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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the weekend:
Hundreds of people turned out Saturday at Pearson Field to honor John McKibbin and show love and support for his widow, their daughters and the whole extended family. A gentle rain started to fall toward the end of the 45-minute vigil, but that didn’t stop folks from lighting candles and holding them aloft.
McKibbin, 69, and passenger Irene Mustain, 64, died Wednesday afternoon while on a mission to scatter the ashes of Mustain’s late husband, Terry Mustain, near the mouth of the Columbia River.
CAMAS — As Democrats filed into Liberty Middle School on Saturday morning for their presidential caucus here, Hillary Clinton campaign organizer Mark Martin cheerfully said that he expected his candidate to “get trounced.”
His prediction came true. Bernie Sanders handily won the vast majority of delegates in Clark County and across Washington on Saturday. He received 78.46 percent of the vote in Clark County and 72.58 percent statewide with 95 percent of precincts reporting. Clinton won 21.39 percent of the vote in Clark County and 27.24 percent statewide.
In a hospital in Chiclayo, Peru, a brother and sister being prepped for surgery were unsure what to expect. Both had been born with cleft palates and cleft lips.
But then Makena Kerr, 17, greeted them, smiled and shared her own story through an interpreter. Born in China with a cleft palate and cleft lip, she’d had the same surgery as the siblings were about to have. Makena’s gentle words and smile put the kids at ease.
“When I told them my story, they were touched,” said the Fort Vancouver High School senior, who plans to become a surgeon who performs cleft palate and cleft lip surgery.
Makena traveled to Peru with a Portland surgical team in January. Serving as a patient representative, she connected with patients and their families before and after surgery.
Makena’s volunteer work in Peru confirmed her dream.
Walk into the glistening Pacific Continental Bank in downtown Vancouver’s new Hudson Building, and you’ll see one vision of banking’s future.
The branch bank is as comforting as a hotel lobby, with a wall fireplace framed by large windows with views of downtown streets. There’s a comfortable table and chairs for relaxation or business, a huge nine-screen “experience wall” that will display information about local nonprofit groups, and original artwork by local artists. There’s even a community meeting room large enough to accommodate 48 people.
Pacific Continental’s 7,200-square-foot branch at 101 E. Sixth St., which opens Monday, is a prototype for the Eugene, Ore.-based business bank. In terms of its physical design and amenities, it ups the ante on customer and employee comfort in banking.
The Woodland Community Swimming Pool Committee’s kickoff fundraising event on March 19 more than doubled the total funds raised in previous years.
At the event, held at Holland America Flower Farm, the committee raised $1.1 million, bringing its total to more than $2 million. Previously, the committee raised $995,000 of the $12.6 million campaign goal to build a community pool and YMCA in Woodland. The pool will sit beside Horseshoe Lake inside the Columbia-Willamette YMCA.
“This gets us started,” said Benno Dobbe, president of the committee, in a release. “It is a huge boost. We have some big plans to generate the rest of the dollars needed. This exceeded our expectations on how we had hoped to kick things off.”
