha comes from the most populous city in the Americas, Sao Paulo, in Brazil. The quiet of Wahkiakum County has become her new normal, and she's a little apprehensive about the return to the noise and commotion of her home town. "I think it's going to be hard and weird to get used to my city again," Rocha said. "It's so big and so busy." Still, there is the siren song of the heat, the beaches and the barbecues with friends and family calling her home. "I miss my mo...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners discussed business and heard from Lia Sealund, a customer service representative, about the PUD’s local energy conservation efforts at their meeting on Tuesday. The rebate programs for ductless heat pumps, custom projects, non-residential lighting, windows and insulation have helped to save local customers, in total, as much as 1,028,000 kWh each year since 2010, according to Sealund. “This fiscal period has provided the utility an opportunity to...
April is Sexual Assault Awareness month, and Annika Vik, a sexual assault prevention advocate for St. James Family Center, is using the No More campaign to encourage dialogue about what continues to be taboo subjects, domestic violence and sexual assault. The campaign hopes to remove the shame and stigma attached to these topics by keeping it in the public's consciousness. Pictures have been showing up on Facebook of local residents holding signs that say "No More", followed by a personal messag...
Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce Director Shannon Gildea and her high school intern, Shelbie Abbot, were up bright and early on Friday morning to begin the third annual Hook the Hawg fishing derby. A little too early, if you ask Gildea. It was still dark when they arrived and set up a tent, and it was more than an hour before the energy and people began to stir at the Elochoman Slough Marina in Cathlamet. On Saturday, the two slept in a little longer and arrived to find customers waiting for them....
The Toutle Lake Ducks baseball and softball teams came to Cathlamet to face the Wahkiakum Mules on Thursday. In baseball action, the Mules lost their first game 3-6. Zach Brown pitched all seven innings and struck out four. The Ducks were able to get seven hits off him. Offensively Brown was 2-3 with two singles and a run-batted-in (RBI), Luke Brown went 1-3 with a single and an RBI, and Terris Record was 1-3 with an RBI. The Mules won their second game 6-4 with Record on the mound. He pitched...
Adna, Onalaska and Firm Foundation Christian School traveled to Cathlamet last Thursday for Wahkiakum High School's only home track meet of the season. Nevan Bingham won the 100 meter race, finishing with a new personal record of 11.78. He took third in the 300m with a time of 24.43 and third in the long jump with a distance of 16-02.50. Thong Phan took sixth place in the 400m with a time of 1:10.13. The 4x400 team of Kyle Stump, Ethan Cothren, Bingham and Phan took fifth with a time of...
Better keep your eye on this one. Ellie Wiltse-Hiatt, a sixth grader at John C. Thomas Middle School, was recently selected along with 35 other 12-year-old girls in the region to play for an elite soccer team in the Olympic Development Program. According to the website, the program's philosophy is to "identify players of the highest caliber" to "lead to increased success for the U.S. National teams in the international arena." Ellie is the daughter of Adrianne and Matt Wiltse-Hiatt. Adrianne is...
Wahkiakum High School track and field athletes began competition last week with a meet on Thursday in Onalaska and a trip to Centralia on Saturday for the Lewis County Invitational. On Thursday at the 2B meet in Onalaska, the Mules competed against five other teams including Adna, Mossyrock, Onalaska, Pe Ell and a 1B team, Firm Foundation Christian School out of Battle Ground. The Mules boys team took sixth place in boys competition, scoring 19 points and the girls placed third in girls...
The Wahkiakum Mules baseball and softball teams faced Winlock on Friday in double headers and won all their games. The baseball team won their first game 11-0. James Anderson threw a no hitter in the first game, striking out five. At bat, Joey Moore went 1-2 and Luke Brown was 1-1, driving in two runs. Zac Brown went 2-4 and had three RBI's. Hank Ferguson went 1-2 and drove in a run. Casey Wilson was 1-3 and Jacob Childers went 1-1. The Mules won their second game in five innings, 15-0. Zac...
It was a good day for a deal on Saturday at Johnson Park, where vendors were set up with used items, homemade crafts and art. You could even get a massage if you were up for it. "We were slammed for the first hour and a half," Samantha Hollo, a vendor said. She was pleased with how the day had gone. Things slowed down a little after that, but at least the spurts of customers, as another vendor described it, were constant. Steve Ullakko showed off the coasters and trivets he made by hand as well...
Sheriff Mark Howie promised to paint his beard pink if more than 30 people attended Family Night last Saturday in the multipurpose room at J.A. Wendt Elementary School. Sixty-four kids and adults showed up to make sure he made good on that promise, and on Monday, in front of an audience, seventh grade student Stephanie Hake painted Howie's hairy chin pink, though it looked purple from a distance. He wore it with pride and good humor for 24 hours, but the bright hue had disappeared by Tuesday. He...
Folks at the St. James Family Center have been following the events at the United Way of Cowlitz and Wahkiakum Counties in Longview very closely. A recent audit at the fundraising institution showed that a number of accounting errors led to an allocation of $200,000 more to its 23 partner agencies, including St. James, than had come in during fundraising last year. Now St. James’ Executive Director Beth Hansen and members of the board of directors are waiting to see what will happen. Every y...
The Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors discussed whether to allow seventh and eighth grade students to practice with the high school baseball, softball and golf teams for the final weeks of the spring season at March’s school board meeting on Tuesday. Marc Niemeyer, the baseball coach as well as the College and Career Counselor at the high school, was trouble shooting ways to provide younger students with opportunities to learn baseball when he found a WIAA rule that allows middle s...
Last Friday, over 100 people filled the multipurpose room at J.A. Wendt Elementary School for the first Parent Teacher Organization Talent Show. Local students and adults wowed the crowd with songs, skits, dances and a martial arts presentation. Three judges, Sheriff Mark Howie, Jimmie Lou Cleveland and Mayor Dale Jacobson awarded first, second and third place finishes in two categories, one for the youngsters and another for middle school students up to adults. All participants went home with...
The Wahkiakum Mules baseball team finished one game of a double header before it began to rain on Friday. They beat Mossyrock 6-4. Zac Brown pitched a complete game, striking out 15 batters, though the Vikings were able to get five hits off of him. Joey Moore was 2-3 at bat. Luke Brown went 1-3 at bat and drove in one run. James Anderson was 1-2 for the game and drove in two runs. Hank Ferguson was also 1-2 at bat. "The team battled all seven innings and came out on top," Coach Marc Niemeyer...
At last Thursday’s Wahkiakum Port District 1 meeting, commissioners approved a resolution that will allow the sale of two abandoned vessels and discussed marina security, adding electric for a potential vendor and parking issues. In December, certified first class letters with return receipts were sent to two individuals who had ceased moorage payments on vessels currently moored at the marina. Neither responded and according to Washington state law, the Port is allowed to sell the vessels at p...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners made quick work of business at their meeting on Tuesday. Commissioner Dennis Reid took a couple minutes to show his appreciation for PUD crews. “I’d like to congratulate the water department,” Reid said. “The leak rate on Puget Island for the month of February was below the state mandated level at 8.9 percent. For the year it stands at 10 percent, the mandated level, so that’s good work. “Also congratulations to the line crew,” he continued. “On Su...
Students at Wahkiakum High School were in for a treat this week when actors from The Seattle Shakespeare Company arrived for a two day visit to give workshops and perform Macbeth. Two actors, Anastasia Higham and Trevor Young Marston, along with SSC's Education Associate Casey Brown arrived before the rest of the cast. The two actors led workshops on Macbeth, first a lively interactive introduction to the play followed by stage combat. Students who attended the workshops laughed almost as much...
On Monday, 12 Wahkiakum High School students, along with teachers Jeff Rooklidge and Kyle Hurley, helped staff from the Cowlitz Wahkiakum Conservation District plant 900 alder, hemlock, cedar and spruce trees along the Elochoman River near Foster Road. The students were a blend from FFA and the high school's environmental science and biology classes. Their common goal was to improve salmon habitat and aid in their survival. Trees will provide shade and lower the temperature of the river while ra...
Doernbecher Week, the annual fund raising event at Wahkiakum School District put on by the Key Club to benefit Doernbecher's Children's Hospital in Portland, got started last Friday. Freshmen Cody Terpsma and Shanna Batdorf, sophomores Jack Leavitt and Cheyenne Barton, juniors Joey Moore and Rory Heywood, and seniors Nevan Bingham and Sidney Ashe make up this year's Doernbecher Court. These eight students were selected by their peers and will spend the week competing against each other to see...
Post season basketball tournaments bring players old and new together, and Eagle writer Diana Zimmerman caught up with her former coach and Mule players. Photos and story by Diana Zimmerman "The difference between winning and losing is so close sometimes, Paul Dretsch said. "There is a lot of luck involved." The Wahkiakum High School girls basketball got its first dose of luck when Dretsch, a football player and wrestler raised in Minnesota, finished his teaching degree at Pacific Lutheran...
On Tuesday, the Wahkiakum Mule baseball and softball teams met long time rivals Naselle in opening day play at home. The Mule baseball team who had been trailing early on, beat the Comets 4-3 in seven innings. Freshman Zach Brown pitched the first three innings, striking out six, and eighth grader James Anderson pitched the final four, striking out eight. Hank Ferguson went 2-2 at bat and and drove in two runs. Brown drove in the other two runs and was 1-2 at bat. Colton Mace went 1-2, Seth...
