CAMAS — People who thrill at catching a misspelled word in a newspaper or finding typos on public signs would have been delighted to discover the city of Camas’ locator signs at the Lacamas Creek trailhead a few weeks ago.

The trailhead signs, installed by the city of Camas more than three months ago, were riddled with spelling errors.

“There were so many typos — I think we counted 10 to 15 misspellings,” Chris Witkowski, the city’s new parks and recreation director, told the city’s parks commissioners during the July 23 meeting.

“Once we discovered the spelling errors, I asked the operations team to take the signs down and they did — immediately,” said Witkowski, who came on board in May after the signs had already been installed.

The signs were meant to guide visitors hiking the begi

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