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January 23, 2020
Camas resident Stacie Blomdahl (left) and her daughter, Katie O'Daniel,  of La Center, launched Skip the Trip Delivery, a food delivery business serving Camas-Washougal, in October 2019. (Contributed photo courtesy of Katie O'Daniel)

New business lets hungry customers ‘skip the trip’

In 2019, La Center resident and Washougal native Katie O’Daniel began to seriously think about her career options. For the past few years she had been a stay-at-home mom, but with her son about to start kindergarten, O’Daniel, who had previously been a nursing assistant and hospice worker, decided she wanted to join the workforce again.

January 2, 2020
Sheryl Obegi, Tommy Kelly and Karen Gibson show off some of the Camas football shirts available at Obegi and Gibson's new business, Papermaker Pride. Kelly, a senior at Camas High School, is working at the new downtown Camas business as part of his senior project on marketing research. (Photos by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

New business lets fans celebrate Camas

Fans of Camas hoping to wear their hometown pride on their sleeve won’t have to look too far, thanks to the opening of a new business, Papermaker Pride, in downtown Camas.

December 19, 2019
Anna Davis (second from right) instructs (from left to right) Isabella Pritchard, Lucy Hoff, Kayleigh Purdin, Lorelai Fortman and Maelynn O'Bryant at A Place to Create in November. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

‘Place to Create’ woos local crafters

While growing up on her family’s nursery in Portland, Anna Davis was raised with a particular set of values. She learned that money alone wouldn’t make her happy. She learned the importance of pursuing her passions. And she learned that she loved to do things her way.

December 12, 2019
Karen and Peter Wood, of Camas, enjoy the seasonal Gingerbread Shake at the Camas Burgerville on Thursday, Dec. 5. 
(Photos by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

New Burgerville shake has Camas tie

Local connoisseurs of Burgerville’s seasonal milkshakes may have noticed the Pacific Northwest-based fast food chain has a new flavor out this month: the Gingerbread Shake. What they may not…

September 12, 2019
John Watkins (left) and Brian Eayrs are co-owners of Feed Me Fight Me, a fitness apparel company in Washougal. "We're definitely yin and yang and different in a lot of ways," Eayrs said. "It's like, 'This is a Brian problem and that's a John problem. I don't want to do this and you don't want to do that, so let's divide and conquer.'" (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Veterans raise bar with fitness apparel company

When Brian Eayrs and John Watkins, owners of the Washougal-based Feed Me Fight Me fitness apparel company, don’t feel like strolling through their 6,000-square-foot distribution center in Building 18 at the Port of Camas-Washougal’s industrial park, they don’t have to.