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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Students at J.A. Wendt Elementary school particpated in the 40th Birthday of the American Heart Association’s Jump for Heart event last Thursday. Teacher Mary Moonen has been leading students through this fun fundraising event for more than 30 years. This year, 53 of her students jumped ropes to raise more than $1,900. Moonen wanted to give special thanks to the J.A. Wendt PTO for cutting and serving healthy fruit snacks to jumpers during the two hour event. She also had heartfelt thanks to a...
[Editor: The Eagle received notification late last week that information submitted by Lower Columbia College about a writing workshop set for March 18 actually happened March 8. The following story has been edited to reflect the clarification] Lower Columbia College has announced that Claudia Castro Luna was featured March 8 at a Northwest Voices event in Longview. First, the author conducted a writing workshop on the Lower Columbia College campus. Next, she held a reading at the Longview Public Library. Claudia Castro Luna is Washington State...
I am curious as to how many of you have a song that you can always turn to. Where, no matter what is going on in life, the first three seconds after clicking “play” change your cellular structure, a smile rips across your face and you can’t help but keep the beat? Music can be so many things. It can be warmth after a series of events that leave you feeling cold. Sometimes it is a light in the dark. Listening to music that resonates with your soul can be a game changer in the middle of a bad day. If you need someone to talk to because you are f...
Grays River Valley Community Center is pleased to be having our 6th Annual Community Super Sale. The event is coming up soon, and we have a lot of vendors signed up this year, we are so excited. A large variety of tables have something for everyone. Vendors are able to start setting up on Friday evening March 22 from 2:00 - 8:00 p.m., or Saturday March 23 from 7:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. The Dress A Girl program is going very well, we had a good attendance on Monday March 4. So many cute dresses have been turned in so far. We have fabric, if anyone...
The Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office Volunteers in Police Services (VIPS) is pleased to announce a new program called “VIPS Visits” that will benefit community members who may need a visit from a caring volunteer. Volunteers are now offering to stop in and check on a loved one, neighbor, or friend who is physically challenged, unable to leave their home, or lives alone and would enjoy a friendly visit on occasion. Like our current “Vacation House Check” program, just sign yourself up or sign up a loved one (with their permission) using o...
• Plaintiffs claim initiative deprives their 2nd and 14th Amendment rights • Defendants summoned to court for following the Washington state law OLYMPIA (March 8, 2019) -- Two civil rights lawsuits in Washington state have challenged the constitutionality of certain bans enacted through the gun control measure, Initiative 1639. Each lawsuit is built on the premise that the initiative deprives plaintiffs of rights under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The plaintiffs have remained the same for each cas...
OLYMPIA (March 12, 2019) School District Bonds will still need 60 percent of the vote, after a Senate constitutional amendment failed to get the two-thirds vote required to pass. The amendment received 28 votes in favor and 21 in opposition. The only Democrat in opposition to Senate Joint Resolution 8201 was Senator Tim Sheldon, D- Potlatch. A school district bond is voted on by the public, usually to finance a building project. During the Senate floor debate, many senators voiced their concerns with reducing the voting percentage threshold,...
• Requires suppliers in the agricultural supply chain to report human rights violations to retail sellers • Met with wide farmer community opposition OLYMPIA (Feb. 28, 2019) Retail sellers of agricultural products, regardless of where the product originated, who do business in Washington and have a worldwide gross receipt of more than $200 million, would be required to disclose violations of employment-related laws, incidents of slavery, peonage, or working to payback debt, and human trafficking, under proposed legislation. Sen. Rebecca Sal...
OLYMPIA (March 7, 2019) -- A statewide broadband office would be created under legislation passed by the Washington state Senate in a unanimous vote March 6. Senate Bill 5511 would establish the Governor’s Statewide Broadband Office, require the Public Works Board to create a grant and loan program, and modify the state Universal Communications Services Program, along with other changes. The expansions to the Universal Communication Services Program would cost $5 million annually and if the money is not used in any given year the funds would r...
Wahkiakum County commissioners hosted two workshops Tuesday, with one aimed at clearing up confusion over hiring by Health and Human Services (H&HS) and the other a round table addressing watershed issues. Commissioners and staff of the H&HS and the auditors office addressed confusion over budget status and hiring by H&HS. H&HS Director Chris Bischoff has asked the commission to approve hiring new personnel and adjusting salaries for positions not in his department budgets. Funding has been available from grants and contracts and from shifting...
Community Home Health & Hospice is offering a free, six-week grief education group in Longview. Class starts Tuesday, April 9, from 1-3 p.m., at The James Avery Center, 1000 – 12th Ave., Longview, and continues weekly through May 14. “Grief is not something we enjoy learning about, as it means we are hurting,” said Erin Orren MSW, LCSW, Support Services Coordinator. “The benefit of participating in a group like this is that grievers help each other through the shared experience of grief. The more you learn about it the more equipped you wil...
Brilliant color filled the sky last Tuesday at Skamokawa Vista Park. Photo courtesy of Megan Blackburn Friend....
