Our strength is in our community working together to save our beach.

WashAway No More has benefited from contributions from our beach folk, fishers, and farmers. Whether proudly purchasing and wearing a WashAway No More shirt or picking up trash or constructing a wooden palisade, our homes have been protected by the caring people and organizations that make North Cove.

Homegrown organizations have won and lost conflicts with the sea. North Willapa Harbor Grange was part of the initial efforts in the early 1900's. Most recently they have sponsored the WashAway No More committee and provided the non-profit blanket for fundraising. The Pacific Conservation District provided our first grant funding, helped with further grants, provided engineering, and secured the permits for our projects. We would be very wet without them! Pacific County administrators and commissioners have found possibilities and resources that we didn't know existed. Winning over state agency support and building trust has yielded countless benefits - Department of Ecology monitoring and guidance, Fish and Wildlife flexibility and big picture perspective, WSDOT shares practical ideas and support. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, once thought to be the bogeyman who caused the erosion, has lent invaluable resources and expertise. WashAway No More thanks these agencies for all their help.

  • David Cottrell

    David was no stranger to community service. When the Pacific County Drainage District #1 was facing deep problems, he took over reorganizing the commission. After David defeated a deadly type of leukemia, the Grayland Cranberry Association "honored" him by electing him to the board. So he was pretty entrenched when Pacific County administrators invited North Cove residents to a meeting. There they explained how we would all join the new abatement district and pay into a fund which would finance the clean up of our houses when they fell into the Pacific Ocean. David was having none of that. If the county was unwilling to save our homes we would have to do it ourselves. Ron Lambert had shown that it was possible. David said so loud and clear. Mike Nordin from the Pacific Conservation District heard him and approached him with the idea, "Could you do something with $50,000?" That was in 2016 and with the funds David protected a small critical area of shoreline. Shortly after, WashAway No More came into being.

  • Connie Allen

    Connie had the honor and pleasure to work in the orbit of David's brilliant innovations and dogged persistence. The drainage district does not extend to the Seamoblie area where houses were lost yearly so Connie looked at what could be done. Funding always takes a major role but also the large number of tiny, half eroded, and abandoned properties made permitting an intervention a nightmare. Under the newly formed banner of WashAway No More, we began fundraising on a very grassroots level. Each time we collected $530, we put 24 cubic yards of rock where the road ends and is dropping off to the beach. We did 10 installations that first year and sand began to accumulate.

Heartfelt thanks to our wonderful community and the many organizations that have donated time and resources.

Special thanks to John Harris for having the forethought to secure the domain washawaynomore.org and for creating washawaynomore’s youtube channel and then generously donating both.

David Cottrell
George Kaminsky
Jaenette Hudson
Marcy Merrill
Bob Merrill
Brad Kirkland
Susie Jacobs
Tim Pelzel
Dave Pelzel
Clara Conlan
Jean Tweedie
Hawkeye Merrill
John Jones
Joy Jones
Tom Bouchard
Henry Bell
Roxanne Carini
Earthlab
Nicole Duff
Cat Hartwell
Ashley Moore
Juliette Randazza
Earl Davis
Ralph Seimmering
Nikki Whiteman
Cory Miller
Michelle Laraux
Van Adam Davis
Francis Cottrell
Marguerite Garth
Becky Brockoff
Mike Nordin
Jackson Blalock
Shane Phillips
Ladonna Hartke

Nadine Mason
Jeri Ramsey
Sophia Anderson
Francis Cottrell
Brad Kirkland
Sandy Bell
George Kaminsky
Michelle Gostic
Bobback
Henry Bell
Rick Mraz
Kennedie Selden
Amanda Hacking
Heather Weiner
Heather Maran
Haley Bond
Diana McCandless
Bobback Talebi
Candy Noll
Michelle Lester
Jeremy Bartheld
Clara Conlan
Dan Hammock
Mike Nordan
Laura Kraft
Dan Abramson
Harriet Alexander
Anne Spencer
Derrick Brockbank
Sarah Kohout
Younis Nouri
Alyx Peiyao Xiao
Ben Quinby
Garret Jackson
Christine Cottrell

Jim Phipps
Paul Bale
Brian Blake
Lisa Ayers
Kathy Spoor
Tim Crose
Scott Oddy
Dave Pelzel
Tim Pelzel
Faith DCD
Vladamir Shepsis
Shane Phillips
Younes Nouri
Charlene Nelson
Dave Michelson
Kelly Rupp
Larissa Pfleeger
Cindy Sunstrom
Jess Downs
Judith Altruda
Ken Smoak
Tuffy Miller
Marcy Miller
Cory Miller
Hawk's Rocks
Rosalyn Erickson
Mike Runyon
Alex Gregory
Karen Piukala
Becky Brockhoff
Eric Wentworth
Anne Skelton
Jim Magnusson
Kelly Rupp
Jill Gardner

Vickie Humbyrd
Bill Amundson
Loanne Amundson
John Shaw
Tom Petersen
Dave Bellamy
Nick Wood
Mary Wood
Chris Hildebrand
Bob Erickson
Brian Schlegel
Bob Quinby
Miles Wenzel
Josh Thompson
Carwyn Worley
Russell McDaniel
Les Strange
Jayne Peterson
Ed McGlaughlin
Ken Watenabi
Viola Davis
Heather Weiner
Cindy Hitt
Gary Hodges
Kathleen Sayce
Ron Lambert
Jim Magnuson
Barbara Schlegel
Sam Schlegel
Miles Wensel
Lisa Ayers
Lisa Olsen
Jerry Doyle
Erick Bengel
Chris Anderson

Jina Phipps Mackay
Geri McGranaghan
Ed & Sheri Borden
Shawn Humphreys
Zane Johnson
Chelsea Martin
Dawn Spilsbury
Lonnie Humbyrd
Alexandra Plumb
Lauren Bauernschmidt
Kitty and Wes Bryan
Lauren Bauerschmitt
Chris Blankensopp
Celina Balderas Guzmán
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Mike - PC maintenance
Richard and Diane Harris
Sandy Doyle Simmons
Bruce and Mary Lilligard
Tokeland North Cove C of CN
Willapa Harbor Grange
Shoalwater Bay Tribe
North Willapa Artist Community
Department of Transportation
Conservation District
Proud T shirt wearers
Grayland Cranberry Association
Pacific County Drainage Ditch #1
Focus Group participants
Photo submitters
Statue interactors
The Local Store
The Knotty Siren

Cranberry bogs in North Cove.