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July 7, 2022
Washougal School District facilities, maintenance and grounds manager Jessica Beehner took "before and after" photos outside Hathaway Elementary School's portable buildings to show what the area looked like "before," in 2021, (left) and after the district installed LED lights in 2022 (right). (Contributed photos courtesy of Jessica Beehner)

Washougal School District invests in brighter, ‘greener’ LEDs

During a Washougal School Board meeting earlier this year, Washougal School District facilities, maintenance and grounds supervisor Jessica Beehner clicked through a PowerPoint presentation that contained side-by-side photos of Hathaway and Gause elementary schools, Washougal High School and two other district locations, taken in 2021 and earlier this year.

July 7, 2022
Washougal High School Principal Sheree Gomez-Clark delivers a commencement address during the school's graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 11, 2022. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal High School on the hunt for a new principal

Sheree Gomez-Clark wasn’t planning on leaving her job as the principal at Washougal High School at the end of the 2021-22 school year. But, as she says, the universe sometimes works in weird and unexpected ways. It certainly did for her last month.

June 16, 2022
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 A group of graduates poses for a selfie at the conclusion of their commencement ceremony at Fishback Stadium on Saturday, June 11. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

‘We are the class that never lost hope’

While driving into work one morning several weeks ago, Washougal High School principal Sheree Gomez-Clark began to think about the speech she’d be delivering at the school’s upcoming graduation ceremony. She wondered how she could possibly sum up the character and grit of the class of 2022 and its accomplishments in a few sentences, and how she could say something to inspire a group of people that had inspired her for the past four years.