<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=192888919167017&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1">
Thursday,  November 14 , 2024

Linkedin Pinterest
Photo of Patty Hastings

Stories by Patty Hastings

Columbian Social Services, Demographics, Faith

Vancouver Housing Authority OKs 2017 budget

October 27, 2016, 9:27pm Clark County News

Vancouver Housing Authority’s $55 million 2017 budget was approved Thursday during its board of directors meeting. Read story

Construction continues in downtown Vancouver on 13 West apartments, a subsidized complex at 1314 Columbia St. that will provide 92 apartments for low- to moderate-income households.

Apartments on rise in county

Construction continues in downtown Vancouver on 13 West apartments, a subsidized complex at 1314 Columbia St. that will provide 92 apartments for low- to moderate-income households.

October 25, 2016, 9:14pm Clark County News

Clark County’s tight rental market may loosen up in the next year or so. More than 800 apartment units are under construction and about 3,700 are in the pipeline, according to the fall 2016 Apartment Report from Multifamily NW, which represents local property managers. Read story

Housing a struggle for low-income seniors

October 20, 2016, 8:56pm Clark County News

Clark County’s senior population has about doubled since 2000, but the amount of subsidized housing for low-income seniors hasn’t kept pace. Read story

Vancouver Police Department officers and Vancouver Public Works employees help people clean up their belongings Wednesday near Share House in west Vancouver.

Homeless camps near Share House cleaned up

Vancouver Police Department officers and Vancouver Public Works employees help people clean up their belongings Wednesday near Share House in west Vancouver.

October 19, 2016, 9:14pm Clark County News

Randy Scrivner, a code enforcement officer with the city of Vancouver, was trying to help Alex Graham scale down. Read story

A bicyclist rides past a rainbow flag during the 2012 Pride in the Park event at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver.

Vancouver ranks low on LGBTQ inclusivity report

A bicyclist rides past a rainbow flag during the 2012 Pride in the Park event at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver.

October 19, 2016, 6:03am Clark County News

A new report gives Vancouver one of the lowest scores in the state when it comes to LGBTQ-inclusive laws, policies and city services. The grade of 60 out of 100 comes from the fifth annual Municipal Equality Index (MEI) done by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This year, the foundation… Read story

Janna Moats writes a check Monday to nonprofit Friends of the Children during the first meeting of 100 Women Who Care of SW Washington at The Heathman Lodge in Vancouver.

Women gather to give big

Janna Moats writes a check Monday to nonprofit Friends of the Children during the first meeting of 100 Women Who Care of SW Washington at The Heathman Lodge in Vancouver.

October 18, 2016, 8:35pm Breast Cancer

An amused photographer stood on a ladder, looking at the group of more than 100 women trying to organize themselves for a group photo. They crowded on and around a small stage Monday night at The Heathman Lodge, quieting their chatter only for a few seconds until they heard the… Read story

Rabbi Shumlik Greenberg of Chabad Jewish Center displays the ram's horn, or shofar, that he uses to proclaim the Jewish New Year.

Clark County celebrates Yom Kippur

Rabbi Shumlik Greenberg of Chabad Jewish Center displays the ram's horn, or shofar, that he uses to proclaim the Jewish New Year.

October 11, 2016, 5:58pm Churches & Religion

Yom Kippur, considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, began at sunset Tuesday and ends at nightfall Wednesday. Read story

Income data for minorities in Clark County can be tricky

October 9, 2016, 6:05am Clark County News

When the U.S. Census released its 2015 data on income, as estimated by the American Community Survey, it gave generally positive news. Median household income in Clark County rose 4.1 percent to $64,272 between 2014 and 2015. That means half of households earn more than that and half earn less. Read story

Mature trees line Officers Row in Vancouver.

Clark County boasts beautiful fall colors of its own

Mature trees line Officers Row in Vancouver.

October 9, 2016, 6:04am Clark County Life

Southwest Washington doesn’t boast Colorado’s aspen trees, Vermont’s sugar maples or even Eastern Washington’s western larch that overwhelm the eyes with color come fall time. Our evergreen trees are just that — always green, unchanging. Still, this area has its own kind of seasonal beauty if one only knows the… Read story

Latte Harris, 19, is starting her second year at Portland State University, where she studies sociology. She experienced homelessness when she attended Hudson&#039;s Bay and Evergreen high schools.

Formerly homeless Evergreen alum reshapes her hopes to what’s possible

Latte Harris, 19, is starting her second year at Portland State University, where she studies sociology. She experienced homelessness when she attended Hudson&#039;s Bay and Evergreen high schools.

October 3, 2016, 6:03am Clark County News

Latte Harris seems like a typical college student. She reads and listens to music voraciously, gets involved in the occasional protest, and stops people on campus who have cool-looking outfits. She’s declared her sociology major at Portland State University, but not her minor in black studies. Read story