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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The community is invited to a Spring Celebration at the Tsuga Gallery, 70 Main St., Cathlamet, on Friday, May 2, from 5-7 p.m. This is a social event where one can meet local artists, and enjoy the new spring decor and exhibits. Entertainment will be provided by Donnie Wages and an assortment of finger foods will be provided....
The U.S. Postal Service will hold their annual food drive on Saturday, May 10. The Cathlamet Postal Service will be supported by VFW Post 5297, Wahkiakum Food Bank, Helping Hand and local high school students. Collection bags will be delivered to mail boxes May 5-7. As details are finalized, more information will appear in next week’s edition of The Eagle....
No. 14-52 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WAHKIAKUM IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of: ) ) No. 14-4-00005-3 ) LINDA BUNCE, ) PROBATE ) NOTICE Deceased. ) TO CREDITORS ) (RCW 11.40.030) The Estate Administrator named below has been appointed as Administrator of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving...
No. 14-51 Notice of Application for Coverage under the Statewide General Permit for Biosolids Management Notice is hereby given that the Town of Cathlamet has submitted an application to the Washington State Department of Ecology to obtain coverage under the state General Permit for Biosolids Management. A copy of the application is on file with the Town and the Department of Ecology. The Town is planning to remove Class B biosolids from its existing lagoon wastewater treatment plant located on Second Street, Cathlamet, WA, and will utilize a...
Linda “Lynja” Bunce, 72 years young, died peacefully on April 15, 2014, at Community Home Health & Hospice in Longview, WA. Linda was born June 10, 1941, in Chula Vista, California, the daughter of Hillman and Alfreda Cummings and the sister of Sandy Polk and Carol Vela. She leaves behind three daughters DeAnna Crouse, Erin Bunce and Felicia Bunce, as well as two grandchildren Zack and Colin Stewart and their father and her dear friend Bobby Stewart. Linda spent the majority of her life living in Valley Center with her family, Ronald Bunce and...
Anna Reime Giaver, 89, passed away on April 22 at her home in Cathlamet. She was born on May 26, 1924 in Voss, Norway to Olaf and Ingeborg Reime. She married Paul Giaver on March 17, 1958 in Seattle, after coming to the United States in 1954. They lived in Seattle, Port Angeles and Sedro Wooley prior to coming to Cathlamet in 1968. After Paul’s retirement in 1987 they wintered in Cathedral City, CA near Palm Springs where Anna loved the sunshine. She enjoyed gardening, cooking and was a talented seamstress. Anna was a member of the Sons Of N...
Southwest Washington's regional manager of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife came to Cathlamet Monday to discuss the start of a salmon net pen rearing project, and commercial fishermen used the opportunity to express their displeasure with changes to the Columbia River gillnet fishery. Following an initiative from Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, Washington's Fish and Wildlife Commission has decreed that gillnets will be moved out of the main channel of the Columbia. Officials say the goal is to reduce the by-catch of salmon from...
Members of the Cathlamet Town Council handled a variety of business when they met Monday, including hearing that one of their members would resign effective May 1. Council Member Dick Swart said he would resign his position effective 12:01 a.m. May 1. He is planning to do some traveling this year. At their meeting last month, council members authorized him to take a leave of absence and return to the position in the fall, but Swart said Monday he had decided against that. "I thought it would be the best for the town if we didn't delay in gettin...
(Corrected April 29, 2014) Filing runs May 12-16 for positions that will be on the summer and fall election ballots, and many county government positions will be open. County Auditor Diane Tischer said she and county Commissioner Blair Brady and Assessor Bill Coons have already declared with the state Public Disclosure Commission that they will be candidates for re-election. Cathlamet Town Council Member Richard (Dick) Swart announced Monday that he is resigning his position effective 12:01 a.m. May 1. The unexpired portion of his term in...
A dozen young members of the Wahkiakum 4-H Chapter put their "Hands" and "Hearts" into a morning of community service on Thursday, April10. With the guidance of adult mentors, the youths cleaned up the Cathlamet Library and Community Center grounds, pulled weeds, and improved the appearance of the areas near the main library entrance, parking lot, and flagpole. Cathlamet Kiwanis Club member and Town Councilmember Dick Swart, who stopped by to encourage the volunteers, praised them for putting service above self during their Spring Break...
To The Eagle: My name is Carol Wegdahl and most of you probably know me from my work at Columbia View Care Center and the Cathlamet Fire Department. Last year I was hired by PeaceHealth in Longview as the coordinator of the American Heart Association Training Center. One of the main duties is teaching CPR/AED classes to community members and medical professionals. Almost daily someone tells me a story of how heart disease or stroke has affected them or their loved ones. Some of these stories are sad, but many people tell me stories of loved...
To The Eagle: Your readers may be interested to know that I am resigning from Position #3 on the Cathlamet Town Council, effective April 30, 2014. My prior plan was to retire from Town service when my term as Mayor ended in December 2009. However, I was persuaded to return as Chairman of the Town Planning Commission for 2010-11, and then asked to run for Council for a 2012-15 term. Returning to the Council offered an opportunity to work on four goals that I believed were important to the Town: (1) Broker peace and restore communications...
Cathlamet organist Jeff Fox will perform a varied program on three instruments on May 3, 6:30 p.m., at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church on Puget Island, 549 SR 409. A freewill offering will go to benefit local children’s camperships this summer and additional funds will be provided by Thrivent Financial. The program will include pieces on the church’s historic 1885 Hilborne Roosevelt pipe organ, 1907 Steinway piano, and a harpsichord. The music will range from baroque to contemporary, including a few of Fox’s own compositions and arrange...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: April 7 – 10:55 a.m. The Grays River ambulance responded to a Grays River home to aid a woman with a problem related to diabetes. 6:41 p.m. The Skamokawa Fire Department responded to the report of smoke at the site of a previous barn fire in the Skamokawa area. 9:19 p.m. A caller reported a possible DUI traveling west on SR 4 near County Line Park. 9:39 p.m. A Rosedale resident complained about being...
Rodgers Cook, age 94, passed away peacefully in his home in Vancouver, Washington. Rod was a long term resident on East Sunny Sands, Puget Island in the 1970's and 1980's. Rod enjoyed fishing on the beach; splitting shakes for his roof; and spending time with his friends from Cathlamet and Puget Island. Preceding Rod in death was his first wife, Ann, and his dear friends R.O. and Nina Watson; John and Ivy Jaspers; Marge and Bob Burns; Lily and Svery Pederson, and so many more. Rod is survived by his wife, Eileen and his two daughters, Carrie...
With dredging in mind, the Port District 1 commissioners passed a motion for Port Manager Jackie Lea to begin the bid process for obtaining core samples in the marina, slough and Cathlamet Channel last Thursday. Sonar readings requested in June had finally arrived, held up by calibration problems in the equipment used by the surveyors. Commissioner Bob Kizziar shared that he had spoken with a couple congressmen and a senator’s aide at meetings he had recently attended. He related his concerns a...
Cathlamet photographer Genie Carey found the conditions favorable early Tuesday morning for photographing the eclipse of the moon, which in the earth's shadow, took on the reddish hue of the "blood moon." Here's a compilation of her photos....
Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services will revise their Friday office hours starting this week. County commissioners on Tuesday approved a recommendation from Administrator Sue Cameron, who proposed closing the department's office in the Courthouse Annex on Fridays. No services would be lost, and there would be no cost savings, she said, but there would be efficiencies "gained by concentrating staff on one campus and eliminating the need to have staff travel back and forth between offices to work with the public or manage projects." Two...
Wahkiakum Port District #2 will host a Grand Reopening of County Line Park on Saturday, April 26 from 1-3 p.m. Located along the shore of the Columbia River between Longview and Cathlamet, County Line Park has long been popular for fishing and overnight camping. Attractive for its proximity for watching ships passing by, and for a sandy beach for fishing along the river, the park is a busy place most of the year. The Park is owned by Wahkiakum County, but Port District #2 now operates the park after Cowlitz County decided they no longer wanted...
Former Mayor Dick Swart and his wife Dixie live in a house on the hill. They used to have three normal cats and an odd one named George. George lived to the ripe old age of 26 and would proudly preen while his veterinarian paraded students past the perfect specimen of Felis Catus. But this story isn’t about George. It’s about a love for trains and friends and history and art. The house was built in the mid-thirties, this much they know. They have a copy of the building plans, but it can’t be au...
To The Eagle: Wahkiakum County should permit the legal cultivation of marijuana and do so without further delay. Clearly, interest groups – including law enforcement and teen health advocates – favor a permanent ban, though it is unclear how that outcome would lower teen exposure to marijuana given that it will be grown elsewhere in the state and sold legally to adults. Two elements of the current debate concern me. First, opponents of cultivation are offering a one-sided analysis of the costs to our community. They say law...
NICE START--As this work week begins, it is simply gorgeous outside. As I stood in the sunshine without a drop of wind around me on Monday afternoon, I was actually feeling pretty toasty out there, and beings I haven't felt that warm outside for ages, I'm pretty sure it was the warmest day of the year so far. It was a great day for getting that lawn mowed, I know that! The forecasters said we were due to have a little more rain between that sunny day and when you read this, but then it looks like we'll have a nice stretch of dry weather, so...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: March 31 – 10:46 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to a Rosedale residence to aid an ailing elderly man. 1:59 p.m. A Deep River resident complained about a barking dog. 4:06 p.m. A welfare check was requested for a suicidal individual. 8:18 p.m. The Grays River ambulance responded to a Rosburg residence to aid a young woman who was vomiting and had abdominal pain. April 1 – 1:36 a.m. The Cathl...
A panel of representatives from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) met with locals last Wednesday to give an update on their work to diagnose the disease that is causing hoof rot in populations of Willapa and Mount St. Helen’s elk. The agency’s review was met with frustration, skepticism and fear that too little was being done and too many healthy elk would pay the price of current management decisions. According to Sandra Jonker, a regional wildlife manager for the WDFW, five...
The parking lot and camping grounds were full at the Cathlamet Marina as more than 80 people signed up to compete in last weekend’s second annual Hook the Hawg Derby sponsored by the Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce. Six individuals came away with prizes, which included four poles handmade by Cathlamet dentist Dr. Doug Martin. A second cash prize of $100 was added after two people tied for fifth place. “It was nice to see more locals involved this year,” Ashley Turner of the Chamber of Comme...
