September 27, 2018
September Cheers & Jeers
Let’s kick our September Cheers and Jeers off with a well-deserved Cheers to the Camas and Washougal athletes who continue to wow us with their skills and resilience.
Let’s kick our September Cheers and Jeers off with a well-deserved Cheers to the Camas and Washougal athletes who continue to wow us with their skills and resilience.
In his Sept. 18 State of the Community address, Camas School District Superintendent Jeff Snell said administrators and educators in his district are working hard to prepare students for a rapidly changing world.
The 19th century writer Ralph Waldo Emerson once quipped, “For every minute you remain angry, you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind.” We all need to remember this…
With one teachers strike still happening in Washougal and another narrowly avoided in Camas, we’ve had our fair share of discussions about teachers salaries, unions, collective bargaining and picket lines in the newsroom.
We’re not too sure what happened to the summer, but here we are, publishing our last Cheers & Jeers of the season.
“The choices we make today will determine how much temperatures increase this century, how long and damaging wildfire seasons become, and how prepared communities are for the growing risks of wildfires.”
We are joining our brothers and sisters in journalism today and, along with more than 100 newspapers across the country, devoting this Opinion page to an outright rejection of President Donald Trump’s relentless “fake news” attacks on our constitutionally protected free press.
It’s easy to look at Clark County’s 26-percent voter turnout for Tuesday’s primary election and come a little unglued.
The phrase “small town” gets thrown around a lot in this increasingly urban neck of the Southwest Washington woods.
In this Camas Days-heavy issue, it’s pretty easy to find a few dozen things to celebrate during the month of July. But our first Cheers goes out to the the folks who help kick off the annual Camas Days celebration with the coronation of the Camas Days Queen (and sometimes King). The General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) Camas-Washougal hosts a lovely coronation event each year and celebrates the best of the Camas-Washougal community by highlighting people like this year’s queen, Maxine Ambrose, who may not always get the glory despite their often lifelong commitment to the community. Ambrose, for instance, has been giving back to her community for 50 years, volunteering at the Inter-Faith Treasure House, Soroptimist International of Camas-Washougal, the Camas-Washougal Historical Society, the Two Rivers Heritage Museum, the Lost and Found Cafe, Friends of the Cemetery, Boy Scouts and her children’s’ school PTAs. This type of “behind the scenes” work is the glue that keeps a communities like Camas and Washougal running, but often goes unnoticed by those who reap its benefits. So cheers to the GFWC, to Ambrose and to the Columbia Ridge Senior Living center, which hosts the annual queen’s coronation event.
