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March 31, 2022

Another extraordinary yearEast County Fire & Rescue’s annual ‘State of the District’

East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR) is the 60-square-mile fire district located north of the cities of Camas and Washougal. Each year since 2015, the district’s board chair has written this column as part of our outreach to our citizens. This is a recap of 2021. It is by no means comprehensive, but does give an overview of how the ECFR District is doing.

March 10, 2022

Boxers bring hope to Ukraine struggle

It’s not often that we see an athlete at the top of their game walk away from a multi-million dollar payday to go home and fight for their country. However, that is exactly what world heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk did after Russia invaded Ukraine last month.

March 3, 2022

Stand up for public areas

Eighty-year-old Roger Hill used to go fishing on the Arkansas River in Colorado. Sometimes, he had to duck baseball-size rocks thrown at him by landowners who insisted he was trespassing. When he got back to his car, Hill sometimes found notes threatening him with arrest if he returned. Worse, a fellow fisherman was shot at by a landowner, who got 30 days in jail for the attack.