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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The number of confirmed cases of covid-19 in Wahkiakum County remained at five as of Tuesday night, with 371 tests having been conducted so far. Cowlitz County is reporting 457 cases with 244 considered active. Pacific County is up to 44 positive cases, 15 active. Across the river in Columbia County, there have been 84 confirmed cases, 11 of which are active, and in Clatsop County they have 81 positive cases, with 16 still active. Health and Human Services Director Chris Bischoff said in his...
An Acquired Taste Over the decades I have had the opportunity to taste authentic cuisines from all over the world. One thing I have found in almost every culture is that they all use some form of grain and make that into bread, tortilla, or any other type conveyance to place other vegetables and/or meats between them. In the United States we call it a sandwich. It is an incredible fact that Americans eat more than 300 million sandwiches a day. Americans consume almost as many sandwiches as there are people in the nation. The sandwich might be c...
By Rick Nelson Members of Wahkiakum County's board of commissioners would like to see an increase in public restrooms available to travelers. On Tuesday, they explored the concept with representatives of Port District 1 and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. All agreed this would be a long-term project and that they would see what each could offer to the project. In other business at the board's meeting Tuesday, commissioners accepted the resignation of another member of the county planning...
Only Time Will Tell A century from now historians and the curiosity seekers will look back and ponder at the things that have occurred in the last year between 2019 and 2020. This recent pandemic, regardless of one’s opinion, has reshaped our generation and we have yet to see the outcome or aftermath. The one thing that comes to mind concerning some of this is when some have suggested defunding the police. In a perfect world that would be an ideal situation. In the real world the last thing we need is not having any type of police. Anarchy a...
The Naselle/Grays River Valley School District Board of Directors met for a budget hearing on July 21 followed by a regular meeting to conduct the district’s business. The district's business manager presented the proposed budget for the coming school year with projected revenue of $7,749,759 and projected expenses of $7,852,05. The budget was subsequently approved. K-12 school enrollment was forecast at 284, with unknowns around enrollment because of the pandemic. Along with the budget presentation, the board reviewed its goals for the 2...
Odd Behavior Explained In a previous article in The Wahkiakum County Eagle, I wrote about the importance of cats in the county. This story was partly inspired by the feral cats I saw at Deep River Camp and because my daughter rescued a European Shorthair cat that was already trained to use the litter box. This breed of cat is believed to have originated in Sweden and was found to be very common as well in Finland before being seen across the United States. I remember a scripture in the Bible...
It will be a wholly different Wahkiakum County Fair this year, much of it thanks to youth who are leading the way. Wahkiakum County Fair Manager Patty Dursteler has been working on new computers and a much improved internet service at the fairgrounds in Skamokawa, upgrades recently provided by Wahkiakum County. She is tackling some heavy duty data entry, getting a recently purchased program ready to showcase entries online for this year’s virtual fair. Soon, fair participants will be able to u...
Local officials covered a lot of ground July 14 when they met for a round table and meeting of the Wahkiakum County board of commissioners. l In the roundtable hosted by the Cowlitz/Wahkiakum Council of Governments, State Sen. Dean Takko and Rep. Brian Blake said it is unlikely there will be a special legislative session in August to deal with the impacts of the covid-19 epidemic. Blake, chair of the House Rural Development, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, said one issue upon which he is focused is boosting hatchery production i...
NICE--We're finally getting a bit more summer-like weather and with that, it means our gardens need a little extra drink and it also means more people out and about on the waterways, so be extra careful out there. Then of course, the increased sunshine means one should not be leaving their animals in their rigs at this time as those dogs can't sweat like humans do, so here's hoping everyone is adhering to this common sense idea and leaving Fido at home. It should go without saying that one should not leave a child in a hot car, but sadly this...
Katherine Lee Rostad, at 66 years old, died on July 18, 2020, of a 12-year battle against cancer. She was the loving wife of Bjarne Rostad. They spent 42 wonderful years together. Born in Longview, Washington, on March 17, 1954, she was the beautiful daughter of Oral and Thelma Thompson. She graduated from Columbia River High School, and Lewis and Clark College. She worked as a teacher and substitute teacher until becoming a full-time wife and mother. She was a devoted Seventh-day Adventist,...
The Lower Columbia Sr Babe Ruth baseball team travelled once again to Ernie Aiken Field in Astoria, Oregon on Monday afternoon to take on the Vancouver Mavericks. Lower Columbia had just come off a two game split against "The Yard" baseball club of Salem, Ore. The team played both contests at the Salem- Keizer Volcano's stadium in Keizer. Salem- Keizer is the single A minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The bats were quiet for the local players on Monday. Ex-Wahkiakum Mule Luke...
Let There Be Light As a bored teenager walking down the aisles of my high school library perusing the book shelves for nothing in particular, one book caught my eye and would forever change the way I looked at light. I even asked myself why this particular book would even be in a high school library because there were no studies in this particular field of science at my school. The book was written by a very well-known theoretical physicist by the name of Albert Einstein. His book The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays was written in 1950,...
Peter and Nancy McGuire and Robert and Carol Virkelyst announce the marriage of Keely McGuire and Mark Virkelyst on July 18, 2020 on Harstine Island. Keely is a 2012 graduate of Naselle High school and was the 2009 Wahkiakum County Fair Queen. Both Keely and Mark graduated from the University of Washington. They will make their first home in Seattle....
The Power of Water: Grays River Grange Landslide In some of the previous articles I have discussed the power of water and how it has affected our lives. It is more evident in Wahkiakum County every year by freshets flooding the lowlands and the numerous landslides that permeate the area. In this last month the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has been clearing debris from a new slide on State Route 4 across from Grays River Grange #124 just west of Duffy's Irish Pub. This...
Travelers who use State Route 4, SR 401 and US 101 to go between Longview and the Astoria/Megler Bridge will need to plan ahead for delays as work to resurface several sections of the roadway gets underway. Beginning Tuesday of this week, the Washington State Department of Transportation’s contractor, Granite Construction Company, will start work to chip seal (resurface) several sections of the highway in Pacific and Wahkiakum counties--a 14-mile stretch of SR 4 between Kandoll Road west of Rosburg and the SR 401 intersection in Naselle, and a...
The Power of Water: Essential to Life In a previous article in Downriver Dispatches I wrote about the power of water in the sense of its ability to physically change our lifestyle through weather phenomena such as tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, etc. Water also has the power to make changes in our lives in another way. In a Harvard University article featured in Science in the News, the authors answered the question as to why water is important to life. Dehydration can occur with a loss of just...
Here's a Monday news release from the Washington Swtate Department of Transportation: Summertime travelers who use State Route 4, SR 401 and US 101 to travel between Longview and the Astoria Megler Bridge, will need to plan ahead for delays as work to resurface several sections of the roadway gets underway. Beginning Tuesday, July 7, the Washington State Department of Transportation’s contractor, Granite Construction Company, will start work to chip seal (resurface) several sections of the roadway between Pacific and Wahkiakum counties--a 1...
The Lower Columbia Baseball Sr. Babe Ruth team took on Rural Baseball Inc of Winlock in a twi-night doubleheader on Friday evening. Lower Columbia won both contests in an aggressive offensive display, scoring a combined 19 runs in both games which were played at Aiken Field in Astoria. The winning pitcher for the first game was Dawson Evensen for Lower Columbia. The 6-5 left hander from Clatskanie High school struck out four and allowed only two runs in four innings of work in the first game of...
Spokane Woman Founds Father’s Day There are many events that may have inspired the idea of Father's Day, and one was the start of the Mother's Day tradition in the first decade of the 20th century. Sonora Smart Dodd (1882-1978) is the officially recognized founder of Father’s Day. She was the main persuasive figure in the establishment of Father's Day. Her father, William Smart, raised six children by himself after the death of their mother during childbirth. This was very rare at that time. Most widowers either married again or placed the...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: June 14 — 1:09 a.m. The sheriff’s department received an abandoned 911 call from an Elochoman Valley address. Dispatch attempted to call back, but it went to voicemail. Deputies were notified. 2:40 a.m. The sheriff’s office received a 911 call from a Cathlamet address. There was scratchy noise in the background, and then the call was disconnected. 9:45 p.m. A caller reported that two people parked in a car on...
The Naselle/Grays River Valley School District Board of Directors met virtually for its monthly meeting on June 16 at 6:30 p.m. This was the third virtual meeting of the board by virtue of Governor Inslee’s mandate regarding open public meetings. After approval of the consent agenda, the board acknowledged the resignation of Angela Metcalf, assistant cook, and approved the hire of Raelynn Nelson, elementary teacher, pending a background check. In other matters of business, the board approved a resolution granting authority to WIAA for school a...
The Power of Water Wahkiakum and Pacific County have had their share of rain and then some with the common result of massive flooding. According to the National Weather service, those who have been residents of coastal areas understand the danger of storm surge damage. Although the tropical storms and hurricanes get named, those who experienced any of these storms are not likely to remember the names of the storms. The January, 2016, east coast blizzard had several feet of snow and the coastal waters pushed massive amounts of water and waves in...
By Diana Zimmerman The Naselle High School Class of 2020's salutatorian, Abigail Moten, has long had a very clear career goal. Because of that, as well as a lot of hard work, she is on track to have a bachelor of science degree in nursing by the time she's 20 years old. Most students who decide to participate in Running Start begin taking college level classes their junior year. Not Moten. "I got kind of bored at the high school," she said. "As much as I love Naselle, they have a pretty limited...
Ethan Lindstrom has several athletic awards to his name. Now he can add an academic honor as well: Valedictorian for the Naselle High School Class of 2020. Lindstrom's final season of baseball was cut short by the pandemic, but in his career as a Comet, he was selected to All-State teams in football his junior and senior years, All-State First Teams in basketball his senior year, as well as the State 1B tournament team, and the Coaches Association 1B First Team. He was named the Coastal...
Because of the pandemic, the Naselle High School Class of 2020 held a virtual graduation on Saturday in lieu of a more traditional ceremony. The graduation began with a recording of each senior in their own processional, as the traditional Pomp and Circumstance played, and then Valedictorian Ethan Lindstrom spoke briefly, welcoming all. Salutatorian Abigail Moten followed, with some thoughts on current events, and some encouraging words for her classmates. "We entered the world after the...
