Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Naselle-Grays River Valley School District Board of Directors met for its monthly meeting on Tuesday in the Middle School Commons. In personnel matters, George Garcia was hired as a bus driver. Regan Wirkkala and Lamar Wirkkala were hired as part-time groundskeepers. Nicole Burkhalter was hired as middle school volleyball coach and Kirsten Scrabeck as C-squad volleyball coach. The board also approved a one year leave of absence for Karl Smith, middle school football coach, and approved the temporary hire of Ryley Queener as a one year...
The Wahkiakum Community Center should soon re-open under direction of a new manager. The center, located in the first floor of the Cathlamet library building, has been closed since the end of July when funding ended for its Americorps manager. Some programs in existence at that time have continued under direction of volunteers, but the center has been closed. Volunteers have pressed both the Town of Cathlamet, which owns the center building, and Wahkiakum County, which has contracted with the town to operate the center, to get the center open...
Several community leaders met last week with representatives from the National Park Service on September 14 to continue planning a potential park on the site of the former sewage lagoons in Cathlamet. Prior to the meeting, the group from NPS met with sixth and eighth grade students in order to get a feel for what the local youth might want in a park. According to Brianna Truden of NPS, the students' complaints about community parks centered on unsanitary bathrooms, distance, neglected basketball...
By Rick Nelson Commissioners of Port District 2 on Tuesday agreed to purchase an espresso stand and construct a new building housing the port office and a laundromat at Skamokawa Vista Park. Sisters Rachel Katyryniuk and Nicole Burkhalter set up a mobile espresso stand in the park last year, and they've offered to sell it to the port district this year. Port Manager Janet Bryan told commissioners that she thought it would be a profitable asset for the port. Commissioners agreed. "I think it would be a good deal because it's all ready to go,"...
In the near future, boxes filled with love will leave Wahkiakum County and head north to Seattle. The boxes have been making this trip every year since 1959, when the Puget Island Auxiliary was formed. The women's group makes quilts and other items for children who go to the Seattle Children's Hospital for care. This year, 35 hand made quilts, 59 knitted hats, books, stuffed animals, crayons and more will be dropped off at a thrift store in Olympia. The thrift store will deliver them to...
County officials are ready to take the next step in getting four waterfront areas qualified as US Army Corps of Engineers dredge spoils disposal sites. The board of commissioners on Tuesday cleared the final hurdle to sending letters to property owners requesting their approval of access easements so dredge crews can work on their shorelines during the spoils disposal process. Commissioners and property owners in areas experiencing significant Columbia River shoreline erosion have been waiting...
Last Thursday, commissioners at the Wahkiakum County Port District 1 meeting discussed the preliminary budget and possible rate hikes for 2017, talked about dredge issues, and approved the sale of an abandoned boat. Commissioners looked over the preliminary budget for 2017. According to the proposed budget, the port is expected to bring in $1,114,137 in revenue and spend $737,125. Several rate hikes are also being proposed, mostly in cabin rental prices as well as seasonal monthly RV and dry...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday authorized the county engineer to apply for funds for road improvement projects in Eden Valley, on Puget Island and at Skamokawa. Commissioners authorized County Engineer Paul Lacy to apply for grant funding for the road improvement projects. The bulk of the funding would come from the state County Road Administration Board. The three projects are: 1. Improving Eden Valley Road to ease flooding impacts. At milepost 2, the road flooded nine times last year, Lacy said. He has proposed installing more...
A late summer sunset colors the sky and Columbia RIver. Photo by Rick Nelson....
THURSDAY Rosburg Community Club, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. 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. Wahkiakum Fire District No. 4, 7 p.m. Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Community Library & Computer Center, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. West End Food Pantry, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds...
It was busy on Saturday at the Elochoman Slough Marina. Around noon, the Coast Guard put on a performance for spectators, including the owners of a boat that ran aground on a sand bar. They were fine, someone later said of the boat owners. They'd taken advantage of the incident to clean the bottom of their boat. Leanne Jacob, second-in-command at the marina, had been on her feet for several hours by the time lunch time rolled around. The parking lot was packed at 1 p.m., but not has badly as it...
Commissioners approved the preliminary budget for 2017 for all three of their systems at the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioner’s meeting on Tuesday morning. Expected revenues and expenses for the proposed budget of the electric system are $4,142,815; $413,115 for the Puget Island water system; and $320,730 for the western Wahkiakum water system. Auditor Erin Wilson and General Manager David Tramblie talked about painting projects, security issues and future vehicle needs with the c...
Wahkiakum County commissioners had a quiet meeting Tuesday with a light agenda. With Commissioner Dan Cothren absent and attending a meeting of the state Board of Natural Resources, Commissioners Blair Brady and Mike Backman approved a request from Clerk Kay Holland to purchase a portable storage container. The container will come equipped with shelving, lighting and electricity connection, and will cost $6,907.92. The county will spend approximately $1,100 to set up the container near the courthouse. In her written request, Holland said her...
The US Coast Guard demonstrated in water rescue on Saturday at the Cathlament Wooden Boat Festival. A helicopter crew dropped a dummy in the Columbia off the Elochoman Slough Marina (above) and then lowered a crewman into the water to connect "the victim" to a rescue line (right and below). Photos courtesy of Genie Cary....
THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Port District No. 1, 500 2nd St., 5 p.m. 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 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum County Real Property Rights Advisory Board, Courthouse, 6 p.m. Eastside Play & Learn Group, St. James Family Center, 1:30-3...
The Washington State Committee on Geographic Names is looking for opinions on the recent proposal to change the names of Jim Crow Hill, Jim Crow Creek, and Jim Crow Point. Joe Budnick, who lived in the Brookfield area, suggested that Jim Crow Creek be changed to Harlows Creek; Jim Crow Hill would become Beare Hill; and Jim Crow Point take on the name of Brookfield Point. “Because local opinion is very important to the committee,” Caleb Maki, the executive secretary for the committee said, “we would like your opinion regarding this propo...
On Tuesday morning, 30 boats went out on the Columbia River in the early morning hours, ferrying 53 participants in the second annual Warriors and Widows Salmon Derby to prime locations for fishing. Only 21 came back with a fish, but everyone seemed to be having a good time. Altogether, they caught 348.5 pounds of fish. The event is organized by local volunteers and welcomes veterans and active servicemen and women as well as widows and children to Cathlamet to do a little fishing. And feel a...
Last Friday, local law enforcement and emergency personnel had an opportunity to practice their training along with other agencies in a full scale mass casualty incident at Wahkiakum High School. Several volunteers arrived early in order to be given life-like wounds by moulage artists. Overall, more than 160 people participated in the event. Only these so called victims, the volunteer criminals, high school staff and first responders knew exactly what was happening inside the school walls. The...
Joyce Wilson, the library aide for Wahkiakum School District has done it again. Over her summer break, Wilson applied for and was awarded a Refreshing School Libraries to Engage Students grant from the Washington Secretary of State. This is the second time this year she found success with grants for the WSD libraries. “It’s exciting,” Wilson said. “Once I received the other grant I started getting more notices.” This grant allowed her to purchase $1,000 worth of non-fiction for elementar...
A recount of votes for the Legislative District 19 Position 1 primary election last week confirmed that Teresa Purcell had finished second and will advance to the general election. In the final vote tally, Purcell led JD Rossetti 6,411 to 6,361. The margin was small enough to trigger a recount, and Purcell gained one vote in the recount. Republican Jim Walsh came out on top of the race for Position 1 with 28.96 percent of the vote, Democrat Purcell had 24.19 percent, and Rossetti, also a Democrat, had 24.0 percent. Purcell will face Walsh in...
THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, 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. Cathlamet Public Library Board of Trustees, 12:45 p.m. Community Library & Computer Center, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. West End Food Pantry, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) GRVC at Johnson Park...
Fair Manager Patty Dursteler has been working hard to bring back the old fashioned country fair to Wahkiakum County. There was plenty of good music, animals and food. The kids in 4-H were busy and the exhibits in the youth barn showed that there was a lot of talent bubbling up in our county. Unfortunately, the heat may have kept people away this year. On Saturday, visitors took advantage of the cooler temperature. People were mucking stalls in the horse barn as they made preparations to leave...
Wahkiakum county commissioners on Tuesday took another step toward setting up the fund raising mechanism for their flood control zone districts (FCZD). Commissioners Dan Cothren and Mike Backman--Commissioner Blair Brady was out of town at a county insurance pool meeting--recessed out of their board of commissioners meeting to convene as commissioners of the FCZD's and interlocal agreements establishing the funding relationship between the county and the districts. Officials say costs of...
Board members discussed the high school football program at the August Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, as well as the new superintendent job description. The principals gave assessment results and the board approved several other items under new business. The coach for the high school football team, Eric Hansen, was in attendance to ask the school board to consider allowing eighth grade students to play varsity football this year after a shift in rules at WIAA ma...
To honor late tribal leader Ray Gardner, members of the Chinook Tribe made a canoe journey down the river last week. Photos by Genie Cary....
