The Eagle News Dec. 18, 1975

Because the dates line up, The Eagle has decided to reprint events from 1975. Thank you to the volunteer Julie O’Neil and volunteer curator, genealogist, and board member Kari Kandoll.

Skamokawa News

By Mrs. Howard Madden

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Centers are visiting Vi and Al, Jr. from Kentucky. They are staying for the holidays.

Yours truly along with almost everyone else is up to ears in Christmas, shopping wrapping etc. Phones have been out again and it’s next to impossible to gather news items thus, no news last week.

Cecil Evans is home! Got my information wrong last week, and he wasn’t home at the time I reported he was. He’s doing fine.

We spent Sunday in Longview visiting our kids–coffee with Judy–mass and breakfast with Larry and Betty and lunch with Mike and Peg.

Stan Thacker is walking on air these days. His wife Becky presented him with a 9 ½ pounds baby girl on December 10. She will be called Lacey Katherine. Pat Thacker was home for a one-day stopover on his way to McChord air base for his academy physical, just long enough to welcome his new niece. That’s three granddaughters for the Hoby Thackers.

Dough Struthers of Seattle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Struthers, has been very ill. He is home now, but will be on a kidney machine three times a week.

The fire department was called out at 4:45 Monday morning to quell a chimney fire at the old Chester Crippen place in Middle Valley.

St. Catherines CCD will present its Christmas program Saturday. Mass will be at 6 p.m. instead of 6:30 as usual.

The Mentor club will hold its Christmas gift exchange meeting on Saturday evening at the K & M Cafe. George and June Durrah will be the hosts for the Dutch treat dinner.

Hazel Brockway and her daughter Terri are at their Christmas cookie making. I never saw so many sizes, shapes, kinds in my life. The “Cookie Monster” would really have a ball.