Roni Sasaki has been proving people wrong from the very beginning. A doctor declared that Sasaki, who was born with only one leg, would probably never walk. She learned to walk on an artificial leg just before her second birthday.
Emily Lemucchi had a simple suggestion for her friend Megan Davis: Read the “Empyrean” series by Rebecca Yarros, a popular fantasy romance saga set at a war college with dragon riders. Davis, typically a nonfiction reader, gave the novels a try — and couldn’t put them down.
The city of Camas Parks & Recreation Department will launch the inaugural Camtown Arts & Music Festival on June 6 at Crown Park, reintroducing the longtime Camtown event as a broader arts and culture festival for all ages.
The Camas-Washougal Historical Society will host its annual Plant Fair on May 16 and June 14 at the Two Rivers Heritage Museum, offering a variety of locally grown plants as a fundraiser to support the organization's mission of preserving local history.
Martins Licis sat on a weight bench in the garage of his Camas home on a drizzly early April morning to take a break from lifting more than 900 pounds overhead.
If your yard looks dangerously devoid of blooms and shrubbery, fill it to the brim with purchases from the following plant sales. Most plants are locally grown and many events are fundraisers for schools, museums and nonprofit organizations. Several sales offer gardening tips and advice from on-site experts, while other sales include additional garden goodies such as tools or mason bee supplies.
If you’re struck by a sudden desire to branch out this Saturday, look no farther than the Beaver Bash, where you can broaden your beaver “gnaw-ledge” (according to the event’s clever tagline) and celebrate the Northwest’s most iconic rodent.
Pineapple, diamond, brick, bobble, spike, wattle, bamboo, butterfly, popcorn, puff, corkscrew and cactus. That might sound like a top-secret World War II code or a sophisticated word association game, but it’s actually a list of crochet stitches.
The Camas Public Library will host its annual spring children’s author event, a “Llama Llama Pajama Party,” from 3:30-5:30 p.m. April 24.
Here’s an excellent reason to keep looking up, thanks to the American Meteor Society: not just great but greater balls of fire overhead in recent months.
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