Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Naselle Lutheran Church celebrates Harvest Fest A Harvest Fest will be held at the Naselle Lutheran Church on October 27 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Sausage and sauerkraut will be available for lunch for a donation. Fresh donuts and soft pretzels will also be served from the kitchen. The Lutheran bakers offer a variety of breads and other oven delicacies including some of the traditional Finnish recipes. Fresh cranberries for holiday serving, as well as arrangements for decorating and a variety of handmade items can be purchased. The church is lo...
Family center hosting Halloween carnival The St. James Family Center Preschool Parents Group is sponsoring the annual Halloween Carnival to raise money to donate to United Way. The carnival will take place on October 27 from 2 to 5 p.m. Kids of all ages can participate in a costume contest, pumpkin contest, and many carnival games for the whole family. Admission is free and tickets will be sold five for a dollar or 25 cents a piece. Tickets are accepted for games, food and beverages. Individuals or businesses wishing to help out are encouraged...
Fair Premium checks are in the mail and will be delivered to your mail box in the next few days. Please cash your check as soon as you receive it! All checks need to be cashed by November 10. We are always looking for new ways to bring in funding to support our Fair. We have a new Wahkiakum County Fair Board fund raiser. We are selling delicious smoked sockeye salmon. After our fair time salmon barbecue we had a few fillets left, Commissioner Blair Brady suggested we get the salmon smoked and packaged ready to sell. The salmon was smoked at...
Hounds to run for last time this year The last lure coursing event of the year will take place this weekend at Misty Rivers Plantation, 117 Cross Dike Road on Puget Island. The AKC sanctioned event is sponsored by the Willamette Valley Basenji Club; qualifying runs will be held first thing on Saturday morning, commencing around 8 a.m. and the regular racing events will follow, running through late afternoon, and again on Sunday. Also scheduled for both mornings at 8 a.m. is registration for Coursing Ability Tests which is open to dogs of any...
Fair Premium checks will be issued this week and delivered to your mail box soon. Please cash your check as soon as you receive it! Missing some eye glasses? Could you have left them at the fairgrounds during Fair time? As we were straightening up the Fairgrounds buildings we have collected three pairs of eye glasses. Please call the fairgrounds if you think a pair might be yours. Naidie Everdell wanted a few special prizes to be awarded along with the ribbons exhibitors received this year in the Cavy and Exotic Barn. After consulting with me,...
END OF ANOTHER MONTH--Well, as you can see, we're in the countdown of yet another month with a new one beginning on Monday; seems impossible but yet, October is on its way. Can you feel the nip in the air? Well, we'd better be enjoying Fall as the next thing you know, it'll be Winter, so hustle with those chores and get yourself ready for some short days and long nights! SPECIAL DAYS--Celebrating their birthdays from September 27 through October 3 are Sue Kuller, Matthew Keilwitz, Stewart Moonen, Ginger Schmitz, Stevan Morgain, Marie West,...
Blessing of the Animals this Sunday St. James Episcopal Church will hold a Blessing of the Animals service on Sunday at 10 a.m. in the church garden at 1134 Columbia St. to honor the life of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment. Community members are invited to bring well-behaved dogs on leashes and cats in carriers, and other pets. Photographs can be substituted for animals uncomfortable in church or who have died. A morning prayer service will be conducted, focused on thanksgiving and blessing God’s gift o...
Many people attended the Wahkiakum County Fair this year, but on the last day, people came from our county and beyond to stand in line and be served a plate of barbecued Alaskan caught salmon. We enjoy preparing this delicious dinner for our fair visitors and are happy to see our community support this important fund raiser for the fair. This dinner was possible because of the generosity of Art Pedersen and E&E Foods. Art caught the salmon in Alaska, then delivered the fish to be processed to E&E Foods. Art donated the salmon, E&E Foods donated...
TIME'S FLYING--Well, as you can see by the date, time is flying by super fast and we're already heading into our fourth week of the month. Where has the time gone and won't it please slow down? I think that ever since I was sick, I've been behind and cannot seem to get caught up on all the things I know that need doing before our rains come and don't leave. To top it all off, Autumn officially starts this Saturday, so say farewell to Summer. Let's hope for an Indian Summer and I'd say from the little heat wave of last weekend, we're headed in...
Photographer returns for Redmen Hall show Redmen Hall will be featuring local photographer Nick Deal, who has won many awards in photography in Washington and Oregon, for their next exhibit. Deal exhibited at Redmen Hall last year and is returning for a one man exhibit. His work takes a unique view of the environment, concentrating on the architecture of negative and positive space. The exhibit, entitled "As I See It," will open October 6 with a reception for the photographer at 1 p.m. The exhibit will run through the weekend of November 17-18...
Visitors and friends attending the fair had a wonderful group of people to welcome them through our Wahkiakum County Fair gates. Our admission booths were staffed with some of the nicest people from our local area. I heard some comments back about being a ticket taker last August and they were all good! Maybe it was the little bag of treats Valle or Azery took to the workers about half way through their shifts. Maybe it was knowing they were needed and a big part of helping with fair time volunteer activities. We cannot thank them enough for...
TRANSITION WEEKEND--Well, last week was pretty toasty around here as temperatures were up in the 90s last Friday. However, on the coast it was much cooler that day and we got some of their cloud cover the first half of Saturday. Then the wind picked up and we cleared off quite a bit by afternoon and saw the sunshine and it was nice again. However, by late afternoon it was another story, as that wind came back up and nothing but dark clouds covered us by early evening. Needless to say, the rain that I saw on Sunday morning was no surprise and...
Work begins soon to make county roads safer Construction workers will begin work under a federal grant to improve safety on Wahkiakum County roads in two weeks. Coral Construction and their sub-contractors will start on improving the cross-slope of a curve on Beaver Creek Road on September 17. Motorists are asked to use caution through the work zone as they are flagged through the area. Later this month, workers will remove old signs and install new signs that meet modern safety standards for night time visibility. For more information contact...
My adding machine has been working overtime this week as I total up the points on the exhibitor cards for our Youth Exhibitors. The 4-H, Open Youth and FFA exhibitors were very busy creating items to enter into the Fair! The Youth building was filled up with their wonderful exhibits! In the Youth Still Life Departments, Crafts and Hobbies received the highest number of entries with 674 items entered, that’s a lot of crafts. Educational posters had the next highest amount of entries. Our young exhibitors put lots of time and effort into their p...
How does one adequately say thank you to a community and its people for all their prayers, love, hugs, and support when you need it? Well, here goes. Last Thursday morning, my husband suffered a stroke and lost his ability to speak and his right side is paralyzed. Thank you, Grays River EMS folks for your gentleness, kindness, speed and professionalism as well as your medical skills in getting him to Longview in a timely manner. As volunteers and friends, you are each one in a million, and I appreciate you so much. To everyone who has called,...
NICE HOLIDAY--Well, if you didn't have a great Labor Day weekend/holiday, it certainly couldn't have been due to the weather as it was pretty doggone nice. We had some clouds, some sun, and some wind but no rain, so hey, that's a big plus for those who were out there camping or enjoying one of the many activities that went on this weekend, there was lots to do! From the looks of the traffic on SR 4, there seemed to be a whole lot of people who were headed west to enjoy their time at the coast and possibly take in one last fling before school...
Youth Advocacy Group seeks parent involvement Students from Wahkiakum High School are asking for parent involvement in the Wahkiakum High School Youth Advocacy Group. The Youth Advocacy Group is a coalition of administration, students, parents, mental health professionals and law enforcement representatives that have a vested interest in bettering the experience of students that attend Wahkiakum High School. The purpose of the Youth Advocacy Group is to strengthen the partnership and collaboration between students and school administration to...
How many people attended our Fair this year? After totaling all the figures, we had 3,524 people come through our gates! Hope you enjoyed the entertainment, livestock shows, good food and visiting with friends each day. See you at the 2013 Wahkiakum County Fair! Did you notice the beautiful roses we have growing in our flower beds during the fair? These roses were selected by Georgie Billings for their beauty and ability to continue to survive in our rainy area. She also loaned the fair many potted plants and placed them around the fairgrounds...
I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend and enjoyed the nice weather we had as well. There were lots of things going on all over the area with yard sales, bake sales, Farmstock in Naselle, and barbecues with friends and family. Haymakers are still working on getting the bales made and stored away for the winter feedings. Derek Heitsch is making hay on one of our fields, and it seems to be taking forever with the moisture in the air during the nights. His cows will enjoy it later with all the nice clover from that field. News from Naselle:...
DAMP--As this week begins and the weekend ends, we're seeing some dampness out here in West Valley, which was definitely not in the forecast at least not for a couple more days. However, I'm sure all my plants and my poor dry lawn were happy to see the light misty stuff come down and give it a little drink. All of us on springs and wells were happy too, as every little bit helps after a long dry spell. On Monday morning the fog made for some heavy dew, but parts of my driveway were already dry by noon. This little spattering of rain isn't...
Wine tasting, auction set for September 8 The Friends of Skamokawa Foundation presents "A Cornucopia of Wines--Auction and Wine Tasting." The auction takes place at the Skamokawa Grange, located off the fairgrounds entrance in Skamokawa, on September 8. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the Silent Auction and wine tasting begins at 7 p.m. The live auction will begin at 8 p.m. with Brian McClain of McClain Auctions. Silent auction items include gift certificates, a silver teapot, a hand made cuttingboard, framed art, gift baskets, a hanging...
I have many nice Fair time memories that I will never forget; crowning Ashley Hedges our 2012 Wahkiakum County Fair Queen and handing her a bouquet of beautiful flowers that were grown here on the fairgrounds is one. Each night flowers were selected by my staff and we arranged a new bouquet for Queen Ashley. Congratulations, Ashley, enjoy your year as Wahkiakum County Fair Queen! I hope you had a chance to look at and take a ride in the beautifully restored Model Ts in the Fairgrounds Park. Ray Badger brought to our Fair a wonderful group of...
After nearly a month without rain, we drove in from Oregon on Sunday evening and looking to the west, sure enough, the rain was back. Not much though, just enough to irritate the farmers who are still making hay. News from Naselle: Before school begins for the 2012/13 year, many will be enjoying a last long weekend and finishing up their school shopping. Then back to the books. Here’s to a fantastic new school year. The first day of school will be on Tuesday. Check with the school office if you have questions about classes or bus schedules. S...
CLOUDY START--As this work week begins, it's pretty doggone cloudy out here in West Valley this morning, but it's not all that cold, so it's just right for this non-sun lover! It's pleasant enough to be outside in, but not hot and the wind's not blowing, so it's not nippy, so one of my personally preferred, perfect days! According to the weather folk, it seems the cloudy morning, sunny afternoon routine will continue throughout the week and they say there is no rain in the forecast, although it is certainly very dark out there this Tuesday...
An Evening at the Farm to raise funds for library The Blanche Bradley Memorial Library Foundation will host the fourth annual fund raiser on August 25 at the Stockhouse Farm on Puget Island. An Evening at the Farm will include a selection of wines, appetizers and music by acoustical guitarist Fred Carter. The foundation contributes funding assistance to library services such as the Summer Reading Program. The event will run from 6 to 8 p.m. The Stockhouse Farm is located at 59 West Birnie Slough Road on Puget Island. Tickets are available at...
