Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Photo: Blocker Nathan Cothren (77) leads Mule ballcarrier Austin Good on a running play against Pe Ell. Photo courtesy of Wendy Blix. In the tale of two halves, the Wahkiakum Mules defeated the Pe Ell Trojans 28-18 last Friday. The 4-0 Mules led 28-6 at halftime; the Trojans came to life in the second half and made it a game. "It was a tale of two halves," said Mule Coach Eric Hansen. "We won the first; they won the second. We need to play better this week." The Mules got on the scoreboard first with a five-yard touchdown run by Lars Blix....
Photo:Wahkiakum Lady Mule setter Haylee Budd puts the ball up in the air for Baylee Olsen to hit in the Mules' 3-2 match win over Toutle Lake last Thursday. Photo by Rick Nelson. The Wahkiakum Lady Mules volleyball team came on strong at the end to defeat the visiting Toutle Lake Ducks 3-2 last Thursday. The Mules won the first two sets 26-24, 25-13. Toutle came back to win the next two 25-18, 25-23 to tie the match. In the final set, the Mules led from the start and won 15-11. Tori Wegdahl and Baylee Olsen each had 18 kills at the net. The...
September 20 at Morton/White Pass Wahkiakum Mens Results 5,000 Meters Varsity: 53. Luke Stacey 22:10; 64. JR Ramirez 23:07; 82. Nevan Bingham 27:26. Wahkiakum Womens Results 5,000 Meters Varsity: 18. Rory Heywood 25:22. From Wahkiakum Coach Marie Riley: "This week we traveled out to White Pass to run at Cascade Peeks RV Park. They describe the course as 'fast and flat.' For Shona Heywood it was just that. She had a goal for this meet to beat her rival from Morton/White Pass, Larkin Farrish. It came down to a finish line sprint, and Shona had a...
Photo: Chandler Chapman and Victoria Corona reigned as king and queen of the Naselle High School Homecoming Celebration last Friday. With the reader board flashing the word “Homecoming” to oncoming traffic, spectators crowded around Reuben Penttila Field to cheer on the Naselle Comets Friday evening. Clad in blue and gold, they cheered as the Comets scored on a 73-yard drive against the undefeated Willapa Valley Vikings. Comet quarterback Dustin Eaton opened the scoring on a 34-yard run to open the scoring. However, after an injury to run...
END OF ANOTHER MONTH--Well, as you can see, we're in the countdown of yet another month with a new one beginning on Monday; seems impossible but yet, October is on its way. Can you feel the nip in the air? Well, we'd better be enjoying Fall as the next thing you know, it'll be Winter, so hustle with those chores and get yourself ready for some short days and long nights! SPECIAL DAYS--Celebrating their birthdays from September 27 through October 3 are Sue Kuller, Matthew Keilwitz, Stewart Moonen, Ginger Schmitz, Stevan Morgain, Marie West,...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: September 17--10:49 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a Jacobson Road woman who had an enlarged liver. 10:51 a.m. Deputies served a warrant at a Beaver Creek Road address. One person was taken into custody. 1:37 p.m. A caller reported two men on four wheelers were driving behind locked gates on a Wirkkala Road property. Deputies were unable to locate the men. 5:12 p.m. A caller reported that...
Normally under state law, when a candidate for superior court judge receives over 50 percent of the vote in the primary, that candidate advances unopposed to the general election ballot. However, rules are different when write in candidates are involved, and incumbent Judge Mike Sullivan faces a challenge from write in candidate Dennis Gordon. In the Wahkiakum County primary, Gordon drew 70 votes, while Sullivan drew 897. Under state law, Gordon had drawn enough votes to get on the general election ballot. Gordon, a retired professor of...
Commissioners of Port District No. 2 of Wahkiakum County took another step toward updating their comprehensive plan when they met September 18. Karen Bertroch, chair of the Columbia Pacific Resource Conservation and Economic Development District (RC&ED) and a former port employee, discussed the process her group would use for updating the plan. "It's a park and recreation plan," Bertroch said, not a comprehensive plan for port development. The board needs to develop public input; the RC&ED would develop that into a plan, and the draft plan...
A Boundary County, Idaho jury has found a man guilty of second degree murder of former Cathlamet resident Anna Old. The defendant, John August Funkhouser, a former Naselle resident, will be sentenced on October 22. Old and Funkhouser had been a couple at times. Testimony in court said that she had asked him to move out of her house last November. Jurors agreed that Funkhouser threatened her with a gun which went off accidentally and killed her....
Friday and Saturday of last week volunteers at the Cathlamet Blanche Bradley Public Library helped pack up and categorize books to move the entire library to its temporary home on the bottom floor of the River Street Building. Everything from the books, to the computers, to the bookcases went. The Cathlamet Blanche Bradley Public Library is getting a makeover inside and out. Moving day was Friday for a library that has roots back as far as the 1930’s. When the planned renovations to the building on Main Street are completed this will be a 2...
Wahkiakum County commissioners handled varied business when they met Tuesday, with issues ranging from fair premiums to ferry channel shoaling. County fair officials have delayed mailing premium checks for the board of commissioners to discuss premium payments, said Commissioner Lisa Marsyla. Last year, as a cost cutting measure, commissioner agreed to end funding for premium payments for adults but not for youth. Because of the reduction in premium funding and an increase in the number of youth entries, the premium dropped from 32 cents per...
The Columbia River Country Days celebration gets underway on October 5 and 6. The beginning event on Friday is a Slow Moving Parade leaving the Elochoman Slough Marina at 2:30 p.m. and winding down Main Street in Cathlamet, across the bridge to the Two Islands Farm Market on Puget Island. A special treat at the market on Friday will be barbecued corn and hamburgers made from Puget Island beef. There will also be a pie social, with homemade pies sold to benefit 4-H, Punkin' Chunkin' with prizes, concentrating on accuracy and distance, and music...
Wahkiakum County Commissioners and the Columbia Land Trust agreed on terms Tuesday for current and future projects. Commissioners approved a resolution closing Kandoll Road this week for paving and armoring of the road's shoulders. Grays River freshets have eroded the road, which crosses an old farm which the land trust is returning to wetland habitat. Public Works Director Pete Ringen said the land trust could meet the conditions he would place on the road work. Their engineer needed to put his professional stamp on both specifications and a...
Clatsop County Sheriff's Office has reported that an inmate escapee from their custody two weeks ago and is potentially hiding in Wahkiakum county. The suspect is Ron Legler, a 39 year old white male with brown hair and blue eyes, standing 6 feet, 3 inches and weighing 250 pounds. He has been seen in the Rosburg area, and ran from the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office deputies last week. He should be considered dangerous, and has access to weapons. The sheriff's department urges people in the Rosburg area to safeguard themselves and their...
“In the beginning there were the swamp, the hoe--and Jussi.” Thus begins a fictional historical trilogy, written in Finnish 1959-1962 and translated into English by Richard Impola in 2001. Part one covers the years 1884-1907. “To understand Finland and the Finns one needs only read one book: Under the North Star by Väinö Linna," states Esko Aho. Jussi Koskela is a tenant farmer on the parsonage estate in the rural village of Pentti’s Corner in south central Finland. He lives there with his wife and three sons struggling to turn wi...
To The Eagle: The Washington State Department of Transportation wants to remove the only well used crosswalk in the town of Cathlamet on Main Street. This seems to be a case of bureaucrat incompetence or arrogance! P.J. Fleury Cathlamet...
To The Eagle: On September 14, I took a boat out to Miller Sands, across the channel from Altoona. This was the site of the only White Pelican nesting colony west of the Cascade range. When I arrived the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were working at the site. They had bulldozed all the vegetation and were pumping dredge spoils on the nesting area. Now that the site is steep and free of cover, it will not be usable for the pelicans next year. I contacted Bird Research Northwest and a biologist from the Lewis & Clark National Wildlife Refuge, who...
To The Eagle: Dear 795-3333, I wish you would have invited all the candidates to your meet and greet or made it clear that you didn't. Some of us have worked hard to meet the people and get our platform out. Mike Backman Cathlamet...
RESOLUTION NO. 126-12 A RESOLUTION CLOSING KANDOLL ROAD FROM MILEPOST 0.5 TO MILEPOST 1.3 WHEREAS, based upon the report and recommendation of the County Engineer, it appears to the Board of County Commissioners that work proposed by Columbia Land Trust necessitates the closure of Kandoll Road from milepost 0.5 to milepost 1.3 from September 26, 2012 until October 31, 2012; and WHEREAS, Section 47.48.010 of the Revised Code of Washington grants authority to the Board of County Commissioners to restrict travel on county roads when...
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR UPDATE OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF PORT DISTRICT NO. TWO OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY Port District No. 2 of Wahkiakum County is inviting proposals from qualified firms interested in providing professional services for the update to the District's Comprehensive Plan. SCOPE OF WORK shall include, but not be limited to, reviewing the existing Comprehensive Plan, studying and identifying the needs of the District and updating various elements to reflect changes that have and will occur, compiling information from varying...
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MEETING DATE, NOTICE OF HEARING ON THE 2013 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF HEARING ON RATE CHANGES OF PORT DISTRICT NO. ONE OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY Notice is hereby given that due to scheduling conflicts, the scheduled meeting of Thursday, October 11, 2012, of the Board of Commissioners of Port District No. One of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will be held instead on Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in the Office of the District, 500 2nd Street, Cathlamet, Washington, 98612. NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that the preliminary budget of the...
NOTICE OF VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES FOR 2012 GENERAL ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to RCW 29A.08.140, that the voters' registration files for all precincts within the boundaries of Wahkiakum County, Washington in which the election hereinafter identified shall be held will be closed for transfer of voters' registrations from one precinct to another precinct within Wahkiakum County and for transfer of voters' registrations from one county to another county within Washington State, after the 8th day of October, 2012, said day being...
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON 2013 BUDGETS OF PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1 OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY, WASHINGTON Notice is hereby given that the preliminary budgets of Public Utility District No. One of Wahkiakum County, Washington, for the Electric System, the Puget Island Water System and the Western Wahkiakum Water System, for the fiscal year 2013, were prepared and filed in the records of the District at its Office at 45 River Street, Cathlamet, Washington prior to the first Monday in September and copies of said preliminary budgets then...
Blessing of the Animals this Sunday St. James Episcopal Church will hold a Blessing of the Animals service on Sunday at 10 a.m. in the church garden at 1134 Columbia St. to honor the life of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment. Community members are invited to bring well-behaved dogs on leashes and cats in carriers, and other pets. Photographs can be substituted for animals uncomfortable in church or who have died. A morning prayer service will be conducted, focused on thanksgiving and blessing God’s gift o...
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WAHKIAKUM Estate of: No. 12-4-00014-6 MARION T. CARVER, PROBATE NOTICE Deceased. TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) The Executor named below has been appointed as Exetor of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time when the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Executor or the Executor's attorney at the address...
