Aberdeen- Grays Harbor PUD will conduct a power outage impacting approximately 1,300 customers in east Grays Harbor County this evening. The outage is necessary to repair damage to a transmission pole on Dunlap Road in the eastern part of the county. The outage will allow crews to make repairs and replace the pole, which appears to have been struck by a vehicle (there was no vehicle at the scene and the damage was reported by a customer).

The outage will begin once crews arrive at the scene with materials, which is expected to be about 7:30pm (updated time) this evening (Tuesday, July 28). The duration of the outage is expected to be about 3 hours.

The area that will be impacted by the outage is located south of Porter and east to Anderson Road. This includes Oakville, South Bank Road and Highway 12, and the Cedarville area.

HOQUIAM, Wash. -- 07/28/09 -- Timberland Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSBK) ("Timberland" or "the Company") today reported fiscal third quarter profits of $1.06 million. Third quarter income available to common shareholders after being adjusted for preferred stock dividends of $210,000 and preferred stock discount accretion of $79,000 was $769,000, or $0.12 per diluted common share. This compares to a net loss of $546,000, or ($0.08) per diluted common share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 and a net loss of $1.60 million, or ($0.24) per diluted common share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2009.

TORIA, Ore. - The Coast Guard located four missing rafters on the Wilson River near Tilamook, Ore., Tuesday.

Group/Air Station Astoria received a request for assistance from the Tillamook County Sheriff's Office in the search for two men and two children who were overdue from a rafting trip at approximately 11:58 p.m. Monday. A helicopter crew was dispatched to search for the rafters and managed to locate them stranded on a sand bar near Mile 4 of Highway 6. The helicopter crew directed Tillamook County Sheriff's Office personnel to the scene where the four were helped off the sand bar. None of the rafters were injured.

The missions of Group/Air Station Astoria include search and rescue, ports, waterways and coastal security, law enforcement, aids to navigation support, environmental protection, and support for units in the area. 

Aberdeen, Wash. - The Spar Shop at the Historical Seaport, a unit of the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority, will turn the longest mast it has ever attempted this week at its facility in Aberdeen. The 117-foot mast, made from a single, 114-year-old Douglass-fir tree harvested near Porter in Grays Harbor County, will replace the main mast on the historic schooner Zodiac, which is based at Seattle's Lake Union. The mast will be turned on the Spar Shop's tracer lathe, the largest in North America. The lathe can handle logs up to 120 feet in length.

The mast is believed to be the longest ever turned in Grays Harbor County. The Spar Shop has also turned masts for the modern Nina, a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship, and the Fair Jeanne, a brigantine based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.