Vancouver Farmers Market reports SNAP spending declining
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program spending plummeted at the Vancouver Farmers Market Nov. 1, just as funding for the program ran dry.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program spending plummeted at the Vancouver Farmers Market Nov. 1, just as funding for the program ran dry.
Roughly half of the more than 1.3 million family caregivers in Washington have been set back financially due to their responsibilities.
The Empty Bowls Camas team recently announced that its Sept. 16 event raised $27,000 for Inter-Faith Treasure House, Camas and Washougal’s only full-service food bank. The total represents a 100 percent increase over last year’s event proceeds and marks the largest fundraising year in Empty Bowls Camas history.
Democratic state senators are eyeing an income tax on millionaires as they seek to overcome Washington’s persisting budget shortfall.
Washington businesses would need to shoulder roughly $700 million in additional taxes in a few years unless the projected finances of the state’s unemployment insurance fund improve.
Watershed Alliance of Southwest Washington will host a tree planting event from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 9 at the Taiwan Semiconductor campus just west of Lacamas Lake in Camas.
The Downtown Camas Association and LiveWell Camas are teaming up for the Thankful for Pie First Friday from 5-8 p.m. Nov. 7. Visitors can enjoy pie tastings, pie raffles and a pie walk dance party at the event.
Last week, U.S. Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, met with residents of an east Vancouver mobile home park who fear it will be sold out from under them.
Audreen Tsai has positive memories from her experiences, mostly hiking, at Lacamas Lake. But she’s discouraged that some of her classmates can’t say the same.
East Clark County residents will have a second opportunity to vote on a proposal to create a regional fire authority in Camas and Washougal.