December 27, 2011
Ring in the New Year — safely
The New Year is just around the corner, and for many it will be a time to get dressed up and celebrate the countdown to 2012.
The New Year is just around the corner, and for many it will be a time to get dressed up and celebrate the countdown to 2012.
Amid all of the holiday cheer that can be found around town -- from Christmas tree lightings and parades to visits from Santa -- it is incredibly sobering to read that two local homeless shelters that serve the Clark County area were packed to their limits on the first day they opened for the winter season on Nov. 1, and have remained steadily busy ever since.
If this past week's traumatic events in Washougal have taught us anything, it might be that life can take some tragic and unexpected turns, and put us in situations we never imagined possible. The truth is, we really never know what may lie just around that corner or behind that door.
With the mandatory recount of the votes in the tight Washougal City Council Position No. 2 race finally complete, we can officially say the 2011 General Election has come to a close.
In just a few days, one of the largest volunteer efforts in Clark County will get underway. The Walk & Knock started in 1982, by two men who simply had a desire to help those in need, an idea about how to do it, and a serious drive to make it happen.
As many of us will be enjoying spending time with our husbands, wives, children and grandchildren on Thursday, members of the Camas High School football team will be gathering with the people who many of the boys have described as their "second" family -- their teammates.
From special dinners and music performances to parades and school assemblies, during the past week many local residents either participated in or watched an event meant to honor our nation's military as part of Veterans Day.
As profiled in an article in today's Post-Record, for the second time this year Washougal earned State audit results that were clean, and included no findings. This is very good news in the wake of a report issued in October 2009 that stated approximately $100,000 in city revenues were missing, a revelation that was followed by then-Mayor Stacee Sellers' abrupt resignation.
With the General Election just a week away, the time has come for the procrastinators to cast those ballots, which must be postmarked by Nov. 8 to be counted.
Camas residents have one of the clearest choices in years, between candidates for mayor and a city council position in the Nov. 8 election.
