Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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One of the first photographs in the Appelo Archive Center's elders photo project is of Glenrose Hedlund, long time resident of Deep River who has her own small museum in her home. The Appelo Archives Center has launched a new photography project honoring elders and seniors in the Naselle/Grays River Valley area. Audrey Wirkkala, Archive Center staff, is a well known photographer in the area and with a new camera, she has begun taking photographs of seniors and elders to add to the extensive photo collection already at the Center. Wirkkala will...
Spring is definitely in the air and our gardens are awakening from their winter slumber. You may be seeing the tender green leaves of perennial plants poking above the garden surface and relishing the thought that soon there will be flowers and greenery to enjoy. But you aren’t the only one welcoming those tender shoots…hungry slugs are also awakening and relishing those very same leaves. So in this edition of our new WSU Garden Journal, I’d like to offer suggestions on how to defeat the slugs (and snails). Both slugs and snails pre...
Wahkiakum County officials on Tuesday signed an agreement with the State of Washington to cover unbudgeted expenses of the ferry "Wahkiakum." The agreement, funded by recent legislative action, helps cover extra costs incurred last year when the ferry was called into service when highways were closed along the lower Columbia in Oregon and Washington. Under a long existing arrangement, the state has subsidized 80 percent of the ferry's operating cost. However, the legislature's previous allocation didn't provide adequate funding to cover the...
St. James Family Center Family Support Services is offering monthly parenting groups to the residents of Wahkiakum County. These parent led groups meet on the second Monday of each month from 6:30 – 8 p.m. at St. James Family Center. Brian McClain facilitates the fathers’ group and Jenny Gale facilitates the mothers’ group although membership is not restricted to fathers and mothers. Aunts, uncles, grandparents or anyone wishing to be a positive role model in a child’s life is encouraged to attend. Groups are organized and based on the p...
Puget Island resident and Clark College Professor Emeritus Paul Aldinger will speak at Redmen Hall in Skamokawa at 3 p.m. on April 20. The full title of his talk is "Ballots and Bandwagons: the How and Why of the Election Process." Friends of Skamokawa are sponsoring the event. Aldinger taught political science and history for 30 years at Clark College, having graduated from Willamette University and later having received a graduate degree from University of Oregon. During his tenure at Clark, he was honored with three National Endowment for...
Dr. Janice McClean is preparing to start her practice at the Wahkiakum Family Practice Clinic. Sunny Manary photo. Beginning in mid-May, Dr. Janice McClean will begin practicing medicine at the Wahkiakum Family Practice Clinic. Dr. McClean, a 1991 graduate of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, will spend the next few weeks learning the clinic functions and computer system. McClean was at the Everett Clinic in Snohomish County, but after working with a recruiter at the Department of Health for Rural Recruitment in Olympia, she found that...
The suit over control of Johnson Park in Rosburg is going to the Washington State Court of Appeals. Joy Johnson, Peder Johnson and Earl Johnson, descendents of the Johnsons who donated land to Wahkiakum County in 1938 for use as a school or public park, filed suit last September to regain control of the property. A deed dating back to 1938 says Wahkiakum County owns for park purposes forever, provided School District #66 or its successors shall have the right in the event that it shall deem necessary or proper to construct and maintain a...
The Wahkiakum 4-H Council is preparing for its 24th annual Great White Tail Run on May 17. The run is a family event with course distances of 10k, 5k and 2 mile to walk or run at the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge between Cathlamet and Skamokawa. Registration starts at Skamokawa Vista Park at 8:30 a.m. with the run starting at 10 a.m. Awards will be given to the top female and male in the 10k and 5k and ribbons are given to the top three places in all age divisions for all three distances. The registration fees are for pre-run wit...
A project to replace wooden shields for pilings supporting the Foster Road Bridge is running into trouble, Wahkiakum County Public Works Director Pete Ringen announced Tuesday. Last December's flood pounded the bridge with trees and chunks of wood, damaging the guard rail and wooden planks used to shield bridge support pilings. Ringen said the county has received $40,000 Federal Highway Administration funding to repair the flood damage, but the money must be spent by the end of May. When the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife reviewed...
The next in a series of Finn-Am Jams will be a film from Finland entitled “ Mother of Mine" screened at the Naselle School Commons beginning at 2 p.m. on April 20. The blossoming film industry in Finland has turned out many interesting films as well as award winning directors and actors. “ Mother of Mine” tells the story of the children who became refugees from Finland to Sweden during World War II, known as the “Continuation War" in Finland. This is a story of one of the largest groups of children ever to become refugees, some 70,000, who wer...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday signed a letter to Bradwood Landing and NorthernStar Natural Gas pressing for details about aspects of the proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas plant. "Wahkiakum County is rarely and inadequately addressed in the current draft environment impact statement and emergency response plan," the commissioners said in their letter. "Our need to have the requested information is critical to properly fulfilling our responsibilities to Wahkiakum County, as we are in fact the closest impacted community...
Incumbent Wahkiakum County Commissioner Dan Cothren said last Friday he will run for re-election to a third term. He is running as an Independent. Cothren said he wants to follow through on efforts to revise the county's trust timberlands. He is leading negotiations with the state Department of Natural Resources and District 19 legislators to develop a package that would restore the county's harvestable acreage. The county has 12,900 acres of trust timberland, acquired through tax foreclosures in the first half of the 20th Century. The legislat...
In honor of the founding work John Doumit has done to establish the Community Foundation’s “Columbia Estuary Environmental Education Program” (CEEEP), a new scholarship in honor of him is being established this spring for graduating seniors at Wahkiakum High School . At Doumit’s request, it will be focused on vocationally oriented students who have shown leadership, creativity and work ethics. Foundation Board President Bonnie Linquist announced the new scholarship saying, "We are so pleased to honor John with this new scholarship. His vision...
The Julia Butler Hansen Center is sponsoring an Art Show on Saturday (April 12), featuring photographs by Cathy Russ of Raymond. Russ will be at the Center for a "Meet the Artist" reception from 2 - 4 p.m. Master Gardeners and David Hansen will also be in the Hansen Garden from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for tours and to answer spring gardening questions. Russ' art studies began in high school and continued into college. She studied graphic design and photography at New Mexico State University, then she moved to the Willapa Valley where she continues...
