Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Local students are wrapping up this week their exams in the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL). The WASL began in 1993 after educators, legislators and representatives of business and industry agreed that graduating high school students needed to meet certain defined levels of education and competency so that they would be prepared for the jobs of the 21st century. “They wanted to raise the bar,” said Wahkiakum High School Principal Loren Davis. The purpose of the WASL is to ensure students are meeting certain standards by gra...
The Wahkiakum County Democratic Party will hold a convention this Saturday at the Duck Inn, Skamokawa. Registration starts at 9 a.m., the meeting will call to order at 9:45 a.m. The convention is for all delegates elected at the Wahkiakum Democratic Precinct Caucuses held February 9. The principal business is the election of one delegate and one alternate to attend the third congressional convention to be held on May 19 at a location to be announced. The delegate and alternate will also attend the State Convention in Spokane on June 14. At the...
April 10 at Onalaska Girls: Toledo 128.5, White Pass 97.5, Wahkiakum 88.5, Onalaska 74.5 . . . Mule results (top 10) 100m--1. Jasmine Bingham 12.98; 5. Whitley Wirkkala 13.84. 200m--1. Bingham 27.07; 2. Valle Ledtke 27.17. 1600m--6. Jori McEntire 6:52. 400m relay--1. Mules (Abby Burns, Bingham, Sarah Doumit, Wirkkala) 52.79. 800m relay--1. Mules (Burns, Bingham, Ledtke, Wirkkala) 1:55.1. 1600m relay--2. Mules (McEntire, Wirkkala, Doumit, Ledtke) 4:47.5. Javelin--3. Amanda Collier 76-06; 10. Whitney Chaput 63-04. High jump--1. Doumit 5-0....
Port District No. 2 administrators hope to be able to call for bids to construct Svensen Park next week. Port Manager Steve McClain reported at the Tuesday meeting of Port 2 commissioners that consulting engineers are awaiting the permit for the park's septic system; once they have that, they'll be able to issue the call for bids, and that could come as early as next week. That would mean the contract could be awarded in May, and work would start around June 1 on a project that has been in the works for over a decade. The port district has...
Clam diggers received Tuesday approval for a morning razor clam dig starting April 19 at four ocean beaches after marine toxin tests showed the clams at those beaches are safe to eat. Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Copalis and Mocrocks will all be open for digging April 19-20. Twin Harbors will be open for three additional days, April 21-23, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). No digging will be allowed after noon on any beach. Kalaloch Beach will remain closed to harvest. Depending on harvest numbers after the April...
The new-used transformer purchase was just one of the topics of discussion at the April 15 Wahkiakum PUD meeting. Steve Mills, a representative for General Pacific, gave the board a presentation regarding “smart meters,” which utilities will have the ability to control during peak usage. For instance, he explained, they would have the ability to turn off air conditioners in residential areas for a few minutes until energy levels reached a certain peak, then would be turned back on. Manager Dave Tramblie told the board that he received two bids...
The short spring salmon season on the lower Columbia River is gone, but issues still remain for Port District No. 1. Fishery managers in Washington and Oregon reduced the season to less than two weeks as a means of sparing fish destined for the Willamette Basin, which has a forecast for very low returns of spring salmon. The reduction has had a financial impact on the Elochoman Slough Marina, Manager Jackie Lea reported last Thursday when the Port 1 board of commissioners met. "Our sales are down month to date about $10,000," she said. During...
The hounds will be running on Puget Island this weekend at the All-Breed AKC Lure Coursing Field Trial. The event is sponsored by the Willamette Valley Basenji Club and will include a wide variety of sighthounds. The event will begin each day with hounds in groups of three competing against members of their own breed chasing an artificial lure around a random half mile course. In the afternoon, the course is reversed and the dogs run a second time, and scores are tallied to determine best of breed for each breed running. At the end of the day,...
Landowners along the proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline routes are invited to a public information meeting sponsored by the Columbia River Clean Energy Coalition. The meeting will be today (Thursday) at 6 p.m., at the Clatskanie River Inn, 600 E Columbia River Highway (Hwy. 30) in Clatskanie. All people interested in LNG pipeline issues are welcome. "We're eager to inform local landowners about their rights and choices in dealing with the LNG and pipeline companies," said Olivia Schmidt, of the Coalition. Two LNG terminals and pipelines ar...
Editor's note: Dr. Terry Kriesel of Puget Island will be teaching this school year in a Taiwanese seminary. We invited him to share his observations of life in Taiwan on an occasional basis. Here is his latest dispatch: A four year old Taiwanese boy shows off some moves he learned at the Taiwan Wang Lion Dance Association Well, here it is income tax day in the U.S. I have to file taxes both in Taiwan and in the U.S. (for those of you who are complaining)! A couple of weeks ago Carol and I spent a weekend in Taipei. We did a lot of sight seeing...
The Wahkiakum County Fair is beginning its search for this year's Fair Royalty. The contest is open to both male and female students. The King or Queen of this year's fair, the county's 100th, will be eligible to earn a sales award of a $300 scholarship to the participant with the most funds raised and a $500 scholarship to the participant chosen King or Queen. The scholarships will be awarded directly to the college, university, trade school or vocational training program for college related expenses including room and board and tuition. They...
Dr. Andrew Bacevich will give the William Vest Memorial Lecture at the LCC Student Center May 1 at 7:30 p.m. A professor of history and international relations at Boston University, Dr. Bacevich is the author of several books, and his op-eds have appeared in prominent news publications. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he received his Ph.D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins. His books include The New American Militarism:...
The Scarborough Building will soon have a new display, thanks to a generous donation by Ruby Martha (Scarborough) Keating. The exhibit, consisting mostly of old time pictures of Cathlamet can be seen in the display case inside the Scarborough Building indefinitely. Keating said she was happy to make the donation. "What else am I going to do with them?" she said. "I'm the last one of the Scarboroughs. At least I would know where they are going." An antique wooden match holder bearing the face of Sitting Bull once hung in her grandmother's house,...
Classical sax comes to Pioneer Church Northstar, a saxophone quartet from the Seattle area, will be at Cathlamet’s Pioneer Church on April 26 at 7 p.m. Jay Easton, the founder of the group, says the group can take the familiar jazz sounds of the saxophone and transform it to the “warmth and finesse of a string quartet.” The quartet members and their sax instruments are Ward Baxter, tenor, Easton on baritone, Scott Granlund, soprano and alto, and Nicole Barnes, alto. The pieces they will play at this performance will include: “America” (from Wes...
Advocates for crime victims are developing a presence in southwest Washington. The state's Crime Victim Advocacy Program was started in 1990, but advocates continue to make their presence known in regional services. Tuesday, advocates visited the Wahkiakum County board of commissioners for passage of a proclamation and discussion of further advocacy efforts. The board did pass a resolution to proclaim and observe April 13-19 as National Crime Victims' Rights Week. Advocate Linda Asher also asked the board to consider adopting a statement for...
