Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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On July 6, 2003, nine hours after first displaying symptoms, Harmony Caliman, age 19, daughter, sister, and mother of one, died of meningococcal disease. Young and full of hope, Harmony had been working in a nursing home and preparing to enter a nursing program. "She woke up that morning in good spirits," Harmony's mom Jan Caliman said. "She went to work at 6 a.m. Halfway through her shift she had a headache and a fever. Within the hour, her supervisor sent her to the emergency department....
The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team lost to Adna Thursday night at home, 53-30. The teams were tied at half-time, 24-24, but Adna took advantage of poor shooting by the Mule team in the third quarter and pulled ahead, 40-29, never looking back. "I thought it went really well," Coach Todd Souvenir said. "I was really proud of them. We ran out of gas in the third quarter but they worked really hard on defense. I think the score looks a little worse than how it actually was." Brandon Budd led...
Wahkiakum County commissioners approved budgets for 2015, approved road and ferry improvement programs and acted on other business when they met Tuesday. The board had met on Monday for the statutory public hearing on the proposed budgets, and the only real discussion concerned salaries in the public works department. Public Works Director Pete Ringen plans to retire, and the board has planned to fill the position in-house with a staff member who won't have his engineering license until 2017. He would become public works director, and until he...
Sometimes duty has no jurisdiction. On Friday, November 14, Sheriff Mark Howie was traveling home with his wife Debb from a Washington Sheriff and Police Chief Conference in Chelan, when he helped apprehend a disturbed and violent man. It was a rainy morning, and the Howies were headed westbound on Highway 2 in Sultan when traffic slowed to 5 mph. Soon enough, Howie would discover what was causing the disruption. A man in his mid to late 20s, looking disheveled and bloodied, was going from car...
Children of all ages enjoyed the annual Cathlamet Lighting Festival last Saturday. As usual, youngsters got to visit with Santa Claus....
To The Eagle: When I first saw Cathlamet, it was just as my husband had described to me. A beautiful home town community full of many wonderful people, and the most beautiful place I had ever seen. He had lived here prior to joining the United States Navy in 1987, and planned on retiring here after his 20 years of military service were over, so that's what we did in 2007. He wanted to come back here and put his exceptional work ethics and extensive knowledge and work skills to work for this community. We had heard such wonderful stories how...
To The Eagle: We would like to give a great big thank you to all of the people that volunteered and helped us with the Scholastic book fair, and another big thank you to those of you that helped us reach our $3000 goal. We made it! With this we will be able to purchase some new books for our school library and a few extras for the classrooms. We are so excited about this. We will be painting the library during the Christmas vacation session and new books will just be a great touch to this. We are looking for a few volunteers to do this. If you...
Sheriff Mark Howie reported that his office had exchanged their Humvee for a hard top Humvee at no cost at the November 25 meeting of the county board of commissioners. “It kind of looks like a hatchback,” Howie said. “It’s not as military looking as the other one, and I think people realize we are using it for emergency management stuff more than anything. It’s black and will have the sheriff’s markings on it.” Librarian Carol Blix gave a presentation and asked the commissioners to consider s...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: November 25 — 6:57 a.m. The Grays River ambulance responded to aid a Grays River resident who had fallen and broken an arm. 10:01 p.m. A Cathlamet resident complained about her neighbor’s garbage. 2:22 p.m. A caller reported seeing a woman standing in the middle of SR 4 in the Rosedale area screaming at a man on a bicycle. 9:29 p.m. A deputy, state patrol, District 4 Fire Department and the Cathlamet amb...
CLEAR AND CRISP--I hope you're all weathering the freezing temperatures that we've been having lately, as it's definitely been crispy out there! If you're out here in the sticks like we are, I hope you've been able to keep your water running and haven't frozen up, as the sun can fool a person into thinking it's warmer out there than it really is; not to mention, some shady parts where water systems are often located, never get thawed out at all, so it's easy to forget to leave the water running and then, oops, you're froze! With temperatures in...
THURSDAY Financial Management, Community Senior Center, 100 Main St., 10 a.m. - Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, work night, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Yoga Classes, Grays River Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. Art Group, Grays River Methodist Church, social hall, 3-5 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) GRVC...
The Wahkiakum Lions honored two outstanding senior students at their regular meeting on Monday. Each student is chosen with their scholastic effort, community activity participation and attitude in mind. Morgan Elliott, top photo, was honored as the October Student of The Month. Morgan is the daughter of Mark and Amie Elliott of Cathlamet. They are pictured with Lions Club President, Susan Kuhn as she presents Morgan with a check and a certificate for her achievement. The November Student of...
Christmas concert and home tour set for December 7 The Finnish American Folk Festival Committee will hold their annual Traditional Christmas Concert and Home Tour at the Deep River Historical Church. This Sunday, December 7th, at 1:30 p.m., the Deep River Lutheran Church will host the Finnish-American Choir directed by Cliff Weimer. The program will include Christmas caroling and Wilho Saari and his family will entertain with the Finnish instruments called Kanteles, directly after the Home Tour. Then from 4 to 6 p.m., there will be a soup...
All children 10 years old and under are invited to the Puget Island Norse Hall Christmas Party on December 6, from 2-4 p.m. Santa Claus will be stopping by for his annual visit and will be ready for photo opportunities. After meeting Santa, refreshments will be served and other activities will be offered. There will be cookie decorating, bingo, crafts, and more. Scandinavian pastries and lefse will be available for purchase. Children will be encouraged to write a note to Santa. These will be delivered to a special letterbox which will then be...
Violet Jane Centers of Cathlamet died November 27, 2014 at home at the age of 82. A Celebration of Life service is pending. Her full obituary will appear in next week’s edition....
M.E. “Mike” Prever, of Cathlamet, died November 23, in Longview, at the age of 82. He was born December 23, 1931, in Floris, Iowa, to Charles and Myrtle (Harris) Prever. Mike graduated from Fowler High School in Colorado in 1949 and Colorado State University in 1960 as an electrical engineer. He worked for several utility districts, Boeing, and on control systems for missile launch systems in several locations. He attended Fathers House in Longview. Mike loved gardening with spread sheets, tracking his best plants for future gardens. He was...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the coming week for the Naselle Comet teams: Friday and Saturday, Warrenton Tourney (Friday start time is 6 p.m and Saturday is 11 a.m.), Monday, middle school girls basketball with Raymond in Naselle at 5:45 p.m., Wednesday, boys basketball with South Bend at 5:45 p.m. and middle school girls basketball at Ocosta at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! Westend new: Today (Thursday) is the big day for the opening of the West End Food Pantry. Located in the Grays River Valley Center (the north end of the building), the...
Crews from the water department gave an update at the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioner’s meeting on Tuesday, sharing how bypass meters have made it much easier for them to located and fix leaks much quicker. “Money well spent,” Commissioner Dennis Reid said. General Manager Dave Tramblie shared his concerns about Shannon Road in Grays River, which is unstable and threatening the water line located there. “I think we should be proactive,” Tramblie said. “We need to come up with a soluti...
The completion of Wahkiakum County's new ferry, the Oscar B, is drawing near. Above, the pilot house has been added to the vessel in the Ice Floe/Nichols Brothers Boatworks. Below, a dredging contractor excavates around the Puget Island landing to prepare it for the new, larger ferry....
Samantha Wright, a Bank of the Pacific employee, will give a presentation on the perils of telephone and online scams at the Community Senior Center, 100 Main St., Cathlamet, on December 11 at 10 a.m. Wright will catalog the numerous methods that criminals use to try and separate people from their money with the technology available to them, including the telephone, the computer, ATMs and gas pumps, and US mail. She will also educate attendees on how to protect themselves from this kind of...
With seven seniors, Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball Coach Rob Garrett is feeling pretty good about the coming season. They’re a smart group,” Garrett said. “They are leaders and they know what is going on.” He continues in his endeavor to build a cohesive team founded on kindness and respect, and according to Garrett the girls are learning quickly that it’s easier to support a teammate than it is for the whole team to run when they don’t. “We’ve been working a ton on defense,” Garre...
