Local residents will spend the weekend learning, planting, weeding, hauling and sprucing up during Earth Day focused activities and cleanup events. The Downtown Camas Association will hold its inaugural Clean-Up and Planting Day on Sunday. The event will begin at 1 p.m., when those who would like to volunteer to help out should meet at the corner of Northeast Fourth Avenue and Cedar Street.
The Camas City Council has approved one-year contracts with the city's police and firefighters' unions. Members of both groups will receive raises this year, after going without in 2011. A contract for 2012 was approved with the International Association of Fire Fighters Local No. 2444. Highlights include a one percent wage increase effective Jan. 1, 2012; 24 hours of "flex time" to be used in 2012 (with conditions that it cannot be cashed out, carried over or cause overtime); and a limit to 200 hours for the amount of vacation time that can be cashed out annually. The new contract also included elimination, as of March 1, of positions classified as "firefighter engineer" and "paramedic engineer."
Lacamas Community Credit Union will host two financial education seminars in May. A seminar on "Social Security and Your Retirement," hosted by Lacamas Insurance & Investments, is set for Tuesday, May 15, at 6:30 p.m., at the Camas Public Library, 625 N.E. Fourth Ave.
The next "Wild Wednesday" at Deja Vu Camas will feature glamour shots. Kate Singh, from Aveum Images, will be available April 18, to take "Look Like a Movie Star" photos from 5 to 7 p.m.
Country singer and songwriter Tom Mann will perform as part of the anniversary celebration at English Estate Winery. The estate will celebrate 109 years in Clark County and 12 years as a winery Saturday. Mann's performance is scheduled for 3 to 6 p.m.
Seven local citizens got first-hand looks at the operations at East County Fire and Rescue during its Citizen's Basic Fire Academy in March at the Fern Prairie fire station in Camas. During the eight-hour session, the citizen group learned about how fire districts serve the unincorporated areas in Clark County, performed emergency medical care, extinguished vehicle fires, and used extrication tools to tear a car apart. Participants included Scott Abels, Jim and Diane Case, Martha Martin, Mike Milani, Sheila Plato and Faren Ramos. ECFR firefighters who took part in the exercise included Arthur Bonenfant, Reece Bonenfant, Nathan Brimlow, Mike Carnes, Brad Delano, Alex Gray, Matt Hazlett, Paula Knapp and Zach Vetter. Camas firefighters included Dale McKenzie and Greg Weisser.
After several parents questioned why school was closed when it was simply raining, the Washougal School District is taking a second look at its snow routes. With sometimes drastically differing conditions in the outlying areas of the district versus the middle of town, the School Board is contemplating putting changes into place to allow school to be in session more, while keeping children safe on their way to class.
Several Washougal residents recently complained about utility rate increases that were approved two years ago. The second year of increases has resulted in a single family residence -- within city limits -- paying an estimated $174.60 for water, sewer and storm water, every two months this year. That compares to $144.59 every two months in 2011. During the April 2 Washougal City Council meeting, Cecil Hopkins complained about the rate increases.
The Port of Camas-Washougal Commission has approved the purchase of land near its Sixth Street property. The commission voted 3 to 0, April 3, to buy a 10,000 square foot lot at 1111 S. Seventh St., Washougal, from Ron Gustafson, for $190,000. The purpose of the purchase is to add additional, contiguous port property, according to Port Communications Manager Jack Hardy. The port will pay $50,000 at closing. Installment payments will be spread over three years beginning with $50,000 in 2013, $50,000 in 2014 and $40,000 in 2015 at an interest rate of four percent.
A longtime East County Fire & Rescue commissioner has resigned due to a move out of the district. John Clancy, who has served on the Commission for approximately seven years, stepped down because he moved out of the boundaries of ECFR, according to Chief Scott Koehler.
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