DCA, Journey Church win Main Street Award

The Downtown Camas Association and Journey Community Church recently received the Community Partnership award at the Washington Main Street Program’s Excellence on Main awards ceremony in Chelan.

According to a press release, when DCA officials learned in 2009 that a key property was to be converted to a church, they were, at first, apprehensive. The property had been a bar and restaurant in the past, and they had hoped it would be revived as a brew pub or retail establishment. They soon learned, however, that the church had chosen the location because its leaders wanted to engage with the core of the community and support downtown growth.