The Wahkiakum County Eagle - Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891

Spring Seminar tackles gardening issues

On March 17 at the Cowlitz County Exposition Center, a collection of workshops will be offered as part of the Master Gardener Spring Seminar.

Speakers from across Washington will discuss caring for ornamentals, how to control yard pests, solar power, water storage, managing mole problems, basics of grafting trees, building up the soil and well maintenance. To register or for more information, contact Gary Fredricks at garyf@wsu.edu or 577-3014 Ext 3. The program sponsored by Washington State University Extension Master Gardeners is $45 per person which includes lunch. Space is limited so register early.

GWTR Art Contest winners announced

For 28 years, youth from Naselle Grays River and Wahkiakum School Districts have created and submitted original art work for the design for Wahkiakum 4-H’s annual Great White Tail Run T-shirt.

Wahkiakum 4-H Leaders’ Council judged pieces submitted by dozens of youth. The winners are Tarah Wisner, first place; Mya Kirey, second place; Kristina Goldinov, third place. Honorable mention goes to Brock Cothren, Mckensi Fluckiger, Cheyenne Kennedy, Kalli McCafferty, Shelby Robinson, Hannan Saari, and Anna Zimmerman.

Prizes will be awarded to the winners in May. The first place winner’s art will be featured on the Great White Tail Run T-shirts on the run day, May 19.

Cancelled concert

to go ahead March 31

The Americana band Cowgirl’s Dream will perform on March 31 at the Skamokawa Grange at 7:30 p.m. The four-piece band consists of accordionist Toby Hanson, drummer Mike Friel, Steve Nebel on guitar, and band-leader Kristi Nebel on bass.

Kristi and Steve Nebel have played various concerts around Skamokawa, including three times in the past with another similar band, "The Celluloid Cowboys" at the Wahkiakum County Fair. They've also performed concerts as a duo at Redmen Hall, Inn at Lucky Mud, and the Pioneer Community Church in Cathlamet. To hear a sample of the band's sound, visit http://www.sknebel.com/detour/index_files/Page 267.htm.

The two-hour performance has a cover charge of $10. This is a rescheduled performance after the band broke down enroute for their performance which was to have been November 12.

Tickets are available at the door with no reservations needed. For more information contact Jessica Fletcher, Skamokawa Grange Program Director, at 360-795-8770.

Brian Benfer exhibit set at LCC Art Gallery

Artist Brian Benfer will be featured in a solo exhibit at the Art Gallery at Lower Columbia College, March 13–April 13. The public is invited to this free exhibit, as well as to a free opening reception March 12, from 4 until 6 p.m.

Benfer has worked in a variety of media, including site-specific installations, sculpture, video, ceramics, paintings and performance art. More information about Benfer is on his website, brianbenfer.com.

The LCC Art Gallery, located in the Rose Center for the Arts, is open Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., and Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gallery information is at lowercolumbia.edu/gallery.

Free writers' workshop set for March 6 at LCC

Poet Joseph Green will give a free writers' workshop March 6 at Lower Columbia College in Longview, and read from his work that evening at the Longview Public Library Auditorium, presented by Northwest Voices.

Green's free workshop, A Machine Made of Words: What Makes the Poem Run? is set for 3:30 until 5 p.m. in Main 119 at LCC. That evening, from 7 until 8 p.m., he will read mostly from his new book, That Thread Still Connecting Us.

Since 1975, Joseph Green's poems have been appearing in literary journals and many have been collected in His Inadequate Vocabulary (1986), Deluxe Motel (1991), Greatest Hits 1975-2000 (2001), The End of Forgiveness (2001), and now That Thread Still Connecting Us (2012).

He was PEN Northwest's Boyden Wilderness Writer for 2000, at the Dutch Henry Homestead in Oregon's Rogue River Canyon; and in 2002 he held a residency at Fundación Valparaiso, in Mojacar, Spain.

Through his Peasandcues Press, he produces limited-edition, letterpress-printed poetry broadsides, using hand-set metal type; and at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry, in Portland, he is part of a team working to preserve the craft of casting the type itself.

He retired from teaching in his 25th year at Lower Columbia College.

More information about this and other free literary events is available at http://lowercolumbia.edu/northwestvoices.

FOS plans antique sale

The Friends of Skamokawa will hold an antique sale from March 29 to April 1.

They are seeking items from county residents to sell on consignment.

For more information, contact Keith Hoofnagle at 795-0561 or Redmen Hall at 795-3007.

Youth baseball

tryouts change date

The tryouts for Wahkiakum Youth Baseball that were scheduled for March 3 will now take place on March 10 at 10:30 a.m. at the baseball field at Wahkiakum High School, according to president Todd Wilson.