Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Mule Wrestlers made the trip to Hoquiam this Saturday to participate in the Grizzlies tournament. It was a large 15 team tournament with 2B through 3A schools attending. Once again all four Mules that wrestled placed in the top three. Luke Stacey at 132-lbs. placed 3rd. Luke’s first two matches were wins by pins against Cashmere and Mark Morris. Match three was a loss to Montesano by a pin. Luke won his match for 3rd place against Lincoln with a pin. Alex Johnson at 145-lbs. placed 2nd. Match one for Alex was a bye and then he won match two aga...
The Mules have hit a bump in the road this season after coming up short in all three of their games this past week. The team’s troubles began last Thursday night against the Mossyrock Vikings. After taking a 17-point lead into the half, 39-22, the Mules imploded in the third quarter, giving up a season-worst 29 points in the third quarter alone while managing just 11 points of their own. A tough fourth quarter saw the game deadlocked at 69 at the end of regulation, but in the extra frame the Mules could muster only a mere three points to M...
WILD ONE--Last weekend was a pretty crazy one, with thunder, heavy downpours, strong winds and even a sun break or two on Saturday but pretty much a foggy, rain fest on Sunday with tree limbs coming down and horrible visibility on the roads; a good time to stay indoors. While we didn't have any major problems here, many folks to the east and west of us did and thousands lost power. However, it was perfect football watching weather if you still had power! Now they'll be taking on the San Francisco 49'ers and the fun will really begin this...
January 6--7:57 a.m. A caller reported a teenage son was attacking family members with a baseball bat; a deputy responded. 8:31 a.m. A Deep River resident reported someone had tried to break into the caller's house; a deputy responded 2:18 p.m. Wahkiakum High School asked for a deputy's assistance in dealing with a fight between two students. 6:02 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to a report of a woman who was very ill at an Elochoman Valley residence. January 7--6:08 a.m. A caller reported a rollover accident on SR 4; the Cathlamet...
Guy Norman, southwest regional director for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, met with commissioners from counties along the lower Columbia and local fishermen last Thursday at a Lower Columbia Joint Fisheries Coalition meeting to give an update on the status of the Columbia River Basin Salmon Management Policy. The Columbia River Basin Salmon Management Policy was adopted last January after Oregon Governor Kitzhaber requested a meeting between Oregon and Washington commissions to...
Lia Sealund is looking forward to a little down time. After 11 years with the Wahkiakum Community Network (WCN), she is stepping down as Executive Director to take some time for herself and let newcomer Ginger Hake take the reins. WCN hired Sealund in 2003. It started out as a part time position but soon grew into full time work. The same thing happened with her part time job at the PUD. Before she knew it she was working 60 to 80 hours a week, committed to two jobs that brought her a lot of joy...
Ballots for the Wahkiakum School District’s replacement maintenance and operation levy will be mailed to voters within the school district boundary on January 24. The district board of directors has asked voters to replace an expiring levy in order to help the district pay maintenance and operation costs not covered by state or federal funding. The levy would collect $997,000 in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. The assessment rate is estimated at $2.73 per $1,000 of assessed property value. The current rate for the expiring levy is $2.75 per $...
Wahkiakum County commissioners agreed to fund restroom improvements at County Line Park when they met Tuesday. The county has leased the park to Port District 2 after Cowlitz County, which operated the park since its opening, wanted to shed operation of the park last fall. Port 2 began upgrading RV and overnight camping facilities, and when the port opened bids for restroom facilities, bids were well over the port's budget. On January 6, port officials wrote commissioners to request county support of the project. "Port 2 estimates the total...
Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce is moving house. After several years of working out of the Julia Butler Hansen House at the intersection of Butler Street and Main Street, the chamber is moving its offices to the other end of Main Street and back into its former quarters in the Scarborough Building. The move will occur before February 15, Chamber Director Ashley Turner announced at the group's meeting on January 14. The primary reasons for the decision to move were the high maintenance and heating costs associated with the JBH House and a desire...
To The Eagle: I’ve been a registered Democrat since Harry Truman. I thought Jimmy Carter was bad for the country, but he had high moral standards. But one thing Carter did: he did not lie or cheat the country. Now we’ve got a president who lies, cheats, and uses back door politics to gain his aims and/or agenda. Now on to another subject: the sewer lagoon. Let’s put the shoreline back like old. The city or marina doesn’t need more land. Olaf Thomason, Sr., Puget Island...
To The Eagle: It is my opinion that only those who have lived here for about 40 or 50 years, can really understand why we have so little faith in the "experts" that we are told to let handle things, like our white-tailed deer. Years ago, you would have been able to drive around a large amount of well kept farm land with over 200 white-tailed deer on it. The land owners kept the land in perfect shape so that their cattle and other critters thrived, which in turn, kept the deer population high. This land brought in tax money to our county. The...
This week’s sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams is as follows: Thursday, January 16-girls basketball with Ocosta in Naselle at 7 p.m.; Friday, January 17-JV boys basketball, girls basketball and varsity boys basketball all at Valley beginning at 5 p.m.; Tuesday, January 21-girls basketball at TRCHS at 5:30 p.m., and boys basketball at TRCHS at 7 p.m., middle school boys basketball with Ocosta in Naselle at 5:45 p.m.; Wednesday, January 22, middle school boys basketball at Oyehut at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! The Naselle-Grays River Valley S...
The Annual Valentine Diamond Dinner, sponsored by the Wahkiakum County Fair Board, will be held February 8 at the Skamokawa Grange Hall from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $25/person and are available at Bank of the Pacific in Cathlamet and the Rosburg Store. The menu consists of bacon-wrapped filet mignon, baked potato, vegetables, salad and dessert with a vegetarian choice available of portabello mushrooms. The meals will be prepared by Commissioner Blair Brady and Assessor Bill Coons. Entertainment will be provided by Kathleen Petersen who will...
On Saturday, January 25, Buck and Elizabeth’s Wild and Wacky West Show will be held at St. James Family Center, 1134 Columbia Street, in Cathlamet. The show will begin at 3 p.m. in the gym. This family-friendly show includes music, ventriloquism, contests and more. Ice cream will be provided after the show and participants will be able to visit with Buck and Elizabeth....
Grays River author Robert Michael Pyle’s first full-length book of poems, Evolution of the Genus Iris, will be released on March 1. The book is published by Lost Horse Press, and is dedicated to Pyle’s wife Thea, who died in November after living with cancer for 10 years. Evolution is Pyle’s 17th book....
On Thursday, January 9, six Naselle High School Knowledge Bowl teams participated in an ESD 113 Knowledge Bowl meet at Westwood Baptist Church in Olympia. Forty two different teams from 10 different schools participated in the meet. There were 14 teams from 1A schools, 18 from 2B schools, and 10 from the 1B classification. Naselle's team, "The Force" placed 10th overall and 1st among the 1B schools. The Force is comprised of Emily Gjovik, Kyler Wulf, Amethyst Wirkkala, Brittany Waltemate, and Abigail Bennett. "Newton's Hipsters," consisting of...
Loggers, truck drivers and operators will gather on Saturday, January 25 at the Appelo Archives Center to celebrate the Center’s 4th Annual Old Time Loggers Reunion. Held annually, the Reunion is intended to bring together timber industry workers of all ages and their families as well as other community members who want to honor the industry’s significance in the region. As is their tradition the Center will honor two locals, Ed Wirkkala and Martin Nygaard. Each has a long history of working in the woods. Martin Nygaard grew up working on the...
Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services has set aside a day for homeless people to make connections and have a warm, dry place to spend some time. Trained staff will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about services available in Wahkiakum County. Services available include a hot shower, hot meal, laundry services, information about health services such as flu shots, TB testing and condoms, diapers, housing assistance and insurance information. The event will be held January 23 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Johnson House,...
Staff of Congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler will host mobile office hours on the second Wednesday of each month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Cowlitz County Administration Building in Kelso. The schedule runs February 12 through June 11. During these mobile offices, residents of Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District will be able to meet with a staff member from Jaime’s office to seek assistance in resolving issues with federal agencies and federal government resources, including Social Security, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Dep...
Letters from Karelia is a documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 2004. It will be shown at the Appelo Archives Center, 1056 SR 4, Naselle, at 11 a.m.. on Saturday, January 18. This film tells the story of Aate Pitkanen, an idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia in 1931. Aate sent letters home to his sister in Ontario until 1941 when Hitler attacked the USSR. After that no one knew what happened to Aate until 60 years later. Aate lived his last days in a Finnish prisoner-of-war camp and wrote letters home, but...
The Willapa Hills Audubon Society will conduct a bird watching trip on Saturday, January 18. This trip includes stops at Willow Grove, Longview sewage ponds, and Trojan Park and Prescott Road in Rainier, and will last from 8 a.m. until noon. Reservations are required as the number of participants will be limited. Call 360-575-9238 or email John Green at jgreen2317@aol.com to make reservations. The group will also hold Saturday lake walks at Lake Sacajawea on February 8 and March 8. There will also be walks held on February 15 at Nisqually NWR...
Area artists are invited to participate in the Columbian Artists 38th Annual Juried Spring Art Show to be held March 22 through April 13 at the Three Rivers Mall, 3513 Three Rivers Drive, Kelso. The space is in the mall near Macys. The Show is open to artists 18 years old and older from Cowlitz, Clark, Wahkiakum, Lewis and Pacific Counties in Washington, and Clatsop and Columbia Counties in Oregon. Entries must be original, two dimensional work, completed in the past two years. Work will be judged and awards given. Entries will be received on...
