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Councilors to revisit invocation issue

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Mike Hansen, a parishioner at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, in Camas, provides an invocation before the start of the Washougal City Council meeting Monday, Jan. 28. Several City Council members want to reconsider a 2014 council vote that allows invocations to occur just before the council meetings.

Two of the Washougal City Council members who previously voted against allowing invocations to occur just prior to council meetings want the council to discuss the issue again.

Paul Greenlee and Brent Boger, and then-council member Joyce Lindsay, issued “nay” votes in September 2014 regarding a resolution that provides for invocations just prior to council meetings. The invocations can include prayers, poems, quotes or inspirational phrases.

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