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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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WHERE IS IT?--As our work week began, so did Summer, but considering it was mostly cloudy and wet, it wasn't the start to Summer that most of us had envisioned. We are promised some nice days at mid-week, and as I'm writing this, we do have some brightness in the sky, so let's hope that these warmer temperatures and brighter days come about, as all these drizzly, cloudy, gloomy days are getting pretty depressing. THIS IS IT--It's here at last: The third annual "Smoky Water Follies" is opening this weekend at the Skamokawa Grange Hall and runs...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: June 14--1:06 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a Cathlamet woman who was very ill. June 15--6:49 p.m. Officers responded to a Skamokawa area residence where a son had threatened his father and placed him in a choke hold; officers took the son into custody. June 16--3:15 a.m. Longview police asked Wahkiakum officers to watch for a vehicle that an officer had stopped but restarted and took off...
Fumiko “Susie” Jaspers, 86, passed away June 21, 2010 at Lorenzo Adult Family Home on Puget Island where she received loving care for over two years. She was born December 21, 1923 in Yokohama, Japan to Hiroshi Kitai and Hide Ando`. In 1953 she graduated from high school in Yokohama. She married Don Jaspers on September 3, 1953 in Japan and they moved to Puget Island that same year to make their home. Don preceded her in death in 1975. Susie was a housekeeper for several local families over the years. She is survived by her brothers, Kyo...
Was Monday really the first day of summer? It felt more like June-uary. Tuesday has turned out to be a gorgeous day, but how long will that last? All day maybe? I’m wondering if the farmers will be able to get any hay in this year, as wet as it has been. Someone needs to give Mother Nature a hug, or something. News from Naselle: A few last minute items need to be posted now that school is out. The following students were chosen to represent their elementary grade classes as students of the month displaying the character trait of ...
The Lower Columbia Economic Development Council’s (LCEDC) plan for a new incubator business park in Wahkiakum County is on hold. During his report to county commissioners last Tuesday LCEDC Director David Goodroe said Port District No. 1 had informed him they were no longer going to act as the sponsoring agency involved in developing a business park. “Port 1 identified the business park plan as one of its development goals in 2006,” said Goodroe. He went on to say the Town of Cathlamet and the county also had identified the LCEDC’s business par...
The first show of the “Silver Buckle Series” was held last Saturday, it was a fun and successful event. Stewart Moonen sounded like a professional announcer as he called the classes into the arena to compete and later announced the winners. For setting up the barrels and poles our crew was: Ginger Moonen, Debbie Twiet, Joni Matthews, Connie Luthi and Kathy Perkins. Their job was to measure out the correct number of feet between the poles or barrels and set them in place. They were quick with a rake between the contestants to keep the dirt smo...
On Tuesday State Republican Representative Jamie Herrera notified The Eagle by email she had received the endorsement of the Wahkiakum County Republican party. Herrera is running to replace retiring Congressman Brian Baird in Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District. “We endorsed her because she represents the things we believe in,” said Wahkiakum GOP Chairman Richard Riley. The Wahkiakum GOP voted to support Herrera’s candidacy during their central committee meeting. The Wahkiakum GOP became the third county Republican organiz...
Wahkiakum is filled with amazing and innovative people. Local reaction to the winter snow on Christmas day 2008 proves it. It only took Mother Nature a few minutes and tons of snow to turn the Wahkiakum Fairgrounds Arena into a twisted heap of steel and corrugated scrap tin. Fast forward to last Saturday morning, with the first annual Silver Buckle Series Open Game Show sponsored by the Wahkiakum County Fair Board and its volunteers. The event was held in the Fair’s new arena. It was the brain child of Ginger and Stewart Moonen. “This was col...
Cathlamet Public Library’s Summer Reading Program starts July 7 and will be held every Wednesday for six-weeks, through August 11. Sessions include: pre-school story time at 11 a.m., elementary school age program and the middle school program at 4 p.m. Sessions last about one hour. Summer Reading is free and is open to local kids as well as those who are visiting for the summer. This year’s program “Make a Splash” will be run by Toni Hardy. She was a children’s librarian at North Central Regional Library Wenatchee before moving to Cathlamet...
The boards are waxed for the triumphant return of Vaudeville Della and her entertainers at the Skamokawa Grange Little Theatre Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. The Third Annual Skamokawa Follies includes music, comedy and melodrama from an era when rural entertainment included traveling shows. All tickets are $10 and are available at the Cathlamet and Naselle Bank of the Pacific; the doors will open one half hour before the show. Written and directed by Adele Swift with musical direction by Sunrise Fletcher, the cast...
The volunteers for the Finnish-American Folk Festival in Naselle are moving into high gear as it fast approaches on July 23-25. It will once again be held at the Naselle School at the junctions of highways 4 and 401 and is a celebration of the culture and community of the area. More than 70 performers will participate in the festival in more than 15 groups on three stages. They will dance, sing, recite, and tell stories of their “mummus” (grandmas). Most performers live in the Northwest. Naselle choirs, kanteles, and marimba band are just some...
It was hard to tell if it was sun or the ceremony making everyone smile during the Naselle High School graduation. The graduating Class of 2010 had a total of 31 students. Alan Erickson was valedictorian and Karli Nelson salutatorian. Erickson, Nelson and Drew Macy also graduated with High Honors and grade point averages between 3.75 and 4.0. Erickson also won the Bob Chamberlain Award. Educational Honors also went to Emily Green, Nicole Laney, Calen Thompson, Orianne Condon, Tim Blaylock and Jesus Martinez for receiving GPA’s between 3.2 ...
The Wahkiakum County Board of Commissioners started Tuesday’s meeting by approving their minutes and invoices. The board accepted the resignation of Wahkiakum Fair Board Manager Bill Coons and moved on to new business. The board recertified the liquor license of Duffy’s Irish Pub in Grays River and The Oasis Tavern in Skamokawa. The approval required no action and the Board approved recertifying the licenses. A decision was made on the distribution of the PUD privilege tax. As the name indicates the tax applies to PUDs for the privilege of ope...
The Cathlamet Town Council continued with steps to impose a six-month building permit moratorium for Columbia Ridge Estates subdivision and handled other business items at its monthly meeting Monday evening. The council had adopted Resolution 280-10, imposing the moratorium, at its May 17 meeting. Following up with steps to satisfy legal requirements for the moratorium, the council held a public hearing Monday on the resolution and adopted Mayor George Wehrfritz's May 4 letter to the estates community association as a findings of fact. Town...
After going over an analysis of their 2010 Current Expense Fund budget on Tuesday, Wahkiakum County Commissioners authorized two department heads to add employees to their staffs. The positions, in the assessor's office and Health and Human Services Department, will be funded by grants, and in the case of Health and Human Services, was already in the department budget. Commissioner Lisa Marsyla conducted the analysis, looking for pockets of funds that might be used to cut the Current Expense Fund's expected $193,000 shortfall. Instead, she...
To The Eagle: Our mayor's bleak characterization of the Wahkiakum Welfare State in last week's Eagle seems a bit skewed, particularly when he chooses to kick around those old straw dogs "political axes" and "ideological blinders." The "shrill critics" at the meetings we attended were mostly citing real concerns from past local history or thoughtful studies from respected foundations giving mixed reviews of the 27 year history of NHAs or making polite inquiries about the apparent connections between ShoreBank Enterprise Cascade and the Chicago...
To The Eagle: When I last checked, there were 565 souls living in Cathlamet, so these are my questions about the Queen Sally park design, (The Eagle, 6/10/10). Will the amphitheater reliably drain this existing aquifer sideways, or will water pool at its base and flow directly under the building? (I've had practical experience with this from my own faulty design.) Are any hydrodynamic or soil studies contemplated? Where is there to be parking for all that ADA access? Can the Town (County?) pay a new full time employee for maintenance:...
To The Eagle: In reference to the Honorable Mayor’s dissertation (The Eagle 6/17/10), from a “transplant of retirement age” citizen of Wahkiakum County, please indulge my feeble defense. Mr. Wehrfritz should be apprised of the knowledge that the “transfer payment” recipients contributed a minimum of 7 and a half percent (15 percent for self-employed) of every dollar they earned for 48 years to prepare for their “transfer payment.” It seems to me that our county is the beneficiary of our investment because we chose to live here and have impr...
To The Eagle: It is quite clear that, prior to the removal of the two floodgates on the lower Kandoll Road, and their replacement with two 13 foot diameter culverts, the Seal Slough Dikes were quite stable, and had been so for decades. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (actually, a Fluvial Geomorphologist!) to determine that the flow of tidewaters back and forth, through the culverts, is affecting the dikes. Rather than do a complex three dimensional incompressible fluid flow analysis of the river and the slough to prove what is self evident,...
Wahkiakum County Notice of Determination of Nonsignificance Wahkiakum County issued a determination of nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Nelson Creek Restoration Phase 1 seeks to restore half of the 180-acre tract of historic intertidal freshwater wetlands within the Elochoman and Nelson Creek watershed. The project is located in Section 26, T9N, R6W, W.M. The site has a physical address of 209 Nelson Creek Road, Cathlamet, WA 98612. Proposed by Columbia Land Tru...
File No.: 7021.26333 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP Grantee: Kurt E. Burmeister and Michelle C. Burmeister, husband and wife Tax Parcel ID No.: 282744-030-0 Abbreviated Legal: LT. 30, CANTERWOOD DIV 4 Notice of Trustee's Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. I. On July 23, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. Outside of the 2nd floor entry plaza, on the west side of the County-City Building, 930 Tacoma Avenue South in the City of Tacoma, State of Washingto...
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR SHORELINE MANAGEMENT, SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT, CONDITIONAL USE, OR VARIANCE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that The Campbell Group, Who is authorized agent of the below described property has filed an application for a Conditional Use Shoreline Permit for the development of: Removal of an old log stringer bridge and replace with a new steel bridge structure 14’ wide by 70' in length. Included in project is rock bank protection for new bridge supports. Located at 418 East Valley Road Within SE 1/4 of Section 4, T...
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETINGS AND RATE HEARINGS PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. ONE OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY WASHINGTON NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the Board of Public Utility District No. One of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will hold special meetings on Tuesday, June 29, 2010, at 3:00 P.M., in the meeting room of the District at its Offices at 45 River Street, Cathlamet, Washington, and on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 6:30 P.M., at the Rosburg Hall, Rosburg, Washington, for the purpose of holding hearings on proposed rates of the District's Puget Island...
File No.: 7763.26266 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Grantee: Duane Todd and Rebecca Todd, Husband and wife, presumptively as community property Tax Parcel ID No.: 180804-120005 Abbreviated Legal: Ptn. NE1/4 Sec. 18, T 8 N, R 4 WWM Notice of Trustee's Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. I. On July 2, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. Outside the main lobby of the Wahkiakum County Courthouse, 64 Main Street in the City of , State of Washington, the undersigned Trustee (subject to...
I like soccer enough that every four years I try to watch the World Cup games on TV. This international tournament is going on right now. I probably should have entered the lottery they hold for tickets, won, of course, and headed off to South Africa to watch the matches in person. It probably would have been cheaper than how I spent my summer vacation. I came down with a severe case of the chills early in the morning June 9. During the day, my left leg ached. I took aspirin and didn't go to work that Wednesday morning, when we put the paper to...
