Port varies meeting times to attract diverse audience

The Port of Camas-Washougal Board of Commissioners’ meetings tend to feature the same audience members on a regular basis. Martha Martin and Richard Hamby, a Washougal couple, regularly attend the meetings. So do Kent Mehrer, the president of the Camas-Washougal Aviation Association, and Tony Bacon, a boater and regular user of Parker’s Landing Marina.

“We have our regulars,” David Ripp, the port’s chief executive officer, said during the Commission’s Oct. 7 meeting. “We have Richard and Martha and Kent and Tony, and that’s our standard, unless we have a special occasion. Then we tend to have a larger turnout.”