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.
Skamania County law enforcement announced late last night that a missing 34-year-old Stevenson woman and her 5-week-old infant son had been located and were unharmed.
After spending most of his life capturing moments in time with his camera, Stan Hosman will share some of his most treasured images with the community. Hosman, retired Camas School District superintendent and well known locally as a camera buff, will display his photography during a show at the Second Story Gallery in the Camas Public Library. The show, titled "Scenes That Please My Eye," will include 30 photographs. Nearly all of the photos are images that Hosman has taken during the last few years. Some were snapped during travels to Amsterdam, Switzerland and Japan, where Stan and his wife Carol spent 2 1/2 years teaching at Seisan Junior College. Other photographs in the display will have a more local slant, including one of a great blue heron taken at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.
Kathi Rick likes to push artistic boundaries. Rick, of Camas, has managed the North Bank Artists Gallery, in downtown Vancouver, for six years. "Art is a powerful communication tool," she said. "I use my art as a political tool and an avenue for dialogue." In October 2011, Rick organized a "Weird Sisters" exhibit with two friends. Rick, 52, was part of the exhibit as she displayed "an aging female body" with her eyes closed for more than five hours.
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