Letters to the Editor

The seventh annual Project Community Connect (previously Project Homeless Connect) held Jan. 24 was a great success.

I would like to share with you and your readers something I shared with our state senator for my district.

The border wall soap opera continues. The executive and legislative branches of our government wasted two months and the economy lost billions of dollars in the war to fund/not fund a wall on …

This is the second time this year that I feel so angry about a letter — this one by Mr. Jim Joyce.

In your Jan. 30 edition of the Chinook Observer was a very thought provoking article by long-time contributor Victoria Stoppiello on tainted tangerines and their costs to our health and the en…

Over the last two years, our property tax in Ocean Park has increased by 38 percent.

I am a resident of Long Beach. I do a lot of walking. I am appalled at the amount of trash around our wonderful town. They have beach clean up days, which is a joke. The only places they clean…

Thank you, Bette Lu Krause, Rita Smith and Christl Mack of the Oyster Crackers for the wonderful warm and often times humorous concert that benefited the Ocean Park Food Bank Over $900 was rai…

The Washington Coast Restoration and Resiliency Initiative (WCRRI) provides valuable funds for salmon restoration projects in southwest Washington. Local restoration practitioners like the Col…

Open letter to Jim Joyce (see letter published Feb.6):

Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a wonderful 597 page tome called “A Distant Mirror, the Calamitous 14th Century,” making the case for the actions of the founding fathers…

My complaint is there is a woman that lives in Ocean Park that had a brain injury and has short-term memory loss. This woman has 17 cats in her home and two dogs out in a fenced area.

As a Lutheran Christian, I am concerned about our planet, our stewardship. It is a loaned resource. As an environmentalist, I am concerned about our planet, our conservation. There are the sam…

There’s a whole lot of whining going on as we Americans undergo a whole lot of political/social/economic angst.

The Lower Columbia River Chief Petty Officer Association (LCR CPOA) extends our members' gratitude to the entire North Coast. The community’s residents embraced the LCR CPOA chapter with donat…

This narrative is in response to the letter submitted by Sandy Nielson of "Pacific County Immigrant Support." It was printed on Jan. 30 in the Chinook Observer and was entitled, "Local immigra…

On Jan. 19, I found myself in need of a locksmith since my granddaughter had accidentally locked herself inside my vehicle. The quickest help was to call Long Beach Commercial Security. Steven…

May (Saari Johnson) Adair was a wonderful wife, mother, genealogist and friend. I first met her through her brother, Wilho and his wife, Kaisa Saari. May was teaching piano lessons at their ho…

My favorite letter writer has got to be Robert W. Bonney, because he never fails to brighten my day. Other writers are always so serious, but not Bob — he always goes for the laughs. For examp…

Volunteering with the Peninsula County Immigrant Support group (PCIS) for the past two years, I thought I had seen and heard the most heartbreaking stories that are out there in the misery tha…

We know who you are and you know who you are! But we don't know you phone number!

I am compelled to respond to Robert Bonney’s recent letter to the editor, where he extols President Trump’s actions to "Make America Great Again." Mr. Bonney compares America’s decline to the …

To me, when a child bullies or is mean to another child, it means the bully does not respect themselves or anybody else. Children are not born respecting themselves. They learn it from their p…

This letter is for the Fish and Wildlife. As I write this, I just heard that in February Grayland gets 10 days to dig. Not us. My husband went up Sunday and Monday. It takes one hour and 45 mi…

The Ocean Park Food Bank would like to thank the students of Long Beach Elementary School for donating 691 pounds (!) of food items from their recent food drive. We really appreciate this much…

Assessor declares taxes going down and I look at taxsifter. Sure enough, once again a lying politician has emerged. My taxes are up again to $1,930 this year. Last year they were $1,646. Suppo…

I am writing to ask my Peninsula neighbors to consider supporting Pacific County Immigrant Support.

I could both agree and disagree with last week’s column crying out for civility in the world. One man’s version of “Our America is sick” is another man’s version of "The business of America is…

I read with interest the difficult decisions that the Ocean Beach School Board and new Superintendent Amy Huntley (congratulations Amy!) are facing with regard to district enrollment configura…

By proclamation of the governor, January is School Board Recognition Month. It’s a great time to recognize our elected community members who selflessly give their time and energy in support of…

As we enter into 2019, kindness and caring is in the forefront. Friends of Chinook School Food Bank would like to thank all who thought of us during the past year and especially at the holiday…

I am concerned with the action that the Ocean Beach School District may make in addressing the “anomaly” of overcrowding at Hilltop school. (I borrow the term anomaly from Interim Superintende…

My name is Ellie Gallion and I created the truck group, “Washington Truck Meets.”

On behalf of Peninsula Poverty Response (PPR), I want to thank the people on the Long Beach Peninsula for their generosity in helping out their neighbors who were affected by the fire at the B…

The Mermaid's Den is an amazing hair salon.

In 1938 they build the Grand Coulee Dam without fish ladders, without any way for the salmon to pass the dam or to continue up river along their native habitat to spawn. It was a conscious dec…

President Trump is clamoring for his "wall" money before he reopens our government. As of this writing, he is not getting either his wall or the money to build it! The "crisis" is not at the s…

Term limits are a must.

The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Let me say that again, the United States, with the most sophisticated health care in the developed world, has …

The Ocean Park Food Bank Board would like to thank all the generous people in this community. Throughout the year many pounds of food have been donated through the Green Bag Simple Gesture Pro…

Everybody: Wisely enjoy life within your potential. Actively participate in the quest for happiness.

The Friends of Willapa National Wildlife Refuge was honored to be highlighted in the recent Giving Back nonprofit resource guide and is grateful to South Pacific County Community Foundation fo…

In response to the Dec. 19 article of WSP investigations on Deputy Padgett, if only half of what the WSP investigations found on the alleged complaints were true, Padgett is not what Pacific C…

That is right, Mayor Grinch, it is you and your council of Gnomes that has decided, without talking to your citizens or business community, to cancel the Fourth of July fireworks celebration. …

Robin Souvenir you sure fooled me.

We would like to thank all of you that took the time out of your day to come to the Celebration of Life for Tami Belisle on Sunday, Dec. 16. It was an overwhelming day of love, laughter, and s…

Thanks Wreaths Across America

Many thanks to Patrick Webb for that beautiful piece about my book, “How I Survived.” Never have I been called so many nice things in my life! If only I weren’t so far away in California I cou…

The Bayside Singers wrapped up the 2019 year with a sing-a-long with the community at the Oysterville Church on Sunday, Dec. 16. The week prior, their concert at Chinook Event Center hosted mo…