Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: I, as a reasonably intelligent person with no medical background, can look at the facts and data relative to COVID-19 and come to a much different approach and conclusion than our governor. First I leave politics out of the equation, then I look at the facts. The most important ones are the virus is not as bad as first thought in fact it acts like most viruses, that is most will recover from it. Then I factor in the knowledge that it is a greater danger to seniors and those with serious chronic medical conditions. A fact to...
To The Eagle: Summer is almost here and that means our kids will soon be out of school! Wait, they are already at home in their distance learning programs and have been since mid-March. A few weeks ago, Governor Jay Inslee and Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal announced statewide school closures for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year due to Covid-19. “This closure is guided by science and is our greatest opportunity to keep our kids, educators and communities safe,” Inslee said at a news conference on April 6. One of...
To The Eagle: The governor will not consider the facts or data when it comes to reopening the state. What he will do is wait to get his marching orders from the Democratic National Committee because he is a politician first, last and always. I am today asking our county commisioners, the kind of independent politicians I trust, to do the right thing for the good of our county and begin reopening businesses based on the facts and data about COVID-19. I truly believe that many politicians care only about getting re-elected and therefore are...
To The Eagle: Many thanks to The Eagle for covering the Pioneer Cemetery and the unanimous decision of the Town Council (April 20) to move forward with a "Stage 1" qualifying grant request from the Washington State Historical Society to preserve and improve Cathlamet's historic cemetery. I want to clarify that this is only the beginning of a lengthy process. The first step was submittal of the qualifying grant request (April 23). Upon approval by WSHS, the second deadline is June 25 when a fully-documented grant request must be submitted, with...
To The Eagle: The CenturyLink phone book for Cathlamet, to be recycled after May, 2021, has no numbers for Wahkiakum County other than a Grays River number. With the courthouse locked up there is no way to contact anyone in county government! Is this the new norm? P.J. Fleury Puget Island...
To The Eagle: It seems there are some political candidates who have not bothered to read the laws regarding campaign signs on state highways. Whether they are ignorant of the laws or just flaunting them, either way it shows they are not qualified to be elected lawmakers. Mariane Brightbill Puget Island...
To The Eagle: I suspect most of us, as I do, tend to judge the severity of an incident involving emergency vehicles by the number of units, the number of flashing lights, and the sound, volume and duration of the sirens. On April 20 and again on April 22, the residents of East Sunny Sands were subject to raids by squadrons of emergency vehicles including at least two from Skamokawa. I doubt an active shooter in our high school would have generated that much audible commotion. Investigation revealed these attacks to be in response to a birthday...
To The Eagle: This is not intended to be a political letter but if you read it that way it's on you. First, the earth doesn't need us anymore than it needed the dinosaurs before the last extinction. Secondly, we are by no means the only species regardless of how we think. Conveniently for humankind, we learned how to write and make up stories that give us total control over everything. Here's the rub. It doesn't work that way. Most of us realize that our species is aware of living on a globe rather than a flat surface such as a petri dish where...
To The Eagle: This week is National Volunteer Week. We can’t let it go unnoticed. As both the sheriff and a community member of this county, I have been fortunate to witness and experience firsthand, the incredible work of volunteers who have stepped up above and beyond their normal scope of responsibilities. I have always had a strong admiration and respect for the dozens of folks who volunteer in so many capacities. But these past few months of unanticipated disruption and upheaval to our daily lives have challenged even the most a...
To The Eagle: While studying issues relating to our Federal Reserve Banking System in 1987 I read extensively a book written by a fellow who was considered to be the world's foremost expert on world currencies and inflation. He published quarterly reports subscribed to by many around the world. He pegged the 1987 dollar at 3 and one half cents compared to the 1943 dollar, a widely used benchmark. How does our 2020 dollar compare with a 1943 dollar? At least one penny but surely not two. I use a simple method to estimate what a 2020 price would...
To The Eagle: This COVID-19 crisis has been tough for everyone. As we look for solutions, I’m thankful we have the steady leadership of Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler. When people have reached out to her office with questions about unemployment, getting their relatives home from overseas, or figuring out how to navigate small business loans, Jaime has promptly stepped up to the plate to fight on their behalf. I've been impressed by how she has risen above political party -- as she usually does -- to work with the governor, the vice p...
To The Eagle: Talk about global warming; not much we can do when dealing with Mother Nature, but to go with the flow. It’ll be hard to limit autos, trains and planes unless we want to go back to the days of horse and buggy. On industries, instead of thinking big money, the CEOs should with a conscientious mind find ways to make their plant environmentally healthy and dispose of toxins in a proper manner, not sneakily. Although this next topic is not about global warming but it does have a lot to do with our planet; and that is people t...
To The Eagle: As I was thinking about the terrible effects that COVID-19 is having upon the world we live in, its businesses, organizations, families and individuals, I also thought about how things are here in Cathlamet. And as I thought about that, I realized I was holding The Wahkiakum County Eagle in front of me. We all know that businesses and families are hurting and, hopefully, we are making contributions to help them out. But what about The Eagle itself? Then I thought about the loss of advertising and other related sources of income...
To The Eagle: These are very tough times for everyone but especially you young people because you may be experiencing your first crisis. When you walk down any street just about anywhere you will pass adults that have lived through the loss of loved ones, the horror of combat and so many other things that have made them strong enough to make it through yet another time of crisis. When you pass these older folks remember too, that aside from all they’ve been through they go to work for their families and fellow Americans everyday providing us a...
To The Eagle: What does it say about a society that, in the first throes of a major crisis, shutters its libraries, schools, and parks and declares liquor stores, marijuana shops, and fast food drive thrus as “essential service providers?” Don Cox Longview...
To The Eagle: In our few forays into the Greater Cathlamet Metropolitan Area during Covid Incarceration, we’ve been heartened to see the town proceeding with pleasant equanimity highlighted by cheerful professionalism by our grocery store and drug store. However, there is a disaster in progress just across the river. Usually, Oregon provides us with political comic relief, having a bureaucracy more clumsy and a governor even more incompetent than our own, but this has more tragic potential. Federal financial relief has finally arrived, but is b...
To The Eagle: I can appreciate Sen. Ron Johnson’s ( R-Wis.) commentary on keeping a little perspective during this pandemic. He said "every premature death is a tragedy, but death is an unavoidable part of life. More than 2.8 million die each year — nearly 7,700 a day. The 2017-18 flu season was exceptionally bad, with 61,000 deaths attributed to it. Can you imagine the panic if those mortality statistics were attributed to a new virus and reported nonstop?" Like now. Incessant media yammering about local, national and global pandemic infection...
To The Eagle: I feel comfortable speaking for all of us here in Wahkiakum County when I say thank you so much to all of our neighbors that are at work keeping the stores, gas stations and other businesses open. A thank you is really not enough but I know we all truly appreciate and respect what our police, firemen and ambulance crews are doing every day. I would like to point out something we seem to forget: How important every working person is and how much respect they deserve for what they do every hour and day of the year. You shouldn't...
To The Eagle: The March 26 Eagle showed the recently passed SB6561 which provides a student ‘loan’ program for illegals. I say free because 44 percent of loans given to legal American citizens go unpaid. What’s the chance those given to illegal aliens will ever get paid? This is at a time when this same legislature has been in violation of Article 9, Section 1 of the WA State Constitution which mandates that the legislature pay for school construction, maintenance, and salaries. The legislature has been fined $100,000 per day since 2015 for b...
So, we're in Week 2 of the covid-19 virus quarantine. School was out and is now back in session, but no students are at school. Non-essential businesses have closed; the governor's office issued a 14-page document for guidelines on deciding who is essential or not. Newspapers and other communication businesses are considered essential, and we continue to publish The Eagle. Like other businesses, we'll keep going till the money is gone, I say, somewhat facetiously. Like many, we're seeing an immediate drop in business. Like others, we bleach...
To The Eagle: Hmm, right to life? For who? A small cluster of cells that may at some point become a person unless the mother has a miscarriage, or a living breathing senior citizen? The low watt governor of Texas is willing to throw seniors under the bus to maintain the economy. Sweet. The dichotomy is striking in its duplicity. Here's a great idea. Why doesn't this religious nut throw his mom, dad or himself under the bus sparing the economy for those of us with more than two brain cells frantically trying to justify the stupidity he sees in...
To The Eagle: No response from the challenger in the Climate Change Calamity debate, so we’ll give it a rest for awhile, after pointing out that the people producing pandemic panic are using the same tactics that the enviro crowd uses to produce doom and gloom scenarios about global warming: computer modeling, which is very much subject to GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out). Based on supposition rather than hard data the dire predictions never come true, so enviros avoid embarrassment by moving their melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and burning...
To The Eagle: Many of us have used credit cards to spend thousands to make our homes beautiful and our many appliances easy to use. We spent many hours working away from home to pay for our “stuff.” Now we have a chance to stay home and delight in our credit-card purchases, tackle home-improvement projects, read books, and enjoy (or not) each other’s company. I see no need to whine about having to stay home! Ursula Petralia Skamokawa...
To The Eagle: Many of our local businesses and their employees are facing a significant financial impact dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. While several local businesses have been required to close under new restrictions, others have been able to offer modified services that help reduce the spread of viruses, so they can continue to provide their services to our small community. Some of our local restaurants and stores are offering online ordering and carry-out services, so you can get what you need without ever leaving your car. You can...
To The Eagle: The biggest slush fund in history is now at the disposal of the Treasury and Grifter-In-Chief, Trump. Our rapaciously greedy Chief Executive will unleash unprecedented fraud and abuse upon the new $2.2 trillion law — the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after purposely weakening its accounting oversight. In an astonishingly brazen move, Trump wiped away, by imperial decree, safeguards written into the act in order to ignore and subvert the intent and letter of the law. The president clearly wants to c...
