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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the week:
You can believe Joey Chmiko when he says his restaurant uses only fresh ingredients, because he’s saying it as a Ridgefield farmer drops off boxes of tomatoes that smell as fresh as the summer garden they came from.
“Fresh is where we’re at,” said the flour-dusted chef and owner of Nonavo, a wood-fired pizzeria that recently opened in downtown Vancouver. “You buy good stuff, you don’t have to tweak too much.”
Nonavo Pizza quietly unlocked its doors last week inside a remodeled section of the former Vancouver School of Beauty on Sixth and Washington streets. Despite the soft opening, the shop is already selling out of lunch and dinner on occasion.
Clark County’s first Chick-fil-A will open Thursday, Sept. 15, according to company officials.
The fast food restaurant is in the late stages of construction on the northeast corner of Southeast 164th Avenue and Mill Plain Boulevard. Company officials say it will employ approximately 100 people, including full- and part-timers. The 4,500-square-foot restaurant will feature both a dining room and a drive-thru window.
Near the confluence of the Columbia and Washougal rivers, a building stands abandoned like a lone oyster on the shore. In it lives the dream of The Black Pearl, not a gem but a planned restaurant that had been a local man’s dream before he died.
Because the restaurant never opened, the building overlooking the marina at the Port of Camas-Washougal has remained empty for five years.
That could finally change. The two-story, 12,000-square-foot building is for sale.
Not even globalism could save the longstanding tradition of an Oktoberfest in September at St. Joseph Catholic Church and School. Those days are really over now.
For 44 years, St. Joseph held a tasty fundraiser that grew into a signature event for Vancouver. At the height of its success, the annual Sausage Fest — also a beer fest, music fest and carnival — reportedly drew as many as 100,000 hungry visitors in a single weekend, and raised at least that many dollars for St. Joseph.
“It really saved the junior high school, back in the 1970s,” said the Rev. Gary Lazzeroni. Who could resist arts and crafts sales, activities for kids, a pop-up Bavarian village and armies of dancers in lederhosen?
But it’s not all about food this week:
Evergreen Public Schools has agreed to pay $862,500 to Elizabeth Uelmen, a former associate principal, with an out-of-court settlement. Uelmen filed a lawsuit in early 2014, alleging a hostile work environment, gender discrimination and unlawful retaliation.
A trial was scheduled for Aug. 29 in Clark County Superior Court, but both parties agreed to settle out of court.
The district’s risk management provider, Clear Risk Solutions, recommended the settlement amount. It includes attorney fees and other costs, according to a district statement.
“While the district did not agree with the settlement, the district was only obligated to pay a $2,500 deductible,” the statement read.
