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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Nearly 30 volunteers showed up to help with the first Tidy the Town event, sponsored by the Pioneer Community Association. Several of the people who gave up their Saturday morning in service were new to the area. The volunteers cleaned up the trail near the Elochoman Marina and Strong Park, they weeded sidewalks in downtown Cathlamet and up Columbia Street. "I was pleased with the turnout," Event Organizer Suzanne Holmes said, echoing comments by PCA President Kay Cochran and Treasurer Jennifer...
The Wahkiakum Mules volleyball team split games this week losing in Kalama and beating Pe Ell at home. Last Thursday, the team lost to the Chinooks in Kalama, 13-25, 16-25, and 20-25. "Coming into this week against two really tough teams we knew it was going to take a lot of hard work and discipline to be successful," Coach Kayli Hurley said. "We didn't play terribly, and in fact, did some really good things. It just wasn't quite enough." "RayAnna Carlon had a great game with seven kills,"...
Trinity Klecker, 15, started racing stand up jet skis in April. Now she is ranked sixth in the world in women's competition. At that same event, the IJSBA World Finals at Lake Havasu, she also took 10th place in the world competing against grown men on a stock jet ski. She is frequently competing against people with faster jet skis. And beating them. Trinity was initially considered a junior, which is the class for 13-15 year olds, but she was good enough that officials agreed to move her up to...
The Cathlamet town council on Monday took initial steps to raise water and sewer rates for customers of its utilities. The council is reacting to reports from an accountant and town staff who have stated that current rates aren't high enough to keep the two systems solvent. Rates are set in ordinances, and the council voted to approve for first reading an ordinance temporarily increasing water rates 10 percent and sewer rates 20 percent. The ordinance must be approved at two council meetings; the second approval should come at the council's...
People will be able to dispose of unused or expired medications this Saturday in Cathlamet. Members of the Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s Office and Wahkiakum Community Network will collect the medications from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday in the Cathlamet Pharmacy parking lot. The collection is for prescription and over the counter drugs and medications. The main goal of the collection is to keep the chemicals out of the groundwater and environment, said Undersheriff Gary Howell. People shouldn’t throw them into the garbage or flush them int...
In the past two months, we've printed a lot of election coverage in The Eagle. Last week, it was candidates for state representative and senate; the week before, it was county commission. We've printed Associated Press (AP) stories on state races and most initiatives. We've attended candidate forums in Skamokawa and Cowlitz County. We missed the forum in Grays River because our Cathlamet crew was busy at meetings there and the Grays River crew was flooded in. We've even had a bit of coverage of the presidential debates. One issue we haven't...
To The Eagle: Enough is enough. No less than three times, Commissioner Cothren has ranted in a public forum about how the town has done nothing regarding our challenges with sewer concerns. He also stated he met with me regarding this a year ago. That is simply not true. He also stated the town hampered extending sewer service. Also untrue! The town offered to lower hook up fees but the county refused to do the same. Of course the town would like a cooperative effort with the county, but I can't possibly think why Commissioner Cothren wishes...
To The Eagle: Regarding Mr. Cothren’s letter last week, I wholeheartedly agree with the heading: “Please vote for integrity.” In that spirit, I write to clarify the inaccuracies that Mr. Cothren attributed to me. First, I never presented at any county commissioner meetings in 2015. All of the meeting minutes are online, so it is easy to see that his statement is false. I did present on October 7, 2014 and November 12, 2014. The first time was to request that the commissioners meet with the Town to re-negotiate their interlocal agreement regar...
Scott Wilson, a senior account executive from Bonneville Power Administration, attended Tuesday morning’s Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting. He spoke at length about the PUD’s contract with BPA and the current rate case and answered commissioners’ questions. General Manager Dave Tramblie gave a report about the PUD’s work over the stormy weekend. The weather was not nearly as bad as had been expected, but crews were still busy. “We had a little bit of wind Friday and Saturday,...
Members of the Pioneer Community Association invite the public to join them this Saturday to clean up Cathlamet. As part of National Make a Difference Day, volunteers will bring gloves, hoes, clippers and other tools to clean up side walks and brush around the town. They'll meet at the Pioneer Community Center at 9 a.m. and work till noon. The event is part of the national Make A Difference Day program, which has awarded the PCA a $100 grant to aid the clean up effort. The Make a Difference Day program is one of the largest annual single-days...
PLENTY NASTY--While some folks were complaining about the fact that the "big one" didn't hit us this past Saturday, there were plenty of folks, like me, that felt like our prayers had been answered when another low formed to the west of the "big eye" and drew enough power from it, that those of us in our area and most up north, did not experience too much damage. There were exceptions of course, like down on the Oregon coast where a tornado hit a couple of towns, and were truly devastated, so that was pretty horrific. For all those folks along...
THURSDAY Rosburg Community Club, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Cathlamet First Aid Division, Fire Hall, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, First Aid Division, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, ambulance training, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Fire District No. 4, 7 p.m. Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Community Library & Computer Center, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. West End Food Pantry, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds...
Edna Bettyjo Blain, age 87, died October 14, 2016. She was born February 24, 1929 to Alonzo Urban Clay and Gertrude Mildred Gragg Clay in Delano, Calif. The family later moved to Portland, Ore., where she met and married Franklyn L. Blain. They moved to Los Angeles, Calif. In 1949 the couple moved to Rosburg, Wash. They lived their lives together there until Franklyn’s death in 1999. Later Edna moved to Mint Valley Apartments in Longview until her final move to the Canterbury Inn in Longview. Edna’s occuupations included a waitress at the Gra...
Rosie D. Jameson, 95, formerly of Cathlamet, died on October 15, 2016 in Vader at her daughter's home. She was born on July 14, 1921 in Heartville, MO., to William and Gertrude (Olds) Doris. She and John were married on Dec.24, 1941 in Idaho and moved to Cathlamet in 1956 where they lived until John's death in 2002. Rosie was a member of Assembly of God Church (now River of Life) teaching Sunday School and was a member of the Women's Missions. In addition to her family she loved to quilt, sew, garden and cook, making all three of her daughters...
Our county recycling bins have been repainted, our recycling website is operational, we have several businesses recycling items that cannot go into our county bins, the school district is recycling in all grades, the recycling education program returns to school this week, and we need your help to get it right. The Wahkiakum 4H Robotics club volunteers, The Healthy Living Cooperative volunteers and Wahkiakum County teamed up to complete the bin painting, and adding new signage to each site....
The Tsuga Gallery presents “Generations” an exhibit by member Gail Wahlstrom and her grandson Justin L’Amie, an accomplished artist from the Portland area. An artists’ reception will be held Saturday, October 29 from 5-7 p.m., with music and refreshments. This exhibit will continue through November 19. When Gail was asked about her grandson, Justin, she replied “Of course my memories are of a little brown-eyed boy, putting on plays with his sister. His Grampa and I loved watching him, always making art, as a tiny boy, and into his later yea...
Live Music at Puget Island Farmers Market will resume when they reopen the market next May. On Saturday, October 22, at River Mile 38 Brewing, Christine Darby will perform from 5-8 p.m., on the Crow’s Nest Stage, 285 Third St., Cathlamet. For more information call 360-366-4662....
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: October 10 — 4:33 p.m. A Puget Island resident reported that an individual had shown up at his home and was violating a restraining order. 6:41 p.m. Child Protective Services requested a welfare check on a Rosedale toddler with severe bruising and a hemorrhage in one eye. 6:55 p.m. A Puget Island resident requested a civil standby. October 11 — 6:04 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance aided an Alger Creek resident wi...
Will Wahkiakum County come to the aid of the Town of Cathlamet in an effort to increase connections to the town's sewer system? Council Member Dick Swart and the county board of commissioners broached that subject Tuesday at the commission's weekly meeting. Swart had reported that the council is studying its water and sewer rates, with increases coming soon. One report to the council stated rates would have to increase 110 percent to keep the sewer system solvent. "One of the underlying issues, at least for sewer rates, is the small customer ba...
Wahkiakum County is on track to pick up an extra $900,000 in revenue this year from the state Department of Natural Resources. This year, county government should receive just over $1 million from the harvest of timber off the county's DNR managed trust timber lands. In addition, the county should receive another $900,000 in compensation for 300 acres of trust timberland which has become encumbered by either steep soils concerns or habitat conservation for marbeled murrelets, an endangered species. The encumbered timberland will be transferred...
To the Eagle: The Pioneer Community Association is inviting you to join us for our first annual, National Make A Difference Day event. We will “Tidy Up the Town” on Saturday, October 22, 9 a.m. to noon. Our sidewalks are overgrown with weeds and the Waterfront Trail is losing its battle with those nasty blackberries. It’s time to polish up this little gem we call Cathlamet. We will meet at the Pioneer Center (church) steps for a group photo at 9 a.m. Bring gloves, shovels, hoes, buckets, wheelbarrows, clippers and your sense of community pride...
To The Eagle: Wahkiakum County has had the pleasure and distinction of having some of the most civil elections with rarely an utterance of a personal attack or a shot across the bow, so to speak. Unfortunately this election is somewhat different and maybe it’s just the oversaturation of political incorrectness 24/7 on every TV channel, but we seem to be plagued by some very poor, dishonest and just plain rude comments right from one of our candidates. As most of you, I am more than a little ashamed of anyone that would choose this path, but w...
MIXED BAG--Last weekend was a mix of weather, as we had some heavy rain at times, then lighter showers and even some gloomy but yet, dry spells, so we hope you were able to get out during one of those dry times to do those outdoor chores which seem never ending, even during the Fall! The week ahead looks to be a mixture too, but then, afterall, it is October, so we can't expect it to be super nice all the time. As I write this however, the sun is out after a very foggy morning, so we'll enjoy the sun's rays while we can! HURRICANE--Hurricane...
THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Port District No. 1, 500 2nd St., 5 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire District, No. 3 Commissioners, 7:30 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire training, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum County Real Property Rights Advisory Board, Courthouse, 6 p.m. Eastside Play & Learn Group, St. James Family Center, 1:30-3...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: October 3 — 1:39 p.m. A caller reported that a Grays River resident and his dog had been showered with a noxious weed control spray due to work that his neighbor had contracted to be done along the property line. The resident was ill and had gone to the hospital. The caller, who owned the property, said that he would be contacting his attorney about the matter. 7:06 p.m. A caller reported a power outage on P...
