Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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After watching several volunteer firefighters practice opening doors on a forcible entry prop last Thursday at the District 4 Fire Station, I found out I was going to do it, too. I may have secretly wished I could give it a try, but I didn't really see it coming. I was just there to gather information for a newspaper article and shoot some photos. "It's your turn," Instructor Mike Karvia, who is also assistant chief of Training for the Pacific County Fire Department, said to me shortly after I m...
It's too soon to allow traffic on the Elochoman Valley Road near a slow moving landslide, Wahkiakum County officials decided Tuesday. Officials closed the road two weeks ago after residents in the area heard cracking trees and informed the neighboring property owner who investigated and found large cracks in the ground indicating a massive landslide. Residents of two houses in the path of the slide have evacuated their houses, and the county has erected a gate to block traffic up the road. Timber industry workers have had to use forest roads...
After a few presentations on Tuesday at the meeting of the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners, General Manager Dave Tramblie got a raise, and commissioners agreed to extend the upper end of his salary scale from $10,900 per month to $12,000 per month. PUD linemen Shane Pfenniger and Mark Elliott began the meeting with a presentation on transformers. Around 9 a.m., a delegation from Bonneville Power Administration arrived and talked about seismic and geomagnetic disturbances and how the...
To The Eagle: I am less cynical than I was just a few days ago. While my wife and I were on a trip for medical purposes to a hospital several hundred miles away, one of my young ones called using a cell phone. As a result, I heard first person what was taking place on the highway east of town literally seconds after a major crash [April 19]. What I heard, though frightening, was also encouraging. Apparently rumors have already started to swirl in town that a bunch of teens had engaged in reckless driving. This inaccurate assessment was patently...
To The Eagle: I want to add my comments regarding Mr. Coons, the Wahkiakum county assessor. As did others, I often found him disrespectful and rude. Example 1: I was disconcerted when I noticed a man, whom I did not instantly recognize as Mr. Coons, uninvitedly walking around my house and peeping into windows. In view of the rescued dogs/goats/cattle that roam freely on my fenced land, I informed him of the inadvisability of appearing without notice on my property and stated that with notice, he would have been welcome. He in turn strongly...
To The Eagle: Personally I do not like property taxes! Seems to me like a discriminate tax. That said, I like all the benefits it helps to pay for, schools, sheriff, roads and so on. I don’t really like any taxes, but also know it takes a community bucket to fill, in order to have what we all like. Lately, there has been a piling on, of our County Assessor Coons, bordering on the ugliness, that seems to be a norm these days, sadly! Jesus was scorned for dining with a tax collector, I (not to be confused with Him) would be happy to go to a barbe...
To The Eagle: Good nutrition is essential for effective learning every day, all year long. Just as learning does not end when school lets out, neither does the need for good nutrition. Summer meal programs help children get the nutrition they need to learn, play, and grow throughout the summer months. For the past two years Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church has taken the lead and served meals to kids and adults during the summer months. Initially they worked under the guidelines of the USDA Summer Food Service Program but found that it wasn’t a goo...
To The Eagle: Let’s take Bill Coons’ response to my letter in order: Welcome Slough Boatworks is not a business, it has no tax ID numbers and does not build boats for profit. It is a name with a website only to give credence to the boats I build so non-profits can raise as much money as possible. If I have sold a boat, it was mine personally. Bill Coons knew this and turned me into the Wash. Dept. of Revenue and told me he will let them decide! They investigated and I was cleared of all Bill Coons’ accusations according to Dave S. at the Olymp...
To The Eagle: Tax men are never popular. Just as Bill Coons. But in a state with no personal income tax, communities and public activities too numerous to list depend on taxes assessed on property and businesses. Some of the allegations thrown at Mr. Coons in these pages are outrageous. Last week, he responded to them admirably – which reinforced my sense that he is a dedicated public servant. George Wehrfritz...
The Wahkiakum Blooms made their debut on Main Street this week with Phase I of their downtown beautification project. This project was started last fall with a brainstorming session to put together a strategic plan to encourage visitors to spend more time downtown creating more activity for local businesses. Under the leadership of Donna Beaupre, Kelly Patterson and Alyssa Joiner, other community members were asked to join the committee and offer their input. In January we visited with Nancy...
Volunteers (above and below) organized by the Pioneer Community Association turned out Saturday for a variety of work in the annual Clean Up the Town project. Photos courtesy of Suzanne Holmes....
Wahkiakum County's transit service has slowly grown and expanded since it was formed in 2004, system operators said Tuesday. Wahkiakum on the Move has grown from service three days a week with one bus and two drivers to six days a week with runs between Naselle and Kelso with four buses, three vans and 11 drivers. The service added new routes, including Saturday service, last October, and ridership is growing, program coordinator Camille Goldsmith reported to the board of county commissioners....
WET START--As this week begins, it is taking turns being wet and being sunny. It's hard to do a lot of outside things with the "yo-yo" weather, but it beats the steady downpours we'd been having earlier this month. If forecasters are correct, we should be seeing a stretch of dry days this week, like last week, so here's hoping that nice weather prediction comes true. Last week we got up in the 80s, which is unbelievable for April, so we didn't have a lot of time to adjust from the 40's to the 80's and back down again! Unfortunately, on those...
THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-Noon. TOPS, Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-9 p.m. Girl Scouts, Community Center, Cathlamet, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Cathlamet Fire Dept., 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, work night, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Fire District 2 Commissioners, Skamokawa Fire Hall, 7 p.m. Port District No. 1, 500 2nd St., 5 p.m. Helping Hand Food Bank, Seventh-day Adventist Church, 3 Fern Hill Rd., 10 a.m.-3...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week: Today (Thurday), middle school track at North Beach at 3:30 p.m.; Friday, baseball in Naselle with Clatskanie at 4 p.m.; Saturday, high school track at Centralia Freshman Invite at 9:30 a.m.; Monday, high school fast pitch at Raymond at 3:30 p.m., middle school track at South Bend-Sub League at 3:30 p.m.; Wednesday, fast pitch in Naselle with Winlock at 4 p.m. Go Comets! Congratulations to the Naselle Comet baseball team on their league championship! The Naselle Booster...
The Grays River Valley Center is pleased to announce our new board member Tim Steenerson. The monthly board meetings have been changed to the first Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. All meetings are open to the public. Upcoming events: Cinco De Mayo Dinner - Traditional Mexican dinner with all the extras May 4, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Come and bring a friend. Also coming up is our Father's Day Breakfast. It will be held on June 16 from 7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Mark your calenders. The sewing Room hours are on Tuesday from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Also we...
The National Weather Service in Portland and the Pacific County Emergency Management Agency welcome those with an interest in weather to attend their upcoming training session. On Saturday, May 5 they will hold a weather spotter training class in Long Beach from 9:30 – 11 a.m. The training is free and will be held at the South Pacific County Administration Facility located at 7013 Sandridge Rd in Long Beach. Anyone who wants to become a volunteer weather spotter or those who are already weather spotters and want refresher training are w...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: April 24 — 3:46 p.m. An individual reported a hit and run involving a parked vehicle in Cathlamet. 4:41 p.m. An alarm was activated at the refuge office. 5:06 p.m. A caller reported that several medications, including narcotics, were stolen from her home. She admitted that her door had been unlocked. She said she needed to file a report in order to get a refill. 5:45 p.m. The Puget Island Fire Department r...
The Wahkiakum Lions will be on the street collecting donations to support The Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Sight and Hearing Foundation’s work helping people who need assistance with sight and hearing problems. This year they were able to help over 200 adults receive glasses and 57 people to receive hearing aids. Also KEX has helped seven school age children through their program....
The next Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce Member Meeting will be held Wednesday, May 9 at 8 a.m., at the Duck Inn in Skamokawa. Non-members are welcome to attend. The chamber welcomes anyone who wants to contribute thoughts and ideas for the betterment of the community....
Friends of Skamokawa is currently raising funds for a new coat of paint for Redmen Hall/Central School. There are several change donation boxes in Cathlamet and Skamokawa. In Cathlamet donation boxes are located at Maria’s Restaurant, Daisy Chain Floral, Cathlamet Market, and Sharon’s Pizza Mill. In Skamokawa donation boxes are located at the Skamokawa Store, the Duck Inn, and Redmen Hall/Central School. If you have extra change, they would appreciate your donation. More information is available at www.friendsofskamokawa.org or contact FOS at...
Two-time Democratic Congressional Candidate David McDevitt will hold two Town Hall meetings in Pacific County on Sunday May 6 to hear from folks in the surrounding area about what they want changed in Congress. These meeting times have been changed from their original announcement. McDevitt wants to end business as usual in Washington D.C. and is Putting People First. Top issues he has heard about so far are healthcare, income inequality, Social Security, and jobs. McDevitt's 57th Town Hall will be from 2:00-3:30 p.m., at the Naselle library,...
Ruby Forsberg Satterlund Cargo, age 97, was born in Yankton, Oregon, January, 30 1921 and died April, 17, 2018 at the Community Home Health and Hospice in Longview. Ruby was one of four children born to Swedish immigrants that settled in Yankton. At the age of three, Ruby's father died in a logging accident. The family later moved to Grays River, where Ruby attended school and graduated from Naselle High in 1938. Ruby completed training at the St. Joseph School of Nursing in Seattle in 1942 and...
Carmoreau Hatier, 90, of Skamokawa, died April 17, 2018. He was born in Chicago on July 22, 1928 to Carmoreau and Beatrice (Guittard) Hatier. His father was an army officer in command of a fort near Chicago. They lived in Chicago, then New York City until he was five, when his father was put in charge of the army base in Bagio, the Philippines. They were in Bagio until the onset of WWII when they were shipped to Fort Vancouver. His father was in Army Intelligence and Carmoreau went to Beaumont School in Portland, where the family lived until hi...
William James Karwoski (Bill) of Rosburg, was born on July 13, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois and died March 12, 2018 at OHSU in Portland. He was raised and received his education in Illinois and Missouri where he earned his PhD in Mining and Nuclear Engineering. His career path took him first to Boeing in the Seattle area, followed by the Bureau of Mines in Spokane, Grand Junction, Colorado and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. Bill was a Wahkiakum 4-H Leader, Grays River Habitat Enhancement District board member, Grays River Grange...
