“I don’t think there’s one person in town that did not know my father,” said Helen Krebser.
Hayden went out of his way to make that possible.
The hotel and restaurant most of us know as The Quay closed its doors Saturday, the latest long-established business to fade as Vancouver grows and changes.
It’s a stab in the heart for those who have been around long enough to remember Totem Pole Restaurant, Boyd’s 88 Cent Store, or even the more recently departed Steakburger and Golden Skate.
“Our tastes change. Technology changes,” said Pat Jollota, a local historian who served on the Vancouver City Council for 20 years. “We go to the new restaurant.”
After allegedly violating the conditions of her release — repeatedly — a judge has ordered that Tanya M. Leffler remain in jail, at least for now.
Leffler, 35, who’s accused in 2014 vehicular homicide and drug distribution cases, was out on bail for a third time — for $300,000 — when she didn’t show up for an Oct. 22 court appearance and left the state.
She appeared Friday in Clark County Superior Court after being taken into custody near Salem, Ore., on Tuesday morning by members of the U.S. Marshals Service.
It was a dark and stormy night. And Halloween afternoon.
A predicted storm brought heavy rain and moderate wind to Clark County on Saturday, ending a beautiful two-month autumn and making a small dent in a yearlong drought.
More than 1.2 inch of rain was recorded at the National Weather Service’s Pearson Field station between noon and 6 p.m., and more moisture was steadily adding to the total as night fell and parents of vampires and witches looked for umbrellas.
A man coughs — perhaps an embellished cough — then a female voice-over comes in:
“Northwest families are tired of out-of-state CEOs making a buck,” she begins, “by pushing risky and polluting projects on local communities.”
The minute-long radio ad began airing on two Portland stations in October. But Vancouver residents whose first thought was oil were mistaken. The ad’s primary target is coal, particularly a proposed coal export terminal in Longview.
