Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Wahkiakum Mule baseball team beat the Comets in Naselle on Monday in five innings with a score of 12-1. Starting pitcher Zach Brown struck out five, allowed one hit and one run and was given the win. Mason Mackey was on the mound for the next two innings and pitched well, according to Coach Kyle Hurley. Gunnar Blix came in for the save and “struck out the side in the fifth.” Blix went three for three at bat with two doubles and three runs batted in. Brock Cothren hit a single and bro...
The Wahkiakum Mule golf team moved their intra-team match record to 9-0 with a 187-208 victory over the Adna Pirates on Monday. A schedule change returned the Mules to Riverside Golf Course in Chehalis where they had played just four days earlier. Both teams improved their performance by 10 strokes. Mule Austin Good, 40, was medalist in the 12 man field. Elliot Haney, 44, finished second, Zach Calvert, 51, was fourth, and first year player Brady LaBerge shot a match play personal best 52 and finished fifth. Last Thursday, the Mules' four...
NICE ONE--It was great to see the sunshine return last weekend but beings those days were accompanied by freezing temperatures at night, I hope any new plants you got anxious to put in the ground wound up making it through the nippy temperatures okay. By the time you read this however, our rainy weather is supposed to have returned, so it looks like we still have to drag those umbrellas around. Of course, with more snow falling back East, and temperatures in the teens, we are certainly happy that we aren't dealing with their temperatures and...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: March 17 – 8:42 a.m. Washington State Fish and Wildlife were notified about an ailing elk in the Rosedale area. 10:10 a.m. The Grays River ambulance responded to aid a Rosburg resident having chest pain. 11:18 a.m. An individual was taken into custody after striking and then pushing a passenger out of his vehicle in Cathlamet. 1:30 p.m. A caller reported that gas had been siphoned from a vehicle at an...
Joanne Marie Chapman, who loved to be called Jo, was born in Longview on October 2, 1970 to parents Ken Chapman and Sonja Kruse of Rosburg. Joanne passed away peacefully March 18, 2014 at the Hospice Care Center with her family by her side. Joanne was a very unique individual who began participating in Special Olympics when only eight, acquiring numerous medals over the years in swimming, track, baseball, soccer and bowling. Her education began at the Longview Progress Center Infant Stimulation Classes and spanned enrollment in the Longview...
Doernbecher Week ended with an assembly on Monday to celebrate all the fun and hard work that went into the fundraising event. The members of the Doernbecher Court who raised the most money were crowned King and Queen. Senior Delaney Doumit, President of the Key Club, is proud of the work her classmates were able to do but is glad the week is behind her. “It was stressful,” Doumit said, “but it was a lot of fun and I’m glad I did it. I’m upset it’s my last year to be involved, but thankfully,...
Cathlamet is going to be seeing a new business next door to the Eagle very soon--Cysciborg Holdings. Jerald Meiers and his wife Ladonna moved to Cathlamet last September from Bakken, North Dakota. With him comes “Steampunk Art” which is a unique, creative movement that has been growing in popularity using anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Meiers uses a pol...
State wildlife managers believe they are close to determining the cause of hoof disease in southwest Washington elk and plan to hold meetings to share results to date and answer questions from the public. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) personnel will participate in meetings sponsored by county officials concerned about elk hoof disease. Those meetings are: --Tonight (Thursday), 6-8 p.m., Cowlitz County Conference Center, 1900 7th Ave. Longview, and --April 2, 6 p.m., River Street Meeting Room, 25 River St., Cathlamet. WDFW...
OLYMPIA--House Bill 2797 and Senate Bill 6483 have a lot in common. Both increased funding for K-3 classroom construction, both had bipartisan sponsorship and both failed to reach the governor’s desk. In McCleary v. Washington, the state Supreme Court ruled the state was not sufficiently funding basic education. Earlier this year, the court ordered legislators to quicken the pace of funding to meet McCleary obligations—including K-3 class size reductions. According to the National Education Association, Washington state is fourth worst in...
Port District #2 of Wahkiakum County now has ownership of the historic gillnet boat currently stored at the fairgrounds in Skamokawa. Built at the Wilson shipyards in Astoria sometime between1913 and 1916, it was sold to Walter Jacobsen, an Astoria resident, then eventually sold to Herman Raistakka of Rosburg. In time it was stored at the Altoona Cannery and remained there till the cannery was not stable enough to support it. It was then moved to the Port District’s storage shed at Vista Park. In the last few years, it has been at the f...
“It takes a lot of practice to drink good beer,” Richard Erickson of Drop Anchor Brewery said. All that practice brought Erickson, Steve Sharp and Andy Lea to where they are now, with doors wide open to the newly constructed brewery in the marina, 10 investors behind them, and dreams of contributing to the local community before them. “We don’t expect to see a return for two or three years,” Erickson said. “We want to take everything and put it back in the brewery, but mostly we want to do...
Wahkiakum Dollars for Scholars officially launched a new website on March 24 through a new software tool provided by Scholarship America, Dollars for Scholars’ parent organization. This new website will allow Wahkiakum Dollars for Scholars to help students in the community access more scholarships. Through the website, wahkiakum.dollarsforscholars.org, students will have the ability to create an online profile, which allows them to apply for and be matched to multiple scholarships--on both the local and national level--in just a couple of c...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday authorized the closure of Steamboat Slough Road for continued construction of the new setback dike on the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge. Poor weather last September stopped construction of the new dike before it was completed. The Columbia is eroding the existing dike under Steamboat Slough Road, and the US Army Corps of Engineers is directing the construction of the new dike set back from the shoreline. When the new dike is completed, the contractor will breach the old dike in two...
Students in one of Kyle Hurley’s Agriculture classes at Wahkiakum High School are two weeks into a four week experiment that began with 16 Cornish hen chicks. Using the scientific method and four types of feed, the class, which was split into four teams, compare chicks’ growth. Each team is responsible for cleaning a pen for their four chicks every two days, as well as feeding and providing water for them. Each team uses a different kind of feed. The study is comparing Flock Raiser, Game Bird St...
Paul Engelmeyer, manager since 1990 of the Audubon Society Ten Mile Creek property south of Yachats, Ore., will be guest speaker at the March 29 meeting of the Willapa Hills Audubon Society. Englemeyer will discuss a range of issues including land-sea conservation strategies, marine reserves and protected areas, forage fish issues as well as recovery efforts for the marbled murrelet. The program is at 7 p.m. at the Longview Woman’s Club, 835 21st Ave., on the Kessler side of the lake. This program is free and open to the pub...
Wahkiakum County commissioners are looking for persons interested in serving on two advisory committees. One will develop policies and a comprehensive plan to deal with the growing, producing and selling of marijuana in Wahkiakum County. The second advisory committee will develop policies and a comprehensive plan to deal with the breaching of dikes in Wahkiakum County. Interested persons should contact Marsha LaFarge, Clerk of the Board for Wahkiakum County, P. O. Box 586, Cathlamet WA 98612 or lafargem@co.wahkiakum.wa.us....
To The Eagle: In all the posturing, hyperbole, and hysteria down at the courthouse since the announcement of plans for a couple of legal pot farms on Puget Island, the recurring mantra from the prohibitionists is, “We’ll be sending the wrong message” if we allow these marijuana growing operations in the county. Well, here’s the news: The wrong message is already being sent, and you’re the ones sending it. You are telling the kids that we don’t trust them to refrain from pulling a break-and-enter job to abscond with a few plants, process ‘em, an...
To The Eagle: The board of Friends of Skamokawa would like to update the Wahkiakum community about the status of Redmen Hall. We have a building held up by posts and beams that have been there since (as far as we know) the time Redmen Hall was moved up from the Skamokawa waterfront in the late 1920's. It has held up amazingly well, but finally needs some up-dating. In addition, there are some new regulations about earthquake retrofitting for public buildings that we need to comply with for insurance and future funding concerns. While this work...
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had found my first trillium. Well, on my walk with the dogs yesterday, I hit the jackpot. There must have been 300 trilliums in one little area of our woods. They were just beautiful, and I had never seen so many, so I picked my first bouquet to enjoy in the house. The hummingbirds are back in full force and they sure are hungry little devils. They are so much fun to watch, and their colors so brilliant. Country life is the only way to go, and welcome to Spring. News from Naselle: Sports calendar for...
A Community In-Door Super Sale, Luncheon, and Massage Clinic will be held at Grays River Valley Center, Johnson Park, in Rosburg, on March 29. The hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Grays River Valley Center is the old Rosburg school which has been developed as a community center for learning and activities in the Grays River-Rosburg area. It has many free resources for the community: a computer lab, an exercise room, an exchange and a lending library. The old gym is maintained for use by area schools for sports practice. This...
Sign up now to participate in the North Oregon Coast Birdathon at www.NorthOregonCoastBirdathon.com. A Birdathon is similar to a walkathon but rather than raising funds per mile, funds are raised per bird species observed. Anyone can participate: expert birders, casual birdwatchers and beginners, too. In a 12 hour period from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., on April 12, teams and individuals will be scouring Clatsop County or their own back yard for as many species of birds as possible to raise money for the Wildlife Center of the North Coast. Prizes will...
Kiwanis Club of Cathlamet member Sheriff Mark Howie presented Kiwanis Terrific Kids awards as part of an awards assembly March 17 at Julius Wendt Elementary School. Award winners were: Front, left to right: Parker Leitz, Chace Andree, Tylor Watkins, Audrey Morton, Danny Tomlinson, Brayden Hilton, Max Schmitz, Jayden Stoddard, Bella Gilbert. Middle left to right: Sebastian Britt, Jacob Johnson, Reigha Niemeyer, Janessa Frink, Adriana Ashe, Malachi Taylor, Noah Harrison, Nyomie Mozon, Beau Rose, Abigail Ames, Malia Ana Silva, Miranda Lomax,...
A fun and educational experience for kids will be held this summer. On July 7-11, WSU Master Gardeners will host Camp Luqal Luqal from 8 to 11:30 a.m. for youth in grades 1-3. Camp will be held for youth in grades 3-5 from 1 to 4 p.m. The week-long camp provides a hands-on experience for youth to explore the world of bugs, plants, and weather. Cost of the class is $25 and is limited to 25 children. The class will be held in the Floral Building located at the Cowlitz County Fairgrounds in Longview and is sponsored by Washington State University...
The Appelo Archives is pleased to offer a new book, Finns of the Grays River Area. Written by Merle Reinikka, the book was published by the Finnish American Historical Society of the West in Portland. It lists individual families of the Grays River, Seal River, Crooked Creek, Eden Valley, and Rosburg areas with their genealogical history. It also provides photos and history on the schools, organizations, businesses, dairy farms, logging, fishing, and community activities. When asked for a background on his work, Reinnika stated: “Don R...
