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

The Eagle had an incorrect name last week in the captions for photos about the Puget Island oat harvest. Photographer Paul Vik provided this correction for us. "Just to clarify, it's Jared Vik's machinery and crop and he's on the tractor. John Vik was there helping."

In the August 4 edition, The Eagle lacked the name of one of the people pictured at a National Night Out gathering In the Elochoman Valley. The unidentified person at the far left of the row was Beverly Higgins.

Incorrect information was supplied to The Eagle about the ticket prices for the upcoming Friends of Skamokawa wine tasting event set for September 10. Following is the correct information: Advance price for tickets is $15 per single and $25 per couple. At the door the price is $20 per single and $30 per couple.

Finally, a poor choice of words led to incorrect information in an article last week about county finances. Cooperative Extension Agent Carrie Backman provided this clarification/correction:

"In last week’s Eagle, the article from the commissioner’s meeting reads: “Since 2010, the county has spent $412,575 on the wages, salary, benefits, travel and operations, and equipment for the community center. The return on that investment, Backman said, is $1.2 million.”

This isn’t correct. My handout tries to show the county’s investment in a graphic way, but it might not have demonstrated it as well as I’d hoped. The investments are for the county Extension program as a whole, not the community center. The county has invested $78,000 since 2010; and WSU has invested $351,575 in the Extension program, including $9000 towards the television and teleconferencing system in the community center. This equals a total investment of $412,575 between the county and WSU into the Wahkiakum County Extension program since 2010.

"The Extension program in Wahkiakum County (my staff, volunteers, and me), have generated $1.17 million in grants and contracts for Wahkiakum County in an array of programs and services since 2010: $835,000 for fisheries and restoration through the Washington Coast Restoration Initiative, $187,490 from WDFW for the MRC work, $38,877 from the State Department of Health for nutrition education in the schools and food banks, $120,700 for 4-H from the Wahkiakum Community Network, $18,000 to help with a tide gate replacement from The Nature Conservancy for the Conservation District’s work on Dead Slough, and $8,500 from the Northwest Area Foundation for furnishings for the community center."