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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the week:
Clark College’s newest building will blind you with science.
Its new 70,000-square-foot STEM Building was formally unveiled to a crowd of students and public officials Monday, though students have been in classes for two weeks now. STEM is a widely used acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and those subjects are represented in design elements throughout the $40 million building.
Read more about the new STEM building.
Clark County sheriff’s deputies have been responding to a handful of weird clown sightings each of the past few nights, a clearly exasperated sheriff’s Sgt. Brent Waddell said Thursday night.
On one call Wednesday night, deputies went to the Felida area and found a 17-year-old boy, in some clown regalia, and his buddy messing around in traffic, Waddell said.
“It’s not illegal to be a clown, but it is illegal to be running in the roadway,” Waddell said.
Learn more about the clown sights.
Dispatchers found a missing 79-year-old woman within about 10 minutes of the 911 call Sunday afternoon, thanks to some detective work of their own.
The husband of Gladys Pierce called 911 at about 12:45 p.m. Sunday after his wife, who has dementia, had not returned to their Hazel Dell home after going for a walk, Clark County sheriff’s Sgt. Craig Randall said.
Find out how the dispatchers helped.
Stephanie Holladay had never considered organ donation, but a newspaper article and a Google search led the Portland woman to give a life-saving gift to a Vancouver man she had never met.
Holladay was reading articles from her hometown newspaper when she came across one about a woman looking for a living kidney donor. Although the woman lived on the other side of the country, Holladay was moved by the story and underwent testing to be the woman’s kidney donor.
Read more about the generous gift.
Deer season in Southwest Washington debuts on Oct. 15 and hunters will kill a decent number of bucks on opening weekend.
And sportsmen also know the four-day late hunt in mid-November offers excellent opportunity.
But, in 2015 at least, neither opening weekend nor late-buck season was the most productive period of hunting.
Learn more about deer hunting season.
LINCOLN, Neb. — Caleb Lightbourn has taken the punting job he didn’t want yet and run with it.
Lightbourn, a Camas High School graduate, expected to spend this season as the understudy to one of the nation’s best punters in Sam Foltz. But Foltz was killed in a car crash in Wisconsin in July, and Lightbourn was named his successor following a five-day competition in preseason practice.
Read more about Lightbourn’s success.
