Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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NOT SO NICE--Wouldn't you know, the sun is shining as this work week begins but it sure would have been nice to have sun during the Bald Eagle Day festivities! At least by fireworks time, it was dry enough for folks to get out and enjoy them. Right now, it's steamy outside as all this moisture is just cooking up out of the ground by this sun and making us feel quite uncomfortable. They say we're in for a so-so week with nicer, more summer-like temperatures come Sunday--we'll see! NOT OUR HEIDI--You may have heard that a Heidi Lynn Knowles was...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: July 11--3:17 p.m. Dispatch received notice of a fatal 2 vehicle accident on SR 4. Both the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Department and Washington State Patrol were notified and the road was closed for several hours. 5:10 p.m. A caller reported a disabled log truck on Beaver Creek Road. An officer responded. July 12--8:30 a.m. A caller reported being threatened while fishing. The Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Longtime local resident, Kenneth R. Terhaar, 71, passed away July 17, 2011 at Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, Ore. He was born April 22, 1940 in Greencreek, ID to Roy and Freda (Arnzen) Terhaar where he attended school for 12 years. Kenneth graduated from Washington State University with a Pharmacy degree, a field he worked in for many years. He eventually became an administrator for the Longview-Kelso Kaiser Permanente medical facility; retiring in 2004. After retiring, Kenneth helped establish the Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic, with...
Deon Brown of Cathlamet went home to be with the Lord on July 11, 2011, as a result of a fatal auto accident. Deon was born in Long Beach, Calif. in 1937. She was raised on a farm in the Yakima Valley, and attended Granger schools. She earned her way through college and graduated with a degree in missions from Northwest College and a teaching degree from Northwest Nazarene College. In 1964 she married Jim Brown in Coos Bay, Ore. where she was a teacher. They moved to Vancouver in 1965 where they raised three children. In 1968, she opened Vancou...
The Town of Cathlamet has been awarded federal funding for a new wastewater treatment plant. The project, supported jointly by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce, is projected to cost $8.4 million and be completed in 2013. The planned facility will be located outside town and away from the Columbia River; it will replace a failing sewage plant built in the 1960s. “We’re removing an eyesore and a public health risk from our historic waterfront,” said Mayor George Wehrfritz. “The project will be transfo...
By now, residents of western Wahkiakum County should have received a newsletter from Grays River Grange requesting donations to help with the cleanup efforts of the property next to our hall. The cleanup of that piece of property will benefit the entire area. Community members can take pride in the area they live in rather than turning their heads and looking the other way. Grays River Grange would like to thank Wahkiakum West for their generosity in printing the flyers and their continued support of the Grange. There have been questions from c...
In mid-June of this year, Tom Hammonds of Grays River called me and offered to donate an AKC lab for the purpose of a narcotics K-9 detection unit. I explained to Mr. Hammonds that the budget was set a year in advance and that I wasn’t sure I could accept his offer, but I would research it. Such a program could only occur if it were to be fully funded by donations. Undersheriff Mark Howie, Deputy Gary Howell and I discussed the potential K-9 unit to see if we should proceed. Mr. Hammonds understood it had to basically cost zero dollars to t...
Wahkiakum County Commissioners discussed a range of issues at their Tuesday meeting. Commissioner Dan Cothren invited Rayonier Corporation representative Bob Meyer to address the board. Rayonier, a forest products company headquartered in Florida, manages around 390,000 acres in western Washingon including timberlands in Pacific County. Meyer explained he was attending to provide information and receive feedback about Rayonier’s recent announcement that they would implement the sale of permits for hunting some of their Pacific County h...
The heart of the Appelo Archive Center in Naselle is hundreds of feet of video tape recording the lives of people in western Wahkiakum County and eastern Pacific County, but the Center is multi-faceted and still growing. On the first floor, the former Appelo grocery store houses Bobbi Caton’s Creative Flair Flower Shop as well as the archive’s gift shop and visitor center, with a Grays River covered bridge exhibit on display. Upstairs, where Santa once visited children when the grocery operated, there is an elevator-sized display of local wom...
To The Eagle: In 2007 President George Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). This bipartisan bill simply requires that new light bulbs use 25 to 30 percent less energy than traditional incandescent light bulbs. No light bulbs are banned. No one will be forced to use one type of light bulb over another type. Michelle Schaefer of Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports states: "Rather, they set benchmarks that are technology-neutral, and manufacturers have already developed more efficient incandescent...
First of all, an apology and a correction. In last week's column I wrote about a July 3 barbecue. The barbecue was held at Bobby Olmstead’s home, and was attended by Eddie Wirkkala, his son Warren, his girlfriend and daughter, Ralph Olmstead of Naselle, his friend Susie from Long Beach, Junior Johnson of Vader and Bob and Geri Lee from Grays River. Thank you for the corrections Geri, and my apologies to those I identified incorrectly. I had the pleasure of attending a special meeting with Wahkiakum county commissioners and Chuck Beyer on T...
To The Eagle: The Dark Ages are upon us. Not quite here yet, but you can see the lengthening shadows approaching just as depicted in a Harry Potter movie. Using tactics of demonization, our leaders have created apocryphal shortages of energy and resources, bringing the wheels of industry and finance to a grinding halt. Let's take it from the top: Ninety four percent of global trade depends on diesel and gas turbine engines and internal combustion engines allow us commoners to participate in both the production and consumption of this global cor...
On Monday the quote needed from the Knife River Company to get concrete poured in the horse barn walkways was confirmed! Their quote was within the budget we had to work with. All our attention was then focused on getting the dirt removed from the two walkways and the forms in place before Friday. First thing we noticed was the ground was super hard to dig out and was full of big rocks. We had to use the tractor forks to break up the ground first, then with a lot of help from Mark Cothren the dirt was shoveled into the tractor bucket and...
