Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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AARP's Tax Aide program is offering to help seniors and low to middle income families with their taxes. The Longview program has three sites: • Sr. Center, 1111 Commerce Avenue, Tuesdays and Thursday from 9 a.m. • Canterbury Chateau, 1324 3rd Avenue from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. • Longview Library, 1600 Louisiana, Fridays and Saturdays from 12:30-4 p.m. This year, the group is offering help to residents of Wahkiakum County and Naselle filling out form 1040. They will be at the River Street Meeting Room in Cathlamet on March 24 and April...
Wahkiakum High School sophomore Erin Turner participated in the Washington Music Educators Association All-State 2008 in Yakima last month as principal French Horn in the All-State Wind Symphony. Over 900 high school music students state-wide are selected by audition each Fall. The students are sent music in advance, then arrive at All-State to rehearse together and perform in one of nine groups, such as Jazz Choir, Chamber Orchestra, and Concert Band. The four days include hours of rehearsal, making new friends, and attending up to four...
Wayne Flohr of Cathlamet has announced his candidacy for Wahkiakum County Commissioner. Flohr, 33, is running for the second district seat currently held by Independent Dan Cothren. Flohr is running as a Democrat. Flohr earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Washington State University in Vancouver, and his Masters of Social Work from Eastern Washington University through the Vancouver satellite campus. He is currently employed as a mental health professional with Wahkiakum Health and Human Services. He serves on the Wahkiakum Fair...
Kim Angelis, a violin virtuoso, and her husband Josef Gault, accompanying on guitar, are scheduled to perform at Cathlamet’s Pioneer Church on March 22 at 7p.m. The acclaimed duo have captivated audiences world over. Angelis has been featured on television, and she has been heard on radio and in film. Her compositions and her style, which she has described as “gypsy chamber music,” have won notable musical awards. Selections for the Cathlamet evening performance include The Legend of Joaquin, Ramona, and Far from Home. Tickets for the perfo...
A $500 Federal grant has been awarded to the Wahkiakum Community Network to Reduce Underage Drinking to assist with the group’s effort in hosting a Town Hall Meeting on March 25. The grant was awarded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Underage drinking continues to be a leading public health problem in the United States. Alcohol use threatens the safe and healthy development of more young people than any other substance—even more than tob...
The Wahkiakum Food and Farm Network and the Wahkiakum WSU Extension Service are presenting their Fourth Annual Ag Summit on April 5 at the River Street Meeting Room. Dr. Charles "Chuck" Benbrook, scientist, author and expert on biological benefits of organic and sustainable farming will be the keynote speaker. Dr. James Hermes, Poultry Specialist with the Oregon State University Extension Service will speak on free range poultry breeds and heritage breeds for meat and egg production. Dr. Carol Miles, Agricultural Systems Specialist with the...
Revenues coming into the Wahkiakum Family Practice Clinic are doing well, Business Manager Kathy Patterson reported Tuesday. Charges from Nurse Betsy Anne Johnson, Nurse Practitioner Margie Godfrey and Dr. Keith Wright will be $115,000 for February. "That's almost the $120,000 figure from February last year when Dr. Richard Avalon was on staff," Patterson said. The financial picture should make further improvements in March as clinic staff will no longer make hospital rounds at St. John Hospital, Patterson said. That will save about $45,000...
The advent of spring is in evidence in the reception room of the Wahkiakum Family Practice Clinic in Cathlamet with a grouping of flowers created by Esther Roche, Thea Pyle and Noreen Fitts. The seventh exhibit of the "Community of Caring and Sharing" art program went on display May 3 and can be viewed through the month of June. Two new local artists have joined the program, said coordinator Janet Cimino. Margie Godfrey, the clinic's nurse practitioner shares her color photography and Frank Loomans entered three wood designs called intarsia....
One of the last living Holocaust survivors came to Wahkiakum HIgh School last Friday to describe what he experienced as a young man caught in the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. Alter Wiener, a resident of Hillsboro, Ore., visits schools from elementary to college to tell his story with the hope that listeners will prevent such atrocities from happening again. Wiener, 82, has recently written his autobiography, “From a Name to a Number.” It is a chronological description of everything he experienced from the death of his father on Sep...
A project currently under way will help Washington landowners and local officials make informed decisions about where it is safe to build in and around areas prone to flooding. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Ecology (Ecology) are updating existing flood hazard maps in several Washington counties that have high risk, flood-prone areas. In many Washington communities, it has been about 20-30 years since flood hazard maps have been updated. The new maps will depict flood hazards more accurately, including...
Wahkiakum County commissioners this week reported dissatisfaction with recent rulings by federal agencies, and they plan to seek help from federal elected representatives. In a ruling that could have widespread affects on development on Puget Island, the US Army Corps of Engineers has stated that it will allow no more subterranean pipe crossings in the Island dikes. In another ruling, Corps officials have informed the county that it considers the work done to protect the eroding Steamboat Slough Road dike last September to be illegal. While...
Wahkiakum County commissioners have asked to open negotiations with the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to recover the value of timber set aside as habitat for marbled murrelets. The small bird finds food along ocean beaches and flies 50-70 miles inland to nest on wide branches of old trees. Because of coastal logging and other impacts, the bird is on the federal and state endangered species list. Ten years ago, the agency began working on a habitat recovery program for the bird, and it set aside plans for logging 2,200 of the...
Cathlamet resident Margaret Burt reaches her 100th birthday today. Cathlamet resident Margaret Burt has reached a milestone. Burt, who was born Margaret L. White, was born this day in 1908 in Twin Falls, Idaho, a small pioneer town with the only hospital in the area. Buhl, the town where her parents lived, was 30 miles away. Her parents left a week early by horse and wagon so her mother could be near the doctor for the birth, she said. In her youth, she daily walked one mile to school. “Others walked four,” she said. The school had three roo...
Wahkiakum County commissioners will vote next Tuesday on a proposed new ordinance prohibiting construction on dredged sand dumped along the county's shorelines. The county must pass the ordinance to obtain a permit from the state Department of Natural Resources to place sand along eroding Puget Island shorelines. Officials and Islanders discussed the ordinance at a public hearing March 4, and those discussions continued at the commission's regular meeting on Tuesday. At both meetings, Islanders expressed strong concern about ceding property...
Wahkiakum Health and Human Services' 10th Annual Alumni Basketball Benefit is scheduled for this Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Wahkiakum High School Gym. Preceding the alumni game, Josh Grasseth's second graders will form two teams and play at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m., high school basketball players, both boys and girls, will take on alumni Mules. Admission will be by donation at the door to Wahkiakum Health and Human Services' Emergency Fund. The fund provides emergency assistance to county residents with basic necessities such as medication, groceries,...
