Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Remodel work on the Cathlamet Public Library – Town Hall building is targeted to begin in September. Wahkiakum County Commissioners have agreed to allow use of the River Street Meeting Room as a temporary location. At this time library hours are projected to stay the same. Crews of volunteers will be needed to help with packing, hauling (including providing vehicles) and unpacking several hundred cartons of movies and books plus furniture and supplies. Donations of food items for a buffet lunch, to be held in the basement of Pioneer...
Cathlamet Public Library’s Summer Reading Program starts July 7 and will be held every Wednesday for six-weeks, through August 11. Sessions include: pre-school story time at 11 a.m., elementary school age program and the middle school program at 4 p.m. Sessions last about one hour. Summer Reading is free and is open to local kids as well as those who are visiting for the summer. This year’s program “Make a Splash” will be run by Toni Hardy. She was a children’s librarian at North Central Regional Library Wenatchee before moving to Cathlamet...
The Library was a lively place in 2009. Adult and youth customers checked out an average of 1090 books, audio books, DVDs and videos every month, for an annual total of 13,050 items. Overall, 2009 circulation was 17 percent over 2008. Library computer usage also supported local citizens’ personal and economic quality of life as well as small business and the local economy. Computers were used for a wide variety of applications, including e-mail, e-commerce, searching databases and d...
The Town of Cathlamet Public Library Summer Reading Program, held for six-weeks during July and August, was a huge success. Approximately 50 youngsters, ages 3-12, attended. Together they read over 800 books. Activities at each session included story time, crafts, singing, costumes, reading aloud and treats. At the final session kids dressed as their favorite book character. A bespectacled, dress-wearing, green and purple dragon named Miss Lotta Scales, also showed up. She read aloud “The Library Dragon,” the tale of a fire-breathing lib...
Northwest Authors to Speak in Cathlamet Writers Alice Finch and Molly Gloss are scheduled to speak and sign copies of their books in September and October. Alice Finch’s non-fiction book “Child POW” is an account of her experiences, along with her mother, as prisoners of the Japanese during World War II. Her presentation will be held at the Cathlamet Public Library on Saturday afternoon, September 27 at 2 p.m. Copies of her book are currently available for check-out at the Library. The Molly Gloss event is scheduled for Pioneer Church, Saturday...
Cathlamet Library’s Summer Reading Program, “Catch the Reading Bug,” got off to a grand start on Wednesday morning, July 9. Some of the children who attended the first session are pictured here with new books the Library recently received through a grant from The Libri Foundation. Participants and parents were greeted in the parking lot by a giant bug, nearly six-feet tall, carrying a placard simply stating “Read,” Traci Hering, volunteer and mother, read “Hey Little Ant” and helped the kids make clay ants. Brianna Parsons, youth volunteer, pro...
Cathlamet Library was recently notified that they are the recipient of a special Libri Foundation $1000 Books for Children grant. The Libri Foundation matched a contribution from the Washington State Library, using funds from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new, quality, hardcover children’s books to small, rural public libraries in the United States. Two large boxes containing about 66 beautiful new books were delivered and are currently being catalogued and p...
The Cathlamet library is wired. You can now bring in your laptop and get a WiFi connection. The library also has desktop computers for customers. A few common uses of library computers include email, word processing applications such as resumes and letters, Internet searching for a wide range of things from housing to health topics and recipes, “googling” in general, viewing social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook, and games, as well as viewing The Eagle on-line. Did you know that you can access the Auto Repair Reference Center at...
