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January 30, 2020

North Shore ‘visioning workshop’ set for Feb. 4

Community members interested in contributing to the vision of what Camas’ North Shore area might someday look like are invited to a visioning workshop from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, at Camas High School, 26900 S.E. 15th St., Camas.

January 30, 2020
Screenshots show negative comments targeting Navidi's Olive Oils and Vinegar, a downtown Camas business. (Photos by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas business hit with online negative reviews

A downtown Camas business became the target of an online “negative review” campaign this week after a small group of local residents decided to get personal with their efforts to move a proposed cell tower away from a local elementary school.

January 30, 2020
Camas officials meet for the Camas City Council's annual planning retreat on Friday, Jan. 24, at Lacamas Lake Lodge. Pictured from left to right (around the table) are Camas School District Superintendent and planning retreat mediator Jeff Snell, Camas Mayor Barry McDonnell and Council members Ellen Burton, Bonnie Carter, Shannon Roberts, Steve Hogan, Melissa Smith and Greg Anderson. Audience members seated to the left of city officials included Camas Police Chief Mitch Lackey (back row, far left). (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Officials reflect on failed $78 million community-aquatics center bond

Camas City Council members and Camas Mayor Barry McDonnell reflected this week on lessons they learned from the November 2019 general election, when a clear majority (90 percent) of voters shut down the city’s proposed $78 million community-aquatics center construction bond.

January 30, 2020
Members of the Washougal Citizens for Schools Group hold signs urging Washougal School District voters to "vote yes" on the district's replacement levies on the Feb. 11 special election ballot. Pictured from left to right: Ellie Furze-Brown, Renae Burson, Linda Henderson, Erin Eaton, Nathan Knottingham, Angelah Quidachay-Ham, Cindy Coons and Erin Darling. (Contributed photo courtesy of Nathan Knottingham)

Voters asked to replace 2 levies

Washougal School District voters are being asked to replace two levies in the Feb. 11 special election — an operational levy that helps pay for educational services and maintenance not funded by the state or federal government as well as a technology levy that helps keep Washougal students’ technology and computer training up-to-date.

January 23, 2020
Camas resident Stacie Blomdahl (left) and her daughter, Katie O'Daniel, of La Center, launched Skip the Trip Delivery, a food delivery business serving Camas-Washougal, in October 2019. (Contributed photo courtesy of Katie O'Daniel)

New business lets hungry customers ‘skip the trip’

In 2019, La Center resident and Washougal native Katie O’Daniel began to seriously think about her career options. For the past few years she had been a stay-at-home mom, but with her son about to start kindergarten, O’Daniel, who had previously been a nursing assistant and hospice worker, decided she wanted to join the workforce again.