Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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June 14, 2007 Wahkiakum County commissioners are looking for advice and analysis for operating the Wahkiakum Family Practice Clinic. The county acquired the clinic from PeaceHealth 2.5 years ago when that organization planned to close it. Commissioners expected to have to subsidize the clinic, but the deficit has been much higher than anticipated and is projected at $250,000 this year. On Tuesday, Commissioners George Trott, Tom Doumit and Dan Cothren voted to contract with consultants Derry, Nolan and Associates to an analysis of clinic...
June 14, 2007 Wahkiakum High School seniors showed love for the past and hope for the future in their commencement ceremony last Friday. Stephanie Johnson gave the welcome, looking back over the years the class had been in school and thanking parents, teachers, friends and classmates for creating the "memories that will last forever" and form the foundation on which they'll build their lives. Valedictorian Matt Doumit reflected on the class's good times and bad times and commented that the bad times they'd face "would make them stronger." "As...
- by Kathleen Morgain June 14, 2007 Monday night is Ride Night 6-7:30 p.m. every Monday night until fair. Chaperoned rides with music will take place in the Fairgrounds Arena. This is the opportunity to get your horses socialized and used to being in the arena. Angel Hall will be there for advice on showing and horse handling. Boots and helmets must be worn to participate. Suggested $2 donation. Win a hand pieced quilt! See the beautiful quilt up close at the Extension Office, 25 River Street, Cathlamet. Raffle tickets are only one dollar and...
June 14, 2007 Members of the Wahkiakum County Weed Control Board will hold a special meeting today (Thursday) to consider ways to adjust their programs and reduce their budget. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. in the River Street Building meeting room. The county board of commissioners several weeks ago had voted to cut $38,000 from the weed board’s 2007 budget, but after the move was questioned last week by citizens and weed board members, the county commissioners voted to reconsider that motion and allow the weed board time to consider how t...
June 14, 2007 Washington State Family Policy Council (FPC) recently celebrated significant successes across the state among its 39 Community Public Health and Safety Networks, which include the Wahkiakum County Community Network. The local network in Wahkiakum County won the Family Policy Council's Exceptional Results Award for attaining its 10 year goal of reducing teen alcohol consumption within eight years. They were rewarded with a cash prize of $15,000 and were the only network in the state to produce such a plan. The three other top winne...
June 14, 2007 Cape Disappointment State Park and the Grassroots Garbage Gang invite the public to participate in their annual Long Beach cleanup on July 5. Volunteers are asked to meet organizers at major beach approaches at 9:30 a.m. the morning of the cleanup. Meeting sites are at Seaview, Sid Snyder, Bolstad, Cranberry, Klipsan, Ocean Park and Oysterville. The Grassroots Garbage Gang is a group of more than 100 citizens and 28 groups including local residents, regular beach visitors and local businesses. The effort was organized in 2000 in...
June 14, 2007 The Bald Eagle Festival is coming! This year's theme is "Celebrating a Century". To reserve a booth, contact the Chamber of Commerce for an application. To take part in the parade, participants must have completed a parade application; last-minute entries will not be accepted. Types of entries include marching groups; pets or other animals including equestrian or mounted; antique, decorated and specialized vehicles. To request an application, call 360-795-9996 or e-mail wchamber@cni.net. Applications can also be picked up at the...
June 14, 2007 Due to the success and popularity of their annual Mother's Day kayak tour, Skamokawa Center will be offering a special Father's Day tour on June 17. They will use some of the biggest tidal changes of the year to navigate down from Skamokawa to Pillar Rock and back along the Columbia north shore. On the shore directly opposite Pillar Rock is the site where Lewis and Clark camped the night of November 7, 1805. There Clark wrote, "Great joy in camp we are in view of the Ocian, this great Pacific Ocean which we been So long anxious...
June 14, 2007 Naselle High School seniors will graduate Saturday, 4 p.m. in Lyle Patterson Gymnasium. NHS valedictorian is Cheryl Steppe, and salutatorian is Jamie Bighill. Students with a 3.5 and above cumulative GPA are gold honors students and those with a 3.2-3.49 are Silver Honors. Receiving gold honors are Steppe, Bighill, Jeanette Klinger, Kellyn Pakenen, Jeremy Ray, Lillian McGuire, Kelsi Nelson, Bonita Thomas, Amanda Wilson, Erin Saari, Naomi Galbraith, Brad Erickson, Kelsey Fletcher and Robert Rangila. Receiving silver honors are...
June 14, 2007 Wahkiakum County Search and Rescue located Friday a Longview man who fell off a cliff at County Line Park Thursday and spent the night lying injured. The man, Michael Mansker, 44, Longview, was flown by US Coach Guard helicopter to Oregon Health Science University Hospital where he was being treated for head injuries and fractures in his back, pelvis and ankle. A female friend of Mansker reported him missing about 10:30 p.m. Thursday. She said she and friends had been looking for him for several hours; they had last seen him...
June 14, 2007 Owners of private eastern Washington forest land, half of whom live west of the Cascades, will have the opportunity to learn how to keep their forests safe and healthy at the Family Forest Owners Field Day. The Washington State University Extension "in-the-woods" educational event will be held on Saturday, June 23, just off I-90 near Cle Elum. Gates will open at 8 a.m. and presentations will begin at 9 a.m. at the location off Golf Course Road (I-90 Exit 78/East Nelson Siding) five miles west of Cle Elum. Participants will be...
June 14, 2007 Cathlamet Mayor Richard Swart has announced that the Julia Butler Hansen Municipal Swimming Pool will be opening as originally planned on June 18. The initial test firing of the new heating system and pool chlorinator was a great success. Last week, he had issued a press release notifying the public that the pool opening would be delayed by two weeks due to maintenance work being performed on the Greenwood Tank reservoir. The Public Works crew was able to circumvent the water tank maintenance project in order to provide water to...
- by Donna Moody June 14, 2007 We have a couple of pretty important deadlines quickly approaching, Summer Camp Registration and Washington State Grange Convention. Summer Camp at Camp Morehead Junior Grange Camp located at 27600 Sandridge Road, Ocean Park is scheduled for July 8 - 13. Five days of wonderful fun for your child aged 8-14. Best part of this is that your family does not need to be a Grange member for your child to participate in our summer camp program. Registration fee for Camp Morehead is $150. However, if received by June 15 it...
June 14, 2007 Wahkiakum County will receive state and federal funding to cover the cost of a temporary ramp during the reconstruction of the Puget Island ferry ramp. Public Works Director Pete Ringen reported Tuesday that the state Department of Transportation on June 6 approved a $1.47 million allocation to the project, which will cover the cost of a temporary ramp. Ringen reported in recent weeks that the cost of the temporary ramp could be $400,000 to $800,000, far more than the county could afford. If funding wasn’t found for the t...
- June 14, 2007 Filing for local positions that will be on fall election ballots ended last Friday with few surprises and only one contested race. Two have filed for county commissioner to fill the unexpired term of the late Mark Linquist. They are Tom Doumit, an independent and the incumbent, and Blair Brady, who filed as a Democrat. Auditor Diane Tischer said Monday that all the candidates who have filed pass through the primary election to the general election because there are no contested races for the primary; this includes state Senator...
