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March 22, 2018
The Washougal High School students gather for a group photo after taking part in a March 14 ceremony honoring the 17 victims of the Parkland, Florida school shooting.

Walking out, speaking up

Hundreds of local students from Camas and Washougal schools joined the youth-led National School Walkout on March 14, to honor the 17 victims of a Feb. 14 mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and call for changes inside their own schools as well as on a national level.

March 21, 2018
(Post-Record file photo) Washougal choir teacher Jen Mahorney (second from right, back row) is pictured here in 2012 with several Washougal High School band and choir students who had been accepted into the annual National Association for Music Educator's All-Northwest/All-State honor groups. Students and staff in Washougal schools are mourning Mahorney this week. The choir teacher was found dead by the Skamania County Sheriff's Office during a welfare check on Tuesday, March 20. Pictured here are (back row, left to right): WHS band teacher Kelly Ritter, Riley Miller, Austin Smith-Brown, Eloysius Leele, Zoe West, Mahorney and Nick Stevens. Front row, left to right: Crystal Saltmarsh, Sydney Niemi and Allix Fisher.

Washougal School District mourns choir teacher

In the midst of the chaos called “growing up,” teenagers at Washougal High School could always find solitude and safety inside teacher Jennifer Mahorney’s choir room.

March 15, 2018
Camas High School junior Monica Chang helped bring the national "Girls Who Code" club to Camas High School and, with another Camas High student, developed "Girls Represent," a campaign that encourages girls to pursue careers in male-dominated fields.

Finding balance

Camas High School junior Monica Chang is only six months into her junior year and has managed to take first place at the Oregon Bioscience Showcase, write a first-place, award-winning essay for The Fort Vancouver Sons of the American Revolution and help organize a school walkout honoring Parkland shooting victims — all on top of a class schedule filled with Advanced Placement (AP) classes and after-school clubs, including “Girls Who Code”, DECA and the Southwest Washington Red Cross Youth Council.

March 8, 2018
The items that Washougal High School senior Ulysses Ramel made, using his school's 3-D printer, are shown here. Ramel is part of the pre-engineering program at Cascadia Technical Academy in Vancouver and will present how he uses software to create different objects with a 3-D printer during the Tech Talk from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, March 8, at Washougal High School, 1201 39 St., Washougal.

Teens to show off skills at upcoming ‘Tech Talk’

Washougal High School and Jemtegaard Middle School students will show off their knowledge on how to use iPads and Chromebooks, provided to them through their schools to further their learning, during a free Tech Talk event from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, March 8, at Washougal High School.

March 8, 2018
The Camas High School cast and theater band of "Little Shop of Horrors" rehearses on Monday, March 5, in the Camas High theater. The show opens at 7 p.m., Friday, March 16, at Camas High, 26900 S.E. 15th St., Camas.

Camas students prep for ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

It’s almost time for Camas High School theater students to showcase vocalists, actors and a giant human-eating plant in their debut of “Little Shop of Horrors,” featuring music by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, at 7 p.m., Friday, March 16, at Camas High.

February 15, 2018
Washougal High School senior Bridgette McCarthy rehearses her role as Annie Oakley for the "Annie Get Your Gun" musical at Washougal High School. McCarthy has performed in plays since she was 4 years old, but this is her first lead role. (Photos by Tori Benavente/Post-Record)

Washougal High to perform ‘Annie, Get Your Gun’

The Washougal High School drama department is warming up voices, instruments and sound systems to prepare for Irving Berlin’s classic songs, “Anything you can do, I can do better,” and “There’s no business like show business,” which will fill the auditorium when students take the stage to perform the 1940s musical, “Annie Get Your Gun,” this week.

February 8, 2018
Sheree Gomez-Clark, Washougal High School associate principal, and Mary Pursley, special education teacher at Washougal High School, inside of the Panther Den at Washougal High School. Gomez-Clark and Pursley are a part of the Panther Den Team that has created the den that will offer students a way to anonymously receive food, clothing and personal hygiene products.

School sanctuary

A new “Panther Den” at Washougal High School is poised to provide a sort of sanctuary for students in need.