Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: I have neglected for years to thank the publishers and staff of The Eagle. Sadly, I take it for granted that my paper will arrive on Thursday and I shouldn’t. None of us should take The Eagle for granted when printed news is threatened and small papers around the country are failing daily. I wish to thank The Eagle for their generations of continual dedication to our community. I am grateful for the clarity we find in our newspaper when reading The Eagle. As a reader I feel as though I am a participant in the ongoing issues c...
To The Eagle: Stop the school shootings now. Legislation can fund all the cameras, and bullet proof glass or even have staff trained with pistols. But until they fund more counselors and train staff to recognize and help troubled students these shootings will not stop. We must demand funding for more school counselors, now! Lee Tischer, Puget Island...
Last week, on Friday I believe, there was a top story on KATU news about a boy who was hit by a drunk driver after saving his friend. Kameron Howell-Meeker was walking down River Rd. in Milwaukie, Ore., when he heard some screeching and saw that a pick-up truck was swerving and heading directly for him and the girl (Ellie) he was walking with. He pushed Ellie out of the way, then was hit, thrown high in the air, did about three cart wheels and landed in a bloody mess on his face. He was rushed to OHSU Trauma Center, and that’s when I, his grand...
To The Eagle: Helping Hand Food Bank is looking for clean, resaleable items to be donated for a garage sale to be held May 23-24. The sale will be held at 54 Boege Road in Cathlamet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Items may be dropped off Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the food bank, 90 Broadway in Cathlamet or call Joy Ferguson, 360-795-0635 for items needing to be picked up. Debbie Dobosh, Cathlamet...
To The Eagle: Here are some facts about drinking and driving for teenagers and adults to think about before you make the choice to drink and drive. ·The average blood alcohol content or concentration (BAC) among fatally injured drinking drivers is .16; ·The relative risk of death for drivers in single-vehicle crashes with a high BAC is 385 times that of a zero-BAC driver and for male drivers this risk is 707 times that of a sober driver, according to estimates by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). ·High BAC...
To the Eagle: I want to thank the three log truck drivers who slowed their rigs to avoid hitting a lost and terrified dog running up and down State Route 4 west of Skamokawa last week. I also thank Stuart and Tom Bosch, my neighbors. Stuart called me late in the evening to inquire whether I was missing a dog and then, in the dark and in heavy rain, attempted to lure the dog to safety. Tom helped the next day by encouraging the dog (I named him Hiker) to come toward me. After an hour, he finally did and I was able to tether him and walk him to...
To The Eagle: My name is Carol Wegdahl and most of you probably know me from my work at Columbia View Care Center and the Cathlamet Fire Department. Last year I was hired by PeaceHealth in Longview as the coordinator of the American Heart Association Training Center. One of the main duties is teaching CPR/AED classes to community members and medical professionals. Almost daily someone tells me a story of how heart disease or stroke has affected them or their loved ones. Some of these stories are sad, but many people tell me stories of loved...
To The Eagle: Your readers may be interested to know that I am resigning from Position #3 on the Cathlamet Town Council, effective April 30, 2014. My prior plan was to retire from Town service when my term as Mayor ended in December 2009. However, I was persuaded to return as Chairman of the Town Planning Commission for 2010-11, and then asked to run for Council for a 2012-15 term. Returning to the Council offered an opportunity to work on four goals that I believed were important to the Town: (1) Broker peace and restore communications...
To The Eagle: Wahkiakum County should permit the legal cultivation of marijuana and do so without further delay. Clearly, interest groups – including law enforcement and teen health advocates – favor a permanent ban, though it is unclear how that outcome would lower teen exposure to marijuana given that it will be grown elsewhere in the state and sold legally to adults. Two elements of the current debate concern me. First, opponents of cultivation are offering a one-sided analysis of the costs to our community. They say law...
To The Eagle: April is designated as National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sexual assault has been getting a lot of attention lately, from college campuses to the military to the nation’s capital and even on the popular PBS series “Downton Abbey.” I hope this attention will start a much needed conversation about sexual assault in our communities and homes. This is an issue that should concern all of us because any of us or our family members can be victims or perpetrators. According to President Barack Obama, “Sexual assault is an affront...
To The Eagle: What is it like to live near an LNG (liquefied natural gas) storage tank? Ask the families of Plymouth, WA who were evacuated from their homes this week. Emergency responders evacuated a two mile radius around the leaking LNG storage tank caused by a natural gas pipeline rupture and explosion. Let's see - what lies within two miles of the six times larger LNG terminal proposed for Warrenton, OR? Warrenton Elementary School, Coryell's Child Care Center, Warrenton Head Start, Fred Myer and the Warrenton Volunteer Fire Department....
To The Eagle: Women's History month is a time when we remember individual women who have been trail blazers for our nation. Individuals like Abigail Adams, Clara Barton, Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, and Sanda Day O'Connor changed the course of history and opened new doors for women. As co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues, I am working on issues that matter to women and improve the lives of individuals and families across our nation. Here are just a few of my recent and ongoing efforts to improve opportunities for women in t...
To The Eagle: I am honored to be President of the United Way of Cowlitz and Wahkiakum Counties for 2014 - 2015! I sincerely appreciate the overwhelming confidence that you, the community, and the United Way Board of Directors has entrusted in me. I am very excited for the opportunity to continue serving and supporting our community through this new role. As you may know, the United Way of Cowlitz and Wahkiakum Counties exceeded our 2013 - 2014 campaign goal because of your generous donations. Thank you! The United Way envisions a world where...
To The Eagle: ]I never thought this would happen but I find myself totally agreeing with Howard Brawn, specifically his recent letter regarding the proposed pot-growing moratorium. I do have a couple of thoughts of my own. Twenty-odd years ago I found it necessary for a variety of reasons to part ways with alcohol and pot. This was accomplished with a little help from my friends (and You-Know-Who) and I have yet to regret this choice. But the point I’m trying to make is that I never saw fit to insist that it was time for everyone else to q...
To The Eagle: In all the posturing, hyperbole, and hysteria down at the courthouse since the announcement of plans for a couple of legal pot farms on Puget Island, the recurring mantra from the prohibitionists is, “We’ll be sending the wrong message” if we allow these marijuana growing operations in the county. Well, here’s the news: The wrong message is already being sent, and you’re the ones sending it. You are telling the kids that we don’t trust them to refrain from pulling a break-and-enter job to abscond with a few plants, process ‘em, an...
To The Eagle: The board of Friends of Skamokawa would like to update the Wahkiakum community about the status of Redmen Hall. We have a building held up by posts and beams that have been there since (as far as we know) the time Redmen Hall was moved up from the Skamokawa waterfront in the late 1920's. It has held up amazingly well, but finally needs some up-dating. In addition, there are some new regulations about earthquake retrofitting for public buildings that we need to comply with for insurance and future funding concerns. While this work...
To The Eagle: Amazing things have been going on around here. Very soon we will be breaking ground on a garden at the elementary school. Soon our students will have the benefit of learning where food comes from and how to grow their own tasty, healthy vegetables. I am amazed at the amount of things that can be accomplished in a short amount of time by a group of people passionate about their project. We have an energetic, enthusiastic garden coordinator in Adrianne Hiatt. She has two girls that will be attending school here in the fall, and has...
To The Eagle: Commercial marijuana farms in Wahkiakum County? Who will pay for this obvious, attractive nuisance? The taxpayers of Wahkiakum County, through a sheriff’s office who does not have enough deputies to cover 24 hours a day. Any such operation should be looked at from more than it’s a new income to the county. We must think of the additional security these farms would absolutely require. Wherever these farms are located, any operators must be required to pay for any additional security needed by the sheriff. We cannot use our pat...
Willapa National Wildlife Refuge Complex (Complex) thanks its many volunteers for their service in 2013. Willapa, Julia Butler Hansen and Lewis & Clark National Wildlife Refuges are part of the National Wildlife Refuge System, a nationwide network of lands managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service specifically for wildlife. In 2013, volunteers dedicated more than 4000 hours of time to the Refuges. The Complex thanks each of our volunteers for their service and honors the following people who contributed more than 250 hours, including:...
To the Eagle: Some members of our community expend much energy to schedule interesting/fun/educational events in our county. A common complaint is that attendance is often poor. On March 29, no fewer than three overlapping events are scheduled: Disaster Preparedness (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.), WSU Gardening Class (9 a.m. to noon), Rosburg Indoor Super Sale (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). As it is not possible to attend all three, I ask for better future communication and collaboration among groups that organized these competing events. The local Chamber of...
Wahkiakum School District transportation supervisor Calvin Grasseth came to our office late last week with a letter to the editor. The letter speaks to the issue of drivers passing school buses which are showing the red no-passing lights while students get on or leave the bus, an act which endangers the lives of the children. In the past few months, a half dozen drivers have gone around Wahkiakum school buses which were displaying the red lights and stop paddle, Grasseth said, and he is alarmed at the trend. I've printed his letter below as a...
To The Eagle: The Wahkiakum Lions Club is organizing a food drive to benefit GAP (Giving Action Plan Program) for the week of March 17-21. This will be a class competition to see which class can bring in the most food listed below. There will be a winning class from each elementary and middle school that will get an ice cream party sponsored by the Lions Club. There will also be a drop box outside the office for community members who wish to donate food to GAP. Below is a list of items that work well for GAP when preparing food bags for kids. F...
Examples from history: They didn’t know what caused the disease so they called it, “Fort Bragg Fever,” or in Cuba, so they called it, “Cane field fever.” We could go on with “pea pickers fever,” “mud fever,” and many more—all were discovered to be infections with leptospires. Is it the cause of hoof-rot disease? These descriptive names have been attached to diseases all caused by one genus; Leptospira. Within this genus are 200-250 sub-types. These have names based on the production of antibodies. Each type is a “serovar.” So there are 20...
Hope the end of winter is finding you safe. I have had some calls recently about the legitimacy of a group called “Law Enforcement Association.” This group solicits donations over the phone and gives the impression that the contributions go to local law enforcement agencies including the local sheriff. This is false. No police or sheriff’s agency will solicit donations over the phone, nor are we associated with this group. If this or any other self proclaimed law enforcement association calls you, ask them to send you information by mail befor...
To The Eagle: About government oversight: As commissioner of Grays River Habitat Enhancement District, a diking and flood control district, I recently needed to take a class to learn how to file our annual report. Thank you, (county Auditor) Diane Tischer for setting this up. Also thanks for helping with our budget, very much appreciated. The class turned out to be a four hour class, and when finished, I was ready to resign my volunteer position as chair commissioner. Paperwork, especially computer paperwork, is not my strong point and not...
