Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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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...
To The Eagle: The Naselle-Grays River Valley School District board of Directors recently authorized the placement of a three-year Maintenance and Operations (M&O) Levy on the February 10th ballot. This levy, which is a renewal of the existing tax, asks voters for a collection of $715,000 per year at an approximate rate of $3.05 per $1,000 of assessed valuation to help fund existing school programs and district operations. The current levy expires in 2015, and compares at a rate of $3.06 per $1,000. Naselle-Grays River has had a long history of...
To The Eagle: As commissioner of Grays River Habitat Enhancement District, I am responsible for how the taxed money is spent. I take that very seriously, since we (the commissioners), never see or handle any of the money, only the county, it is quite difficult to misuse that money. That said, the Washington State Auditor demands a lengthy full report on our finances. A report so lengthy, they give a three hour class just to file this report. I took the class, and at that time was ready to resign as commissioner. With some help we conquered the...
To The Eagle: In response to the two previous letters about my comments on the Watson house being in danger of being swallowed up by the encroaching Columbia River, I want to thank the writers for validating my point that putting sand on the beach in a never-ending attempt to stem the erosion simply does not work. A solution exists: Since all the land covered by dredge spoil is claimed by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), it should be the legal responsibility of that agency to protect the buildings on it. They claim th...
To The Eagle: New Jersey's system of medical marijuana regulation, which requires all patients obtain a state-issued patient identification card to possess and purchase medical marijuana, in tracked sales, is unconstitutional. Federal law still criminalizes marijuana. New Jersey medical marijuana patients must not be forced to incriminate themselves federally in order to obtain their medicine and be protected from prosecution under state medical marijuana statutes. In 1969, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal Marijuana Tax...
To The Eagle: In the wake of all the negative fallout from negative coverage on our nation's law enforcement, I wanted to share my husband's writing - "An Invocation For Police Officers" written many years ago when he was a young officer. We are proud of our public safety officers at the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office and we know the sacrifice they make every day they put on the uniform: An Invocation For Police Officers Dear Lord As a police officer, help me To do your bidding, To bring light where there is darkness. Make me a warrior...
To The Eagle: There are several different beliefs of religious zealotry in our midst today that claim they are commissioned by God—the creator of the universe—to pressure you, me, everyone—to believe and act and live their way and if we don’t then the penalty is abandonment by God and them for eternity. The wonderful thing about our Constitution is that it frees you to believe that way and it frees me to reject that way and neither of us are allowed to use the property held in common by everyone (government) to impose their, or our, zealous...
To The Eagle: Attention all Skamokawa Sewer District Customers: Due to a clerical error, half of our customers (about 30) were sent a faulty newsletter last month stating that they would be billed for sewer services this December, while the other half received an updated letter stating that they wouldn’t receive a December bill. We regret the confusion caused by this mix-up and wish to affirm that our 2014 Fiscal Year needs have indeed been met with the November billing cycle (mailed Nov. 20 due Dec. 20), and that we will therefore not be i...
To the Eagle: In the Middle East, west Africa, and China, Christians are being persecuted and in some areas slaughtered, while in Europe Christian faith slowly fades away, complemented by a rising tide of anti-Semitism. Locally, a brave band of Christian soldiers has arisen, leaping into the breach and striking at the very heart of evil by attacking our county commissioners for nay-saying a nativity scene in the courthouse garden. The commissioners have stuck to their guns, no doubt fearing that capitulation would bring down the wrath of t...
