Community News - November 17, 2011

Audubon Society holds fifth annual bird walk

Join the Willapa Hills Audubon Society for their fifth annual Lake Sacajawea Bird Walk and Social on December 3. Participants will meet at 8:30 a.m., and walk the lake, observing winter waterfowl and other local birds. To sign up, call or email John Green at 360-575-9238 or jgreen2317@aol.com.

Conservation districts set meeting

The next Board Meeting for both the Cowlitz and the Wahkiakum Conservation Districts will be held December 5 at the Skamokawa Methodist Church at 5 Vista Park, in Skamokawa.

High school food drive starts today

Wahkiakum High School will hold a food drive to support the Wahkiakum County Food Bank, starting November 17.

Until November 23, any non-perishable food can be taken to the high school during school hours. Cash donations are accepted with one dollar equalling two cans.

The class with the most cans will win a pizza party.

For more information, contact Dan Casler at 795-3271.

Book signings coming

up at Redmen Hall

The Friends of Skamokawa will host two book signings with local authors Bryan Penttila, Karen Bertroch, and Irene Martin at Redmen Hall during the month of November.

On November 20, Bryan Penttila and Karen Bertroch will sign copies of the new Appelo Archives book, When Logging Was Logging: 100 Years of Big Timber in SW Washington, which has chapters covering log camps and logging from Deep River to Cathlamet, the Crown and Weyerhauser companies, and many local families. Other contributing authors include Jim LeMonds, Donna Gatens-Klint and Myron Metcalf.

Irene Martin has written a definitive book about the Columbia River Packers Association, who founded the Bumble Bee brand of canned salmon. Full of historical photographs, this book follows the burgeoning 19th Century salmon industry to the declining years over the course of the 20th Century, and now into the 21st Century with its global market. Martin will sign Flight of Bumble Bee on November 27, also at Redmen Hall, during the Holiday Open House. Both events will be from 1-3 p.m., and will feature warm drinks and holiday treats.

For more information, call Elise at 360-795-3007 or Thea at 360-465-2539.

TRSN meeting cancelled

The November 18 meeting of the TRSN Governing and Advisory Board has been cancelled due to scheduling conflicts and unexpected issues. The next meeting notification will be distributed upon scheduling.

Extension sets

class on flower bulbs

On November 19 from 9-10 a.m., WSU Master Gardeners Jane Hendrickson and Phyllis Hull will give advice about the planting and care of flower bulbs.

Participants will receive 12 free tulip bulbs and will learn how to get started, when to plant, and how to care for them.

The class will be held in the Cowlitz County Training Center, 1942 First Avenue in Longview, located on the dike just south of the Hall of Justice for $10 per family. The workshop is sponsored by Washington State University Extension. For more information, contact Gary Fredricks at 577-3014 Ext 3 or garyf@wsu.edu.