Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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“Soccer is the ultimate sport. It builds friendships.” Shanna Batsdorf, age 13 “I’ve gained friends and teamwork skills.” Tarah Wisner, age 14 “Soccer helps me with teamwork more than basketball.” Anna Kuhn, age 13. “Soccer really improves teamwork and makes great friends.” Emily Frank, age 12. “I’m having fun playing with my friends.” Charlie Ashe, age 13. "I’m really glad this happened. I wish we had this in high school. There is never enough soccer.” Hayley Kerstetter, age 14. “Soccer...
Fifty years ago, the 1963 Wahkiakum Mule football team earned a record of 8-0 and were voted second in the state in the football writers’ poll. The team edged the Knappa Loggers 12-7 in their first game and held opponents scoreless in their next seven games. They were Pacific League champions. There were no statewide football playoffs, so they didn’t have an opportunity to claim a legitimate state title. They were good athletes: There was (and is) a state basketball tournament, and the Mules, with that group of athletes, won the state cha...
Fifty years ago, the 1963 Wahkiakum Mule football team earned a record of 8-0 and were voted second in the state in the football writers’ poll. The team edged the Knappa Loggers 12-7 in their first game and held opponents scoreless in their next seven games. They were Pacific League champions. There were no statewide football playoffs, so they didn’t have an opportunity to claim a legitimate state title. They were good athletes: There was (and is) a state basketball tournament, and the Mules, with that group of athletes, won the state cha...
The Wahkiakum Mule volleyball team traveled to Lacey on Tuesday night for their first district tournament competition and came back with two wins to move forward in the winner’s bracket. The Mules face Adna in Raymond tonight in a semifinal game. The Mules met Ocosta in their first game of the night. If they lost, they would find themselves playing on Thursday in the loser’s bracket. If they won, they would play again that night. They beat Ocosta in three, 25-6, 25-22 and 25-11. Then they tur...
Central League Final League Season W L W L Morton/Wh. Pass 8 0 9 0 Napavine 7 1 8 1 Wahkiakum 6 2 6 2 Adna 5 3 6 3 Onalaska 4 4 5 4 Toutle Lake 3 5 3 6 Pe Ell 2 6 3 6 Mossyrock 1 7 1 8 Winlock 0 8 0 9 Last week Wahkiakum bye Adna 40, Onalaska 38 MWP 52, Mossyrock 14 Napavine 56, Winlock 0 Toutle Lake 21, Pe Ell 6 Pacific League Final League Season W L W L Raymond 5 0 7 1 North Beach 4 1 7 2 Willapa Valley 3 2 4 4 Naselle 2 3 3 5 Ocosta 1 4 3 6 South Bend 0 5 0 8 Last week Naselle 41, South Bend 16 North Beach 50, Ocosta 6 Raymond 27, Willapa...
ANOTHER BEGINNING--We are a week into our Thanksgiving month, and it's darker earlier than ever and we're aware that this year will soon be over; hard to believe. We began this month with quite the wind storm last Saturday and hopefully you came through it without anything major going on at your house. We need to be sure to get those winter survival kits ready as it's likely a preview of things to come. I hear the Farmer's Almanac is calling for snow the last half of December, so we need to be prepared to deal with messed up holiday plans....
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: October 28 – 6:09 a.m. A Cathlamet resident got locked out of their residence and requested a deputy to locate their spouse. When told that a deputy was not available, the caller hung up. The sheriff’s office called back and offered to contact a locksmith, but the resident had connected with their spouse. 9:40 a.m. A caller reported that a logging truck was speeding and using the jake brake in East V...
Judy Maria Ostling of Puget Island died October 17, 2013 at Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver. She was a lifelong Puget Island resident and was born in Longview, August 6, 1952, to Anton and Bernice (Smith) Ostling. She graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1970. She commercial fished at Bristol Bay, Alaska for many years, before her illness forced her to retire. She enjoyed clam digging, sport fishing, canning, reading and crocheting. She is survived by her brother Don Ostling of Cathlamet and sister Toni Sue Ostling of...
Deep River resident George E. Klint, 78, passed away October 31, 2013 in Astoria, Oregon. George was born on November 20, 1934 in Portland, Oregon, the son of Mabyn Shane Klint and Swedish immigrant Hjalmar Hansen Klint. He grew up on the family farm at the bottom of KM Mountain in Grays River with his sisters Marie and Kathleen. George lost his father at the age of six so he and his sisters had to help out their mother at a young age to make their small dairy farm survive. George went to school at the Rosburg school and at the age of 15 he...
Stella Lutheran Chapel will hold its annual Harvest Festival and Dinner from 4-6 p.m. on November 16. All are welcome. The event features a silent auction for items such as art work, wine baskets, and handcrafted jewelry, and there will be a raffle for a hand made quilt. There will also be a spaghetti dinner; a donation of $10 is suggested for adults and $5 for children age 12 and under. All monies from the event will support the chapel's general fund. The chapel is located on Sherman Road, just two miles up Germany Creek Road at...
Earl Oinila, 83, died October 15 in Portland after a short illness. He lived in the Crown Zellerbach Family Camp and graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1949. Mr. Oinila designed both new construction and modernization of chemical plants for Penn Walt Corporation. The plans were used in this country and Europe. After retirement he lived in an assisted living facility....
More than one player got caught up in anger and frustration Tuesday morning at the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioner’s meeting, where disappointed representatives from the Town of Cathlamet discovered that their request to be on the agenda was denied. Undaunted, they took advantage of the public comment period to plead their case. Howard Brawn, a Puget Island resident who was on the agenda, cautioned the commissioners to avoid abandoning the town’s “working infrastructure” and recomme...
In the first round of counting ballots for Tuesday's general election, Mark Howie leads Mike Balch 879-684 in the race for county sheriff. Auditor and Chief Elections Officer Diane Tischer said 142 ballots arrived too late to be counted Tuesday. Election officers will gather at 10 a.m. Friday to count those ballots and others which arrive by then. In the county's other contested races: --Wahkiakum School District Director 4--Shawn Merz 576, Lamar Blix 538. --Naselle/Grays River Valley School District Director 2--Joshua Holt 129, Art Hyland 86....
Wahkiakum County commissioners heard concerns about repair of a slide along Loop Road and handled other items of business in a short meeting Tuesday. Loop Road resident Robert Torppa voiced concern that the repair of the sliding slope is second rate and will fail. The Grays River cuts into the base of a hillside and is causing the slide. The county has closed one lane of the road while it developed a plan to stabilize the slope and found funding for the project. Torppa, a contractor, has a house on the crest of the hill above the slide. The...
Souring seas, farming the oceans, sea level rise, hatcheries, and plastic pollution are on the agenda when the public sessions of the seventh annual Coastal Summit convenes in Cathlamet this Saturday. The event is sponsored by the Coastal Marine Resource Committees representing Wahkiakum, Pacific, Grays Harbor, Jefferson and Clallam Counties. The change in ocean chemistry known as acidification and caused by burning fossil fuels has already hit the Northwest hard. Conference Coordinator Casey Dennehy, Washington Pacific Coast Coordinator for...
To The Eagle: We have some really big news coming for the public utility customers of the Town of Cathlamet. We anticipate that we will be diverting all waste water from the town up to our new treatment plant starting the week of November 4. The plant is functioning, and we will be in a 30 day proving period for the month of November. We will arrange tours of the facility for those who wish to learn more about what all the labor has been creating. Please let me know if you would like to look around at the new plant. For water customers, we had...
To the Eagle: News Flash: Puget Island will be building its own water treatment system. How do we know? Because PUD Commissioner Bob Jungers last Tuesday described the town council’s compromise proposal for a water deal using the tired rightwing cliché--a pig with lipstick. Thank you Mr. Jungers, the town council will take that as a “no.” Having negotiated with the PUD for the better part of two years, my impression is that they came to the table with two objectives: either coax the town into giving the PUD our water system, or break...
To The Eagle: Kathleen Hogan was our dear friend and one of the most patriotic citizens of this nation, along with her husband Jerry, her roller skate dancing partner for life. Kathleen was a thinker and superb commentator; her ability to listen and then summarize the gist of conversations was unique to say the least. Often times she would say, “Thank you,” when she heard you say something she had determined long before you said it. Her statements often rendered further debate obsolete. Kathleen’s ability to inspire others contradicted her o...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week: football crossover at 8:00 p.m. Friday in Cathlamet; Thursday, the 14th-middle school girl’s basketball at North Beach at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! The Comet Booster Club meets on Tuesday, the 12th at 5:30 p.m. for their regular monthly meeting. These meetings are open to the public. Students will be released early, at 12:30 p.m., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the coming week for parent-teacher conferences. There will be no school on Monday in honor of Veteran’s Day...
The "Deck the Hall" Holiday Open House runs November 29-December 15 this year. The hall will be decked out in fragrant greens and holly, shoppers can shop the Christmas crafts upstairs and in the giftshop and bookstore. The first two weekends there will entertainment in the afternoon and hot cider and appetizers. Shopping hours are 10 a.m. -4 p.m. on weekends. Bring family and friends out to enjoy this historical building for the holidays. The current exhibit running through December 15 is "Cars n' More" by local artist Mike Swift. Colorful...
Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services are the sponsors of Living Well In Wahkiakum County, a free event to be held November 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Grays River Valley Center, 30 Rosburg School Road. This event will feature resource booths, presentations and give aways with service organizations bringing a variety of community resources under one roof. There will be representatives from Wahkiakum Health and Human Services, Area Agency on Aging, Department of Emergency Management, Social Security, DSHS, the Sheriff’s Department, F...
On November 14, at noon, join in the fun as representatives from the WSU Extension Master Gardener, 4-H and Clothing and Textile programs share their favorite homemade gift ideas from the kitchen, the garden, the sewing room and the craft room. Giving handmade gifts to others brings a personal touch to the holidays, yet it can be difficult to decide what to make. Look no further for ideas for gifts that will be eagerly welcomed as the holiday season draws near. The program sponsored by Washington State University Extension will be held for...
Children waited with their parents in the lobby of the Bank of the Pacific to assemble with their age group and compete in the 2013 Chamber of Commerce’s Halloween Costume Contest. The judges this year were Sandi Benbrook-Rieder and Linda Barth. They struggled to pick first, second and third place winners from the many creative, cute, fun and occasionally terrifying costumes. Amongst the babies, the winners were Owen Mendez, Joelle Collins and MaKenna Pittman. Winners in the one year age g...
The second annual Community Festival of Nativities will be held Friday, December 6 through Sunday, December 8 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stake Center, located at 900 11th Ave. The Festival is open to all ages from 4 to 9 p.m., and admission is free. Each evening will feature live musical performances by local artists including choirs, individual soloists and instrumentalists. The presentation will include a live nativity, and a display of over 650 nativity sets. A Children’s Room will also feature hands on activities f...
