Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Friends of Skamokawa will present an experiment this June. Instead of an art or archival exhibit they have decided to present some of the exciting music and poetry making Wahkiakum County such a special place. Here is a list of the six events with dates and short descriptions of the performers. Sunday, June 5th- 2 p.m., Kerrie McNally vocal with Layton Elliott on guitar. Saturday, June 11th - 7 p.m., The Cliffs of Cathlamet Concert with Jillian Raye and Eric Friend and with the well known author and poet Robert Pyle who will read from his new b...
John Didricksen, of Cathlamet, died May 8, 2016, at the age of 68. The funeral will be held May 21, 11 a.m. at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Cathlamet. A reception will follow at the Norse Hall on Puget Island. In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested to WHS FFA Trap Shooting Team, PO Box 398, Cathlamet, WA 98612....
Julian Phillip Doumit of Cathlamet, made the Central Washington University honor roll for fall 2015 term and winter 2016 term. He is majoring in Economics and minoring in Finance at CWU and will graduate in June. His parents are Chris and Juliann Doumit of Cathlamet....
Live Music at River Mile 38 Brewing Company: Christine Darby will perform Saturday, May 21, from 5 to 8 p.m., on the Crow's Nest Stage during Live at Five. 285 Third St., Cathlamet. For more information call 360-366-4662....
This girl is quick to smile and quick to laugh. The pure and joyful energy is highly contagious and likely to be a great asset in her future career as a psychologist. Katharine Choi is a 16 year old exchange student from Jinju, South Korea. She's chosen Katharine as her English name, but at home she is called Choi Ho Jeong. Her friends call her Ho Jeong--ah or Won Joong, a nickname she was given because she looks like a male model named Kim Won Joong. Jinju is in the most southern part of the...
Editor’s note: Wahkiakum County and the Town of Cathlamet have been working on updates to their Shoreline Master Programs (SMP), and citizens have raised concerns about the effects of the program on various activities. The county Public Works Department provided the media some responses and explanations to the concerns. Here is the second of two articles. Will there be 200 foot setbacks from SMP streams where development is prohibited? Answer: Two hundred feet is the minimum jurisdictional distance landward from SMP streams, not a ‘no bui...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: May 9 - 1:25 p.m. A caller reported that locks had been cut at a fish hatchery in the Elochoman Valley. 2:51 p.m. A Skamokawa resident reported that a fence had been installed on his property by a neighbor, cutting off access to his water tank. He also reported that his neighbor had been using the front yard to gain access to his own property, claiming it was...
Public meeting to discuss senior citizens’ needs set for June 2 Wahkiakum County Health & Human Services, Wahkiakum County Aging Well Committee and the Area Agency on Aging & Disabilities of Southwest Washington’s Wahkiakum County Advisory Council members invite all interested parties to attend a Community Conversation about how to work together to keep Wahkiakum County a place where growing older is a life journey that promotes choice, independence and dignity. Conversation topics include transportation, housing, home care/facility care and...
Linda Hartung of the Cathlamet Woman's Club is headed to Baltimore this June for leadership training at the General Federation of Women's Clubs Annual Convention. Each year, one officer from a Women's Club in each state is invited to be a state representative for the convention. "I was in the right place at the right time," Hartung said. "The Woman's Club has wonderful opportunities." Hartung is co-president of the local chapter with JoAnn Prestegard. When Prestegard, who is also active at the...
Wahkiakum County is a nice place to live. It’s so nice that people are having a hard time finding affordable housing. They are having a hard time finding any housing at all for that matter. “We have a huge problem,” Wahkiakum Health and Human Services Director Sue Cameron said. “There is nowhere for people to live. It doesn’t matter if they are professionals who have come here for work or people that want to return to the community to be near their family. There is nothing for them.” “I...
Editor’s note: Wahkiakum County and the Town of Cathlamet have been working on updates to their Shoreline Master Programs, and citizens have raised concerns about the effects of the program on various activities. The county Public Works Department provided the media some responses and explanations to the concerns. Here is the first, to address those concerns. Others will be published in following weeks. How can I weigh in on the SMP update? Answer: There a few ways to participate in the Shoreline Master Program (SMP) update process. They includ...
Representatives from the Town of Cathlamet met with Garrett Phillips, a coastal planner with the Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce (CREST) to go over recent changes to the Shoreline Management Plan and how it would affect the town last Wednesday. Most of the discussion centered around wetland buffers. “Part of the purpose of the buffer is to filter nutrients, sediment, and pollutants that would run off from the developed area to the stream,” Phillips said. There are four categories of wet...
A crew from Pacific Northwest Hydro were in Cathlamet on Tuesday to test the fire hoses at the District 4 Fire Department. Right, Justin and Alejandro of PNH rolled hoses after they were tested. Photos by Diana Zimmerman....
PRETTY NICE--Last weekend was Mother's Day weekend and while Sunday wasn't as warm and toasty as Saturday, it was still pretty nice later on in the day as the winds blew the cloudiness away and we saw the sun again in the afternoon. I have to admit, the air was much nippier by late afternoon, but hey, it wasn't pouring down rain, so that was a blessing. Mid-week we are to see some pretty toasty temperatures but it looks like we may have to bring out the umbrellas for the weekend. Sadly, our neighbors to the north in Alberta, Canada are dealing...
THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, 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. VFW Service Office, 25 River St., Cathlamet, 10 a.m.-1 p.m....
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: May 2 — 11:16 a.m. Deputies responded to the report of a domestic assault at a Rosedale home. 3:26 p.m. A caller reported a westbound motorist speeding on SR 4. The driver passed multiple cars before nearly causing an accident near Nassa Point. May 3 — 2:46 a.m. A Puget Island resident called to report that he had to change the fuel in his lawn mower twice before it would start. He also wanted the she...
Ashley N. Silva, a 2012 Wahkiakum High School graduate will graduate from Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR with her Bachelors of Science in Vision Science. The graduation ceremony will be held on May 21 in Forest Grove. After graduation, Ashley will continue her optometric education at Pacific University College of Optometry. She will also travel to Tanzania on an Amigo's outreach trip with Pacific University in December to provide eye care to the people of Tanzania. She is the daughter...
The next meeting of the Bald Eagle Days Planning Committee is set for Wednesday, May 18, at 4:30 p.m., at the Scarborough Meeting Room, 102 Main Street, Cathlamet. Chamber members and community members are all encouraged to attend the meetings and join the 2016 planning committee. Responsibilities will include determining this year’s theme, Grand Marshal, family activities, kids activities, and more. They are also seeking musicians for “Music on Main Street” all day Saturday. Preference will be given to local musicians. If interested, submi...
The Julia Butler Hansen Heritage Center, 35 Butler St., Cathlamet, will be open for tours on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Julia Butler Hansen House is the oldest house in Cathlamet and Wahkiakum County dating from the 1860’s. It was the home of the late congresswoman, Julia Butler Hansen and her family for over 100 years. The house contains numerous water colors done by Mrs. Hansen’s mother, Maude Kimball Butler, who was a noted artist. Among her paintings are water colors of Cathlamet depicting the town in the 1890’s and early 1900...
Live Music at River Mile 38 Brewing Company: Don Wages and Friends will perform Saturday, May 14, from 5 to 8 p.m., on the Crow's Nest Stage during Live at Five. 285 Third St., Cathlamet. For more information call 360-366-4662....
The public was invited to comment during a water use efficiency hearing at Tuesday’s Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting, but only one member of the public was in attendance. The PUD’s goals are to reduce the amount of water purchased from the Town of Cathlamet per capita by seven percent within six years, and to reduce water production per capita on the Western Wahkiakum Water system by 10 percent in the next six years. They plan to do this by educating consumers, cal...
The local election season is approaching. Filing for positions on the 2016 election ballots will run May 16-20. Candidates for local positions file in the county auditor's office, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 to 4 p.m. Positions on the ballot include: County Commissioner District 1, 4-year term, Mike Backman incumbent. Precincts: East & West Puget Island & South Cathlamet. Filing Fee $359.80. Island resident Greg Prestegard announced to The Eagle on Tuesday that he will be a candidate for the position. County Commissioner District 2, 4-year...
To The Eagle: I am announcing that I will be closing my Cathlamet law office, located at 99 Main St., effective June 30, 2016, in anticipation of retiring from the practice of law. During this transition time, I will finalize as many pending cases as possible, but will bring to completion all unfinished client work from my office in Westport, WA. If you are a client, or former client, and would like to receive your case file, please contact Tom Doumit at (360) 795-6044, or by mail at P.O. Box 151, Cathlamet, WA 98612, and those requests will...
To The Eagle: Many people feel that the changing of names of historical personages or sports teams will erase the ‘bad history’ that they are ashamed of. Our “history” can be improved and even enriched by hiding and or destroying the unfit memories from the past. I think this movement to deny the past is self-delusional, cowardly and masochistic. It is a childish and therefore dangerous way to treat what has happened. We, all of us, need to accept that humanity is deeply flawed. What has happened is in the past. But what we can do about o...
To The Eagle: The choice of candidates campaigning for the highest honor of serving our country is rather disturbing and depressing. The Democrats can’t come up with a better candidate than Hillary? Sanders? Republicans are no better. The ballots should also include “None of the Above” when time to vote. I’m fed up with experienced politicians that sugarcoat the talk and once elected they snub us with an about-face turn and live their merry way doing their thing. A while back, I wrote and poured out my heart in a 3-page letter to the preside...
