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On October 29 at 6 a.m., WSU Extension Agent Charles Brun will discuss how to avoid diseases in your fruit trees by spraying and management practices. Following the talk, Master Gardener Ted Cunningham will demonstrate the techniques used when pruning fruit trees. Pruning your trees will control the size of the tree and improve fruit quality. Proper pruning techniques reduce disease and promote greater fruit production. The class will be held in the Cowlitz County Training Center, 1942 First Avenue in Longview, located on the dike just south...
The Christmas Bazaar and Bake Sale at the Naselle Lutheran Church will be held November 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will include Fall and Christmas decor, plus a wide variety of gift items and baked goods. John Indermark's latest book, Advent, A to Z will also be available to purchase. Several hot soups accompanied by breads and coffee will be offered starting at 11 a.m. as a free will donation. All proceeds will be dedicated to the Sunday School program furnishings and supplies and to the refurbishment of the pastor's new office. The...
The Cathlamet Yacht Club would like to thank everyone who participated in this year's raffle. A drawing was held September 21st during the Membership Dinner at the Elochoman Marina. The winner of the canoe was Debbie Keevy, of Puget Island. The winner of "The Villa" one-night stay was Barbara Lloyd of Seattle. Funds raised from the raffle will be used for club and community oriented projects....
Redmen Hall will hold their annual Holiday Open House on Friday, October 29 through Sunday, December 22. The artisans of Wahkiakum and Pacific counties are invited to participate in this holiday sale of items made by local friends and neighbors. This year’s event will be "Deck the Hall" and the community is welcome to participate with their art and crafts and music. Local author Irene Martin will be talking about her new book of poetry and signing copies as part of the featured events and there will be music and food served the first two w...
Wahkiakum Helping Hand President Shane Skinner signed the lease for Erickson Park on October 7. Helping Hand, a nonprofit corporation, plans to place a portable building in a section of Erickson Park to serve as a food bank. According to a report from Helping Hand, grants, matching funds and donations will finance the project. The group is still working out details but hopes to have the foundation in place next year. Members of the board of directors are Skinner, Vice President Ben Moore, Treasurer Mary Dasher, Secretary Fred Johnson, and...
The Naselle Comet Booster Club will host the Harlem Ambassadors basketball team to play against their staff on November 6 at 6 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the door, $8 for adults, $5 for K-12....
Redmen Hall would like to announce its final exhibit of 2013 showing the paintings of the well known artist Mike Swift. Currently he lives in Cathlamet, but has come from the busy world of Hollywood. He is a prolific storyboard artist for the film industry working with films like "View From the Top," "Red Line," "Stuart Little," "Taxi" and many others including advertising work for Nike, Microsoft, and Intel. He also paints some amazing portraits - of people, cars, planes, boats, and landscapes. He has a fine sense of texture and color that is...
Please join us at The Hotel Cathlamet tomorrow from 4-7 p.m. to taste over 20 delicious chocolate treats created by various bakers in Wahkiakum County. This year we will also be featuring a baker who will be sending her chocolate all the way from Utah! We will have to-go boxes available for those of you who would like to take chocolate home to share or to save. Wahkiakum High School football team will have a home game on Friday, so pick up some chocolate to enjoy while you watch our Mighty Mules take on the Napavine Tigers! For your listening...
“The Family that Never Threw Anything Away” is the title of author Irene Martin’s new book. Well-known for her historical research and publications, this new work is a departure from her usual non-fiction and is a small volume of poetry on the subjects she is best known for: salmon, fisheries, history and spirituality. The title refers to the traditions, customs and objects handed down from immigrant ancestors that continually rework themselves into the lives of those in succeeding generations. The poems range from formal structured piece...
Voters who have trouble with the now common vote-by-mail system may vote in the Wahkiakum and Cowlitz county auditor's offices by using a voting machine. The AutoMARK is a ballot marking machine equipped with audio and visual technology that allows voters with vision, reading, and mobility issues who cannot mark their ballot in the usual way, vote privately and independently. According to information from the Wahkiakum County Auditor's Office, the AutoMARK is easy to use, magnifies ballots, reads ballots, marks ballots, and is accurate and...
The Wahkiakum PTO will hold a special meeting on Friday, October 4 at J.A. Wendt Elementary School, room 5, at 3:05 p.m. At this meeting they will discuss the implementation of a school garden. They have been contacted by Sheila Mace from AmeriCorps, who is working with the Hunger Relief Task Force. The PTO will meet with her to discuss if this is something they can participate in. Interested persons may join them to have any questions answered....
On September 14 the Tsuga Gallery hosted a one-day workshop on acrylic painting by Corrine Loomis-Dietz. She is from the Salem, Ore. area and has gained recognition as a painter and art educator. Her workshop was attended by a wide range of students, from young beginners to retired enthusiasts. Subjects included safe studio practices, secrets to cleanly mix colors and keep them vibrant, and the wide range of effects available by the use of various mediums and gels. Each participant received a packet of paints and mediums, as well as color...
The Pacific County Emergency Management Agency is seeking individuals interested in volunteering to play victims for Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) disaster simulations. The CERT simulations will take place on Saturday in Surfside. Volunteers will be put into moulage makeup to appear injured and some may be asked to act out disaster scenarios. Volunteers under the age of 18 must have parent/guardian permission. For more information or to volunteer, contact Denise Rowlett at (360) 642-9338 or email drowlett@co.pacif...
WSU Cooperative Extension is offering workshops on making wine and extending the gardening season. Two workshops are being offered to teach the art of wine making. On October 19, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., participants will learn how to grow grapes, with topics on site requirements and preparation, plant selection, care of young plants, trellising and pruning options, and pest management. The October 26 workshop will cover the winemaking process, from picking and crushing grapes to the bottling process. For both classes, participants will tour severa...
The Chinook Tribal Council will meet on October 12, 11 a.m. at the Faith Center Church, in Bay Center (this is an updated location as of Oct. 2) Tribal members are encouraged to attend....
Thousands of consumers who buy their own health insurance will soon receive letters from their insurance company telling them their old health plan is going away and that they will have to pick a new one. Knowing your rights and options will help you get the best plan to meet your needs. All of the insurance companies selling individual health plans are replacing their current plans with plans that have these new consumer protections. They must give their policyholders a 90-day notice that outlines their options, including: --Buying a new plan...
Quilts for all Seasons, a quilt show presented by the Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild, will be held October 4 and 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Youth and Family Link Building, 907 Douglas Avenue, Longview. The featured quilter will be Jane Reed, who made her first quilt at age 14 on her grandmother’s treadle sewing machine. Her favorite method of quilting is paper piecing with freezer paper. The show will feature demonstrations, door prizes, a raffle quilt, vendors, a country store and more. There will be a $5 admission charge. For more i...
In order to ease transition for incoming freshmen and transfers, several upperclassmen at Wahkiakum High School stepped into newly appointed leadership roles through a program called Link Crew. The leaders were selected from students who completed applications requiring an essay about why they wanted to mentor. Seniors Kyler McKinley and Shane Souvenir are two of the students who went through training for the program this summer and are now mentors and leaders to several ninth grade students....
The Blanche Bradley Memorial Library Foundation is seeking gently used books for their second book sale of the year to be held on Saturday, October 12. Bring book donations to the library in Wahkiakum County’s River Street Building. The sale will be at 40 River Street near the Post Office. The foundation supports the library by providing circulation materials and contributing to programs such as Summer Reading for kids....
The 15th Annual Royal Chocolate Extravaganza will be held from 4-7 p.m. October 11 at the Hotel Cathlamet. The chocolate tasting event supports The Charlotte House Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services, which is a program of St. James Family Center and is sponsored by the Charlotte House Advisory Board. Anyone who is interested in baking for this event or would like more information, may call Susan at 360-795-6401. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children under age 12, and $10 for people over age 60. Tickets can be purchased at St....
According to information from the Naselle-Grays River Valley School District, there will be a community meeting on September 30, 6:30 p.m., in the high school commons, to discuss whether the sports teams will be classified as 1B or 2B....
A dedicated and helping hand, and more, to the community is Bob Adams, Puget Island. Bob had the idea and commitment that he would use his time and gardening skills to help the less fortunate in Wahkiakum County. Bob started early this spring in growing a large number of vegetable plants from seeds. In fact, when it came time to transfer these seedlings, there were too many. So Bob did another gracious gesture; he gave many plant starts away. Since about the first of July, his efforts in producing a large vegetable crop have come to fruition....
Three local musicians have teamed up to record and perform an eclectic mix of music featuring voice, ukulele, cello and violin under the band name of Blind Luck Combo. They are Skamokawa valley residents Sunrise Fletcher and Andrew Emlen, and not technically local but seemingly so because of his long association with Emlen and the lower Columbia region, Jeffrey Reynolds. Bandleader and frontman Fletcher executes the vocals and plays melodies and harmonies on a ukulele. Emlen provides the foundation with his cello, and Reynolds's masterful violi...
Famed western writer Ivan Doig will be a guest lecturer at Lower Columbia College on September 28. Doig will speak on "Makings: How a Book Gets Written" in the Rose Center, Wollenberg Auditoriaum at 5 p.m. Tickets are $35, or one may join the Longview Library Foundation. Doig is a National Book Award Finalist for his book, "This House of Sky."...
Yvonne Lockwood, Finlandia Foundation National’s Lecturer of the Year for 2013, will make a presentation on Thursday, September 12, at 6:30 p.m., at Suomi Hall, 244 W. Marine Drive, in Astoria. She will do a power point presentation on Finnish rag rug weaving which will include the history as well as current rug weaving in Finland. Ms. Lockwood is a student of Finnish American culture. Although born and raised in the densely, Finnish-populated Upper Peninsula of Michigan, she went to high school and college in California. When she returned t...
