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August 19, 2014
Municipal Matchup
A softball game, involving city officials from Camas and Washougal Friday night, resulted in four different scores, depending on who was asked.
A softball game, involving city officials from Camas and Washougal Friday night, resulted in four different scores, depending on who was asked.
John Wagoner remembers his 17th birthday -- spent aboard a 622-foot long Navy ship, with 3,000 Army GIs on their way to Korea.
The Washougal City Council has voted against purchasing land from Riverside Seventh-day Adventist Church, to create a park and overflow parking for users of the Sandy Swimming Hole.
A local woman who performed at a senior center in Forest Grove, Ore., as a teenager, is the director of admissions and marketing at Prestige Care and Rehabilitation, in Camas. When Dianna Kretzschmar was 16, she received a Rotary Club scholarship for her service project of playing a piano at the senior center dances. The other band members were older than 70.
A discussion regarding committee assignments has resulted in Washougal Mayor Sean Guard accusing the city's ad hoc committee on the budget of violating the state's Open Meeting Act.
Matt Mandrones recalls finding something interesting in his grandmother's guest bedroom closet when he was in the third grade.
A special Washougal City Council meeting will be held Monday night, to appoint General Election propositions committees.
Washougal voters will be asked during this year's General Election to approve two levy lift propositions. One would be similar to a lid lift that was in place from 2007 through 2012, for fire and emergency medical services. The other lid lift proposal would pay for an additional police officer and other public safety enhancements.
The City of Washougal is proposing to prohibit medical marijuana collective gardens, as well as recreational marijuana producers, processors and retailers through Dec. 31, 2015. A public hearing will be held on those issues during the City Council meeting, Monday, Aug. 11, at 7 p.m., in the council chambers at City Hall, 1701 "C" St.
A majority of individuals who responded to a survey would like to receive more communication from Washougal about what the city is doing. The four-page survey, conducted by ETC Institute, involved 411 participants, out of 1,200 people who were contacted by phone or mail. Survey recipients were randomly chosen, according to Chris Tatham, with ETC.
