Up to 140 employees could remain, but many view the mill as on its last leg.ġ883: Henry Pittock’s LaCamas Colony Co.
Georgia-Pacific, which bought the mill in 2000, announced plans this month to shut down major divisions and lay off hundreds of workers in the process. At any time, the mill could do another analysis and decide to close it,” said Henriksen, a lifelong Camas resident and mayor from 1983 to 1992. Laborers went on strike and ground the city to a halt. In the 1970s, mill owner Crown Zellerbach considered closing the mill and moving operations to a newer facility. The way former Mayor Nan Henriksen saw it, that couldn’t last.
It supplied Camas with 70 percent of its property tax revenues, bankrolling the city’s police force, parks and its now-vaunted schools. The towering mill employed thousands of people and local government was filled with active or retired papermakers. CAMAS - It was only a generation ago that life in Camas seemed to revolve around its paper mill.