Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Local governmental bodies and agencies plan to offer a multitude of services when the community center opens in the remodeled Cathlamet Town Hall building. The Town of Cathlamet has delegated operation of the center, which will be located in the former fire truck garage, to the Wahkiakum Community Network. The Network is working with WSU Cooperative Extension, Lower Columbia College, SW Washington Workforce Development Council and other groups to offer services ranging from education to employment assistance. The Network will also offer its...
Fair Board’s Annual Turkey Bingo Grab your lucky charms as it’s time for the Fair board’s annual Turkey Bingo. Scheduled for this Friday, November 22 from 6 p.m. at the Julius A. Wendt Elementary School in Cathlamet. Bring the whole family for an evening of fun. Big prizes are on offer for this year’s raffle or you can try and win a turkey or ham. This annual event raises money for the next year’s fair and is managed by volunteers. For more information contact the Fair office at 795-3480. New Community Learning Center The end of Main Street ha...
The Star Program is for children up to and including the age of 17 whose families need a little extra help with Christmas gifts. Anyone wishing to help can pick up a star from the Star Trees at the Bank of America and Bank of the Pacific in Cathlamet, the Duck Inn and Skamokawa Store in Skamokawa, or the Rosburg Store. All gifts may be wrapped and, along with the star attached, be returned by December 13 to the place from which the star was taken. The gifts will be distributed to the recipients December 18-20. Cash donations may be left at...
To The Eagle: I find it so sad to read that the city (Cathlamet) and the PUD (public utility district) cannot sit down and negotiate a new contract. Webster's defines negotiate, "To confer with another so as to come to terms or reach an agreement." The PUD needs to remember the city's water plant was built with tax payer funds and only has a true obligation to provide water to the city proper. The PUD has made the decision to supply water to Puget Island. However, the PUD wants to be able to buy water below cost from the city and mark it up by...
To The Eagle: The Star Program is for children up to and including the age of 17 whose families need a little extra help with Christmas gifts each year due to job loss or difficult circumstances. All names will be held confidential. Anyone wishing to help can pick up a star from the Star Trees at the Bank of America and Bank of the Pacific in Cathlamet, the Duck Inn Restaurant and Skamokawa Store or the Rosburg Store. Each star has the age, sex, and sizes for a local child along with two or three Christmas wishes. You may purchase one or more...
To The Eagle: The conflict over the Puget Island Water system between the city of Cathlamet and the Wahkiakum PUD is at a crises point. The posturing and bickering between both parties are only going to lead to hurting the rate payers on the systems. Over the eight years that I served on the Board of Commissioners of the Wahkiakum PUD (2002-2010), I witnessed multiple incidences between the management team and my fellow commissioners over the inability of the City of Cathlamet to be able to justify their actual costs in providing water to the...
To The Eagle: Is there a problem with the Town of Cathlamet’s long term water contract with the Wahkiakum Public Utility District #1? There is for the Town, and here’s why. The current contract (which expires in 2037) provides for the Town to sell 41% of the water it produces for 18% of the total revenue it receives. But there’s more. The contract requires the PUD to pay the Town for the Town’s defined cost of producing water plus ten percent. But the defined cost is less than the true cost of producing water, which includes interest on debt...
To The Eagle: The Lions food drive was a great success. It is more than driving a vehicle and picking up food. There were routes to assign to men and someone to go with them to pick up the food. We had a shortage of drivers due to hunting and a funeral later in the afternoon, but the good Lord helped us find some. The volunteers wore badges so people would know them. They unloaded the food at the food bank and the volunteers put the food on the shelves. Somewhere in between, there was pop and pizza to eat and we have food on the shelves. So...
To The Eagle: Thanks for the great story on our 1963 team. I must say, that I served in Wichita, Kansas. Many of my classmates and team mates from the 60s served in harm’s way in Southeast Asia. You are my heroes. God Bless the USA. Russ Durrah, Cathlamet...
Finding middle ground isn't always easy, as demonstrated by the sour negotiations between Wahkiakum PUD and the Town of Cathlamet over the contract for sale of water for the Puget Island Water System. The town wants to amend the contract, which can be opened every five years, to include costs not covered in the pact. These include a share of capital improvement costs. The negotiations have drug out 19 months, apparently because the PUD and town can't agree on what costs and numbers to consider. Now, we're at the point where PUD commissioners...
The J.A. Wendt PTO will hold a raffle on Friday, December 13 to raffle off a 56" Samsung DLP (Digital Liquid Plasma) TV. It is slightly used, but in excellent condition with manuals and remote included. Dimensions are 52" wide, 38" tall, 14.5” max depth. Tickets are $1 each and may be purchased at the J.A. Wendt office, Cathlamet Pharmacy, Cathlamet Market or Cathlamet Building Supply. Proceeds from this raffle will go towards the purchase of more playground equipment for the back playground at the elementary school....
No. 13-144 TOWN OF CATHLAMET REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS AND PROPOSAL (RFQ/P) FOR ENGINEERING FIRM FOR WATER SYSTEM PLAN UPDATE The Town of Cathlamet will prepare its six-year update of the Water System Plan (WSP) that complies with WAC 246-290-100, in accordance with Washington State Department of Health (DOH) requirements. The purpose of this RFQ/P is to select a qualified engineering firm to prepare the Water System Plan. A more detailed Scope of Work is available upon request from, and questions concerning the project may be addressed to, Pu...
No. 13-143 Wahkiakum School District Invites Community Input Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Wahkiakum School District No. 200, Wahkiakum County, Cathlamet, WA, is encouraging all citizens to attend its next school board meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 20 (please note change in date from November 19), in the high school library. The Board desires to hear from the public regarding two important topics: (1) the possibility of re-drawing the boundary lines of its five director districts to result in three...
No. 13-142 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE REGARDING ENHANCED 911 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will hold a public hearing commencing: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in Commissioners Public Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Wahkiakum County Courthouse, 64 Main Street, Cathlamet, Washington, for the purpose of determining whether or not the Ordinance set forth below shall be adopted, and at which hearing any person may appear and be heard for or against said Ordinance....
No. 13-141 WAHKIAKUM COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will conduct a public hearing commencing at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, the 2nd day of December, 2013, at the Commissioners' Public Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Wahkiakum County Courthouse, 64 Main Street, Cathlamet, Washington, for the purpose of conducting a budget hearing and establishing other dates related to the budget process. Interested persons may appear and be heard at said public hearing, or submit...
Fifty years ago, the 1963 Wahkiakum Mule football team earned a record of 8-0 and were voted second in the state in the football writers’ poll. The team edged the Knappa Loggers 12-7 in their first game and held opponents scoreless in their next seven games. They were Pacific League champions. There were no statewide football playoffs, so they didn’t have an opportunity to claim a legitimate state title. They were good athletes: There was (and is) a state basketball tournament, and the Mules, with that group of athletes, won the state cha...
ANOTHER BEGINNING--We are a week into our Thanksgiving month, and it's darker earlier than ever and we're aware that this year will soon be over; hard to believe. We began this month with quite the wind storm last Saturday and hopefully you came through it without anything major going on at your house. We need to be sure to get those winter survival kits ready as it's likely a preview of things to come. I hear the Farmer's Almanac is calling for snow the last half of December, so we need to be prepared to deal with messed up holiday plans....
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: October 28 – 6:09 a.m. A Cathlamet resident got locked out of their residence and requested a deputy to locate their spouse. When told that a deputy was not available, the caller hung up. The sheriff’s office called back and offered to contact a locksmith, but the resident had connected with their spouse. 9:40 a.m. A caller reported that a logging truck was speeding and using the jake brake in East V...
Judy Maria Ostling of Puget Island died October 17, 2013 at Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver. She was a lifelong Puget Island resident and was born in Longview, August 6, 1952, to Anton and Bernice (Smith) Ostling. She graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1970. She commercial fished at Bristol Bay, Alaska for many years, before her illness forced her to retire. She enjoyed clam digging, sport fishing, canning, reading and crocheting. She is survived by her brother Don Ostling of Cathlamet and sister Toni Sue Ostling of...
Deep River resident George E. Klint, 78, passed away October 31, 2013 in Astoria, Oregon. George was born on November 20, 1934 in Portland, Oregon, the son of Mabyn Shane Klint and Swedish immigrant Hjalmar Hansen Klint. He grew up on the family farm at the bottom of KM Mountain in Grays River with his sisters Marie and Kathleen. George lost his father at the age of six so he and his sisters had to help out their mother at a young age to make their small dairy farm survive. George went to school at the Rosburg school and at the age of 15 he...
More than one player got caught up in anger and frustration Tuesday morning at the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioner’s meeting, where disappointed representatives from the Town of Cathlamet discovered that their request to be on the agenda was denied. Undaunted, they took advantage of the public comment period to plead their case. Howard Brawn, a Puget Island resident who was on the agenda, cautioned the commissioners to avoid abandoning the town’s “working infrastructure” and recomme...
In the first round of counting ballots for Tuesday's general election, Mark Howie leads Mike Balch 879-684 in the race for county sheriff. Auditor and Chief Elections Officer Diane Tischer said 142 ballots arrived too late to be counted Tuesday. Election officers will gather at 10 a.m. Friday to count those ballots and others which arrive by then. In the county's other contested races: --Wahkiakum School District Director 4--Shawn Merz 576, Lamar Blix 538. --Naselle/Grays River Valley School District Director 2--Joshua Holt 129, Art Hyland 86....
Souring seas, farming the oceans, sea level rise, hatcheries, and plastic pollution are on the agenda when the public sessions of the seventh annual Coastal Summit convenes in Cathlamet this Saturday. The event is sponsored by the Coastal Marine Resource Committees representing Wahkiakum, Pacific, Grays Harbor, Jefferson and Clallam Counties. The change in ocean chemistry known as acidification and caused by burning fossil fuels has already hit the Northwest hard. Conference Coordinator Casey Dennehy, Washington Pacific Coast Coordinator for...
To The Eagle: We have some really big news coming for the public utility customers of the Town of Cathlamet. We anticipate that we will be diverting all waste water from the town up to our new treatment plant starting the week of November 4. The plant is functioning, and we will be in a 30 day proving period for the month of November. We will arrange tours of the facility for those who wish to learn more about what all the labor has been creating. Please let me know if you would like to look around at the new plant. For water customers, we had...
In the first round of counting ballots for Tuesday's general election, Mark Howie leads Mike Balch 879-684 in the race for county sheriff. Auditor and Chief Elections Officer Diane Tischer said 142 ballots arrived too late to be counted Tuesday. Election officers will gather at 10 a.m. Friday to count those ballots and others which arrive by then. In the county's other contested races: --Wahkiakum School District Director 4--Shawn Merz 576, Lamar Blix 538. --Naselle/Grays River Valley School District Director 2--Joshua Holt 129, Art Hyland 86....
