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Here are some of this week’s stories that drew the interest of columbian.com readers.
For the hundreds who gathered with candles aglow outside of Daybreak Primary/Middle School on Sunday night, there was no easy way to say goodbye to Elizabeth Smith.
The 11-year-old was killed Wednesday morning after being struck by a minivan that was traveling down Northeast 82nd Avenue in the Battle Ground area in what appears to be a horrific accident. Elizabeth and her younger sister, Cera, were waiting for the school bus near the intersection of Northeast 289th Street and 82nd Avenue when it happened.
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If there’s anything to be learned from this soggy October, it’s the power of persistence.
As of Thursday morning, Vancouver set a rainfall record for October with 7.68 inches of rain.
The record comes not from one or two major storms, but rather days and days of steady precipitation.
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SALEM, Ore. — A Vancouver man flown to the U.S. from South Korea 37 years ago and adopted by an American couple at age 3 has been ordered deported back to a country that is completely alien to him.
“It is heartbreaking news,” said Dae Joong “DJ” Yoon, executive director of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium, who had been in contact with Adam Crapser of Vancouver. Crapser remains confined in an immigration detention center in Tacoma pending his deportation.
Crapser waived an appeal during the hearing Monday because he is desperate to get out of detention, his attorney, Lori Walls, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Clark County’s tight rental market may loosen up in the next year or so. More than 800 apartment units are under construction and about 3,700 are in the pipeline, according to the fall 2016 Apartment Report from Multifamily NW, which represents local property managers.
The Portland metropolitan market is described as “maybe not red hot anymore, but moderately warm” due to thousands of newly completed apartments becoming available.
Despite the incoming supply, rental vacancies remain low in Clark County, one of the cheapest places to rent in the metro area. At 2.2. percent, east Vancouver has the lowest rental vacancy rate in the region, according to the report that surveyed 1,173 rental properties.
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Washougal High School’s varsity football game scheduled for Friday against Rainier (Wash.) High School has been canceled.
Washougal athletic director Doug Cox was notified Tuesday by Rainier AD Jerrad Jeske that the Mountaineers would forfeit the non-league game to the Panthers.
“The Rainier administration and coach met yesterday and concluded that the (number of) players that they have available this week is not adequate in the number and experience level of athletes available,” Cox said. “They are hopeful that by forfeiting this game to us they can recuperate some of the injuries that they sustained last week and have those players available for the postseason.”
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