News & Updates
Cowlitz PUD employees give local food banks a major boost
For the past five years, Cowlitz PUD employees have divided into two teams — main office and operations — and have engaged in a competition to see which team can collect the most food for the Help Warehouse and its system of Cowlitz County food banks. More than 160...
CAP takes over unique cafe for job training program
Lower Columbia CAP has expanded its new coffee shop to serve Cowlitz County employees. On Nov. 13, the area’s largest non-government social service agency took over the Court House Cafe on the ground floor of the Cowlitz County administration building at 207 Fourth...
Garden yields food for needy, therapy for inmates
A new garden is allowing Cowlitz County Jail inmates to feed the hungry and nourish their own lives. “It’s nice to give back to the community,” said William Sherrett, 26, of Kalama, an inmate in the state work release program, as he planted winter potatoes Monday in a...
Thanksgiving signals launch of annual Neighbors in Need drive
Every weekday, Frances and Larry Wolf get hot lunches delivered to their Kelso doorstep by volunteers from Lower Columbia CAP’s Meals on Wheels program. Every Friday, a Meals on Wheels driver also drops off frozen meals for the weekend. “We love Meals on Wheels,”...
Energy assistance program draws hundreds to CAP
By 7:30 p.m. Monday, about a dozen people already were staked out with blankets and umbrellas behind Lower Columbia CAP’s building, hunkering down for a night in the cold drizzle. When CAP’s doors opened at 8:30 Tuesday morning, the line of low-income people applying...
CAP set to take applications for energy assistance program
The Lower Columbia Community Action Program will start making appointments Tuesday for its popular low-income energy assistance program, which will have less money available this year to help people with winter heating bills. Appointments are scheduled on a...
