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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: February 19 — 7:35 p.m. A caller complained about a large fire, and said that someone burning garbage at a Puget Island property was an ongoing problem. Deputies and the Puget Island Fire Department responded. 10:53 p.m. A structure fire was reported on Puget Island. The Puget Island Fire Department, the Cathlamet Fire Department, the Cathlamet ambulance and deputies responded. February 20 — 12:01 a.m. The...
Photo of the Week: Bob Burkhalter is seen with a banner when he won his Scholastic Sportsmanship Award. Look at that smile. It's been one of the best smiles in Grays River for many years. Bob is well known to older folks who attended the Rosburg Grade School where he taught for many years. A loving man and a good neighbor, Bob will be deeply missed. A good teacher and committed farmer, he has always been a wonderful role model for kids. Here is the announcement from his family: "It's with heavy...
Obituaries July 28, 1964 – January 22, 2022 Lesa Wiborg (née Burns) was born at St. John's Hospital in Longview, Washington, on July 28, 1964, to Donna and LeRoy Burns. She grew up with her older brother, Les Burns, and her parents in Cathlamet, Washington, in the Elochoman Valley on the Elochoman River. Lesa attended Wahkiakum High School where she was a cheerleader, a gifted piano player, and a top student, eventually graduating as salutatorian in 1983. She was a woman who aspired to a wi...
Thelma Marie Miller, 80, of Deep River, died January 30 at her home of 55 years. She was born in Cathlamet September 30, 1941 to Ivan and Mildred (Lindgren) Jones. She graduated from Naselle High School in 1959 and attended Business College in Portland, Oregon. On August 27, 1961 she married Bob Miller at the Naselle Congregational Church. After raising her children she went to work at Okie’s Market in Naselle in 1980. She worked there for 20 years and loved her job as produce manager. Thelma loved Christmas, her cookie jar collection, d...
Local teens are meeting weekly to teach a variety of technical and computer skills to adults in Cathlamet and Naselle. Lydia and Ruth Blalock, Grace Hunt, and Micah Johnson are Wahkiakum 4-H members who are part of a national 4-H program called 4-H Tech Changemakers. 4-H Tech Changemakers are 4-H members who deliver a variety of technical workshops in rural communities across the U.S., on topics like internet safety, video conferencing, and password security. At each workshop, youth teach short lessons and offer one-on-one support for questions...
Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West on February 28 announced the opening of two Disaster Loan Outreach Centers in Wahkiakum County to help meet the needs of businesses and individuals who were affected by winter weather and flooding that occurred Jan. 5-16, 2022. “SBA customer service representatives will be on hand to answer questions about SBA’s disaster loan program, explain the application process and help each individual complete their electronic loan appli...
By Diana Zimmerman Mayor David Olson welcomed citizens to a birthday celebration last Friday, marking 115 years of the incorporation of the Town of Cathlamet. There were speeches from the former Mayor, Dale Jacobson, Washington State Representative Joel McEntire, Wahkiakum County Commissioner Gene Strong, and Wahkiakum School District Superintendent Brent Freeman. Dayle Olson read a poem she had written for the occasion; a new town flag was raised, and cake was served. Hail, Cathlamet! A pretty...
The Cathlamet Town Council on Tuesday reviewed plans for development of a waterfront park and found a way to reduce a property owner's utility bills while a residence is remodeled. Council members and park design consultant Audrey West reviewed the latest iteration of park design and went over the planned phases for construction. The phases of construction, said Mayor David Olson, would be financed largely by grants. The first phase, West said, to take place this year, is to complete filling of the former sewer lagoon and install sewer and...
To The Eagle: To be led at this time by the weaklings and cowards in our national administration is truly a frightening reality and something to behold. Biden is a weak and failing man. He is a longtime front man for his family and associates. He and his family have made fortunes from his efforts through the years. He is a liar and a thief. And yet now we see his failing is leading us to Russian aggression, Chinese aggression and permitting Iran’s acquisition of the nuclear bomb. Our cities are falling apart. We are being invaded by the m...
To The Eagle: Once and yet again my recent letter was misinterpreted and rather than used as a starting point to actually learn something was turned into a pimple popping, well, I'm not even sure what the writer was trying to impart. Most of what I got was that he thinks he knows more about women and pregnancy than they do. Fascinating. Maybe he thinks the rapist or man causing the incestuous attack should be reminded to use a condom? Hard to tell as there was obviously no real thought put into his missive. To further his education may I add...
To The Eagle: I am saddened to see a free country like Canada suffer the horror that is Trudeau's dictatorship over vaccine mandates that are being ordered at the tail end of the covid pandemic and not really needed according to those scientists that are educated about these viruses. I tell you this, if you ask could it happen here in the USA, I reply were it not for our Supreme Court knocking down the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate not only could it have happened but may well have happened. Think about it, would you trust Inslee or B...
On February 17, Steve Lewis, center, was presented the VFW Public Servant EMT Award by local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5297 Commander Bill Tawater, left, and Bob Roche, right. According to Cathlamet Fire Department EMS Battalion Chief Jodie Mason, Lewis has been one of the top responders for multiple years in a row. He is extremely well known in the community. His wealth of experience in the EMT field, his attitude to volunteerism and a passion to care for people make him uniquely qualified...
The cumulative number of covid-19 cases rose to 306 this week after three new cases were reported. Of those, seven are considered potentially active. In the county, the number of reported hospitalizations rose to 25, and the number of deaths attributed to covid-19 stands at five. The number of patients being treated for covid-19 at St. John Hospital was down to 12 on Tuesday. “Covid cases continue to decline around us and in Washington State as a whole,” Wahkiakum Health and Human Services Dir...
Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to Washington businesses and residents affected by the winter weather and flooding that occurred from Jan. 5-16, 2022, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. SBA acted under its own authority to declare a disaster in response to a request SBA received from Gov. Jay Inslee on Feb. 14, 2022. The disaster declaration makes SBA assistance available in Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Pacific, Pierce, Skamania, Thurston, Wahkiakum and Yakima counties...
THURSDAY Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments Board, Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/85384771854? pwd=VnREclJtZXRpbXAzd3JmZDFSMktvUT09. ID: 8538477 1854 Passcode: 888188, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire/ambulance, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Planning Commission, Courthouse, 6 p.m. Wahkiakum Commissioners, Courthouse, 9:30 p.m. Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. Eastside Play & Learn Group, St. James...
Peyton Souvenir, a 2017 graduate of Wahkiakum High School, has been accepted to the University of Oregon School of Law. She was awarded a full-tuition Merit scholarship valued at approximately $50,000 a year for three years, for which she will have to maintain a 2.5 cumulative GPA. Peyton graduated from Lewis and Clark State College in 2021 with a major in English and a dual minor in Spanish and Pre-Law, while playing basketball for the LCSC Warriors. Peyton is the daughter of Todd and Kristen...
Former Cathlamet resident Cecelia Marie Barr died February 6, 2022, just days before her 104th birthday. She was born February 11, 1918 in Portland, Ore., and was one of four children born to Kolman and Clementine Nissl. Cecelia spent her early years in Gaston and Carlton, Ore. Her family eventually moved to McMinnville, Ore., and Cecelia graduated from McMinnville H.S. in 1936. After graduation, she moved to Portland, Ore., where family and friends lived. She worked at several Portland firms...
Bruce Moore, 78, affectionately known as Bubba, died on February 10th in Longview. Bruce was born on February 9, 1944 in Tulare California, the only child of LaVerne and Leota (Morris) Moore. He grew up there and graduated from Tulare High in 1962. Bruce joined the US Air Force where he spent four years. He was proud of the work he did as an Aero Medical Specialist helping rescue and save lives in Vietnam. Upon return he attended The College of the Sequoias in Visalia for two years. On July 4, 1964 he married Patricia Burnett whom he was...
A limited number of free Covid-19 test kits are available at Cathlamet Public Library during open hours, Tuesdays through Saturdays, 2-5 p.m., starting Friday, February 18. Kit boxes contain two tests, and there is a limit of two boxes per person. If you suspect that you are ill or have symptoms, phone ahead (360-795-3254) and kits will be placed on the table outside the library in a plain envelope (or plastic bag if it is raining) when you knock on the door. Or you may send a friend to pick up your test kit. As a reminder, people who enter...
Librarian Carol Blix announced that the Washington State Library (WSL) has awarded a series of Take & Make STEAM Kits to Cathlamet Public Library. The purpose of this program is to support STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Math) literacy in smaller communities with the kits and books made available for checkout through the Anytime library. These have been made available to public libraries that serve communities under 10,000 inhabitants, as well as tribal libraries (regardless of population). These kits provide children and their...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: February 13 — 7:11 p.m. A caller reported a car off the eastbound shoulder of SR 4 just west of County Line Park, with headlights flashing and the horn honking. 11:31 p.m. A deputy reported that he was speaking with two pedestrians, a man and a woman, walking along SR 4 about a mile west of County Line Park. After the deputy advised dispatch that they were suspects in a crime, there was an altercation with o...
Cathlamet Public Works Department closed the Butler Street parking lot Tuesday for a geotechnical inspection of the ground. The crew dug two small 5-foot-deep trenches for evaluation. Public Works Superintendent David McNally said the lot would be opened after the trenches were filled. The lot will eventually be developed for paved parking, an electronic vehicle charging station, and visitor's kiosk. Photo by Rick Nelson....
To The Eagle: I’ve got to tell you that some people tend to put abortion into two simple categories, one being pro-choice people and the other they seem to think are just religious zealots. Well there is a third group of which I am a charter member. The one that doesn't like seeing one of their own kind being ruthlessly murdered because two people were too stupid or lazy to use contraceptives if they didn't want a baby. In a letter last week a writer referred to the unborn as a blastocyst, a fetus, and an embryo. I guess you need to refer to an...
To The Eagle: I like good news, and covid-19 good news is always welcome. WA State reached 72.8% fully vaccinated, exceeding their stated 70% vaccination goal to obtain herd immunity. Wahkiakum has 301 PCR confirmed cases. Washington University says 60% of Covid cases are unreported. In Wahkiakum it means 301(40%) + 451(60%) = 752(100%) total cases, and these folks now have natural covid nucleocapsid protein antibodies from their infection. FDA Approved SpikeVax for ages 18+, joining FDA Approved Comirnaty for ages 16+. FDA website shows Modern...
After a lifetime of service, Bob and Esther Roche are being honored by the Cathlamet Woman's Club, having been named Citizens of the Year. The pair are defined by citizenship. They seem tirelessly willing to step into leadership roles, help members of the community when they see a need, and just simply get some really great things done. While they may be driven by concern for others, it's also very clear how very happy and fulfilled they are with all the volunteering, the hobbies, the time outsi...
