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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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By Diana Zimmerman Mayor David Olson welcomed citizens to a birthday celebration last Friday, marking 115 years of the incorporation of the Town of Cathlamet. There were speeches from the former Mayor, Dale Jacobson, Washington State Representative Joel McEntire, Wahkiakum County Commissioner Gene Strong, and Wahkiakum School District Superintendent Brent Freeman. Dayle Olson read a poem she had written for the occasion; a new town flag was raised, and cake was served. Hail, Cathlamet! A pretty...
Headed to Mark Morris to watch regional basketball games on Saturday? You will need to present purchased digital tickets on a mobile device at the gate. They will not be selling paper tickets at the door. Attendees are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance online, but will be able to purchase a digital ticket at the venue by visiting the GoFan digital ticketing site using a mobile device. Link to order tickets for games at Mark Morris: https://gofan.co/app/events/553514?schoolId=WIAA At...
The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced seven days of clamming starting Saturday, Feb. 26, the opening of the Columbia River spring chinook fishing season on March 1 and the closure of steelhead fishing along the Pacific Coast, also effective March 1. WDFW approved seven days of razor clam digging during evening low tides beginning Feb. 26 Shellfish managers confirmed the following digs during evening low tides will proceed as scheduled, after marine toxin results from the Washington Department of Health showed razor...
Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services on Monday morning reported five new cases of covid-19 among county residents. This brings the total of 308 cases with seven of those potentially active and five fatalities. Health and Human Services will update their website regularly with new case information. The website: https://www.co.wahkiakum.wa.us/478/COVID-19-Information. Meanwhile, Naselle and Wahkiakum high school basketball teams won their regional battles on Saturday and begin competition at the state tournament in Spokane on Wednesday. The...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday set in motion a process to increase commission salaries, and they covered a range of solid waste issues. Salaries for commissioners haven’t increased since 2004. The board passed a resolution in 1996 establishing annual increases ranging from 2-3 percent, ending in 2004 at $31,366 per year. Since then, there have been no increases. Commissioners cannot raise their own salary while in their current term of office. Any increase would start in a subsequent term, either for a new office holder or a r...
The Cathlamet Town Council on Tuesday reviewed plans for development of a waterfront park and found a way to reduce a property owner's utility bills while a residence is remodeled. Council members and park design consultant Audrey West reviewed the latest iteration of park design and went over the planned phases for construction. The phases of construction, said Mayor David Olson, would be financed largely by grants. The first phase, West said, to take place this year, is to complete filling of the former sewer lagoon and install sewer and...
The Washington State House of Representatives has proposed a budget action that would end Juvenile rehabilitation services at Naselle Youth Camp in the summer of 2023. Nothing is finalized at this point, state officials told employees and community leaders on Monday. Meanwhile, the Senate released their proposed budget, which includes some improvements at the camp. As both the House and Senate has released their proposed budgets, the next step for them is to negotiate a final proposed budget. The Department of Juvenile Rehabilitation...
To The Eagle: Republicans have started to blur the lines between birth control and abortion in the hopes of making it harder for American women to obtain either. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Missouri statehouse, where lawmakers debated whether they needed to restrict Medicaid coverage of birth control and limit payments to Planned Parenthood. It was a tricky play, attacking birth control as a way to attack abortion, and it didn’t work. This time. “Anti–birth control sentiment has been building for over a decade,” says Robin Marty,...
To The Eagle: To be led at this time by the weaklings and cowards in our national administration is truly a frightening reality and something to behold. Biden is a weak and failing man. He is a longtime front man for his family and associates. He and his family have made fortunes from his efforts through the years. He is a liar and a thief. And yet now we see his failing is leading us to Russian aggression, Chinese aggression and permitting Iran’s acquisition of the nuclear bomb. Our cities are falling apart. We are being invaded by the m...
To The Eagle: Once and yet again my recent letter was misinterpreted and rather than used as a starting point to actually learn something was turned into a pimple popping, well, I'm not even sure what the writer was trying to impart. Most of what I got was that he thinks he knows more about women and pregnancy than they do. Fascinating. Maybe he thinks the rapist or man causing the incestuous attack should be reminded to use a condom? Hard to tell as there was obviously no real thought put into his missive. To further his education may I add...
To The Eagle: I am saddened to see a free country like Canada suffer the horror that is Trudeau's dictatorship over vaccine mandates that are being ordered at the tail end of the covid pandemic and not really needed according to those scientists that are educated about these viruses. I tell you this, if you ask could it happen here in the USA, I reply were it not for our Supreme Court knocking down the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate not only could it have happened but may well have happened. Think about it, would you trust Inslee or B...
Small business owners and schoolchildren hurt by the pandemic will see some financial relief with approval of state supplemental budget proposals now under consideration. “We’re looking at the basics, food, shelter, health and cash assistance,” House Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Timm Ormsby, D-Spokane, said. “Those are things in this pandemic economy that are going to make a difference in people’s lives, and that is our focus.” The Washington State House and Senate each released their proposals Feb. 21, just hours before public hear...
A package that pays for free passes on public transportation for young people and upgrades to major bridges are all part of a 16-year transportation funding plan approved by the Washington State Senate. The Senate approved the proposed revenue sources for the $17 billion ‘Move Ahead Washington’ transportation investment package on a 29-20 vote on Feb. 15. The bill sponsored by Transportation Committee Chair Sen. Marko Liias, D-Everett, now goes to the House for consideration. The plan includes funding for transit programs, replacement of fish p...
At their meeting Tuesday, the Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors got a lesson in assessment and intervention, adopted a new system for addressing school policies, and approved the purchase of some items that will keep students connected. Principals Stephanie Leitz and Nikki Reese presented math and reading assessment results for students, talked about the tools they use to read those assessments, and talked about the interventions that educators are using to help students stay on...
On February 17, Steve Lewis, center, was presented the VFW Public Servant EMT Award by local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5297 Commander Bill Tawater, left, and Bob Roche, right. According to Cathlamet Fire Department EMS Battalion Chief Jodie Mason, Lewis has been one of the top responders for multiple years in a row. He is extremely well known in the community. His wealth of experience in the EMT field, his attitude to volunteerism and a passion to care for people make him uniquely qualified...
The Wahkiakum High School Outdoor Club, led by teacher Jeff Rooklidge and volunteer M.D. Johnson, heard about J.D. and Shira Honoré's adventures in aquaponic gardening at the Town of Taylor on Friday. The Honorés explained the components, the set up, and what has gone wrong and right as they learn to grow their own food in a way that might be less conventional but may be more sustainable and environmentally friendly in the long run. Photos by Diana Zimmerman....
The cumulative number of covid-19 cases rose to 306 this week after three new cases were reported. Of those, seven are considered potentially active. In the county, the number of reported hospitalizations rose to 25, and the number of deaths attributed to covid-19 stands at five. The number of patients being treated for covid-19 at St. John Hospital was down to 12 on Tuesday. “Covid cases continue to decline around us and in Washington State as a whole,” Wahkiakum Health and Human Services Dir...
Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to Washington businesses and residents affected by the winter weather and flooding that occurred from Jan. 5-16, 2022, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. SBA acted under its own authority to declare a disaster in response to a request SBA received from Gov. Jay Inslee on Feb. 14, 2022. The disaster declaration makes SBA assistance available in Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Pacific, Pierce, Skamania, Thurston, Wahkiakum and Yakima counties...
COLD ENOUGH?--By the time you read this, we may have had some super cold evenings and depending on which weather report is correct, we may even be seeing some snow flurries today. I hope that doesn’t happen but with this cold system moving in, anything is possible. I just hope everybody was prepared for this “arctic blast” and had plenty of extra feed for their outdoor animals and if you had any plants out that you got them covered up ahead of time and were able to protect and save them, as those temperatures in the teens don’t exactly bode we...
THURSDAY Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments Board, Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/85384771854? pwd=VnREclJtZXRpbXAzd3JmZDFSMktvUT09. ID: 8538477 1854 Passcode: 888188, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire/ambulance, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Planning Commission, Courthouse, 6 p.m. Wahkiakum Commissioners, Courthouse, 9:30 p.m. Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. Eastside Play & Learn Group, St. James...
Aunt Hattie: My sweet 96-year old aunt who lives in Arizona called last weekend. I gave her The Wahkiakum County Eagle as a gift. She told me she loves to read about "the old people" who lived here over 100 years ago. She knew me as a baby and young girl. She is a jewel who lives alone, cleans her house herself and loves Hallmark movies. I love hearing her feedback and her stories as much as I love the stories our folks here tell of their early years here. Don't forget to ask for a story when...
Johnson Park is getting into the swing of being open for events. Last year we had a very good turnout for our bingo night, and our Christmas craft day. Thank you to all that attended these events. This year we are looking forward to having more. March 19 from 9-4 p.m. is our annual Super Sale. It is time to book a table to reserve your space. All tables must be paid in advance to hold your spot. Set up time is the night before from 6-8 p.m. and Saturday morning from 7-9. To reserve a table call Denise Blanchard 360-355-0472 cell or leave a...
Peyton Souvenir, a 2017 graduate of Wahkiakum High School, has been accepted to the University of Oregon School of Law. She was awarded a full-tuition Merit scholarship valued at approximately $50,000 a year for three years, for which she will have to maintain a 2.5 cumulative GPA. Peyton graduated from Lewis and Clark State College in 2021 with a major in English and a dual minor in Spanish and Pre-Law, while playing basketball for the LCSC Warriors. Peyton is the daughter of Todd and Kristen...
Former Cathlamet resident Cecelia Marie Barr died February 6, 2022, just days before her 104th birthday. She was born February 11, 1918 in Portland, Ore., and was one of four children born to Kolman and Clementine Nissl. Cecelia spent her early years in Gaston and Carlton, Ore. Her family eventually moved to McMinnville, Ore., and Cecelia graduated from McMinnville H.S. in 1936. After graduation, she moved to Portland, Ore., where family and friends lived. She worked at several Portland firms...
Bruce Moore, 78, affectionately known as Bubba, died on February 10th in Longview. Bruce was born on February 9, 1944 in Tulare California, the only child of LaVerne and Leota (Morris) Moore. He grew up there and graduated from Tulare High in 1962. Bruce joined the US Air Force where he spent four years. He was proud of the work he did as an Aero Medical Specialist helping rescue and save lives in Vietnam. Upon return he attended The College of the Sequoias in Visalia for two years. On July 4, 1964 he married Patricia Burnett whom he was...
