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Above, left, members of a local youth basketball team warm up before competing in a tournament last weekend at Thomas Middle School. Coach Garrett Miller filed this report: This last weekend's fourth grade girls basketball tournament was a great success. With close to 100 in attendance both days, and officiated by our top ranked Mule girls basketball team, the fourth grade girls on all teams played their hearts out. After day one action concluded Wahkiakum had gone 3-0 and had earned to top...
Marilyn (Lynn) H. Wilson nee House died January 1, 2019 at the age of 86 in Coronado, Calif., from colon cancer. Lynn was born August 30, 1932 to Millard B. House and Hildur C. House. She grew up in St. Paul, Minn., and married her first husband Thomas P. Rose. They built a home on the St. Croix River in St. Mary's Point, Minn. She owned and operated a chain of women's dress stores, Lynn Rose Fashions, for 26 years in the Twin Cities and western Wisconsin. During that time she was married to Robert T. Wilson. They retired initially to...
Nancy C. Owen, 84, of Castle Rock, died January 2, 2019 at Community Hospice. She was born in Wolf Creek, N. Carolina on August 27, 1934 to John and Etta Shelton. She received a basic education in a one-room schoolhouse and was raised in the Baptist Church. She married Bill Owen on October 11, 1952. In 1961 they moved to Cathlamet where they lived until 1992. While living in Cathlamet, Nancy was a caregiver for many local children and is lovingly remembered by them as a great cook and baker who...
Community Center 101 Main Street Cathlamet 360.795.7870 Monday through Wednesday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday 9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Friday 10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. (2nd Friday book club) Brown Bag Lunch at 11 a.m. After a long and joyous holiday season, our town is coming together to co-create a beautiful 2019 filled with meaningful activities for people of all ages! The center is available to you, so if that means getting involved, challenging yourself to meet new people or learning something new, come and see what is going on. -On January 15th SHIBA...
The Cathlamet Public Library has just received the popular LEGO Mindstorms kit http://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms for youth patrons to use for a limited time. The Mindstorms kits are designed to teach robotics to middle school students and above. Each kit will come with the following equipment: • LEGO Mindstorms Education EV3 Core Set • Laptops with licenses Lego EV3 software • Projector • IR Sensor and IR Beacon/Remote • Extra Ultrasonic Sensor • Assorted extra LEGO accessories and parts. The kit will stay at the library until Saturday, J...
A group of Cathlamet residents have filed petitions to hold recall elections for Mayor Dale Jacobson and Council Members Sue Cameron, Jean Burnham and Ryan Smith. Under Washington law, elected officials may be recalled for misfeasance or malfeasance in office. A recall petition is submitted to the county prosecuting attorney for drafting a ballot title and synopsis, which are delivered to the officers subject to recall and also to the superior court, where a judge will review the petitions to approve the synopsis and to determine the...
To The Eagle: Just saw the latest news that there were over 40,000 deaths last year from guns, more than half were suicides. And this is not an epidemic? Clearly we have to do something to protect our population. Our county commissioners want to try to turn back the referendum that our state recently passed. What do they intend to accomplish with this effort? Is it a good idea just as we see that gun deaths have reached a 40 year high? At the same time as the commissioners tell us they should not make any effort to take steps to combat this...
To The Eagle: Some years ago I heard that there was a baseball player whose annual pay was more than the combined pay of all our U.S. congressmen and senators. At the time I thought that was a terrible comment on our nation’s value system. Now after observing the behavior of our senators and congressmen and many other federal employees for the last couple years, I don’t believe their combined pay should be as high as a second baseman’s. Gilbert Vik Cathlamet...
An equipment failure at a CenturyLink facility Thursday evening in Colorado caused local and nationwide outages to 9-1-1 dispatch centers, long distance telephone service and internet connections. CenturyLink reported the outage about 8:18 p.m. Thursday, and Beau Renfro, Wahkiakum County Emergency Services (EMS) soon joined a nationwide telephone conference call that continued none stop into Friday morning. When it became clear the outage would last some time, EMS personnel sent text and reverse 9-1-1 telephone messages to county residents to...
FIRST COLUMN--Here we are already, writing the first column of a new year! Funny, but it seems like yesterday that I said the same thing, but nope, the year just really flew by and it's already 2019; wow! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Years Eve/Day as well. Beings we had really early deadlines for this week's column, (Dec. 28), I won't know how things truly ended for the next few days, but hopefully, all went well for you and yours! I'll try to catch up with all those happenings next week. FOGGY--I know one thing, it's...
THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. 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. Food Addicts Meeting, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 6-7 p.m. Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Cathlamet Public...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: December 24 — 9:50 a.m. A deputy followed up on a report of abuse at a Cathlamet home. A youth had informed Child Protective Services that his mother had hit him so hard it had left a mark. The child admitted to the deputy that he had lied; the bruise was a result of sports. He had lied because he no longer wished to live at home. The deputy advised the youth of the consequences of making a false statement. 1...
Hobart Leroy Thacker, "Hoby" died at 95, on December 22, 2018 in Longview. He was born on October 30, 1923 in Chandler, Oklahoma to Garrett and Fannie (Leffler) Thacker. He graduated from Barnsdall, Okla. High School in 1942 and attended Community College before joining the US Navy in 1943. He met Clara Doane in Anacortes, WA while serving in the Navy there and they married in December 1944. After his discharge in 1946, they lived in various places before settling in Skamokawa in 1951. He had...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: December 17 — 8:48 a.m. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife was notified after a caller found tracks leading to two deceased deer on Puget Island. 9:59 a.m. A driver was cited for speed. 10:16 a.m. A caller requested a step stool when a person needed assistance getting into a tow truck in Cathlamet. 11:03 a.m. A youth was caught igniting toilet paper at a Cathlamet school. A deputy spoke with the s...
Wahkiakum County commissioners will hold a public hearing Jan. 8 to consider declaring the Johnson House surplus and putting it up for sale. The two-story building, at 80 Division Street, had been used as an extension of Health and Human Services programs. Those programs have moved to the Hope Center, leaving the house unused. Commissioners will decide whether to put the house to other use or to put it up for sale. The public is invited to comment at the hearing, scheduled to start at 10 a.m....
Tickets are on sale for the Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce's 34th annual crab and oyster feed. The event will be held February 16 at the Norse Hall, 444 SR409, on Puget Island. The feed has seatings at 3 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 per person and are on sale at the Bank of the Pacific, Cathlamet Branch. If paying by check, make them payable to Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce, and in the memo write “crab & oyster feed” and which seating is requested. One may also mail payment to The Bank of the Pacific at PO Box 337, Cathlamet, WA 986...
Members of the Cathlamet Town Council wrestled with a proposed code of conduct for meetings, approved their 2019 budget, gave town employees a raise and handled other items of business at their monthly meeting on Monday. Discussion of the resolution for the code of conduct came as item 10 on the agenda, just ahead of item 11, citizen participation. In previous meetings, citizen participation had come after item 6, the consent agenda, and before unfinished and new business. Council Member Sue Cameron had proposed the code of conduct at the...
To The Eagle: I find Council Member Sue Cameron’s “set the record straight” letter to the editor laughable at best and filled with disingenuous “facts.” Her attempts to justify council actions are an insult to the citizens of Cathlamet. I will only comment upon those issues of which I have personal knowledge. Regarding a “Code of Conduct” in which Cameron accuses citizens who comment upon the council’s actions as “toxic, with public members offering unconstructive, inflammatory remarks and personal attacks on council members.” I spoke...
To The Eagle: Thanks so much to all the people who have helped with Cathlamet’s city beautification project this year. I really appreciate the hard work these folks have done, planning, planting, watering and redecorating. The Town of Cathlamet and all who pass through are treated to clean and tidy streets, freshly painted businesses, and best of all, big blue flower pots with gorgeous displays. It’s such a treat to drive through and take in the view of this sweet little village. I’m sure it’s been more inviting for visitors to stop and exp...
Reader Commentary by Bill Wainwright In last week’s Letter to the Editor, town Councilor Sue Cameron illustrates again how tone deaf and deceptive the many narratives issued by our town council have been. Mayor Dale Jacobson and majority of the council have pretty much disregarded the issues voiced by many of our tax paying town residents. It still looks like more of the same. In her letter, Cameron spins a series of half- truths and omissions to justify some of the council’s recent actions, primarily regarding the town’s finances and plann...
After last week's edition went to press, reader commentary writer Sue Cameron requested two changes in her reader commentary. First, she asked for changes to indicate she was speaking for herself and not others. Second, she asked for this ending to be inserted: "Thanks for reading through this. I hope this helps people to understand the facts, not conjecture, nor assumptions. If anyone has more questions or clarifications, they can email me at Cameron@town of Cathlamet.com." These changes were made in the online publication at...
WET AND WINDY--As this week starts, it's a damp one here in West Valley and for most of SW Washington and depending on where you are, you got a little extra rain and some extremely breezy conditions as well. It seems that we're always dealing with weather challenges this time of year, and with a big storm coming in at the beginning of this week, it makes things a little more treacherous for us. Hopefully nothing too serious will happen around here, other than "normal" flooding and a bit of wind, but it helps to be prepared so hopefully...
THURSDAY DEC 20 Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-7:15 p.m. Girl Scouts, Community Center, Cathlamet, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Learn to knit, crochet and mend, Sandra Sews, Community Center, Cathlamet, 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. S.A.I.L., Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, The Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Fire Protection District No. 1...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: December 10 — 10:38 a.m. A caller was concerned that animals were being abused and neglected at a Puget Island residence. 10:51 a.m. An Elochoman Valley resident said that an individual had been stealing power from his pump house and had been asked to leave his property. 11:24 a.m. The county road department was notified when a deceased deer was found along Beaver Creek Road. 1:09 p.m. A caller was c...
River of Life Assembly of God will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross on Friday, January 4 from 1-6 p.m., at 45 Main St, Cathlamet, in their Fellowship Hall. For more information or to make an appointment to donate, call Patti Phillips at 360-795-8821 or sign up online at redcrossblood.org with sponsor code Wahkiakum. “We are committed to strengthening our community and helping meet hospital and patient needs through blood donations,” said Patti Phillips, local blood drive coordinator. “This blood drive is our way of gi...
