City of Camas opens poster contest for parks signage
Camas Parks and Recreation is now accepting entries for poster designs to help promote the city’s policy prohibiting smoking and tobacco use within Camas parks. The city is currently developing…
Camas Parks and Recreation is now accepting entries for poster designs to help promote the city’s policy prohibiting smoking and tobacco use within Camas parks. The city is currently developing…
The family of Ric Mason – better known to many locals as “Painless Ric,” the owner of Painless Ric’s Tattoo Parlor – will host a celebration of life for the longtime downtown Camas business owner from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, at the Black Pearl on the Columbia, 56 S. First St., Washougal.
Chuck and Janessa Stoltz, the owners of Camas’ unique, Lacamas Lake-adjacent Acorn & the Oak restaurant, had already weathered more than their fair share of hurdles when the city’s planning manager emailed another piece of bad news earlier this month: the city could not approve the couple’s plans to build a permanent cover over their back patio.
Though the Two Rivers Heritage Museum in Washougal is closed to the public for the winter season, visitors hoping to learn more about Washougal and local history can still book group tours of the local museum, located at 1 Durgan St., Washougal.
Washougal’s West Columbia Gorge Humane Society (WCGHS) raised $7,000 earlier this month for the Betty White Challenge, a viral grassroots campaign that encouraged people to donate to local…
The Downtown Camas Association will host its annual “Chocolate Affair to Remember” themed February First Friday event from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, throughout historic downtown…
Members of 100 Women Who Care Clark County recently presented $3,500 to Columbia Springs. Columbia Springs’ development director, Paul Morris, accepted the funds on behalf of the organization. …
Community members interested in the future of Camas’ public parks, trails and open spaces can still weigh in on the city’s soon-to-be-update Parks, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) Plan. The city recently launched its second virtual PROS Plan open house on the city’s Engage Camas website (engagecamas.com/parks-recreation-open-space-comprehensive-plan), and is asking the public to weigh in with comments on the draft PROS Plan through Feb. 4.
Members of Camas’ newly formed community advisory group will meet this week to kick off their work guiding public participation during the state’s environmental cleanup of the historic Camas paper.
As a child, Jeannine Mills was a part of the foster care system. As an adult, she’s not only a foster parent, but a regional representative for the Washington State Department of Children Youth and Families and a former court-appointed special advocate for foster children in Clark County.