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December 17, 2020
Jess Moore, owner of Champ Camp Training and Fitness in Washougal, will hold a "holiday ball giveaway" event at his facility on from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20. (Contributed photo courtesy of Jess Moore)

Champ Camp hosts ball giveway this weekend

When Jess Moore opened Champ Camp Fitness and Training in Washougal in July, he hoped that the facility would become a “community development project,” providing opportunities to low-income youth through scholarship programs, holding fundraisers, sponsoring community events and establishing close working relationships with Washougal High School athletes.

December 10, 2020
Lighted displays adorn the Washougal Motocross Park in 2023. (Contributed photo courtesy of Ryan Huffman)

Washougal MX Park hosts ‘Holidays in the Hills’

Even though Ryan Huffman describes himself as more of a “dirt guy” who’d rather move things around with equipment than create them, he’s relished the opportunity to use his imagination while putting together a holiday lights tour at Washougal Motocross Park. He will, for example, point out the fact that he was the one who came up with the idea for one of the tour’s signature displays, a “Grinch” knocking over a tree with a bulldozer.

December 10, 2020
Georgia-Pacific has proposed tearing down several buildings near downtown Camas that the company is no longer using in its paper mill operations, including the Camas Business Center, a development lab and nonwovens manufacturing buildings located off Northwest Ash Street. The city of Camas has determined the proposal poses no serious adverse environmental impacts. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Georgia-Pacific plans to demolish several buildings near downtown Camas

The city of Camas has determined that a Georgia-Pacific plan to demolish several buildings the company is no longer using in its Camas paper mill operations, including the company’s Camas Business Center and nonwovens fabric manufacturing plant, has met the state’s Environmental Policy Act rules and will not have any significant adverse environmental impacts.

November 5, 2020

Port of Camas-Washougal nabs $3 million federal grant

The Port of Camas-Washougal recently learned that it will receive a $3 million federal grant to help construct a new, 50,000-square-foot industrial building at the Port’s Washougal-based industrial park.