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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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I received this communication Tuesday from an Elochoman Valley resident who feared retribution if he were identified. With that in mind, I'm printing here. "Some may be aware of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist counting fish on the Elochoman. Yesterday he informed me he has uncovered several poaching teams stealing fish from the river only to sell to restaurants. They use nets to circle the fish, then pull them out. While several are netting the fish, there is usually someone along the road keeping watch to alert the...
To The Eagle: The Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s Office would like to announce that September 7-9, sheriff’s deputies will be participating in the statewide grant funded program through the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, known as Target Zero. In the years 2012 through 2014, 1,336 people died on Washington State Roads and 6,123 people were seriously injured. The personal, financial and societal costs are huge. No one should suffer the loss of their friend, family member, or coworker. "Target Zero" is a plan to reduce traffic fatalities and se...
To The Eagle: Let me first say, as chief member of our island’s DODV (department of deja views) that my esteemed and erudite neighbor Howard Brawn has yet to be observed prevaricating about anything under discussion. I agree. The seeds of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) weakness were sown at its inception. They might even have been “sewn” onto it like a denim patch, as Mr. Brawn suggested. The devil is in the details of any plan, be it our Constitution, the federal tax code or that 2000 page monster, the ACA. Mr. Brawn’s latest devilishly detai...
To The Eagle: We have an awesome community here in the outback of Wahkiakum County, able to stand up to political giants. A lot of the outback success has a lot to do with our support of each other, including packing community halls; also our county commissioners, with whom we stood up to the Department of Ecology enough to deny them spreading crap next to our river. I personally have to thank our congresswoman for a mid-winter victory against Corps of Engineers for which I am sure we got blacklisted. On the Affordable Care Act, I find it...
To The Eagle: Thought I'd take time off from my day job here at PIPI (Puget Island Prevarications Inc.) to respond to the Bouchard expository epistle in last week's Eagle. As Ronaldus Magnus said to Jimmy Carter in their 1980 debate, "There you go again!" The seeds of self destruction were sewn at the inception of Obamacare but initially hidden by legislative legerdemain and technical incompetence. The internet registry was so shoddily constructed it bollixed enrollment for a year. Most of the actual poor went on the expanded Medicaid program...
To The Eagle: We have a good community, and it takes a lot of hard work from everyone. When Ryan and I moved to Cathlamet three years ago, we noticed the element of community right away and fell in love. We have received so much support and made many friends. In the climate of seemingly endless uncertainty our country faces, I must confess to moments of hopelessness. However, when I attend local Health & Human Services advisory board meetings, I walk away with hope again. Wahkiakum county is full of caring, hard-working, creative—genuinely g...
To The Eagle: As military veteran, public servant, just living in America, I have happened to notice that we are a nation of assimilation! I may not like a neighbor, but I will defend their right to free speech. And expect patriotism. Change starts with you. If you go directly to violence instead of a public office, or activism, non-violent, your agenda is a loser, and you need help. My ancestors were immigrants. We crossed into this territory by boat, refugees from Norway, outlaws, shunned there. Canada didn't have R.C.M.P. then, just natives...
So, our nation witnessed an ugly clash between white supremacists and counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend. The clash left one demonstrator dead, and two police officers responding to the event died in a helicopter crash. I joined vigil Sunday afternoon in front of the courthouse to express sympathy with the victims and opposition to the racist, ultra-right values of the supremacists who initiated the demonstrations. Some 32 people were there, and they expressed grief, shock, disbelief and outrage that we have the...
To The Eagle: I guess I'm confused about the issue surrounding removal of statues, flags, and everything removable from the public eye, because some are offended. Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't we been in the longest conflict in our history with no end in sight? This is against people that, among their other cultural issues that our society finds offensive, were destroying their historical artifacts because they were offensive to some. I just finished Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel titled, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which ignited a firestorm...
To The Eagle: I have been enjoying the back and forth letters over the past weeks. I am grateful to live here where everyone can have their own opinion and get it printed! We have so much to be grateful for here. I hope, in light of the rioting in Virginia, that we can all take a moment and just enjoy living here where we can share our ideas and thoughts and not hurt each other in the process. My greatest gift is my collection of neighbors. I am so blessed to have them, every one. We are a small county, yes, but we are strong in love,...
To the Eagle: There has been no end to the hectoring from our collectivist letter writers the past few months. Most of us in this county voted for @realDonaldTrump and it is sad that the minority here chooses to see us as racist, bigots and rubes. When half of the county's concerns can be dismissed with “Waving the bloody shirt” of the 20th Century, public discourse is stifled. Some have not rethought the European/Swedish utopian fantasy they absorbed in college and it sadly explains their “Fake Solutions” to problems in the 21st Century...
To The Eagle: The statement that Obamacare is self destructing is a blatant falsehood repeated over and over again by those who hope that a lie repeated often enough will be accepted as the truth. For the Affordable Care Act to fail your Destroyer In Chief Donald and his Republican wrecking crew must help it to fail. They are being as helpful as they can. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s measurements of average premiums, claims, medical loss ratios, gross margins and related data states the ACA is functioning as intended to increase access to m...
To The Eagle: The wilds of western Wahkiakum, the "outback" of greater metropolitan Cathlamet, is home to three of my greatest local heroes in the continuing battle against the encroachment of overweening government and bureaucracy. They are: Maury Mooers, for his valiant stand against the Corps of Engineers in the Steamboat Slough Struggle, the late Del Frederickson, who put Grays River back in its banks, and Poul Toftemark, who, with patience and forbearance, stopped Columbia Land Trust's destruction of the Kandoll Road environs. So, in...
To The Eagle: We have a lot of talented people in this area and the Wahkiakum County Fair is the place to show it off. Whether you grow green beans, can cherries, plant posies, brew beer, sew skirts, create crafts, bake bread or paint pictures, now is the time to strut your stuff. Pick up a fair book at The Eagle, the community center, or the extension office. Bring your nonperishable entries to the fair on Monday, Aug. 14 between 3 and 8 p.m. Bring fresh produce, flowers and baked goods on Tuesday, Aug. 15 from 3-8 p.m. Volunteers will be...
To The Eagle: Keep in mind, I am chuckling as I write this serious comment. Mostly because I find it so absurd, the place our 26 percent of eligible voters put us in. Also I don’t want to cry, literally. I find it difficult to stomach, when someone is in disagreement with the direction of the government, called such as “whining,” while at the same time ‘whines’ about our last president and the not elected candidate. Such a weak argument is needed to defend our president, who has had more White House turmoil in six months than Obama’s eight year...
To The Eagle: The photograph of a fully involved (completely ablaze) car in The Eagle of July 20 (Sheriff's Report, page 5) makes a dramatic point that having a proper fire extinguisher, readily available, can limit damage to a minimum, as opposed to a complete loss of the vehicle. The highway between Cathlamet and Longview is no place to expect rapid response from emergency personnel. A fuel leak in the engine compartment can be readily extinguished by the driver who has an extinguisher handy. The alternative is the metal skeleton of a...
To The Eagle: The Wahkiakum County Fair is August 17-19th. My wife Pat and I will be there Friday the 18th for lunch at 1 p.m., with any Class of 1961 members wishing to join us. Also on Saturday the 19th for the Salmon Feed at 1 p.m., to catch up on what is going on in our lives in these Golden Years (???). Hope to see some of you there! My Cell # is 509-979-8028. Chuck Carroll Class of 1961...
To The Eagle: I was surprised to read some folks see the Electoral College as simply an “anachronistic” practice. Great word anachronistic, as many today also believe it applies to capitalism or socialism, depending on your viewpoint. Others believe the word applies to personal liberty, state sovereignty and even our constitution. Anyone who reads the pros and cons of our electoral college, quickly becomes aware that our EC was designed to protect a unique federalism with self-regulating states and ensuring individual citizen liberty. “In...
To the Eagle: Hey J.B., if you're gonna use quotation marks, you gotta get it right (Bouchard letter in last week's Eagle). The actual quote was, "so Trump stumbles along, so far doing more good than harm . . ." and the operative word was "stumbles." He may have already accomplished the greatest "good" he's going to by saving us from Hillary, whose only offering was Act III of the existential nightmare that was the Obama administration, given the bellicose progressive attitudes, including media attacks and bureaucratic treachery. To wit: the cu...
To The Eagle: Touché Mr. Brawn. Big words worked in Charles Dicken's times but when a two year old now asks for an IPad when waking from a nap I fear our language is doomed. Mr. Bouchard writes a thoughtful letter based on real events unlike the perceived successes alluded to by another writer. If you have ever wondered what would happen if there was an election and everybody lost, stay tuned as it's happening around us and rats are beginning to jump ship. When the wife of a foreign leader pretends she can't speak English rather than chat...
To The Eagle: As a participant of the Wahkiakum Community Network, I think it is important to make a clarification to last week’s letter dealing with underage drinking. Ginger Hake is credited with last week’s letter but the Wahkiakum Community Network, including myself, was involved with the writing of the letter. I offer this clarification because I don’t want anyone to mistake the letter as a chance to praise Patrol Sergeant Mark Hake. The letter’s intention is to take a much needed opportunity to address a local issue of underage drinkin...
To The Eagle: According to the information I have gleaned from "progressive" news sources, both active and passive Democrats are tired of hearing about the daily Trump tantrums and tired of the "do little to nothing" local and national Democratic party. To misquote Churchill, “never have so many done so little for so many.” Many conservatives do not care about the now confirmed contacts between Mr. Trump and his acolytes and the Russian regime, the financial shenanigans of the Trump family, or the background of Mr. Trump's political app...
To The Eagle: Thank you Cathlamet and Wahkiakum County for a great Bald Eagle Days festival! The Chamber and the community put on a great event. The marina staff did a terrific job - boaters love coming to Cathlamet. However, we need to set the record straight. Cliff is indeed a river rat. But, as the picture in The Eagle showed, he's the River Rat of Welcome Slough. The East Birnie Slough river rats are a whole different breed. Despite the caption, the picture in The Eagle last week was of the two of us on the Portland Yacht Club (PYC) float....
To The Eagle: In a recent local survey conducted through Wahkiakum Community Network, statistics indicated that 51 percent of people surveyed believe police don’t enforce underage drinking.” This mentality causes a great concern for two reasons. First, this opens the door to a perception that the illegal and unhealthy choice of underage drinking is permissible. Secondly, it is a false reality of how our local law enforcement addresses the matter of underage drinking. There was a recent situation in our county where numerous youth were cit...
To The Eagle: A couple of issues ago, a writer closed his commentary with “so far Donald Trump has done more good than harm.” Well jeepers. Anyone in an executive position whose chief qualifications are a huge ego and TV soundbite literacy can do more good than harm simply by not getting out of bed and call in “stupid” at the office. Unfortunately, our Incompetent In Chief has indeed been showing up at the office. Let’s have a look at what he’s accomplished. After signing off on 45 executive orders and presidential memoranda nothing sub...
