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Camas Boys, Girls Track and Field Teams Clinch 4A District Championship

Vancouver, WA — In a wet and cold second day of final Track and Field events, Camas clinched both the Boys and Girls GSHL 4A District Championships Thursday night at McKenzie Stadium.

Track Coach Alisa Wise said the dual victories were a combination of “depth, strength, resilience, and consistency.”

Here are the results:

Nkem Aduka won the discus title for Camas with a distance of 115-6. She was the only competitor to throw over 100 feet.

Alexa Dietz won the Long Jump event Thursday, after winning the Triple Jump a day earlier. Her best leap was 16 feet, 4 inches.

Cooper McNatt placed second in the High Jump, clearing 5-10, which qualified him to compete at bi-districts.

Daniel Maton won the 800m run, while Papermaker Cade Greseth took third; both will compete at bi-districts.

Daniel Maton won the 800m event at Districts.

Ellie Postma and Rachel Blair placed second and third, respectively, in the 800m run; both will compete at bi-districts.

William Sun won the 300m Hurdles event.

“I thought I was going to be behind Union,” said Will Sun, who won the 300m Hurdles event. “But the Union runner hit a couple of hurdles, and I was right there with him. This win feels really good.”

Will Sun won the 300m Hurdles event at Districts.

Cambryn Gulzow bested the 300m Hurdles event, and heads to bi-districts.

Cambryn Gulzow is the 300m Hurdles District Champion.

For a complete listing of all events and times, go to https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/MeetResults.aspx?Meet=311961#450

May 11, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Featured, Sports

Camas Track and Field Competes at Districts

Vancouver, WA — Several Camas Track and Field athletes are heading to bi-districts following a string of top-tier finishes at Wednesday’s GSHL 3A/4A District Championship Meet. This was the first of a two-day meet at McKenzie Stadium.

Here are the results:

Papermakers Emily Karkaren, Aliya Ponder, Cambryn Gulzow and Karsyn Quade earned second place for Camas in the 4×00, qualifying them to move onto bi-districts.

Daniel Maton won the 1600m run, while Yacine Guermali placed third. Both move onto bi-districts. Shortly after, Emma Jenkins won the 1600m run, and Rachel Blair won second place. Both girls also head to bi-districts.

Daniel Maton won the 1600m event at Districts.

“We represented Camas well,” said Jenkins. “We practiced, met many of our goals, and we worked as hard as we can. I’m excited. I’m working toward a better time as we get ready for bi-districts.”

Blair said she’s had a rough year, but her game plan was to stay positive. “I’m excited about bi-districts,” she said.

Emma Jenkins won the 1600m event at Wednesday’s 4A Track and Field District Championship. Rachel Blair is just a few steps behind her.

Union’s Michael Ugarov won the 110m Hurdles, while Papermaker Will Sun finished second in the 110 Hurdles, while Emma Ware earned second in the 100m Hurdles. Ahmika Kluka took second in the Javelin throw.

Madison Peffers tied her personal best high jump of 5-4 and was the only competitor in the field to clear 5-1. Peffers won the event and heads to bi-districts. Alexa Dietz clinched the Triple Jump championship with a personal best leap of 35 feet, 11.5 inches. Cade Greseth grabbed the 400m event for Camas.

The meet continues on Thursday, May 11 at McKenzie Stadium. Events begin at 3 pm.

For a listing of all times for all events today, go to https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/MeetResults.aspx?Meet=311961#450

Union’s Michael Ugarov wins the 100m sprint event at Districts.

Will Sun finished second in the 110m Hurdles at Districts.

Will Sun hands off the baton to Zach Terry during the 4×100 event at Districts.

May 10, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Events, Featured

Camas Plant and Garden Fair This Weekend

The 20th annual Camas Plant and Garden Fair continues to grow with more offerings, new vendors, and a variety of activities this Saturday, May 13 in downtown Camas from 9 am to 4 pm.

The event is always held the day before Mother’s Day, and provides a great opportunity to get into Spring.

Shoppers can browse through the products from local nurseries, garden artists, and farms. The annual event is filled with many outdoor gift items, such as trees, plants, garden art, furniture, planters, tools, metal art, hanging baskets, stone art, sculptures, herbs, and more.

While you shop, you can relax at one of many quality downtown Camas eateries and coffee houses.

The fair offers a free potting station where volunteers will help shoppers pot plants in containers purchased. Experts will be on hand to teach about plants and effective gardening techniques.

Visitors are encouraged to look for the Yellow Sun signs at designated booth locations to learn more about attracting birds and butterflies to your garden and other outdoor living spaces.

Children can enjoy the “Find the Ladybug” game, played throughout participating downtown businesses. Players can earn tickets to win a Family Gardening Basket for each ladybug found. The strolling Jugglemania Show will feature a giant rose puppet and themed juggling. The Kids’ Zone—open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.—will include seed planting, making Mother’s Day cards, painting ladybug rocks, a ladybug habitat, a worm bin, seed exploration, and kid-friendly garden planting ideas. Returning this year is the free petting zoo, open all day.

A new addition this year is the Birch Street Wine Garden, which will be open from noon to 4 pm at 311 NE Birch Street.

To learn more, visit www.cwplantfair.org

May 10, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Featured, Music

Clark College Jazz Ensemble: 6th Annual Big Band Bash

VANCOUVER, WA — The Clark College Jazz Ensemble hosts the 6^th Annual Big Band Bash on Saturday, June 10, 7:00 p.m. in the Gaiser Student Center on the Clark College Campus, 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver. The concert is free to the public.

“We’re excited to have the Clackamas Community College Jazz Ensemble directed by Lars Campbell, join us on stage this year,” says Richard Inouye, Clark’s Director of Bands. “And we’re also featuring the community group, VanPort Jazz. If you like the sounds of the Big Band era, you’ll love this concert.”

For complete information about all the Clark College Music Department concerts including the orchestra, concert band, jazz ensemble, and choirs, please see http://www.clark.edu/campus-life/arts-events/music/music-concerts.

About the Clark College Music Department

Clark College offers an Associate in Music DTA/MRP degree with courses in music theory/ear training, instrumental and vocal performance training, and ensemble experience. Classes are designed to prepare the music major for advanced studies at a four-year institution while providing the non-major with the skills and background to fully enjoy music as a cultural pursuit.

Ensembles on campus include three choral groups, orchestra, concert band, and jazz ensemble. Three tenured and several adjunct faculty, provide professional instruction to the 500+ students that pass through Beacock Music Hall each year.

Clackamas Community College Jazz Ensemble.

Clark College Jazz Ensemble.

May 10, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Culture, Featured

“Gnome and Fairy Gala” for Camas May First Friday 2017

Camas, WA — For First Friday, May 5th, downtown will be having a “Garden Gnome & Fairy Gala” in honor of the Camas Plant & Garden Fair the next week. Events are from 5-8pm.

Find those mischievous gnomes and cute fairies in each participating location and see what kind of fun each is having! You’ll earn tickets to win great prizes for each location you go to!

Other activities will include:

Find the fairy houses through town and feed the fairies! (get the fairy food at the DCA tables in Journey! :))
S’mores roasting with iQ Credit Union (weather permitting!)
Get your picture taken with our friendly gnome family!
Enjoy the “Secret Garden” window display at Camas Antiques.
Fairy flower crowns! Plus 3 Crafting will be selling very cool flower crowns to fit our theme! In Journey.
Art gallery shows and receptions with refreshments:
- Attic Gallery: Encaustic paintings by Sheary Clough Suiter and Tyler Marchus. Free “Painting With Encaustic” demonstration by Sheary Clough Suiter; Live music
- Camas Gallery: featuring paintings by Katey Sandy
- Second Story Gallery: Douglas Keith – painting & sculpture and Earlene Holmstrom – soft pastels
- Watch a craft beer brewing demonstration by the group Drib Pro Quo in honor of National Homebrew Day; next to Caps N’ Taps, 337 NE 4^th
- The movie “Labyrinth” at the Liberty Theatre at 8pm
- Gnome and fairy kids’ crafts at the DCA tables in Journey
- *Cinco de Mayo Celebration hosted by Mesa unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the weather. They will be having a fun celebration inside though! Thank you for understanding!
- After Hours Shopping–get a ticket to win for every $10 spent in downtown!
- Much more!

The fun begins at Journey, 304 NE 4th; May 5th, 5-8pm (Some activities are weather permitting).

Information provided by the Downtown Camas Association. To learn more, visit www.downtowncamas.com

May 3, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Art, Culture, Featured

“Images from the Interior” Art Exhibit Opens Friday at Camas Library

CAMAS, WA — “Images from the Interior” is a dual art exhibit from two artists who were introduced when they were selected by Second Story Gallery for its May show. Both use their chosen tools to explore beyond the surface. Often that surface begins life as a portrait but goes deeper to capture an inner quality.

Earlene Holmstrom sticks to pastels to capture the spark. She will be joined by Douglas Keith who paints and sculpts to get to the interior of his subject matter. They will unveil their recent works at a reception on First Friday, May 5, from 5 to 8 pm in the gallery. Keith experiments with a variety of textures and styles to capture his subjects, but he also notes his ideas and images come to him for some internal source. He says he suspects they may come from the same place where dreams and myths originate, and that capturing them becomes a dialogue between the creator and the created. His pieces range from dreamy landscapes to what could be death masks from an ancient–or alien–civilization. His mediums include mesh, wood, basalt, molded cloth and paper.

While Keith looks inward for inspiration, Holmstrom spends her time observing passersby. She says she loves the challenge of capturing subtle nuances in each face as well as the emotional message in the figure. Nothing inspires her painting more than the people she encounters daily, she says. Holmstrom spent her teen years working at the Ringling Art Museum in Florida but only recently settled on soft pastels for her own style. She says she loves the vibrancy, the layers that can be built on paper and the feel of them in her hands. Walking into her studio, she says, is like walking into a rainbow. Both artists have turned to their mediums after careers in other fields. Their combined show, a mix of images that delve into the interior of each subject, will open May 5 and continue through May 27 in the Gallery, upstairs in the Camas Public Library. In addition to the artists, keyboardist Brad Jensen will be at the First Friday reception with live music. To learn more, visit www.camaslibrary.org

May 1, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Featured, News

Camas DECA Makes History at International Conference

Anaheim, CA — The Camas High School DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) team had its best showing in history at this week’s International Career Development Conference, which concluded on April 29.

Finalists from Camas are as follows:

Liz Schwartkopf placed 1st in Automotive Services Marketing Series;
Ashley Miles placed 1st in Restaurant and Food Service Management Series;
Kevin Chen and Cami Kirby placed 2nd in the Creative Marketing Project; and
Skylar Becerra and Xiansheng Yan placed in the top 10 in Business Service Operations Management.

All these competitors qualified for finals in the morning at Achievement Awards Ceremony.

On Wednesday, April 26, nearly 20,000 DECA members, advisors, business partners and volunteers came together in Anaheim, Calif., for the largest-ever conference the organization has ever held.

The conference itself is an opportunity for each attendee to show his or her uniqueness and value the diversity of DECA membership, while coming together to celebrate as #OneDECA.

This year’s conference theme was Own Your Future, and included a message of unity – coming together as #OneDECA to support the organization’s mission, which is to celebrate personal strengths, to appreciate the diversity that each of our members represents, and to signify a strong organization that members want to be part of.

About the organization

Camas DECA strives to integrate learning into classroom instruction, apply learning, connect to businesses, and promote competition. We are preparing the next generation to be academically prepared, community orientated, professionally responsible, and experienced leaders. The club’s adult advisors are Dave Johnson and Suzie Downs.

To learn more, visit www.camasdeca.com

Some of the Camas ICDC qualifiers with Meyers Leonard, of the Portland Trail Blazers at the LAX airport.

Kevin Chen and Cami Kirby placed second in CMP.

April 30, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Featured, Food, Living

Garden Bar Opens New Location

Portland, OR – Locally owned GARDEN BAR has opened their newest location at Hassalo on Eighth (1061 NE 9th Ave), bringing its fresh and healthy salad concept to the underserved Lloyd District area. GARDEN BAR plans to open additional locations this year, with the next being on SE Water Ave in early summer and a PSU location on 4th Avenue in late summer. The Hassalo on 8th restaurant is housed in 1500 sq. ft. at 1061 NE 9th Avenue and is Garden Bar’s first east side location. Hassalo on 8th is located in the fast-growing Lloyd District on the MAX Line and will be a LEED Platinum community.

“Like Garden Bar’s six other locations, we will be satisfying the need for healthier lunch options in Portland’s business districts.” said the company’s Marketing Director, Scott Hargrove. “It’s exciting that Portlanders are responding so positively to the GARDEN BAR concept,” said Ana Chaud. “It’s through their continued support that we are able to grow.”

GARDEN BAR isn’t just working on new restaurant locations.

“Over the next few months we will be layering in our mobile rover unit that will deliver our product to locations not served by one of our restaurants. We have also launched our fill-scale wholesale and catering division allowing customers to order our product for their events at home or at work. Our wholesale division is taking new clients interested in retailing the GARDEN BAR product to their customers”.

GARDEN BAR is currently at 7 locations throughout Portland.

Established in 2014 in Portland, Oregon, Garden Bar is a good destination for farm-fresh, handcrafted salads.

Their mission is: To give the underrated salad the love and respect it deserves. No limp iceberg lettuce. No sad tomatoes. No store-bought dressing. Only bountiful bowls of raw leafy greens tossed with locally sourced vegetables and fruits, fresh meats and cheeses, exceptional toppings and an array of our very own gourmet dressings.

Businesses interested in the GARDEN BAR wholesale program should contact Scott Hargrove ([email protected]) to discuss the opportunity.

Learn more at www.gardenbarpdx.com

April 29, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Culture, Featured, Theater

Journey Theater Arts Group presents Meredith Willson’s The Music Man Jr.

Youth Theater Production Runs Two Weekends – May 19 – 28, 2017 at Washburn Performing Arts Center at Washougal High School

WASHOUGAL, WA

Based on Meredith Willson’s six-time-Tony-Award-winning musical comedy, The Music Man Junior features some of musical theatre’s most iconic songs and a story filled with wit, warmth and good old-fashioned romance. The Music Man Jr. is family entertainment at its best – a bold, brassy show that will have the whole town atwitter!

Master showman Harold Hill is in town and he’s got “seventy-six trombones” in tow. Can upright, uptight Marian, the town librarian, resist his powerful allure? The story follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize. The catch? He doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, whose belief in Harold’s power just might help him succeed in the end in spite of himself.

Performances are May 19 – 28, 2017 at Washburn Performing Arts Center at Washougal High School, 1201 39th Street, Washougal WA, 98671. Tickets are on sale now at journeytheater.org or by calling 360.750.8550. Pre-sale adult tickets are $14. Youth and senior tickets are $10. Groups of 10 or more are $9. Our “family day” performance is Saturday, @ 7 p.m. with all tickets $10 in advance. Tickets for all performances will be $4 more at the door. School day pre-performance prices are: groups (10 to 99) – $6, groups (100 or more) – $5 with 1 free ticket with each 15 purchased! School day tickets at the door are $8.

Public Performances

Friday, May 19th @ 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 20th @ 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 21st @ 2:00 p.m.

Friday, May 26th @ 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 27th @ 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 28th @ 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 28th @ 2:00 p.m.

School Day Performances

Wednesday, May 24th @ 11:30 a.m.

About Journey Theater Arts Group

Journey is the most dynamic theater arts community in the Portland/Vancouver area, offering dozens of classes in drama, dance, voice and more, as well as producing 12 shows in four locations during the school year and a professional-level community theater musical each summer. Journey strives for excellence, while providing a welcoming and encouraging environment where kids ages 6 to 18 and their families can build life-long skills and friendships. Journey is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization, with offices located at 1400 NE 136th Ave, Suite 201, Vancouver WA, 98684. Contact at 360.750.8550 or www.journeytheater.org.

April 29, 2017/0 Comments/by Ernest Geigenmiller

Featured

A Fun Summer Treat: Peach Cheese Danish

The Peach Cheese Danish is a fun, and easy to make summer treat the whole family will love!

by Haley Childers

Peach season in Southwest Washington begins in July and lasts clear through the month of September, and while there is nothing better in the world than a single fresh peach on a hot summer day, this easy baked treat is sure to please.

Once you have obtained your ingredients, this simple recipe can be made in as little as 30 minutes.

*We paired the fresh peaches with rich goat cheese for a more savory pairing, but if you are looking for a sweeter treat, switch the goat cheese out for sweetened cream cheese. *