Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Adna Pirates took on the Wahkiakum Mules and their new passing offense last Friday and left Cathlamet with a 28-7 victory. The Mules, a traditionally run-oriented offensive team, ran the ball 12 times and passed for 38. They moved the ball at times on last year's Class 2B football champion but hurt themselves with penalties and turnovers. The Pirates took the opening kick and mounted a touchdown drive, with Bubba Lara scoring from one yard out. The Mule defense stopped the conversion attempt, leaving the score 6-0 at 7:39 of the first...
LITTLE MOISTURE--While some folks didn't see any rain as this week began, it was definitely wet in the early hours of Sunday and Monday mornings in West Valley. Luckily it dried up fairly quickly on Sunday and while it was a little breezy, it was fairly decent so a lot of that last minute outside work could still be done. On Monday it was much cooler and cloudier with some rain in the morning, dry most of the day but quite wet by early evening. With this week's weather predicted to be in the 60s with some more showers, I'm thinking it will be...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: August 31--7:26 a.m. A caller reported illegal dumping along Hull Creek Road and a possible suspect was later identified. 8:31 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a West Valley woman with abdominal pain. 11:59 a.m. A person camping at Hornstra's Beach reported a theft of medications. 2:24 p.m. A Grays River man reported someone had loosened bolts on a tractor wheel which led to $500 or more in damage...
On September 11, an exhibit of quilts by the River City Strippers - a Wahkiakum County based quilters group - will open at Redmen Hall. This will be a celebration of their 10th anniversary as a group, having started with 11 members in February 2000, and now grown to just over 40 quilters. They meet weekly in Cathlamet and have become well known for the Comfort Quilts they make and donate to seriously ill children and adults in local hospitals. They will be showing over 80 pieces of their work from quilts to bags, clothing and smaller items....
Ronald E. Nelson, 72, died at his Naselle residence September 4, 2010. Born in Longview he grew up in Woodland where he lettered in three sports at Woodland High School and played football at Lower Columbia College in Longview. Ron worked in banking in Woodland and Longview before becoming a self-employed general contractor. In 1985 he returned to banking with the Bank of The Pacific where he was branch manager and vice president until retiring in 2010. Ron was an avid fisherman and golfer who lived in Naselle during the summer months and...
Former Long Beach resident Ken Lentz, 72, died in Cathlamet on September 1, 2010. The son of Walter and Clara (Halsey) Lentz, he was born in Oak Grove, Mo, on June 19, 1938. He lived in southern California for a time before moving to Skamokawa to be near family. There he worked in the woods and married Judy Heagy. They had a son, Curtis. Later the couple moved to Kansas City, Mo. where Ken was employed as an iron worker in construction. In 1965 he returned to the local area where he again worked in the woods and fished commercially out of...
Jerrold Samuel Florek, 51, of Cathlamet, passed away September 3, 2010 as the result of a logging accident. He was born August 4, 1959 to Joseph, Sr. and Corliss (Sotka) Florek in Longview. Jerrold attended school in Cathlamet and graduated in 1977 from Wahkiakum High School. He worked as a timber faller, starting the profession when he was 15 years old. He spent two and a half years working as a roughneck in the Oklahoma Oil fields in the early 1980s. He traveled to New Zealand 20 years ago to work as a timber faller there for six months and...
Longtime local resident, James Rainey, 63, passed away September 4, 2010 at St. John Medical Center in Longview. He was born February 6, 1947 in Tillamook, Ore. to Douglas and Jennie (Crivella) Rainey. He attended school in Grays River and Naselle. Big Jim enjoyed his work as a dairy farmer and he was a timber faller for Weyerhauser until a logging accident in 1984. He and his dad enjoyed racing horses around the Northwest for many years. He loved working on old trucks, and spending time with his family and friends. He is survived by his sons,...
Wahkiakum PUD commissioners and management met September 7 to discuss policies and hear updates on ongoing projects. Ken Ruche, who owns a house on Covered Bridge Road, attended the meeting to comment on the PUD’s deposit policy. Ruche said his family moved into their home in March of 2008. The PUD required a two-month deposit of $700 and told Ruche that he would receive the deposit back in two years. When he came to the PUD office recently to inquire about the deposit, he was told that if a customer makes a late payment, the 24-month window s...
The Naselle/Grays River Valley School District has settled a suit which two men had filed over alleged violations for the state Open Public Meetings Act. Steve R. Gacke and Stephen Sultemeier filed the suit last May against the district and Directors Hollis Fletcher and Ed Darcher. The plaintiffs claimed that for meetings February 11 and March 9, 2010, the board didn't give proper notification to the public about the meetings. They also claimed that the announced agendas for the meetings failed to give adequate notice of the business to be...
A Cathlamet Marine is one of a group of veterans bringing peace of mind to fellow veterans through a program centered on fly fishing. A lot of veterans are coming back now from Iraq and Afghanistan with amputations, disabilities and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the program attempts to do something for them, says Bill Talley, who served 22 years in the US Marine Corps, and learned personally about PTSD from his tour in Somalia. A severe anxiety disorder, PTSD can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological...
The state Department of Ecology has recommended that the Wahkiakum County board of commissioners reject a proposed ordinance to govern the application of biosolids in the county. In a September 2 letter to the commissioners, Ecology's State Biosolids Coordinator Daniel K. Thompson said the legislature has given Ecology sole authority to regulate and permit application of biosolids in the state. He also commented that two provisions of the county's proposed ordinance are unconstitutional. County Commissioners Blair Brady, Dan Cothren and Lisa...
Dikes along Seal Slough in western Wahkiakum County are eroding faster than thought and need immediate attention, officials from the Grays River Habitat Enhancement District said Tuesday. According to Delvin Fredrickson, a member of the enhancement district board of commissioners, a large chunk of the private dike at the residence of Poul Toftemark, also a member of the enhancement district board, slid away over the past weekend. Fredrickson and Toftemark asked the Wahkiakum County board of commissioners to declare an emergency and take steps...
Wahkiakum County commissisoners approved a week-long, daytime closure of the Grays River Covered Bridge and acted on other business when they met Tuesday. The bridge may be closed 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday of next week as the county road crew replaces siding on the Covered Bridge. Public Works Director Pete Ringen said the crew will set up man-lift equipment on a gravel bar by the bridge to do the work. A federal bridge grant is paying for the work; the crew has already installed a new roof which was paid by the grant. In other...
Wahkiakum County residents on Tuesday urged the county board of commissioners to adopt an ordinance regulating the application of biosolids on land in the county. Commissioners Blair Brady, Dan Cothren and Lisa Marsyla listed to the public input and could act on the ordinance as early as their meeting next Tuesday morning. Commissioners asked Prosecuting Attorney Dan Bigelow to draft an ordinance after citizens reacted to a Long Beach septic hauler who applied for a permit to deposit septage, the lowest of three grades of treated sewage, on...
Depending on your point-of-view, we are faced with another important public official running unopposed for the forthcoming November election in Wahkiakum County. Public records indicate the incumbent District Court Judge has been in public service for 22-years! This would appear to indicate: 1) voter’s commitment and acceptance of the public service-vote of confidence; 2) another example of once-in-office, the person stays in office and or 3; a combination of once-in-office and complete ignorance of a candidate’s actions and capabilities and...
To The Eagle: I woke up to a rainy Tuesday morning and needed an inside activity for a while. I had read and heard that Wahkiakum County now has real property data "on-line." I tried it for a while. A lot of other folks need try it and provide feedback to the county so the system can mature and become a user friendly resource. This data base is available from the "Wahkiakum County Government Website" with a "click" on "Property Search" in the upper right of the screen. Be prepared for some changes from what you are used to reading on your...
To The Eagle: The rainy season has barely begun, and we are already drowning -- in bureaucracy. All floods, real or allegorical, start with trickles. A friend of ours desires to develop waterfront property in Cathlamet and is told by Fish and Wildlife that he can't let workers make footprints in the sand or in any other way dislodge any sediment. No permit forthcoming until he can find workers who can walk on water. Another acquaintance on Puget Island took a 30 percent loss on the sale of his house while the local tax bureaucrats are actually...
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY MARCELLA KRAFT NO. 10-2-00029-1 Plaintiff, SUMMONS v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF OTTO SALME AND HELGA SALME, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ESA POUTTU AND SOPHIA POUTTU, JACOB MEHTONEN AND JANE DOE MEHTONEN, ISAAC WAGLAND AND MARY WAGLAND, ELMER BERRY AND JANE DOE BERRY, ULRIKA YRJALA AND JOHN DOE YRJALA, DAVID WILSON AND LILJA WILSON, AMALIA WILSON AND JOHN DOE WILSON, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ERIC NICHOLSON AND IRENE NICHOLSON, ED LEMPKE AND THEODORA LEMPKE aka THEODORA A. HANSEN, THEODORA A. HANSEN...
Notice of Trustee's Sale Pursuant To the Revised Code of Washington 61 24 et seq File No 2008 116415 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee RECONTRUST COMPANY on September 17 2010 at 01:00 PM At the front entrance to the County Courthouse 64 Main Street Cathlamat WA 98612 State of Washington (subject to any conditions imposed by the trustee to protect the lender and borrower) will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder payable at time of sale the following described real property situated in the county(ies) of Wahkia...
File No.: 7037.06695 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. Chase Home Finance LLC Grantee: Delvin L. Fredrickson and Trudy Lee Fredrickson as Trustees of The Delvin L. Fredrickson and Trudy Lee Fredrickson Revocable Living trust dated July 28, 2000 Tax Parcel ID No.: 171007-110001 & 171007-140001 Abbreviated Legal: Ptn. of E 1/2 NE 1/4 Sec. 17, T 10 N, R 7 WWM Notice of Trustee's Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. I. On September 17, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. Outside the main lobby of the Wahkiakum County Courthouse,...
It's going to be a busy fall. Our county board of commissioners will act on an ordinance to regulate the application of biosolids--treated human waste--this month. If they adopt it, and I'll bet they will, it could send the county into court with the state Department of Ecology. Officials and citizens are looking for some way to control or restrict the application of biosolids. A Seaview firm wants to spread them on a Grays River farm, and Westend residents are leery of the prospect, fearing the biosolids will adversely impact wildlife and...
News from Naselle: Fall football started out with a win for the Naselle Comets against Ilwaco last Friday with a score of 24-0. Good job Comets. Sports coming up this week: Thursday, the 9th –volleyball at Ilwaco at 5:45 p.m.; Friday, the 10th – football at home against Warrenton at 7 p.m.; Saturday, the 11th – cross country meet at Knappa, all day event; Tuesday, the 14th – cross country at Castle Rock at 4 p.m., volleyball at Raymond at 5:45 p.m. Naselle Grays River Valley School District will hold an open house on...
