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Stories by Kelly Moyer

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July 26, 2018
Rachel Grice and her dog, Rusty, take a walk near Grice's Washougal home off Southeast 356th Avenue in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Trucks (like the one pictured above) hauling material from a nearby rock quarry are a constant presence next to Grice's house. She says the trucks' noise, dust and safety hazards are a major concern for her family, which includes her four homeschooled children, ages 8 to 12.

Quarry rocks Washougal

A Clark County hearings examiner will soon issue a final decision regarding alleged code violations at a Washougal rock mining operation, in a case Friends of the Columbia Gorge representatives have said is “perhaps the largest ongoing land-use violation ever in the Columbia River Gorge.”

July 26, 2018
With its shallow waters and slippery, unofficial trails, the popular Camas “potholes” area (above) is often the site of injuries and fatalities.

Fatality highlights hazards at ‘potholes’

The death of a 37-year-old woman, who fell nearly 40 feet from an unofficial trail inside Lacamas Park on July 18, highlights the ongoing safety hazards near the popular Camas “potholes” area.

July 19, 2018

Camas eyes new revenue sources

Camas leaders are considering a variety of new revenue source options, including utility taxes and city-specific vehicle tab fees.

July 5, 2018
Steve Chaney sits in his meticulously restored 1954 Chevrolet Corvette outside his home near the Camas-Vancouver border on June 28.

Classic Camas

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.

July 5, 2018
Sylvia Manheim, 93 (left), of Skamania County, and Larry Jacobson (right), of Manzanita, Ore., attend a Families Belong Together march in support of immigrants and in protest of recent Trump administration policies that have detained asylum seekers on the southern United States border and separated immigrant families. The march, which took place Saturday, June 30, in downtown Vancouver, was one of about 30 happening throughout Washington.

‘Is this America?’

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.

June 28, 2018
Maxine Ambrose, 88, a Camas native and daughter of the very first Camas Days king and queen, Earl and Fae Miller, has been named the 2018 Camas Days Queen. Her coronation will take place on Wednesday, July 18.

Queen no stranger to royalty

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.