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Development of a program to deposit dredge spoils on eroding county beaches continues to move slowly in the offices of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Wahkiakum County officials are working with residents of Puget Island and the Cape Horn areas to set up a 10-year program that will allow dredgers to deposit spoils on the eroding beaches. Each week residents attend meetings of the board of commissioners for updates. On Tuesday, Commissioner Dan Cothren said he had spoken with Karla Ellis, the Corps staff member in charge of the process. He had...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the remainder of this week: today (Thursday), high school track at Ilwaco at 3:30 p.m.; Friday, high school softball at Seaside (double header) at 4 p.m. Go Comets! Westend news: The next blood drive is fast approaching in the Valley Bible Church. It is scheduled for Tuesday, the 12th, from noon to 6 p.m. You can get more information by calling Susan Burkhalter or schedule an appointment by going to the Red Cross site. This event is always a fun time where you can provide a lifesaving gift and enjoy...
There's a lot of work to do. Wahkiakum County officials and members of the Johnson Park Board of Directors toured the Grays River Valley Center in Rosburg on Tuesday to see the condition and needs of the facility and to get a start on rebuilding the center's board of directors, which now has only three members. The center is housed in the old Rosburg School. The county acquired the grounds and building when the Naselle/Grays River Valley School District declared them surplus to its needs....
Naselle Comet sports calendar for the coming week includes: Thursday, high school track at Ilwaco at 3:30 pm.; Friday, high school softball at Seaside at 4 p.m. Go Comets! Students will be on Spring Break next week and will return to classes on Monday, the 11th. Have a safe and enjoyable week. Mark your calendar for the annual Spring Chicken Dinner sponsored by the Rosburg Community Club. This year’s event will be held on April 3 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Rosburg Hall. Enjoy the baked chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, hot rolls, s...
The Cathlamet Town Council added two new members last Monday evening. Two spots were unclaimed in last year's elections, and they've remained empty ever since. Filling the positions are Bernadette Goodroe, widow of former Councilmember David Goodroe, who died last fall, and Sue Cameron, director of Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services. Cameron commented that she has been a county commissioner in Tillamook County Oregon, and would recuse herself in votes that might involve county business t...
by Rick Nelson Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday rejected a distance waiver request that would have allowed the establishment of a marijuana store in Rosburg. Kathleen M. Nelson of Kelso had requested the waiver. She owns recreational marijuana businesses in Kelso and Longview. She said she wants to re-open the Rosburg Store. She would operate it as a convenience store, including gas sales, and also have a small section for sale of marijuana. "We have invested $25,000 into a priority one license and have made arrangements to purchase...
Wahkiakum County officials on Tuesday set the amount and time limit for tax assessments for property in the county's flood control zone districts. The prosecuting attorney's office will develop a resolution to establish the rates formally, and the board will action it at a future meeting. Assessor Bill Coons said to raise the targeted $81,000 needed to cover permitting expenses for current beach nourishment work projects, the county will need to assess a rates per acre and per building improvement value. The average assessment will be $717,...
A 4-H club has offered to take the lead in promoting recycling for Wahkiakum County. The Wahkiakum County 4-H Robotics Club appeared before the board of commissioners Tuesday and offered to help with the challenges to the county's recycling program. The club offered to paint bins and install educational signs on them to help people learn what can and cannot be recycled. They would also undertake an educational campaign in schools and a website with information. Commissionrrs were happy to have the offer. "We can come up with some paint and...
News from Naselle Sports calendar for the coming week with the Naselle Comet teams: Today (Thursday), high school track in Naselle at 3:30 p.m., high school baseball at Astoria JV Tourney at 5:30 p.m.; Friday, high school softball with Winlock in Naselle at 3 p.m., high school baseball at Astoria at 3 p.m.; Monday, high school softball at Quinault at 4 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school track at Ocosta at 3:30 p.m. Go Comets! Grab your kiddos, their Easter baskets, and head on over to the Naselle football field for the annual ESA Alpha Theta...
Wahkiakum County commissioners will visit the Grays River Valley Center at Johnson Park, Rosburg, next Tuesday. The board doesn't normally meet on a fifth Tuesday, but acknowledging a need to help the facility's board of directors reform, they decided on Tuesday to recess this week's meeting and reconvene next Tuesday in Rosburg to tour the facility. Volunteers from the community operate the facility, but recent resignations have decimated the board of directors. The commission is looking for people to join the board. "We have had some...
Administrators of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife visited Wahkiakum County commissioners and citizens Tuesday and left with an ear full of comments on salmon allocations and elk hoof rot. Director Jim Unsworth and Regional Director Guy Norman spent over two hours discussing the issues with commissioners and Wahkiakum residents. They left with a better understanding of local views on the issues, and they left participants with a better understanding of the department's approach to...
OLYMPIA—When Logan Bowers opened his marijuana retail store Seattle Hashtag in April 2015, he entered an arena far different from his tech-industry background. Bowers, co-owner of Hashtag and president of the Cannabis Organization of Retail Establishments (CORE), had the same task as other marijuana license holders in the state: bring an industry relegated to street corners and sidewalks into a legal and regulated retail environment. “We get a lot of local traffic,” Bowers said. “A lot of folks kind of walking by who are like, ‘What’s...
Wahkiakum County commissioners covered lots of ground at their early meeting Tuesday, ranging from approving a settlement with the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) to reporting on lobbying efforts in the state legislative session. The board approved an agreement to a reduced financial penalty for a citation for improper life preservers on the ferry Oscar B. Public Works Director Chuck Beyer reported an L&I inspector visited the ferry last October and issued a $9,600 penalty because the deckhand wasn't wearing a highly visible personal...
Jp Rowan, the organizer of the Cathlamet Downhill Corral Longboard Festival, has announced that he will not hold the festival this year. The festival has brought hundreds, if not over 1,000, spectators and competitors to Cathlamet each August since 2009 for some exciting events. Here is his announcement as posted on Facebook and some of the following comments: “To my skate family, I have an announcement to make: “After a lot of deliberation I have decided I will not be hosting the PDX Switchbacks Series nor the Cathlamet Downhill Corral Lon...
My apologies for the shortness of this column this week as it is being composed in my husband’s hospital room in CCU. Hopefully we will be home when everyone reads it. The Third Annual Community In-Door Super Sale is a fundraising event for the Grays River Valley Center at Johnson Park in Rosburg, and will take place on March 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The center serves as a learning and activity center for Wahkiakum County as well as the surrounding areas. It has many free resources for the community: a computer lab and lending library (free t...
The Grays River Valley Center at Johnson Park in Rosburg may be headed for closure. Concerned about resignations from the center's board of directors, Wahkiakum County commissioners have scheduled a town hall meeting next Tuesday at the center to talk about the situation and recruit new board members. The president, vice-president and secretary/treasurer have resigned, and that's impairing the board's ability to pay the center's bills and handle the day to day chores needed to keep the center open. "There have been a number of resignations of...
Wahkiakum High School's Key Club is sponsoring a week-long drive to raise funds for Doernbecher Children's Hospital. Key Club is the high school age club associated with Kiwanis Clubs International, a service organization focusing on children. The Key Club is taking part in a fund raising program called Kids Making Miracles. Middle and high schools collect funds which benefit the hospital's services for children. Club members have announced a schedule of events to raise funds; the public is invited to participate in some of them, including:...
If you haven’t driven through Grays River to Rosburg lately, you are really missing a beautiful sight. The trees are filled with eagles and seagulls are flying in huge flocks up and down the river and settling in all the hay fields. In a couple of fields, it looks almost like it snowed seagulls. The smelt are definitely here. News from Naselle: Congratulations on a fantastic basketball season for both the boys and girls Comet teams. You did an outstanding job this year. Westend news The 3rd Annual Community In-door Super Sale will be held on M...
In the hurry up and wait process needed to establish dredged sand disposal sites, residents of the Cape Horn neighborhood took a step forward Tuesday when Wahkiakum County commissioners passed a resolution to set them up as flood control zone district. The board's unanimous vote drew applause from the eight or nine area residents in attendance. The maneuver means that the residents will have legal standing for contracting with entities such as private consulting firms and the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the district can be taxed to provide...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday authorized funding for initial studies for a potential housing project at Cathlamet. County Mental Health Director Chris Holmes requested authorization to spend up to $10,000 on two studies whose findings could determine whether or not the county buys the site proposed for the development. One study will assess wetlands on the site; the other analyze potential traffic impacts. "We need these studies to be able to move forward with a recommendation to purchase the land," Holmes said Tuesday. The...
Spring is definitely in the air. The daffodils are in massive bloom, trees are beginning to bud out, eagles are practically running into each other as they fly over the Grays River or land in the trees fishing for the smelt, and so, too, the sea gulls near Burkhalter’s fields in Rosburg. Baby calves are bouncing around in the pastures all along the highway. New life everywhere. I love Spring. News from Naselle: Students will be out of school on Wednesday, March 2 through Friday, March 4 for the mid-winter break. On a high note, the Naselle C...
The Cathlamet Town Council on Tuesday reviewed progress on a variety of fronts, including upgrading the town water plant. The plant's intake from the Elochoman River has limited capacity, and the state Department of Health has threatened to impose a moratorium on new connections unless the town improves the intake. Public Works Director Duncan Cruickshank reported favorable progress after a meeting with a representative of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to review potential project plans. Water comes into the plant from a...
Commissioners of Port District 2 worked through a light agenda when they held their monthly meeting Tuesday at the office in Skamokawa Vista Park. Manager Janet Bryan reported the US Army Corps of Engineers has informed her that there will be no deposit of dredge spoils at Vista Park this year. The port sells sand to contractors and road builders, and much of the sand previously deposited has been sold. "I'm not sure how much more sand we can sell out of there," she said. In response to a question from Pleasant Point resident Jon Peterson,...
Wahkiakum County commissioners modified a proposed flood control zone district for the Cape Horn area on Tuesday and set the stage for final action next week. Responding to requests from residents at the downstream end of the proposed zone, commissioners agreed to shorten the zone and leave out some properties that have rock and riprap waterfront. At a public hearing last week, some of the owners said they weren't experiencing erosion like their neighbors upstream. Wanting to evaluate the situation on the shoreline, commissioners had tabled...
News from Naselle: Come celebrate Chinese New Year, the Year of the Monkey with members of the Chinese Mandarin Immersion program of Naselle, and all your friends and neighbors. The event will be held in the Grays River Valley Center at Johnson Park (the old Rosburg School in Rosburg), this Saturday, February 20, 4-8 p.m. During the evening celebration you will be treated to a traditional Chinese Dinner served buffet style, a silent auction, traditional Chinese New Year games, art activities, and end the celebration with the Lion Dance...
