December 2, 2021
We know how to celebrate safely, but will we?
Anyone else caught between wanting to run away screaming and obsessively tuning in for the latest updates every time a new COVID-19 development happens?
Anyone else caught between wanting to run away screaming and obsessively tuning in for the latest updates every time a new COVID-19 development happens?
In the spirit of giving thanks and feeling grateful this week, we’re taking a break from bad news and focusing on good-news-only in this month’s Cheers & Jeers column.
As we pause today, on the national Veterans Day holiday, to honor all American veterans who have served this nation during times of war as well as peacetime, it is worth reflecting on how well we’re treating our veterans once they leave the military and re-enter civilian life.
We’re happy to kick off this month’s Cheers & Jeers column with a bit of good news. CHEERS to the fact that the cooling rains have returned, bringing some much needed relief to the months-long drought in the Pacific Northwest — the worst in nearly 130 years according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources — and hopefully putting an end to the devastating 2021 wildfire season that saw more than 1 million acres in Oregon and Washington go up in flames by mid-August.
In early January 2020, about two months before the COVID-19 pandemic forced all of us into an alternative reality, dozens of Camas-Washougal folks packed a room inside the Port of Camas-Washougal’s headquarters to speak to their state representatives.
As we reflect this weekend on the 20th anniversary of the horrific 9/11 terror attacks and send a communal prayer of love and healing to the thousands of…
We know it’s easy to get mired in bad news, especially when you’re trying to stay well-informed. There’s even a term for it. “Doomscrolling,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening or depressing.” In the face of so many things that might prompt someone to keep doomscrolling, we can completely lose sight of all the good stuff happening around us.
Camas lakes had a reprieve from toxic algae this summer, but the fact that the dangerous blooms have returned to Lacamas and Round lakes is not surprising.
There are still ballots left to count, but, so far, voter turnout in Camas and Washougal for this week’s primary election is pretty abysmal.
On the surface, the Washougal mayoral primary election may not seem like that big of a deal.