Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The fairgrounds in Skamokawa were filled with people and cars as attendance hit an all time high at the ninth annual Rods n Reels event last Saturday. With 333 cars registered, and a few more showing up throughout the day, there was a lot to see. People signed up for raffles and kids were able to take part in the event by catching a fish in a trout pond. “It’s crazy,” Lee Tischer, the event organizer, said. “We had at least 100 more cars registered than last year. It’s a record for us. “We t...
Ralph Rodahl died June 1, 1997. Planners had so underestimated the man and his impact on the community that they held the service in a crowded space at Dowling Funeral Home. Outside in the warm sun that day, many waited to honor him and express their condolences to his family, wife Juanita, and children Randy and Kim. Rodahl was a generous and kind man and it was his vision that gave this small town a golf course. He graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1939, and two of his track and field...
Things are moving along at the Skamokawa Farmstead Creamery. Vicki Allenback and Kyleen Austin have their license now and have begun to sell cheese at the local farmer’s market, which had its opening day on Friday. The dream began a couple years back, when Allenback was still looking to repurpose the fields that had gone fallow on her property just west of Skamokawa. She had begun to build a barn, but she didn’t have a plan. “I’d wanted to do a dairy here for about a year and a half,” Allenback...
Local resident Ginni Callahan used to spend half the year here in Wahkiakum county, but lately the world has been calling and her sojourns have grown shorter. “I’ve had opportunities to live other places,” she’ll tell you, “but this place keeps pulling me back. Here and Mexico. It’s a nice migratory pattern. Those birds and whales can’t be wrong.” A kayak guide, Callahan is a five star sea leader in the British Canoe Union and a level four coach who grew up in an active family on the east coa...
It’s time for 2B State Track and Field in Cheney at Eastern Washington University this weekend and seven students are headed over today to represent Wahkiakum High School. The event will be held May 29-31. It’s a young group with one junior, four sophomores and two freshmen. Sophomore Gunnar Blix is the lone boy on the team and he will be competing in the shot put and discus. Shelbie Abbot, a junior hurdler, will be an alternate for the relay teams, as the girls will be competing in the 4x1...
Veterans and friends gathered at Greenwood Cemetery at 9 a.m. on Monday morning to honor the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice and lost their lives in service to their country. VFW Post Commander Dan Eaton, US Navy, ret., brought attention to the number of flags denoting service that marked the gravestones of Greenwood and other places of rest throughout the county. “It’s humbling,” Eaton said, “to see how many in our county have served.” US Army Lt. Colonel Mike Thomas, ret., spo...
Michael Delavar, a commercial pilot and Republican candidate for Washington’s Third Congressional District spoke to 15-20 people at the Puget Island fire station on May 14 about why he decided to run for office against incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler. “She said she was going to go to DC and cut up the credit cards and then voted to increase the debt limit,” Delavar said. “I think the only way I could see myself voting to increase the debt limit would be if there was a plan in place to phase o...
Jim Roberts and his wife, Sally, haven’t lived in Wahkiakum County all that long, but they love the place and particularly the local music so much that Jim promotes it on the radio. Roberts is almost 71 and a self-professed independent cuss. He grew up in Clark County, graduated from high school and joined the Marine Corps that same year, but was out before Vietnam. “I just rattled around for a while,” Roberts said. “I kind of dropped out. I had a lot of odd jobs and some were odder than others....
Eric Hansen, Wahkiakum High School football coach and teacher at John Thomas Middle School, isn’t exactly sure how long ago it was that local veteran Bob Roche approached him about having students mark the gravestones of local veterans with flags at Greenwood Cemetery for Veterans Day and Memorial Day. “I don’t know if this is the sixth or seventh year,” Hansen said. “It could be eight.” Regardless, it’s been a good experience for the first period class on the chosen day. Usually it’s an eight...
At Tuesday morning’s Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioner’s meeting, Customer Service Representative Lia Sealund brought the commissioners up to date on the lighting rebate program, General Manager Dave Tramblie talked about the Western Wahkiakum Water System and Line Crew Foreman Shane Pfenniger showed off the new infrared camera. In 2008, Sealund helped launch the PUD’s first lighting project. The goal was to begin to phase out incandescent bulbs by distributing a more efficient alter...
Ray Prestegard is a busy man. He’s devoted most of his life to music, and he’s found more than one way to interact with it. Along with performing, he decided to give radio broadcasting a try at KMUN, Coast Community Radio out of Astoria. “I’m an entertainer and a musician, so I’ve always broadcasted,” Prestegard said. “I listened to that old radio station for 20 to 30 years and I just decided to bite the bullet. I wanted to do it for decades.” The Elochoman Valley resident found himself doing a...
Several community members showed up to support the high school golf team at last Thursday’s Wahkiakum School District Board of Director’s meeting after hearing that the school sponsored sport was up for review. This year the Mules baseball team would have had to cancel their season if the school had been unable to get league permission to allow eighth grade boys to turn out for the team. With enrollment on the decline and fewer students showing interest in athletics, the school board has to con...
The Wahkiakum Mule Track team traveled to Ridgefield last Friday to compete in the Spudder Track and Field Classic. An eight point team score put the boys in a 19th place tie and 11 points put the girl’s team in 19th place as well. There were 21 boy’s teams and 20 girl’s teams competing. For the boys, Gunnar Blix placed sixth in the shot put with a throw of 45’3.5” and fourth in the discus with a toss of 138’8”. On the girl’s side, Grace Peacock placed ninth in the 100 meters with a time of...
The Cathlamet VFW Post had contemplated the idea of installing a memorial at Greenwood Cemetery for years but never had the funds to turn the dream into reality. It was the recent loss of a fellow veteran, Gary Huber that spurred members into action this year. “Gary had been talking about the memorial again,” VFW Commander Danny Eaton said, “so we formed a committee.” The memorial is dedicated to all the local men and women who have served in the Armed Forces. The large black basalt stone was do...
Last Friday, a powerful presentation on the effects of impaired driving was given to high school students from the Naselle/Grays River and Wahkiakum school districts. A panel of five people impacted by drunk driving met the students in the Wahkiakum High School gym in the morning and spoke to them about their experiences. Two had been convicted of vehicular manslaughter. They all spoke of what they had lost. “It may be a form of healing for each of them,” said WHS Prevention Specialist Lisa Fri...
Commissioners of Port 1 talked dredging, beavers, moorage and off season rates at last Thursday’s meeting. Josh Adams, who had requested permanent moorage space for the F/V Harmony at an earlier meeting, wondered if he could stay or look elsewhere. “What it comes down to is the waiting list,” Commissioner Bob Kizziar said. “You’d have to get your name on the waiting list and when your name came up we’d put you in.” A $25 dollar fee is required to stay on the waiting list for a permanent sli...
Volunteers at the Community Garden at Erickson Park had their annual plant sale on Saturday. The proceeds allow volunteers to continue to provide fresh fruits and vegetables at area food banks and goes to general upkeep of the garden as well. It was a successful event with a number of customers purchasing everything from wandering onion starts to strawberry plants. There were several master gardeners on hand for anyone who had questions. There was so much stock left when the three hours ended...
In Wahkiakum Mule Track and Field action this past week, sophomore Gunnar Blix traveled to Spokane Valley to compete in the 2014 Strandberg at Central High School. He took ninth in the shot put with a throw of 46’1” and 13th in the discus event with a throw of 119’11”. On Tuesday, the Mules traveled to Ilwaco to compete against five other teams in the Pacific County Invite. The boys came in sixth place with 31 points and the girls placed fourth with 56 points. Nevan Bingham took fifth place in t...
The Wahkiakum Mule baseball team lost two to Morton/White Pass last Thursday in a double header. Zach Brown pitched the first game, which the team lost 0-3. Hank Ferguson and Mason Mackey each hit a single. “Gunnar Blix pitched a good game,” Coach Kyle Hurley said regarding game two, which they lost 4-10. Blix also hit two home runs. He soloed on one and brought two in with the other. Travis Wegdahl’s sacrifice fly brought in another run. The team traveled to Toutle Lake on Monday and split...
The Wahkiakum Mule softball team faced Morton White Pass at home last Thursday and lost two games, but Coach Cindy Fudge had high praise for her team. The Mules dropped the first game 0-15. “I give a lot of credit to these girls,” Fudge said. “They made a valiant effort with three starters out. Shelby Robinson moved from right field to second base, Jem Dyer moved from left field to shortstop, and Morgan Elliott moved from shortstop to catcher. They didn’t complain. All the kids stepped up and...
Wahkiakum PUD General Manager Dave Tramblie gave a report of recent activity, and the board discussed policies at Tuesday morning’s PUD Board of Commissioners meeting. According to Tramblie, a sailboat that ran into a power line on Birnie Slough caused a countywide outage last Friday. Failed insulators had to be replaced after another outage. Employees finally got to the heart of a recurring problem in the Elochoman Valley-Beaver Creek area when they discovered that some of their lines had b...
His youthful appearance and quiet soft spoken manner belie local musician Layton Elliott’s nearly six decades on this planet, his gravelly baritone and mean guitar skills. Elliott really wanted a drum set when he was a young teen. What he got was a guitar from Montgomery Ward. Disappointment quickly turned to fascination. “I remember playing all day long,” Elliott said, “just to learn how to play. I had deep grooves in the ends of my fingers. When they started to bleed, I wrapped them with wh...
On May 13, students from 12 southwest Washington school bands will fill Wahkiakum High School’s gym with a wall of sound in competition and performance in a Mass Band event. This is the first time the event has come to Cathlamet in music teacher Darla Mead’s memory. “We are expecting 260-280 students for the event,” Mead said. With two judges presiding, each band will perform a piece of their own choosing along with another selection that has been chosen from the set list of songs to be perform...
Art was hung in the lobby of the Hotel Cathlamet on Saturday in an event by the Rock ‘n’ Roll Congress to showcase the creativity and talents of local youth. Rock ‘n’ Roll Congress is an after school program organized by mother and daughter duo Martie Vavoudis and Jillian Weiss to provide a fun learning environment for students who want to express their creativity in music and art. All the art was created by Wahkiakum youth, age four to 20. It will remain in the hotel lobby for viewing for the r...
Mule Alumni gathered on Saturday to put on a show for a crowd of supporters in an event organized by Wahkiakum High School student Maya Stanley to raise money for the Lady Mules Basketball team. The red team of Brandon Olsen, Bobby Helms, Aaron Colby, Rob Garrett, Scott Hendrickson, Brian Stanley, Tanner Tramblie and Tyler Heagy faced the boys in black, Shane Kehrli, Eli McElroy, Steven and Steve Doumit, Travis and Ty Bain, David McNally and Troy Howard. The black team beat the red team 92-82...
