by admin | Dec 1, 2012 | News
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...
by admin | Nov 22, 2012 | News
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...
by admin | Nov 21, 2012 | News
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,”...
by admin | Nov 20, 2012 | News
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...
by admin | Nov 16, 2012 | News
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...
