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Apprentice Courtney Elton of Brush Prairie, left, studies the dramyen, or Tibetan mandolin, at the Vancouver home of her instructor, Tamding Tsetan. He grew up in Tibet but fled, and came to America in 2013.

From Tibet to Vancouver tattoo parlor

Apprentice Courtney Elton of Brush Prairie, left, studies the dramyen, or Tibetan mandolin, at the Vancouver home of her instructor, Tamding Tsetan. He grew up in Tibet but fled, and came to America in 2013.

June 30, 2019, 6:02am Clark County Life

It took Tamding Tsetan several days, across several years, to tattoo the names of 152 Tibetan self-immolators onto one man’s back. Tsetan and his client met up in different locations around the globe to get the astonishingly detailed job done. Read story

Clark County woodturner Kathleen Duncan shows a little wooden bird that she just finished turning and assembling at her home workshop in Mount Vista.

Imagination, innovation, education at the Clark County Recycled Arts Festival

Clark County woodturner Kathleen Duncan shows a little wooden bird that she just finished turning and assembling at her home workshop in Mount Vista.

June 28, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Life

Kathleen Duncan will travel far for a great hunk of wood. She once drove all the way to the Maryhill area to collect a massive madrone burl, otherwise known as Pacific cherry, a beautifully pink-to-reddish hardwood that’s a favorite of woodturners like Duncan. Read story

Mark your calendar, girl, for Sedaka at ilani

June 28, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Life

The fickle music industry tried dropping Neil Sedaka several times. Everybody knows what it kept rediscovering: Breaking up is hard to do. There, we’ve provided your earworm for the day. You’re welcome. Read story

If you’re tempted to try one of the Ride Around Clark County’s longer loops in late July, sample the ups and downs with a training ride Saturday morning.

Saturday rides good prep for Ride Around Clark County

If you’re tempted to try one of the Ride Around Clark County’s longer loops in late July, sample the ups and downs with a training ride Saturday morning.

June 28, 2019, 6:02am Clark County News

Before you can coast downhill, you’ve got to climb uphill. Cycling is funny that way — and so is the rolling landscape of Clark County. Read story

Dancers and vendors enjoy the inaugural Southwest Washington Tamale Festival in Washougal last June. This year, organizers have planned a day that’s stuffed with music, dance — and “plenty of tamales for everyone,” Hector Hinojosa said.

Tamale festival shucks off last year’s challenges

Dancers and vendors enjoy the inaugural Southwest Washington Tamale Festival in Washougal last June. This year, organizers have planned a day that’s stuffed with music, dance — and “plenty of tamales for everyone,” Hector Hinojosa said.

June 27, 2019, 6:10am Clark County Life

Last year’s first try at a height-of-summer tamale festival in Washougal was a victim of its own success. Overwhelmed by lots of eager tamale fans, but undersupplied with actual tamales, long lines of hungry people took over the event. Organizers expected a turnout of about 400; the reality was well… Read story

A goose swims in Coldwater Lake, which didn’t exist before the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Mount St. Helens offers summer adventures — and August stargazing

A goose swims in Coldwater Lake, which didn’t exist before the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

June 21, 2019, 6:10am Clark County Life

Nowhere have the winds of change blown across a landscape the way they did within living memory, right nearby at Mount St. Helens. Read story

A pair of poet laureates: Gwendolyn Morgan, left, is the poet laureate of Clark County, and Claudia Castro Luna, right, is the poet laureate of Washington. They met at Niche Wine Bar when Luna visited Vancouver earlier this month. Luna has just been awarded a $100,000 grant to conduct poetry readings and workshops along the Columbia River, highlighting the river’s importance.

Poets laureate to bring their voices to Magenta

A pair of poet laureates: Gwendolyn Morgan, left, is the poet laureate of Clark County, and Claudia Castro Luna, right, is the poet laureate of Washington. They met at Niche Wine Bar when Luna visited Vancouver earlier this month. Luna has just been awarded a $100,000 grant to conduct poetry readings and workshops along the Columbia River, highlighting the river’s importance.

June 21, 2019, 6:04am Clark County Life

Gwendolyn Morgan has crossed paths with some serious celebrities since she was named Clark County Poet Laureate last year, but none of them transformed her into a fangirl the way Rojo the Therapy Llama did. Read story

A rapidly urbanizing neighborhood is why the Clark County Saddle Club has sold its longtime property and is getting ready to move about 4 miles north.

Saddle club’s Vancouver Rodeo a no-go this year

A rapidly urbanizing neighborhood is why the Clark County Saddle Club has sold its longtime property and is getting ready to move about 4 miles north.

June 17, 2019, 6:01am Clark County News

The Clark County Saddle Club is getting ready to saddle up and ride north. Read story

Graduating music student and composer Connor Wier revisits the courtyard at Clark College, where he was inspired to write an award-winning piece called “The Square.” Wier’s new composition, “The Oceans of Time,” gets its world premiere at a June 14 concert by the Clark College Concert Choir.

Clark College student Connor Wier premieres work with college concert bandvideo icon

Graduating music student and composer Connor Wier revisits the courtyard at Clark College, where he was inspired to write an award-winning piece called “The Square.” Wier’s new composition, “The Oceans of Time,” gets its world premiere at a June 14 concert by the Clark College Concert Choir.

June 7, 2019, 6:03am Clark County Life

Composer Connor Wier feels the magic hidden in a mundane spot like Clark College’s busy central courtyard. Read story

Kathy Janssen White, left, and Debbie Lowry laugh and embrace at Nayhely’s Place while perusing photos and remembering tales of growing up in the “V Street Gang.” That’s an enduring, multigenerational neighborhood group that started coming together in 1958 around the corner of V and 39th streets in Vancouver. A remarkable 61 years later, their reunions and friendships continue.

‘The V Street Gang’ rides again

Kathy Janssen White, left, and Debbie Lowry laugh and embrace at Nayhely’s Place while perusing photos and remembering tales of growing up in the “V Street Gang.” That’s an enduring, multigenerational neighborhood group that started coming together in 1958 around the corner of V and 39th streets in Vancouver. A remarkable 61 years later, their reunions and friendships continue.

June 1, 2019, 6:02am Clark County Life

Before she could relax and enjoy the amazing 61-year reunion of what everyone still calls “The V Street Gang,” Linda Clark spent weeks tracking down her former neighbors, and the children of those neighbors, to make sure everyone was in the loop. Read story