heather.acheson@camaspostrecord.com
February 9, 2014
Camas-Washougal schools will be closed on Monday, Feb. 10
The Camas and Washougal school districts have announced Sunday evening that schools will be closed on Monday, Feb. 10, due to the threat of inclement weather.
The Camas and Washougal school districts have announced Sunday evening that schools will be closed on Monday, Feb. 10, due to the threat of inclement weather.
The driver of a vehicle that traveled over a 20-foot embankment escaped injury this morning. According to a press release from the Camas-Washougal Fire Department, at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 7, a passenger vehicle was attempting to drive down a steep hill in Washougal in the 1800 block of North Sixth Street.
The Camas and Washougal school districts have announced that all schools will be closed on Friday, Feb. 7, due to poor weather conditions. All before and after-school activities are also cancelled.
Three months after the Camas Cemetery was vandalized, the final step in the effort to make a wrong, right again was put into place.
A representation of the Camas community's generosity was bolted into place on Friday. A new granite monument at the grave site of Alexander Stuber was secured into place at the Camas Cemetery by employees from Vancouver Granite Works. The original one, more than 100 years old, was destroyed by vandalism in October 2013. Vancouver Granite Works worked to replicate the original monument, which included an image of a rose and the Bible verse "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith," from the second book of Timothy 4:7.
After a two-month closure, the Two Rivers Heritage Museum reopens today with a new display highlighting the local area's fabric weaving history. The exhibit, "Early Fabric Making," features a working counter balance loom set up to weave rugs with blanket selvage material donated from Pendleton Woolen Mills, which is located across the street. Every blanket woven at Pendleton is trimmed of selvage on two sides before finishing the edges. It is sturdy, colorful material that can be woven into soft rugs. "The loom appears to be handcrafted as opposed to manufactured and is estimated to be from the last part of the 19th century," said Camas-Washougal Historical Society member Marilyn Brown. "It is the size that could be found in a family home and was used to weave material for clothing, linens and home decor."
A Camas man was fatally shot Monday in what law enforcement officials are describing as a case of workplace violence. At approximately 11:30 a.m., Vancouver Police responded to a report of shots fired at the Westside Business Center located at 1800 W. Fourth Plain Blvd., in Vancouver's industrial west side in the Fruit Valley area. When officers arrived, they located the body of Ryan E. Momeny, 45, a manager at the Benjamin Moore Paint Co., in front of the business. They then found Robert R. Brown, 64, a driver at the company, deceased inside a vehicle in the parking from what is being described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A group of property owners have expressed interest in working with Camas to create a master plan vision for the Grass Valley area on the west side of the city. Vancouver land use and zoning attorney Randy Printz, who represents the property owners making the proposal, spoke about the concept on Friday during the City Council's annual planning conference. It was described as a unique opportunity to paint what is currently a "blank canvas."
When some of your book subjects include ghosts, Big Foot and aliens, fact checking and reliable sources are very important aspect of the research process. Author Kelly Milner Halls writes non-fiction, science based children's books, several of which deal with these topics. Recently, she spent a day at Dorothy Fox Elementary School in Camas. A highlight was the author's lunch, which included fourth- and fifth-grade students. Her book, "The Tales of the Cryptids," is currently one of the most popular choices in the school library. "I don't tell you for sure Big Foot is real, I don't tell you for sure aliens are real. I don't tell you for sure ghosts are real. I give you the evidence that I found through years of research, and I leave it for you guys to decide," she said. "You have to control the rest of your lives what you believe. You're smart. People forget how smarts kids are. You can take that information and you can make a decision for yourself, or you and your parents can sit down and you can say 'Hey, Mom and Dad, look at this book, what do you think'?"
At the close of the marijuana license application submission period on Dec. 20, paperwork for more than 60 retail, producing and processing licenses had been submitted from Camas-Washougal area based businesses to the Washington State Liquor Control Board. The backgrounds of the applicants seem to vary as much as the names they chose for their potential endeavors. But at their core, all for one reason or another have a desire to get into the marijuana business. And as the applications are being processed and scrutinized by the state agency, local cities are heavily involved in their own work to establish a framework for rules, regulations and zonings that will eventually guide how these businesses will fit into the community.
