Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the coming week includes: Friday, boys and girls basketball with Oakville in Naselle at 4:15 p.m.; Tuesday, middle school boys basketball at Willapa Valley at 5:45 p.m., high school girls basketball at Lake Quinault at 7:00 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school boys basketball at Ocosta at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! Do you remember the Chinese New Year Celebration last year, in conjunction with the new Chinese immersion program at the Naselle School? Well, mark your calendar for February 20, 4-8 p.m., to help...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: January 4 — 8:06 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance aided a Rosedale resident after a fall. 12:50 p.m. A Skamokawa resident complained that a former spouse was attempting to get into the house and would not leave. 6:52 p.m. A motorist complained about being tailgated by an erratic driver on SR 4 near Cathlamet. 8:51 p.m. A caller asked to stay at the jail. The mental health department was called to see what r...
The Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce will host its annual Crab & Oyster Feed at the Norse Hall on February 20. This will be the 31st year for this event. The Crab & Oyster Feed is a fundraising event for the Chamber. Funds raised at this dinner help to support Bald Eagle Days and the fireworks show that coincides in mid-July. Due to the large amount of attendees, there will be three seating times for this dinner. The first seating, at 3 p.m., will be family friendly. There will be beer and wine served, but only upstairs where minors will not be...
The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive January 21, 1-6 p.m., at Hotel Cathlamet, and volunteers are invited to donate. Any healthy person age 18 (age 16 or 17 with signed parental consent) and weighing at least 110 pounds may be eligible to donate blood. Valid identification is required for all blood donations. For more information call 1-800 RED Cross or visit www.redcrossblood.org; sponsor code: Wahkiakum, or call Patti Phillips at 360-795-8821. Blood products are routinely transfused to patients with cancer and other diseases,...
The next book club gathering will be held Friday, February 12 at 11 a.m. in the Wahkiakum Community Senior Center, 101 Main Street in Cathlamet. We each bring a brown bag lunch. This month’s book is The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Amazon.com books lists a number of inexpensive copies available and they can be shipped quickly. Used book stores will probably have copies also as the book is not a new release. The Cathlamet Library has at least one copy and also has the DVD which follows the book quite closely and would be a fun way to get i...
John Jackson “Jack” Burdick was born to Donald and Claire (Jackson) Burdick in Longview on April 17, 1946. He died on January 4, 2016 at his home in Cathlamet. He grew up in Cathlamet, graduating from Wahkiakum High School in 1964. He began work immediately for Crown Zellerbach doing various logging jobs until he entered the Army. He was stationed in Viet Nam and when he came home from the military resumed logging. He was well known in the small community as a timber faller which he did until Crown Z closed the Cathlamet operation in 1989. In...
Bettie Jane Venable, 69, died January 9, 2016 at her Cathlamet home. She was born March 16, 1946 in Houston, Ark., to George and Lucelle (Porter) Venable. She was a loving and caring homemaker who enjoyed baking, spending time with her grandchildren and her dogs, and fishing. She was preceded in death by her parents, four sisters, a son and a daughter. Survivors include Sons Tim Madewell (Darla) of Cathlamet and Guy Davis (Mendy) of Newberg, Ore.; daughter Pam Bailey of San Antonio, Tex.; brothers Bud Venable (Ellie) of Dundee, Ore., Richard...
State fish managers will hold a public meeting Jan. 21 in Cathlamet to discuss two options for establishing a wild steelhead gene bank in rivers and streams near the mouth of the Columbia River. Both options under consideration by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) are designed to support the preservation of wild steelhead populations by prohibiting future releases of hatchery-raised steelhead into specific waters of the lower Columbia River Basin. One option would eliminate production of hatchery winter steelhead on the...
Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? You can do those things with Makey Makey, which is advertised as letting you “Alligator clip the Internet to Your World.“ “Thanks to Washington’s State Library, the Cathlamet Public Library has borrowed a Makey Makey lab for people to come in and experiment,” said Librarian Carol Blix. “Imagine constructing a playable cardboard guitar, a paper bongo set, or a human sound effects machine.” Makey Makey is an open-ended invention kit people can use to create their own interactive keyboards. Chrome...
Live Music at River Mile 38 Brewing Company: Christine Darby will perform from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, January 16, on the Crow's Nest Stage during Live at Five. 285 Third St., Cathlamet. For more information call 360-366-4662....
General Manager Dave Tramblie gave a report, and a representative from Northwest Public Power Association (NWPPA) gave a presentation at Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday. “The east side of the county was the only area really affected during the December 21 windstorm,” Tramblie said. “Since then it has been fairly quiet over the holidays.” According to Tramblie, the cold weather has had an affect on the systems in the county. Water consumption numbers on Puget I...
A book club will meet at the Cathlamet Community Center on the second Friday of each month from 11 a.m. to noon. The first meeting will be tomorrow, January 8. This will take place in conjunction with the Brown Bag Lunch offered each Friday. Participants do not have to be a member of the book club to take part in the lunch, which is open to the public. The center is located at 101 Main Street. For more information contact Joyce Orr at 360-430-3968 or joyceorr@wwestsky.net....
The Castle Rock Men’s Ensemble will make a return visit to St. James Church, 1134 Columbia St., at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 7. This group of musicians are well known throughout Southwest Washington where they have been playing together for many years. They are widely recognized for the quality and variety of their performances. The concert is free but there will be a goodwill offering for the St. James Family Center. A dessert buffet will follow....
Carson Theodore Wilson was born Nov 9, 2015 at 1:28 p.m. He weighed 9-lbs., 13-oz and was 21¼ inches long. He joins his parents, RaeAnne and Joe Wilson and 2½ year old sister Ava. Maternal grandparents are Lori Kensinger of Cathlamet and Jeff Magnuson of Kalama. Paternal grandparents are Brad and Jane Wilson of Chinook....
Live Music at River Mile 38 Brewing Company: Cara and Nathan Haney will perform from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, January 9, on the Crow's Nest Stage during Live at Five. 285 Third St., Cathlamet. For more information call 360-366-4662....
WHITE--We had a white Christmas in West Valley this past year, but that was only because it was foggy! Not just a little foggy, but it was super thick, white fog that greeted us that day and so that made it white. Then New Year's was white too, only this time it was due to a very heavy, thick frost that blanketed the area. Now as we enjoy the beginning of this week and the first Sunday of this new year 2016, we are seeing white once again, but this time, it's actually snow that is falling all around us and the roads, trees and grass are all...
THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, 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. Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9-11:30 a.m. Cathlamet Public Library Board of Trustees, 12:45 p.m. Sewing Room, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-4 p.m. West End Food Pantry, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. TOPS, (Take Off...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: December 28 — 1:10 p.m. A Skamokawa resident reported that a neighbor’s dog had attacked her dog. 2:20 p.m. Sheep had wandered onto a Skamokawa resident’s property. The owner was contacted. 6:43 p.m. Deputies attempting to serve a warrant in the Elochoman Valley were unable to locate the subject. December 29 — 3:46 a.m. The Grays River ambulance aided a Rosburg resident who had fallen. 11:49 a.m. A caller...
I hope everyone stayed safe with this last burst of cold weather. I know the roads were pretty slick and a few trees made travel a little treacherous. Here’s hoping for a little reprieve with some sunshine. Welcome home to my Uncle David Hammonds. He spent the holidays in Juneau, Alaska with his daughter and son-in-law, as well as spending time with some of his old friends and with his new great grandson. News from Naselle: Sports calendar for Naselle Comet teams this week: Saturday, girls and boys basketball with Mary M. Knight in Naselle a...
Stephanie Olsen, a member of Cemetery District 1, is looking for people with ideas and energy to help preserve a bit of Wahkiakum history, the Pioneer Cemetery. Once upon a time, trees separated the Pioneer Cemetery in Cathlamet from the rest of the nearby grounds at the grade school. It was a quiet, mysterious grove to wander and wonder about the lives that once belonged to the names on each memorial. Chief Wahkiakum was buried there, members of the Birnie family, the Orths, the Wests. Some of...
Andrea (Ann) Miller, 76, passed away on December 24, 2015 in Longview, Washington. Born in West Virginia to Harry and Kathrine Bennett, they moved to Washington State in 1943, where Harry worked as an electrician at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and Kathrine as a nurse at Richland's Cadillac Hospital. In high school, Ann excelled in ballet and turned down an opportunity to dance with the Robert Joffery Ballet Company in New York to attend Washington State University, where she earned a B.Sc. d...
Cristobal Peña Mendez, 65, of Cathlamet, died on December 21, 2015 at home on Puget Island. Cris was born on September 4, 1950 in Mexico. He worked as a carpenter and later on farms on Puget Island. He was a handy and creative man and his family remembers that there was never a job he couldn’t do. He was a loving, hard working and compassionate family man. He is survived by his wife Angela at home, three sons, Lorenzo, Frankie and Christopher Mendez; two daughters, Esther Cothren and Cristina Mendez; 19 grandchildren and a large extended fa...
Robert Allen Bacon, 93, of Cathlamet, passed away at the Hospice Care Center on Dec. 22, 2015. He was born Sept. 23, 1922, in Portland, Ore., to Oliver S. and Esther Bacon. His family moved to Cathlamet in 1937, where he graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1940. Bob married Virginia Strait in 1940. They were married 74 years when she preceded him in death Jan. 10, 2015. Also preceding him in death were his parents, a daughter Cathy Seaberg, and his brother Oliver. He joined the Army Air Corps during WWII and made several lifelong friends,...
The following activities will take place at the Cathlamet Community Center in the month of January: Jan. 12 Basic Computers 9 a.m.-noon Word 12:30-3:30 p.m. Jan. 14 American Red Cross Disaster Preparedness 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jan. 16 Red Cross Pillow Case project Disaster Preparedness for children from 3rd-6th grade. Registration encouraged Jan. 21 Free Hearing Screening 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jan. 28 Diabetic Foot Care 10 a.m. -2 p.m. The center is located at 101 Main St., and is open Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Fridays they...
THURSDAY New Year’s Eve: The following events may or may not take place. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, noon. Grays River Fire Department, open meeting, 7 p.m. Eastside Play & Learn Group, St. James Family Center, 1:30-3 p.m. Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9-11:30 a.m. West End Food Pantry, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. TOPS, (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) GRVC at Johnson Park, activity room, 2 p.m. Community Library & Computer Center, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p...
