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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: Our state government and the 19th district who we elect is no longer a representative government that earlier and worthier hands had gathered for us. What remains the duty of who we elect is defense and preservation of our government that was built by worthier hands. Our representatives proper business is improvement, not to give their responsibilities as elected representatives away to the agencies that they create and are not elected. Thousands of rules and regulations are made each year by these agencies and most are not voted...
To The Eagle: April 29th is Denim Day. No – this is not a day for celebrating America’s love for jeans. It’s the anniversary of an event that sparked international outrage – when someone was wearing jeans that were “too” tight. At least the High Court of Italy saw it that way when it only took them a few days to overturn a rape conviction. The victim, an 18 year old girl, was assaulted by her 45-year old driving instructor during what was supposed to be her very first lesson. The Chief Judge argued “because the victim wore very, very tight je...
To The Eagle: April is nationally recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. St. James Family Center/The Charlotte House is Wahkiakum County’s Community Sexual Assault Program. Throughout this month you will notice table tents and posters in various businesses in the county. These table tents display contact information for you or someone you care about who has experienced sexual assault at any time in their life. You might also recognize that we are using the logo from the No More Campaign along with personal thoughts on what we would l...
To The Eagle: What is imagination? It is a thinking process that allows one to create the future any way one wants it. Once one has imagined something it is just a matter of logistics to make it become real, something that exists. This applies to any aspect of life, items one owns or wants to own as well as relationships one is in or desires to be in or not in. How? I will give an example of the first time I tried this concept. My brother is interested in my ‘08 GMC but since it is the best truck I have for hauling I was not sure I should l...
To The Eagle: I would like to say "Thank you" to everyone that volunteers throughout our community. The week of April 13 is national volunteer appreciation week. It is an honor to have such a wonderful group of volunteers that I have the pleasure of working with and leading. I would like to personally thank each of you for your dedication and selflessness in making our community a better place to live. Cathlamet Fire and Ambulance: Aaron Russell, Allen Bennett, Amy Gorley, Andrew Elkins, Annika Vik, Arthur Carr, Austin Smith, Bill Ower, Cara...
To The Eagle: Three is sort of a magic number. In structural engineering or carpentry, a triangle is the strongest geometric figure. In navigation, it takes three lines of position to determine a fix. And, of course, the sturdiest steadiest piece of furniture is the three-legged stool, which is why it has been in use ever since dairy cows were invented. As the aviation industry grew and airplanes became larger and more complex, three in the cockpit became the custom for large multi-engine airplanes. It was the general rule by the end of World...
To The Eagle: For those of you who are planning events, please remember that you need at least two advance announcements in The Eagle prior to your event (not the day of the event) as having something announced on the day you're going to have it, like on a Thursday, really makes no sense. There are many of us who get our paper in the mail, so if your event happens to be held in the morning hours, we don't even receive the paper until the event is over. Not to mention, people have to plan their days, or take some time off and so events/meetings/...
To The Eagle: I would like to take a minute to express my sincerest thank you to the students and members of this community for making the 2015 PTO Talent Show a huge success! We never thought that this would be so big. The comments that I heard after the show were so appreciated. I believe that everyone on the PTO feels the same as I do. Job well done! Without the help of Kandice Merz this event probably would not have happened. It was her volunteering and help that got the ball rolling on this. Thank you so much! A parent of one of the partic...
To The Eagle: If Wahkiakum County is cut off from the rest of the world due to some sort of disaster, manmade or natural, what will you do? If you have to evacuate, where will you go and how will you get there? If you can’t evacuate, will you have enough food and water? If we have no electricity, how will you stay warm, how will you heat water, how will you cook food? If our water and sewer systems are inoperable, how will you flush your toilet? Beau Renfro, Wahkiakum County’s disaster preparedness expert, will be at the Cathlamet Com...
Happy Spring Everyone! Just a couple of things going on for the rest of this month and some doings for the upcoming month. We are pleased to announce that the JA Wendt PTO Talent Show will be held this Friday the 20th of March at 6 p.m. Tickets are one dollar at the door. We will have some concessions but will close before the start of the show. So come on down and show all of our many talented entrants your support and give them a wonderful warm applause. I believe that this is only the first of many. We have so much talent in this community....
To The Eagle: Greenwood residents are fully justified to be concerned about the odor being emitted from so-called Class A biosolids. Odor means that the material has destabilized and is still putrefying, emitting endotoxins and other harmful bioaerosols. It is incorrect to claim that all the pathogens in Class A biosolids have been killed. Many survive or are re activated when this material is stored. In fact, Class A often morphs back into Class B. In addition to pathogens, Class A contains the vast array of toxic and persistent chemicals,...
To The Eagle: I have a new hero. Her name is Michelle Collupy (even though she is a Husky). She has taken it upon herself to clean up the roadside for all of East Valley. This has taken her several days and sometimes working until dark. She has even taken time off from work to finish up the task. She knows that we live in a beautiful place and is doing her part to keep it that way. I feel guilty because she cleaned up both sides of the road on the quarter mile that runs through my place. But I sincerely thank her for her toil and dedication to...
To The Eagle: We want to thank the Wahkiakum County Planning Commission for standing with the community in their February 26 vote to reject the Port of Longview's proposal to dispose dredge material inside the dike of East Sunny Sands Road. The proposal was vague in long term management while wanting to begin in September. But the most important failure in the proposal is that it would by-pass the necessary replenishment of sands onto the beaches of Puget Island. This was the community's vital...
To The Eagle: Did you know the U.S. government is an active partner in an ongoing criminal enterprise? The mafia, the mob, drug cartels and gangsters belong to this category. However, these groups can only dream of the power, scope, profitability and prestige afforded to our government’s partners in legalized crime. Unfortunately, our government is the partner that does the dirty work. It collects the protection or payoff money and imprisons or penalizes those who either will not or cannot pay. The other partners, the banks, receive all the p...
Sheriff’s Corner By Sheriff Mark Howie Throw back Thursday! An incident that happened a couple years ago involved a teenager who was a passenger in a car on SR4 approaching town. He threw a beverage out the window which struck the front of another car in the adjacent lane. The victim driver called 911 and soon after, the passenger was contacted in town. During the contact the teen took off running toward the marina where he climbed the chain link fence surrounding what he described as a “pond.” He refused to come out until the deputies convi...
To The Eagle: I would like to thank the voters of the Naselle-Grays River Valley School District for their recent support of our school’s Maintenance and Operations (M&O) levy. In this time of economic challenge, a ‘yes’ vote is of major significance and a tremendous sign of the value you place in our children’s future. Your ‘yes’ sends a message to every child and staff member that you believe in the power of education and community support. I am proud to represent a community that supports its school in this manner! On behalf of the student...
To The Eagle: After reading in The Eagle that the Town of Cathlamet had reached a water sale agreement with the PUD, I contacted Town Hall to get a copy of the new contract. To my surprise, I was told that a draft contract did not yet exist, that the contract wasn’t even on the last meeting agenda and that no documentation was provided to the public or to the town council before the decision was made. It also seems that the town agreed to join the PUD as a junior partner in a grant proposal to study creating a combined water system. It is time...
To the Eagle: There are many ways to describe what banks are allowed to do to create our so called money. They create their “money” out of thin air. They create “money” by making a bookkeeping entry in a ledger or an account, as they say. They “monetize” debt. This is the term economists commonly use, seemingly to give the activities of banks a noble air. They “loan” credit they don’t have against a borrower’s asset to receive profits (interest) they don’t deserve. They call this fractional reserve deposit expansion. I call it fictional res...
To The Eagle: Dating abuse isn’t something anyone wants to talk about, but as long as we ignore it, the problem will never go away. Did you know that: • 1 in 3 teens will experience dating violence and 2/3 will never report it. • 1 in 4 teens who have been in a serious relationship say that a boyfriend or girlfriend has tried to prevent them from spending time with friends or family; the same number have been pressured to only spend time with their partner. • Half of teen girls who have experienced sexual pressure report they are afraid...
To The Eagle: My name is Shawn Deal and I need your help. At this moment there is to be no Missoula Childrens Theatre coming to our school district this year. Unfortunately, the funding for this wonderful program does not exist for this year. Hopefully, this is only a one year problem. For the past 20 years, The Missoula Children’s Theatre has given our school district a much needed drama program. Not only have they put on a play in the course of a week, they also come in to teach classes at the grade and middle schools. I have had the p...
To the Eagle: Poul Toftemark deserves extra high marks for his literary efforts in these pages two weeks ago. Not only did he treat us to some wry and incisive observations on the frustrations of dealing with our Olympian overseers, but he also provoked a piece of equally entertaining vainglorious puffery in response. In answer to Paul's comment that the State Auditor requires a "lengthy full report," the auditor's DDT (Deputy Director of Talking) asserts that he is incorrect -- it is a requirement of those nasty old legislators in RCW...
To The Eagle: Apparently there’s been some confusion on two points regarding the Community Center in Cathlamet. And apparently I’ve contributed to that confusion. I’m sorry, and I’d like to set the record straight. First problem: Is this facility properly called the “senior” center, or is it the “community” center? Or are there two separate facilities? Answer: It’s all one place, and it is the Community Center. The confusion stems from our morning schedule, which we have called the “senior center,” to differentiate these activities from our a...
To The Eagle: Now another year has passed as have the many holidays on which we enjoy displaying our colorful national flag. It might be time to remember, however, that our flag has also a dark side, as have many other flags. We use our flag too often to drape the coffins of our young people whom we have sent to fight and die in parts of the earth where our military forces cannot prevail. So why do we keep sending them there? Over years? In one of Daily Astorian’s editorials last year we were reminded of President Eisenhower’s warning abo...
To The Eagle: I would like to respond on behalf of Washington State Auditor Troy Kelley to Grays River Habitat Enhancement District Commissioner Poul Toftemark’s letter to the editor that appeared in your publication on January 22, 2015. Commissioner Toftemark asserts that “the Washington State Auditor demands a lengthy full report on our finances.” He is incorrect. It is the Washington State Legislature that requires local governments to file a financial report with the State Auditor’s Office within 150 days of the close of the local governmen...
Submitted by Robert Calkins, Captain, Washington State Patrol On January 4, 2015, troopers in Lewis County were called to a two vehicle collision on State Route 12 involving a passenger car and semi-truck. The driver of the passenger car, Mr. Jay Sume of Randle, was fatally injured when the vehicle he was driving crossed the center line, impacting the front of the semi-truck. The cause of the collision is still under investigation. This fatality collision presented another obstacle for troopers. The wife of Mr. Sume arrived on scene after...
