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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Wahkiakum County Port 1 Board of Commissioners met last Thursday for budget and rate hearings, to approve a loan from the county and a bid to replace C Dock, and to hear about projects around the Elochoman Slough Marina. Paige Lake was on hand to talk about the fourth annual Wahkiakum Lighted Christmas Parade which will include vendors and the parade which begins and ends in the port parking lot, with a visit to Main Street in between. “We started this event to promote the port and some of i...
THURSDAY Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Fire Protection District No. 1 Commissioners, Fire Hall, 5:30 p.m. Fire District No. 4, 7 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. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Food Addicts Meeting, The Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 6-7 p.m. Rosburg...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners got an update of recent activity at the utility at their meeting on Tuesday. A couple small changes were made to the 2023 budget prior to next month's budget hearing including $25,000 for a possible Clean Energy Transformation Act study, and money for meter reading equipment. The PUD was hoping to get the meter reading equipment this year, but the purchase is being delayed until next year, Auditor Erin Wilson said. As for the CETA study, General...
The newly organized Board of the Grays River Habitat Enhancement District met on Thursday, April 13 at Johnson Park with 16 in attendance. The county commissioners chose three of the five who applied to be on the board after all the prior board members resigned. The new board consists of Andrea Vincent, Don Dyer and Judy Johnson. All three are well qualified. Andrea Vincent was ill, so she was not present. Judy Johnson ran the meeting, but the decisions regarding officers has not yet been decided. Gene Strong, county commissioner and landowner...
By Diana Zimmerman Blair Brady, who is challenging incumbent Gene Strong as a write in candidate for Wahkiakum County Commissioner, District 3, provided answers to a list of questions asked by the League of Women Voters of Washington, and The Eagle asked Strong to respond to the same questions. Here are their answers. What is your record of public service? Strong: I have over 40 plus years, having served 20 years as aheriff of Wahkiakum County. In that 40 years I was in law enforcement, a...
Commissioners of Wahkiakum Port District 2 on Tuesday went over their preliminary budget for 2023 and discussed desired improvements to the Carlton Appelo Center at Skamokawa Vista Park. The center is the former Skamokawa United Methodist Church building, which the port acquired when the congregation dissolved. It has been renamed in honor of Appelo, one of the founders of the district. The 2023 draft budget totals $1.05 million with $411,938 estimated operating revenue, $155,800 in interest and investment income, and $485,000 in beginning cash...
Wahkiakum County commissioners touched on a couple 2023 budget issues when they met Tuesday; they'll meet with department heads next week to hear requests and get started. Treasurer Tammy Peterson reviewed financial status. Rising interest rates have benefitted county investments, which pool funds from a variety of local governmental entities. Based on 2021 interest rates, Peterson said she had budgeted only $15,000 in interest income for 2022. However, rates are rising, and at the end of September, investments had earned $90,196. Revenue from...
Wahkiakum County Eagle reporter Diana Zimmerman took third place in the news story, short category for her story about raising a sunken boat at the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest. This is Zimmerman’s 13th award in the last five years. The story, "Volunteers step up to raise sunken boat," can be found in the September 2, 2021, edition of The Wahkiakum County Eagle, on the website www.waheagle.com....
Above: Risk Road is open. Aaron West, a local subcontractor on the Columbia Land Trust project, removed the barriers from Risk Road after a project started in May was finally completed on Monday. Right: A new bridge on Risk Road spans a new waterway that connects Nelson Creek with the Elochoman River, creates habitat for salmon, and mitigates flooding in the area. Photos by Diana Zimmerman....
As Wahkiakum County officials head into development of 2023 budgets, they received Tuesday a fairly good report of probable revenue from harvest of timber off state managed trust timberland. The trust timber revenue supports most courthouse departments. Revenue in 2022 should be about $1.7 million, and in 2023, the county could receive as much as $1.8 million, Department of Natural Resources District Manager Padraic Callahan reported at the weekly meeting of the county board of commissioners. Timing of small sales could increase or decrease...
Thanks to the efforts of Carrie Backman, the director for the Wahkiakum Washington State University Extension Office and volunteer Ron Wright, students at Wahkiakum and Naselle/Grays River Valley School Districts will receive the benefits of a $201,951 grant from Career Connect Washington. Career Connect is a statewide organization, Backman explained, that helps create opportunities for people in underserved or underrepresented populations. The two applied for funding for career exploration,...
Saturday, October 22, promises to be a busy day in Cathlamet with an Autism Walk in the morning, and a Halloween Carnival at St. James Family Center in the afternoon, but with all that fun, chores must get done as well. Instead of staying home to tackle that yard work, or mop those floors, consider inviting your friends, family, and neighbors to team up on various projects around the community with this fall’s Tidy Up the Town. “It’s a good idea for us to do little projects around the commu...
A new exhibit, Rivertown, Through a Lens, highlighting photos taken by Wahkiakum County residents will open at Redmen Hall on Saturday. The interpretive center contacted Puget Island resident Rene Westbrook a couple months ago and asked the administrator of the Wahkiakum County Photography Facebook page if she would be interested in putting on an exhibition. “This Facebook page has people from all over the county that go out and look for the beauty,” Westbrook said. "Before they didn’t realize w...
Surveyors were at work on Tuesday at the Butler Street Lot. The lot will be a combination of parking and visitor information and include an electric vehicle charging station. Photo by Diana Zimmerman....
THURSDAY Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Food Addicts, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 6-7 p.m. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Port District No. 1, 500 2nd St., Noon. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire District No. 3 Commissioners, 7:30 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire training, 7 p.m. Skamokawa...
Commissioners of Port District No. 2 will consider their 2023 budget when they meet next Tuesday, 5 p.m., in Skamokawa. The 2023 draft budget totals $1.05 million with $411,938 estimated operating revenue, $155,800 in interest and investment income, and $485,000 in beginning cash and investments. Estimated payroll expenses are $331,300 other operating costs $196,500, capital costs $454,877 and debt service costs $70,000. Potential capital improvement costs include $80,000 for an additional rental cabin at Skamokwa Vista Park...
Jeff Rooklidge, a science teacher at Wahkiakum High School, was named the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Educator of the Year for Region 5, which was "delighted to recognize [Rooklidge] for his work mentoring students to become the natural resource stewards of the future." "To win an award like that is because you are blessed by people that support and help you so much, that is certainly true of me," Rooklidge said. According to the WDFW piece on Rooklidge, he is "well known in...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners heard from Mike Johnson, an engineer from Gray and Osborne, who gave an update on efforts to locate a secondary water source on Puget Island. Samples were taken from a well on Little Island, and according to the results, Johnson said, treatment would be necessary at that location, including chlorination and filtration using a manganese oxide filter media. The PUD could choose to move forward and try to find property for a well in that area or they...
Wahkiakum County's elected officials spent a good amount of time Tuesday trying to resolve a conflict between security and deficit. Department heads and county commissioners agreed that they need to add a second person to their IT Department, but they're looking at a revenue shortfall next year and they're wondering how to cover the expense. With the county's budgeting process for 2023 about to start, commissioners asked department heads to identify the funding so that the position can be implemented. Department heads said the county's IT...
“This may shock you but we have been getting a lot of calls about value,” Wahkiakum County Assessor Bill Coons said. I asked him why property values were going up so much. Anyone watching the real estate market knows that the price of homes has been going up in Wahkiakum County. Like everywhere else. It turns out it all depends on one very specific moment in time. “The mandate for our office is to value property at noon on January 1 of each year at 100 percent of market value,” Coons said. ...
East Valley Road was washed out in a few spots near its terminus during last winter's wet weather and preliminary repairs have it looking a little primitive, frustrating at least one resident who lives nearby. According to Chuck Beyer, Wahkiakum County Public Works issued a request for proposals for design of three culvert failures within Wahkiakum County and chose Otak Engineering to start design work for repairs on East Valley Road. "Once a design for the repair and all permits have been...
We at The Eagle experienced "joys of publishing" moments after last week's edition came off the press. On Thursday, a reader shamed us for mixing "motor" with "mortar" on a story about a museum display. I guess we're more familiar with ordinances than ordnance. On page 1, a story said the Cathlamet Family Practice Clinic is open Tuesday through Thursday. Where did that come from? We know very well it should have been Tuesday through Friday. About dinner time on Wednesday, we learned from Facebook that the Mule football game time had been...
Tracey and Nate's Treasures, or TNT, is open for business! Tracey McCallum and her husband Nate Richardson moved to their Elochoman Valley home, where the business is located, about four and a half years ago. "Cathlamet has been a good fit for us," McCallum said. "We love the community, we love our neighbors. We feel really blessed to be where we are." The pair use their unique talents and reclaimed, recycled, and repurposed wood and metal materials to make signs and holiday decor. "We do it tog...
THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. 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. Wahkiakum Fire District 2 Commissioners, Skamokawa Fire Hall, 7 p.m. Cathlamet Public Library Board of Trustees, 12:45 p.m. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Food Addicts Meeting, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet,...
Aris Campbell joined the school board officially at the last school board meeting. Later, he agreed to meet with me at his home where he, his wife, Megan and their two young children live on Upper Naselle Road. Both are working from home on-line as graphic designers. Aris attended Portland State studying psychology. Megan lived in Portland for 20 years and trained for graphic design. Aris wanted to come back to Naselle because of childhood memories of his grandparents, Francis and Lloyd...
