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February 25, 2021
Washougal residents Andy and Heidi Dryden take a photo with their children Eli and Johnny at Big Bend National Park in southern Texas. (Contributed photo courtesy Heidi Dryden)

Washougal family makes most of pandemic, hits the road

Washougal resident Andy Dryden started talking with his wife, Heidi, about embarking on a cross-country road trip last summer after he learned that he would be working remotely and their two young sons would be learning remotely in the fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 25, 2021
Washougal Mayor Molly Coston holds an "ark" charity box. The city of Washougal recenlty purchased 100 boxes from ARK Clark County, a Vancouver-based grassroots effort to spread "random acts of kindness." (Contributed photo courtesy of Rose Jewell/city of Washougal)

Washougal will distribute charitable-giving ‘arks’

In December 2020, the Vancouver-based Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County launched the ARK Clark County campaign, selling piggy bank-like plastic boxes in an effort to encourage community members to give to people or organizations in need.

February 18, 2021
Camas native and Earth Day founder Denis Hayes is pictured in the Bullitt Board Room of the Bullitt Center in Seattle. The building, which Hayes developed, opened on Earth Day in 2013 and is considered the most sustainable commercial office building in the world. Hayes will discuss creating

Creating ‘super green’ cities

A native son of Camas — Earth Day founder and internationally renowned environmental advocate Denis Hayes — will lead a discussion about building more sustainable communities at the Clark College Foundation’s virtual “Creating Super Green Cities” event on Tuesday, Feb. 23.

February 11, 2021
Camas-Washougal Fire Department Deputy Fire Marshal Randy Miller exposes a home sprinkler unit in the kitchen of his house in April 2016. (Contributed photo courtesy of Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)

Fighting fire with prevention

Camas-Washougal Fire Chief Nick Swinhart recently recalled his first encounters with Deputy Fire Marshal Randy Miller.  Miller was one of the first people Swinhart met after…