Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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COLD, WHITE, WET AND WINDY--Well, we found out this past week that winter is definitely still here and depending on where you were and what day it was in this past week, you were either freezing cold, or dealing with many inches of snow or you were looking at the oh so common rain drops coming down out of the sky, accompanied by a strong nippy wind, a mixed bag of weather for sure. While Kelso was getting blasted by snow, I was quite happy that we didn't get hit with their seven to eight inches of the white stuff. While there were certain...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: February 21--9:57 a.m. A Cathlamet resident reported a person keeps taking a bicycle without permission; an officer made contact. 10:31 a.m. An Elochoman Valley resident reported an elk with foam coming out of its mouth had collapsed in his garden; Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife was advised; at 1:26 p.m.; the caller reported the elk had died. 2:13 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a...
Floyd Herman Hoven, Jr., 67, of Yreka, Calif. died February 15, 2011 at his home. He was born on May 8, 1943 in New Haven, Mich. and worked many different jobs. He went back to school to get his high school diploma in 1998 and at that time, he got his mechanic certificate. He is survived by his wife of 46 years Barbara Jean Hoven; daughters Corrina Sue Chandler Wallace and Ronda Jean Collier, both of Yreka; son John Floyd Hoven of Brookings, Ore.; brothers Richard Hoven and wife Joyce of Cathlamet, John Hoven and wife Anita of Puget Island,...
Deanne Durham, 53, of Cathlamet, passed away February 24, 2011 at her home. She was born June 25, 1957 in Stockton, Calif. to Treweet and Diana (Rogers) Spencer. She graduated from Kamiah High School in Idaho. On August 23, 1975 she married Steve Durham; they moved to Cathlamet in 2007 from Petaluma, Calif.; he survives her at home. Deanne was passionate about her family and friends, she was known for her big heart and her willingness to help out anyone in their time of need. She had a great love of nature and its beauty. She enjoyed water...
The Wahkiakum County Fair Board has an open position on the board! We would like to find a person with new ideas for Fair time events to fill this position. Someone with time to dedicate to the Wahkiakum County Fair and to the Wahkiakum County Fair Board fund raising events. Want to get involved? Call Neil Beerbower at 849-0001 or email Neil at nbbeer@live.com. You might be the board member that gets new and interesting things happening at the Fairgrounds this year! Winter seemed like it was over, then I noticed we were going to have snow and 2...
Wahkiakum School District Board briefly reviewed the nuts and bolts of a proposed Drug Testing Policy at its regular meeting February 22. The policy directs Superintendent Bob Garrett to enact a drug testing program, with the goal that students “remain free from the effects of alcohol and/or controlled substances while at school and school events, in order to ensure their maximum learning and appropriate participation.” The district would test students suspected of being under the influence to help parents recognize a student’s drug or alcoh...
Students from the Wahkiakum Community Network (WCN) asked individual school board members to sign a pledge to “draw the line between youth and alcohol” at the Wahkiakum School District’s board meeting February 22. Students Abby Buenagel and Kaisha Harris accompanied Tammy Peterson, Public Relations Coordinator for the Network, wearing Let’s Draw the Line t-shirts and passed out the commitment cards and wrist bands. Lisa Frink of the WSU Cooperative Extension has partnered with the network to make videos of signature-gathering events. The net...
In a busy session February 22, the Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors continued to develop its drug testing program, voted to log four acres of the school forest, supported an improvement to telecommunications equipment to be funded by Homeland Security and supported a Wahkiakum Community Network project to reduce student alcohol use. The board agreed to log four acres of the school forest and encouraged Future Farmers of America Adviser Kyle Hurley to manage proactively the property. “I don’t actually know how many acres are up there...
The Wahkiakum Public Utility District board of commissioners met briefly Tuesday and adopted standards for a new donation program. The PUD is accepting resumes for the vacant commissioner position through March 18 and has received two applications for the vacant commissioner position, General Manager Tramblie said. Tramblie told the board workers will start preparing the site on Jacobson Road for the new substation in mid-March, if weather conditions permit the power load to be served by one circuit. As of April 1, community members may donate...
The Naselle - Grays River Valley School Board met February 15 to discuss preparations necessary to include a bond measure on the February, 2012, ballot. The first step, explained District Superintendent Rick Pass, is for the board to advertise a request for proposals from architectural firms. This proposal would be for pre-bond planning. After receiving the proposals, a committee would go through all the applications and schedule three or so to do presentations to the board and committee to assist in their final selection. Pass suggested that...
Ebbie Hantke started to manufacture his one-of-a-kind sports car 12 years ago in Kurt Nielsen’s shop on Puget Island. Nielsen died before the car was finished, but his contributions to the car extend beyond the space to work. In addition to encouragement, Nielsen provided mahogany for the “Kurt Nielsen Memorial Dashboard” and gave Hantke the Boyce Motor Meter that graces the sleek hood. The car is like that. Every part has a story. Hantke said, “I’ve made an exotic car out of mundane parts. These are readily available materials.” “The car st...
The foreclosures that hit the county’s real estate market in 2009 continue to depress the local housing market, and local realtors fear more are on the way. A review of Wahkiakum County Property Sales spreadsheet indicated nine foreclosures countywide in 2008, 14 in 2009 and only one 2010. The sales of foreclosed properties, from banks to individuals climbed proportionately, from two in 2008, seven in 2009 and 21 in 2010. Wahkiakum County Assessor’s Chief Deputy/Appraiser Denny Bryant has been working his way through home assessments for dis...
Dixie Kolditz was born in South Africa, moved to the US for college, and is now getting adjusted to rural life. She’s relishing the feeling of small town life she finds in Cathlamet. Kolditz owns Open Box Creations, a wholesale décor business selling floral arrangements. As a business it’s young, like “a toddler” she said. The show room on Main Street is full of cartons, wooden vases and flower arrangements. Kolditz recently purchased varied vases, so she says opening each box is a surprise. She currently has three helpers, and hopes t...
The Wahkiakum County board of commissioners voted 2-1 Tuesday to draft a county ordinance prohibiting the application of certain biosolids in the county. In response to citizen concerns raised last year, the board has been studying how to control the application of biosolids, or treated human sewage. A Long Beach company has obtained a permit from the state Department of Ecology to spread septage, the lowest treated grade of biosolid on a Grays River farm. Applications may begin when the rainy season begins to dry. Prosecuting Attorney Dan Bige...
The Wahkiakum County board of commissioners on Tuesday followed up on issues affecting the county assessor's office and heard a report on the health of the Cathlamet Family Health Center. The board signed a letter to the Board of Equalization supporting that board's intention to work on equalizing property assessments on Puget Island. "This concurrence is based on the volume of appeals filed with the BOE by Puget Island land owners and differences found by the BOE between sale prices and the 2010 valuations certified by the office of the assess...
To The Eagle: It is with a sad and heavy heart that I write this letter. My husband came home with the news today that the "guardian of the mountain" had passed recently. I'm sure most other drivers were at least aware of him because of his sheer size and beauty! I know that we, for one, noticed him and looked for him anytime we headed over KM Mountain. He would lay there in the yard, sometimes closer towards the road where the ground sloped up, so as to have a resting place for his massive head, all the while lazily watching traffic go by. We...
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR SHORELINE MANAGEMENT, SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT, CONDITIONAL USE, OR VARIANCE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet), Who is applicant of the below described property has filed an application for a Shoreline Substantial Development Conditional Use Permit for the development of: the installation of approximately 38 mile (930 miles state wide) of new fiber optic cable. It will extend and expand NoaNet's existing open access high speed network and serve primarily rural communities that are...
File No.: 7025.20383 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. Guild Mortgage Company Grantee: Brent T. Mahitka and Hilarie D. Lasron, both single persons, as Joint Tenants with right-of-survivorship, and not as Tenants-in-Common, and not as Community Property Ref to DOT Auditor File No.: 2014817 Tax Parcel ID No.: 200905-430008 Abbreviated Legal: PTN. SW 1/4 SW 1/4, SEC. 20, T 9 N, R 5 WWM Notice of Trustee's Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. I. On March 11, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. Outside the main lobby of the...
NOTICE OF ELECTION The Wahkiakum Conservation District is pleased to announce an opportunity to contribute to conservation and your community by serving on the Board of Supervisors. Supervisors are public officials who direct the activities of conservation for the district. Although they serve without compensation, they are eligible for appropriate expenses. An election for a board seat on the Wahkiakum Conservation District will be held on March 17, 2011, at the River Street meeting room: 25 River Street, Cathlamet, WA. Polls will open at 2 p....
NOTICE OF MEMBERSHIP MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Pioneer Community Association will hold its annual membership meeting on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at the Pioneer Church. This meeting will include election of board members, and other regular agenda items. The public is welcome. Voting memberships are $25 per year payable to the PCA at this meeting, or mailed to P.O. Box 24, Cathlamet, WA 98612 Publish March 3, 2011...
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Wahkiakum School District No. 200, Wahkiakum County, Cathlamet, WA, is calling for bids for a logging project of approximately 4 acres on the District's farm forest property located in Cathlamet, WA. All bids should be in the form of a percentage of gross revenue from this specific timber sale. All bids must be submitted by 4:30 p.m., March 23, 2011, to Wahkiakum School District, Box 398, Cathlamet, WA 98612, in a sealed envelope marked "Logging Bid"; and...
NOTICE OF MEETING DATE & WORKSHOP FOR PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. ONE OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY WASHINGTON NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Commissioners of Public Utility District No. One of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will hold their regular meetings on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 8:30 a.m. in the meeting room of the District at its Offices at 45 River Street, Cathlamet, Washington. Beginning March 15, the Board may conduct Commissioner workshops on the third Tuesday of each month beginning at 5:00 p.m. for the purpose...
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council will hold its regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Heritage Room at Lower Columbia College located at 1600 Maple in Longview, WA 98632 All interested parties are invited to attend. For additional information, call Susan Pagel at 360-567-1070. The SWWDC is an equal opportunity program/employer. Auxiliary aids/services are available upon request. Publish March 3, 2011...
NOTICE OF INTENT TO SEEK COVERAGE Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet), 5802 Overlook Ave NE, Tacoma, WA 98422, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Washington Rural Access Project (WRAP) – is located in the Cities of Rosburg, Grays River, and Cathlamet, in Wahkiakum County. The project involves installing approximately 38 miles of fiber optic cable within public right-of-way along Highway 4 from the Pacific C...
The Wahkiakum School District is developing a policy that would guide staff in reporting students who may be under the influence of drugs and alcohol and have them tested for the presence of the controlled substances. The goal, district officials say, is to make sure students get the help they need for substance abuse. Of course, subjecting students to urine tests for drugs is controversial, to say the least. The district tried to implement a random drug testing program for athletes in the 1990s but lost a suit to parents and the American Civil...
