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In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories of the week:
Hiedi Lee usually can tell when people have been feeding the homeless and distributing supplies at Vancouver’s Esther Short Park.
That’s because of the mess of trash and leftover food Lee finds on her daily rounds through the park with a trash bag.
A pumpkin pie. A nearly untouched tray of Costco wraps. Plates loaded with a turkey dinner and all the fixings. Unopened packages of toothbrushes and toothpaste and lotion left on the covered stage where the homeless congregate in bad weather.
Read more about problems with feeding the homeless.
A Vancouver church that had agreed to host a village of 40 tiny houses for the homeless has pulled out of the project, leaving organizers searching for a new location.
Safe Harbor Church of the Nazarene received a threat of a lawsuit, the church said on its Facebook page, adding, “We do not wish to fight with our neighbors, so we made the painful decision to withdraw from the project.”
The church’s pastor, David Edwards, previously said the Council for the Homeless and its partners could build a temporary, emergency village for 50 homeless people this winter in an empty field behind the church at 8100 E. Mill Plain Blvd., which is next to the Garrison Square shopping center. Bordered by 82nd Avenue, which dead-ends at an apartment complex, the Safe Harbor church site was chosen because it’s close to a hospital, a bus line and shopping.
Learn more about the tiny houses project.
In the face of almost uniformly negative public comment, the Clark County Council voted Tuesday to move ahead with a proposed land swap near Paradise Point State Park in north Clark County.
After a brief discussion, the council voted 2-1 to move to the next phase of selling 20 acres of county property between Paradise Point State Park and La Center. Councilor Jeanne Stewart cast the no vote.
“This conversation is not over,” she said.
Read more about the Paradise Point State Park deal.
One of Hazel Dell’s most prominent citizens, Dick Streissguth, died Monday at age 86. Streissguth was an original volunteer and longtime chief of Clark County Fire District 6, and was prominent in the local business community and in local parades, where his fleet of antique fire apparatus outnumbered that of some fire departments.
Streissguth served on the board of People’s Community Credit Union, the Clark County Fair and the Hazel Dell/Salmon Creek Business Association. For many years, he was one of the main organizers of the Hazel Dell Parade of Bands, the community’s biggest annual parade.
District 6 commissioner Brad Lothspeich was chief at District 6 after Streissguth, until 2003, and a fellow business association board member.
Read more about Dick Streissguth.
The Perfect Co., a Vancouver-based maker of products for creating drinks and baked goods, has a name that leaves no doubt what it thinks of its wares.
Apparently, some investors agree with the company’s self-assessment. This fall, the company was awarded $4 million in investment funding that it will use to promote and market its set of consumer products and others now in development.
Learn more about the Perfect Co.
It’s dark. It’s cold. It’s rainy. It’s the perfect time for some Christmas cheer. Clark County residents are embracing the holidays with creative and even “over the top” lights displays. Check out our map to find the best lights in your neighborhood.
Check out the holiday lights map.
