Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Missoula Children's Theatre returned to town last week to put on a performance of The Pied Piper with children from Wahkiakum School District. Auditions were on Monday, and students of all ages spent the week learning their lines, places, and songs. There were two performances on Saturday in the Wahkiakum High School gym. Cadence Guest was the Pied Piper, Novella Hokkanen was Sara, A.J. Russell was the mayor's son, Abigail McKay-Beach was the mayor's daughter, Marius Wynn was the mayor's...
OLYMPIA (March 29) -- The Senate Democrats introduced their operating budget proposal on Friday totaling $52.2 billion -- an increase of $7.5 billion over the last biennium. K-12 education accounts for 60 percent of the increase in spending with increases of $4.5 billion and an additional $937 million in special education funding. Other major increases include behavioral health and long-term care. The Senate proposal, like the House version released last week, includes revenue increases, however these increases differ and focus on...
Wahkiakum County commissioners expressed confidence Tuesday that Columbia River channel dredging this summer will be able to bolster eroding beaches at Cape Horn and on Puget Island. And with that, commissioners would be able to focus on other issues, such as siltation of Grays Bay. On behalf of the Grays River Habitat Enhancement District, Rosburg resident Poul Toftemark on Tuesday asked commissioners to work with the US Army Corps of Engineers to tackle that issue. The Corps created an island from dredge spoils that blocks the outlets of the...
Organizers of a mid-March listening tour have released findings of the day-long effort to collect people's concerns and desires for the county and its communities. The tour was part of a program started by the state Democrat Party's Ag and Rural Caucus to collect concerns and desires from rural communities across the state so they can be championed among statewide policy makers, who are heavily influenced by large urban populations. The local program was a bipartisan effort coordinated by the central committees of the county's Democrat and...
The Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors met March 19 to discuss several items including a commercial kitchen, the traffic safety program, the IT infrastructure, their continued concerns about funding, and more. Superintendent Brent Freeman gave a quick update on plans for the commercial kitchen/fish processing center, the fruit of a partnership of the school district, the local WSU Extension Office and Marine Resources Committee. He said that he and Carrie Backman of the extension...
Wahkiakum County Sheriff Mark Howie is inviting Skamokawa residents to a block watch meeting next week to talk with law enforcement and neighbors about recent thefts and other concerns they may be having in the area. The event will be held at the Roadkill Saloon on April 3, at 5:30 p.m....
To The Eagle: Oh happy day; Robert Mueller has washed all of the collusion away. After two years and over 25 million spent, the DOJ investigation has concluded that not the president, not anyone in his campaign colluded with Russia. Which those of us, who supported @realDonaldTrump, knew all along. This ridiculous and criminal hoax was spread ad nauseum by Democrats, the media- including this and other local newspapers, TV, "entertainment" shows, and repeated by the benighted and hoodwinked consumers of their products. I'm not going to hold my...
To The Eagle: I have completed my research into JB Bouchard's suggestion in last week’s letter to the editor as to what a wonderful world this would be if we lived as suggested by the song Imagine by John Lennon. No religion, no nationality, nothing to kill or die for and more blah blah blah. Well as with most people that think they are smarter then the rest of us they just can't help themselves unless they tell us how to think and live. Last point, I bet Lennon wasn't dreaming when he wrote the song unless it was about the money he would m...
To The Eagle: Karen Lane’s histrionic “anti socialism” themed letter in the March 21st edition milked every panicky right wing conservative trope in existence since the 1940's as well as a few bogus new ones such as undocumented illegals qualifying for Social Security. Medicare, Social Security, any federally funded efforts such as Rural Electrification and school nutrition programs, farm price supports, bank deposit insurance, labor union organizing, to name but a few, have at their inception been decried as deadly forms of creeping socia...
To The Eagle: I have an angering concern regarding how our property tax is appraised. For simplicity, in my opinion, all the appraiser needs to inspect are the sizes of the buildings and property; no matter the view/frontage or the quality of construction and condition. As to the value of what we do to our buildings and property inside/outside, what business is that to the legislators? Did our legislators pay for and plant the garden/flowers/shrubs we put in? Plant/prune the orchards/trees? Lay out the granite, marble countertops? Laminate or...
To The Eagle: On Sunday, March 10, Ethiopian Airlines 302 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people aboard. Since this was a similar event to Lion Air’s October crash (shortly after takeoff from Jakarta) and in the same relatively new model aircraft (Boeing 737 Max 8), our mainstream media immediately launched into what they are best at: Breathless speculation about defects and danger, and endless finger-pointing at the obvious evil-doers, in this case Boeing, FAA, pilots, and, of course, Donald Trump. In both a...
A change is coming to Main Street in Cathlamet, and with it comes a mix of emotions, certainly for Lacey Vik, and likely for everyone else involved. Lower Columbia Realty has become Wahkiakum Realty, LLC. For Vik, it's an exciting moment as a new business owner, but it's also tinged with sadness, because she won't be able to share this moment with the woman who got her into real estate and taught her everything she knows. Lifelong Wahkiakum resident Kay Cochran, who established Lower Columbia Re...
By Diana Zimmerman Fire season started a little early and a little too close to home this year. Last Tuesday, March 19, local firefighters and personnel from the Department of Natural Resources responded to three fires in Wahkiakum County, which all began that afternoon. The Elochoman Complex fire and the Deep River fire are out, Wahkiakum County Undersheriff Gary Howell said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Wildwood Lane fire, which started as a controlled burn, got out of control and grew to 77 acres at its largest, is listed as 100 percent...
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife was alerted after two reports that a big cat, possibly a cougar, had been sighted in the Cathlamet area in the last two weeks. According to Wahkiakum County Sheriff Mark Howie, two weeks ago in the early morning someone reported seeing a large cat coming out of the drive near the sewage treatment plant. It crossed SR 4 to school grounds. A week later, someone else reported seeing a large cat by the large tree on the school campus. Superintendent...
On February 22, Debra Lawson-Bean, the owner of Angel Wings Pet Sanctuary on Puget Island, requested a date change for a hearing in regard to her petition to have the animals seized by the Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s Office on February 4 returned to her. The date for the hearing, initially scheduled for March 18, has been moved to April 1 at 10 a.m. Lawson-Bean is asking for the return of 12 dogs, 23 cats, four roosters, eight chickens, two horses, and 12-15 goats....
GRAY SKIES--As this work week began, our morning skies were a bit on the gloomy and gray side but at least it was just a little damp, that is until later on in the day and then it rained pretty good. It's one of those things we hate to see, but right now we really need it so I won't complain. As I'm writing this, forecasters are saying we're in for a bit of rain off and on, and given the amount of fires taking off in our county and neighboring counties recently, having some rainfall right now wouldn't hurt anybody's feelings I don't think. It's...
Greetings from the fair office, hope everyone is having a great start to spring. Soon the fairgrounds will be very busy as we have several events happening at the fair grounds. The Silver Buckle Series starts in May, the Car Show will happen in June, The Challenge of Champions will be here in July and of course the fair is in August. So as you can see, we have a busy summer coming up. The second Saturday of the month is the Flea Market and always has lots of treasures for you to take home. The fair theme this year is "Overall Good Times" so...
THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-Noon. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-7-15 p.m. Sandra Sews, 10:30-Noon. S.A.I.L., Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, The Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire/ambulance, 7 p.m. Food Addicts Meeting, The Hope Center, 3rd &...
Reader’s Request I am grateful and I give thanks to you the readers who have approached me with your favorable comments and suggestions. While at the Rosburg Store recently I was asked by a Wahkiakum County Eagle reader if I would post some local recipes. I gave it much thought and decided to give you one of my own in a unique way in which I am sure you will want to try it for yourselves. It is as common as coffee in these parts just as jambalaya is common in Louisiana with no two recipes being the same. I am referring to the common clam c...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: March 18 – 7:37 a.m. A caller alleged that a child was being abused in a Rosburg home. A representative from Child Protective Services said that there was a custody battle and she did not believe the child was in danger. 9:16 a.m. A caller reported a speeding vehicle heading east on SR 4. 12:07 p.m. A caller notified the sheriff’s office that there was no water source to respond to a burn at a Grays River addr...
The following events are scheduled by the Wahkiakum Fair Foundation in support of the Challenge of Champions Bull Riding Exhibition to be held at the county fairgrounds on Friday, July 19. There will be a lasagna dinner, bake sale and silent auction at the Rosburg Hall on Saturday, April 6 from 1-6 p.m. The foundation will hold the second annual Easter Carnival at the fairgrounds on Saturday, April 20 after the Lions Club Egg Hunt in the morning at Vista Park. Lunch will be available along with carnival games and at 3 p.m., an egg hunt for all...
Burton Appelo, born April 11, 1927, died March 14, 2019 in Tacoma. While attending a two-room schoolhouse in Deep River, Wash., he worked in his parents' stores and the Deep River Movie House, and was President of the local Future Farmers of America. He became a sailor aboard the U.S.S. Apache in World War II. He earned a University of Washington B.A., married classmate Rosalind Swalling, and worked for the Appelo stores, winning a trip to Hawaii for selling many Crosley Shelvedor...
On March 23, 2019 Elaine lost her nearly year long struggle with CNS lymphoma. She was born in Ilwaco, WA on January 27, 1955 to Clarence and Glenrose Hedlund, joining a brother, Dennis and sister, Dianne. They grew up on a small farm in Deep River and she spent her entire life sharing the history and stories of the area. In 1st grade she had rheumatic fever and had to stay quiet for a year. She developed a life long passion for puzzles, games and crafts. One of her favorite things was helping her Dad in the wood working shop. She went to...
Robert was born November 16, 1963, in Astoria, Oregon, to Thomas and Tressa Patterson of Altoona, Washington. He was the third child, and only boy of four children. His mother loved him dearly and doted on him. He grew up in Altoona, roaming the hills, hunting and fishing. His father started teaching him mechanics at age 13. He had a great talent for it. He attended Rosburg Elementary School, then Naselle High School where he graduated on June 4, 1982. Robert met the love of his life one night...
Ann Robbins Parker was born in La Jolla, California to Alvin and Mary Robbins. She met her future husband, high school sweetheart and love of her life, Richard Parker, their freshman year of high school and they were married April 6, 1955. Ann worked as a bank teller and medical coder for many years. Ann was very active in her church and local nursing home. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother Skip. Ann is survived by her husband Richard, daughters Laurie and Sandra, sons-in-law Terry and Stan, eight grandchildren, Kevin,...
