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Stories by Kelly Moyer

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December 6, 2018
A child enjoys the "snow" at a 2015 Hometown Holidays celebration in downtown Camas. This year's holiday festival will be held throughout the city's downtown from 5 to 9 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, with a tree lighting and fireworks at 6:30 p.m. (Post-Record file photo)

Holiday happenings

If you’re looking for some holiday cheer, a photo opp with Santa, a Christmas tree lighting (or three), or even just a free cup of hot cocoa this holiday season, we’ve got you covered. Following is a list of winter holiday events occurring in Camas and Washougal, as well as a few of the bigger festivities happening in the greater Vancouver-Portland metro area.

November 29, 2018
Trees line the streets of downtown Camas. City leaders recently passed Camas' Urban Tree Program to protect trees in new developments. Now, city councilors are looking at protections for Camas' unique "heritage" trees.

Camas may grow tree program

A little more than two months after implementing the city’s Urban Tree Program, designed to protect trees in new Camas developments and increase fines for harming trees in open spaces and park lands, city leaders in Camas are considering further protections for the city’s tree canopy.

November 29, 2018
Parents and children reach for the "snow" that fell down during the 2017 Hometown Holidays and Christmas tree lighting celebration in downtown Camas. (Post-Record file photo)

A hometown holiday

Camas’ popular Hometown Holidays event, which features a Christmas tree lighting in front of the Liberty Theatre, “snowfall,” visits with Santa, entertainment by Camas students, fireworks, hay rides and more, is back.

November 29, 2018
A Camas-Washougal Fire Department engine responds to a call in downtown Camas in 2017. (Post-Record file photo)

Fire funding could burn cities’ partnership

Five years into their 10-year fire department collaboration with the city of Washougal, some Camas leaders are beginning to wonder if they might do better on their own.

November 22, 2018
Allure Boutique owner Bobbi Lee (left) shows customer Joy Soyster, of Portland, a new cardigan at her downtown Camas shop on Nov. 15. This will be Lee's third year celebrating "Black Friday" with specials and discounts for downtown Camas' "Little Box Friday" on Nov. 23, and "Shop Small Saturday" on Nov. 24.

The best things come in little boxes

W hen Black Friday, the ultimate day-after-Thanksgiving shopping day, rolls around, shoppers in downtown Camas won’t have to compete for mall parking or stand in lines inside packed “big box” chain stores.

November 14, 2018

Camas doctor dies in bicycle accident

A Camas doctor died on Thursday, Nov. 8, after crashing his bicycle into the side of a home off Northwest Sierra Drive in Camas. Camas police said Michael Myers, 51,…

November 8, 2018
Washougal Mayor Molly Coston listens to a council member during the Aug. 13, 2018 Washougal City Council workshop. General election results, released Tuesday, Nov. 6, show Proposition 8, which would change the city's form of government from mayor-council, or 'strong mayor,' to council-manager or 'strong council' is passing with 54.84 percent of the vote. (Post-Record file photo)

It’s a ‘no’ to fire district, ‘yes’ to GOP

Clark County voters turned out in record numbers for the Nov. 6 midterm election this week, with 52 percent of registered voters casting ballots and weighing in on everything from the next congresswoman for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District to the next chair of the Clark County Council. As of this newspaper’s press deadline, there were still about 45,000 ballots — roughly 23 percent of the vote — left to be counted, countywide.