Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Approximately 55 business persons and entrepreneurs attended the first Wahkiakum and Naselle Business Fair sponsored by the Lower Columbia Economic Development Council on April 11. Kim Hoover of Paint Pallet Interiors in Cathlamet won the grand prize of a new laptop computer in a drawing for attendees. In “Charting a Course to Master the Wave,” keynote speaker Sandra Suran, CPA, gave a modestly optimistic economic outlook. She relayed positive trends and actions that will be taken as well as negative but improving short term statistics she lea...
The Lambing Management School on April 17-18 was well attended including several youth participants. Dr. Scott Lubers and Patrick McKay-Beach worked with participants during lambing on the McKay-Beach farm on Puget Island. The first in a series of Family Movie Nights was held on April 25 with the After School 4-H Media Club showing the videos they have produced and the new movie release “Bedtime Stories” courtesy of the Video Store in Cathlamet. The event was a great success with a crowd of over 50! The Media Club did a special video fea...
April 21 at Naselle Invitational. Winners, Mule, and Comet results Girls: Warrenton 127, South Bend 113, Wahkiakum 108.5; Naselle 83, Pe Ell 67, Raymond 62, Knappa 27, WIshkah 14, Willapa Valley 12.5, MM Knight 9 100m--1. Jasmine Bingham W 12.4; 8. Samantha Bauer N 14.5. 200m--Bingham W 26.3; 7. Bauer N 30.2. 400m--1. K. Bateman PE 1:04.0; 3. Nicole Laney N 1:06.0: 4. Sarah Doumit W 1:06.1; 7. Jodi Christie N 1:09.5. 800m--1. Laney N 2:41.7; 3. Jordyn Wirkkala W 2:48.1; 4. Shelby Felton W 2:54.5; 5. Christie N 2:58.3. 1600m--1. Bateman PE...
The Naselle Youth Camp, targeted for closure in Governor Christine Gregoire’s budget for 2009-2011, will remain open. The final budget was passed late Saturday by the Legislature. The camp is still subject to the same cost-trimming directives as other state agencies and institutions across the state, however, it is still considered a victory for Senators Brian Hatfield (D-Raymond), and Democratic Reps Dean Takko and Brian Blake of Longview. All three made the camp his number one priority this session. “It wasn’t easy, but we knew the camp...
The Naselle School Board met April 21 to discuss a variety of topics. Naselle-Grays River Valley High School Assistant Principal Jon Tienhaara told the board he would be taking a group of sophomores to the Seattle/Bellingham area May 1, 2 and 3 to tour colleges, including the Art Institute of Seattle and Western Washington University. Thanks to the GEAR-UP grant, Tienhaara and three parents will take around 20 students to look at the schools. The program is successful because of the staff, “we couldn’t do any of this without them,” he said....
Wahkiakum County public health officials have joined others around the world in responding to an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico. Over 150 people have died from the illness in Mexico, and over 50 cases have been confirmed in the United States in the past week, Health Deapartment Administrator Judy Bright reported Monday. Cases have also been confirmed in British Columbia. "The situation is serious," Bright told representatives of Wahkiakum schools, emergency responders, nursing facilities and other organizations in a Monday informational...
Wahkiakum County should upgrade its law enforcement, fire and emergency response systems, no matter whether or not a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving plant is built across the Columbia River from Puget Island, a consultant said Tuesday. The report came from a request county commissioners made over a year ago to NorthernStar Natural Gas, who is proposing the Bradwood Landing LNG plant. Commissioners wanted the firm to cover the cost of a study of what would be needed for the county's sheriff's office, fire departments and other...
The Wahkiakum School Board met April 22 to continue the discussion of the need to reduce expenditures for the school year 2009-10. Superintendent Bob Garrett said without the final budget from the governor, it makes it difficult to make the final decisions for the district, however, opened the discussion for ideas. Last month, the board approved Garrett to make $150,000 in cuts for the district. That figure, Garrett said, would offset the corresponding drop in revenue tied to the decrease in enrollment from last year to this year. School staff...
The Cathlamet town council met yesterday morning as The Eagle went to press to decide weather or not to accept state funding for construction of new mains and pump stations for a new sewage treatment plant. Also on the agenda of the meeting, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, was the scheduled second and third readings of revisions to the ordinance establishing the town's timber fund cumulative reserve. The council intends to amend the ordinance to allow council members to appropriate, by a two-thirds majority vote, timber reserve funds to any use not...
The Cathlamet town council handled a wide variety of business when it reconvened its adjourned meeting last Monday. Items ranged from a report on the safety of city hall to recommendations to amend the town zoning ordinance. Council Member Steve McNicholas and contractor Gregg Prestegard reported that the city hall needs structural reinforcement or it could eventually collapse. Over the years, city personnel had removed a load bearing wall in order to accommodate large fire trucks when the hall served as a fire station. Now the roof and walls...
