Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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November 1 , 2007 Wahkiakum Mule senior Walker Riley finished third at last week’s district cross county meet and qualified for the state meet this Saturday in Pasco. The Mule team finished third; only the top two boys teams qualified for the meet. Nathan Perry of White Pass won the 5k race at St. Martin University, Lacey, in 16:26.1. Riley was third in 17:05.78. Other Mule runners were 13. Jon Murphy 18:37.36; 15. Jared McEntire 18.50.32; 19. Chris Hokkanen 19:06.66; 24. Kevin O’Connor 19:28.66; 43. Hayden Miles 21:40.39; 44. Stuart Bosch 21:...
November 1 , 2007 On Monday, the shorthanded Wahkiakum Mule junior varsity football team lost 20-8 to the visiting Toutle Lake JV's. The Mules scored first on a short run by Cameron Elliott; he had set up the score with a 60-yard blast up the middle. Bryce McClain swept around the right end for the two point conversion to give the Mules an early 8-0 lead at the start of the first quarter. Toutle took advantage of the aggressive Mule defense by hitting two big play-action pass plays, said JV Coach Kevin Patching. "Big plays by Toutle and...
The Wahkiakum Mules shut out the Vancouver Christian Light in a 28-0 Central League win last Friday. The win left the Mules tied with the Toutle Lake Ducks at 5-2 in league play. The two teams meet tonight (Thursday), 7 p.m., in Toutle. The winner places second; the loser will likely be tied with Mossyrock and Napavine for the third and final playoff spot. League athletic directors were meeting Wednesday morning as The Eagle went to press to settle where the playoff would take place. It was initially set for 1 p.m. at Kalama, but the venue...
It is about 75 degrees and sunny in Hsinchu, Taiwan this Saturday morning. I guess that would qualify as a nice day just about anywhere! Took a walk this morning up to Chiao Tung University which is right next door to the seminary. It is mostly a graduate university in sciences like physics and engineering. I have also seen several American students walking around on campus. It sits around a beautiful lake with lots of trees and grassy areas. This morning a group of students in a brass band were next to the lake and playing American jazz and cl...
While some are still sleeping or enjoying that first cup of coffee, there are two groups of local women hard at work making quilts. “Our Saviors Quilters,” a group of ladies from Our Saviors Lutheran Church on Puget Island, meet Tuesdays at 9 a.m. in the church basement. Working in an assembly line, the ladies make “Mission Quilts” that will be prepared for dispersion all over the world. “Before the quilts are shipped, they are spread over the pews and blessed,” said Tillie Kehrli, a member of the group. Quilts are shipped once a year. When the...
November 1 , 2007 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) enforcement officers have shifted from warnings to issuing citations in an effort to keep Washington’s waters free of an invasive species that threatens native fish and wildlife. The state’s first citations for illegally transporting zebra mussels were issued earlier this month to two out-of-state trucking companies hauling large boats to the Pacific coast. Live zebra mussels were found attached to boats being transported by a hauler from Ontario, Canada, and another from Iow...
November 1 , 2007 Staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will hold scoping meetings next week in the lower Columbia area on the proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant. NorthernStar Natural Gas proposes building a receiving terminal, gasification plant and pipeline to handle LNG at Bradwood, Ore., across the Columbia from Puget Island. FERC is handling review of the draft environmental impact statement for the project. Meetings are scheduled: Monday, 6:30 p.m., Clatskanie Middle/High School Auditorium, 471...
Friday will be the last official day on the job for Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jennifer Johnson. She has announced she is taking a job in Wilsonville, Ore., after two years with the Wahkiakum Chamber. “This has been a really hard decision,” she said this week. “I love it here. I love my job.” Johnson will join the Mt. Hood Regional Tourism Alliance, which has branch offices in several northwest Oregon cities including Wilsonville. She will manage a visitor center and do tourism marketing. Besides joining a business offerin...
Cathlamet Town Council Member David Goodroe celebrated his 60th birthday in mid-October and took off for a vacation. He returned to learn that while he was gone, a write-in candidate, Ruth Doumit, had begun a campaign to win his seat on the council. An article in last week’s Eagle reported Doumit’s major concerns: 1. The town’s fire siren has been silenced but is needed for public safety; 2. the city’s timberland needs to be preserved, and 3. the town’s waterfront needs to be preserved. In September, the council received a petition asking that...
November 1 , 2007 Wahkiakum County commissioners last Friday wrapped up a week of meetings with department heads in which they outlined proposed cuts in budgets to several programs. The board anticipates a $330,000 revenue shortfall in 2008, Commissioner Tom Doumit said Tuesday. The cuts are just proposals, Doumit said, and there is disagreement among the commissioners over them. Public hearings will be held later in November before the budgets are adopted. Doumit summarized the proposed cuts: —The Cooperative Extension program would be...
Dan Cothren and Tom Doumit (George Trott was in Savannah, Georgia on County business) met with a pretty well informed crowd on Tuesday noon at the Rosburg Hall Senior Lunch program. The main issue on the agenda was the elimination of county funding for the WSU Extension office here in Wahkiakum County but other budget cuts were brought up as well. Carol Ervest, a Grays River Grange member and a 4-H leader for years, gave a brief history of how the Grange was instrumental in bringing the first Extension agent west of the Mississippi, here to...
The October 24 meeting of the Wahkiakum School Board meeting brought thanks and concerns over a variety of business. The potential sale of a piece of property known as “Farm Forest” was expected to draw a large crowd, but that fizzled as only five residents were present to express their disdain over the sale. The Town of Cathlamet wants to buy 4.75 acres to use as the site of a new sewer system treatment plant. Board members Willie Johnson and Mike Quigley expressed concern about the sparse crowd. “Nobody cares until somebody does somet...
November 1 , 2007 St. James Family Center needs donations of gifts from individuals and merchants for children to buy and wrap for their family members at their Children's Christmas Store. The event has become an annual tradition with all gifts selling for a dollar or less. Gifts for men are always in short supply and bows and wrapping paper are also needed. Donations may be left, along with the name of the donor, at the St. James front desk. The store is open to children 12 and younger during the St. James Christmas Bazaar. Hours this year...
