kelly.moyer@camaspostrecord.com
July 5, 2018
Camas business launches 11th hour effort to save pool
A last-minute effort to save Camas’ historic, outdoor public swimming pool, currently closed and slated for demolition in the fall, is now underway.
A last-minute effort to save Camas’ historic, outdoor public swimming pool, currently closed and slated for demolition in the fall, is now underway.
If you’ve ever wandered around a classic car show and pondered how tough it might be to restore one of those gleaming beauties, Steve Chaney can assure you: It’s tough … like, “scouring for original parts for the better part of a year, spending more than $100,000 and throwing 1,100 hours toward restoration work” tough.
Dozens of Camas-Washougal families turned out Saturday for the Vancouver Families Belong Together march, showing their support for immigrants and protesting recent Trump administration decisions that have separated immigrant children — many of whom arrived in the United States seeking asylum from Central American nations in crisis — from their parents and relatives.
Maxine Ambrose, queen of the 2018 Camas Days festival, is no stranger to royalty — her parents, Earl and Fae Miller, were the very first Camas Days king and queen and she herself was the Junior Queen of the 1940 Paper Festival.
Updated at 1:18 p.m., Wednesday, June 27 to include GoFundMe for celebration of life event A Washougal man injured in a June 10 car accident on Highway 14 has died.
Camas officials have approved plans to build a massive mixed-use development on 35 acres in west Camas, near Fisher Investments’ headquarters, off Northwest Fisher Creek Drive and Northwest 38th Avenue.
If you’ve been following the fireworks debate in Camas, there is good and bad news for both sides.
Dressed head to toe in gear that would make any early-19th century Pacific Northwest history buff jealous, Roger Wendlick produces bags of fresh smoked salmon and offers it as a sort of parting gift to the Washougal middle-schoolers surrounding him.
It might be a bumpy road for Camas leaders rolling into the city’s 2019-20 biennium budget process.
“Not for a letter to the editor,” was how the email started. The writer didn’t want his views to go out publicly, but did want to let me know that he has lived in Washougal for 43 years and that “local members of the community” believe The Post-Record has “taken on a Vancouver and even a Portland image.”
