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Wahkiakum County Port 2 Manager Sam Shogren is busy. While continuing to work on the port’s comprehensive plan, he’s been talking to everyone he can, in an effort to seek funding to make improvements to the port property, and as he said, “create economic opportunity in the county.” This includes visits with staff from Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s office, representatives from Patty Murray’s office, as well as State Representative Joel McEntire, and State Senator Jeff Wilson. He represented the local...
The results of recent survey conducted by Wahkiakum Health and Human Services discussed in an Eagle article last week were released online on Monday and can be viewed by clicking on a link found on the WHHS website at www.co.wahkiakum.wa.us/604/Wahkiakum-County-Community-Health-Assess. The report lists the top 10 issues, but also crunches the numbers on demographics, breaking down which issues were most important to each group. It provides a list of write-in issues, discusses the health...
Manager Todd Souvenir and staff continue to make their mark on the Elochoman Slough Marina and the surrounding Port 1 environs, increasing access to power and water at campsites, and creating a more verdant setting. Commissioners temporarily waived the lid on discretionary spending last Thursday, allowing Souvenir to move forward with the purchase of new fire pits for the campsites, which were recently filled and leveled before being hydro seeded in the last month. Visitors have taken notice of...
The North Beach Hyaks came to town on Friday, and gave the Mules a sense of what may come for Wahkiakum next fall if they make the shift to 1B and eight man football. The Hyaks were out maneuvered from the get go, and with second string Mule players seeing more minutes on the field than usual, Wahkiakum got their Homecoming win, and beat North Beach 58-18. Quarterback Zakkary Carlson threw for 175 yards, connecting 12 of 17. Two made it into the end zone. Sophomore Jayden Stoddard ran some...
Despite more losses, the Wahkiakum Mules volleyball team continues to find ways to shine as the season winds to a close. On October 5, the team traveled to Rainier and lost in three sets, 25-6, 25-9, and 25-15. Coach Kayli Hurley praised Amriah Abdul-Kariem for strong offensive play and Makayla Davis for great hustle and strong serves from the service line. On October 10, the Mules hosted Toledo and lost in three sets, 25-19, 25-16, and 25-8. Standouts that night included Zaya Ray and Sam Dela C...
A high power Level 1 electric vehicle charging unit was installed at the Butler Street parking lot last week, and on Tuesday, the Wahkiakum County PUD completed it’s portion of the hookup. “It’s electrified,” Cathlamet Mayor David Olson said happily. The contractor will return in coming days to complete the final stages of installation, and put the unit through it’s paces, Olson said, before setting up the payment platform for the system. It should be ready for use during the final week of O...
"I like the community. I like the work. I like working for St. James." Alison Brown is the new manager of the Charlotte House, a shelter for women and children in Cathlamet that is part of a program offered by the St. James Family Center. The program includes a variety of services for people who are victims of domestic violence, along with the refuge for women and children. "Alison is great," St. James Family Center Director Beth Hansen said. "We are so happy to have her as part of our team. She...
The results of a Community Health Needs Assessment survey conducted by Wahkiakum Health and Human Services from March to July are in, but it’s just the first step in determining what will become action, as part of a future Community Health Improvement plan. The next phase is analyzing data related to the priorities selected by survey participants in Wahkiakum County. That is just getting underway, and is expected to be completed in spring of 2024, Erica Zink of W.H.H.S. said last week. Responses...
Travelers who use the route over Beaver Creek should prepare as repairs to a section of Cathlamet Road on the Cowlitz County side are expected to begin this week, Cowlitz County Public Works Director Mike Moss said last Thursday. The road is commonly used as an alternate route when slides occur on SR 4 between Cathlamet and Mill Creek. A slide undercut the roadway on a curve near the Wahkiakum County line, taking it down to a little more than one lane. “I think it is a necessary fix for p...
The 2023 elections are upon us. Voter pamphlets will go out in the mail next Wednesday, October 18, and ballots will be mailed no later than October 20, according to Amanda Boehler, the Election Coordinator in the Wahkiakum County Auditor’s office. The Auditor’s Office will conduct a Logic and Accuracy Test on Tuesday, October 24 at 10 a.m., to test their equipment and ensure that it is set up correctly and accurately counting votes. A representative from the Washington Secretary of State will b...
Wahkiakum High School students are learning about all the work that goes on behind the scenes of film and television production, thanks to Ken Johnson and Jeremiah Rounds of Wahkiakum West. The hands-on class is taking the teens through the whole process from pre- production to post-production, and making what may seem like an out of reach career entirely accessible. "We've been talking to both Wahkiakum and Naselle schools about ways to engage the kids and some of the stuff we do as far as...
The Wahkiakum Mules football team won for the second week in a row, beating Ilwaco on Friday 33-24. This week they are preparing for homecoming and an eight man game against North Beach. "[Our] athletes played really well tonight," Coach Ryan Lorenzo said. "They all played well in their different areas. We definitely have some stuff to work on." "Ilwaco was really physical," he added. "That is something we have struggled with in the past. [They] had a couple of really athletic kids that were giv...
Wahkiakum Health and Human Services will host a Living Well in Wahkiakum Event on Friday, November 3 from 11-4 p.m. at the Hope Center in Cathlamet. The event is not new, but has shifted in focus since its onset, which was prior to and interrupted by the pandemic. “I get the privilege of planning it this year,” Suzanne Mackey, a community resource coordinator for WHHS said last week. Originally the event was organized for seniors and scheduled to coincide with Medicare renewal, but now there wil...
Last Thursday, volunteer firefighters from departments across the county attended a drill at the Puget Island Fire Department to learn how to respond to chimney fires. At one station, participants got an overview of chimney fires from District 4 volunteer Jack Leavitt and a lesson in how to describe the kinds of scenes they respond to over the radio. District 4 volunteer Billy Peek gave a lesson on all the elements included in a chimney kit at another station, and Puget Island Fire Chief Mike...
The Wahkiakum PUD Board of Commissioners spent most of the morning going over the proposed budget for 2024 before attending to reports and adoption of a resolution regarding the district’s policy for capital assets. Revenue for the proposed $8,471,027 budget includes $186,100 in interest income, $333,700 from advance for upcoming construction, and six grants ranging from $50,000 for a feasibility study to a $435,000 grant/loan for a Puget Island Water Service looping project. Miscellaneous i...
Maddalena Fontana, 17, who came to Cathlamet all the way from one of the biggest and oldest cities in the world, is one of four exchange students studying at Wahkiakum High School this year. Fontana is from a northern suburb of Rome. It takes about an hour by public transport to arrive in the city center, she said, but only a minute and a half to walk to her neighborhood school. An adventurous spirit and an interest in English led to her participation in the exchange program. She was able to...
By Diana Zimmerman Cathlamet town council members began talking about the 2024 budget at their meeting on Monday and heard concerns from the public. Some of the items on their wish lists for the next year’s budget include signage, a handrail along the Angle Street stairway, street and speed limit signs, library capital items, a part time employee to care for parks during the summer months, drainage for Queen Sally’s spring, a truck and snowplow attachment, town hall improvements, lan...
The Wahkiakum Mules football team got their first win of the season in front of a home crowd on Friday, beating Toutle Lake 63-26. "The guys played really well," Coach Ryan Lorenzo said. "We still got a lot to work on but a win was definitely needed." Lorenzo had some praise for quarterback Zakkary Carlson, as well as Jacob Johnson, Donovan Watson, and Unai Perez Martin. "Zakk played really well with nine combined touchdowns, including three on the ground and six in the air," Lorenzo said. "Jaco...
An after school program for local youth has become so popular that Wahkiakum County 4-H is looking for more volunteers. The club, Robo Rascals, is for kids who have an interest in robotics and engineering, and a desire to continue those activities outside of regular school hours. Along with robots, programming, and engineering, the youth get hands-on experience with a 3-D printer, designing with TinkerCad, and whatever else their 4-H leader, Jessica Vik, can dream up. Unfortunately Vik has had...
Westend residents turned out last Tuesday for the second workshop in a planned series of four to talk about how flooding is impacting the property and lives of people living in the Grays River, Rosburg, and Deep River communities and to brainstorm ways to tackle the issue. Jackson Blalock of the Pacific Conservation District led the workshop with the assistance of representatives from his conservation district, the Washington Sea Grant organization, and the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership....
Over the years, flooding has become an increasing problem for people in the Westend of Wahkiakum County. It was hard to imagine when I drove up to Nick and Dee Nikkila's home in Deep River on a beautiful late summer day last week, but Nick had evidence. Not long after sitting down to talk to the pair about what they were seeing on their property, Nick pulled up a video he made and posted on Youtube. You can see high water covering Wirkkala Road, the long drive to the Nikkila house, and how Nick...
There have been questions about what local emergency planning, including evacuation and communication, is in place for Cathlamet in the event of a large fire or other disaster, and Cathlamet Fire Chief Vernon Barton, PUD General Manager Dan Kay, and Undersheriff Gary Howell were at the Cathlamet Town Council meeting last Monday to give some answers. “It’s still fire season,” Mayor David Olson said. “We want to get the conversation started.” Olson wanted to know: How are emergency alerts gi...
Lorraine Heilman, an oceanographer with NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, talked to an audience in Cathlamet recently about a project she led to survey the current in the Columbia River. As part of the National Current Observation Program, she and her colleagues go all over the country to update the tidal current tables, using "ever more interesting and new and fancy pieces of equipment," she said. They used Cathlamet as a staging area in the last year. "The marina is...
The Wahkiakum County Port 2 Board of Commissioners talked about potential funding, events, and purchased a boat at their September meeting last week. Port 2 Manager Sam Shogren proposed that the port purchase an 18 foot wooden work skiff, based on a historical boat design by the Danielsen family of Puget Island. Wide and stable, with a flat bottom, the boat was restored in 2020 by Welcome Slough Boatworks and by members of the local Traditional Small Craft Association, of which Port...
The Wahkiakum County Port 1 Board of Commissioners met last Wednesday for a quick update on activity at the marina. Mayor David Olson was in attendance. He invited Port Manager Todd Souvenir to a workshop on the design of the waterfront park at the town council meeting on October 16. “The decisions made there will affect the overall design, and it’s right adjacent to you, and we want to know what your druthers are, in terms of how things are placed, and how we can work together to make sure tha...
