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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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June 7 , 2007 Lower Columbia CAP is throwing a summer solstice crab and karaoke party for the community. “It’s a fundraiser for Lower Columbia CAP, but it’s also a way of saying thank you to the community for supporting our work over the past year,” said Alan Rose, CAP’s community relations director. The event is June 22, beginning at 6 p.m., at the Cowlitz Regional Conference Center. Commissioner Dan Cothren, who is a member of the CAP Board of Directors, has helped obtain the crab and oysters and a team of community members have been working...
June 7 , 2007 WSU Wahkiakum County Extension and community volunteers are offering leadership building workshops this summer. The series will be kicking off June 16, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the River Street Meeting Room (25 River Street) in Cathlamet. Community members are invited to enjoy lunch and a one hour workshop on leadership, and a one hour hands-on program on communicating your ideas with new technologies, including digital photography and web blogging. Workshop facilitators are working from the LeadershipPlenty program. This program...
- by Kathleen Morgain June 7 , 2007 No better place--The Fairgrounds packed people in from far and wide for last weekend's Dollars for Scholars event. Nearly 200 show cars graced the grounds while hundreds of participants crowded the grandstand for the Fishing Derby trophy presentations and a live auction. Large events? Hold them here! How 'bout you?--August 16, 17 and 18 will be the time to show off your talent: painting, photography, quilting, canning, garden flowers and vegetables. Share your interests: do you spin, knit or weave? Could you...
June 7 , 2007 The opening of the Julia Butler Hansen Municipal Swimming Pool will be delayed, Cathlamet Mayor Dick Swart announced this week. Swart said the delay is caused by complications encountered in the town’s major cleaning, repair, and painting project at the Greenwood Road water reservoir. "Removing hardened scale and corrosion in the tank’s interior proved to be more time-intensive and costly than expected," Swart said. "Until the work is completed, the tank cannot be filled and the water tested for sanitary compliance. The pool can...
June 7 , 200 Commissioners of Wahkiakum PUD reviewed the process for expanding water systems when they met Tuesday. Residents of two areas of western Wahkiakum County have asked how PUD water can be brought to their areas. PUD Attorney TIm Hanigan reported that a local utility district (LUD) could be formed to finance the extension. A petition including the boundaries of the district and signed by at least 10 percent of the LUD’s residents could be presented. The PUD would then conduct a feasibility study on the district. Alternatively, the P...
June 7 , 2007 June 14 would be Julia Butler Hansen's 100th birthday. Her life impacted every Washingtonian who drives state highways, tribal children who attend schools and Washington State counties who depend on timber trusts for income. Her commitment to highway safety was evident in national highway construction on the Interstates used today. Her commitment to supporting young people is seen in the lives of many leaders in the state today. One young person she brought to work with her in Washington D.C., Tom Doumit, now serves as a...
June 7 , 200 Heirs of the couple who donated the site of the Rosburg School have filed suit to recover ownership of the property. John and Helen Johnson sold the site for $1 to Wahkiakum County in December, 1936, for use as a public park or public school. School District 66 soon built a school on the site, and the facilities were operated by the Naselle-Grays River Valley School District until last summer, when the district, no longer needing the site, returned the property to Wahkiakum County. The suit, filed May 17 by Joy Johnson, Earl...
- by Esther Gregg June 7 , 2007 Grays River Grange traditionally celebrates June as Dairy Month by serving dairy products for refreshments and invite speakers to talk about their dairy projects. This year at the next meeting on June 12 at 7:30 p.m. we'll have a speaker telling us about the efforts to establish an organic dairy, the benefits to the milk user, dairyman and to the environment. We will also have a speaker tell us how, through effective breeding, there can be a reduced incidence of mastitis, which adversely affects the quality and...
Graduation ceremonies are fast approaching for local high school seniors. Wahkiakum High School's commencement is this Friday, 7:30 p.m., in the high school gym. Naselle High School seniors will graduate June 16, 4 p.m. in Lyle Patterson Gymnasium. A baccalaureate ceremony will be held on June 10, 6 p.m., in the Naselle High School Commons. Pastor Rick Ballif of Grays River Valley Bible will preside over the baccalaureate. NHS valedictorian is Cheryl Steppe, and salutatorian is Jamie Bighill. WHS valedictorian will be Matt Doumit, who finishes...
June 7 , 2007 The Board of Directors of St. James Family Center has announced their new Executive Director. Beth Hansen will take over from Carol Carver on June 1. Hansen has worked at the Center for 12 years, and the board was unanimous in appointing her to the new position. "We want to thank her for the years of work and commitment to our community and we look forward to the vision she will bring to the center," said Leigh O'Malley, Board of Directors Chair. Hansen has lived in Cathlamet since 1992 and has been manager of the Charlotte House...
June 7 , 200 Wahkiakum County commissioners approved an updated policy for roadside herbicide application on Tuesday. Public Works Director Pete Ringen said revisions to the policy, which was written in the 1980s, had been in the works for several years, with members of a county Grange committee meeting with him on the policy. The policy tries to limit the amount of herbicide that goes into the environment, and it sets forth workable parameters for herbicide use, he said. Grange committee member Bob Pyle thanked Ringen for his work on the...
June 7 , 200 Managers of the Wahkiakum Family Practice Clinic continue to seek ways to cut costs and enhance revenues, Business Manager Kathleen Patterson said Tuesday. The clinic is facing a $250,000 shortfall this year, and clinic staff and Wahkiakum County officials have been looking for ways to improve the financial health of the county owned clinic. Patterson said she has been on vacation recently but she and staff have been able to analyze two points: —The county made the right decision in choosing to operate under federal rural...
June 7 , 2007 The Columbia Estuary Environmental Education Program (CEEEP) at the Wahkiakum Community Foundation has selected 13 high school students to work on two summer projects in the Cathlamet area. Ten students from Wahkiakum High School and three from the Naselle-Grays River Valley School District were hired. The advanced group of students who have been in the program before include Kris Parke and Brandi Seaberg from Wahkiakum and Jenny Klinger, Rachelle Thomas and Amanda Wilson from Naselle-Grays River. The group will be involved in...
