Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Daisy Chain Floral and Gifts will open in April at 65 Main St., next to Lower Columbia Realty in Cathlamet. Nicole Emery, owner and floral designer, will specialize in creative floral arrangements for all occasions as well as an array of plants and unique gifts. Emery attended the Art Institute and the Pacific Northwest School of Art in Portland for three years. She has a background in flowers and plants as an assistant manager and garden specialist for several years in Longview. She gained experience in floral design locally working for...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: January 26 — 9:03 a.m. A vehicle on Puget Island was vandalized with shaving cream, multi-colored feathers and glitter. 10:21 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance transported a clinic patient with shortness of breath to the hospital. 12:31 p.m. A Puget Island resident reported a phone scam. 2:30 p.m. An Elochoman Valley resident reported a suspicious vehicle. 3:44 p.m. An eastbound driver was involved in a hit and run...
NICE BEGINNING--As the week begins, our Sunday morning was nothing but socked in fog for quite some time, but by lunch time, we had some nice sunshine, so that was quite enjoyable. I understand many parts of the area had sunshine on Saturday as well, but out here in West Valley, we didn't see any of it as it was gray and gloomy all day, so those who were elsewhere were quite lucky. After a brief rainy period, forecasters say we'll be in for more dry weather as the first month of this new year comes to an end. SPECIAL DAYS--Those celebrating bir...
Local patrons got the chance to handle several different brands of tablets and reading devices last Friday at the Cathlamet Library when representatives from the Washington State Library in Tumwater stopped by with the tech goodies to provide training to library staff and volunteers in the morning and to the general public in the afternoon. "I think it's wonderful that the state bothered to come by a small community like this," local resident Craig Brown said. From 2-4 p.m., Washington State Lib...
THURSDAY Financial Management, Community Senior Center, 100 Main St., 10 a.m. - Noon. Preschool Story and Craft Time, Cathlamet Library, 4 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, open meeting, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) GRVC at Johnson Park, activity room, 2 p.m. AA Meeting, Cathlamet Congregational Church, 7:15 p.m. Yoga Classes, Grays River Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. Art Group, Grays River Methodist Church, social hall, 3-5 p.m. Open...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams for the coming week: Saturday, girls basketball with MMK in Naselle at 5:45 p.m. followed by boys basketball with MMK at 7 p.m.; Monday, high school JV girls basketball at Three Rivers at 4 p.m. followed by middle school girl’s basketball at 5:45 p.m., middle school boys basketball at North Beach at 5:45 p.m. and high school V boys basketball at Three Rivers at 7 p.m.; Tuesday, JV boys basketball at Wishkah at 5:45 p.m. and girls basketball at Wishkah at 7 p.m.; Wednesday, middle s...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: January 20 — 1:42 a.m. Deputies responded to a report that an elderly Puget Island resident was missing. Search and rescue was activated and the resident was located and returned home at 3:04 a.m. 6:39 a.m. The Grays River ambulance responded to aid a Deep River resident with kidney pain. 9:59 a.m. A caller reported that a vehicle had been parked at County Line Park for several days. January 21 — 10:39 a.m...
Evelyn Rosemary Dahl, of Cathlamet, died at home January 24, 2015, at the age of 81. She was born May 2, 1933 in Roseburg, Ore., to Lloyd H. and Irma C. (Moritz) Cornish. Evelyn graduated from Sutherlin High School in Sutherlin, Ore., and was a purchasing agent for a nationwide construction company. She retired from Seattle to Cathlamet in 2001. After retirement she worked for a local law office for 13 years. In her youth she was active with Girl Scouts, was a Job’s Daughter Past Honored Queen and Eastern Star with her parents who were very d...
The Wahkiakum County Fire Protection District #4, with the Cathlamet Fire/EMS Department and the Kiwanis Club of Cathlamet will hold a charity fundraiser for the Kiwanis-Doernbecher Children’s Cancer Research Program. The drive will be held Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Cathlamet Chevron Station on SR 4 (Fire Dept, #4) and Cathlamet Market & Liquor on Main St., Cathlamet (Cathlamet Fire Dept./EMS). Funds raised support research to treat and prevent deadly cancers in children and youth. Many in Wahkiakum C...
Sandy Gros is an 18 year old senior from a town outside of Stuttgart, Germany called Bruchsal. She has already finished her senior year at home but wanted to have an adventure through an exchange program after a friend had a great year in Texas. The only child of a Croatian mother and a Serbian father speaks English comfortably and is adding to her language acquisition by studying Spanish at Wahkiakum High School. One day she may add Croatian to her repertoire as well. She admits she doesn't hav...
CAP & AARP Tax Aides expecting confusion due to new health care plans Lower Columbia Community Action Program (CAP) and the AARP Volunteer Tax Aides are partnering again this year to provide free tax assistance in Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties, starting with “Super Refund Saturday,” January 31, at the Longview Public Library, 12:30-4 p.m. Following Saturday’s launch, a free tax clinic will be offered at Cathlamet Monday, February 9, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Wahkiakum Health and Human Services, 42 Elochoman Valley Road. Call for appoi...
Members of the Cathlamet Town Council considered business ranging from a contract for water sales to formation of a library district when it met Tuesday. Councilmember David Goodroe reported he and negotiators for Wahkiakum PUD had reached an agreement in principle to update their contract for water sales. The negotiations have been underway for 2.5 years. The town had achieved some of its goals, he said. The PUD agreed to include depreciation costs, including system improvements made in 1999, in the rates, and they agreed to increase rates...
NOT BAD--As this work week began, at least for some folks, it wasn't too bad, as the morning showers gave way to sunshine and my "lake" started to shrink after a weekend of heavy rains and nastiness at times. Several days of this week look to be dry, albeit with some heavy fog in the morning hours, so be sure to get those lights on and slow down a bit. I'll enjoy the dry days, but for those who are wishing to use that new ski gear or snowboards that they got for Christmas, I am sure that they are wishing that it would cool down and snow. I'm...
January 22 - January 29, 2015 THURSDAY Financial Management, Community Senior Center, 100 Main St., 10 a.m. - Noon. Preschool Story and Craft Time, Cathlamet Library, 4 p.m. 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 Fire District 2 Commissioners, Skamokawa Fire Hall, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly)...
Well, as I am sitting here in the waiting room of St. John’s, I decided that this is as good a place as any to work on writing my article for this week. I have lots of company waiting for their loved ones to have surgery. I am here with my sister, Diane who is having a hip replacement. She will be off work for several weeks, so if you don’t see her at Okie’s, that is the reason. News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week include: Friday, the 23rd-boys basketball at Wishkah at 4:30 p.m. and girls basketball at Wi...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: January 12 — 1:37 p.m. A caller reported a possible slide in the Skamokawa area; the County Road department was notified. 3:23 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a Cathlamet resident who had accidentally taken too much medication. January 13 — 12:04 p.m. A Cathlamet resident reported seeing a suspicious man enter a neighbor’s yard. 12:52 p.m. Deputies, the Cathlamet ambulance, the District 4 Fire...
Staff members from the Washington State Library will be bringing a variety of technology gadgets to the Cathlamet Public Library at 2 p.m., Friday, January 23, for a “Gadget Menagerie” training and presentation, announced Librarian Carol Blix. The Washington State Library is partnering with local libraries across the state providing "Gadget Menagerie" training on handheld devices for library staff. That staff training will take place earlier in the day. Library staff will learn how various eReaders, tablets and other devices work. They wil...
Art Vik, who will be 100 years old in September, lives in a pleasant little one room house on the southeast side of Puget Island with a plump little Dachshund named Pepe. Large picture windows open up to the Columbia where he can watch the ships pass and try to divine the mysterious patterns in a flock of scaups. "I built this as a garage but I hardly ever used it," Vik said of his cosy home. "I moved it back to the barn to keep my tractors in. I didn't need it so I moved it out here and put it...
Wahkiakum Health and Human Services is gearing up for the annual Point in Time Count on January 29th, 2015. What is the Point in Time Count? Its one day in January every year that every county in the State of Washington counts the homeless within their county. Homelessness is everywhere and Wahkiakum County is not exempt. A recognition of the instability of an individual’s living arrangements is critical in defining the term homeless. There is more than one official definition of homelessness. Health centers funded by the U.S. Department of H...
ANOTHER WEEK--By the looks of it, this year is going to fly by like the last one. We have spent this past week in a virtual fog as both evenings and mornings were thick with the stuff, at least down this way. Our soggy fields seem to "grow" the fog and there were only hours between the morning fog and the evening fog, as most of the time, the evening fog was showing up in the late afternoon, so we were "in a fog" most of the time. The dangerous part of that was that the deer and elk seemed to be using it as a time to cross the roadways, which...
THURSDAY Financial Management, Community Senior Center, 100 Main St., 10 a.m. - Noon. Preschool Story and Craft Time, Cathlamet Library, 4 p.m. 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. Rosburg Community Club, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Yoga Classes, Grays River Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. Art Group, Grays River...
William Eugene Torget, 94, of Cathlamet, passed away peacefully on January 5, 2015, surrounded by family at his Puget Island home. Gene, as he was known, was born on January 23, 1920 at the family home on Puget Island. He was the youngest of four children of Johan B. Torget and Anna J. (Olsen) Torget, originally from Norway. The young family all spoke Norwegian around the home and believed in strong Norwegian traditions and values. Gene attended Puget Island Grade school and ferried across the river daily to graduate from Wakiakum High School...
Virginia Jane Bacon, 92, of Cathlamet, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family, on January 10, 2015. She was born November 26, 1922, in Skamokawa, to David and Bella Strait. She was raised on a farm which contributed to her work ethic. She attended Skamokawa Grade School and graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1940. She married Robert A. Bacon on November 25, 1940, and resided in Cathlamet her entire married life. The Bacons owned The Toggery, a menswear store and later Bacon’s Variety Store. They also built and operated Bob’s B...
Dentist Dr. Corey Blankenship DDS has started to settle into his new practice vacated by Dr. Douglas Martin DDS at the end of October. Martin and his wife, Jill, spent a long time trying to find the right replacement and finally Blankenship came along. "We'd been looking for someone for about a year," Martin said. "We spoke with several people, but we didn't feel that they had the right ideas in mind for the community so we waited to find the right person. We were looking for someone who wanted...
Librarian Carol Blix has announced that the Cathlamet Public Library is shifting their Preschool Story Time to 4 p.m., Thursdays, and in conjunction with the Cathlamet Community Center, providing a story-related craft downstairs immediately following the story. “Ginger Hake, of the Community Center, offered the use of that space for a story time craft, which is larger and more flexible than the library’s children’s area,” Blix said. Parents need to accompany their children, toddler to kindergarten-aged, to the Community Center to help them wi...
