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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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East Sunny Sands beach front residents have been warned to clear their frontages of personal property in preparation for placement of dredged sand spoils, Wahkiakum County officials announced this week. The U.S. Army Corps and the Port of Portland will start staging equipment for sand placement along the shoreline of Pancake Point on Puget Island as early as next Monday, the county board of commissioners announced Tuesday. In other business at their meeting this week, county commissioners...
On August 17, the Cathlamet town council members discussed a number of agenda items not elaborated on in last week’s edition of The Eagle. Those items include a request for proposals (RFP) approval for improvements on town hall’s office structure including the addition of an awning, new paint, signage and flower pots; they failed to approve a motion to form a steering/advisory committee for the Butler Lot; they discussed and failed to pass a motion to acknowledge the existence of a pool committee, and they discussed and carried a motion to wai...
The Town of Cathlamet hosted a program Tuesday morning to celebrate the installation of a flag pole at Town Hall and the donation of two Flags. Veteran Bob Roche of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5297 donated a huge US flag; state Senator Dean Takko donated a Washington State flag, and Puget Island resident donated the flag pole. According to a statement from Town Hall, "The new Town flagpole was acquired at the direction of Cathlamet Mayor Dale Jacobson. Mayor Jacobson personally oversaw...
The number of people to test positive for covid-19 in Wahkiakum County rose to six last week, with 447 tests conducted so far. There have been 529 confirmed cases in Cowlitz County. 117 are considered active, three people are currently hospitalized and six people have died. There were 60 confirmed cases in Pacific County, two of which are considered active. Three people have died. Clatsop County is reporting 94 positive cases, with three considered active. In Columbia County, there are 125...
To The Eagle: I wonder how many of our people around here witnessed the heartfelt and precisely truthful speech given by Maximo Alvarez at the RNC convention Monday night. A Cuban immigrant and grateful US citizen’s words will touch your heart and mind. Watch the rerun on YouTube. He gives lie to all of the balderdash and Marxist gibberish of the DNC platform and its scurrilous politicians. Give it a look, people. We love our country because it is the bastion of freedom in this dangerous world. Without the USA and its promise of freedom the w...
To The Eagle: Our state senator, Dean Takko, representing the 19th District, understands that the basic American expectation that travel be easy and safe is fundamental to who we are. I am not just talking about his tireless work on our infrastructure. I have seen how protective Dean is of our safety when, as Wahkiakum County Prosecutor, I discovered a loophole in the law, one that made the punishment when a motorist negligently kills a passenger on a motorcycle far less than if the motorist negligently kills the driver of the motorcycle. One...
To The Eagle: It was distressing to read Ms. Swift’s comments last week regarding her anxiety and anger about the rioting and violence in Portland. I did think her comment that “they’re coming for you next“ was a bit over the top. No need to panic. This too shall pass. We have as a nation been here before. The massive demonstrations during the 1960's against the Vietnam war, those for negro civil rights, and then for women’s rights, all seemed at the time terribly violent and confusing. We survived them and are better for it. I believe t...
To The Eagle: A local Trump acolyte has been complaining that, allegedly, six out of seven participants at Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland and Seattle are white and a large percentage of those are college age ‘woke’ females. Is there a color coded etiquette specifying that racial justice demonstrations must have more dark skinned people in them than pale skinned people ? Do women in general, or just their activism, rankle that author most? One has to wonder if woke women on the march are more threatening to this guy than any str...
To The Eagle: Dean Takko wants to talk about “effectiveness” and “experience.” We need someone in Olympia that’s actually put people to work- someone that’s actually paid the taxes as a business owner. We need someone who actually is out working every day in the district. Dean has had 40 years of government paychecks. Maybe it’s time he retires. His version of effectiveness is sending us breadcrumbs in project dollars compared to what our people pay, while voting for tax increases at every single opportunity. Send Jeff Wilson to Olympia inste...
To The Eagle: “Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” So said Mark Twain in 1897, obviously anticipating the Covid pandemic by 123 years. The numbers submitted in a previous letter indicating that 80 percent of Covid deaths were folks over 65 with people 34 and younger accounting for less than 1 percent were from a CDC chart dated June 17. More recent info from the end of July shows 92 percent of Covid deaths were people over 55, with the same 1 percent below 34. This underscores the relative safety of schoolkids and their tea...
Hunter ed class It has been difficult to achieve precise wording of hunters education class developments. Previous articles should have stated: Deferral hunter applications: -- Must not have failed a hunter education class in the last 12 months. -- Go to WDFW, Hunting, Hunter Ed., Hunter Ed. deferral program and follow instructions. On-line class: -- WDFW, Hunting, Hunter Ed. training, register for the online class. Updated copy follows: -- Deferred hunters must by 10 years old (not 9). --Students must be at least nine years old to take the...
The August fishing season has brought a lot of fishermen to the Elochoman Slough Marina in Cathlamet, but so far, it sounds like an exercise in frustration for a lot of the anglers. "The fishing hasn't been very good this year," Tom Wilson of Tumwater said. He has been coming down to Cathlamet for 21 years, and this is the poorest fishing he says he's ever seen. Wilson and Mike McClellan of Skamokawa don't know what's going on. The fish might be late this year, one says, or maybe they are...
NICE AGAIN--We may have had some drippy times at the end of last week but the weekend wasn't too bad, so the traffic was still pretty thick heading to the beach, as everyone is anxious to get out and about while Summer is still here. If the forecast holds true, we'll have sunshine all week long, so I hope you're getting those summertime chores wrapped up as Fall will be here before you know it. EXTREME FIRE DANGER--Until our Fall rains show up and wet down our tinder dry area, everyone is being reminded that we do have a burn ban in effect...
Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, and meetings and events usually listed here have been canceled or changed to online participation until further notice. The Eagle was advised of the following events: Online Recovery Meeting, Lower Columbia River Refuge Recovery. Mondays 6:30 p.m. Zoom ID 960 8413 9102. Great Rivers BHASO Advisory Board, 351 NW North St., Chehalis, 12-2 p.m....
To help prevent wildfires, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is alerting the public of a temporary target shooting ban on all department-managed lands statewide. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) also announced target shooting restrictions on Aug. 15 for all DNR-managed lands. This ban applies to the approximately one million acres of land managed by WDFW, including wildlife areas and water access areas throughout the state. The temporary rule does not restrict lawful hunting. All temporary restrictions will remain...
Appelo Archives Center Hires New Director The Appelo Archives Center is located at 1056 State Route 4 in Naselle. It has a new director named Annika Kay. She was born in Anaheim, Calif., and raised in Orange County. She received her bachelor of arts degree from California State University at Fullerton and her master's degree in Fine Arts from the California Institute of Arts. She believes that working for the Appelo Archives Center fits her life style because of the creative and intellectual...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: August 17 — 8:37 a.m. A caller reported that nine dogs kept in pens on a property in the Elochoman Valley were being neglected. A deputy responded and determined that the dogs appeared to be well kept and healthy. 10:08 a.m. An Elochoman Valley resident reported that someone was tearing down their no trespassing signs and leaving derogatory notes. 10:41 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance aided an ailing Rosedale res...
Long Beach resident Kent Craford came with friends and family to the Elochoman Slough Marina last Saturday to launch his gillnet boat, the John M. The 22-foot double ender boat reflects the transition between sail power and gasoline engine power in the early 20th century. The boat was once owned by Cathlamet residents Steve and Sharon Hart; they sold it to Craford in the mid-1990s, and he began a restoration process. Steve Hart said the boat was built in 1907 by Oregon boat builder Tim Driscoll...
According to information received from Suzanne Holmes, President of the Pioneer Community Association, the PCA has worked with the State of Washington for more than a year to successfully secure funding to do much needed repairs on the historic Cathlamet Pioneer Center. The community donated an additional $487 to help “Raise the Roof” during their donation drive last year. As a result, two major projects are scheduled for this summer. After some delays, the long-awaited new roof is scheduled to be installed, beginning August 28, and ext...
The Appelo Archives Center has announced that their new director is Annika Kay. “I like to think of preserving history by embracing progress. Remembering and honoring those before us and keeping records of the past, while looking to the future of the archives. Walt Disney said it best: ‘We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things’, but here at the archives, we keep moving forward to protect the past. The archives will never be completed and will always continue to grow; Hopefully long after we become part of its histo...
Registration is open for fall quarter Continuing Education courses at Lower Columbia College. Visit them online at www.lowercolumbia.edu/ce to learn more or email mharris@lowercolumbia.edu. They offer a variety of courses including Child Care Basics; Paraeducator Basics; Professional Vocational Relationships and more. Continuing Education is taking course proposals for new courses and instructors. If you have an interest in teaching, email mharris@lowercolumbia.edu for more information....
Joan Foster Leonard was born on September 8, 1926 in Chehalis, Washington to J. Bryan Foster and Theresa Maine Running Foster. She attended schools in Oregon and graduated from Milwaukie Union High School in 1944 and Oregon State College in 1948. In 1949, she received a degree in Elementary Education from Southern Oregon College and in 1970 she completed her Masters degree in School Administration at University of Puget Sound. In November 1950, Joan married Ray Leonard. Joan and Ray had six...
Mary Ellen (Simukka) Saari, 85, of Naselle, WA, died peacefully on August 18, 2020, in Longview, WA. She was born on February 13, 1935, to Matt and Ester Simukka and was a life-long resident of, in her words, “good-ole Naselle.” She loved her Lord, family, friends, hometown, and her Finnish heritage. While in high school, she played the clarinet in the band as well as in the Naselle Assembly of God orchestra. She also played the piano and sang duets with her sister Helen in church. She graduated from Naselle High School in 1954 and wed the lov...
Collan C. Riley, age 26, of Vancouver, WA, died on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 as a passenger in a single car accident in Yacolt, WA. He was born an identical twin on February 19, 1994 in Portland, OR to Michael and Marie Riley. He was a 2012 graduate from Wahkiakum High School. Collan served in the Army as an Intelligence Analyst from July 2012 to January 2016, stationed in Fort Wainwright, AK, followed by service in the Army Reserves until July 2018. He worked as an armed security officer for...
The county fair website has been updated to showcase entries. Find the site at https://wahkiakumfair.org/virtualfairshowcase/. “As a follow up to the Wahkiakum County Fair I would like to thank everyone that submitted entries,” said Fair Board President Joe Blalock....
