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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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In March, students at Wahkiakum High School will get to experience “The Theatre” when the Seattle Shakespeare Company comes to town. Most of the cost has been covered by a scholarship, but the school still needs to raise $500 as well as provide lodging and meals. “The goal of the Seattle Shakespeare Company is to bring classical theater to rural areas,” said Wahkiakum High School Principal Stephanie Leitz. “The kids are excited. Our English teacher, Audrey Petterson, believes in the importanc...
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team won three more games this week and will finish regular play tonight (Thursday) in the biggest game of the season against the Central League leaders, the Toutle Lake Ducks. The Lady Mules have been looking forward to a rematch with Toutle Lake since the Ducks beat them 45-49 on January 14. A win would bring satisfaction and take the league title away from the Ducks, putting the Mules in first place. The players being honored this Senior Night are Samantha...
Three losses last week took the Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team out of their final bid for post season play this year. Scores and stats are informative and interesting, but numbers aren't always an adequate way to show how much a team or its individuals have grown. Something shifted after the Christmas break and though numbers fail to show it, the boys started to fight and in those moments, they began to shine. Last Wednesday, the team traveled to Morton/White Pass and took a big hit,...
Several teams traveled to Wahkiakum High School for some wrestling last Wednesday. The Wahkiakum Mules wrestling team did well in the mix and match style meet. Luke Stacey won both of his matches, as did Alex Johnson and Trystan Mendez. Trynity Mendez and Mica Kincade represented the girls in one match apiece. They lost. Subregionals/District begins on February 7 in Ocosta....
Students at Julius A. Wendt Elementary School and John C. Thomas Middle School got a treat on Tuesday when the local Washington State University Extension Office and commercial fishermen got together to provide healthy and locally sourced salmon for their lunch. "We want to give the students an opportunity to get a taste of good fish," county Commissioner and fisherman Mike Backman said. "We're hoping to do this once a quarter or maybe once a month. We'll see how it goes and how much fish we...
Local patrons got the chance to handle several different brands of tablets and reading devices last Friday at the Cathlamet Library when representatives from the Washington State Library in Tumwater stopped by with the tech goodies to provide training to library staff and volunteers in the morning and to the general public in the afternoon. "I think it's wonderful that the state bothered to come by a small community like this," local resident Craig Brown said. From 2-4 p.m., Washington State Lib...
Sandy Gros is an 18 year old senior from a town outside of Stuttgart, Germany called Bruchsal. She has already finished her senior year at home but wanted to have an adventure through an exchange program after a friend had a great year in Texas. The only child of a Croatian mother and a Serbian father speaks English comfortably and is adding to her language acquisition by studying Spanish at Wahkiakum High School. One day she may add Croatian to her repertoire as well. She admits she doesn't hav...
Story and photos by Diana Zimmerman There was a shift in the Wahkiakum Mule boys basketball play this week. A new determination has set in and it was in evidence with one win and two hard fought losses. The Wahkiakum Mule boys basketball began to show a little fight in the second half of their game against a very physical Pe Ell team last Wednesday. The Mules came back from a big deficit, pulling within four points, but ultimately lost 52-71. Brandon Budd was back to tricks with 26 points. He...
It was a tough week to face for the Wahkiakum Mule girls basketball team. The Lady Mules sent Winlock and Mossyrock packing this week with 18 and 14 and points to their names, respectively, and on Tuesday, they handed Morton/White Pass a 15-point loss. Last Thursday, with a tough, clean defense and 43 steals, the Mules allowed Winlock only 34 shots, sending the Cardinals to the line just one time. Despite shooting 37 percent, the Mules won easily, 66-18. "They played really good team basketball,...
David Hicks is pretty happy these days, but he almost died to get here. The youngest of eight kids, he grew up on a farm in East Valley. His dad was a manager for Crown Zellerbach and was transferred first to Seaside, then to Vernonia, later Port Angeles, finally returning home in 1974 and commuting to Portland. Except for the final posting, the farm was rented and the family moved with him. "I vividly remember being two or three years old and trying to take the styrofoam surfboard out to the...
The Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors started the new year off without Tim Hanigan, a board member who resigned in December, and spent much of the meeting discussing the declining numbers in boys sports and learning about how plans were progressing for security at the school. “Our community has always supported sports programs,” Garland Budd, a local resident said. Now it looks like there is a danger that the programs will not continue. Have you discussed it? Have you got any pro...
The Wahkiakum County Health Department is opening their doors for family planning again. The health department hasn't provided the services for several years because of reductions in funding, which has now been restored. “We’re reopening the program,” Sue Cameron, Health and Human Services Director said. “It’s not earth shattering. Most communities have them. We are focused on reducing unintended pregnancies for anybody. I realized that people were coming in for pregnancy tests and leaving w...
On Tuesday, Wahkiakum PUD board of commissioners discussed a few of the bills being presented to the Washington state legislature that could directly affect the utility before moving into reports from their attorney, general manager and auditor. “Legislature is in session,” Counsel Tim Hanigan said. "We need to be ever vigilant about bills that are thrown out there at the last minute. Keep your eyes and ears open.” County Commissioner Mike Backman stopped by for a few minutes. “I’m chair of...
If Principal Stephanie Leitz is anyone to go by, administrators and staff are continually striving at Wahkiakum High School to provide students with a quality education and prepare them for what follows. For some students, that includes college. Over the years, Wahkiakum students have been accepted at many institutions of higher learning all over the northwest and beyond. They’ve traveled to Washington State University, the University of Washington, Pacific Lutheran University, the University o...
The Wahkiakum High School girls basketball team quickly put their solitary loss of the season to Toutle Lake behind them last Wednesday and added two more to their win column in the following days, easily beating Adna and Pe Ell. At Toutle Lake, the Mules were ahead of the Ducks 12-6 at the end of the first quarter but found themselves behind by two by the end of the second. The final score was 45-49. "I was fully confident that we were going to beat Toutle Lake," Coach Rob Garrett said. "We...
Last Friday, the Wahkiakum Mule boys basketball team spent much of the evening chasing Adna after being outscored by the Pirates 14 points in the second quarter. The Mules eventually lost 86-58. “We continue to get hurt on the boards on both ends,” Coach Todd Souvenir said. “It resulted in too many second chance points for Adna. Joey (Moore) had a good game on both ends, and hopefully will continue to be a threat on the offensive end in the second half of the season.” Moore led the team with 20...
Art Vik, who will be 100 years old in September, lives in a pleasant little one room house on the southeast side of Puget Island with a plump little Dachshund named Pepe. Large picture windows open up to the Columbia where he can watch the ships pass and try to divine the mysterious patterns in a flock of scaups. "I built this as a garage but I hardly ever used it," Vik said of his cosy home. "I moved it back to the barn to keep my tractors in. I didn't need it so I moved it out here and put it...
Wahkiakum County officials are planning to work with other local agencies and the US Army Corps of Engineers to establish a continuing beach nourishment program for Puget Island. Erosion is again threatening waterfront homes on East Sunny Sands Road, and the Columbia continues to erode the North Welcome Slough Road dike and also along Ohrberg’s Beach. County Commissioner Dan Cothren on Monday described the process to include the areas in the dredged sand disposal sites at a meeting with Sunny S...
The Naselle/Grays River Valley School District will have a replacement maintenance and operations levy on the ballot coming out on January 23. The ballots are due on February 10, and the levy requires a simple majority to pass. “It’s kind of a misnomer that they call it a maintenance and operations levy,” said district Superintendent Lisa Nelson. “To me that implies painting and window washing, but it’s really maintenance of existing programs. Some districts have begun to change the language...
Dentist Dr. Corey Blankenship DDS has started to settle into his new practice vacated by Dr. Douglas Martin DDS at the end of October. Martin and his wife, Jill, spent a long time trying to find the right replacement and finally Blankenship came along. "We'd been looking for someone for about a year," Martin said. "We spoke with several people, but we didn't feel that they had the right ideas in mind for the community so we waited to find the right person. We were looking for someone who wanted...
The Wahkiakum Mule girls basketball team picked up two more wins last week to bring their record to 8-0 in league and 10-0 overall. The regular season recommenced January 7 after a long Christmas break as the Mules faced Onalaska at home and won 65-36. The Loggers came within one in the second quarter but were never able to take advantage as the Mules easily outscored them 17-6 in the third quarter and 15-5 in the fourth. Sam Boyce led scoring with 19 points, followed closely by Baylee Olsen...
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team picked up two more wins last week to bring their record to 8-0 in league and 10-0 overall. Regular season recommenced last Wednesday, January 7, after a long Christmas break as the Mules faced Onalaska at home and won 65-36. The Loggers came within one in the second quarter but were never able to take advantage as the Mules easily outscored them 17-6 in the third quarter and 15-5 in the fourth. Sam Boyce led scoring with 19 points, followed closely by...
With little on the agenda Tuesday, the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners took advantage of the open discussion period to discuss micro hydro, customer transparency and plans to repair two reservoirs in the western Wahkiakum water system. Commissioner Robert Jungers asked if the other commissioners had any interest in promoting private micro hydro development in the district. Micro hydro uses water flow to create hydroelectric power, and much like another renewable resource, solar, can...
The Wahkiakum County Board of Commissioners voted to raise taxes at their December 30 meeting for the first time in 15 years. The board also discussed the ferry project, the fairgrounds and switched leadership roles for the new year. “I don’t see how we can continue to not take that 1 percent a year increase when inflation is running so high and we are continuing to fall behind in our costs,” Commissioner Blair Brady said. “We can take from the road fund, but our roads will go to hell. We know w...
A few years ago a friend asked Shannon Gildea what she wanted to be when she grew up. "I think it would be fun to run a Chamber in a small community," she said. Not too long ago, that friend reminded her of those words and they laughed. Gildea is the new director for the Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce. Gildea grew up as a self described Air Force brat. She started her education at a private school in England and when her family moved back to the states, she was already two years ahead of her...
