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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the week:
Jacquie Simonds recently quoted Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Vancouver City Council: “I find great things in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Simonds isn’t so sure she likes the direction the city of Vancouver is moving.
The 76-year-old frequently drives up and down Mill Plain Boulevard.
On a recent trip, she stopped and snapped photos of all the buildings she believes are “turning Vancouver tacky.”
Find out more about Simonds’ concerns.
Officials are investigating a report of a dog found skinned Sunday morning north of Salmon Creek.
Susanne Baumann said her day began like any other when she woke up and let out her two dogs outside at about 8:30 a.m. But when she went to let them back inside at about 11 a.m., she found her pomeranian, Amanda, but couldn’t find her lhasa apso, Mr. Magoo.
Read more about the dog’s death and the police investigation.
Two piglets were taken from a Brush Prairie farm over the weekend. One of which was returned safely, but the other was found dead, according to the farm’s owners.
Bill Zimmerman said that he arrived at his farm, Bi-Zi Farms at 9504 N.E. 119th St., Sunday morning and found a bin of apples had been pushed over in the yard, a bench thrown into an animal pen and straw bales thrown around.
Zimmerman said that when the farm, which runs a pumpkin patch and corn maze, closed at 10 p.m. Saturday, nothing was amiss. He didn’t think the damage to the property was too awful until an employee found a pair of 2-week-old pigs missing. A third piglet and the mother were alone in the pen.
Learn more about the pig thefts.
An independent investigator found that Clark County Councilors Tom Mielke and David Madore met “privately on a frequent and consistent basis” from 2013 through 2015 — prior to the council expanding from a three-member board to a five-member board.
The report responds to a whistleblower complaint by Jennifer Clark, an administrative staffer in the Clark County councilors’ office. Clark provided a copy of the report to The Columbian.
Learn more about the investigation and read a copy of the report.
A job recruitment announcement for the new CEO of the Port of Vancouver that included a responsibility to attract more crude oil shipments has raised hackles with opponents of the proposed Vancouver Energy terminal. The language has since been removed from the port’s online job posting.
At Tuesday’s port commission meeting, the group Taxpayers for a Responsible Public Port took issue with the language, and discussed their version that would focus the new chief executive’s attention on attracting renewable energy projects and putting a greater emphasis on transparency.
Read more about the controversial job description.
