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Cathlamet celebrates Bald
Eagle Days on July 15, 16
CATHLAMET, Wash. — The
Wahkiakum County Cham-
ber of Commerce will
present the 35th annual
Bald Eagle Days Festival on
Friday and Saturday, July 15
and 16.
When Congress passed
the Bald Eagle Endangered
Species Act, the Cathlamet
Women’s Club decided to
parade through Cathlamet in
support of the majestic bird.
Over the years, the
annual event has grown into
a festival drawing crowds
of more than 3,000 people.
The bald eagle is no longer
endangered, and Wahkiakum
County is proud that many
eagles can be seen in and
around the area.
The annual festival is a
weekend of fun and offers
one of the best ireworks
shows in the state of Wash-
ington.
Each year the festival has
a theme, and Saturday’s pa-
rade entities decorate loats,
trucks, tractors, etc. in accor-
dance with it. The theme for
2016 is Where Tranquility
Meets Adventure.
Parade entries must be in
by 10:30 a.m. at the Wahkia-
kum High School parking
lot. Judging will start at 11
a.m. and the parade begins
at noon. If you are interested
in appearing in the 2016
Bald Eagle Days Parade,
you can get your entry form
online or pick up a parade
entry form from Skamokawa
Resort, Bank of the Paciic’s
Cathlamet branch, Cath-
lamet Pharmacy, Waterway
Espresso or the Chamber
ofice at 102 Main St.
For more information vis-
it wahkiakumchamber.com,
call 360-795-9996 or email
wchamber@cni.net
This year’s schedule of
events includes:
Friday, July 15
• All Day – Explore
and ind hidden treasures
with a Family Geocaching
Competition; pick up your
passport at the Chamber of
Commerce.
• 11a.m. to 3 p.m., Rolly
& Ginny Armstrong Memo-
rial Sidewalk Art Contest
at the Bank of the Paciic
parking lot.
• 3 to 6 p.m., Puget Island
Farmers market with live
music, vendors, fresh meat,
veggies and bread at 59 W.
Birnie Slough Road.
• 5 to 7 p.m., Tsuga Art
Gallery will host its sixth an-
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• 7 p.m., Enjoy live music
by Skamokawa Swamp Op-
era at the Pioneer Commu-
nity Association, located at
Main and Columbia streets.
Saturday, July 16
• All Day, Lots of events
go on all day. Find food,
arts and craft vendors on
Main Street. Enjoy train
rides and rootbeer loats at
the Wahkiakum Historical
Society Museum. Pick up
your passport at the Cham-
ber of Commerce for a
Family Geocaching Compe-
tition. The Cathlamet Fire
Hall will hand out popsicles
and give tours of the ire
department.
• 7 to 10 a.m., Kiwanis’
Pancake Breakfast at Elo-
choman Slough Marina.
• The Bald Eagle Walk/
Run Challenge registration
will begin at 8:30 a.m.,
and the 10k, 5k and 2-mile
races will begin at 9 a.m.
The run-walk challenge will
begin and end at Cathlamet
Pharmacy.
• Noon, The parade
begins and stretches from
Wahkiakum High School to
the marina on Main Street.
• 2 p.m., The Bank of
the Paciic parking lot will
host kids activities after the
parade, including balloon
animals, face painting, horse
shoes, a ishing hole and
shooting gallery, a large in-
latable activity — plus watch
the ire department’s water
ball competition. You might
hear live music on Main
Street by Hank & Lloyd and
Layton and Pam Elliot.
• River Mile 38 Brewery
will open its beer garden and
host live music. The Cliffs
of Cathlamet will play at 4
p.m., and The Mutineers will
play at 6:30 p.m.
• 10 p.m., The ireworks
show at the marina will light
up the sky.
‘Who Eats at Taco Bell?’ comes to Astoria
Project crosses
tacos, social justice
and collaboration
along the Lewis
and Clark Trail
ASTORIA — This sum-
mer, Gaelyn and Gustavo
Aguilar are on a two-month
expedition over the Lewis
and Clark National Historic
Trail, making various stops
at community venues along
this 11-state journey. All the
while, they are making tacos
with people, prompting
dialogue, and inviting inno-
vative forms of engagement
around the question: What
is it going to take for us to
truly live interculturally?
The Aguilars will be in
Astoria on Thursday and
Friday, July 14 and 15. You
can ind them 3 to 6 p.m.
Thursday at the River People
Farmers Market and at 7:30
p.m. at Peace Lutheran
Church, located at 12th and
Exchange streets. They will
set up their “taco encamp-
ment” with taco making, por-
trait taking, conversation and
a multimedia performance.
Join them again at the
Astoria Public Library at 6
p.m. Friday, July 15 for a
look back at their two-month
expedition. The July 15
presentation is part of the
Astoria Public Library and
Lower Columbia Diversity
Project’s Diversity Dia-
logues series.
The idea for the expedi-
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Gustavo and Gaelyn Aguilar will bring their project “Who Eats
at Taco Bell?” to Astoria July 14 and 15.
tion was sparked in Gustavo
Aguilar’s hometown of
Brownsville, Texas, a town
of 175,000 with about 150
to 200 taquerias. Yet, one
Taco Bell thrives. In inves-
tigating why, the Aguilars
began to understand how the
American diet — as much
as it has been formed by the
intermingling of different
cultures — sheds light on the
multiple ways that Americans
have chosen to deine what it
means to be an American.
They began to explore
how making tacos with
people along the Lewis and
Clark Trail (a trail forged
by an expedition that played
an important role in Euro-
pean-American territorial,
cultural and economic ex-
pansion across the continent)
would be a powerful way
to explore the paradox of
how someone could harbor a
disdain for “foreigners” but
a love for their food, bearing
in mind that this paradox is
often connected to a kind of
forgetfulness of how in the
U.S. we are, in fact, almost
all aliens.
The Aguilars hit the road
to deepen understanding and
action around the attitudes
and ideas our country has
inherited. They are working
closely with national and
community partners to tailor
the architecture of the experi-
ence to local needs and invite
new visions for the future
during this time of change.
Gaelyn and Gustavo Agu-
ilar are the co-artistic direc-
tors of Tug, a collective fo-
cused on interdisciplinary re/
search, new forms of social
practice, and participatory,
problem-based interventions
that tackle cultural politics of
contemporary border regions
in North America. Visit
www.tacotalk.org to learn
more, and check out Tug
Collective on Facebook.
Find a wild goose chase of garage sales
OLNEY — Saturday and
Sunday, July 16 and 17 will
ind bargain hunters hitting
the road for the annual Wild
Goose Sale on Oregon High-
way 202.
Many years ago, Phyllis,
the owner of Olney Store,
started the Wild Goose Sale
on Highway 202 and in the
Olney-Walluski Community.
Originally, each participant
would place a goose sign by
their sale.
The event meant garage
salers would drive Highway
202, Walluski Loop, Little
Walluski Lane, Labiske
Lane, Green Mountain
Road, Lillines Road and
around the Youngs River
Loop searching for Goose
Signs and garage sale bar-
gains. Some roads had sales,
and some didn’t, thus the
“Wild Goose” chase.
For those wishing to have
a garage sale this year, they
need only put out their signs.
Olney Grange will again be
open for table rentals (Satur-
day only). Contact 503-325-
1288 for information.