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May 11, 2017
The 20th annual Camas Plant & Garden Fair on Saturday, May 13, will feature hundreds of plants, veggie starts, flowers and hanging baskets as well as many garden-themed gifts for Mother's Day. (Contributed Photo/Courtesy of Downtown Camas Association)

Vendors prep for mother of all garden fairs

To say Gail Horn is busy this week would be a bit of an understatement. Not only is the owner of the Camas-based The Soap Chest busy prepping for Mother’s Day customers, she’s also gearing up for two of her three sons’ weddings — one in May, the other in June — and planning for the popular Camas Plant & Garden Fair, which celebrates its 20th year on Saturday, May 13, showcasing several dozen plant- and garden- themed vendors, including Horn’s Soap Chest, in historic, downtown Camas.

April 20, 2017
Zylus Italiano waves goodbye to his second-grade classmates at Cape Horn-Skye Elementary before embarking on a world trip in February with his family.

Oh, the places he’ll go!

Zylus Italiano is experiencing an epic, real-life geography and culture lesson, and his classmates are following him, albeit remotely, every step of the way.

April 13, 2017
Pam Tucker makes some of the "pocket buddies" that will accompany a shipment of handmade dresses for little girls throughout the world. The dressmakers from Washougal United Methodist Church also pin ribbons and hair bands into the dress pockets.

Stitched with love

Members of a local church’s quilting group are continuing their annual Lenten tradition of serving others by sewing dresses for girls around the world.

April 6, 2017
Eager children dash to collect candy and prize-filled eggs at the Camas Parks and Recreation Easter Day Hunt at Crown Park.

Hop over to a hunt

Easter is fast approaching, and with it, several community eggs hunts. These feature everything from a traditional Sunday event, to beeping eggs for those who are visually impaired.

March 30, 2017
Attendees at the Plant & Garden Fair will have more than 100 different vendor locations to browse, which all offer locally made and grown products.

A spring favorite

A well-known local event will be back for its 20th year. Since 1997, the Camas Plant & Garden Fair has offered an array of choices, many of them from local…

March 24, 2017
Eighth-graders from Jemtegaard Middle School inspect one of the hydraulics machines at the Clark College's Columbia Tech Center campus on Friday. The mechatronics program is where electronics and machinery meet.

Forward thinking

Things can get pretty noisy when you put several middle schoolers in one room.

March 16, 2017
A silhouette is cast at sunset at the Tualatin National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Camas resident Mehrdad Shojaei visits it and the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge regularly for inspiration.

A love of medicine and art

As an internist at Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital, Dr. Mehrdad Shojaei must make quick decisions in a fast-paced environment.

March 9, 2017
Teamwork is emphasized in the coding club. When helping others, the only rule is students must provide the assistance verbally and the person they are helping has to do the work.

Cool coding

When students gather in the Gause Elementary School library for coding club, they are ready for fun.

March 6, 2017
Staff of the future Tod and Maxine McClaskey Culinary Institute will welcome the first class of students in the fall. Pictured here are, left to right, Aaron Guerra, head of the cuisine program; Alison Dolder, head of professional baking and pastry arts; and cuisine instructor Earl Frederick.

Building a recipe for success

After years of working in a building that she described as a puzzle of past remodels, Alison Dolder is thrilled she will lead 2017 classes in a state-of-the-art space.