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Three more cases of covid-19 were reported in Wahkiakum County according to the Washington Department of Health, bringing the cumulative total to 644. The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus remained the same, at 50 and 11 respectively. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county are hard to know. While 70.7 percent of the population in Washington state has received the...
If you like hearing stories about birds, please join us this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Hope Center in Cathlamet for a Wahkiakum Outdoors presentation on birds along the Long Beach Peninsula. Dr. Madeline Kalbach from Oysterville and the University of Calgary will describe her experiences with the avian communities on the peninsula....
THURSDAY Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. AA Meeting, The Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Grays River Fire Department, open meeting, 7 p.m. West End Food Pantry, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. Community Computer Center, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-7 p.m. FRIDAY River City Strippers, St. Catherine Catholic Church, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. AA Meeting, Hope Center, 7 p.m. SATURDAY Com...
While going through old files in my computer, I found a folder named “Maki files.” I opened it and found a treasure. One short piece shows an old photo of a wide open valley in the upper Grays. It took me a minute, but when I saw the old house in the middle, I knew it was the Gorley property up Fossil Creek Road at the bottom of KM Hill. Underneath, in the first paragraph, a new world opened for me. It says, “Herman Katajamaki came from Nurmo, Finland to America in 1892. Here he met and married Amanda Harfu in 1894. Amanda had a sister, Sophia...
In light of interest and good attendance at the first event (February 3rd) Mayor David Olson will host another open forum with muffins and coffee at noon on Friday April 7 at noon in the meeting room at the Cottage Bread & Breakfast, 380 Una Ave, Cathlamet. Citizens, residents or anyone interested are invited to drop by and join the Mayor for complimentary muffins and coffee to discuss issues, ask questions, or raise any concerns regarding the activities of the Town of Cathlamet. Mayor Olson states “Given the interest shown at the first e...
Pacific Lutheran University has announced that Malia Ana Silva, a student at Wahkiakum High School, has been named a President’s Scholar, earning a scholarship of $34,000 per year. Malia Ana was part of an applicant pool of over 400, of which 120 President’s Scholars were selected. All applicants met a rigorous standard of academic excellence; however, students awarded this scholarship displayed exemplary qualities in leadership, service, and academics, while also displaying the potential to enrich the campus community in the classroom and bey...
The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) has announced its final action approving Town of Cathlamet Shoreline Master Program (SMP) periodic review. The Town has conducted a periodic review of its SMP under RCW 90.58.080(4) and adopted Findings of Adequacy. Ecology concurs with the Town of Cathlamet and affirms all procedural steps in conducting the periodic review have been followed consistent with RCW 90.58.080(4) and WAC 173-26-090. On March 16, the department published a legal notice in The Wahkiakum County Eagle that started the...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: March 20 — 10:41 a.m. An individual was arrested at an Elochoman Valley home after a caller reported that a youth was being abused and exposed to meth and heroin. 4:03 p.m. A medical alert was activated at a Cathlamet address. The resident said she accidentally dropped the device and did not need medical attention. 6:26 p.m. A Puget Island resident reported that a man driving a utility truck for a broadband c...
Submitted by Coach Andrew Weiler Last Wednesday, Wahkiakum High School’s golf team matched up against Ilwaco and Mary M. Knight’s boys and girls at Skyline Golf Course in Cathlamet. Sebastian Britt was the medalist of that round with a 39, followed by Brodie Avalon, who shot a 42. Kyler Sause had a score of 50, while Isaiah Pena finished with 66 and Harley Popp shot a 68. Overall the Mule boys had the lowest team score of 197, followed by Ilwaco with 222, and Mary M. Knight who had too few players to qualify for a team score. The Wahkiakum gir...
Submitted by Sarah Lawrence As April quickly approaches, the volunteers for Wahkiakum Autism Awareness are excited to announce a joint fundraiser with the WHS Varsity Baseball Team. Scheduled for Saturday, April 15 starting at 4 p.m., volunteers will host a bake sale to raise funds for a Sensory Room at J.A. Wendt Elementary during the home game against Rainier. The baseball team will wear the locally designed Autism Mule Puzzle patch on their warm up shirts to help raise awareness and show their support. These special patches, as well as stick...
The Washington Senate on March 21 passed a capital budget providing $40 million for a new vocational training center at Lower Columbia College in Longview, $8.3 million for improvements to Cape Disappointment State Park, and other public works projects across southwest Washington. The new 46,000 square-foot building will replace four aging structures on the community college campus, and will house the school’s welding, machining, manufacturing, information technology and computer science programs. It also will house College and Career P...
Members of the Cathlamet Town Council on Monday addressed two requests for utility bill relief, and approved plans for pickleball, Waterfront Park design changes, and boundary line changes between the Elochoman Slough Marina and the town's former sewage settling ponds. The utility bill requests generated much discussion, with council members stating town utility connection forms should clearly explain connection policies. In the first request, owners of the Rivermile 38 Brewery requested relief from the first two months of charges totalling $41...
To The Eagle: Did I provide false information, maybe not. Always fact-check at the actual source, ignore false Snoops weasel wording. I’m told in an Eagle letter “From the outset and ever since, FICA taxes have never been tax deductible.” That is just wrong (another Snoops oops). On SS taxation visit “ssa.gov” “history taxation of benefits”: Original SS Act became law Aug 14, 1935. Until 1984 SS benefits were not being federally taxed. SSA “Research Note #12: Taxation of Social Security Benefits: …1938 Treasury Department Tax Rulings, and anot...
For more than 40 years, Joe Baker worked as the theater manager for Green River College and director of a popular Heavier Than Air Family Theatre Company sponsored by the college. He loved his nightly walk through a little forested area from the college to his back yard, but as the years went by, the campus slowly creeped closer until his woodland view became three-story student housing. When Baker retired, he and his wife contemplated a move to a little town in eastern Washington, but when he...
According to the Washington Department of Health, there was one case of covid-19 reported in the last week, bringing the cumulative number of cases in Wahkiakum County to 641. The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus stand at 50 and 11 respectively. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county are hard to know. While 70.7 percent of the population in Washington state has...
SPRING IS HERE--According to the calendar, we are now officially done with winter and as of this past Monday, spring is here! There’s just one little issue that we may have however, as forecasters have said by the time you read this, we will be back into a wet and chilly mode! In some places, temperatures will be in the lower 30s and forecasters say that the higher elevations could even see some snow in some areas, so it looks like winter may not be done with us just yet! I can only hope that we valley dwellers escape any of that “white stu...
THURSDAY Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments Board, 961 12th Ave, Longview, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire/ambulance, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Planning Commission, Courthouse, 6 p.m. Wahkiakum Commissioners, Courthouse, 9:30 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. W...
Congratulations to Diane Hollenbeck for being named the Woman's Club Citizen of the Year. Diane, you are a wonder to your friends here in Grays River/Rosburg. You show up to help and you do it without thought of yourself. You deserve this honor one hundred times over. My friend, Kayrene Gilbertsen, is coming to the "Catching the Last Ferry!" event this Saturday at the Hope Center in Cathlamet at 2 p.m. I hope to connect with her there. It's hard to see friends I've known for 20 years sometimes...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: March 13 — 6:43 a.m. A caller reported someone riding a moped without any lights on SR 4 near County Line Park. 11:30 a.m. Two dogs were barking and running loose around an Elochoman Valley neighborhood. The owner was given a warning. 11:50 am. A person living in a Cathlamet apartment said she was being harassed by someone working in the building. She was told it was a civil issue and was advised to call if a...
On Wednesday, Debbie Fredricks will be in Cathlamet to talk about two programs offered by the WSU Extension Office Fredricks, who was happily retired with 11 grandkids, got pulled back into professional life when she was offered a paycheck to do something that she would have done for free. She had worked for an extension office for 21 years in foods and nutrition, but after retirement, she learned about suicide prevention training while volunteering. “Literally within five days I needed i...
By Diana Zimmerman The Wahkiakum County Port 1 Board of Commissioners talked about improvements at the Elochoman Slough Marina at their meeting last Tuesday and heard from a float plane enthusiast who would like to make Cathlamet his home base. Initially disheartened by a public response to his query in November, float plane owner Brian Fleming felt encouraged after some more recent and positive conversations with various people in Cathlamet and reiterated his desire to move his aircraft and...
Wahkiakum County should receive $1.7 million in revenue this year from harvest of timber on state managed trust lands, the Department of Natural Resources reported Tuesday. The estimate is a bit lower than the $1.8 million reported last October, said DNR Regional Manager Padraic Callahan. The revenue total will depend on the final volume of wood to come off a sale currently being logged, Callahan said, and the lower estimate reflects a conservative total that could increase depending on volume. Otherwise, Callahan said the DNR view of the timbe...
Cathlamet resident Terry Heagy died March 7 in a two-car collision on SR 4 east of Stella. Heagy, 70, was a passenger in a Honda CR-V driven westbound by Chase Heagy, age 20, also of Cathlamet. According to the Washington State Patrol, a Ford F-150 pickup driven eastbound by David Florek, 35, Kelso, crossed the centerline and collided head on with the Heagy vehicle. Florek and the two Heagy’s were taken to St. John Medical Center for treatment, and Terry Heagy was later pronounced dead. The state patrol is investigating. All were wearing s...
To The Eagle: State and Federal legislators need to focus on helping citizens by “reducing the burden” of unethical government regulations and oppressive taxation. Government’s role is not to solve society’s problems, but to “prevent government created problems” from occurring which hurt society by legislative design. My wife and I request that all legislators judge every bill with a mature analysis, [1] will this bill reduce or increase government regulatory burdens forced on citizens? [2] will this bill reduce or increase government...
By Diana Zimmerman Grays River resident Diane Hollenbeck is Cathlamet Woman's Club 2022 Citizen of the Year. "The Cathlamet Woman's Club is honored every year in recognizing a person or couple who exemplifies the volunteer spirit," President Caroline Walton said. "I met Diane for the first time at the Club's Christmas Party. She is a genuinely caring person that recognizes a need and tries her best to help others, whether it be for an individual or the community. What touched me most about her,...
