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Obituaries

Todd Norrish, of Camas, died March 14, 2012.

He was born in Walnut Creek, Calif., and grew up mostly in Ar-cata, Calif. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and ran his own con-struction business for many years. In recent years he was able to re-turn to a lifelong dream of flying. He worked as a flight instructor and a skydive pilot. He also worked as a Camas school bus driver.

Although his life was ended far too early, the life that he lived was full and rewarding. He was a devoted husband and father, and spent much of his time at his daughter’s soccer games and gymnastics meets and sup-porting them in everything they did. In addition to fly-ing, his interests included fishing, golf, and being a men-tor in the community.

Todd is survived by his wife of 17 years, Dori; daugh-ters, Mika, 16, and Josie, 14; mother, Carolee Ornelas; father, Jim Norrish; stepfather, Gil Ornelas; sisters, Tiffany Rider and Rosemary Marquez; brothers, Taylor Norrish and Jason Norrish; grandmother, Alice Cupples; aunt, Cindy Morse; and six nieces and nephews.

Donations can be made to the Todd Norrish Memo-rial Fund at any US Bank location, or by contributing to a PayPal account using the email toddnorrishfund@gmail.com.

For service information, email toddnorrishcelebra-tion@yahoo.com.

To send condolences or sign the online guest book, visit www.straubsfuneralhome.com.

Todd Norrish

Lois L. Blanchard died March 18, 2012, at home in Washougal. She was 80.

She was born April 30, 1931, in Grand Junction, Colo. She attended Washougal schools and worked for 15 years for Crown Zellerbach in the bag factory. Lois volunteered at the Community Church of God every Saturday feed-ing the hungry. She loved kids and gardening, and en-joyed traveling the West Coast with her husband.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Archie in 2002.

She is survived by her son, Archie Blanchard, Jr.; daughter, Bobbie Reeve; sister, Barbara Baker, all of Washougal; four granddaughters and 10 great-grand-children.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. Straub’s Funeral Home & Columbia River Cremation in Camas is in charge of tarrangements.

To send condolences or sign the online guest book, visit www.straubsfuneralhome.com.

Lois L. Blanchard

Lester Wayne Blair died March 17, 2012, at his home in Glenwood, Wash. He was 83.

He was born April 30, 1928, in Camas, to Nellie (Pugh) and Lester Clarence Blair. Lester grew up in Washougal and enlisted in the United States Army in 1946. He served during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1947. On Nov. 9, 1964, Lester married Helen Kissel Pratt in Stevenson. He worked as a su-pervisor for the Clark County Road Department until his retirement in 1981. In 1988, he moved to Glenwood where he enjoyed farming, woodcutting and most of all, horses. Lester liked the country life and always had a dog by his side.

He is survived by his wife, Helen of Glenwood; son, Mi-chael Blair and his wife Apryl of Dayville, Ore.; stepchil-dren, Robert Pratt and his wife Marvein of Washougal, Gary Pratt and his wife Jeanne of Dallesport, Wash,, Nancy Graham of Vancouver and John Pratt of Wash-ougal; 15 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by stepdaughter Kathy Pratt.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, at 11 a.m., at Gardner Funeral Home in White Salmon, Wash., with interment to follow at Mt. Adams Cemetery in Glenwood.

Memorial donations can be made to the Glenwood Fire Department.

Lester Blair

Former Camas resident Bonnie Jean Birrer died March 16, 2012, at Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital in Vancouver. She was 67.

She was born March 16, 1945, in Vancouver. Services are pending. Contact Brown’s Funeral Home and Cre-mation Services in Camas for details at 834-3692. A complete obituary notice will be published in next week’s Post-Record.

To send condolences or sign the online guest book, visit www.brownsfh.com.

Bonnie Jean BirrerDoris J. Walling died March 4, 2012, in Seattle. She

was 79.She was born May 29, 1932, in Oakdale, Neb. She

graduated from Washougal High School in 1950, and was an outstanding athlete who played on local softball teams in her younger years and enjoyed golf. She was a social worker.

She is survived by her sister, Bernice Conway of Se-attle, and many nieces and nephews.

A funeral mass was held March 12, at Assumption Catholic Church in Seattle.

Memorial donations can be made to Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Doris J. Walling

Joseph James “Joe” Barratt died Feb. 17, 2012, at a Portland hospital surrounded by people he loved.

A celebration of his life will be held Saturday, March 31, at 1 p.m., at the Camas-Washougal Wildlife League. Straub’s Funeral Home & Columbia River Cremation in Camas was in charge of arrangements.

Memorial donations can be made to the Shriner’s Hospital for Children.

To send condolences or sign the online guest book, visit www.straubsfuneralhome.com

Joseph J. ‘Joe’ Barratt

Rebecca Mary (Dickerson) Hildeb-rand died March 10, 2012, in New-port, Ore. She was 74.

She was born July 23, 1937, in Grand Junction, Colo. At the age of 7, she moved to the Camas-Washougal area with her parents, Avery and Dorothy Dickerson, and her brother and sister. She graduated from Cam-as High School in 1956, and later married and raised four children. She moved to the Sa-lem area in 1978, and worked at Oregon Growers as a supervisor for more than 10 years until she retired in 1995. She moved to Waldport, Ore., to enjoy her retire-ment years.

She is survived by her husband, Tom; daughters, Pe-nelope Speer-Stewart of Gresham, Ore., and Margaret Speer-Watts of Spokane, Wash.; sons, Micheal Speer of Portland and Patrick Speer of Vancouver; brother, James Dickerson of Damascus, Ore.; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her younger sister, Elaine Dickerson-Cannon, in 2011.

For service information, call Penny Stewart at 609-1476.

Condolences and flowers can be mailed to Penny Stew-art at 7349 S.E. 252nd Ave., Gresham, OR 97080.

Rebecca M. (Dickerson) Hildebrand

Camas police March 12 — A suspect

was arrested for posses-sion of marijuana at 2129 N.W. Cascade St.

March 13 — A suspect was arrested for violation of a no-contact order at 3411 N.W. 31st Circle.

March 13 — A suspect was arrested for driving with a suspended license at Northeast Garfield Street.

March 9 — A suspect was arrested for theft at 218 N.E. Fourth Ave.

March 16 — A suspect was arrested for third-degree theft at 800 N.E. Third Ave.

March 17 — A suspect was arrested for driving with a suspended license at Northwest Lake Road and Lacamas Lane.

March 18 — A suspect was arrested for criminal trespass at 440 N.W. 17th Ave.

March 18 — A suspect was arrested for driv-

ing under the influence of intoxicants at the 1900 block of Northeast Everett Street.

Washougal police March 13 — A suspect

was arrested for obstruct-ing law enforcement and fourth-degree assault at Pendleton Way and “A” Street.

March 14 — A suspect was arrested for violation of a no-contact order at 3380 “K” St.

March 16 — A suspect was arrested for posses-sion of marijuana at the 400 block of 24th Street.

March 17 — A suspect was arrested for second-degree negligent driving at “K” Street and 32nd Street.

March 18 — A suspect was arrested for driving under the influence of in-toxicants and driving with a suspended license at 34th and “J” Streets.

Public recOrd

Topics include using eBay and planning for retirement

A recent grant award-ed to the Camas Pub-lic Library will help it serve its patrons ages 50 and older.

According to Assis-tant Library Director Sandy Glover, the $1,153 Washington State Li-brary Transforming Lives After 50 grant will help get several classes and programs started.

Upcoming free edu-cational opportunities include:

• In “The Basics of Buying on eBay,” par-ticipants will learn how to register and find bar-gains on eBay, how to research items, evaluate a seller, ensure safe pay-ment and identity pro-tection. This program lasts one hour and will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m.

• In “The Basics of Selling on eBay” stu-dents will learn how to register as a seller on eBay and on PayPal, how to decide what to sell, how to research the marketplace, create ef-fective titles and descrip-tions and how to follow through when your item sells. This program lasts two hours and will be held Wednesday, March

28 at 7 p.m. Patricia Hogan, the

presenter, will provide post-session email sup-port.

• “Women & Retire-ment — 5 Urgent Steps to Make It Happen on Your Terms” is the third grant-funded program planned so far. Al-though geared toward women, men are wel-come, too.

Julia Anderson will provide the basics of re-tirement planning and tools for taking charge of one’s financial futures. She will cover topics like how to select a financial advisor, how to budget for the long-term and how to determine net worth.

This workshop lasts 90 minutes and in-cludes handouts. It will take place during Na-tional Library Week on Wednesday, April 11 at 7 p.m.

To complete the re-quired pre-registration for any of these classes, call 834-4692.

Glover said the library hopes to offer other classes and programs in the future.

People ages 50 and older who are looking for information on a specific subject or have an idea for a interesting program or workshop, should contact Glover by phone or email sglover@ci.camas.wa.us.

Grant will help support new library programs

for older adults

Event is the largest local practice burn in recent memory

On Saturday, the Camas Fire Department will con-duct a controlled burn of the former Riverside Bowl building in Camas.

This 16,000 square foot structure, built in 1947 and located at 3010 N.E. Third Ave., has been va-cant since 2007 and was recently released from the owners to use as a fire de-partment training burn.

Personnel from the Camas and Washougal fire departments and East County Fire and Rescue will participate in what will be one of the largest

practice burns conduct-ed by the CFD in recent memory, said Fire Chief Nick Swinhart in a press release.

Smoke is expected to be visible from several miles away, over in to northern Oregon along the Colum-bia River. The interior training burns will start at approximately 9 a.m. The final burn will commence as soon as all training activities are completed, which could occur prior to noon. A designated view-ing area will be set up at the Camas-Washougal Skate Park, located adja-cent to Riverside Bowl. Po-lice and public works will be on scene to enforce traf-fic and crowd safety.

Riverside Bowl building will burn Saturday in training exercise

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