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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Wahkiakum Mule Track and Field team traveled to Napavine last Thursday and joined five other teams for a 2B league meet. The boys’ team earned 30 points and came in sixth place. The girls earned 59 points and came in third. Senior Austin Burns placed third in the 200 meters with a time of 25.73. Sophomore Carl Kolditz took fifth in both the 800 meters with a time of 2:36.65 and the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 20.16. The team of Burns, Kolditz, Nevan Bingham and Ryan Quigley took f...
Wahkiakum Mule basketball player Shane Souvenir has been honored for his outstanding performance this past season. Souvenir, who moved into the post position for the first time this year, was a statistical leader in the Lower Columbia area. He averaged 22.5 points, 11 rebounds and 3.8 blocks per game. The 6'3" senior was named to the first-team all-Central 2B League team, and sports writers and editors from around the state named him the Class 2B League co-most valuable player. Souvenir, who is legally blind in one eye, was selected to play in...
The Mules baseball team split a doubleheader with Pe Ell at home on Friday. They won their first game 1-0. “Gunnar Blix pitched a complete game,” said Coach Kyle Hurley, “with two hits, seven strike outs and no earned runs. It was a fabulous game with some great pitching and great defense. It was just an all around great team effort.” The Mules lost the second game 6-2. Pitcher Zach Brown gave up a couple walks and four earned runs. Mason Mackey and Blix both had hits and Cody Terpsma had two...
Plagued by errors, the Wahkiakum Lady Mule softball team lost two games in a double header at home against Pe Ell last week. “It wasn’t pretty,” Coach Cindy Fudge admitted. The Mules lost the first game 24-0 with Tori Wegdahl at the mound and Sam Boyce behind home plate. The second game ended with a 24-2 loss. “There were a few bright moments in game two,” Fudge said. “Boyce hit a triple and Wegdahl hit well, too. Makinzi Anderson did a great job behind the plate.” “Even though we were out of...
The Wahkiakum Mule golf team moved their intra-team season record to 12-3 with a 171-198 win at home over Adna on April 16. Austin Good finished first in the 12 man field, shooting 39. Elliot Haney, 41, was second; Brady LaBerge had a personal best 44 and finished third. Zach Calvert shot 47 and Tanner Bergseng 62. On April 21, the Mules shot 201 and moved their intra-team match record to 15-4 with wins over North Beach, 251, Raymond and South Bend, both incomplete, and a loss to Willapa Valley, 182. After shooting 171 at home last April 16,...
MIXED BAG--Last Friday was an absolutely gorgeous day which brought out the lawn mowers, the tank tops and flip flops and was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. However, Saturday was a totally different story, as someone "flipped the switch" and we went from warm and beautiful to cold, windy and horrific downpours from time to time; definitely a huge switch from the day before! By the beginning of this week, we've had some showers but not too bad and it was a bit sunnier than we thought it would be for Easter Sunday and Monday as well, so while...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: April 14 – 8:25 a.m. A caller reported a suspicious man sitting outside a Cathlamet bank. 11:28 a.m. A Grays River resident reported a possible case of fraud. 11:34 a.m. A Rosedale resident reported that his social security number had been used fraudulently. 1:31 p.m. The Grays River ambulance responded to aid an ailing Rosburg resident. 2:10 p.m. St. John Hospital was treating a victim of sexual...
Linda “Lynja” Bunce, 72 years young, died peacefully on April 15, 2014, at Community Home Health & Hospice in Longview, WA. Linda was born June 10, 1941, in Chula Vista, California, the daughter of Hillman and Alfreda Cummings and the sister of Sandy Polk and Carol Vela. She leaves behind three daughters DeAnna Crouse, Erin Bunce and Felicia Bunce, as well as two grandchildren Zack and Colin Stewart and their father and her dear friend Bobby Stewart. Linda spent the majority of her life living in Valley Center with her family, Ronald Bunce and...
Anna Reime Giaver, 89, passed away on April 22 at her home in Cathlamet. She was born on May 26, 1924 in Voss, Norway to Olaf and Ingeborg Reime. She married Paul Giaver on March 17, 1958 in Seattle, after coming to the United States in 1954. They lived in Seattle, Port Angeles and Sedro Wooley prior to coming to Cathlamet in 1968. After Paul’s retirement in 1987 they wintered in Cathedral City, CA near Palm Springs where Anna loved the sunshine. She enjoyed gardening, cooking and was a talented seamstress. Anna was a member of the Sons Of N...
Technological education has become a regular part of the curriculum at Wahkiakum High School as teachers hope to give their students a leg up as they transition from their studies to join the workforce or continue on to higher education. Most of the students have excellent keyboarding skills long before they reach ninth grade. In high school, they will take classes that meet occupational education requirements and learn science through application, which introduces them to programming,...
The Wahkiakum School District’s Board of Directors learned that the accreditation process was going well at April's meeting on Tuesday. After interviews with students, teachers and parents and surveying the classrooms, Advanced Ed, who provided the review, recommended that the district should be fully accredited, according to Wahkiakum High School Principal Stephanie Leitz. “Now we are just waiting for the commission who grants accreditation to make their decision, which they do every June and...
Public Utility District commissioners from four districts across the state assumed top leadership positions for 2014-2015 as the Washington Public Utility Districts Association (WPUDA) announced the election of its new officers this week. Pacific County PUD Commissioner Diana Thompson was elected to serve as president; Chelan County PUD Commissioner Dennis Bolz will serve as vice-president; Wahkiakum County PUD Commissioner Dennis Reid will serve as Secretary, and Lewis County PUD Commissioner Ben Kostick will continue to serve as treasurer....
In a masterful performance, vocalist Kyleen Austin enthralled a large audience last Saturday with a varied selection of operatic songs. Accompanied by cellist Andrew Emlen and pianist Kathleen Petersen, Austin performed works from French, German, English and Italian operas. Before moving to Wahkiakum County about three years ago, Austin performed with companies in California. She has earned a bachelor degree in music performance and in English from Notre Dame de Namur University. She has studied with San Francisco Bay area vocal coaches and in...
Southwest Washington's regional manager of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife came to Cathlamet Monday to discuss the start of a salmon net pen rearing project, and commercial fishermen used the opportunity to express their displeasure with changes to the Columbia River gillnet fishery. Following an initiative from Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, Washington's Fish and Wildlife Commission has decreed that gillnets will be moved out of the main channel of the Columbia. Officials say the goal is to reduce the by-catch of salmon from...
Members of the Cathlamet Town Council handled a variety of business when they met Monday, including hearing that one of their members would resign effective May 1. Council Member Dick Swart said he would resign his position effective 12:01 a.m. May 1. He is planning to do some traveling this year. At their meeting last month, council members authorized him to take a leave of absence and return to the position in the fall, but Swart said Monday he had decided against that. "I thought it would be the best for the town if we didn't delay in gettin...
The Cowlitz Family Health Center, in partnership with nine community organizations, enrolled local individuals and families in new, affordable, health insurance plans during the first open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act. The family health center was chosen as a organization by the Washington Health Benefit Exchange to train and supervise in-person assisters, known as “navigators,” and lead outreach and enrollment efforts in Cowlitz and Wahkiakum Counties. Nine organizations, including: Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of...
(Corrected April 29, 2014) Filing runs May 12-16 for positions that will be on the summer and fall election ballots, and many county government positions will be open. County Auditor Diane Tischer said she and county Commissioner Blair Brady and Assessor Bill Coons have already declared with the state Public Disclosure Commission that they will be candidates for re-election. Cathlamet Town Council Member Richard (Dick) Swart announced Monday that he is resigning his position effective 12:01 a.m. May 1. The unexpired portion of his term in...
Members of the Wahkiakum County board of commissioners handled a variety of light business when they met Tuesday. The commission approved a proposal from the Tsuga Artists Association to repaint an outdoor mural at the Main Street entrance to the courthouse parking lot. The paint on the mural, which depicts sights to see in the county, is flaking off the mural surface. Association member David Goodroe said the group originally had two proposals in mind--for $1,500 members would repaint the mural close to the fashion in which it was created,...
A dozen young members of the Wahkiakum 4-H Chapter put their "Hands" and "Hearts" into a morning of community service on Thursday, April10. With the guidance of adult mentors, the youths cleaned up the Cathlamet Library and Community Center grounds, pulled weeds, and improved the appearance of the areas near the main library entrance, parking lot, and flagpole. Cathlamet Kiwanis Club member and Town Councilmember Dick Swart, who stopped by to encourage the volunteers, praised them for putting service above self during their Spring Break...
To The Eagle: My name is Carol Wegdahl and most of you probably know me from my work at Columbia View Care Center and the Cathlamet Fire Department. Last year I was hired by PeaceHealth in Longview as the coordinator of the American Heart Association Training Center. One of the main duties is teaching CPR/AED classes to community members and medical professionals. Almost daily someone tells me a story of how heart disease or stroke has affected them or their loved ones. Some of these stories are sad, but many people tell me stories of loved...
To The Eagle: Your readers may be interested to know that I am resigning from Position #3 on the Cathlamet Town Council, effective April 30, 2014. My prior plan was to retire from Town service when my term as Mayor ended in December 2009. However, I was persuaded to return as Chairman of the Town Planning Commission for 2010-11, and then asked to run for Council for a 2012-15 term. Returning to the Council offered an opportunity to work on four goals that I believed were important to the Town: (1) Broker peace and restore communications...
Looks like another wet week ahead, but they say that “April showers bring May flowers.” I actually think they would probably bloom anyway in our damp climate, but who knows. News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week: Thursday, the 24th-track at South Bend at 3:30 p.m. and baseball at Northwest Christian at 4 p.m.; Monday, the 28th-fast pitch and baseball with North Beach in Naselle at 4 p.m.; Wednesday, the 30th-middle school track in Naselle at 3:30 p.m. Go Comets!! The Naselle Lutheran Church (located at 308...
Cathlamet organist Jeff Fox will perform a varied program on three instruments on May 3, 6:30 p.m., at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church on Puget Island, 549 SR 409. A freewill offering will go to benefit local children’s camperships this summer and additional funds will be provided by Thrivent Financial. The program will include pieces on the church’s historic 1885 Hilborne Roosevelt pipe organ, 1907 Steinway piano, and a harpsichord. The music will range from baroque to contemporary, including a few of Fox’s own compositions and arrange...
