Community News - May 12

Golf tournament aims to raise Mule funds

A Hall of Fame Golf Tournament is being held at Skyline Golf Course in Cathlamet to raise money for the Wahkiakum High School Sports Fund.

Entry fees for the 18 Hole Scramble are $50 per golfer, including green fees and cart; the field is limited to 12 four-person teams with no exceptions. The event is being held on May 21 at 10 a.m. with check in and warm up at 9 a.m. Prizes are awarded for the top three teams.

Also being held is a Closest to the Pin event, which has four places open to the public for $5. Non-golfers may choose a Mule golfer to hit for them.

For more information or to enter, contact coach Nick Vavoudis at 360-795-8785.

Museum now open for 2011 season

The Wahkiakum County. Historical Museum opened April 30 for the 2011 season.

The museum, located at 65 River St. adjacent to Strong Park, will be open Saturdays, Sundays and some holidays from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. The admission fee for persons age 18 to 54 is $3, seniors ages 55 and older, $1.50 and children accompanied by an adult are free. Active military personnel and their family are also admitted free. The museum has several exciting new exhibits on display.

Student makes Dean's List

Justin McClain, a 2010 graduate of Wahkiakum High School has made the Dean's List at Central Washington University for the winter quarter.

He is the son of Linda and Bruce McClain of Skamokawa.

College transfer fair set May 25 at LCC

Lower Columbia College invites current college students and community people, planning to transfer to a four-year college or university, to attend the free Spring Transfer Fair, May 25, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the LCC Student Center.

At least 13 colleges plan to send representatives to provide information and answer questions including The Art Institute, Ashford University, City University of Seattle, The Evergreen State College, Eastern Washington University, Linfield College, University of Phoenix, University of Washington, University of Washington-Bothell, University of Washington-Tacoma, Warner Pacific College, Washington State University-Pullman, Washington State University-Vancouver.

This free event is sponsored by The Washington Council for High School-College Relations, Lower Columbia College, and the LCC Transfer Club.

Class offers domestic violence info, advice

On May 17 at noon, Hazel Faul of the Emergency Support Center will discuss what domestic violence is and how to help anyone being abused.

The class will be held in the Cowlitz County Administration Building, Room 300 located at 207 4th Avenue North in Kelso. This program sponsored by Washington State University Extension is free and open to the general public. For more information, contact Gary Fredricks at 577-3014 Ext 3 or at garyf@wsu.edu.

Civil War is topic of free lecture at LCC

University of Houston history professor Eric Walther will give a free lecture at Lower Columbia College, May 19, in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War. An expert on the Antebellum South and the coming of the Civil War, Dr. Walther will give The William Vest Memorial Lecture, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Rose Center for the Arts, Wollenberg Auditorium.

His topic is "William Lowndes Yancey: The Making of a Diplomat?" Yancey, one of the Southern "Fire Eaters" who agitated for secession, was a fascinating and passionate character. He had often-stormy family and political ties with key figures in American history, and his views changed dramatically over his lifetime.

Inaugural Cathlamet prize for poetry awarded

Ann Taylor, Professor of English at Salem State University in Salem, Mass., has won the inaugural Cathlamet Prize for Poetry offered by Ravenna Press of Spokane.

Taylor's poetry manuscript, "The River Within" was selected by judge Lynn Strongin, a poet and reviewer currently residing in Victoria, B.C., over a field of national and international contestants. This is the first year the prize has been offered and it carries with it a cash prize plus publication of the winning poetry collection by Ravenna Press.

Taylor is the author of two books on college composition and a collection of personal essays. Her poems have been published in a number of journals and her poem "To Carry on with the Dying" has been selected for publication in the 10th anniversary collection of the Copperfield Review.

Ravenna Press is a small press originating in Seattle in 1999 by Kathryn Rantala, who named the Cathlamet prize; her family of Finnish immigrants settled here and she named the prize to honor them.