School notes for Jan. 17, 2012
Skills Center hosts Winter Feast The Clark County Skills Center hosts its annual Winter Feast gourmet dinner, Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the Skills Center Restaurant, 12200 N.E. 28th St. in Vancouver.
Skills Center hosts Winter Feast The Clark County Skills Center hosts its annual Winter Feast gourmet dinner, Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the Skills Center Restaurant, 12200 N.E. 28th St. in Vancouver.
Bonneville Hot Springs Resort and Spa is introducing a new senior citizens swim pass. The pass, available for $5 plus taxes, will allow area seniors to use the pool, sauna and the indoor and outdoor jetted pools Tuesdays, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Participants must bring identification that prove they are 62 or older and live within a 25-mile radius of the resort.
Suspect is at large in Runyan's Jewelers robbery in downtown Camas. Citizens helped recover the stolen ring.
The Camas and Washougal City councils will soon discuss the possibility of extending the trial merger of the cities' fire departments for up to two years. Those discussions are expected to occur in February, according to Washougal Fire Department Chief Ron Schumacher. He and Camas Fire Department Chief Nick Swinhart spoke Saturday during the Washougal City Council's annual planning session.
Improving freight mobility and safety, as well as accessibility for trucks and automobiles, are among the goals of a project that could be completed in eight years.
Doug Ziegler, an operator with Green Construction, of Washougal, used an excavator Thursday, to remove cottonwood trees from the Port of Camas-Washougal levee near Steamboat Landing.
The Camas City Council will likely approve a resolution that exempts the School District from paying thousands of dollars in traffic impact fees for the Woodburn Elementary School project, but they stopped short of agreeing to consider changing city code so that the same exemption would apply to all future projects. During the Jan. 3 workshop, Camas School District Superintendent Mike Nerland and Capital Programs Manager Heidi Rosenberg asked that the city waive approximately $143,250 in TIF fees on the Woodburn Elementary project. Construction began on the district's sixth elementary school, located on a 12.8-acre site just north of Lacamas Park on Crown Road, in August and it will open in fall 2013. Approximately 400 homes are expected to eventually be included in the subdivision surrounding the new school. Rosenberg said the formal request was being made because the district wants to focus its dollars on classroom improvements.
The City of Camas will hold its annual planning conference later this month.
Chinese Storytime, craft offered
A one-hour documentary about human trafficking in Portland will be shown in downtown Camas. "Pornland," by Dan Rather Reports and HDNet, is scheduled to be shown Monday, at 6 p.m., at the Liberty Theatre, 315 N.E. Fourth Ave.