wayne.havrelly@camaspostrecord.com
August 16, 2018
Third-grader wins national horse show
Aubrie Wheeler is only 8 years old, but she’s been riding ponies since she learned to walk and competing at horse shows since age 2.
Aubrie Wheeler is only 8 years old, but she’s been riding ponies since she learned to walk and competing at horse shows since age 2.
Every morning, seven days a week, the parking lot at Hathaway Park in Washougal is packed with pickleball players.
Two weeks after the Washougal National motocross extravaganza, the legendary Washougal motocross track transformed itself into the ultimate obstacle course for endurance athletes. On Saturday, Aug. 11, 7,200 athletes at Washougal MX Park ran, climbed over walls, took on mud pools, slid and even crawled under barbed wire while competing in the seventh annual Spartan Portland Sprint, one of 200 Spartan Race events now held in more than 30 countries.
Camas bocce ball player Kael Romero, 13, and his mother, Sheri, have only played the competitive lawn game for just under a year, but they’ve already won a gold medal at the Special Olympics Washington games and finished in fourth place at the Special Olympics USA games held in Seattle in July.
If you’ve never hiked to the top of Silver Star Mountain, you’re missing what is perhaps the single best view in the Camas-Washougal area.
Eli Tomac, the season’s hottest professional motocross rider, pulled off a thrilling come-from-behind victory last weekend, winning the 450 Washougal National title at Washougal MX Park on Saturday, July 28.
While the rest of Camas-Washougal geared up for last weekend’s Camas Days celebration and national motocross races at the Washougal MX Park, 10 Babe Ruth all-star teams and their families, some coming from as far away as Calgary in Alberta, Canada, descended on Camas’ historic Louis Bloch Park to prepare for the Pacific Northwest Babe Ruth Regional Tournament.
With temperatures routinely hitting the 90s, local waterways are chock-full of folks enjoying the region’s cool rivers and lakes and using kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddleboards (SUP).
Washougal Motocross Park is known around the world for its scenic beauty, which is showcased every summer on national television when the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Nationals, sanctioned by American Motocross Association Pro Racing, come to town.
On a holiday when many people feast and celebrate at festive barbecue gatherings, several hundred folks in Camas and Washougal chose to launch into the Fourth of July by burning some serious calories during the third annual Heroes’ Challenge, at Capt. William Clark Regional Park, in Washougal.
