Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Wahkiakum High School Cheerleaders recently returned from a National Cheerleaders Association summer camp. The camp was held at The Great Wolf Lodge and attracted over 400 cheerleaders from the surrounding states. The National Cheerleaders Association selects award winners at each of the 1,000 camps it administers around the world each summer. Founded in 1948 by L.R. Herkimer, NCA has been conducting camps for 60 years and holds events annually for 150,000 cheerleaders around the world. The Wahkiakum Cheerleaders received the following...
Competition in the 2010 high school foootball season starts Friday, and the Wahkiakum Mules entertain the defending Washington Class 2B champions, the Adna Pirates. Game time is 7 p.m. The Mules will try to throw something new against the Pirates: Over the past year, Coach Eric Hansen has been working on changing the run-oriented Mule offense to a balanced attack with a strong passing game. "I'd like to throw the ball 60, 70 percent of the time," Hansen said this week. The project has led to some changes. Last year's quarterback, Brandon...
Well, I hope the farmers have their hay in, as it looks like some wet weather is ahead. The rain is quite welcome for gardens being watered by hand. News from Naselle: Today is the first day of the 2010-11 school year. Let’s support them in their efforts, praise them for doing a good job and let them know we still care even if they need a little coaching in certain subjects. Remember that there is no school on Monday, the 6th, in celebration of Labor Day. I had a very nice note from Lois Bighill regarding her brother, Dan Anderson, of Grays R...
BEEN NICE--As this work week began, we got a few clouds and sprinkles but it wasn't too bad, as the sun came out and all signs of wetness soon disappeared. However, this Tuesday morning has things much wetter, but I'm sure my plants are loving it, as the ground was hard as a rock and the dirt was nothing but dust, so a little drink is probably a good thing. Last week, the daytime temperatures were in the mid-70s and they were some of my favorites; great if you had to work outside. THIS WEEKEND--The annual chili cook off at the Elochoman Marina...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: August 23--9:18 a.m. Deer refuge personnel reported someone had stolen a contractor's generator valued around $1,900. 10:01 a.m. A caller reported someone had taken a Dodge Intrepid without permission. 4:25 p.m. A caller reported a boat and trailer had been stolen in the Elochoman Valley; an officer investigated and recovered the items. 4:50 p.m. A Skamokawa resident reported someone had broken into an...
Cathlamet resident, Jack Arthur Knopski, 70, passed away August 24, 2010 at his home. He was born May 11, 1940 in Portland to Anton and Juanita (Moore) Knopski. He graduated from Washougal High School in 1958. On August 4, 1968 he married Carole Herrmann; she preceded him on October 5, 2009 after 41 years of marriage. Jack was a lifelong commercial fisherman in Kenai, Alaska and on the Columbia River. After retirement, he and Carole enjoyed their time in Arizona before moving to Cathlamet in 2004. He loved sport fishing, deer hunting with his...
The Fair Board would like to congratulate Fair Manager Lore Twiet for the fine job she has done these last four months! As Fair manager, you work with the Fair Board, volunteers, hired help, vendors and Wahkiakum County employees to get things accomplished. The fair manager job is not an easy one, many times in the middle of a planned event, everything changes, and the manager has to keep her thoughts in order so she can immediately move in a new direction. Lore was very good at changing directions, and if she needed to consult with me (fair...
The popular Buoy 10 fishery for chinook salmon at the mouth of the Columbia River closed Wednesday as scheduled, even though anglers have caught only about half as many fish as expected. Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon decided against extending the season because the portion of the catch from lower-river stocks has actually exceeded preseason estimates. Both states had hoped to extend the chinook fishery through Labor Day, but doing so may have reduced the number of fish available for harvest farther upriver, said Bill Tweit,...
The Second Annual Cathlamet Downhill Corral, a series of internationally sanctioned longboard races, came off with few hitches last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The races brought nearly 100 competitors to the area, over twice the number that competed last year. Food and lodging business enjoyed a brief surge as competitors and their friends and family members gathered in Cathlamet and at Skamokawa Vista Park. The racers competed for prize money in a variety of events. On Friday, they held a slide contest and a tight slalom race on Broadway...
The Columbia Land Trust is engaged in restoration work on a local project site to enhance habitat for deer and fish. The 180-acre property, known to the land trust as Nelson Creek, is situated across State Route 4 from the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge and is bordered by Risk Road and Nelson Creek Road. Indian Jack Slough runs through the site. Two tidegates block migratory fish from accessing the slough. Prior to diking and farming, the area was intertidal freshwater marsh with stands of Sitka spruce, cedar, and poplar....
The Washington Court of Appeals last week denied an appeal of a suit over the ownership of the Johnson Park/Rosburg School property. The decision ended a long-standing lawsuit and gave right of ownership to Wahkiakum County. John and Helen Johnson donated land to the county in 1936 for use as a school or park. The Naselle/Grays River Valley School District built a school on the site and used it until it ceded control of the land to Wahkiakum County several years ago. The county allowed the site to be used by a variety of groups, including the c...
The Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday announced it was cancelling the Seventh Annual Buzzards Breath Chili Cook-Off this Saturday at the Elochoman Slough Marina. Chamber President Jennifer Hanigan said only four cooks had signed up for the event, and, she added, Chamber volunteers were worn out from working three days last weekend on the Downhill Corral longboard races. However, the Cathlamet Yacht Club will hold the drawing for a small wooden boat as planned on September 4 at the marina....
Wahkiakum County's two major business promotion groups are going to explore a merger. Officers of the Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce presented the suggestion to the board of directors of the Lower Columbia Economic Development Council and the LCEDC board's August meeting. The groups agreed to form a committee to evaluate the proposal. The proposal came from the Chamber of Commerce which focuses its activities on promoting tourism and sponsoring community events. Chamber President Jennifer Hanigan said there were two basic reasons for the...
The Town of Cathlamet has submitted a detailed letter of comment on Wahkiakum County's proposed ordinance to govern application of biosolids in the county. Mayor George Wehrfritz said council members had asked him to write a letter of comment about the proposed ordinance, which will be considered at a public hearing next Tuesday, 7 p.m., in the courthouse. The proposed ordinance recognizes three grades of biosolids--Class A, Class B and Septage. Class A biosolids have the most treatment, and septage, biosolids composed primarily of human waste...
This year’s 4-H and FFA Market Sale at the Wahkiakum County Fair brought local businesses, families and other supporters to bid top prices for 4-H youths’ swine, poultry, canned goods and craft items. Brian McClain, auctioneer and owner of McClain Auctions, auctioned 11 animals and 15 still life items, including canned goods and crafts. FFA youth, Dylan Hansen, sold his 236-pound barrow for $725 to Walter Deege of Deege Insurance in Cathlamet. Hansen is also a member of the 4-H Afterschool Club. Zach Calvert, member of the 4-H Afterschool Clu...
To The Eagle: In the phrase, the man who cried wolf, changing “man” to “boy” is also known at the “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf,” a fable attributed to Aesop. It was not until the mid-sixth decade of my life that I cried wolf. Crying wolf is different than asking for and receiving help from family, friends, neighbors, and teachers, and best of all the few great “mentors” we gain in our lives. But my periods of crying wolf were probably perceived by many as constant complaining. I will be forever remorseful if all I did was complain. Since...
To The Eagle: Let me introduce to you three retired fellas, their names are Dick, Joe and Norm. For many years they have been fishing spring chinook and summer steelhead off of Coffee Pot Island in the middle of the Columbia River. What a wonderful pastime to enjoy right off Puget Island. We met them several years ago and have become good fishing buddies. Dick, Joe and Norm built a tree-room cabin to stay in while fishing season was on. They stayed weeks at a time. It took a lot of hard work and money to build. They just completed an outside ro...
NOTICE The regularly scheduled September meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners for Wahkiakum County Fire District 3 has been changed to Wednesday, September 8, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. This meeting will be held at its normal location at Station #2, at Raistakka Road, Rosburg, WA 98643. By order of the Fire Commissioners. Dennis Nagasawa, Chair Publish September 2, 2010...
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council will hold its regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Heritage Room at Lower Columbia College located at 1600 Maple in Longview, WA 98632. All interested parties are invited to attend. For additional information, call Susan Pagel at 360-567-1070. The SWWDC is an equal opportunity program/employer. Auxiliary aids/services are available upon request. Publish September 2, 2010...
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY MARCELLA KRAFT NO. 10-2-00029-1 Plaintiff, SUMMONS v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF OTTO SALME AND HELGA SALME, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ESA POUTTU AND SOPHIA POUTTU, JACOB MEHTONEN AND JANE DOE MEHTONEN, ISAAC WAGLAND AND MARY WAGLAND, ELMER BERRY AND JANE DOE BERRY, ULRIKA YRJALA AND JOHN DOE YRJALA, DAVID WILSON AND LILJA WILSON, AMALIA WILSON AND JOHN DOE WILSON, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ERIC NICHOLSON AND IRENE NICHOLSON, ED LEMPKE AND THEODORA LEMPKE aka THEODORA A. HANSEN, THEODORA A. HANSEN...
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE REGARDING THE REGULATION OF BIOSOLIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will hold a public hearing commencing: September 7, 2010, at 7:00 P.M. in Commissioners Public Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Wahkiakum County Courthouse, 64 Main Street, Cathlamet, Washington, for the purpose of determining whether or not the Ordinance set forth below shall be adopted, and at which hearing any person may appear and be heard for or against said Ordinance....
File No.: 7023.73151 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. Wells Fargo Bank, NA Grantee: Bonnie S Bourdage, a single woman Tax Parcel ID No.: 020805-130001 Abbreviated Legal: Ptn Tract 14 Ocean Highway Tracts, Plat A, Page 54, Lot 3, Short Sub Vol 2, Page 58 Notice of Trustee's Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. I. On September 10, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. Outside the main lobby of the Wahkiakum County Courthouse, 64 Main Street in the City of Cathlamet, State of Washington, the undersigned Trustee (subject to any...
