February 22, 2011
Letters to the Editor for Feb. 22, 2011
Keep plant fair downtown The Mother's Day Plant and Garden Fair will not be held in downtown this year and downtown merchants and community members are shocked and saddened.
Keep plant fair downtown The Mother's Day Plant and Garden Fair will not be held in downtown this year and downtown merchants and community members are shocked and saddened.
Today marks the third week since former Camas Fire Chief Leo Leon, a veteran of 38 years in the emergency services field, was unexpectedly fired by Mayor Paul Dennis.
Feb. 15 Letters to the Editor
In just an hour's time, each one of us could help save a life. The Georgia-Pacific Camas mill, 401 N.E. Adams St., is hosting an American Red Cross blood drive on Wednesday, from 6:45 to 11:45 a.m.
What are the obstacles to airport plan? I live in Fern Prairie. My property is adjacent to Grove Field airport on two sides and right underneath the airport traffic pattern. I like the sound of small airplanes. One of the reasons I moved to Fern Prairie was because of the availability of Grove Field.
Positively impacting local children will be the focus of an upcoming dinner and auction organized by the Camas-Washougal Soroptimists. The event, set for Saturday at the Camas Community Center, will support the East County Resource Center's Weekend Backpack Program. Through donations and other support, children who might otherwise not be fed over the weekends when they don't have access to school lunches are given nourishment they can easily assemble on their own. Donated backpacks are filled with items like peanut butter, pancake mix, crackers, cereal, snacks, applesauce, fruit snacks, fruit cups and canned goods such as ravioli and spaghetti.
Yale Valley is not 'unpopulated' I wish to correct the impression being given the public by some members of the anti-BPA powerline groups. Their pet project has been the so-called "Eastern Route," and to promote it, they like to refer to it as "unpopulated" and "land owned by timber companies." In fact, this proposed line zigzags through eastern Yale Valley and impacts hundreds of residents there. There are a number of homes within a few hundred feet of the line, and, yes, children live in some of those, also. This is not a line through an "unpopulated area" as they are eager to assert.
For those of you who may be wondering why Concerned Citizens In Action has not been in the news lately, it's because we are doing our job. And many of our local government officials are doing theirs. We continue to attend most local city and port meetings, as well as occasional planning and local service agency meetings. We talk with the pubic who attend, listen to their concerns, and try to pass along this information to our elected officials. We also sit down and talk with those same officials, discussing our observations, providing input, and also listening to their plans, concerns, and visions.
The lights in downtown Camas will soon be a little brighter when the marquee at the Liberty Theatre will once again burn bright. The much awaited news that a lease has been signed with a new tenant to occupy the well-known building on Northeast Fourth Avenue finally came to fruition. It is a space that holds fond memories as a downtown destination spot for the many who were sad to see it close more than a year ago.
The hardest thing an employer has to do is to call someone into the office and tell them the business isn't making enough money to keep them on. Handing a hard worker a pink slip is tough because often the boss knows the employees and their families --their kids go to school together or they attend the same church. It is a terrible choice, but one that must be made to save the business -- and the jobs of other employees. The anguish of having to lay someone off can haunt an employer. On the other end, the hardest thing a worker endures is coming home and telling their spouse and children they lost their job. Our family has been on both ends of this scenario.
