Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Julia Butler Hansen Municipal Swimming Pool (JBHMP) opened for the summer on Monday. “The pool fees will be the same as last year,” Mayor Dick Swart said. “Everybody’s costs are going up, and we are trying to pull the lines so pool patronage wouldn’t be affected by inability to pay.” Entering her fourth year as pool manager Lynette Ledgerwood is ready for summer. “I’m looking forward to another wonderful season of fun and safety at the pool!” she said. Ledgerwood has trained four new lifeguards this year, which was really needed. With form...
Maria Joell has taken her knowledge of wine from the vinyard to a retail store in Cathlamet. Her family has had a vineyard near Benton City for 20 years, and they operated a vineyard for 10 years, producing wines from a variety of red and pinot gris grapes. When the family sold the operation, she began looking for a place to establish a retirement home. Two brothers had visited Cathlamet and told her of the area, and she came for a visit. "I met the people here and really liked the area," she said. She began looking for a location and settled...
Wahkiakum High School’s Class of 2008 showed their mettle at their graduation ceremony last Friday. Principal Loren Davis reported that all the seniors meeting the school’s graduation requirements had also passed the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), which was also a state wide requirement for graduation this year for the first time. Statewide, 91 percent of the seniors passed the WASL, Davis said. Thirty-eight members of the class numbering 42 plan to pursue secondary or technical education, and three more have enlisted in the...
Dr. Rob Stockhouse (bottom left) and students work to eradicate knotweed in Birnie Creek in Cathlamet. The Wahkiakum Community Foundation has received a $62,000 grant from the Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership (LCREP) and NOAA to support two groups of high school students working in habitat restoration in Wahkiakum County. The grant will support the Columbia Estuary Environmental Education Program (CEEEP) at the Community Foundation. The Foundation is partnering with both Wahkiakum and Naselle/Grays River School Districts to support...
Over the past 14 years in the Wahkiakum School District, staffing and enrollment have been a roller coaster ride. Superintendent Bob Garrett has been in the district since 1994 and has seen fluctuations from minus 20 students to plus 20. Currently, kindergarten enrollment for next fall is 27 students, which can be a cause for concern because the student count determines the number of sections the school will offer. Garrett must inform the staff by May 15 each year if there will be a place for them in the fall. Because the number of students reg...
Anna, the counselor for seminary students in Taiwan. 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: This picture is of a woman here in the seminary where I teach. She is currently the counselor for seminary students. Her name is Anna and she is from Norway. She was sent by a Norwegian Lutheran Mission Society to Taiwan over 30 years ago. The picture was taken May 17 when...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board Commissioners met Tuesday with guest speaker Jim Oakley, Senior Member Relations Representative from Energy Northwest. Oakley told the board that progression is being made on the Radar Ridge Wind project in Pacific County. The concern of birds flying into the turbines hasn’t been a large problem; however, a study has been ongoing about murrelet flying patterns. He said the birds usually tend to fly lower, around sea level. While birds flying into the turbines isn’t an anticipated event, Oakley said the sit...
Commissioners of Port District 1 gave guidance to plans to upgrade a dock at the Elochoman Slough Marina when they met June 6. Consulting architects Michael Rounds and Anoy Jansky presented possible designs for the dock. A dock with little or no fingers would allow moorage of large yachts and more boats than a dock with fingers for mooring. They also said it would allow relocation of the dock further from the shoreline so that boats could moor there easily. Commissioners Leroy Burns, Larry Bonds and Brett Deaton said they preferred the finger d...
Former Cathlamet resident Jacob Nelson received the Bob Bandes Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Washington College of Computer Science and Engineering graduation ceremony last Saturday. The award goes to a graduate teaching assistant recognized for instructional work in the college's classes. Students commented that Nelson shared experience in industry with them and worked long hours in the lab helping them save their projects from "abject failure." Nelson is a 1996 graduate of Wahkiakum High School and 2000 from...
John C. Thomas Middle School has released its fourth quarter honor roll: 6th grade - Madison LaBerge, Jonaka Heppler, Maya Stanley, Taryn Peterson, Shane Souvenir, Kyler McKinley, Kelsea Blix, Paris Cothren, Lainie Ferguson, Travis Wegdahl, Brianna Parsons, Chelsea Paulsen, Zach Calvert, Naomi Wright, Danya Svir, Dylan Hansen, Kieran Gale, Delaney Doumit, Jem Dyer, Seth Doumit, Mason Mackey, Austin Good, Brandon Burdick, Riley Emlen-Petterson, Ashely Hedges. 7th grade - Eli McElroy, Eva-Mari Vik, Bonnie Beck, Haylee Budd, Mitchel Dault,...
The Cathlamet library is wired. You can now bring in your laptop and get a WiFi connection. The library also has desktop computers for customers. A few common uses of library computers include email, word processing applications such as resumes and letters, Internet searching for a wide range of things from housing to health topics and recipes, “googling” in general, viewing social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook, and games, as well as viewing The Eagle on-line. Did you know that you can access the Auto Repair Reference Center at...
A Fiber Arts Exhibit is scheduled to open June 28 at Redmen Hall in Skamokawa. Contributing artists are from the Clatsop Weavers and Spinners Guild, including several from Wahkiakum County. Included in the exhibit will be traditional woven materials such as coverlets, table linens, lace and clothing, loom woven wool and rag rugs, baskets, purses, tapestries and banners. Each Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. there will be interactive demonstrations of spinning, weaving and color blending and a table with assorted natural fibers before and after...
Members of the Cathlamet Town Council addressed issues ranging from waste water plant road plans to revising the zoning ordinance at their June 16 meeting. The council approved a revised agreement negotiated with the Wahkiakum School District for an access road to the planned waste water treatment plant in the district's Farm Forest. Mayor Dick Swart said the alignment wasn't what the town wanted but it was what could be negotiated. The school directors had wanted the road away from the Farm Forest access road, but the town's consulting...
Wahkiakum Community Foundation Executive Director Karen Bertroch gave an educational program to county officials and candidates for office at Tuesday's meeting of the board of commissioners. Last week, candidate Wayne Flohr had asked the commissioners for a recap of the history of Bradwood Landing's two annual donations of $100,000. With all the candidates observing the meeting Tuesday, Bertroch took advantage to review the situation. In 2006, Bradwood Landing, the proposed liquefied natural gas plant subsidiary of NorthernStar Natural Gas,...
Wahkiakum Family Practice Clinic is now solidly under renovation! There is much underway that we’d like to share with the community. We’ve begun by identifying Patient Care as top priority, knowing that the community will find it easier to support this clinic if we make efforts to increase the value of service. With staff retraining and reassignment, you’ll see evolving improvements in phone service, appointment and acute scheduling, efficient check-in and visit process, quicker testing, medication refills, phone call returns, better diagn...
