Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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On a rainy Saturday afternoon last weekend, Port 2 Manager Janet Bryan and Commissioners Kayrene Gilbertsen and Brian O’Conner gathered with friends and supporters at the newly remodeled County Line Park to celebrate the official grand opening. They greeted visitors, gave tours of the remodeled bathrooms and new shower and introduced the new park hosts, Neenah and Lew Tromley. “The Tromleys have done so much work to clean up and maintain the grounds,” Bryan said with obvious pride. “They...
Dew Noppawat , an exchange student at Wahkiakum High School, has performed in the Mr. Wahkiakum pageant, turned out for basketball and baseball, and made a lot of friends with his quick wit and easy smile, but today this fun 16-year-old from Bangkok, Thailand, is feeling a little shy and a little insecure. “I’ve never done an interview before,” Noppawat admitted. “My heart is pounding.” He apologizes for his English, but it is easy to follow him, despite his claim that he has problem with verb t...
Skamokawa resident Vicki Allenback really wanted a dairy. For a year and a half, she ruminated on this desire, asking friends to join her in the venture. No one was interested. Then one day, she ran into a friend at the post office. This particular friend was often a good sounding board for Vicki and once more, he didn’t let her down. “Oh my God,” he said. “You have to meet Kyleen Austin.” That was in mid-December. Austin, a local musician who lives on Puget Island, was in California at the ti...
Representatives from the Nature Conservancy attended Monday night’s meeting of the Wahkiakum Marine Resource Committee in a continuing effort to gather input for Washington Marine Spatial Planning. Kara Cardinal, a marine project manager and Katie Wrubel, who is on a fellowship with the Nature Conservancy, reviewed the project for the MRC and led the workshop. The two will add local input to the information they have already received from the Pacific County, Grays Harbor County and North Pacific...
The Wahkiakum Mule Track and Field team traveled to Napavine last Thursday and joined five other teams for a 2B league meet. The boys’ team earned 30 points and came in sixth place. The girls earned 59 points and came in third. Senior Austin Burns placed third in the 200 meters with a time of 25.73. Sophomore Carl Kolditz took fifth in both the 800 meters with a time of 2:36.65 and the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 20.16. The team of Burns, Kolditz, Nevan Bingham and Ryan Quigley took f...
The Mules baseball team split a doubleheader with Pe Ell at home on Friday. They won their first game 1-0. “Gunnar Blix pitched a complete game,” said Coach Kyle Hurley, “with two hits, seven strike outs and no earned runs. It was a fabulous game with some great pitching and great defense. It was just an all around great team effort.” The Mules lost the second game 6-2. Pitcher Zach Brown gave up a couple walks and four earned runs. Mason Mackey and Blix both had hits and Cody Terpsma had two...
Plagued by errors, the Wahkiakum Lady Mule softball team lost two games in a double header at home against Pe Ell last week. “It wasn’t pretty,” Coach Cindy Fudge admitted. The Mules lost the first game 24-0 with Tori Wegdahl at the mound and Sam Boyce behind home plate. The second game ended with a 24-2 loss. “There were a few bright moments in game two,” Fudge said. “Boyce hit a triple and Wegdahl hit well, too. Makinzi Anderson did a great job behind the plate.” “Even though we were out of...
Technological education has become a regular part of the curriculum at Wahkiakum High School as teachers hope to give their students a leg up as they transition from their studies to join the workforce or continue on to higher education. Most of the students have excellent keyboarding skills long before they reach ninth grade. In high school, they will take classes that meet occupational education requirements and learn science through application, which introduces them to programming,...
The Wahkiakum School District’s Board of Directors learned that the accreditation process was going well at April's meeting on Tuesday. After interviews with students, teachers and parents and surveying the classrooms, Advanced Ed, who provided the review, recommended that the district should be fully accredited, according to Wahkiakum High School Principal Stephanie Leitz. “Now we are just waiting for the commission who grants accreditation to make their decision, which they do every June and...
The Mules Baseball team took on Quinalt at home in a double header on Friday and won both games. The Mules easily won the first game 13-2 with Gunnar Blix at the mound for all five innings. He struck out 12 and allowed two runs. On offense, Travis Wegdahl went 1-2, hitting a double and bringing in two runs. Blix was 1-3 with a double and two RBIs. Zach Brown went 2-2 and Seth Doumit hit a single and brought in two runs with a sacrifice. Both Cody Terpsma and Chuck Barton were 1-3 at bat and...
Wahkiakum High School sophomore athlete Gunnar Blix traveled to Poulsbo to compete in the Lil’ Norway Invitational track and field meet on Saturday at North Kitsap High School. Blix placed second in the shot put with a throw of 45’6” and fourth in the discus with a throw of 125’9”. He earned 13 points, putting the Mules in 11th place out of 13 teams. The Wahkiakum Mule track team travels to Napvine today (Thursday) to compete in Central League 2B meet....
Representatives from Pacific County PUD attended Tuesday morning’s Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting to share their experience and knowledge in setting up a telecom system. Pacific County PUD has two offices, one in Long Beach and the other in Raymond. Initially, they needed a connection that would give both offices access to information in real time. They turned to fiber optics, eventually extending the infrastructure to each of their 10 substations. With the excess c...
With dredging in mind, the Port District 1 commissioners passed a motion for Port Manager Jackie Lea to begin the bid process for obtaining core samples in the marina, slough and Cathlamet Channel last Thursday. Sonar readings requested in June had finally arrived, held up by calibration problems in the equipment used by the surveyors. Commissioner Bob Kizziar shared that he had spoken with a couple congressmen and a senator’s aide at meetings he had recently attended. He related his concerns a...
Former Mayor Dick Swart and his wife Dixie live in a house on the hill. They used to have three normal cats and an odd one named George. George lived to the ripe old age of 26 and would proudly preen while his veterinarian paraded students past the perfect specimen of Felis Catus. But this story isn’t about George. It’s about a love for trains and friends and history and art. The house was built in the mid-thirties, this much they know. They have a copy of the building plans, but it can’t be au...
The Wahkiakum Mules hosted their only home track and field event of the year last Thurseday. For the boys, Austin Burns took third in the 100 meters with a time of 11.95, and Nevan Bingham came in fifth with a time of 12.22. Burns also took third in the 200 meters clocking in at 25.51. In the 110 meter hurdles, Carl Kolditz finished third with a time of 20.15. Kolditz also placed fifth in the triple jump with a distance of 29’3”. Ethan Cothren came in fifth place in the shot put, tossing it 36...
A panel of representatives from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) met with locals last Wednesday to give an update on their work to diagnose the disease that is causing hoof rot in populations of Willapa and Mount St. Helen’s elk. The agency’s review was met with frustration, skepticism and fear that too little was being done and too many healthy elk would pay the price of current management decisions. According to Sandra Jonker, a regional wildlife manager for the WDFW, five...
The parking lot and camping grounds were full at the Cathlamet Marina as more than 80 people signed up to compete in last weekend’s second annual Hook the Hawg Derby sponsored by the Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce. Six individuals came away with prizes, which included four poles handmade by Cathlamet dentist Dr. Doug Martin. A second cash prize of $100 was added after two people tied for fifth place. “It was nice to see more locals involved this year,” Ashley Turner of the Chamber of Comme...
The Wahkiakum Mule track season continues today (Thursday) with its only home meet at 3:30 at the high school track and field. Last Thursday, the Mules traveled to Onalaska for a 2B league meet with three other schools. Both the girls and boys team placed fourth, the girls with 88 points and the boys with 51.5 points. For the boys, Nevan Bingham took fourth in the 200 meters with a time of 26.40 seconds and fifth in the 400 meters with a time of 1:02.38. Carl Kolditz took second in the 110...
The Lady Mules softball team played at home on Tuesday and lost twice in a double header with Onalaska. They lost the first game 3-20 and the second 9-19, but played “better than it sounded,” according to Coach Cindy Fudge. Sam Boyce, Tori Wegdahl and Madison LaBerge all hit singles in the first game. Megan Perez hit a double. “Boyce stood out defensively at short stop,” Fudge said, “and Tori put in a great effort at the mound.” The teams were tied in the fourth inning of the second game, but O...
Wahkiakum High School's first-year, "greenhand," vocational agriculture students earned several awards in recent competition and qualified for state competition. L-r are, front, Mya Kirzy, Makenzie Anderson and Jack Leavitt, and back, Katie Johnson, Peyton Souvenir, Tawny Felton, Shona Heywood, Alex Mellis, Tarah Wisner, and Shelbie Robinson....
L-r, Wahkiakum High School vocational agriculture students Chase Grasseth, Gunnar Blix and Greg Martin placed second in a welding competition involving 12 other teams....
Red tape in the form of a moratorium will only slow Shane Kehrli and Chris Bianchi who are in the process of setting up a legal marijuana grow operation in Wahkiakum County. Kehrli grew up in Cathlamet, and Bianchi followed his family here a few years ago after his mother fell and hurt a hip while working on their property. The two young men met over baseball and soon discovered that they shared a common vocation, being involved in providing medical marijuana. Kehrli knew even then that things...
The Western Wahkiakum Water System was the hot topic at Tuesday’s Wahkiakum PUD Board of Commissioners meeting. According to a report prepared by Manager Dave Tramblie, the average monthly bill for ratepayers on the Westend is about $65. “To increase that is definitely a hardship on some of those people,” Commissioner Dennis Reid said. Commissioner Gene Healy agreed and pointed out that the rates have been the highest in the state for some time. According to Tramblie the $6,000 inventory allot...
This sweet faced kid is a drummer in a punk rock band at home in Seoul, South Korea. The band is called Zesture and he started it with his friends when they were in middle school. Now 16, Kyou Heon Kim is enjoying his first trip to the U.S. and he’s already certain it won’t be his last. “I wanted to learn about a different culture and experience a different education system,” Kim said. “Everything is very free in the U.S. At home, teachers tell you what to do and you do it. If you want to m...
Lonnie Ray and Audrey Chavis, residents of Rosburg and subjects of a multi-state search, were finally located on March 28 in Hurricane, Utah. The couple was normally communicative with their church family, landlord and employer. They were last seen on February 27 leaving their home with their dog. The unusual silence, empty home and a paycheck that waited for Lonnie at work sounded an alarm. The Chavises were relatively new to the community and lived here for three years. The closest family memb...
