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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Cathlamet Mayor George Wehrfritz has ordered a selective spending freeze in response to an anticipated budget shortfall for 2010, and some department heads aren't happy. Wehrfritz said Monday it appears the town's general fund will be about $41,000 short of its expected revenue for 2010 because of declines in sales tax receipts and other taxes which are suffering in the national recession. The town's sewer and water departments, with revenues based on usage fees, however, are doing fine. In other business Monday, the council asked the planning...
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF Case No. 10-4-00013-1 THE ESTATE OF JACK A. KNOPSKI, PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Deceased. RCW 11.40.030 The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative 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 on or mailing to the Personal Representative or...
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MEETING DATE FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Tuesday, September 28, 2010, Regular Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners for Wahkiakum County shall be changed to Monday, September 27, 2010, and shall commence at the hour of 9:30 a.m. Regular Meetings of the Board of County Commissioners are held in the Board's Public Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Wahkiakum County Courthouse, 64 Main Street, Cathlamet, Washington. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY...
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY MARCELLA KRAFT NO. 10-2-00029-1 Plaintiff, SUMMONS v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF OTTO SALME AND HELGA SALME, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ESA POUTTU AND SOPHIA POUTTU, JACOB MEHTONEN AND JANE DOE MEHTONEN, ISAAC WAGLAND AND MARY WAGLAND, ELMER BERRY AND JANE DOE BERRY, ULRIKA YRJALA AND JOHN DOE YRJALA, DAVID WILSON AND LILJA WILSON, AMALIA WILSON AND JOHN DOE WILSON, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ERIC NICHOLSON AND IRENE NICHOLSON, ED LEMPKE AND THEODORA LEMPKE aka THEODORA A. HANSEN, THEODORA A. HANSEN...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: September 13-- 8:44 a.m. A caller reported free ranging guard dogs at a site used for storing junk vehicles. 9:29 a.m. A Skamokawa resident reported the theft of a cell phone. 9:44 a.m. A caller reported a deer stuck in a fence. DFW was notified. 3 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid an elderly female who had fallen and was unable to get up. September 14--10:10 a.m. Cathlamet fire crews responded to...
After spending three hours discussing the latest draft of an update to the Cathlamet zoning ordinance, members of the town council and planning commission agreed Tuesday that a new start is needed. Meeting in a special meeting for a workshop, planners and councilors agreed that the latest version, known as Cathlamet Municipal Code Chapter 18A had too many problems to fix easily. Instead, planners suggested the council should reject 18A when it meets Monday. Planners said they could revive a previous draft that seems more in line with council...
(Editor's Note: At The Eagle's invitation, Roger Caliman submitted this article in place of an obituary about his father, jazz saxophone player Hadley Caliman.) Former Cathlamet resident and Jazz Legend Hadley Caliman died September 8 after a two-year battle with liver cancer; he was 78. He was preceded in death by his daughter Harmony Caliman and is survived by his wife Linda Caliman, former wife Jan Caliman, children Lia Caliman and Roger Caliman, nephew Pride Cannaday, and father-in-law...
Wahkiakum 4-H Leaders’ Council and Friends of Extension present their third Annual Columbia River Country Days on October 1 and 2. This one-of-a-kind event raises money for Wahkiakum 4-H youth programs. The event kicks off at 3 p.m. Friday with a Slow Moving Parade with tractors, trucks and all things “slow-moving” progressing from downtown Cathlamet, over the Puget Island Bridge, and ending at the Two Islands Farm Market on East Birnie Slough. The Two Islands Farm Market will feature an old-time Pie Social, Friday, 3 to 6 p.m, along with...
To The Eagle: A month from now, I will be running my second Portland Marathon on 10 October 2010 (10/10/10! The date alone was a huge incentive!). I am excited to participate; it’s such a rush to plod through my natal city for hours with thousands of other runners and walkers. However, I think that running a marathon is a pretty selfish endeavor. Training takes many miles and hours, mostly dedicated to oneself. In all those miles and hours, I’ve been thinking of a way to make my run a little less selfish, and maybe a little more fun. “Hi...
To The Eagle: Current Undersheriff Jon Dearmore's qualifications include graduation from Washington's Basic Law Enforcement Academy. Could Troy Norris tell us if he has ever attended this academy and what the outcome was? Current Prosecuting Attorney Dan Bigelow's qualifications include being, in fact, an attorney. Could Dennis Gordon please tell us if he has graduated from law school and if he has passed the Washington State Bar Exam? It is my understanding that the state law does not disqualify unqualified candidates until they actually win....
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF Case No. 10-4-00013-1 THE ESTATE OF JACK A. KNOPSKI, PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Deceased. RCW 11.40.030 The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative 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 on or mailing to the Personal Representative or...
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MEETING DATE FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Tuesday, September 28, 2010, Regular Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners for Wahkiakum County shall be changed to Monday, September 27, 2010, and shall commence at the hour of 9:30 a.m. Regular Meetings of the Board of County Commissioners are held in the Board's Public Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Wahkiakum County Courthouse, 64 Main Street, Cathlamet, Washington. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY...
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY MARCELLA KRAFT NO. 10-2-00029-1 Plaintiff, SUMMONS v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF OTTO SALME AND HELGA SALME, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ESA POUTTU AND SOPHIA POUTTU, JACOB MEHTONEN AND JANE DOE MEHTONEN, ISAAC WAGLAND AND MARY WAGLAND, ELMER BERRY AND JANE DOE BERRY, ULRIKA YRJALA AND JOHN DOE YRJALA, DAVID WILSON AND LILJA WILSON, AMALIA WILSON AND JOHN DOE WILSON, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ERIC NICHOLSON AND IRENE NICHOLSON, ED LEMPKE AND THEODORA LEMPKE aka THEODORA A. HANSEN, THEODORA A. HANSEN...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: August 31--7:26 a.m. A caller reported illegal dumping along Hull Creek Road and a possible suspect was later identified. 8:31 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a West Valley woman with abdominal pain. 11:59 a.m. A person camping at Hornstra's Beach reported a theft of medications. 2:24 p.m. A Grays River man reported someone had loosened bolts on a tractor wheel which led to $500 or more in damage...
On September 11, an exhibit of quilts by the River City Strippers - a Wahkiakum County based quilters group - will open at Redmen Hall. This will be a celebration of their 10th anniversary as a group, having started with 11 members in February 2000, and now grown to just over 40 quilters. They meet weekly in Cathlamet and have become well known for the Comfort Quilts they make and donate to seriously ill children and adults in local hospitals. They will be showing over 80 pieces of their work from quilts to bags, clothing and smaller items....
Former Long Beach resident Ken Lentz, 72, died in Cathlamet on September 1, 2010. The son of Walter and Clara (Halsey) Lentz, he was born in Oak Grove, Mo, on June 19, 1938. He lived in southern California for a time before moving to Skamokawa to be near family. There he worked in the woods and married Judy Heagy. They had a son, Curtis. Later the couple moved to Kansas City, Mo. where Ken was employed as an iron worker in construction. In 1965 he returned to the local area where he again worked in the woods and fished commercially out of...
Jerrold Samuel Florek, 51, of Cathlamet, passed away September 3, 2010 as the result of a logging accident. He was born August 4, 1959 to Joseph, Sr. and Corliss (Sotka) Florek in Longview. Jerrold attended school in Cathlamet and graduated in 1977 from Wahkiakum High School. He worked as a timber faller, starting the profession when he was 15 years old. He spent two and a half years working as a roughneck in the Oklahoma Oil fields in the early 1980s. He traveled to New Zealand 20 years ago to work as a timber faller there for six months and...
Longtime local resident, James Rainey, 63, passed away September 4, 2010 at St. John Medical Center in Longview. He was born February 6, 1947 in Tillamook, Ore. to Douglas and Jennie (Crivella) Rainey. He attended school in Grays River and Naselle. Big Jim enjoyed his work as a dairy farmer and he was a timber faller for Weyerhauser until a logging accident in 1984. He and his dad enjoyed racing horses around the Northwest for many years. He loved working on old trucks, and spending time with his family and friends. He is survived by his sons,...
Wahkiakum PUD commissioners and management met September 7 to discuss policies and hear updates on ongoing projects. Ken Ruche, who owns a house on Covered Bridge Road, attended the meeting to comment on the PUD’s deposit policy. Ruche said his family moved into their home in March of 2008. The PUD required a two-month deposit of $700 and told Ruche that he would receive the deposit back in two years. When he came to the PUD office recently to inquire about the deposit, he was told that if a customer makes a late payment, the 24-month window s...
A Cathlamet Marine is one of a group of veterans bringing peace of mind to fellow veterans through a program centered on fly fishing. A lot of veterans are coming back now from Iraq and Afghanistan with amputations, disabilities and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the program attempts to do something for them, says Bill Talley, who served 22 years in the US Marine Corps, and learned personally about PTSD from his tour in Somalia. A severe anxiety disorder, PTSD can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological...
To The Eagle: As local boaters we want to thank the many last minute volunteers who last Saturday pulled off a great function at the marina featuring several events and a chili cook off. It makes us feel good when boaters and land yachters (RV’ers) from other areas look favorably on Cathlamet, which in turn makes us more welcome when we visit their marinas. David Goodroe was like the Dutch boy who found a hole in the dike and rallied the town’s people to save the day. Several hundred people had a great time enjoying chili, racing rubber duc...
Well, I hope the farmers have their hay in, as it looks like some wet weather is ahead. The rain is quite welcome for gardens being watered by hand. News from Naselle: Today is the first day of the 2010-11 school year. Let’s support them in their efforts, praise them for doing a good job and let them know we still care even if they need a little coaching in certain subjects. Remember that there is no school on Monday, the 6th, in celebration of Labor Day. I had a very nice note from Lois Bighill regarding her brother, Dan Anderson, of Grays R...
BEEN NICE--As this work week began, we got a few clouds and sprinkles but it wasn't too bad, as the sun came out and all signs of wetness soon disappeared. However, this Tuesday morning has things much wetter, but I'm sure my plants are loving it, as the ground was hard as a rock and the dirt was nothing but dust, so a little drink is probably a good thing. Last week, the daytime temperatures were in the mid-70s and they were some of my favorites; great if you had to work outside. THIS WEEKEND--The annual chili cook off at the Elochoman Marina...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: August 23--9:18 a.m. Deer refuge personnel reported someone had stolen a contractor's generator valued around $1,900. 10:01 a.m. A caller reported someone had taken a Dodge Intrepid without permission. 4:25 p.m. A caller reported a boat and trailer had been stolen in the Elochoman Valley; an officer investigated and recovered the items. 4:50 p.m. A Skamokawa resident reported someone had broken into an...
Cathlamet resident, Jack Arthur Knopski, 70, passed away August 24, 2010 at his home. He was born May 11, 1940 in Portland to Anton and Juanita (Moore) Knopski. He graduated from Washougal High School in 1958. On August 4, 1968 he married Carole Herrmann; she preceded him on October 5, 2009 after 41 years of marriage. Jack was a lifelong commercial fisherman in Kenai, Alaska and on the Columbia River. After retirement, he and Carole enjoyed their time in Arizona before moving to Cathlamet in 2004. He loved sport fishing, deer hunting with his...
