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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...
Last Tuesday, the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office and Wahkiakum County Port 2 recognized Tina Boyd, for her bravery on August 6, when she put herself in harms way to save a stranger's life at Vista Park. Boyd, who lives in Vancouver, was camping that weekend in August with her boyfriend. It was a spur of the moment decision, and they were feeling lucky that they were able to secure a spot that had just become available at the busy campground. The pair went to the beach on Saturday morning...
The lower Columbia River below Bonneville Dam will open additional areas for recreational salmon fishing beginning Oct. 1, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon announced Sept. 28. The lower river closed to recreational fishing in early September to protect lower Columbia River "tule" Chinook salmon, which are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Portions of the lower river reopened in mid-September for coho and Chinook fishing. With the vast majority of the lower river "tule" Chinook having moved out of the...
Wahkiakum County commissioners approved bids and plans for projects at county facilities and handled other business when they met Tuesday. Commissioners accepted a revised plan for moving sheriff department offices into the basement of the courthouse annex. Sheriff Mark Howie had presented a plan last week totalling an estimated $160,000, and commissioners asked him to look for savings and come back with a lower number. And Tuesday he did. A major change was to drop a plan to change the back entrance and leave it as is. With other minor...
Last week the Wahkiakum Marine Resource Committee and the Washington State University Wahkiakum County Extension Office hosted a three day Marine Resource Committee summit, which was attended in person and through Zoom by members of other MRCs around the region, like Grays Harbor County MRC, North Pacific Coast MRC, and Pacific County MRC. They toured Columbia Land Trust's Nelson Creek Restoration Project, the new fish processing center at Wahkiakum High School, and listened to presentations...
U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians recently responded to a potentially dangerous unexploded round at the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum in Cathlamet. Army EOD Soldiers from the 707th Ordnance Company (EOD) "Thunderbirds" were called by the Washington State Police Bomb Squad when museum staff discovered an old round that lacked the proper safety paperwork. Staff Sgt. Eric D. Steuby, the EOD team leader, from Ruston, Washington; 1st Lt. Trevor C. Bachus from...
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. AA Meeting, The Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Grays River Fire Department, open meeting, 7 p.m. West End Food Pantry, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. Community Computer Center, GRVC at Johnson Park, 12-4 p.m. FRIDAY River City Strippers, quilting group, St. Catherine Catholic Church, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. AA Meeting, Hope Center,...
By Superintendent Lisa Nelson On Tuesday, September 20, the Naselle/GR Valley School Board had its first business meeting of the school year. One empty chair was immediately noticeable. Last spring, Chairman Chuck Hendrickson resigned from the Board after eight years of service and leadership. Superintendent Lisa Nelson acknowledged the loss by speaking of the hard work Chuck had done for the school and the board. Others on the board mentioned that his commitment to the school was extraordinary...
According to information provided by the Wahkiakum Building and Planning Department, the county has decided that due to continuing dry conditions the burn ban will continue to be in effect until further notice. For more information call the Building & Planning Department at 360-795-3067....
A couple dozen golfers traveled from all over the region to the course at Lucky Mud in Skamokawa on Saturday to compete in the final match of the Battle of the Chain Maidens, a Professional Disc Golf Association women only series that took place this year. "It's akin to a state championship," Adam Fletcher said. Fletcher and his wife, Sara, run the disc golf course at Lucky Mud, and are avid disc golfers themselves. Sara was playing on Saturday as well. Each competitor in the summer series got p...
The Cathlamet town council on Monday took big steps on major projects--adopting a new rate structure for sewer and water utilities and starting the process to impose two-hour parking limits on Main Street. The council also gave initial approval to an ordinance allowing town residents to keep up to five chickens at their residences. Ordinances need approval in at least two separate meetings, so final action will come at a subsequent meeting. The council has been working on utility rates for years and put together a new structure designed to...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners met for more than two hours on Tuesday morning, with reports and engaging conversation that spanned a variety of topics that affect the utility both directly and indirectly. It started with a visit from Bonneville Power Administration Account Executive Lindsay Bleifuss, who answered questions for staff and commissioners, and had some potentially good news to share. BPA did really well in the power secondary market, she said, and with prices so...
